Planning Space 16.5 Update 20 Release Notes

RELEASE DATE: 14 April 2022

Updates are based on full installations of Planning Space. All changes in previous Updates are included in the latest Update.

Installation changes - Update 17 and later: Releases since Update 17 use a new installer platform based on the WiX Toolset. This provides a single, unified EXE file for installing any of: Planning Space (IPS) server; Planning Space client application; CX Suite client applications; LP Solver service. For the updated installation instructions see the Deployment Guide. When the WiX-based installer is used for the first time, a complete uninstall of the existing Planning Space installation (i.e., Update 16 or earlier), followed by a machine reboot, will be required. Subsequent Updates can be installed in-place.

Requirement change for .NET Framework - Update 17 and later: To run the Updates 17 and onwards, the ".NET Framework 4.8 Runtime" (or a more recent version) must be installed on all IPS Server machines, and on all client machines that run the CX and Planning Space client software.

Planning Space (IPS)

New Features

  • Improvements in the Planning Space client to deal with authentication and network communication issues, including: improved handling of authentication token refresh failures; enhancements to client-side logging for improved diagnosis of network issues (optional additional logging can be enabled for the Dataflow, Economics and Financials client logs, using the application client settings 'DiagnosticLoggingEnabled').

For more information about these changes, see the Planning Space Deployment Guide .

Planning Space Economics and Financials

New Features and Fixed Defects apply to both applications, unless otherwise noted.

New Features

  • Improvements and fixes for performance and stability of the Planning Space client when performing hierarchy and result set operations.

For more information about these changes, see the Planning Space User Manual .

Fixed Defects

Description Support Ticket
Scratchpad calculations: Fixed a bug that was causing a fatal exception error ("The given key was not present in the dictionary") in a Scratchpad calculation when a variable had been removed from a regime while the project was left open.
116924
Fixed an issue with memory usage that was causing timeout errors in multi-run Result Set calculations. Improved calculation performance due to changes in the handling of price deck data.
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