Author: Hansjörg Back

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On Friday 09.12.21 a critical vulnerability (Log4Shell) in the widely used Java library Log4j has been identified. According to the assessment of many authorities, this leads to an extremely critical threat situation, which is why, among others, the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) in Germany has upgraded its existing cyber security warning to warning level red (see Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures and BSI).…

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The new PTV xServer API version 1.34 is available. As always, we recommend to use the new version as soon as possible. And these are the main topics:

• Updated several third-party components to recent versions
• Harmonized the speed values of the reference profile ‘truck11-99t_01-00’
• Fixed some bugs, mainly concerning the distance matrix calculation

Please note that we also updated our logging framework.…

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The new PTV xServer API version 2.25 is available and these are the highlights:

• xRoute
  • Support for the HBEFA 4.1 emission calculation
  • New operation to get the effective routing profile
• xTour
  • Support for order priorities if not all orders can be served
  • Support for mixed loading prohibition to prevent certain orders planned on the same trip
  • More flexibility in handling orders where no valid route to the location is possible
• General
  • Update of several third-party components

If you are interested in the full list of features and improvements, you can check the corresponding release notes here.…

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We have just released the new version 1.18.1.2 of the PTV xServer. They include some minor improvements and a number of bug fixes. For detailed information please check the release notes. You can download the latest PTV xServer from the customer area of the PTV Developer Zone (login is required).…

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Since version 1.18 the PTV xRoute Server is able to provide the height information for each segment in Europe. This information is of value for diverse use cases on client side e.g. plot an elevation profile along a calculated route or define different prices for serving customers high in the mountains.…

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There is now the new version 1.18.1.1 of the PTV xServer released. Besides some bug fixes our focus was on improving the rendering of the feature layers. For further information please check the release notes. You can download the latest PTV xServer from the customer area of the PTV Developer Zone (login is required).…

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