3.2.1
Overview
- A patch and maintenance release
Improvements
- [News] Enhanced title validation now prevents the use of special characters, ensuring consistent and reliable delivery.
- [Track] Improved Search Engine Optimization.
- [AP Media API Integration] Technical enhancements.
- [Maps] Added support for the "Raise Color" feature in Chromium 49, ensuring backwards compatibility.
Bug fixes
- [User Permissions] Resolved an issue where users could upload assets to read-only public projects.
- [Maps] Corrected a rendering issue affecting Maps Locators with specific gradient settings.
3.2.0
Bug fixes
- [Maps] Fixed an issue where the default Maps Icon set was not available for new Organizations.
- [Maps] Fixed an issue where Maps Icons were not loading properly for several users.
- [Order] Fixed an issue where changes made to Media Formats were not being saved properly.
- [Order] Added a notification for Order Failed status.
- [News] Removed the "Type" field from the Upload Section in the UI.
- [All] Minor UI style fixes
New Features
- [Maps] Maps Still Rendering Speed Improvements: Experience a significant boost in performance with the latest Maps module update. We've optimized map processing, dramatically reducing the time it takes to create a Map Still render. What used to take around a minute or more now completes in just a few seconds, enabling a smoother and more efficient workflow.
- [Maps] Multiple Raise Colors support: The Maps module now supports up to 8 distinct Raise colors, providing greater flexibility and visual clarity when highlighting different regions on your maps. This enhancement allows for more detailed and nuanced visualizations, enabling you to effectively differentiate and categorize regions. Up to 64 regions can be highlighted at once.
To configure the Raise colors for your maps, please contact our Customer Success team. They will be happy to assist you in tailoring the color scheme to your specific needs and preferences.
- [Maps] Ocean Grid (on/off) settings: You now have the ability to easily toggle the visibility of the Ocean Grid (Meridians and Parallels) directly within the Maps UI. This provides greater control over the appearance of your maps, allowing you to choose whether to display or hide the grid lines for a cleaner look or to emphasize specific geographical features.
- [Maps] Vignette settings: Enhance the visual appeal of your maps with the new vignette setting. You can now adjust the intensity of the vignette effect or disable it completely, giving you more control over the overall look and feel of your maps.
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To adjust the vignette settings, please contact our Customer Success team. They will be happy to help you achieve the desired visual effect for your maps.
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Image descriptions: Vignette Enabled (Default Settings)
Image description: Vignette Disabled
- [Maps] Area Label Preview Mode: Gain greater control over the presentation of area labels with the new UI default setting for your organization. Similar to the existing functionality for street labels and highway signs, administrators can now enable a "preview mode" for area labels as the default setting for your organization's Maps style. This allows area labels to be visible during map creation and preview, but hidden in the final rendered output. This feature offers enhanced flexibility for visualizing and fine-tuning maps without cluttering the final presentation with labels.
Image description: This setting can be configured by administrators within the Maps module settings.
3.1.2
Overview
- Enhanced Maps UI preview rendering speed
- Optimized load balancing for faster Maps rendering
- Increased keyframe support for Maps animations
- UI compatibility with legacy NRCS versions
Improvements
- Performance improvements in Maps UI preview rendering: Optimized processes improve the speed and responsiveness of the Maps module user interface, reducing data traffic and making map creation more efficient.
- Improvements in Maps assets delivery: Load balancing enhancements across Maps rendering systems ensure faster delivery of Maps animations across the platform. This is an initial step towards further reducing asset delivery wait times.
- Maps animations keyframes increase: The limit for Maps animation keyframes has been increased to 5 (from 4), providing greater flexibility and control over animation sequences.
- UI Design Compatibility support for legacy NRCS: AXIS UI now supports compatibility with older NRCS versions utilizing Chromium version 51 (released in 2016) and newer.
Bug fixes
- Change in the Output formats settings is causing a caching difficulty of Maps bookmarks
- Search filter in Street Labels list does not work properly
- Street Labels and Area Labels modal dialogues need UI improvements when dealing with long lists
3.1.0
Overview
- AXIS version 3.1.0 brings new features in the form of enhanced security, usability, and design. This update introduces features that will improve the overall user experience (responsive Web UI with a new design) and make our product more secure (support of FTPS). Additional changes include News module stability improvements, bug fixes in Portal and Quotes modules and ongoing enhancements of system monitoring and alerting.
New features
- Responsive Web UI: We're introducing an update to our product's user interface, designed to enhance your user experience across different devices. Responsive design that adapts to your screen, ensuring an improved user experience.
Image description: Track: Responsive Web UI example
Improvements
- Design changes: Our refreshed user interface is complemented by a partly reimagined visual identity that improves the overall aesthetic of AXIS. A notification panel has been redesigned to provide a more intuitive and user-friendly experience. Our product's color palette has undergone a refinement, introducing a fresh color scheme both in Dark and Light Theme. Additional changes may be noticeable throughout the system, including a new AXIS logo and refreshed design of navigation menu, icons, tables and other.
Image description: Order: Example of page redesign
Image descriptions: News: Example of page redesign
- FTPS Support: You can now enhance your data security and safeguard your transferred files with the introduction of FTPS (FTP over SSL/TLS) support in our latest release. This protocol ensures that your file transfers remain secure and protected against unauthorized access. Feel free to contact the AXIS support team to learn more.
- Important note for Relay Agent Users: While FTPS is a valuable addition to our product, it is currently not available for users of Relay Agent. We are actively working on extending FTPS support to Relay Agent users in the near future.
Bug fixes
- Minor bug fixes in Portal, Quotes and News.
- Links in emails sent from AWS are pointing to WG site
- Quotes renders fonts incorrectly
- Load balancing in News doesn’t properly distribute the load
2.3.1
New feature
- Charts: Default style selection: Administrators within both group and station now have an option to select a default style for each station to which they have the proper rights assigned. This feature is available in Charts dropdown menu in Default Settings subpage.
Image description: Charts: Default Project & Default Project Style
Improvements
- Consolidation of UI in Portal, Order and Track: Following the UI improvements in Order and Quotes, we are now introducing a second bulk of general changes to both UI and UX, this time in Portal and Track. These changes are logically grouping the functionalities available on subpages, streamlining the workflows and unifying the look of the visible elements. General changes are centered around the location and style of the page elements. These changes do not remove any part of the existing functionality. We will continue to deliver same improvements in the upcoming updates for all AXIS modules.
Image descriptionL Track: Example of minor UI improvements in Asset Preview
- AP’s Media API migration: AP’s Content API is being retired on June 30th, 2022. All stations that used to use AP services in AXIS and have a new, valid AP Media API key will be migrated, to ensure the continuation of existing News and Track services that are tied with the AXIS-AP integration. Please reach out to your Associated Press contact person in case you experience any difficulty with the service availability after June 30th.
Image description: AP Content API retirement announcement
Bug fixes
- Minor bug fixes in Portal, Track, Order and News
2.3.0
Overview
- Maintenance release of AXIS 2.3.0 is bringing a major rework to Axis architecture, minor new feature in News module, UI improvements of Order and Quotes modules and several bug fixes in Portal, Order, News, Track and Maps modules. Technological improvements done to the entire architecture are part of the bigger overhaul and will rollout incrementally over the period of upcoming few months. These changes will have a positive impact on the performance, stability and future scalability of AXIS. Delivery cycle of functional improvements and bug fixes will be significantly decreased and in most cases will no longer require a maintenance window.
New features
- News: Size asset to fit from top to bottom: We are introducing a minor feature in News module in the form of “Size To Fit” button. This new feature will enable you to size your asset from top to bottom so it easily fit into your selected template depending on the asset resolution. This button is an addition to the existing “Reset Layer” button which resets the placement of your asset from left to right. Additional asset-related workflow improvements will be delivered in one of the upcoming updates.
Image description: News: Size to Fit feature
Improvements
- Consolidation of UI in Order and Quotes: Following the Dark and Light theme rework of AXIS delivered in previous updates, we are now introducing first bulk of general changes done to the UI in Order and Quotes modules. These changes are logically grouping the functionalities available on subpages, streamlining the workflows and unifying look of the visible elements. General changes includes mainly the location and style of the page elements – unifying the design across the module. These changes doesn’t remove any part of the existing functionality. We will continue to deliver same improvements in the upcoming updates for all AXIS modules.
Image description: Order: Example of UI change in Order List
Bug fixes
- News: Getty – Asset Not Ready error
- News: Canvas preview issues of non-16x9 templates
- Track: Image upload not respecting EXIF
- Additional minor bug fixes in Portal, Order, News, Track and Maps
2.2.0
Overview
- Maintenance release of AXIS 2.2.0 is bringing an architectural change for AXIS Maps, workflow improvement of AP’s Media API and several bug fixes in Portal, Order, News, Track, Maps, Charts and Quotes modules. Technological improvements done to the Maps architecture aim to improve responsiveness of the entire module and to prevent any potential unintended reconnection.
Improvements
- AP’s Media API workflow improvement: AP’s new Media API is rolling out later in 2022. AXIS is now ready to support this transition to ensure continuation of support of AP images in AXIS News and AXIS Track.
Bug fixes
- Maps: Connection lost to server causing cyclical reconnects
- Maps: Disappearance of bookmarks affecting few stations
- News: Several users timing out during the assemble process
- Additional minor bug fixes in Portal, Order, News, Track, Charts and Maps
2.0
New Features
- Dark UI redesign
- UI consolidation
- New home page
- New data set in Maps
Bug Fixes
- Maps locator styles are no longer duplicated
- Maps composite zoom no longer affects the entire page
- Map discrepancies are now fixed by new maps data set
- Data provider subscriptions are now populated from top level org.
- Additional (73) bug fixes
Improvements
- User settings consolidation
- Administration settings consolidation
- New charts animation output format with alpha (MOV)
- Getty Images workflow improvement
- Performance, stability, reliability & technical improvements
Dark UI redesign
Introducing a fresh dark UI look for AXIS platform including entirely new home page available after logging into the system and/or by clicking on the Axis logo on the top left section of the screen. Additional changes include consolidated icon set throughout the entire platform, unified loading screen animation and consolidated user & administrator settings.
News
Charts
Maps
Quotes
Track
Order
All modules are now available solely in this new dark UI look with plans to introduce an option to switch between the dark and light UI in future releases.
User settings consolidation
User settings are now available in the account drop down menu on the top right section of the screen. This menu includes Account settings, Notification settings, Help (containing release notes and training videos) and option to log out from the system.
Administration settings consolidation
Administration settings are now available through the gearwheel on the top right section of the screen. Administration settings are available only to administrators of AXIS platform.
1.0.0
New Features
- Charts V2 with animations
- Configurable default News Project
- Copy downloaded Getty Images to a local folder with metadata
Bug Fixes
- Thumbnail upload not working for Order Media Formats
- Certain characters blocked from Order Title field
- Cannot select Quotes Project in LUCI5
- IIS server error thrown in download of Order attachment/uploads due to file size
Improvements
- Codebase cleanup and technological renewal
- Charts V2 with Animations
- Create broadcast quality horizontal bar charts, vertical bar charts and pie charts with up to 6 data points.
- Charts can be created as still images or animations up to 9 seconds in length.
- Custom chart styles are created to client specifications by ChyronHego Creative Services.
- Integrates with CAMIO news production workflow.
- Configurable Default News Project: This feature allows an organization to change the default project in News from ‘All Projects’ to ‘Local Projects’. This may be desirable if ‘All Projects’ contains premium content from third party image providers.
Users will not see third party content unless they change the drop down to ‘All Projects’ or the specific third party content folder (i.e. AP GraphicsBank V2 or Getty Editorial Images).
This feature is configured for the entire organization (i.e. station group). It cannot be changed at the lower level organizations. A superuser at the top level organization can click on Home > Administration > Organization Settings.
The superuser can then select All Projects or Local Projects and click the SAVE button.
- Copy downloaded Getty Images to a local folder with metadata: This feature is specifically for Getty Editorial images. Getty Editorial images which are downloaded either in News or Track will be optionally copied to a local folder with metadata.
- ID: a new ID will be assigned for this asset but the Getty ID will be appended to the title field for reference.
- Title: the label Getty and the Getty ID will be appended to the assets Title for reference
- Description: the name of the original author of the image is appended to the end of the Description field.
- Author: the name of the Axis user that downloaded the image will be used as the asset’s author.
This feature is configured for the entire organization (i.e. station group). It cannot be changed at the lower level organizations.
A superuser at the top level organization can click on Home > Administration > Organization Settings and check the Automatically store Getty image to a project box and select the project to use.
Note that the selected project must be a public project. A special project that is clearly named should be created for this purpose.