November 2023 v7.0
- Adds time-to-nearest nth facility ("dual" accessibility) metrics as an experimental feature (#884). See "guides" section of Conveyal documentation for details.
- Provides more regular and detailed updates on regional analysis progress, helping keep cloud workers active when analyses are queued up (#874).
- Shifts travel time sampling points to better correspond with destination densities (#894). This change will alter results relative to past versions of the R5 routing engine. With related user interface changes, older versions of R5 will now result in slightly offset isochrones.
- Ensures that results are readily comparable within the web interface when regional analysis bounds are reused in a subsequent analysis (#897, #898)
- Improves shapefile upload and validation (#868, #872). Geojson uploads are coming soon.
- Improves GTFS upload and validation (#869, #870, #873).
- Updates R5 to use the latest Java LTS version (21), ensuring security and stability updates over the long term.
While APIs exposed by this version have not changed significantly, we have incremented the major version number to reflect the following changes:
- Network files created with this version are incompatible with previous versions due to new bounding box objects
- Travel time and accessibility results will be slightly different due to destination sample point changes
- We have shifted to a new build and runtime environment (new JDK/JRE LTS version)