Below is a summary of the latest CyberSKA portal release (v1.3.2) on October 14, 2011. We also include release notes for the CyberSKA portal release (v1.3.1) on August 26, 2011 which were not published yet.

Prominent in the latest release is added support for upload, recognition and visualization of measurement set images in addition to FITS images. Mime types for FITS and measurement set (CASA) images as well as UVFITS and measurement set visibility data are now supported and automatically recognized by the portal. Measurement sets can be uploaded as .tar or .tar.gz files. Thumbnails are generated for images and visibility data can be identified by the "UVW" icon on the site. Headers for these four data types are also extracted as part of the data ingestion process and are displayed in the file view on the portal. Both FITS and CASA images can be visualized using the client side and server side based image viewers via the "View Image" and "View Movie" buttons respectively. Users can select to browse just image files or visibility files when in the file view by selecting the "Image Data" and "Visibility Data" links in the left sidebar menu. Mime types for all existing files on the site have also been reevaluted with associated headers and thumbnails generated. Note that headers and thumbnails will not appear immediately after upload of a file, but will appear after the ingestion process, that extracts the header and generates the thumbnail for that file, is complete.

Some new collaboration features have also been added in the last two releases. These include various bug fixes, the ability to send messages to multiple contacts and/or contact lists (previously the messaging tool only supported sending to one contact), repression of activity feed messages when a user modifies a page multiple times in a short time period and support for multiple group administrators. A group owner can add new group admins by going to the group member list (via the "View more members" link in the sidebar menu), mousing over the bottom right hand corner of the members photo, clicking on the down arrow and then selecting "Add group admin". Group admins will then show up in a box above Group members in the sidebar menu of the main group page. Group admins can also invite new members to the group and approve memberships. The group owner can also allow group admins to appoint other members to be group admins by selecting the appropriate setting via the "Edit group settings" sidebar menu item.

More details on the components released can be found below:

August 26, 2011 - CyberSKA Portal v1.3.1

• can now send messages to multiple contacts and contact lists
• repression of activity feed messages when resource modified more than once in short time period
• chat functionality available again (via new plugin) - has since been disabled due to performance issues
• added busy icon during data upload/submission process to notify user something is happening
• various bug fixes

Aug 26, 2011 - FITS Viewer v0.6.7 (Client side based FITS Viewer)

• client side fits viewer (accessible via the "View Image" button) now occupies all available vertical space by default

October 14, 2011 - CyberSKA Portal v1.3.2

• groups can now have multiple administrators
• various bug fixes
• updated to Data Management Service v0.9.0 - support for FITS and measurement set (CASA) images as well as UVFITS and measurement set visibility data
• thumbnails generated for FITS and CASA images, icon with text "UVW" for visibility data
• mime types for existing portal file reevaluated with new headers extracted and thumbnails generated
• in portal file module can select to browse just "Image Data" or "Visibility Data" via side menu bar if desired
• can now visualize both FITS and measurement set images uploaded to the portal using client side and server side image viewers

October 14, 2011 - Distributed Data Management Service v0.9.0

• now supports mime type recognition for FITS and measurement set (CASA) images as well as UVFITS and measurement set visibility data
• measurement sets can be uploaded as .tar or .tar.gz files
• header extraction for all four data types supported and is displayed in file view on portal
• thumbnails generated for FITS and CASA images