Hello SZARP users.
Spring has come, we'll be eating Ester eggs in couple of days, so we though that it would be a good time to give you some update on what has been happening with SZARP over last couple of weeks:
- new version of SZARP for windows was made available - this version comes with much improved (over a factor of 2.5) data synchronization speed - it is much quicker now and on par with its linux counterpart
SZARP packages for Ubuntu Oneiric were just uploaded to our packages repository. SZARP Oneiric packages can be accessed at :
http://newterm.pl/debian oneiric main. From now on expect regular updates of SZARP packages for Ubuntu Oneiric distro.
We are pleased to announce that latest version of SZARP for Ubuntu Natty and Debian unstable (this code is going to be make it into stable in a matter of a couple of days) contains support for network sets and parameters. This is a major feature that we have been working on for quite a while already.
Happy New Year to all SZARP users!
SZARP development team is happy to share with you a list of cool stuff that happend to your favourite SCADA suite at the beginning of new and the end of previous year:
Hello dear SZARP users.
Autumn was a busy period for SZARP developers who have been involved in a couple of big projects within SZARP system. Those projects probably won't see the light of the day until beginning of the next year. In the meantime, however, we were able to bring some small and not small changes and improvements to SZARP codebase, more to come - stay tuned:
- Documentation of SZARP data aggregation daemon - meaner3 - is more complete now
- Fix: button 'SEASON' was brought back to draw3 application
Summer in nearly over and our users, having came back from holidays, must be dying to know what was happening to their favourite SCADA suite while they were away. Probably the best way is to install latest SZARP version and see for yourself but in case you need a short summary - here it comes:
- Added support for setting server address with SZRSYNC_SERVER variable in szrsync script.
- Assertion fix in szbwriter.
- Logging of incoming connections IP numbers in SSS server.
- Documentation of installing DDE Proxy under Windows.
Since Ubuntu is based on Debian, which is "official" SZARP distribution, it was always quite easy to build and run SZARP on Ubuntu on one's own. As easy as building from source might be (SZARP is based on automake so it is just a matter of issuing ./configure; make; make install) - the fact is that nothing, in terms of convenience, beats having a repository of precompiled packages for your distribution of choice. And here it comes - as of today, we start to support SZARP on Ubuntu. We plan to provide compiled packages for latest and LTS versions of Ubuntu.
Some highlights of SZARP development that happened over last two months:
- Added experimental faster XML parser for IPK library - speeds up starting of SZARP applications and reduces memory usage.
- Added option in draw3 app to sort draws in current set by ther maximum/minimum/hoursum/average value (from current view or time range marked by double cursor).
- Added automatic assignment of colors for arbitrary number of draws in draw3 application.
- Behaviour improvements in dealing with large draw sets in draw3 program.
Last changes in Draw3 program include support for displaying data with average values calculated for whole year. With default displayed number of years set to 10, it allows to quickly compare parameters values along decade period. It's a useful feature for our users with extensive data history.
Three days after releasing a new Debian version - 6.0 "Squeeze" - SZARP packages for these release are ready to download. You just need to point your apt sources to http://szarp.org/debian squeeze main.
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