3.8.4

• Important Fixes
  • Fixed an issue with full scene transparency
  • Fixed an issue with negative playback rates in animations
  • Fixed an issue causing unnecessary downloads when requesting the global volume of an inner Node

3.8.3

• Important Fixes
  • Added support for Bluetooth based 3Dconnexion devices
  • Fixed an issue causing capping geometry nodes to be visible in the TreeView
  • Fixed an exception being thrown on subsequent, synchronous calls of getMetadata
  • Fixed an issue causing Tangent-Measurements to always fail
  • Fixed an issue causing wrongly classified topological cylinder elements related to CATIA files
  • Fixed an issue causing wrongly ordered Segments related to KBL files
  • Fixed an issue causing configured transcoder URL rewrites to be ignored

3.8.2

• Important Fixes
  • Updated most third-party components for security and stability fixes
  • Fixed an issue causing auth header values shown in logs
  • Fixed an issue causing state loss during multiple Session store and restores
  • Fixed an issue causing some recursive Node properties not being stored in Snapshots
  • Fixed an issue causing removed Nodes to reappear in stored sessions
  • Fixed an issue causing the coloring of the 3-Color-Comparison to get lost on mouse hover
  • Fixed an issue causing getBoxGizmoProperties() to return a reference instead of a copy
  • Fixed an issue causing UI-Annotations to not be correctly updated when switching between Snapshots
  • Fixed an issue causing the UI-SnappingCircle to behave differently between navigation modes
  • Fixed an issue for XYZ files without color information
  • Fixed various loading issues related to X3D files

3.8.1

• Important Fixes
  • Fixed an issue that caused PMIs to be missing when enabling a model view for the first time
  • Fixed an issue that prevented PMIs from being correctly restored from a Snapshot
  • Fixed a visualization issue that could occur when PMIs were used with a model that was loaded twice
  • Fixed a visualization issue that could occur when Anti-Aliasing was enabled
  • Fixed an issue that caused calls to the setProjection method to have no effect
  • Fixed an issue that could arise when transcoding files and the output path contained a “%” character
  • Fixed a transcoding issue that could occur when processing GLB files that contained vertex colors
  • Fixed an issue that caused Annotations to malfunction when used in conjunction with stored or collaborative sessions
  • Fixed an issue that resulted in stored sessions containing the full Attachment data instead of a reference
  • Fixed an inconsistency in the Helm chart name, ensuring it adheres to the standard naming convention

3.8

• Updates
  • VertexColors are now supported by default
  • Screen Space Ambient Occlusion can now be activated in the render settings to improve the spatial perceptibility
  • Temporal Anti-Aliasing can now be activated in the render settings to progressively enhance the visual quality
  • A new TopologyAPI enables the programmatical access to topology objects
  • The presentation of inner and outer diameter is changed to minor and major radius
• Important Fixes
  • Fixed a topology face highlighting issue in data from specific formats
  • Fixed an issue with the loading of Clipplanes from RLXML data
  • Fixed an issue with disabling the real property on parts of the scene
  • Updated the loaders to fix an issue with data from SOLIDWORKS 2023
  • Fixed a camera issue with some ModelViews from SOLIDWORKS data
  • Fixed a rare timing issue with the licensing of service instances
  • Fixed some redirection issues in the AdminUI that occurred in specific setups
  • Fixed missing circle arc definitions from STEP data
  • Fixed a slight change in camera properties when switching between render setups
  • Fixed the loading of PLMXML DataSets with memberRefs lists
  • Fixed the loading of PLMXML data with multiple AssociatedDataSet siblings
  • Fixed the loading of PLMXML data without an InstanceGraph node
  • Fixed a synchronization issue with high frequent updates through changeClipPlane
  • Fixed the update of the settings view in the mobile UI
  • Fixed missing Annotation display when created with a empty label
  • Fixed missing DrawingPlane gizmo when opening a 3DSpace
  • Fixed an issue with overriding the opacity to the default when applying a new appearance
  • Fixed a parsing issue with specific wildcard requests in the QueryAPI
  • Fixed an issue with the Drawing mode after removing and recreating the Viewer component
  • Fixed the Clipplane name display in the UI for entities created from the API
  • Fixed the calculation of ellipse circumferences for increased accuracy
  • Fixed the orientation on PMI text entites from specific formats
• Upgrade Actions (when upgrading from 3.7)
  • Required: Ensure the LicenseServer version is compatible with this version as defined here
  • Required: Clear cache

3.7.3

• Important Fixes
  • Fixed a navigation issue with “Set Pivot” in D_CAD mode
  • Units in existing measurements are now updated correctly when changing unit settings
  • Fixed a color selection issue in the Color Picker component
  • webvis now initializes correctly when the GamepadAPI is blocked by the Permissions-Policy header
  • Fixed a possible double ‘/’ in the URL when dropping a file into webvis
  • Fixed an issue with missing cookies in CORS scenarios

3.7.2

• Updates
  • Environment variables in service logs are now redacted
• Important Fixes
  • Updated most third-party components for security and stability fixes
  • Fixed a scaling issue with PMIs in some models
  • Fixed the behavior of the “fixateXRMember” function in the RealityAPI
  • Fixed a navigation issue in the internal admin tools when the entrypoint has a trailing slash
  • Fixed an issue in PLMXML parsing resulting in wrong color assignments
  • Fixed ClipRooms not being restored correctly on restoreSession
  • Fixed a crash when a Shared Session is shut down while following another member
  • Fixed a rare issue causing the database migration service to run endlessly
  • Fixed missing credentials when fetching the webvis.config.js
  • Fixed the transformation of parts over multiple link levels
  • Fixed the sharing of an QR Code when the system has a custom path on the hubURL
  • Removed nginx server version from responses
  • Fixed requestScreenshot in scenes with data errors

3.7.1

• Important Fixes
  • Fixed a transparency and silhouette rendering issue that occurred with iOS 16.5
  • Fixed issues with the initial visualization of some aux geometry
  • Fixed a drawing issue while in orthographic perspective
  • Fixed an issue that led to an error when the entrypoint had a trailing forward-slash
  • Fixed an issue with the correct cleanup of ClipRooms on removal
  • Fixed a UI issue with the Snapshot bar on touch devices
  • Fixed the UI parent select feature on iOS devices
  • Removed a false error log when connecting to a 3D Space
  • Fixed a missing error display for failed resource preparation
  • Fixed a UI bug when selecting a color in the setting’s color picker
  • Fixed a bug that potentially led to a crash on removal of very large models

3.7

• Updates
  • Added the DrawingPlanes feature to enable drawing outside of the model geometry
  • Updated the JT Loader to fix a performance issue with specific files
  • Added a version handshake between instant3Dhub and the LicenseServer to prevent incompatible setups
  • The service layer components will now adapt to the provided cpu and memory resources
  • Optimized performance of data authorization by reducing disk accesses
  • Introduced significant performance optimizations on the Query system
  • The viewer will not be automatically deleted when the <webvis-viewer> is removed from the Document Object Model if it has an explicit name to improve the default behavior with the attach/detach behavior of several web frameworks
  • Optimized the structure loading in webvis
  • Added a new NodeState property and NodeError event
  • Deprecated the InfoState and NodeResourceState properties
  • Added an OpenAPI spec for the LicenseServer to the documentation
  • Introduced several changes to experimental functions of the RealityAPI
• Important Fixes
  • Fixed a QueryAPI issue that led to wrong results with the “not” operator
  • Fixed a QueryAPI issue that led to wrong results when requesting the pmiType in some cases
  • Fixed several DGN Loader issues that resulted in visualization of wrong or missing geometry
  • Fixed a database issue that led to duplicates and potential errors
  • Fixed issues in the DGN & DWG Loaders that could result in missing geometry
  • Fixed a timing issue that sometimes led to missing PMI texts in webvis
  • Fixed a display issue in the adminUI showing wrong TrackerService states
  • Fixed an error with adding files including spaces in the filename via Drag&Drop
  • Fixed an issue with disabling the initial fit in webvis
  • Fixed an issue with the touch input on SurfaceHub devices
  • Fixed an issue with handling URIs containing consecutive / characters
  • Fixed an issue database version checks that could occur with prepared statements
  • Fixed an issue with changing the pen color while in drawing mode
  • Fixed the restoreCamera option in the snapshot content selection options
• Upgrade Actions (when upgrading from 3.6)
  • Required: Ensure the LicenseServer version is compatible with this version as defined here
  • Required: Clear cache
  • Required: Upgrade the LicenseServer to 23.1

3.6.3

• Important Fixes
  • Updated the loader to fix a vulnerability when loading SLDPRT files

3.6.2

• Updates
  • Added a new setting HOVER_COLOR to webvis ViewerSettings
  • BRANDING_URL and UNIT are not read from url parameters anymore to avoid potential XSS risks
  • Further hardened the content parsing in webvis against XSS risks
  • In PLMXML “instanceRefs” are now accepted when the “ProductRevisionView” is of type “solid”
  • The volume mount of the postgres container has been changed to tackle issues when running rootless
• Important Fixes
  • Fixed an issue with the ClipPlanes rotation gizmo in webvis
  • Fixed an issue with the Annotation’s node link on restore
  • Fixed the viewer request on a new context in webvis
  • Fixed a syntax error in the Postgres Ansible script
  • Fixed an issue with the ID assignment of AUX nodes when the resource provides a wrong type name
  • Fixed an issue with the config file sizes
  • Fixed an issue with specific combinations of SESSION_ID and RENDER_SETUP
  • Fixed an issue with snapshotting and deleted measurements
  • Fixed issues with toolbar customization in the webvis app
  • Fixed an issue with context menu customization in the webvis app
  • Fixed an issue with deleting nodes
  • Fixed issues with the ClipPlane rotation on restore
  • Fixed state issues with the interaction of ClipRoom, AUX nodes and restore
  • Fixed loading issues with specific DGN files
  • Fixed an issue in webvis Data Inspector to correctly react to selection changes
  • Fixed an issue that led to reduced pixel resolution on some devices
  • Fixed a timing issue with switches of snapshots that could result in a inconsistent state
• Upgrade Actions (when upgrading from 3.6.1)
  • Required: Clear cache
  • Required (when running postgres container): Update container config for postgres container
  • Recommended: Upgrade LicenseServer to 22.4

3.6.1

• Updates
  • Changed Rest API version position to /api//
  • Improved memory management to reduce flickering in certain scenarios
  • Added a setting to control the UI behavior of the Variants-Dialog
  • Changed annotations anchor and labelPosition to vec3 from vec4
  • Added a fitView flag to the XRInitOptions
• Important Fixes
  • Fixed an issue with the grouping in obj models that resulted in missing structure nodes
  • Fixed an issue that prevented UISettings to be loaded from the app configuration
  • Fixed an issue that prevented the change of UISetting.LABEL_TOOLTIP_ENABLED via API
  • Fixed an issue with initialProperties in large data sets
  • Fixed a decoding error that occured on drawing
  • Fixed the allocation of persistent volume claims for disabled prometheus and jaeger components
  • Fixed the use of TypeScript type definitions for the webvis-ui module
  • Fixed an issue of contextCreatedListeners in conjunction of listeners with “once”-option

3.6

• Updates
  • In this update we introduced and cleaned up several APIs. Some of these changes require migration on existing applications. An overview of these changes can be found in the migration guide
  • The look & feel of the default UI elements is improved
  • Grouped several functions in new APIs: ContextStateAPI, FrameAPI, EventAPI
  • Added new DrawingAPI
  • Added new TopologyAPI
  • Added loading of an app specific config file per default
  • Added monitoring capabilities with Prometheus & Grafana
  • Increased memory request of the i3dhub-consul container
• Important Fixes
  • Fixed an issue that led to minimal differences in final camera positions
  • Topology is now correctly unhighlighted on deselection
  • Fixed a crash with specific glTF files
  • Fixed an issue with long running service instances
  • Fixed an issue with reloading previously deleted models
  • Fixed an issue with relative links in some CAD formats
  • Fixed an issue with node-selection in webvis
  • Fixed a transformation issue in webvis
  • Fixed incorrectly shaded parts in wireframe mode
  • Fixed an issue with the initial fitting to models
  • Fixed an issue with incorrectly synchronized node labels
  • Fixed an issue with geometry instantiation from NX files
  • Improved the stability of queries
  • Fixed several issues with the database on the Windows Booster
  • Improved stability of clip planes during movement
  • Fixed an issue with capping when moving clip planes
  • Improved stability of setParent
  • Fixed loading issues of some dgn models
  • Fixed a clip plane issue that led to incorrect culling of geometry
  • Fixed issues with transferring a client to another 3D Space
  • Improved stability of session restore
  • Improved handling of deleted nodes in snapshots
  • Fixed a visualization issue with the clip plane gizmo
  • Fixed always showing topology lines from CATIA models
  • Fixed an UI bug during model tracking
  • Fixed a potential security issue with the loading of third-party annotation contents
  • Fixed a material loading issue with some step files
  • Fixed an issue that occured when loading very large models
  • Fixed some synchronization issues while collaborating in three color comparison
• Upgrade Actions (when upgrading from 3.5)
  • Required: Migrate applications according to the migration guide
  • Required: Clear cache
  • Recommended: Upgrade LicenseServer to 22.3

3.5.3

• Updates
  • Changed RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch and PostgreSQL Kubernetes Deployments to StatefulSets
  • Changed RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch and PostgreSQL PersistentVolumeClaims from ReadWriteMany to ReadWriteOnce
  • Prevent “unknown error” notifications during capping geometry creation
• Important Fixes
  • Fixed an issue which produces invalid snapshots after removing nodes

3.5.2

• Important Fixes
  • Fixed a startup issue when using an external space store database
  • Fixed a RabbitMQ startup issue with enabled security context

3.5.1

• Important Fixes
  • Fixed an XSS vulnerability with property synchronization
  • Fixed incorrect rendering of HTML annotations
  • Fixed distribution of header/cookie forwarding settings to all services
  • Fixed an issue with the update of sharedsession service logs in the admin UI
  • Fixed incorrect caching of the splash page

3.5

• Updates
  • HTML annotations are now disabled by default
  • Added support for Datadog as tracing backend
  • UIs and APIs for the administrative tools Consul, Jaeger, RabbitMQ and Kibana are moved to the /admin path-prefix
  • Default RabbitMQ credentials can now be overridden in the configuration
  • The instant3DhubLicenseServer can now be accessed via instant3Dhub on /admin/license
  • webvis settings can now be changed from Helm’s values.yaml
  • The 3DSpace database will now be automatically migrated to the current version on startup
• Important Fixes
  • Fixed a crash during XP Brep Tessellation caused by specific JT files
  • Fixed an issue with the rescheduling of Postgres container resources
  • Fixed a visual shader issue leading to incorrect topology lines in some cases
  • Fixed an issue with parts being incorrectly displayed in wireframe mode
  • Fixed a crash caused by specific NX files
  • Fixed an error that could occur while loading 3dxml files with empty leaf nodes
  • Fixed a visibility determination issue with transparent parts
  • Fixed an issue where in some cases the hover highlight of the measurement target selection was shown incorrectly
  • Fixed an issue where the log level setting was not propagated correctly to all components
  • Fixed a UI issue with the display of the 3DSpace QR code
  • Fixed a rendering issue where in rare occasions parts of the model were cut incorrectly
• Upgrade Actions (when upgrading from 3.4)
  • Required: Clear cache
  • Required: Upgrade LicenseServer to 22.2

3.4.3

• Important Fixes
  • Fixed an issue with certain JT files not transcoding
  • Improved performance when switching snapshots in certain scenarios
• Updates
  • Added automatic aborting of processing jobs running longer than 48h
  • Removed broken and deprecated batchedQueryEnabled setting

3.4.2

• Important Fixes
  • Fixed an issue with broken helm tests
  • Fixed an issue with running clear cache and restarting the system
  • Fixed an issue with high cpu usage of the AdminService
  • Fixed an issue with the Admin UI sometimes losing services
  • Fixed an issue with service requests sometimes erroring due to a race condition
  • Fixed an issue with D_CAD navigation mode performance
  • Fixed an issue with CLIPPLANE_CHANGED firing twice
  • Fixed an issue with certain KBL files
  • Fixed an issue with wrong materials when using SolidWorks files
• Updates
  • Added configuration options for initial number of pods on system startup
  • Added configuration options for additional Websocket Query Parameters

3.4.1

• Important Fixes
  • Fixed an issue with the new init containers in combination with Istio
  • Fixed an issue with incorrect annotation-node relations on snapshot restore
  • Increased the header size limit to support larger authorization tokens
  • Fixed an issue with header filter rules to not apply to urn based DataGateways
  • Fixed the error display for unauthorized resources when using custom headers

3.4

• Highlights
  • Alpha of the ODA-Loader (Open Design Alliance) integration enables loading of DGN files
  • Added support for non-Cookie based authentication methods
  • The addition of Kubernetes’ init-containers improves system startup time and observability
• Updates
  • Added configuration options for authorization caching
  • Added configuration options for url rewrites at data access
  • Updated default models on the splash page
  • Improved the changelog UI
  • HEAD requests to DataGateways can now be filtered
  • Added configuration option to disable NodePort exposure in Kubernetes
  • Moved default values of configs from the resource templates to the values.yaml file
  • Configs are now loaded via Kubernetes ConfigMaps instead of consul
• Important Fixes
  • Fixed an issue that prevented loading of glb files with vec4 accessors
  • Fixed transparency issues with glTF files from Google Sketchup 6 and 7
  • Fixed a bug in the config files for the single node setup
  • Fixed issues with the hybrid rendering stack and empty nodes
  • Fixed an issue with the synchronization of measurement names
  • Fixed a race condition on the SelectionAPI
  • Fixed an issue to work correctly with Envoy sidecar containers
• Upgrade Actions (when upgrading from 3.3)
  • Required: Clear cache
  • Required: Configure forwarding rules for Data Gateway authentication
  • Recommended: Upgrade LicenseServer to 22.1

3.3.4

• Important Fixes
  • Fixed an issue with the storage of 3DSpaces after the restart of specific containers

3.3.3

• Important Fixes
  • Fixed an issue were adding nodes with empty dataUri could lead to errors
  • Fixed issues preventing startup of postgres and pgbouncer containers related to enabled securityContext settings
  • Disabled material overrides until further notice
  • Fixed issues when disabling included postgres container
  • Fixed issues with JT transcoding when unit is set to inches
  • Fixed issue where webvis config smallfeatureculling settings are not propagated correctly

3.3.2

• Updates
  • Added config flag to change postgres data folder to helmcharts.
• Important Fixes
  • Fixed issues an with Remote Rendering ID mappings
• Required Actions (when upgrading from 3.2)
  • Clear Cache
  • Update LicenseServer

3.3.1

• Important Fixes
  • Fixed an issue with the AuthSvc leading to 403 responses
  • Fixed splashpage demo models
  • Fixed typos and errors in integration documentation
• Required Actions (when upgrading from 3.2 or 3.3)
  • Clear Cache
  • Update LicenseServer

3.3

• Highlights
  • The iOS App is released in Apple’s AppStore
  • The Alpha of our VR App for Windows delivers high quality rendering on-screen and in VR
• Updates
  • Improved visuals with opaque and especially transparent parts
  • Windows Booster now also supports Transcoding, Measurements and 3DSpaces in offline mode
  • Helm Chart and public repository updated to enable direct helm includes
  • Helm Chart schema for values.yaml
  • Added imagePullSecrets for cluster provisioning
  • Now use Kubernetes secrets for external database credentials
  • Improved the use of local storage during transcoding to increase transcoding performance
• Important Fixes
  • Added flag to avoid the exploit of a log4j vulnerability in the elastic stack (CVE-2021-44228)
  • Added default cpu limits to prevent configuration errors with specific cluster configurations
  • Fixed an issue with loading CAD data from an endpoint with hidden file identifier
  • Fixed a performance issue with heavy load on resource requests
  • Fixed an issue with the download of .rlxml resources for offline use
  • Fixed the use of topology in the mobile UI
  • Fixed an issue on the booster that occurred on restart while downloading data for offline use
  • Fixed occasional errors in a postgres function
  • Fixed a performance issue with the first snapshot generation with some datasets
  • Fixed an issue that displayed CATIA topological elements as standard geometry
  • Fixed a performance issue in webvis while connected to a booster
  • Fixed an issue with setting the pickable property on disabled geometry
  • Fixed an issue in the authsvc that sometimes falsely denied access to resources
  • Fixed a transformation issue with older JT files
  • Fixed some issues with the initialization of model tracking
• Required Actions (when upgrading from 3.2)
  • Clear Cache

3.2.1

• Important Changes
  • Added support for Kubernetes secrets for postgres and rabbitmq access
  • Fixed an issue with WebSocket timeouts in some infrastructures
  • Fixed an issue with the pickable property update
  • Fixed an issue with Parasolid loading
  • Fixed a bug with session sharing after snapshot restore
  • Fixed an AuxMode issue after expanding the structure in the tree-view
  • Fixed Docker Compose deploy config
  • Fixed issues with JT’s section geometry scaling and material override
  • Fixed an issue with parsing Content-Disposition with encoding flags

3.2

• Focus Topic
  • Support for Capping surfaces in Clipplanes
  • Model-tracking support in Kubernetes
• Updates
  • Removed service specific gateway containers
  • Added switch to disable ELK and Jaeger
  • Added request/limit defaults. They can be enabled in the values.yaml
  • Added support for custom authorization headers
  • Improved consistency of content-negotiation with the data gateway
  • Moved several internal interfaces to flatbuffer for increased performance and stability
  • Added config for advanced URI generation in Step242
  • Improved integration of webvis docu to the new portal system
  • Docker-Compose will not be officially supported anymore. Documentation and scripts will be kept as reference in this version.
• Important Fixes
  • Fixed several issues with the Booster’s offline functionality
  • Fixed several access issues in adminUI and 3DSpace API
  • Fixed some visibility issues with transparent parts
  • The splash links now correctly lead to the mobile UI on mobile devices
  • Fixed material override in JTs
  • Fixed a rendering issue with the iOS 15 update
  • Fixed loading issues with VRML, IGES and ACIS
  • Fixed an issue with etags from the data providers
• Required Actions (when upgrading from 3.1)
  • Clear Cache

3.1

• Focus Topic
  • Extended format support (> 40)
  • Native CATIA support
• Updates
  • New documentation portal
  • Offline support with Booster
  • Cloud-GPU Support
  • Multi-entrypoint support - Access instant3Dhub from different domains
  • JxVis - JxBrowser based frontend for Java
  • Support for custom key rotation for resource signatures
  • Scalable stateless services
  • Persistent SharedSessions - Preserve content in sessions of the same ID
• Experimental features
  • 3DSpaces
    • Drag&Drop of local resources
  • Autoscaling support
• Important Fixes
  • Fixed several tessellation issues with the painting functionality
  • Fixed an issue with clipboard override in measurement UI
  • Fixed double measurement context menu showing undefined in some cases
  • Fixed CATIA navigation with global event listener
  • Fixed a performance issue with resource requests in very large scenarios
  • Fixed an issue with synchronization of transformations on a SharedSession
• Required Actions (when upgrading from 3.0)
  • Clear volumes
  • Data Gateway & Authorization configuration syntax

3.0

Welcome to instant3Dhub Version 3! This version is a major overhaul of the core system for cloud-native, containerized environments. We are also switching to a new release model. For more information visit thepublic announcement.