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The NBIA team is pleased to announce the release of version 6.4 of the National Biomedical Imaging Archive (NBIA). This release provides the following features and enhancements:

• Integrated User Authorization Toolkit
• Replacement of JBoss with Tomcat
• Improved QC Workflow flags
• Integrated REST API
• Sorting for Download Manager
• caGrid code cleanup
• Java 8 update
• Manage Shared List API

, which are briefly described on this page.

Integrated User Authorization Toolkit

The CSM/UPT toolkit dependency has been removed from NBIA and has been replaced with an integrated user authorization tool.  This This has the following benefits:

• Greatly simplifies installation by no longer requiring the installation and configuration of UPT.
• Allows access to user authorization directly from within the portal.
• The tool uses the new paradigm of a REST API hooked into the front end, allowing developers to build thier their own interfaces with the API,
• Uses Angular 2 for the front end for a modern look and feel.

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Replacement of JBoss with Tomcat

NBIA is now run on the Tomcat server.  Changing Changing to Tomcat allows for:

• The removal of all licensing issues associated with JBoss,
• Simplified simplified application deployment and administration,
• Deployment deployment to the most widely used application servers, and
• Complex complex JEE modules have been replaced with simplified code using Spring.

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Improved QC Workflow

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Flags

New flags have been added to the QC Tool to improve workflow, this . This includes:

• Configurable flag names
• Released flag
• Batch number which that can be set via CTP
• Confirmed as complete

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Integrated REST API

The search screens within NBIA have been updated to use an open API to perform their operations.  This This OAuth2-secured API can be used by application developers to create thier their own front ends for the NBIA business logic using any tool they choose.

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Sorting for Download Manager

Download Manager now sorts the series.  This will This allow users to better distinguish which series have already been downloaded.

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caGrid

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Code Cleanup

All caGrid code and artifacts have been removed from NBIA.  This This cleanup simplifies the environment and lowers the learning curve for new developers.

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Java 8

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Update

The new version of NBIA runs on Java 8, allowing the application to utilize use the latest securiy security and support from Java.

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Manage Shared List API

A secure REST API for creating and deleting shared lists has been added to NBIA, this will allow . This allows the management of Shared Lists from other tools.

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Documentation and Support

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