Plant-Tracer/webapp Releases

Release History

Releases

Name	Version	Date	Issues
Spring 2024	0.9.2	May 19 2024	Not tracked yet
Oct2024	0.9.3	October 8, 2024	Closed Issues
Dec2024	0.9.4	December ??, 2024	Closed Issues
Mar2025	0.9.5	March 22, 2025	Closed Issues
Apr2025	0.9.6	April 30, 2025	Closed Issues
April2026	0.9.7	April 26, 2026	Closed Issues
May062026	0.9.7.3	May 8, 2026	Closed Issues
May122026	0.9.7.4	May 12, 2026	Closed Issues
May-16-2026	0.9.7.5	May 16, 2026	Closed Issues
May-16-2026-2	0.9.7.5.1	May 16, 2026	Closed Issues
May-27-2026	0.9.7.6	May 27, 2026	Closed Issues
May-28-2026	0.9.7.6.2	May 28, 2026	Closed Issues
Jun-22-2026	0.9.8	June 22, 2026	Closed Issues
Jun-23-2026	0.9.8.1	June 23, 2026	Closed Issues
Jun-29-2026	0.9.8.2	June 29, 2026	Closed Issues

Release Notes

Unreleased Summary

• Developer: add src/dbbackup.py for default full and selective Plant Tracer .ptb backups, restores, archive inspection, dry-run restore-link sending, and course migration

• Developer: add verbose backup inspection with per-record summaries and grouped frame-trackpoint ranges

• Developer: add dbbackup list-prefixes to discover complete DynamoDB table prefixes and report course/user/movie counts with an aligned UTC from/to date range

• Developer: make dbbackup list-prefixes offer aws sso login and retry when AWS SSO token retrieval fails

• Developer: make dbbackup backup report progress to stderr and skip missing movie MP4 objects with manifest warnings instead of failing after writing a partial archive

• Developer: make dbbackup backup refuse to overwrite an archive from a different DynamoDB table prefix and reuse already archived movie MP4 objects when refreshing a same-prefix backup

• Developer: make dbbackup restore preflight missing target table prefixes and create them only when --commit is supplied

• Developer: make dbbackup restore explicitly report that no restore was done when --commit is omitted

• Developer: make dbbackup restore use archived movie-object buckets when PLANTTRACER_S3_BUCKET is not configured

• Developer: make dbbackup report backup, inspect, and restore S3 bucket choices and require confirmation before committed archive-bucket restores

• Developer: parallelize dbbackup restore table creation, movie-object uploads, and movie_frames writes grouped by movie ID

• Test: add integration contract coverage for backup selection, default full backup, prefix discovery, restore preflight/commit/collision handling, dry-run restore links, verbose inspection, and course migration using DynamoDB Local and MinIO

0.9.8.2 Summary

• Documentation: new Calculation Reference page covering gravitropism and circumnutation statistics formulas

• Documentation: styled to match the Plant Tracer site fonts and colors

• Documentation: updated User Tutorial to cover 0.9.8.x features

• Infrastructure: CloudFormation/SAM template and Makefile hardened for deployment

0.9.8.1 Summary

• Analyze: Download Trackpoints CSV now expresses position values in mm when Ruler markers are calibrated (moved off their default positions); Ruler marker columns remain in pixels

• Analyze: Download analysis as an Excel XLSX file with marker summary and native Excel charts

0.9.8 Summary

• Analyze: aggregate trace result statistics — Gravitropism (Distance, Angle) and Circumnutation (Max Amplitude), selectable via a results control

• Analyze: special Inflection Point marker used as the pivot for the gravitropism Angle

• Analyze: Rate statistics, computed from a user-entered capture interval (frames/minute) set on the Upload or Analyze page

• Analyze: trackpoints now use a bottom-left coordinate system; position graphs unflipped; lazy migration of existing movies made concurrency-safe

• Analyze: multi-marker graphing with per-marker colors

• Analyze/Movies: video trimming — trace and export a selected frame range

• Movies: deleting a user also removes their course enrollments (no more ghost enrollment IDs)

• Documentation: developer docs reorganized under docs/Development/; updated upload tutorial; corrected MOVIE_METADATA references

• Process: release-process improvements — pre-tag make check, scripted release notes, and commit/PR issue-traceability requirements

0.9.7.6.2 Summary

• Analyze: fix Download Trackpoints CSV — was nearly empty and opened in a browser tab instead of downloading

• Analyze: Download Trackpoints button now correctly enabled after tracing completes

• Analyze: movie canvas no longer resets to 100% zoom after tracing completes

0.9.7.6 Summary

• Movies: fix bug where all students could see unpublished movies of other students

• Movies: new uploads are now Published by default

• Movies: movie tables now sorted newest-first by default

• Movies: sortable columns via DataTables; table style matches Marker table on Analyze page

• Movies: added Research Use and Credit columns, editable by uploader

• Upload: research permission changed from checkbox to Yes/No radio buttons

• Upload: research use option now references a Contributor Agreement

• Upload: attribution name field pre-filled with user’s display name

• Analyze: clarified RulerXXmm marker naming rules on page and in tutorial

• Developer: Jest coverage threshold enforced locally via npm run coverage

• Developer docs: added Release Process documentation

• Process: documentation review required when completing any Issue or PR

0.9.7.5.1 Summary

• Process: document annotated tag convention and linked issue numbers in release notes

• Process: improve release process documentation in CLAUDE.md

0.9.7.5 Summary

• Users: fix several regressions — listing, formatting, duplicate sections, First/Last Seen columns

• Users: add names support to bulk registration

• Users: fix HTTP 500 error when registering a user

• Documentation: update User Tutorial to current prod functionality

• Documentation: update DynamoDB schema documentation; create Flask API endpoint reference

• Email: improve login email template HTML for better client compatibility

• Dev: add MAILER_DRY_RUN env variable and Mailpit local SMTP catcher for local email testing

• Dev: add PostToolUse hook to auto-check Sphinx docs build after editing docs/

• Process: document release process (milestone prep, tagging, release notes) in CLAUDE.md

0.9.7.4 Summary

• Movies: fix exceptions when editing movie name or user fields

• Movies: show accurate movie status values

• Users: fix ReferenceError for bulk_register_setup

• Users: fix HTTP 500 error when registering a user

• Analyze: fix Download Trackpoints button not enabled

• Analyze: fix position graphs not taking up full canvas size

• Audit: fix Internal Server Error and ReferenceError

• Alerts: show with more spacing and yellow background

• Copyright: extend to 2026

• Research permission: update privacy policy

0.9.7.3 Summary

• Documentation: update User Tutorial for new instance

• UI: match webapp look and feel to planttracer.com

• Developer docs: move to docs/Development/ subfolder

• Test: add canvas_tracer_controller.js unit tests

0.9.7 Summary

• Upload/Analyze: move Rotate Movie function to Upload page; fix bugs

• Upload/Analyze: resize movie to 640x480 (max in either dimension) on upload

• dbutil: convert to DynamoDB; add report and test-mail functions; improve register

• Infra: move tracking code to AWS Lambda function

• Infra: replace MySQL with Amazon DynamoDB

• Infra: build and deploy using AWS Cloud Formation and SAM

• Infra: make local development environment easier to work with

• Infra: migrate to poetry and improve test coverage

0.9.6 Summary

• Analyze: move some instructions to top of page for easier visibility

• Analyze: make it clearer in the UI that users don’t have to add any new markers in order to track a movie

• Register: trim surrounding whitespace from Course Key input

• Movies: Course admins can now publish movies that they uploaded themselves

• Users: implement bulk registration of users

• dbutil: set course max_enrollment default to 50

• Webapp: add git information to web page footer

• Webapp: set the version (release) number in one place

• Infra: require cronie package on Amazon Linux 2 deployments

0.9.5 Summary

• Analyze: support pixels to mm conversion

• Analyze: populate Marker Table’s Location (mm) column

• Analyze: flip the sign of the y-position graph

• Documentation: create the User Tutorial

• Documentation: create (incomplete) developer setup instructions for Amazon Linux 2

• Movie Upload: set upload limit to 150MB

• Test: Create Jest unit tests for all planttracer.js functions

• Webapp: migrate from Bottle to Flask

• Infra: support deployment to Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 instance

• Infra: support deployment of multiple webapp server instances to project AWS account

0.9.4 Summary

• dbmaint: add add-admin and remove-admin commands

0.9.3 Summary

• Analyze: Add two line graphs of plant motion: x vs time and y vs time

• Analyze: Download Trackpoints button is fixed

• Analyze: Default Ruler markers are at 0 and 10 mm, rather than 0 and 20 mm

• Analyze: Add explanatory text

• Analyze: Add rotate movie 90° function

• Analyze: Fix several movie tracking errors and hangs

• Movies list: in demo mode is consistent with demo mode capabilities – a single list with no categories

• Demo Mode: All functions not available in demo mode removed from the UI while in demo mode

• Movies list: publish/unpublish control now are now described as buttons rather than checkboxes

• Movies list: publish/unpublish/delete/undelete buttons now properly refresh the page

• List and Analyze: Move some movie processing from server to client

• List and Analyze: Movie playback no longer flashes

• Users: page cleanup

• Audit: populate Audit Log section of page; was errroneously always empty

• Menu: Show Users page, show Register and Resend when not logged in, adjust for demo mode, add Help

• Copyright and Terms of Use: page cleanup

• dbmaint: help documentation cleanup

• Documentation: converted from Markup to ReStructuredText. Index created.

• Documentation: update and make more complete

• Documentation: Installation steps updated

• Documentation: Add ReleaseHistory page