diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md index 41b50c94b4..2868150150 100644 --- a/CHANGELOG.md +++ b/CHANGELOG.md @@ -14,9 +14,36 @@ Without connection pooling, this setting hurts performance, which is why it is set to False by default. +- Stack mirrors (see below) are not displayed by default in CATMAID's standard + data views. To show them, '"show_mirrors": true' (including double quotes) has + to be added to the respective data view configuration in CATMAID's admin + interface. ### Features and enhancements +Stack mirrors: + +- To reduce loading time of image data from different places around the world, + it is common to copy the image data set and make it available from a server + closer to its users. These "stack mirrors" are now handled differently by + CATMAID. Until now it was common to select the closest mirror manually by + clicking on an image on CATMAID's project list or by clicking on the + respective link. To select a particular "stack mirror" one now only links can + be used, individual images are not shown anymore. If no images were used + before and only links were shown on CATMAID's home page, only small visual + change was mode: an extra stack link on top of all mirrors is added. As an + alternative to selecting individual mirrors, both, images and stack links can + now be used to open a stack as well and CATMAID selects the fastest mirror + automatically. + +- When using links to a particular view in CATMAID ("URL to this view"), CATMAID + will automatically select the fastest available stack mirror. + +- Once a stack is displayed the stack mirror in use can be changed: After + clicking on the white-on-blue square in the lower left corner of the image + data display, the image display settings will show up. In there the active + mirror can be selected from a drop-down list. + Treenode Viewer: - A new tool similar to the connector viewer, which allows users to