Releases
Versioning
We use a 3-component number to keep track of our releases in the format of X.Y.Z, where X stands for a major version, Y stands for a minor version and Z stands for a micro version.
v
X
3
Major
Y
13
Minor
Z
2
Micro
- Major
- A significant change to the existing product that may require users to re-learn how to use it.
- Minor
- Includes small user interface improvements or new features that don’t radically change the overall product.
- Micro
- Refers mainly to bug fixes or gradual product improvements.
v3.13.2
Added
- Support for "Temperature" utility
- "Reactive energy" overlay added to graph page for "Electric" utility
- "Max demand" and "Reactive energy" added to exports
- "Reactive energy" added to half-hourly electric report
- "Previous Year" option now available for daily, weekly and monthly "Percent Change" alarms
Changed
- All graph page stats cards now only shown if corresponding series is visible
- Improved inline navigation on portfolio page (click a row to drill down)
- Upgraded to Highcharts v12
Fixed
- Cookie policy buttons just showing privacy information rather than giving access to update settings
- Unreadable text on Google Maps
- Incorrect Norwegian date localisation
v3.13.1
Changed
- Improved handling of alarm notification failures
- Security updates
v3.13.0
Added
- New and improved alarms feature
- Access directly from "Alarms" tab in header menu
- Create alarms for any portfolio item
- English and German language support
- Flexible criteria selection with hundreds of different options
- Set up daily, half-hourly, hourly, weekly, monthly and yearly alarms to monitor:
- Heat, electric, gas, water, hot water, cooling and EV consumption
- PV generation
- Flow/return temperature, ΔT, volume, external temperature, carbon
- Set up FuelView alarms to monitor:
- Fuel remaining, fuel level and days until empty
- Perform "more than", "less than", "percent change" and "zero" comparisons
- Specify how many consecutive times the criteria needs to be met
- Schedule alarms to run on specific days
- Receive email notifications (up to 10 email addresses) when alarms trigger
- View detailed timeline of alarm activity
- Filter alarms by type, status and portfolio item
- Edit alarm details
- Copy alarms
- Enable / disable alarms
- Test alarms
- Apply bulk actions to multiple alarms
- View / create alarms directly from graph and fuel store pages
Changed
- Legacy alarms now accessible via new "Alarms" tab
- No longer able to create new legacy alarms
- Half-hourly metrics report now excludes meters with more than 30 minute settlements
- Key framework update to maintain ongoing bug and security patches
v3.12.19
Changed
- Volume-based DeltaT calculation now used for relevant heat and cooling meters
- Changing language when "impersonating" no longer updates the underlying user preference
- Improve reporting for MinuteView access
Fixed
- Quick find can be opened and used even if the search index hasn't fully loaded
v3.12.17
Added
- Weekly interval now available on graph page and exports
- German translations for export page
Changed
- Widened currency support
- Language selection now remembered across devices
- Removed deprecated "Meter reads by meter" option from graph page (available in reports section)
Fixed
- Humidity aggregation using sum instead of average on portfolio page
- Slow login times for big accounts
- Memory issues when browsing reports section
- Customer name changes sometimes not propagating
v3.12.16
Added
- Support for EUR, DKK, PLN, CHF currencies
- Breadcrumb dropdown for easier navigation between unit, meter location and meter graph pages
v3.12.12
Fixed
- Font and other styles not displaying correctly on alarms pages
- Header login link not visible on white background
v3.12.10
Changed
- Security updates
- Email notifications now include ista branding
v3.12.9
Added
- Overview video added to Help > Quick Videos
Changed
- Dashboard map includes links to graph page for each location
- Dashboard map shows division name next to unit name for better context
- Key framework update to maintain ongoing bug and security patches
Fixed
- Big Screen dashboard dates not reflecting user's locale
- Big Screen dashboard "Last refreshed" not showing local time
v3.12.8
Changed
- Half-hourly metric reports now allow a custom date range to be selected
Fixed
- Half-hourly metric report Total/Average values not being formatted properly
- Half-hourly metrics report sometimes showing the wrong month
- "Last 12 Months" date range shows as selected even if the "start" and "end" dates aren't the first and last days of the respective months
- Incorrect flow/return volume aggregates
v3.12.7
Changed
- Additional German translations, primarily around Reports section
- Updated icon for Fuel utility
- Framework updates
Fixed
- Incorrect Italian translation; "Leri" should be "Ieri"
- Dashboard map widget sometimes zooming to the wrong level on page load
v3.12.5
Changed
- Meter reads table, reports and exports now display a "Label" column
v3.12.4
Changed
- Smaller reads will now show up to 6 decimal places
Fixed
- Daylight saving time offset at unit level (and below) out-of-sync with division and customer levels
v3.12.3
Added
- "Click and select" a range of points on the graph page to easily zoom in
Changed
- Up to 14 days of 30 minute data now available on graph page
- Up to 14 days of hourly data now available on graph page
- Up to 12 months of daily data now available on graph page
- Multiplier column added to "Meter reads" table on graph page
- Updated company name to "ista SE"
Fixed
- Clicking login button more than once causes 419 error
v3.12.2
Added
- "Max demand" overlay added to graph page for "Electric" utility
Changed
- Performance improvements to metrics data access layer
- Improved loader experience when things are slow or errors happen
- Removed "Back to dashboard" from alarm page breadcrumb
Fixed
- Big Screen dashboard "weather widget" disappears after background refresh
- Icons missing from alarm page action buttons
- Average aggregates including non-reads in calculations
v3.12.1
Added
- Dashboard graphs now show tooltips with values on hover
- Big Screen dashboard graph now cycles around all available utilities
Changed
- "Unit of measure" now displayed in dashboard card title rather than repeated throughout
- "Percent change" no longer disappears when hovering a dashboard card with actions
Fixed
- "Last 12 Months" date range on graph page selects incorrect "to" date when interval set to "Day"
- "Percent change" on graph page stats card showing as "null" when only a compare value exists
- Zero reads not showing in data table on graph page
- Zero reads sometimes not showing in tooltips
- Zero reads not showing on dashboard graphs
- Drilling down into a month on the graph page sometimes selects the wrong month
- Clicking on a portfolio item row sometimes takes you to the wrong utility
v3.12.0
Added
- Dashboard page with integrated map
- Big Screen dashboard for TV displays
Fixed
- Account menu not working on alarm pages
- "Max demand" column header not being translated in reports
v3.11.1
Changed
- "Heat usage" title changed to "HCA (Heat usage)" for less ambiguity
Fixed
- Targets not showing on graph page for some accounts
v3.11.0
Added
- Half-hourly reports added under "Reports" tab
- "Export data" feature added under "Account" menu (top right), allowing you to download data / meter reads across entire portfolio in a standard format
Changed
- Improved "Meter reads" reporting under Reports tab
- Can now select 7 Days, 14 Days, 30 Days, 60 Days, 90 Days or 12 Months as report options
- Can specify end date for report
- Reads listed in ascending order (oldest first), as per other reports
- Deprecated "Meter reads by meter" option in Download dropdown on graph page, as you can now generate these reports from here
- Replaced dropdown with tabs in header
- Reduced height of header and improved small screen experience
- Moved portfolio menu up closer to the breadcrumb to feel more connected and create a universal layout
- Minor design tweaks to form components and listing pages
- Switched to using a proper URL path rather than a "hash path" for pages that use the portfolio menu, e.g.
/portfolio/customer/012345678instead of/portfolio#/012345678
Fixed
- "Hot water" value not displaying correctly in "Utility" column of exports
- "cbm" values less than 1 incorrectly rounding to 2 decimal places rather than 4
- Incorrect rounding used when switching between "Heat" and "Hot water" on graph page
- Order of items in portfolio menu not using natural sort algorithm, e.g. should be 1, 2, 10 not 1, 10, 2
v3.10.2
Changed
- FuelView level and forecast engine has been migrated
Fixed
- Incorrect X-axis dates displayed on graph page when switching between "Day" and "Month" intervals
- External temperature data not available when viewing costs on portfolio quick view graph
v3.10.1
Fixed
- Efficiency CoP overlay not working when secondary meter utility is different
- Graph page "All data" exports not supporting sub-day intervals
v3.10.0
Changed
- Operational breakdown on unit level graph pages and below now show all statuses, e.g. Open, Non-Trading, Closed and more
- Renamed "Open" to "Operational" on customer and division level graph pages since these aggregate values also include "Non-Trading"
- Small design tweaks to graph and stats UI
- Small improvements to "Releases" page
- FuelView now defaults to last calorific value used when loading fuel
Fixed
- Compare dates showing today's date in graph data table when no compare data available
- Reads with "cbm" unit of measure rounding to 0 when small value e.g. 0.001
- Meter location graphs only showing data from point that location was set or changed
- Wrong default utility being used when accessing meter location graph page
- Active utilities for entire unit being shown on meter location graph page
v3.9.2
Fixed
- Portfolio "meter" and "meter location" preview graphs showing data for entire unit
v3.9.1
Changed
- Graph page date picker improvements
- Better UI for selecting date ranges
- Addition of arrows to let you move forwards and backwards using currently selected date range
- Week numbers shown in date calendar
Fixed
- Exports in "Reports" section crash when records exceed a few thousand
- Graph loading slowly for sites with only a daily read at day level
v3.9.0
Changed
- Graph page stats cards now show "compare" values as well as percentage change
- "Savings" and "Difference" performance stats cards now include a "percentage" of the total value
- Key framework update to maintain ongoing bug and security patches
Fixed
- Exports in "Reports" section downloading corrupt files
- Half hourly data not displaying correctly on graph in some instances
v3.8.1
Fixed
- Performance page showing values for "today" rather than "last 7 days"
- Align performance page last 7 days with other pages (doesn't include today)
v3.8.0
Changed
- Custom date ranges now supported on graph page
- Use relative presets (Last 90 Days) rather than fixed periods (3 Months)
- Change the interval (when appropriate) - e.g. Half-hourly data across 7 days (Unit and below)
- Improved date picker calendar style
- Updated definition of "Last X Days" to align with common definitions (doesn't include today)
- Dashboard renamed to "Portfolio"
- Portfolio now includes "Last 14 Days" date range
- Portfolio preview graph selected date range now persists to graph page
- Portfolio design improvements
- Addition of page title
- Placement of "controls" more in line with graph page
- Selected dates clearly shown for better clarity
- "Performance" menu promoted to it's own button
- Softer menu design
Fixed
- Graph page "Compare" selector showing "Previous Week" option when interval set to "Month"
- Portfolio column headers misaligned when containing spaces
- Portfolio menu not showing selected item properly on "page load" and "quick find result selected"
- Reports erroring or timing out on larger data exports
- Reports set to maximum 3 decimal places, increased to 6 to prevent rounding
v3.7.1
Fixed
- German translation for "Last 30 Days" showing as "Letzte 14 Tage" by mistake
v3.7.0
Added
- Ability to show "over target" and "within target" values on graph page (and compare previous)
- Ability to export "All data" from graph page
Changed
- Graph overlays now outlined for better contrast on top of primary series
- Graph tooltip labels now using aggregate terms (Total, Average) rather than Y-axis title
- Graph tooltip "compare" values now displaying in their own section for better clarity
- Number localisation in "Meter reads" table on graph page
- More consistent naming and ordering of columns in tables and reports
- Date formatting and localisation of report data
- Improved default ordering of report data
- Improved filenames for graph page downloads
- "Last 60 Days" and "Last 12 Months" meter read reports no longer include the current day/month as it is always blank
Fixed
- Occasionally reports were missing months
- Date picker "first day of week" was displaying as "Sunday" rather than "Monday" for English users
- Safari UI glitch when using "Quick find"
v3.6.0
Added
- Switch between date ranges on the dashboard (Today, Yesterday, Last 7 days, Last 30 days)
- Ability to view costs on the dashboard
- Select unit of measure on the graph page when data contains more than one
- Ability to view costs (and compare previous costs) on graph page
Changed
- Italian "Hot water" translation to use abbreviation
- Renamed "Open/Closed" graph option to "Operational breakdown"
- Moved dashboard "Aggregate units" toggle next to the rest of the controls
- Small improvements to quick find
Fixed
- Larger accounts running slowly or not loading at all
- View all registers for meter reads on graph page
v3.5.0
Added
- Operational usage (open/closed) breakdown on the graph page
- Additional missing translations for Danish, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Norwegian and Polish
Changed
- Now showing legend colours on overlay buttons
- Key framework update to maintain ongoing bug and security patches
Fixed
- Units that have both meters with and without locations not loading on the dashboard
- Compare series not showing in legend on "Download: Graph as image"
- Transparent background of "Download: Graph as image" makes it difficult to read in some contexts
v3.4.0
Added
- FuelView listing page; available from the view switcher menu in the header
- New "stats" card on graph page to show aggregate value for "Performance" metric
- Accessibility improvements to graphs; including enable/disable animation in line with operating system "motion" preference
Changed
- Improved listing pages for "Performance" metrics
- In addition to "Savings", added "Difference", "Efficiency as CoP" and "Efficiency as percentage"
- Uplifted look and feel
- 7 day total for each meter
- Ordered by Unit then Meter (ascending)
- Easily switch between different metrics
- Improved dashboard dropdown menu for linking to "Performance" listing pages
- Dashboard preview graphs made more consistent with the graph page
- Uplifted tooltip
- All point values shown in a shared tooltip
- Dates shown in consistent format
- Switched to "External temperature" for label text
- Changed "External temperature" overlay colour to blue
- Using proper unit of measure symbol for degree Celsius
- Removed utility series from legend
- Using per utility / overlay precision logic
- Loader set to same height as graph to prevent "jumping"
- Displaying a maximum of 1 decimal place for "Celcius", "kg", "kWh" and "%" values
Fixed
- Updated incorrect German translations on the graph page
- Dashboard preview graphs with "data pending" now not getting stuck showing loader
- Maximum decimal places for negative numbers now working correctly
v3.3.3
Fixed
- Alarm "test" not working for "Fuel Days Remaining" alarm type
v3.3.2
Added
- Unit ordering on meter read reports
Changed
- Updated FAQs and User Guide to reflect new graph page (English)
v3.3.0
Added
- "Secondary meter" comparison on meter-level graph pages
- "FuelView: Fuel usage" overlay on unit-level graph pages
- "Fuel", "CO2" and "PV" utilities now available on graph pages
- "1 Day" graph available at all levels
- "Meter reads" section on unit, meter location and meter level graph pages
- "Sharable URLs" for dashboard and graph pages (deep link to specific level, utility, date, period etc.)
- Metrics data access layer; improves the performance and reliability of the data used to power our graphs, tables and reports
- Translated dates
- Additional missing translations
Changed
- Uplifted graph page
- Key information like title and date range clearly stated at the top of the page
- Full-width graph
- Improved stats cards for "Average" and "Total"
- Improved "Compare" selector: Selected value shown to the user
- Data table now works at all levels and shows a summary of all the data that is powering the graph
- Meter data can be downloaded at all levels
- Meter reads can be downloaded at all levels
- Improved support for smaller screens e.g. tablets
- More reliable and responsive
- Improved FuelView look and feel
- More information visible on the page without having to click into sections
- Improved support for smaller screens e.g. tablets
- Improved number formatting
- For small values, more of the decimal is displayed on dashboard
- Specific precisions used for different utilities and overlays
- "FuelView: Fuel remaining" improved overlay on unit-level graph pages
- Tweaked utility colours
Fixed
- Fix "average" calculation on graph page
- Previous month being displayed when using click to drill down functionality
- Graph is spiking when showing meters of different time settlements
- No data available message shown when there is overlay data available but not consumption
- Humidity values are incorrect within graph page
- Humidity data showing as consumption in utility selector of graph page rather than reading
- No data available message displaying over comparison data graph
- Axis label for data associated with overlay not present on main graph page
v3.2.6
Added
- Clearer explanation of versioning on Releases page
Fixed
- Meters not displaying on the dashboard for some accounts
v3.2.4
Fixed
- Previous Month and Previous Year compare will use comparative days of the week
v3.2.2
Added
- TechView translations for French, Dutch, Polish and Norwegian
- Additional missing translations
Changed
- Customised error 4xx pages with link back to home page
- Portfolio menu will now refresh on login
Fixed
- Corrected German translation for "Aggregate units" text
v3.2.0
Added
- Dashboard option for toggling unit aggregation on and off
- Infinite scroll on dashboard to improve performance of long lists
- French, Italian and Spanish translations for FAQs
- Spanish translations for TechView
Changed
- Improved menu design (stop hiding ancestor sibling nodes as you drill down)
- Made menu folder levels toggleable for easier access up the hierarchy
- Removed "Show all" from menu
- Promote single Customer to dashboard root rather than pre-selecting it
- Update to latest MinuteView logo
- Minor design tweaks to TechView filter buttons
Fixed
- Menu items now consistently listing alphabetically
v3.0.1
Added
- Environment banner
- Italian and Danish TechView translations
Fixed
- Certain alarms being created with incorrect type
- Quick find bugs
- "Hot water" graph page link issue
v3.0.0
Added
- Portfolio view
- Dashboard support for new utilities (Hot water, Oil, EVC, PV, CO2)
- Graph support for new utilities (Hot water, Oil, EVC)
- TechView
- Customer-specific branding
- Help content
- Market-specific policies
- Cookie control (Usercentrics)
- Error logging
Changed
- Moved to Laravel framework
- Improved dashboard quick find
- Concurrent dashboard quick view graphs
- User interface uplift
Fixed
- Security issues (SQL injection, XSS, CSRF, Authentication)
- Password reset