# Change Log

All notable changes to sceval and the evsceval plugin will be documented in this
file.

## 2024.319

### Changed

-   Output unformatted XML in playbacks with `--ep` in order to reduce file size.
-   Add command-line option `--formatted` in order to output formatted XML which
    may be better readable for humans.

## 2024.310

### Fixed

-   Correctly compute hypocentral distances for configured stations.

## 2024.218

### Added

-   Support considering hypocentral distance for the station-distance evaluation
    by configuring `mismatchScore.useHypocentral = false`. Otherwise, epicentral
    distance is used.

## 2024.200

### Changed

-   sceval-tune: Code linting supporting Python 3.
-   sceval: When checking if time, slowness or backazimuth parameters of a
    arrival is used an arrival is considered used, even if the used flag is not
    set for any of the parameters. This is special case may be relevant for
    arrivals from older SeisComP systems or arrivals from external applications.

## 2024.193

### Fixed

-   Do not crash when event parameters without journal entries are read from
    file.

## 2023.325

### Changed

-   Remove support for SeisComP3 C++ API since no packages will be provided
    for SeisComP3 anymore.

## 2023.244

### Added

-   Documentation:
    -   Section on filtering of origins and phase picks.
    -   Section on fast setup.

### Changed

-   Corrected typos in changelog.

## 2022-07-25

### Added

-   The configuration parameter `origin.agencyWhiteList` allows filtering of
    origins by agency ID, e.g., for confining evaluation to origins from own
    system.
-   The documentation section 'Pipelines, Redundancy/Import' describes the
    application of sceval in systems with pipelines or external origins.

## 2022-06-24

### Added

-   Add tolerance for origins without 'usedPhaseCount'. Instead count the number
    of actually used arrivals considering arrivals if any pick parameter of
    time, slowness or backazimuth is used.
-   Do not consider the weight of an arrival but test if time, slowness or
    backazimuth have been used. The weight is typically read from locator output
    and if beyond control by scautoloc or scanloc.

## 2022-03-28

### Changed

-   Update command-line help for sceval-tune.

## 2022-03-11

### Added

-   evsceval plugin

    -   Allow configuration of object cache size.
    -   Print configuration summary in debug output during startup.

## 2022-01-12

### Added

-   Add tuning option `--use-defaults` to consider some default parameters of
    sceval. Otherwise the actual configuration is used allowing a more precise
    tuning. Before, defaults were considered.

### Changed

-   Improved tuning mode and sceval-tune.
-   Remove tuning option `--min-phase`.

## 2021-11-22

### Added

-   Support using "global" as a synonym for "default" in `setupName`.

### Changed

## 2021-11-17

### Changed

-   Allow using multiple module names for `setupName`, e.g. supporting evaluation
    of origins for which the picks where provided by multiple picker modules.

## 2021-11-05

### Added

-   evsceval plugin for scevent:

    -   Do not set the eventTypeCertainty if it has been set before unless
        `sceval.overwriteManual = true`. The feature requires SeisComP in
        version >= 5.0.0.

## 2021-08-21

### Added

-   Send a journal entry if the origin status is set to track the history.

## 2021-04-20

### Added

-   evsceval plugin for scevent:

    -   Do not ignore the plugin if the multiple-agency check has an invalid
        configuration. Just skip this check.
    -   The new configuration parameters `sceval.overwriteEventType` and
        `sceval.overwriteManual` in scevent.cfg add control for overwriting
        event types and manual solutions by scevent.
    -   Do not process events where the preferred origin is automatic but the
        event type was set by journaling unless `sceval.overwriteManual = true`
        in scevent.cfg. The feature requires SeisComP in version >= 5.0.0.

## 2021-02-14

### Added

-   The new configuration parameter `minPhaseConfirm` allows confirmation of
    origins reaching or exceeding a number of arrivals
-   The new command-line option `--force` forces evaluation of origins without
    testing the original status, mode or author. Use the option for testing the
    configuration and for forcing evaluation.

## 2021-01-19

### Added

-   The new command-line option `-O` allows filtering of origins by their ID in
    XML playbacks.
-   Added more details and examples to command-line help.

## 2020-09-02

### Important

-   The new configuration parameter `origin.ignoreStatus` defines origin evaluation
    states for which origins are not evaluated. By default no origin which
    has already an evaluation status is evaluated. This parameter potentially changes
    the behavior of sceval if processed origins have a non-empty evaluation status.
    To restore the previous behavior, set `origin.ignoreStatus = ""`.

## 2020-07-27

### Added

-   The configuration parameter `maxRMS` allows to reject origins with large RMS
    residual. The parameter may be important if locator modules do not check the
    origin RMS or if the check is very tolerant.
-   Re-design documentation.

### Fixed

-   In line with documentation reject origins with `depth < minDepth` and
    `depth > maxDepth` instead of `<= minDepth` and `>= minDepth`, respectively.

## 2020-03-06

### Changed

-   Provide Python3 support for sceval-tune

## 2020-02-26

### Changed

-   Improved documentation.

## 2020-02-21

### Changed

-   So far only origins which belong to events were evaluated in XML
    playback mode. Now we evaluate all origins of the event parameter set.
-   Before we checked at start if a station has a valid epoch in the
    inventory for the current time. Some customers noticed that
    historical data could not be processed when the inventory did not
    contain such an epoch. Now we just check if the station is part of the
    inventory.

### Fixed

-   Use the configuration parameter `distanceProfilesMinPhase` correctly.
-   Do not apply `minPhase` if the number of `used phases >= distanceProfilesMinPhase`
    However, when `distanceProfilesMinPhase = 0`, minPhase is considered.

## 2019-11-09

### Changed

-   Return the origin status and stop evaluations or origins whenever modified.
-   Use -1 as default for `gapMinPhase` which disables extended Gap criterion.
-   Every method adds the comment "scevalMethod" to identify the method which
    set the status
-   Executing extended GAP evaluation after station-distance evaluation allows
    to confirm origins rejected before by station-distance evaluation.
-   Do not set the maxGap comment by default if GAP = 360. The change will not
    comment single-stations observations, e.g. from arrays. Events may be located
    by single arrays with beam picks (arrival times, backazimuth, slowness).
    Solutions from single arrays have GAP = 360 degree. With this change, the
    sceval plugin will not set the event type, e.g. to "not locatable" even if
    the event was observed only at a single array unless specifically configured
    by `maxGap = 360`.

## 2019-11-01

### Changed

-   Changed the name of configuration parameters `playback`/`--playback` to
    `sloppy`/`--sloppy`.

### Added

-   New option `--noQC` for running sceval without waveform QC parameters, e.g.
    in playbacks.
-   New configuration parameter `mismatchScore.use` to disable calculating the
    mismatch score without setting the origin status. Useful for testing and
    tuning.

## 2019-10-29

### Fixed

-   When stations are unavailable during startup, the scqc does not deliver
    values.
    Therefore, all stations are inactive for evaluation during startup of sceval
    and are only activated by incoming waveform QC parameters which must be in
    range. This may delay the full functioning of sceval by some seconds.

### Added

-   Added the configuration parameter `qc.useDatabase` allowing to read waveform
    QC parameters from the database. Doing so may slow down sceval during startup.
-   Added availability to the default waveform QC parameters, `qc.parameters,`
    to be tested.
-   Added parameter `--playback` to facilitate sceval working on data even if QC
    parameters are missing due to short waveform time windows during playback.
-   If a station is inactive due to out-of-range QC parameters, is immediately
    activated when it provides an arrival to the evaluated origin.

## 2019-09-25

### Fixed

-   Update origins and comments creation/modification time if the evaluation
    status or text was updated

## 2019-06-11

### Added

-   The evsceval plugin for scevent does not set the event type if the event has
    manual origins or if the configuration parameter `sceval.rejected < 0`.

## 2019-04-05

### Added

-   sceval now fully supports XML playbacks using the `--ep` option. Before, only
    the preferred origin of an event was evaluated. Now, all origins are evaluated.
    This allows to use sceval in XML-based offline playback on origins before
    involving scevent.

## 2019-01-09

### Changed

-   Plugin evsceval: setting the event type may overwrite the event type set by
    other modules. Therefore, the operation is disabled by default configuration.

## 2018-11-12

### Added

-   sceval-tune script checks the existence of the profile input file, provides
    more descriptive error output and considers events in a default time window
    if unset.

## 2018-09-18

### Added

-   Check the depth of an origin and reject events shallower than `minDepth` or
    deeper than `maxDepth`.

## 2018-07-19

### Fixed

-   Removed connection.username and connection.server from default configuration
    allowing for sceval alias modules to be executed in parallel with default
    configuration

## 2018-05-07

### Fixed

-   Segmentation fault in offline mode

## 2018-04-27

### Added

-   evsceval plugin for with multi-agency test for scevent:
    The contribution of several agencies to an event may be used as a criterion
    to set the status of origins contributed by one or more agencies. Setting the
    status is only available if the original origin status is neither final,
    confirmed or rejected. The description XML files have been uniquely renamed.
    To avoid duplicates, remove from `$SEISCOP_ROOT/etc/description/` the files
    `evalcomment.xml` and `evsceval.xml`. Only keep `scevent_evsceval.xml`.

## 2018-03-02

### Fixed

-   Correct unit in  description of `minGapPhase` configuration parameter.

## 2018-02-14

### Fixed

-   Accept status from previous methods if station-distance test yields undefined

## 2017-11-30

### Added

-   `distanceProfilesMinPhase` requiring a minimum number of phases for
    station-distance statistics, over-rules the `minPhase` parameter
-   Descriptive output for tuning mode

## 2017-11-30

### Fixed

-   `setupName` considers the module for which a station has a binding profile
-   Fix database query

## 2017-09-18

### Changed

-   Set origin comment: scevalMethod
-   Calculate mismatchScore even if origin was rejected or confirmed before
    by other method, but do not use the mismatchScore

## 2017-08-21

### Fixed

-   Rounding error in distance comparison

## 2017-06-26

### Added

-   Added support of alias module names in sceval-tune

## 2017-06-05

### Changed

-   Consider used phases for minimum phase test

## 2017-03-24

### Changed

-   evsceval plugin change default value of reject to 50%

## 2017-03-09

### Fixed

-   Message group handling

## 2017-03-03

### Fixed

-   evsceval plugin for scevent setting event type and certainty

## 2017-03-02

### Added

-   evsceval plugin for scevent setting event type and certainty

## 2017-02-17

### Fixed

-   Gap criterion: add `maxGap` comment but do not reject origin

### Added

-   Event IDs to plots in tuning mode

## 2016-09-12

### Added

-   sceval-tuning mode: add support for distance profiles

## 2016-08-03

### Added

-   Add sceval-tuning mode with python script and documentation

## 2016-06-16

### Added

-   Add minimum station criterion
-   Add extended gap criterion

## 2016-04-20

### Changed

-   Remove `minDist`

## 2016-03-15

### Added

-   Fixed `streamMask` in description

## 2016-03-11

### Added

-   Add GAP criterion
-   Support empty distance profiles
-   Ignore already rejected origins
-   Add documentation for QC

## 2016-02-11

### Changed

-   The evaluation status of already rejected origins will no longer be changed

## 2015-10-22

### Fixed

-   High CPU usage in case of manual origins

## 2016-02-25

### Added

-   Add gap criterion to check the largest azimuthal gap of an origin

## 2016-03-11

### Added

-   Allow empty distance profiles
-   Reject origins that are rejected once even when confirmed by another
    evaluation method