We are proud to announce RCE 7. A major release with a lot of features and various improvements. Below you find a selection of some features. Please see GitHub for the full changelog.

Remote Tool Access via SSH Connections

To access and execute tools across untrusted networks, we added support …

Synopsis

• This release fixes a security issue; users that run components on untrusted machines should upgrade to 6.3.0 as soon as possible
• Various minor bugfixes and improvements
• Workflow Data Browser: Added icons to the top-level workflow entries that show the final state of workflows

Components

• XML Merger: Added …

Synopsis

• Fixed broken directory structure for files and directories, which are received as input values by the script component and by integrated tools
• Removed reliably XSLT mapping files from working directories of integrated CPACS tools (in some cases they are left)
• Endpoints can be deleted again even if they are …

Synopsis

• Improved usability of various graphical user elements including log messages
• Extended and improved the access of tools and workflows via SSH (remote access)
• Fixed minor bugs
• Internal improvements (e.g., improved quality assurance by increasing unit test coverage)

Usability

• Script component
  • Files and directories (received as input values) keep …

Workflow Components

• Added new component: Switch
  • Directs data on the base of a condition to one of two outputs
• Added new component: Design of Experiments (DOE)
  • Supports sampling of a bounded solution space
• Converger: Replaced "maximum iterations" by "maximum convergence checks"
• Parametric Study: Added option "fit to bounds"
• Optimizer
  • Added …

• Reduced heap size (declared in rce.ini) for Windows 32bit version of RCE
• Added configuration parameter for RCE profiles to the windows service installation script

• Fixed tool integration wizard, which failed to integrate a tool under some certain circumstances
• Converger and optimizer component sent value, whether the loop was converged/optimized on each iteration again (In 6.0.0 and 6.0.1, it was sent only once at the end as loop was converged …

• Fixed scheduling of script component - problem occured if it was enabled, that the script component should run on each new input value

Workflow Editor

• Components in a workflow can now be temporarily disabled: during workflow execution, these components and all their connections are treated as if they didn't exist
• Added an option to show the number of connections represented by a line between two components
• The connection editor dialog can now be …

• Fixed error when integrating a tool using a template of type 'Common'