Whole Brain Catalog Releases

From Whole Brain Catalog

See below the history of past releases.

Contents 1 Beta version 0.7.5.0 January 25th, 2009 2 Beta version 0.7.0.1 December 1st, 2009 3 Beta version 0.7 release October 18th, 2009 4 Alpha version 0.6 release - September 21, 2009 5 Alpha version 0.5 release - July 13, 2009

[edit] Beta version 0.7.5.0 January 25th, 2009

• Full Allen Mouse Atlas brain region support.
• New 3D controls.
  • See "Q" on updated controls overview
  • Mouse navigation has been updated
  • Control button has been updated
• New edit mode selector
  • See "P" on updated controls overview
• Client side logging
  • wbc.log is written to the users home directory when running the WBC.
  • This file can be sent to developers for bug reports.
• Attribution information is more prominently displayed in lower left-hand corner when an object is selected.

[edit] Beta version 0.7.0.1 December 1st, 2009

• Fixes bug 372 related to crashing WBC during upload.

[edit] Beta version 0.7 release October 18th, 2009

• Progress bar when loading large amounts of objects
• Warning message to user when they go to load large amounts of data

[edit] Alpha version 0.6 release - September 21, 2009

• Controls feedback integrated
• CCDB integration
• Full functioning WBC staging server with local MySQL cluster
• Uploads fully stabilized and unified

• Marks end of all "new" features for SFN release
• "Burn in" date where we will freeze the database as is, unless major issues are identified
• After release focus on 3 areas:
  • Final usability tests and tweaks related to improvement
  • Extensive unit and integration testing and fixes related to identified issues
  • Extensive performance testing and fixes related to identified issues
• 0.6 features that do not pass usability/integration/performance testing will be deferred to after SFN release

[edit] Alpha version 0.5 release - July 13, 2009

• Upload usability release
  • will provide the majority of functionality for users to upload data easily
  • improved user controls for navigation
    • rotation slowed down
    • improved "heads-up display"
• tested on ~20 machines (macbooks, macbook pros, windows xp, windows vista)
• resolved all known load-up issues
  • macbook pros no longer crash
  • windows xp machines with low end graphics do not crash
• added functionality
  • NeuroML upload
  • Interface for tangible annotation
• compatibility with Java 1.5