WELCOMING FLIGHT 20 OF ZET UNIVERSE

Hi everyone,

We're rolling out Zet Universe Insider Preview Build 5889.2386 right now to Zet Universe Insiders. As it was said in the previous blog post, since shipping the second (and last) January 2016 build of Zet Universe, we've changed our focus from the Dynamic Ontologies to our storage layer in our effort to scale up Zet Universe. And so, this new February build has a historical significance for us, as it is a first fruit of this effort.

Getting Started:

• If you haven't signed up for the Zet Universe Insider Program, start here.
• If you are already have Zet Universe, the build is available now. If your build is older than 5786.2836, grab the full installer.  Otherwise, you can go to Settings --> Update, and click on "Check Now" button to get it now.

• Total download might range from a few hundred kilobytes up to 11MB, depending on the number of updates you've applied already to your copy of the Zet Universe Insider Preview.
• Once the build is downloaded, Zet Universe will begin the installation. Once it will finish, it will ask you to restart the app.
• After restarting the app, Zet Universe will show you a "Migration Wizard", asking you for permission to migrate to a new data format. Click "Begin migration", or read this blog post before doing a migration.
  

WHAT'S NEW IN THIS BUILD?

The most important things you need to know about the February 2016 build are:

• It contains a more scalable and efficient data store,
  • To continue working with Zet Universe, you need to migrate your existing data to this new format, for which a new built-in migration wizard is provided in this build,
• It uses significantly less amounts of memory,
• It contains a bug fix for connecting Dropbox account.

If you are a new user of Zet Universe, you can just skip reading the rest of this blog post, and install the latest version of Zet Universe right away.

Otherwise, if you are an old user, please read the next part of this blog post. If you want to learn more about the reasons for changing our data store, check our our post on the subject, "Scaling Up Effort".

MIGRATING TO A NEW STORAGE LAYER

MIGRATION WIZARD

After installing the February 2016 build, you will see the following wizard dialog:

At this point, you'll be invited to either begin the migration right now, or postpone it until next launch.

POSTPONING MIGRATION

If you are in hurry to see your projects, or you don't have time for migration, you can easily postpone the migration. In this case Zet Universe will load your projects as usual, and it will have a new ending in its window's title: "Legacy Storage Mode":

Next time you'll launch Zet Universe, you'll get a Migration Wizard dialog again.

MIGRATION

If you are ready for migration, click on the "Begin Migration" button in the Migration Wizard dialog. In our test environment (11 projects, 17K storage records; Core i5, SSD) migration took about 5 minutes, but in general results might vary.

During migration, the dialog will show you the progress:

Once migration will end, you'll be notified with a message "Migration Completed" and you'll see a button "Restart":

Click on "Restart" button and let Zet Universe complete the migration effort. It will automatically close and relaunch again. After that you will see your projects in the same state you left them before the migration. Congratulations!

CURRENT LIMITATIONS

As this is the first public release with the new data store, we encourage you to always use the notification area icon to properly shutdown Zet Universe, as it saves data during the shutdown.

We will bring back more incremental data saves in the upcoming builds.

WHAT'S FIXED?

You can again add Dropbox account to Zet Universe - starting with this build, you will be again able to add Dropbox account to your Zet Universe. Due to internal changes on the Dropbox side, the previous approach we used to connect it to Zet Universe no longer worked, and we've made the necessary changes on both sides to restore this functionality.

WHAT'S NEXT?

In the coming builds we will bring back incremental data saves in our new backing store, continue upgrading our plugin platform, and return to our work on the Dynamic Ontologies (including custom tags), the related Rules Engine, and return to our Product Roadmap. Of the other things, we will also continue working on the SDK.

Thank you so much for being with us, for your continued support and participation!

As always please continue to give us feedback, suggestions, and problem reports via the UserVoice forum, use the Zet Universe Insiders Group on Facebook to connect with other Insiders for help and tips on problems you hit.

Thanks,
Daniel and the team