Release Notes 2024

V1.27.3 August 2024

• BD-773: Fix add a missing validation on vortex object maps.
• BD-775: Fix jobs going slightly above session's MaxDailyJobsNumber.
• BD-777: Add missing start/end times validation for /slots api.

V1.27.1 July 2024

• BD-771: Add support for updating job payload using original slot.
• BD-765: Add AdditionalDoorstepTime in driver and vehicle defaults to zero.
• BD-763: Add extend async patch jobs attributes.

V1.26.4 July 2024

• BD-762: fix OS-24-114287: Weak Access Control.

V1.26.3 July 2024

• BD-749: Add triggered vortex state logging on penalties spikes.
• BD-757: Enhance DB migration error handling logic.

V1.26.2 June 2024

• BD-744: Add special flag to control order picking logic.
• BD-740: Add vehicle attributes: VehicleCheckDuration and SetOffDelay defaults to zeros.
• BD-750: Add support for AvoidRoads in the minimap.
• BD-751: Fix an edge case related to redundant slot booking reloading.

V1.25.12 May 2024

• BD-735: Speedup mini-map routing by up to 20%.
• BD-738: Fix an edge case where a snapping node is not in the map.
• BD-741: Fix to handle unexpected snap node with no node ID.

V1.25.10 April 2024

• BD-725: Fix related to mapping update locking mechanism.
• BD-730: Fix related to mini-map parsing.

V1.25.8 March 2024

• BD-698: Add more accurate way to estimate snap time/distance for a better match with ERS.
• BD-698: Fix issues related to caching.
• BD-717: Fix related to an edge case of limited slot offering on plans with penalties.
• BD-721: Fix auto mapping update mechanism to schedule only one POD at a time.
• BD-723: Add support for Vehicle's CompromisedDays.

V1.25.4 February 2024

• BD-713: Add enhanced get available slots performance for multi-sessions requests.
• BD-698: Add EOS multi-day map edits support.
• BD-697: Add upgrade HTTP services framework to v5 [latest].
• BD-684: Add new stat to report no slots events count.
• BD-455: Add more documentation.

V1.25.2 January 2024

• BD-694: Enhance Redis streams consume strategy for better handling of spikes.
• BD-682: Migrate to a Redis cluster stage 2 (cluster read).
• BD-695: Add trim for AtoBs Redis cache.
• BD-694: Add redis streams for enhanced slot offering performance.
• BD-679: Add enhanced map edits performance with more caching.
• BD-692: Fix EOS phantom slots offering on wrapping slot locking.
• General performance improvement.

Release Notes 2023

V1.24.7 November 2023

• BD-679: Enhance map edits performance stage 1.
• BD-682: Migrate to a Redis cluster stage 1 (dual write).
• BD-674: Fix weak access control; add create session optional ContextID validation.
• BD-675: Fix weak access control; add async request IDs validation.

V1.24.5 October 2023

• BD-676: Add a configurable state sync process.
• BD-677: Allow EOS to use more than one core.
• BD-673: Deprecate the hourly states check for active sessions.

V1.24.1 September 2023

• BD-664: Set redis connection pool size to current default value.
• BD-668: Add support for linked shifts slot booking.
• BD-670: Enhance slot booking estimations when reload is required.
• General performance improvement.
• BD-666: Fix to handle unexpected invalid cached session/date state.
• BD-662: Add MaximumDaysPlanningInTheFuture at the session level and MaximumJobTransferDaysInTheFuture at the context level.

V1.23.5 July 2023

• BD-661: Add more optimisation delay stats.
• BD-660: Fix a map snapping edge case.
• BD-659: Add config for more control over slot booking map.
• BD-644: Add enhanced map edits support in slot booking mode.
• BD-652: Add invalidate matrices cache after 24h of map building.
• BD-651: Fix a slot booking race condition edge case.

V1.23.1 June 2023

• BD-645: Enhance /api_v1/slots/available performance.

V1.23.0 May 2023

• BD-643: Add SlotBookingCautionLevel to session parameters, defaults to null.
• BD-516: Add gzip compression support to Webhook API.
• BD-641: Add PATCH operations support for resources: Depots,Vehicles,Drivers,VehicleProfiles.

V1.21.9 April 2023

• BD-624: Enhance slots availability in certain geographies.

V1.21.8 March 2023

• BD-636: Fix for an extremely rare delayed optimisation scenario.
• BD-633: Add support for stats aggregation.
• BD-635: Potential fix for delete resources misleading HTTP code.
• BD-624: Enhance slots availability in certain geographies.

V1.21.2 February 2023

• BD-627: Add support for an edge case when a slot end at midnight.
• BD-628: Add support for optional time window in job update API PUT /resource.

V1.21.0 January 2023

• BD-625: Add session not found custom error E102.
• BD-624: Enhance slots availability in certain geographies.
• BD-579: Add redesign cleanup process.
• BD-616: Fix stop reading slot jobs from legacy table.
• BD-618: Fix an edge case with missing wrapper slot when a nested slot is offered.
• BD-623: Enhance slots availability in certain geographies.
• General performance improvement.

Release Notes 2022

V1.20.6 December 2022

• BD-610: Add self healing and stats to monitor stale plans.
• BD-612, BD-615: Fix async PATCH updates not triggering re-optimisation.
• BD-603: Fix EOS to recover from an unexpected Vortex request state.
• BD-604: Add support for Redis cluster.

V1.20.2.3 November 2022

• BD-605: Fix stat for GET async/status api.
• BD-606: Add config change to manage default behaviour.
• BD-607: Fix job force transfer after async PATCH updates.
• BD-608: Fix job LoadTime attribute overrule legacy value.

V1.20.2 October 2022

• BD-564: Fix low availability slots issue in certain geographies.
• BD-599: Add a config to control startup states loading.
• BD-603: Fix EOS to recover from an unexpected Vortex request state.
• General performance improvement.

V1.19.18 September 2022

• BD-577: Add quantities and capacities stats.
• BD-586: Adjust how optimisation capacity is allocated.
• BD-589: Add overtime contribution reduction to improve slot availability.
• BD-590: Fix an edge case related to offering last slot.
• BD-553: Add stop offering slots before job CutOffDateTime.
• BD-587: Add move jobs writes to a new table.
• Add more stats.
• BD-584: Add reduce overtime on weight updates.
• BD-585: Add config to control merge problems as a percentage.
• BD-583: Add OrderNo to simulator for testing purposes.
• BD-580: Add configurable limits to resources batch API calls.
• BD-582: Add allow external updates during finalise duration.
• BD-581: Enhance slot availability in relation to 1hr slots not offered.
• General performance improvement.
• BD-572: Fix LoadTime in job object is not updating.
• General performance improvement.

v1.19.9 August 2022

• BD-568: Order transfer affected by optional additional output reducing slot availability.
• BD-571: Add more stats.
• General performance improvement.
• BD-564: Fix low availability slots issue in certain geographies.
• BD-553: Add support for CutOffDateTime in job object.
• BD-565: Reduce risk factor for longer journeys.
• General performance improvement.

v1.19.3 July 2022

• BD-556: Fix kafka reconnecting issue after blackout.
• BD-555: Fix resource delete not trigger re-planning.
• BD-549: Fix get resources ignoring jobs on end date.
• BD-523: Add implement PATCH for job updates.
• General performance improvement.
• BD-561: Add ignore state calculation for future days after MaximumDaysPlanningInTheFuture.
• BD-560: Fix to handle invalid Vortex wait state requests.
• BD-563: Add skip expired state calculation requests.

v1.18.8 June 2022

• BD-544: Add disable on disk caching config.
• BD-541: Add webhook support for internal services.
• BD-533: Fix background clean up too aggressive.
• BD-540: Fix AvoidRoad validation in VehicleProfile.

v1.18.3 May 2022

• BD-526: Add kafka queue for better performance.
• BD-528: Add config for functionality control.
• BD-529: Add reduce overtime / late with high capacity slots.
• General performance improvement.
• BD-524: Fix websocket not sending updates.
• BD-510: Add First for BestConstraint in POST /slots/available.
• BD-513: Add multiple session support for both get available slots and book slot.
• BD-512: Add async internal slot request for faster get available slots on multiple days.
• General performance improvement.

v1.17.9 April 2022

• BD-507: Add more plan stats.
• BD-499: Add support for webhooks on plan updates.
• BD-482: Add check to ensure jobs are unique across all context sessions.
• BD-503: Add allow partial updates on resources.
• BD-500: Add optimise DB queries.
• BD-498: Add seeding from merged plans for better stability.
• BD-496: Fix EOS add more caching.
• BD-494: Fix EOS transfers generating lates and overtime.
• General performance improvement.

V1.17.0 March 2022

• BD-486: Add enhanced job transfer.

V1.16.5 March 2022

• BD-483: Fix StartDate field is missing from output plan.
• BD-481: Fix incorrectly returning 200s and jobs in the wrong slot.
• BD-475: Add memory cache enhancement.
• BD-478: Fix available driver time calculation on an edge case.
• BD-462: Fix 500 errors on resources delete/update.
• BD-474: Fix an edge case preventing EOS for picking up a change.
• BD-465: Add transfer jobs to best depot immediately after booking.
• BD-461: Encourage jobs to be transferred from a session with penalties.
• BD-461: Disable rapid planning.

V1.16.1 January 2022

• BD-447: Fix related to invalid http error code when delete didn't find the object.
• BD-448: Fix related to job transfer for a more balanced plans.
• BD-446: Fix related to re-adding slots is not triggering internal state re-calculation.
• BD-404: Add LockStatus support at the vehicle level.
• BD-419: Add support for new Vortex feature RapidPlan.
• BD-445: Fix wrong slot capacities when driver shift is shorter than slot.

Release Notes 2021

V1.14.3 December 2021

• BD-424: Fix related to MaxDailyJobsNumber is ignored on custom plan dates.
• General performance improvement.
• BD-391: Enhance slot response sensitivity to resource changes. Final release.
• BD-421: Fix websocket memory leak related to large scale websocket usage.

V1.14.1 November 2021

• BD-415: Fix related to EOS state doesn't update after upgrade on a special scenario.
• BD-413: Fix related to race condition on job update.
• BD-359: Add ContextID in http header for POST session API.
• BD-396: Add optional ContextID parameter to Get Resources API and add SessionID to resources objects result.
• BD-396: Add ContextID to PUT, DELETE resources API and Add Context wide unique IDs checks before POST
• BD-396: Update the assigned stores on a job using depot characteristics.
• BD-378: Account for action TRAVEL_PART in EOS for some edge cases.

V1.13.0 October 2021

• BD-391: Enhance slot response sensitivity to resource changes. Initial release.
• BD-400: Add support for map edits.
• General performance improvement.
• BD-365: Add support for multi-day plan in dynamic scheduling mode only.
• BD-392: Add JobTransferSlotUtilisationThreshold to the context parameters. Default: 0.5.

V1.11.3 September 2021

• BD-385: Fix slot issue with speed factors and distance stratified speed vector.
• Fix BD-384, related to ensuring backward compatibility on internal EOS state.
• Fix BD-383, related to CapacityIndex validation when capacities are missing.
• BD-369: Add (total & available) driver time, as well as (total & available) vehicle delivery capacity to "/slots" and "/slots/available" responses. An optional "BestConstraint" argument in "/slots/available" determines how to calculate the most suitable vehicle; values can be "Time", "Distance", or "DeliveryCapacity. The default is "Time" which was the pre-existing behaviour. Note: Ignoring these new parameters / attributes retains the original behaviour. This provides more detailed information regarding slot availability.
• BD-371: Add "error" attribute into HTTP 404 "/slots/book" responses. For example {"code": 404, "message": "slot is not available ", "error": "E100"}. EOS now responds with HTTP 404 when "MaxDailyJobsNumber" is reached, rather than HTTP 400 which is more suitable for client errors.
• Fix BD-380 related to missing extra checks when shifts are empty.

V1.10.3 August 2021

• Fix BD-368 related to reporting false 404 errors.
• Fix BD-367 related to respecting MaxDailyJobsNumber constraint in get free slots.
• BD-359: Add support for session and context IDs in HTTP headers.

V1.9.0 July 2021

• BD-351: Add WebSocket support.
• BD-340: Fix related to error reporting.

V1.8.0 June 2021

• BD-335: Add customized session parameters on a specific date.
• BD-336: Add get resources by their IDs.
• Fix BD-337.
• Fix BD-338.
• Fix BD-340.

V1.7.0 April 2021

• BD-313: Add vehicle capacity check support.
• BD-318: Add update/delete flexi-jobs using their original session IDs
• Add UpdatedSinceSeed attribute at job level for pending Vortex updates.
• Performance enhancements.
• Fix an issue related to update slot booking, occurs when jobID is not unique in the context.
• Fix finalise when duration is small.

V1.6.0 March 2021

• BD-299: Add DeleteExpiredSecond to session parameters to cleanup expired objects.

V1.5.0 February 2021

• BD-293: Add getall argument to get unavailable slots to the GET Slots Available API /api_v1/slots/available?getall=true json // Example response [ { "DistanceToJobMetre": 4530, "EndTime": "2019-12-24T12:00", "StartTime": "2019-12-24T10:00", "Status": "Open", "TimeToJobSecond": 300, "Utilisation": 0.8 }, { "EndTime": "2019-12-24T12:00", "StartTime": "2019-12-24T10:00", "Status": "notAvailable", "Utilisation": 1 } ]
• BD-297: EOS can limit the max total jobs bookable or transferable, except for when force mode used. If an attempt is made to add a job when this limit is reached, the job will be rejected. "Session":{"MaxDailyJobsNumber": null } Default: Null = no limit. If the session has more than one depot this limit applies to all depots in that session. This limit only applies to a single day.
• Add TransferJobsBetweenSessions attribute to the context parameters, defaults to true. While the jobs' IncludeDepotCharacteristics includes the depots StringId from different sessions then transferring jobs between sessions can occur. To avoid ambiguity ensure the depot's StringId is unique within the context.
• BD-281, Add finalise end-point /api_v1/plan/finalise to inform EOS to prepare a finished plan. Session transfers are suspended. Typically, no more changes/additions should be made by the user.
• Add more validation for /api_v1/resources end-points.
• Fix the content-type response header for end-point /api_v1/slots/available.

V1.4.1 January 2021

• Add Validation to individual slots when adding and deleting.
• Enhance optimisation response time under load.
• BD-268, add PUT method to /api_v1/slots/book to allow changes to both job and slot objects.
• BD-289, fix re-calculating slots' state (fix utilisation 100% after deleting jobs).
• Add support for Vortex sparse matrices and cycle optimisation for better performance.
• GetAvailableSlots returns calculating slots when there are no alternatives.
• Fix an issue which was preventing sessions cleanup.
• Fix an issue related to offering less slots in some edge cases.

Release Notes 2020

V1.3.0 November 2020

• Add job transfer scheduler between sessions in the same context.
• Enhance performance on large problems, and add better caching technique.
• Add Force boolean parameter to BookSlot API.
• Increase Maximum plan days in future to 30.

V1.2.0 October 2020

• Populate PriorRequestID to enable matrices caching in Vortex
• Enhanced slot booking strategy, Add more tests, and support original job creation time for test simulator.
• Change Service name to EOS.
• Introduce Context for larger organisations with multiple sessions.
• Enable matrices caching by default.

V1.1.0 July 2020

• Add swagger docs
• Add Availability && Availability exceptions to Depot, Driver, and Vehicle objects
• Cleanup in-progress Vortex request when session is deleted
• Fix an issue with SlotAvailable Distance and Time to job
• Add Extra Time and Distance needed to do a job to available slot object

V1.0.0 March 2020

• Consolidated releases.
• Renamed to Elastic Optimisation Service (EOS).

Release Notes 2019

V0.1.0 September 2019

• Initial deployment of VortexOnline replacing RM slot booking system.