• fixed a long lasting bug preventing the plot of symbols in equatorial areas
• fixed a bug in the integrated MySql manager preventing assigning the primary key to a field
• fixed a bug related to popup window information related to place special cases and unconventional intensities
• fixed a bug preventing the use of PHP 7
• fixed a bug preventing loading the site settings in Ubuntu 14.04 (bug in PHP "require" function? it was keeping loading the previous version of the file!)
• added more checks about the PHP configuration
• added more checks about the MySQL connection
• added custom position of the map toolbox
• added custom position and layout of the MDP legend
• added additional symbols for plotting SD (slightly damaged), HF (higly felt), and SF (slightly felt)
• reworked few more icons, now in SVG (higher quality on high resolution displays)

• reworked the entire php codebase for switching from MySQL API (now deprecated) to MySQLi API
• implemented the earthquake information frame and the MDP list frame as a unique frame, this will greatly reduce the number of output files per earthquake
• implemented the earthquake catalogue header and the earthquake catalogue list as a unique frame, this will greatly reduce the number of output files per earthquake
• major cleanup of the basecode to get rid of most PHP notices
• fixed a bug related to grouping earthquakes based on time-windows

• reworked the html layout to be compatible with the Apple Retina display (iPad 3+, iPhone 4+, iPod 4+)
• removed fields for coordinates representing large territories, now these can be stored in the normal cordinate fields, the place special case "TE" will be take into account
• improved the QuakeML-macro support
• improved the metadata tags
• legends are now SVG images

• better implementation of the circular or ellipsoid confidence area, representing the uncertainty associated to the estimated epicentre
• better support to the estimated MDP intensity reliability/quality
• updated XML output from QuakeML to v.1 to v.1.2
• new information supported:
  • link to an external web page, associated to an earthquake and/or to a single MDP
  • number of death, associated to an earthquake and/or to a single MDP
  • number of people injured, associated to an earthquake and/or to a single MDP
  • number of reports considered to assess the MDP intensity

• now MIDOP covers the entire world
• better DEM, B&W flat-shaded (2D), B&W or color hill-shaded (3D), also with bathymetry
• it is now possible to use an identifier for earthquakes and a different one for MDP datasets
• dropped the need of flushing all cached files every time you want to see an updated result
• better support for spreadsheet files (now XLSX)
• possible to set the size of symbols when exporting to Google Earth (kml)
• automatic generation of the maximum intensity map in the "query by place"
• seismic histories can be easily printed
• more control when placing a logo image over maps
• added a field containing useful notes about earthquakes
• added a field containing useful notes about MDPs
• added a symbol for representing tsunami/sea waves (value "W")
• added a minimal MySQL manager in the control panel, it should make MIDOP easier to use (use with care!)
• it is now possible to specify a custom MySQL port
• reworked the layout, labels and helps texts in the control panel, it should be more intuitive
• QuakeML output code generation improved
• more control over unconventional intensity values (e.g. damage, felt)
• better import of data published in a remote MIDOP website
• it is now possible to include earthquakes without MDPs
• more metadata information (rights owner, terms of use, licence, DOI)
• code optimizations to speed-up the final generation process
• it is now possible to store DEMs outside the SVG, making the output file size much smaller
• now internally MIDOP uses two decimals while projecting coordinates to UTM, making the output smaller
• reworked much of the code to better deal with UTF-8 text
• fixed bugs while calculating places seismic histories when using special characters (e.g. russian, greek)
• updated some PHP function to make it more compatible with modern PHP releases
• refreshed the online manual to reflect all changes

MIDOP generates SVG images (.svg) and serve Google Earth files (.kml, .kmz).
Be sure that your webserver is able to serve correctly these file types by adding the following code to your Apache webserver configuration:

<IfModule mime_module>
    ...
    AddType image/svg+xml .svg
    AddType image/svg+xml .svgz
    AddEncoding x-gzip .svgz
      <FilesMatch \.svgz$>
        <IfModule mod_gzip.c>
          mod_gzip_on No
        </IfModule>
      </FilesMatch>

    AddType application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml .kml
    AddType application/vnd.google-earth.kmz .kmz
	...
</ifModule>

Please, have a look at the webserver configuration requirements in the manual.

MIDOP works within a webserver running on your computer.
As Mac OS X is in fact a fully fledged Unix system, it might be tricky for beginners.
The configuration steps described below are therefore tedious, so please, be patient and follow exactly each step.

Before using the MIDOP package on the webserver on your PC, please make sure that the following folders (and their content)
are readable and writeable by the Apache user (e.g. in Ubuntu such user is called "www-data"):

• MIDOP/data/
• MIDOP/settings/
• MIDOP/PUBLISHED_SITES/