• New: Events can now be pasted from the Clipboard. Events must be delimited by a comma or tab and
• contain at least both Name and Distance/Milepost columns.
• New: The context menu for an event now has an option to center the map on the event.
• Change: Multiple events can be selected to simplify removal.
• Fix: Changing a section’s type did not update the list of options for the Default Section.

Viewer

• Change: Leave-out sections are no longer listed. This also fixes a performance issue when there are a large number of leave-outs.
• Fix: The Viewer did not always reflect changes to a file’s sections.

Analysis: Automated Faulting

• Fix: After a change occurred that affected the analysis, the view was not changed back to Inputs.

Analysis: Rolling Straightedge

• Change: Detailed Reports have been changed to contain one profile per XLSX file. This also fixes an issue where the report usually could not be created if the profiles of different lengths were selected.

Miscellaneous

• Change: Selecting a file from Locations in the Map now centers the map on the start coordinate of the selected or Full section, whichever is appropriate.
• Stability improvements. This also fixes crashes caused by regressions in the previous version.

• Fix: Routes did not always correctly account for the lead-in.
• Fix: The route created using only existing logged GPS data in a file was not always correct.

Analysis: Curling and Warping

• Fix: Multiple issues caused the analysis to be unusable, produce incorrect results, or crash. Existing projects should be re-analyzed

Analysis: Profiler Certification

• Fix: Regression caused the slope chart to be missing the profile names.

Analysis: Rolling Straightedge

• Fix: Excel Detailed Report could not be created if some of the profiles could not be analyzed.
• Fix: Excel Detailed Report layout for Defective Segments was incorrect

Analysis: Smoothness Assurance

• Fix: The Summary PDF report for Long Continuous showed the inputs and defect units for Short Continuous. The Long Continuous section was also incomplete if Short Continuous did not have a Ride Quality Index selected.

Miscellaneous

• Change: Removed the Save Logs button because logs are no longer saved locally.
• Change: Minimum supported operating system changed to Windows 10 21H2.
• Fix: Corrected Windows file associations.
• Fix: Corrected behavior when opening files (such as double-clicking a file in Windows Explorer).
• Fix: Regression caused the file open dialog to not default to “All Files” when selected in Options.
• Fix: Regression caused ProVAL 2 projects to not be openable.
• Stability improvements.

Prior versions of ProVAL 4 no longer have access to maps. We currently cannot update the Microsoft Store version, but we will do so as soon as possible.

Miscellaneous
• Diagnostic data has been re-enabled. As before, this feature can be toggled in the Options. This data is
no longer stored on the computer, only online.
• Access to *.azure.com is required for both the diagnostic data and map features.
• The Open toolbar button can now be used to select a file, not just projects.
• Stability improvements.

Editor
• Change: The start and stop coordinates are now shown again, but cannot be changed.

Miscellaneous
• Fix: Keyboard shortcuts for projects did not always act as expected.
• New: Added Ctrl+W as a keyboard shortcut for closing a project.

Fix: Fixed regression that caused a validation warning when separate basis files were selected for the left and right channels.

• Analysis: Smoothness Assurance

Fix: The fixed-interval chart sometimes displayed the wrong y-axis values when the chart height was small.

• Miscellaneous

Performance improvements.

The web service where telemetry and errors are sent to is being retired. Sending of this information has been disabled until a replacement is implemented. In the meantime, contact us if you encounter an error.

Change: Import of ERD files using formatted floating-point (text) has changed. When the FORMAT keyword is empty and data is not available for all channels for each record, the import will fail. Previously, the import would succeed but stop reading the file when missing data was encountered.

• Analysis: Ride Quality

Fix: The KML/KMZ export for the Fixed-interval analysis only had the correct coordinates for the first selection.

• Analysis: Rolling Straightedge

Change: Leave-outs are now removed from the analysis.

• Miscellaneous

Performance improvements.

Security updates for third-party components.

Stability improvements.

Fix: Regression in previous version caused some reports to not be generated.

• Miscellaneous

Stability improvements.

Fix: PSG results were incorrect when the option for “Use SI Units” was changed from checked to unchecked.

• Analysis: Ride Quality

Change: The Fixed-interval analysis was changed to better match the results of ProVAL 3.6. Differences may still occur due to ProVAL 4’s improved accuracy with regards to distance.

Fix: When using SI units, non-RN overall ride quality values were displayed in m/m instead of m/km.

• Reports

Change: Reports sometimes cannot be created because the profile or section names contain text that is not allowed by Windows. ProVAL will now attempt to remove problem text. When this happens, a timecode will be appended to the file name to ensure the file name is unique.

• Miscellaneous

Fix: Project files were sometimes saved with the wrong permissions, causing the files to not be openable on other computers.

Fix: Adding files to a project would take progressively longer each time during a session.

Stability improvements.