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title: "20250716 v 1.5.0"
slug: "20250715-v-15"
description: "Explore the latest Analyst release notes featuring quality control improvements, new functions, and enhanced metadata for better data management."
updated: 2025-07-16T10:52:52Z
published: 2025-07-16T10:52:52Z
canonical: "kb.solargis.com/20250715-v-15"
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# 20250716 v 1.5.0

### Analyst release notes

| Release date | Software version |
| --- | --- |
| 16.07.2025 | 1.5.0 |

### General improvements

- **New tool: Calculate 3rd component**
  - A new tool has been introduced to calculate a parameter from GHI, DNI, or DIF.
- **Removed Radiation Advanced screen**
  - Tracker issue detection test has been moved to the Solar Radiation QC screen.
  - Manual flagging is now done via the Interactive or the Interactive Advanced screen.
- **Improved Login and Logout**
  - Usability improvements in the login workflow.
  - Proxy settings have been moved to the Project / Settings dialog.
- **Updated parametrization of the solar geometry calculation**
  - PSA algorithm's parameters have been updated.
  - Refraction computation has been updated.
  - Some calculated values may differ in the 1st or 2nd decimal place.
- **Improved consistency plot in the Solar Radiation QC and PDF report**
  - Green color is now for values with valid flags (No. 1).
  - Red color is now for values with the consistency flag (No. 5).
  - All other values with invalid flags are now hidden.
- **Metadata editor, Importer**
  - New metadata fields have been added: Original column name and Instrument serial number.
  - Original column name now stores the original parameter name from the imported file. The parameter name cannot be imported with unsupported characters.
- **Small improvements**
  - It is possible to aggregate data to 5 min and 10 min in the Time Series.
  - Meteo and PV parameters have been added to the test groups. Solar Radiation QC is now using only solar parameters.
  - New default test groups functionality based on parameter name and suffix has been added.
  - Settings dialog has been upgraded.
  - Small PDF improvements in texts and formatting.
  - Equation for relative difference in the calculator has been updated.
  - ‘None’ option in the aggregation rules for hourly and lower time step has been removed.
  - List of instruments has been updated.
  - Other small fixes and usability improvements.

### Known issues

- **Timeout error**
  - When Solargis Analyst is open for a long time, it is possible to get a timeout error while opening a screen or loading data. To fix it, refresh datasets on the main screen. This will be improved in future releases.