Galaxy "Andromeda" Release 1703

We are pleased to announce the availability of Galaxy "Andromeda" Release 1703.This release contains the following enhancements and new features along with various bug fixes:

  • Modified the behavior of range checking command field values so floating-point values like NaN will be rejected unless explicitly allowed.

  • Updated the record compiler to do additional validation on applyWhen conditions to verify that the field being referenced can support the value defined.

  • Modified PKTDUMP and TFDUMP so they do not display header or trailer bytes in the raw data display by default.

  • Added evt_ascii_logging.proc to support automatic daily ASCII logs.

  • Improved the behavior of the record compiler so as to allow any characters between the opening and closing tags of a documentation block.

  • Added a s the Record Language User's Guide to include a section on end-item verification.

  • Added support for keep-alive arguments to the STOL OPEN directive.

  • Added galaxy, galaxy_daemon, galaxy_context, and galaxy_run scripts alongside the equivalent itos, itos_daemon, itos_context, and itos_run scripts.

  • Updated the galaxy and galaxy_context scripts (and the legacy itos equivalents) so they will not leave processes lingering if Galaxy exits unexpectedly.

  • Removed sourcenamehdr from the default packet wrapper list for the telemetry subsystem (the itos.tlm.default_pkt_wrappers mnemonic).

  • Added support for the Ballard Technologies 1553 devices to the Galaxy 1553 Bus Controller and Remote Terminal applications.

  • Improved the TelemetrySimulatorComponent so it continues to send packets if automatic generation is enabled even if it receives a sending error from a downstream component.

  • Added the ability to set a field in a telemetry packet by referencing the mnemonic which the field populates in the TelemetrySimulatorComponent.

  • Increased the buffer size for a statement within a CFGMON to 8191 characters and fixed a bug that truncated statements longer than the limit without issuing a warning.

  • Added an example CFS configuration to the examples directory.

  • Added support for the TCP_NODELAY option to the ClientSocketComponent and ServerSocketComponent.

  • Updated the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 kickstart files to include kerberos packages needed by SSSD as one some installs they are not correctly installed as dependencies.

  • Improved the behavior of STOL so that procedures participate with the flow-control capabilities of the graph framework. This means that rather than retrying on a 1-second interval, STOL will retry when the destination graph indicates it is ready.

  • Added the ability to run a STOL procedure when quitting Galaxy.

  • Added a timeout argument to the STOL SYSTEM directive to allow the directive to timeout when running in a proc using the blocking behavior.

  • Added a new BundleProtocolPacketizerComponent that packetizes an input data stream using the Bundle Protocol (RFC 5050).

  • Added a new AddCommandComponent that supports prepending and appending a configured command onto any buffer received by the component.

  • Added the ability to specify the protocol annotation that is applied to buffers that are processed by the PacketsAsCommandsComponent.

  • Added the ability to pad out the calculation buffer used by an XorChecksum record to a even n-byte boundary based on the widthInBytes property.

  • Changed the method in which the GMSEC adapters are built and linked so the required GMSEC libraries can be located anywhere on the system.

  • Reduced the severity of the unused conversion message in telemetry page displays from WARNING to DEBUG so they are no longer displayed by default in the event viewer.

  • Added the ability to normalize the output of the STOLASCIICommandRewriterComponent.

  • Updated the documentation for telemetry pages and PKTDUMP to include more information about using X Windows system resources to alter the behavior and look.

  • Increased the maximum number of tagged mnemonics allowed to 300,000.

  • Improved the BufferTestingComponent so it updates the buffer_string status mnemonic on change instead of on a timed interval.

  • Added the ability to filter the number of packets sent to the decom process. The proc tlm_set_output_filter.proc is included to simplify using the filtering mechanism. The telemetry statistics documentation has been updated to include references to the new status mnemonics associated with the filtering mechanism.

  • The packet-level validationErrors status mnemonic is now cleared when a ZERO directive is issued.

  • Improved the Schedule Executor documentation so as to clarify the ITOS_PROC_... command and provide an example.

  • Added the ability to enable/disable telemetry packet validation on a per-packet basis. The enable/disable state is only read when acquiring a station and can not be changed while running. The state is controlled by the enableValidation control mnemonic associated with the telemetry packet.

  • Added auto-generated local mnemonics to a running PROC that provide the PROC name and fully-qualified file name. See the START directive for the details.

  • Added the ability to specify the protocol annotation when using the RAW directive. A default protocol annotation can also be configured by setting the itos.stol.default.raw_protocol mnemonic.

  • Added QUERY and RESET options to the NAMESPACE directive.

  • Added the ability to set the namespace in the CCSDSLoadBuilderComponent in order to provide better commonality between a load file and a Galaxy context in which it is used. The namespace is used to look up the commands used in the load file.

 

Software Release Annou...Greg GreerGalaxy