Windshaft-cartodb/NEWS.md

1.8.4 -- 2014-03-DD

1.8.3 -- 2014-02-27

Enhancements:

• Upgrades windshaft to 0.19.1 with many performance improvements, See node_modules/windshaft/NEWS
• Improve speed of instanciating a map (#147, #159, #165)
• Give meaningful error on attempts to use map tokens with attribute service (#156)
• Reduce sql-api communication timeout, and allow overriding (#167) [ new sqlapi.timeout directive, defaults to 100 ms ]
• Do not query CDB_TableMetadata for queries affected by no tables (#16)

1.8.2 -- 2014-02-25

Enhancements:

• Allow using ":host" as part of statsd.prefix (#153)
• Expand "addCacheChannel" stats
• Allow using GET with sql-api for queries shorter than configured len (#155) [ new sqlapi.max_get_sql_length directive, defaults to 2048 ]
• Do not log an error for a legit request requiring no X-Cache-Channel

Bug fixes:

• Fix munin plugin after log format changes (#154)

1.8.1 -- 2014-02-19

Enhancements:

• Use log4js logger (#138)

Bug fixes:

• Always generate X-Cache-Channel for token-based tile responses (#152)

1.8.0 -- 2014-02-18

Enhancements:

• Add script to flush caches (#140)
• Add script to list templates
• Add statsd support (#139)
• Add support for specifying a varnish password
• Avoid sending multiple varnish invalidation at once (#135)
• Tested with node-0.10 (#141)
• Use single redis pooler for torque and grainstore
• Reduce cost of garbage collection for localized resources
• Allow limiting number of templates for each user (#136)
• Allow configuring TTL of mapConfigs via "mapConfigTTL"

1.7.1 -- 2014-02-11

Enhancements:

• Disable debug logging unless "debug" config param evaluates to true (#137)
• Require windshaft 0.17.2 for further reducing log noise (#137)

1.7.0 -- 2014-02-11

New features:

• Add support for torque tiles (#112)
• Add attributes service (#118)
• Implement Unified Map API (#126)
• Make endpoints configurable (#127)

Enhancements:

• Allow specifying fixed sqlapi host address (#117)
• Include template hash in template instance response, to keep caches of different instances separated (#105)

Bug fixes:

• Allow space padding in template variables usage (#129)
• Allow passing numbers as values for numeric template variables (#130)

1.6.3 -- 2014-01-30

Bug fixes:

• layergroup accept both map_key and api_key (#91)
• Fix public instanciation of signed template accessing private data (#114)
• Fix show_style in presence of complex styles
• Fix use of maxzoom in layergroup config (via windshaft-0.15.1)

Enhancements:

• Add support for instanciating a template map with JSONP (#116)
• Stop processing XML on renderer creation, not needed anymore since 1.6.1 introduced on-demand XML generation.

1.6.2 -- 2014-01-23

Bug fixes:

• Fix support for long (>64k chars) queries in layergroup creation (#111)

Enhancements:

• Enhance tools/show_style to accept an environment parameter and print XML style now it is not in redis anymore (#110)
• Support CORS in template instanciation endpoint (#113)

1.6.1 -- 2014-01-15

Bug fixes:

• Drop cache headers from error responses (#107)
• Localize external CartoCSS resources at renderer creation time (#108)

1.6.0 -- 2014-01-10

New features:

• Add 'user_from_host' directive to generalize username extraction (#100)
• Implement signed template maps (#98)

Other changes:

• Update cartodb-redis dependency to "~0.3.0"
• Update redis-server dependency to "2.4.0+"

1.5.2 -- 2013-12-05

Bug fixes:

• Fix configuration-level compatibility with versions prior to 1.5 (#96)
• Fix use of old layergroups on mapnik upgrade (#97)

1.5.1 -- 2013-11-28

Bug fixes:

• Survive presence of malformed CartoCSS in redis (#94)
• Accept useless point-transform:scale directives (#93)

1.5.0 -- 2013-11-19

NOTE: new configuration directives postgres_auth_pass and postgres.password added; see config/environments/*.example for documentation.

Improvements:

• Add support for configuring database connection passwords
• Optionally read user-specific database_host and database_password from redis as per CartoDB-2.5.0 model (#88, #89)
• Do not force ending dot in SQL-API hostname, for easier testing

Bug fixes:

• Return CORS headers when creating layergroups via GET (windshaft/#92)
• Fix http status on database authentication error (windshaft/#94)
• Fix text-face-name error at layergroup creation (windshaft/#93)

Other changes:

• CartoDB redis interaction delegated to "cartodb-redis" module

1.4.1 -- 2013-11-08

• Fix support for exponential notation in CartoCSS filter values (#87)

1.4.0 -- 2013-10-31

• Add Support for Mapnik-2.2.0 (#78)

1.3.6 -- 2013-10-11

• Restore support for node-0.8.9 accidentally dropped by 1.3.5 NOTE: needs removing node_modules/windshaft and re-running npm install

1.3.5 -- 2013-10-03

• Fixing apostrophes in CartoCSS
• Fix "sql/table must contain zoom variable" error when using "[ zoom > 3]" CartoCSS snippets (note the space)
• Fix backward compatibility handling of sqlapi.host configuration (#82)
• Fix error for invalid text-name in CartoCSS (#81)
• Do not let anonymous requests use authorized renderer caches

1.3.4

NOTE: configuration sqlapi.host renamed to sqlapi.domain (support for "sqlapi.host" is retained for backward compatibility)

• Improve empty CartoCSS error message
• Improve invalid mapnik-geometry-type CSS error message
• Fix race condition in localization of network resources

1.3.3

• Set Last-Modified header to allow for 304 responses
• Add profiling support (needs useProfiler in env config file)
• Fix double-checking for layergroups with no interactivity
• Log full layergroup config at creation time (#76)

1.3.2

• Set default layergroup TTL to 2 hours
• Serve multilayer tiles and grid with persistent cache control

1.3.1

• Fix deadlock on new style creation
• Fix database authentication with multi-table layergroups
• Add tile and grid fetching checks at layergroup creation time
• Fix SQL error reporting to NOT split on newline
• Fix support for CartoCSS attachments

1.3.0

• Change stats format for multilayer map token request, see http://github.com/Vizzuality/Windshaft-cartodb/wiki/Redis-stats-format

1.2.1

• Fix multilayer post from firefox
• Fix multilayer cartocss layer name handling

1.2.0

• Multilayer API changes
  • Layers passed by index in grid fetching url
  • Interactivity only specified in layergroup config
  • Embed cache_buster within token
  • Use ISO format for last_modified timestamp
• Expected LZMA encoding changed to base64

1.1.10

• Fix regression with default interactivity parameter (#74)
• More verbose logging for SQL api connection errors
• Write stats for multilayer map token request

1.1.9

• Handle SQL API errors by requesting no Varnish cache
• Fix X-Cache-Channel for multilayer (by token) responses
• Add last_modified field to layergroup creation response (#72)
• Deprecate signal handler for USR1, add handler for USR2 (#71)
• Fix support for ampersend characters in CartoCSS
• Add support for LZMA compressed GET parameters
• Add support for creating layergroups via GET

1.1.8

• Require Windshaft-0.9.1, to reduce harmfulness of cache_buster param

1.1.7 (DD//MM//YY)

• Do not let /etc/services confuse FD checker (munin plugin)
• Multilayer support (#72)
• Expose renderer settings in the environment config files

1.1.6 (19//02//13)

• Require windshaft 0.8.5, fixing some stability issues and providing cache info on request
• Require grainstore 0.10.9, fixing an issue with multi-geom markers
• Enhance run_tests.sh to allow running single tests and skipping preparation
• Fix async throws in getGeometryType, getInfoWindow and getMapMetadata
• Survive connection refusals from redis
• Add maxConnection environment configuration, default to 128

1.1.5 (DD//MM//YY)

• Fix bogus cached return of utf grid for fully contained tiles (#67)

1.1.4 (DD//MM//YY)

• Reduce default extent to allow for consistent proj4 round-tripping
• Enhance reset_styles script to use full configuration (#62)
• Have reset_styles script also drop extended keys (#58)
• Fix example postgis parameter for simplifying input geoms (#63)
• Add row_limit to example config (#64)

1.1.3 (30//11//12)

• Fix reset_styles script to really skip extended keys
• CartoCSS versioning
• Mapnik-version dependent default styles
• Enhance 2.0 -> 2.1 transforms:
• styles with conditional markers
• scale arrow markers by 50%

1.1.2 (DD//MM//YY)

• CartoCSS versioning
• Fix use of "style_version" with GET (inline styles)
• Enhance 2.0 -> 2.1 transforms:
• styles with no semicolon
• markers shift due to geometry clipping

1.1.1 (DD//MM//YY)

• Add support for persistent client cache headers
• Fix crash on unknown user (#55)
• Add /version entry point
• CartoCSS versioning
• Include style_version in GET /style response
• Support style_version and style_convert parameters in POST /style request
• Support style_version in GET /:z/:x/:y request

1.1.0 (30/10/12)

• Add /version entry point
• CartoCSS versioning
• Include version in GET /style response
• Support version and convert parameters in POST /style request
• Autodetect target mapnik version and let config override it
• Add tools/reset_styles script to batch-reset (and optionally convert) styles
• Configurable logging format (#4)
• Detailed error on missing user metadata
• Properly handle unauthenticated requests for metadata
• Accept "api_key" in addition to "map_key", both in query_string and POST body (#38)
• Add ./configure script
• Allow listening on host IP
• Replaced environment configs by .example ones
• Fixed some issues with cluster2

1.0.0 (03/10/12)

• Migrated to node 0.8.x.

0.9.0 (25/09/12)

• External resources in CartoCSS
• Added X-Cache-Channel header in all the tiler GET requests
• Small fixes