Soar Platform 0.2 Release Notes

The Soar developers are pleased to announce the release of version 0.2 of the Soar Platform and the final major release before our Main net launch in Mid April.

This was a major release that involved a lot of refactoring and new features.

Mobile Soaring

We’ve added Mobile support for sharing and exploring Drone and Satellite imagery. You still need to use your desktop computer for the advanced stuff like uploading content but it’s a big step forward in putting the power of Soar in your pocket.

Sentinel-2 Imagery of the flooding in Nebraska via Soar Mobile.

The above image shows the devastating floods in Nebraska. Have a look for yourself: https://api-test.soar.earth/short/thwiypxzbc

New Features

• Mobile version!
• Adds coordinate display when using map
• Adds URL shortener for Drone and Sentinel share links

Major Refactors

• Replaces QuikNode and Infura with our own service for reading Drone listing information from the blockchain. Greatly improves performance and loading time
• Upgrades React scripts, React, Typescript and all dependencies to the latest version, again improving performance. Basically a complete re-engineering of the build tools including unit tests and UI mocking
• Replaces all geometry with proper Leaflet types

Bug Fixes

• Fixes entering a 3 character not working when creating a tag while uploading
• Fixes side-drawer menu tabs getting hidden on very large screen resolutions
• Fixes removing a field from the Edit Profile
• Fixes save button in Edit profile being active and getting stuck when no changes were made
• Sanitises input in social media fields of Edit profile
• Fixes Instagram social media field not accepting @my_username as a valid input.
• Fixes upload preview having links that do not work.
• Fixes Sentinel share failing if Geocoder fails (ie middle of nowhere)
• Fixes Right click while in the middle of an AOI drag corrupting the state of AOI bounds
• Fixes recent activity and uploaded listings in My profile from being out of chronological order

Improvements

• Adds share to social media as a hover over in the listings browse
• Adds a pretty upload page after submitting drone image
• Adds new T&C’s as an in-app component and integrates with the user's privacy tab and during registration
• Adds GDPR Compliance notification

Minor Changes

• Adds a static map preview of location during the upload
• Removes Aeris weather feeds
• Adds location to the featured image during registration and login
• Improves style of the ‘password reset’ confirmation
• Adds a countdown timer when redirecting after password reset action and improves style
• Adds a border and fill to the header title of user profile sections
• Corrects alt text type-o of website to website
• Fixes 1 pixel misalign in social media icons for user profile
• Normalises headings case sensitivity in user profile headers
• Changes upload graphic in drop-zone
• Normalises heading alignment of cards in upload process
• Changes title of choose your location in upload process
• Normalises and fixes grammatical errors in warning text in upload details
• Other padding and spacing tweaks in upload process
• Changes icon of drone and satellite tabs
• Increases size of share to social media in sentinel images