We are pleased to announce the latest NST release: "NST 20 SVN:6535". This is an interim release which includes all of the NST and Fedora 20 package updates since 2014-Feb-20 rolled into a fresh ISO image. This release is based on Fedora 20 using Linux Kernel: "3.18.5-101.fc20". If you are building your own NST YUM repository or have a subscription to the NST PRO YUM repository, you do not need this ISO image. You can simply yum update your NST system(s).
A major effort was put forth in this release in the development of NST Mapping Tools to aide the end-user when working with geolocated network entities on Google Maps (See the NST Wiki article on: "NST Mapping Tools" for additional information).
Here are some of the highlights for this release:
* Development of the NST Mapping Tools which includes the following overlays and widgets (The Image below depicts some of the mapping tools.):
* The display of a dynamic Latitude/Longitude grid overlay on the Google Maps.
* A widget for displaying one or more Distance Measurement Tool Rulers. Units can be displayed in Km, Mi, NM, px, coordinates and round-trip times (msecs).
* A Distance Measurement Tool Ruler Editor is provided for manual ruler endpoint positioning with precision vernier controls.
* An NST Ruler Tool widget for map and web page distance and area measurements.
* A Drawing Manager widget for creating basic geometric shape overlays and markers.
* A Drawing Manager Editor widget for overlay characteristic management and displaying distance and area calculations.
* A Vertex Editor for precise Polyline and Polygon overlay shape creation and placement.
* A grid of shape overlay positioning controls for geolocation network entity placement.
* A Drawing Overlay Storage Manager for saving and restoring overlays on each NST integrated geolocation map.
* A Map Label Editor widget for the creation and management of labeling network entities on NST maps.
* Creation of Marker Overlay Waypoints for inventorying network entity geolocations.
* Integration of Google Place Search for correlation with geolocated network entities.
Creation of an Import/Export Management tool for saving and restoring NST specific configuration and settings between different NST systems. This tool can be advantageous when migrating to a new NST release.
As always, the networking and security applications included have been updated to their latest version which can be found in the manifest.