The following are the official, recent release notes for the MWA ASVO.For older release notes, see MWA ASVO Past Release Notes.

Changes/fixes are tagged with:

WEB This item relates to the front end web site of the MWA ASVO and the associated VO TAP service.
CLIENT This item relates to the python API and command line client of the MWA ASVO (MWA ASVO: Command Line Client (manta-ray-client)).
BACKEND This item relates to the server back-end of the MWA ASVO system, which includes the dispatch service, processor service and cotter.
BREAKING This represents a breaking change to existing functionality

01 August 2023

BACKEND Various OS patches
BACKEND SSL certificates updated,
CLIENT giant-squid client now supports voltage jobs (note: usual restrictions apply- please Contact Support if you need to be able to download voltages)
WEB ASVO is added with filters in "My Jobs" page for Job type and status.
BACKEND Logging is enhanced to point the destination of the downloaded jobs and added readme.txt file to the zipped data bundle.
WEB BACKEND Pre-submission validations are added in both web-UI and the backend to capture pre-processor errors in advance.

26 July 2023

BACKEND Birli version bumped to v0.9.2 which resolves an issue where CASA measurement sets created by Birli may contain files which have a last access time in 2021. This was causing issues for users who are on filesystems with a purge policy which deletes those files as they are too old. Now Birli writes the files with up to date timestamps.

CLIENT manta-ray-client now prints the line/job number with submission issues in order to make finding and fixing issues in the csv file easier.

BACKEND Changed copyq partition to asvo-copyq partition, Updating the Slurm output logs, and adding birli_manifest to check for better astro filesystem debugging.

WEB New feature: If you are the PI of an MWA project/proposal (or an MWA ASVO superuser), you will see a new icon on the "Observations" page called "Request Deletion". If, as a PI, you want to nominate one or many observations from your project for deletion, click on the button and provide a name for the request and the reason for nominating for deletion. At a future date, the details of observations in this (and other) delete requests will be emailed to the MWA collaboration for a 4 week consultation process. If no objection is received in writing by the Director, the request will be approved, and then the data will be deleted. You can view existing Delete Requests by clicking on your profile (name) in the top right and selecting "Delete Requests". You can then view or cancel your delete requests. There are also filters available to manage the list if it becomes too large (useful for superusers especially).
WEB The 2 new ARDC Collections have been added to the About→Data Collections menu & search options.

BREAKING Following a discussion at the 2022A MWA project meeting, Cotter has been removed from the MWA ASVO entirely. Birli will now be used for all conversion jobs.
BACKEND Following user feedback, metafits files are now included with the output products of conversion jobs.
BREAKING The names of parameters that are passed to conversion jobs have changed.
- Users can still use the web frontend to submit jobs
- Users will not need to update the manta-ray-client
- Users will need to update the CSV that they use to submit jobs with the manta-ray-client.
- See here for details MWA ASVO: Command Line Client (manta-ray-client)