Releases

Tracks

• Display bounding boxes on the map for the Daily Summary.
• Add an option to create a route geofence in the Daily Summary.

Vehicle Status

• Add a tooltip that shows when data was received and last changed.
• The vehicle context menu is now also available by right-clicking the panel header.

Charts

• Charts will now has tooltips showing the selected track points on the map.
• Add toggle to hide interpolated data when an asset has been offline (select Hide offline data menu option).

Device Plugins

We also updated device plugins and added more supported devices. To see the updates, search for your device on our supported devices page. All individual device pages show the releases for the device manufacturer.

• Atlanta
• Concox
• Meitrack
• ORBCOMM
• Queclink
• Teltonika

Languages

The following languages have been updated over the past month: Chinese, Hindi.

Tracks

• Enable localization on variable names in track point tooltips on the map.
• Added new keys for Daily Summary panel and track filters plus a few missing keys.

Vehicle Status

• Update UI for the widget rows with highlighting.
• Update default icons for action buttons.

User Experience

• Update the chip component for better "responsive" behavior, like great resizing.
• Update the header background color for the Device Simulator panel- it now matches the rest of the UI.
• Update the Tooltip component so that animations follow the direction the tooltip is pointing.

Tracks

• Fix exporting issue that in some cases exported the wrong time span.
• Avoid triggering actions when dismissing the Daily Summary map context menu.
• Fix issue with the tracks vehicle context menu not setting predefined date intervals in the correct time zone.

User Experience

• Fix highlight (background color) on the selected item in the vehicle list.

Developer & System Administration

• Fix an issue that prevented server cleanup settings to be saved if the previous value was Keep forever.

SOAP for reporting is now removed. REST API should be used.

Tracks (Legacy) was deprecated with the August release. Upon page load, the (newer) Tracks is always displayed.

As of August 17, 2021, GpsGate removed support for Internet Explorer 11. IE11 users will receive a warning in their browser. If you haven't updated your browser, we recommend it.

See the current deprecation schedule in our support portal.

Tracks

• Introducing the Tracks Daily Summary panel! You can quickly get a brief overview of historical fleet data over larger time spans. The Tracks panel now handles multiple time spans to support selecting multiple tracks from different days and vehicles in a daily summary and viewing them in the Tracks panel.
• Tracks can now be filtered! We added a track filter window for filtering track point data. It also filters the data in the Timeline view.
• Tracks time info is more detailed. The track point table now shows seconds when viewing times.
• Add support for opening trips with multiple, separate timespans in Charts from Daily Summary.
• Print detailed short time formats in tooltips.
• When inspecting a track point on the map, the tooltip now shows all available signal values.

Developer & System Administration

• Add SFTP support in the timer click script with username/password authentication. Note: we support username-password authentication. Host-based authentication is NOT supported.
• Add REST API to update basic properties of an application such as Name, Description, License limit, Localization, and more.
• Add REST API methods to check status and cancel a sent command.
• Add a privilege that controls the ability to Export POIs. (_ExportLocation).
• Indoor Positioning System moved to Server Administration -> Devices -> Indoor Positioning System. The menu item background color is now blue as the other options.

Device Plugins

We also updated device plugins and added more supported devices. To see the updates, search for your device on our supported devices page. All individual device pages show the releases for the device manufacturer.

• Concox
• DigitalMatter
• GalileoSky
• Globalmatix
• iStartek
• Queclink
• Ruptela
• Teltonika
• TopFly
• Ulbotech

Languages

The following languages have been updated over the past month: Arabic, French, German, Indonesian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.

Tracks

• A vehicle(s) selected in both a Tracks panel and Charts will be the same color.

User Experience

• Improve UI appearance for customers using very dark brand colors.

Reporting

• Add UI support for time spans in reports.

Developer & System Administration

• Security improvements.
• License invoice history is now displayed with the most recent due invoice on top.

Tracks

• Avoid closing Daily Summary context menu on vehicle updates.

Dispatch

• Fix a bug in Dispatch that displayed multiple "Pick job location" in the right-click menu.

User Experience

• Fix the Camera column icon not being displayed in the Vehicle list.
• The map is zoomed and positioned to show all your vehicles at first start again (if your Workspace has menu "Map->Zoom to view" enabled).
• Google Maps and MultiMonitor and right-click vehicle list works again for servers running Web UI versions greater than 5.0.0.6098.
• Mobile "/m" login works again.
• "Show on map" in Step 6 in Event Rule wizard works again.

Developer & System Administration

• Fix a bug with application branding color not being applied if no branding logo was uploaded.
• Fix Server Administration windows not getting localized window titles.
• Remove empty parentheses in the Product column for some products.
• Update of MySQL, including stability fixes for Geofence and Points Of Interest.
• Hytera AVLClient Service configuration fix.

Tracks (Legacy) was deprecated with the August release. Upon page load, the (newer) Tracks is always displayed.

As of August 17, 2021, GpsGate removed support for Internet Explorer 11. IE11 users will receive a warning in their browser. If you haven't updated your browser, we recommend it.

See the current deprecation schedule in our support portal.

Tracks

• Charts is here! Charts is a new tool for visualizing your vehicle data.
• Make it easier to click on a trip on the map by increasing the click area.

Vehicle Status

• Pinned widgets now available in Vehicle Status (beta)! Pinned widgets replace marker attributes in the preview release.
• Background windows now come into focus if clicking the header again.

Developer & System Administration

• Move system messages in-app (previously in Site Admin) so site administrators can access it with the other server settings.
• License page moved from Site Admin to in-app.
• Move Active Directory settings page (previously in Site Admin).
• Add REST API for updating geofences.
• Add language and measurement to the application exposable in scripting.

Device Plugins

We also updated device plugins and added more supported devices. To see the updates, search for your device on our supported devices page. All individual device pages show the releases for the device manufacturer.

• Concox
• Eelink
• GalileoSky
• Geometris
• Globalmatix
• Meitrack
• Queclink
• Ruptela
• Teltonika
• TopFly
• Twig

Languages

The following languages have been updated over the past month: Arabic, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Portuguese, and Spanish.

User Experience

• Great UI updates provide a new and more modern look and feel to the entire application.
• Branding color is more prominent in the application.
• Make sure all selected items in report parameters are shown without horizontal scroll.
• Improve the way we calculate column sizes when adding a new table column.
• Improve the way we calculate the position of new table column(s).

Points of Interest

• Make POI search less fuzzy - ensure all search words are considered during search.

Developer & System Administration

• After you unlock server administration settings with your password, we keep the "unlocked" state for the duration of the user session. This removes the need to unlock it each time you open the window.
• The default (first created) Site Admin user gets added to all applications for easy in-app access to server administration settings. The default Site Admin user will also be added to all new applications when they're created.
• Add a check to prevent adding a default (first created) Site Admin user to application templates.
• A mistakenly added Site Admin user will be deleted from all application templates.
• Add IsInitialized flag to application in order to check application creation status.
• Reduce database load spikes when syncing reporting data for decoupled components (e.g. POI and geofences).
• Cleanup reports on disk 15 days after creation.
• Better error logging when an report fails to be emailed.
• Remove Google Maps key from url when generating a share location link.

Vehicle Status

• Added missing Inter font. (BETA users have been seeing the wrong font, unless they already had it installed).

User Experience

• Fix slow geocoder that could make the UI not responsive.
• Fix issue that could lead to menus, tooltips, and similar components being positioned outside of the screen.
• Enable .woff2 Mime Type in IIS. Necessary to serve the new Inter font.
• Fix duplicated format options in the Create Report dialog.
• Fix an issue where moving or deleting overlapping polygon geofence vertices could sometimes become impossible, only creating additional vertices. Most obvious case: importing polygonal geofence data that use the relatively common practice of duplicating first and last vertex to close them.

Reporting

• Fix issue causing missing geofences for reporting (rare occurrence).

Developer & System Administration

• Fix issue with foreign key conflict (when changing the "save changes only" value and having multiple device mapper of same type).
• Fix a "Getting Started" toggle switch visual bug that caused it to always be enabled in server administration settings.
• Fix a bug that showed an empty "Admin" menu option for non-admin users. Admin features were not visible or accessible for non-admin users.
• Fix issue where changing sort order in email/SMS provider settings opens the edit window as you release the drag bar (Firefox).
• Fix issue where user could change email/SMS provider rows order without unlocking the page (Note: the changes could not be saved).
• Fix issue where the database connection did not automatically handle failover when using MySql database clusters such as AWS Aurora.

Tracks (Legacy) was deprecated with the August release. Upon page load, the (newer) Tracks is always displayed.

As of August 17, 2021, GpsGate removed support for Internet Explorer 11. IE11 users will receive a warning in their browser. If you haven't updated your browser, we recommend it.

See the current deprecation schedule in our support portal.

Tracks

• When viewing a trip on the map, click anywhere on the trip to show the closest track point to that location.
• Click on a track point in the track points table to show it on the map.
• It’s now possible to sort the columns in the track point list.
• Show confirm dialog when selecting a large dataset in the Tracks panel. This can help prevent you selecting a dataset that will take a long time to run.

Maps / ArcGIS

• ArcGIS Map can now handle maps hosted via enterprise Web Adaptor Portal URL:s.

Device Plugins

We also updated device plugins and added more supported devices. To see the updates, search for your device on our supported devices page. All individual device pages show the releases for the device manufacturer.

• Concox
• Fifotrack
• Galileosky
• Globalmatix
• Meitrack
• Suntech
• Teltonica
• TopFly
• Xexun

Languages

No language updates this month.

User Experience

• Selected/visible columns will always be sorted to the top of the context menu (table component improvement).
• Menu component now supports enabling a search/filter function for narrowing down menu options.

Maps / ArcGIS

• Updated to use ArcGIS API v4.21 for noticeable performance improvements. https://developers.arcgis.com/javascript/latest/4.21/.

Developer & System Administration

• Remove deprecated legacy mobile fleet settings page from Site Admin.
• Don't kill the connection to RabbitMQ server when RabbitMQ fails to confirm all messages.

User Experience

• Multimonitor bug fixes: Saving workspace which resulted in not being able to remove a popout from the workspace when using the multimonitor plugin; popout not being loaded in Safari.

POIs

• Re-add the ability to search custom POI fields.
• Fix infinite loop when using map search and using PointsOfInterest as Geocoder.
• POI fix version check for JSON column.

Tracks

• Fix playhead moving incorrectly in the tracks timeline view when dragged.
• Fix so that exports should now include data from visible columns.
• Fix Tracks API issues that made interactions between Tracks and Panels like Reporting, Events & Area Search stop working.
• Fix a case when User and Track Cleanup fails because some legacy unused tables are missing.
• Fix: add Address column to Tracks track point table if the _LiveAddressTrackPoints privilege is enabled.

Reporting

• Fix issue when rendering reports as PDF.

Vehicle Status (beta)

• Fix issue where the Vehicle Status popover is still visible even if the vehicle layer is hidden.

Developer & System Administration

• Fix a bug that caused SiteAdmin -> Maps -> Geocoders page to be empty or display an error.
• Do not show _Master role since it is not a user manageable role.
• Fix the device model-selector not showing properly.
• Fix settings issue when having EmailNotifier and/or TextNotifier causing failure for processing incoming device data.
• Replace occurrences of obsolete settings.

Tracks (Legacy) was deprecated with the August release. Upon page load, the (newer) Tracks is always displayed.

As of August 17, 2021, GpsGate removed support for Internet Explorer 11. IE11 users will receive a warning in their browser. If you haven't updated your browser, we recommend it.

See the current deprecation schedule in our support portal.

Developer & System Administration

• Server administration is now accessed in-app! Site Administrators will have access to a new 'Server Administration' menu inside the application. Most settings found in Site Admin -> Settings have moved.
• New main menu design in tracking applications.
• Always show new Tracks version on page load. Changing back to Tracks (Legacy) version won't persist after a reload.
• More security in user creation: allow operators (or another role) to add new users of only pre-approved roles. Remove Empty (Advanced) user type and add option to create user type if none are available.
• Enable automatic updates of client resources: faster bug fixes and less downtime due to updates.
• REST: Add Device Last Activity to User Status REST.

Device Plugins

We also updated device plugins and added more supported devices. To see the updates, search for your device on our supported devices page. All individual device pages show the releases for the device manufacturer.

• Teltonika
• Queclink
• iStartek

Languages

The following languages have been updated over the past month: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Portuguese, and Spanish.

POI

• Improve address lookup performance when having many POI Groups. Previously POI address lookup ignored "Use In Geocoding" settings and used all POI Groups as address source.

Tracks

• Localize tooltips in Tracks.

Developer & System Administration

• Improve the startup time of the service.
• Add translation for 'Under Construction' Information in Site Admin.
• Add "end" column to User Activity table in Site Admin.
• Expose OriginalApplicationID in Reporting Users query.
• Expose tasks under Commands Click Script.
• The default application branding color has been updated to a slightly darker blue.

User Experience

• Fix bug where the Vehicle status panel appeared empty in certain cases when switching applications.
• Fix bug where the events table isn't loaded due to an error with the columns order.

Maps

• Publish view works again (applies to Google Maps only).

POIs

• Fix missing POI geocoded address in the vehicle list in /m mobile site.
• Fix issue causing Archiving to fail when exporting POI data.
• Fix duplicated POI groups under POI related privileges in roles.
• Fix fetching shared POI categories through REST.
• Re-enable Save button on POI category.

Tracks

• Fix issue with tracks sometimes failing when entering large time intervals.

Reporting

• Fix slow loading of the Reports menu in VehicleTracker.
• Remove misleading information in dispatch import.
• Fix System.ArgumentNullException in Reporting Field Scripts.

Developer & System Administration

• Fix various upgrade routines not applied when updating from a version older than 5.0.0.1815.
• Fix privilege check for scripted message fields.
• Fix an issue that caused the login branding color to not be applied.
• Fix System.ArgumentNullException in Field Scripts.
• Fix Offline Expression event start time in cases the last send report from the device was invalid.

New Feature Fixes (recent beta)

• Fix missing search field for reports menu.
• Fix bug where the unlock button looks cut off in Server Administration Settings.
• Settings -> Localization -> Geocoding address format can now be edited again.
• Fix a bug that caused the "Leave page" popup to appear even after saving the Localization form in Server Administration Settings.
• Fix localization key for “Trigger time” in Server Administration -> Settings -> Cleanup page.
• Disable add SMS/Email button before unlocking.
• Add missing punctuation in settings and update some copy.

Tracks (Legacy) was deprecated with last month's release. Upon page load, the (newer) Tracks is always displayed.

As of August 17, 2021, GpsGate removed support for Internet Explorer 11. IE11 users will receive a warning in their browser. If you haven't updated your browser, we recommend it.

See the current deprecation schedule in our support portal.