Release Notes

The purpose of this section is to provide a description of a Product Tools release including any impact that the new or modified capabilities will have on the Discipline Nodes or the PDS user community. A somewhat itemized list of changes for each release can be found on the Release Changes page. If viewing this document in PDF form, the release change details are not available.

Release 3.0.0

This release of the Product Tools software represents the reconciliation of the Ames and JPL versions of the library. The library has undergone significant enhancements to the grammar, message handling, support for Java 1.5 and fixes for a number of issues found in previous releases.

Release 2.0.2

This release of the Product Tools software supports the beta releases of the Catalog Ingest Tool with some minor API enhancements.

Release 2.0.1

The operational release of the Product Tools software incorporating the Phase II capability supporting validation of catalog files. This release includes some minor modifications regarding how catalog pointers are handled based on beta testing results.

Release 2.0.0

This release of the Product Tools software incorporates the Phase II capability supporting validation of catalog files.

The major change for this release is the addition of support for validating catalog files, either standalone or as a set within a CATALOG directory. Modifications to support this capability included a general change with regard to how pointers are handled as well as relaxing some of the PDS Label constraints where catalog files do not conform to those constraints. The result is that catalog files are now validated correctly and the spurious messages that were previously produced have been eliminated.

The other change in this release involved correct validation of quoted date/time strings. Date/time strings may not be quoted when associated with an element that is defined with one of the DATE data types.