Release Notes for Universal Deck Box 9000 M and E versions Product of: Teledyne Benthos 49 Edgerton Dr North Falmouth, MA 02556 Applies to: 4th Generation Modem History: Version 8.6.3 12/5/2012 ------------------------------------ 1. Bug 813: Fixed watchdog resets when entering transpond/spectrum mode with an MMP interface active Version 8.6.2 11/15/2012 ------------------------------------ 1. Bug 794: fixed UDB Comms window not displaying acoustically received data 2. Added transport information to display of incoming/outgoing acoustic data in the UDB Comms window e.g.: Data received from modem 5, port 2 is displayed as "5.2" while data sent to modem 10, port 1 is displayed as "10.1" Data or other messages sent/received without transport information (such as range requests) will be shown with the node address only Version 8.6.0 08/24/2012 ------------------------------------ 1. Bug 616: Fixed problem with RA command. 2. Added the Waveform Play command(enabled by Feature key). 3. Added new Configuration parameters @SmartRetry and @MinOpVolt 4. Changed the @dataretry configuration parameter to allow for an adjustable number of retries up to 6. 5. Changed the @LogStore configuration parameter setting from "Local" to "Internal". 6. Added two new commands "autobaud" and "xmittime". 7. Update to the format of how data is stored and tagged in the Datalogger, which allows for better searchability and accessing of the data. NOTE: DATA STORED IN THE DATALOGGER BY PREVIOUS VERSION OF FRIMWARE IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH THIS NEW FIRMWARE AND SHOULD BE DELETED BEFORE USING THE DATALOGGER IN THIS VERSION. 8. Added per-source byte/record counts to dllist command, as well as indicator of which LogSource is in use (Internal/SDHC). 9. Data logger data may be accessed on a per-source basis or on a global basis, with addressing to match. 10. Added new datalogger commands "dldump", "rdldump", "rdlblk", "dlclear", "rdlclear". 11. The commands AT$BB, AT$BS, AT$BT have been eliminated, and replaced by dldump, rdldump, and rdlblk. 12. Added -x option to dlfind, rdlfind, dldump, rdldump commands for hex output. 13. rdlfind command restricted to 16K or less transmitted from remote modem (previously was 64 K). 14. AT$BN modified to show data logger size in megabytes if the logger size is >= 1 MB, otherwise shows size in bytes. 15. ATBP modified to behave more like original legacy ATBP.(64K pages) 16. Bug 618: Fixed Warnings from config database when upgrading software versions. 17. Changes to the processing of the low power acoustic wakeup. 18. Made enhancements to datalogging when using the @AcStats configuration parameter. Released ATM-900 User's manual Rev D. Version 8.4.1 03/29/2012 (UDB-9400-A) ------------------------------------ 1. Added support for sending command AT$Sn:x=y and AT$Sn:x?. These commands set and query s-register values on the 875-T Compact modem. The only registers supported for setting include 10 and 18. The query can be done on any register in the valid range. Version 8.4.0 02/21/2012 ------------------------------------ 1. Added the LBL/Multi-Receive option (UDB-9000M versions). This feature enables the modems to be operated as a LBL system. Two systems configurations are possible. The first is an all modem based system, using a broadband triggering, with tonal responses. The other configuration allows the modem to function as the interrogator in an all tonal LBL system. Two new configuration parameters are added to support this feature: @LBLmode and @RespFreq. 2. Expanded transponder functionality, so that it is no longer limited to the LF Band, and now can be used in any frequency band. 3. Added support for PSK co-processor improvements (only available with coprocessor version 3.0). 4. Bug 567: Fixed bug could cause a reboot when using the @