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FlexDeploy 7.0.0.4 (3-15-2024)

Application Updates

• FLEXDEPLOY-11414 - FlexDeploy now supports datetime formats for Dutch, "no" locale code.

• FLEXDEPLOY-10623 - Create projects from CSV now allows creation of multiple branches, along with VersionNameSyntax and NextBranchBuildNumber.

• FLEXDEPLOY-11491 - The "show more" chip can now always be clicked regardless of whether the input is disabled or not.

Security

• Path traversal vulnerability has been resolved and customers are requested to upgrade. 

Workflow Execution

• FLEXDEPLOY-11143 - Workflow invoke plugin step now allows use of Stop On Error flag. This can be used when running plugin on all endpoints to stop execution on subsequent endpoints if previous execution fails.

Release and Pipeline Management

• Copy Pipeline option is now available.

• FLEXDEPLOY-11287 A copy id button has been added to the Project and Package cards which are shown on hover on the Release Definition page.

Plugin Updates

• PeopleSoft Plugin

  • FLEXDEPLOY-9648 - The packageBuild operation now executes export scripts (DMS objects) and will save the generated output (DAT) to the artifact folder. The packageDeploy operation now executes import scripts (DMS objects) and will read the data (DAT file) from the artifact folder.

• Oracle Visual Builder Plugin

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10006 - A new plugin input Node Executable Path is now available for plugin operations that use Node.

• Oracle Integration Cloud Plugin

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11102 - If connection is using wallet, connection plan can be used to manage specific wallet file based on environment, and plugin will upload appropriate attachment file. You can also take approach to use attachment file with same name and keep different file in attachment override directory.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11209 - For Package-based project file of Integrations type, added an attribute to manage lookup along with an integration. Lookups used by integration will be exported and deployed if selected.

• Siebel Plugin

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11363 - Siebel plugin now supports preemptive authentication for HTTP requests.

• JDBC Plugin

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11095 - Added new input to allow generation of SQL statement execution report. Report file will contain SQL statements executed with results or errors.

• Anchore Plugin

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11019 - Anchore Plugin now supports image scanning using Grype.

• Oracle SaaS FSM Plugin

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11348 - csvExport, csvDownload, and csvDownloadAdvanced operations will no longer make changes to ASM_SETUP_CSV_METADATA.xml to prevent errors at import time.

Resolved Issues

• FLEXDEPLOY-11582 - Resolved an issue with FlexDeploy 7.0 which may cause out of memory errors. This applies to 7.0.0.0, 7.0.0.1, 7.0.0.2 and 7.0.0.3.

• FLEXDEPLOY-11272 - Resolved an issue where creating a snapshot through REST v1 resulted in NPE when user was not an admin and if they did not have read permission on the release.

• FLEXDEPLOY-11316 - Resolved an issue which caused Constraint Violation Error when creating a custom Issue Tracking System.

• FLEXDEPLOY-11353 When creating/editing an endpoint, the private key path can now be typed in. Previously, it had to be chosen from a set list found in the .ssh directory within the endpoint user's home directory.

• Workflow Execution

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11561 - Resolved an issue where Workflow completion may fail with "ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint".

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11561 - Resolved a regression issue where Workflow and Plugin Execution thread pool was not increasing to more than 10 threads.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11564 - Improved performance of plugin installation when running multiple workflows against different endpoints.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11639 - Resolved an issue where workflow execution may fail with "Parameter 'directory' is not a directory".

• Release and Pipelines Management

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11314 - Resolved and issue where the Release stage execution info popup was only showing the Project's first 50 mapped deploy Target Groups in the Target Group Override dropdown.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11320 - Resolved an issue preventing non admins from being able to add tags to Releases.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11422 - Resolved an issue where user could not view custom step/gate on the release dashboard unless they had read permission for System Settings (which is available to admins only).

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11493 - Resolved an issue causing the full screen view of pipeline execution gates and steps to not be scrollable.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11559 - Resolved an issue causing a null pointer error when saving Pipeline Variables if they contained an Integer type.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11591 - A Release Started outgoing webhook event is now triggered as expected when a Release is created with started status.

• Projects

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11305 - Resolved an issue where if more than 50 deploy target groups were selected on project configuration > general, some were showing target group ids instead of name.

• Webhooks

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11356 - Resolved a regression introduced in 7.0.0.0 that was modifying the FLX_PRISTINE_PAYLOAD variable. As a result, HMAC verification functions would fail if the original content-type was not application/json.

• Oracle EBS Plugin

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11184 - Resolved an issue where file permission change command was failing when file names contained space.

• Git Plugin

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11313 - Git executions now receive more environment variables, like https_proxy, and PATH, which can resolve issues with proxies, and git lfs not working properly.

• Oracle Integration Cloud Plugin

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11384 - Resolved a regression issue from 7.0.0.3 where newly added Integration objects were failing to deploy with NullPointerException.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11500 - Resolved an issue where exportConnections and createConnection plan operation may generate incorrect connections.json file.

• SonarQube Plugin

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11562 - Resolved an issue that could cause SonarQube plugin to wait forever if the scan results failed in some cases.

• Tomcat Plugin

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11303 - Resolved a regression from 7.0.0.0 where Tomcat war deployment fails with NullPointerException.

• Oracle SaaS FSM Plugin

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11433 - Resolved an issue where DooProcessVersion and ProcessName were not displaying on DOO_ORCHESTRATION_PROCESS business object in the file catalog.

FlexDeploy 7.0.0.3 (2-17-2024)

Application Updates

• FLEXDEPLOY-10711 - Environment History and Environment State report now have a 'Committed By' column, which indicates the name of the person who has committed the file to source control.

• FLEXDEPLOY-10782 - UI colors for row selection, rows with active menus, and rows hovered have been adjusted for better contrast.

• FLEXDEPLOY-10928 - Added Comment related methods to FLEXDEPLOY function - createComment, patchComment, deleteComment.

• FLEXDEPLOY-11048 - Workflow Execution summary now shows Test success and failed counts instead of Test Case counts. This matches with display of counts on Release Dashboard - Test Gate details.

• FLEXDEPLOY-11047 - FlexDeploy Purge now executes on startup and every 24 hours after that.

Security

• FLEXDEPLOY-10895 - Updated json-smart in FlexDeploy to resolve vulnerability CVE-2023-1370.

• FLEXDEPLOY-7788, FLEXDEPLOY-10386 - Updated Dom4J version used in Jenkins plugin to resolve vulnerabilities CVE-2020-10683 and CVE-2023-45960.

• FLEXDEPLOY-10873 - Updated json-path version used in the XPath plugin to resolve vulnerability CVE-2023-51074.

• FLEXDEPLOY-10913 - Updated dependencies in the AWS, Docker, and EC2 plugins to resolve vulnerability CVE-2024-21634.

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• FlexDeploy now supports Scheduled Events, which can be used to trigger actions within FlexDeploy or in other applications based on user-defined time intervals. FlexDeploy offers the ability to execute any groovy script functions when the scheduled time is reached. For example, you can setup a Function to send out monthly reports on deployment history of environments over email. See Scheduled Events for more details.

Release and Pipeline Management

• FLEXDEPLOY-10032 - Using the LOG function methods in custom gate/step groovy scripts will now display log messages on the release dashboard screen. Logs on screen will automatically refresh. These logs are purged after 90 days by default, however, the interval can be adjusted in the purge settings (within System Settings).

• FLEXDEPLOY-4389 - Copy Release action is now available, where user can create a copy of an existing release and selectively copy tags, projects/packages, work items, overridden role members and overridden settings.

• FLEXDEPLOY-10803 - Added Release related methods to FLEXDEPLOY function - getReleaseById, getReleaseByName, searchReleases, createReleaseProject, createReleaseProjects, deleteReleaseProject, deleteReleaseProjects, patchReleaseProject, updateReleaseProject, searchReleaseProjects, copyRelease.

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• FLEXDEPLOY-11101 - Branch created, branch deleted, branch inactivated, and branch activated are now available as outgoing webhook events.

Plugin Updates

• Oracle SaaS FSM Plugin

  • FLEXDEPLOY-5448 - Oracle SaaS FSM projects can now accept unarchived (unzipped) CSV file packages when sourcing from a source code repository. The csvDownloadAdvanced plugin operation is meant to be used with Oracle FSM projects to automatically export and push unarchived CSV file packages to a source code repository. Build and deploy will continue to execute as normal, even for zipped files. Option of storing unarchived files in a source code repository allows for historical comparison and changes as necessary. See FlexDeploy - Oracle SaaS FSM Plugin Guide for more details.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10880 - csvDownloadAdvanced operation now supports multiple export criteria and/or filter criteria via JSON input. Extract CSV input is also now available, when enabled the downloaded CSV file package will be unarchived in the download folder. This input is enabled by default which is a behavior change.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10883 - csvExport, csvDownload, and csvDownloadAdvanced operations will clear or update the following attribute values in ASM_SET_CSV_METADATA.xml: ProcessName, ProcessDescription, ProcessDate, MigScopeValueSetId, BatchName, NodeSequence. The listed attributes contain uniquely generated ids or date time information. This is important when exporting from SaaS instance and pushing to a source code repository as to avoid unnecessary commits.

• Oracle Integration Cloud Plugin

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10706 - Integration schedule will be updated during packageDeploy and importIntegration operations, which can be controlled by Update Schedules input or file attribute. Allows for schedule overrides folder input to enable use of different schedule by environment.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10425 - New inputs are available to control the number of times integration or connection could retry deployment failures. The inputs are available for packageDeploy, importIntegration and updateConnections operations.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10569 - Added new operations to Pause and Resume Integration Schedules.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10583 - packageBuild and packageDeploy operations now support migrating connections and lookups as new object types.

• Apigee Plugin

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10720 - Added support to deploy Apigee config, shared-flow and proxy to Apigee X.

• SonarQube Plugin

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10828 - SonarQube URL and token will now be considered during scanning execution.

• Node Plugin

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10915 - Plugin now supports Nodejs Version input to automatically install specific version of nodejs. Node Executable Path takes precedence over Nodejs Version.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10914 - Plugin now supports .npmrc configuration as input, which allows for npm configurations to be entered as list of key - value parameters.

• Grunt Plugin

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10911 - Plugin now supports Nodejs Version input to automatically install specific version of nodejs. Node Executable Path takes precedence over Nodejs Version. Additionally, new input for NPM Install Arguments is added to use one or more arguments with npm install command.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10914 - Plugin now supports .npmrc configuration as input, which allows for npm configurations to be entered as list of key - value parameters.

• Angular Plugin

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10912 - Plugin now supports Nodejs Version input to automatically install specific version of nodejs. Node Executable Path takes precedence over Nodejs Version. Additionally, new input for NPM Install Arguments is added to use one or more arguments with npm install command.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10914 - Plugin now supports .npmrc configuration as input, which allows for npm configurations to be entered as list of key - value parameters.

• Oracle Visual Builder Plugin

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10914 - Plugin now supports .npmrc configuration as input, which allows for npm configurations to be entered as list of key - value parameters.

• HP UFT Plugin

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10837 - The UFT plugin now parses test results when the action type is "User".

Resolved Issues

• FLEXDEPLOY-10917 - Landing pages for Customize and Security menu sections now only show pages user has read access to. Previously, all page links were visible and would not work when clicked. Additionally, resolved an issue where only admin users had access to the Resource Types page when all users should have read access.

• Https Agent

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11112 - Optimized use of threads in Https Agent invocation.

• Salesforce

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11031 - Resolved an issue where compare always shows as new file for Azure DevOps Git.

• Build Request Form

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10890 - Adjusted the create release portion of the build request form to handle longer release names.

• Project Execution

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10965 - Scan Results are now displayed when a scan is executed through sub-workflow.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10806 - Test Results can now be filtered by Test Name, Test Suite Name and Test Description.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11087 - Resolved an issue where workflow executions report files were not captured if the report file was created with 4 or more parent folders under execution report directory.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10832 - Resolved an issue that would cause plugin logs to not display if opened while status was queued.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10868 - The Workflow Execution Variables screen now gives a brief description of "Other Properties".

• Release and Pipeline Management

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11123 - Resolved an issue where Gate and Step actions were not visible on Release Dashboard for External Users mapped to a Group in a Pipeline Role.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10906 - FLEXDEPLOY.createSnapshot(releaseId) function now defaults boolean snapshot inputs as false.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10948 - Resolved an issue where Force Complete of release may fail with " FDML-17008: Release [...] can not be completed as there are incomplete pipeline executions. Select Force Complete on the UI or call the forceEndRelease api."

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10967 - Resolved an issue on release dashboard which sometimes show an error in the UI - Exception while fetching data (/integrationInstances) : java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "undefined".

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11045 - Resolved an issue on release comment screen that resulted in error "FDML-99001: Internal Error - java.sql.Timestamp cannot be cast to java.math.BigDecimal".

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11176 - Resolved a regression which affected 7.0.0.0-7.0.0.2 where reply to email approval may fail with ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint "human_task_uk1".

  • FLEXDEPLOY-9536 - Pipeline approval gate and manual step notifications now include attachments and comments (aka Instructions) from gate or step configurations.

• Create Projects from CSV

  • FLEXDEPLOY-9618 - Create projects from CSV now uses Project GIT Defaults, for example Checkout Folder Script is now set instead of being blank.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11170 - Create project from CSV option does not fail now when using Next Branch Build Number as value other than 1.

• Integrations

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11020 - Resolved an issue with Long datatype preventing save of Integration Instances.

• Change Management System Integration

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11154 - Added system setting to adjust change ticket status check interval. Change tickets entered on stage execution information for external gate or on deploy/utility request will be immediately checked for status.

• Accessibility

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10032 - Resolved an issue where 'Skip to main content' link would not show up when navigating to a page from the menu.

• Notification Templates

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11160 - Fixed an index out of bounds error that would seldom occur in the default Notification Template for Work Item Subscriptions.

• REST API

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11177 - Resolved an issue with v1 Project service, where it required workflow id and instances both for patch. Additionally, instances are now appended to existing list of instances during patch operation.

• Salesforce Plugin

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11124 - Resolved an issue with Profile subcomponent 'ObjectPermissions' not getting deployed when permissions were removed.

• WebLogic Plugin

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11135 - Plugin now includes necessary python scripts for running certain WLST functions.

• Docker Plugin

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11149 - Allow escaping commas in the docker file args.

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Application Updates

• FLEXDEPLOY-7768 - Test and scan results are now captured on workflow execution failure also.

• FLEXDEPLOY-9526 - All list data definitions now support specifying value, label, and description by separating with ##. For example: label##value##description.

• FLEXDEPLOY-10756 - Files located in either the fdtests or fdreplacements folders at project root will be excluded on file discovery for package-based projects.

• FLEXDEPLOY-10797 - The display for deploying multiple packages on the deployment request form has been divided into a separate row for each package and version. The option to deploy multiple packages was released in version 7.0.0.1 by selecting multiple items in the version field.

• FLEXDEPLOY-10892 - Admin Operations actions are now only accessible to admin users. Previously, all users had access to view logs page.

Security

• FLEXDEPLOY-10663 - Updated Apache Tomcat to 9.0.84 to resolve vulnerability CVE-2023-46589.

• FLEXDEPLOY-10814 - Updated Apache Shiro to resolve vulnerability CVE-2023-46750.

• FLEXDEPLOY-10839 - Update xmlsec to resolve vulnerability CVE-2023-44483.

• FLEXDEPLOY-10658 - Updated Gradle to resolve vulnerabilities CVE-2023-42445 and CVE-2023-44387.

• FLEXDEPLOY-10826 - Updated org.json to resolve vulnerabilities CVE-2023-5072 and CVE-2022-45688.

• FLEXDEPLOY-10879 - Updated SSHJ version to resolve vulnerability CVE-2023-48795.

• FLEXDEPLOY-9935 - Eliminated dependency of JGit from FlexDeploy and the Git plugin, hence CVE-2023-4759 is no longer vulnerability for FlexDeploy.

Release and Pipeline Management

• FLEXDEPLOY-10511 - Pipeline custom gate or step script can now set milliseconds value in SCRIPT_CHECK_INTERVAL_MILLIS variable to control re-execution of script. Re-execution on not completed script happens at 5 minute interval by default.

• FLEXDEPLOY-8522 - Pipeline Step Executions will now show status of Not Attempted instead of Pending if they have not been executed.

• FLEXDEPLOY-9342 - FD_PIPELINE_ID and FD_PIPELINE_NAME are now available in Workflow Execution if workflow execution is initiated by pipeline.

• FLEXDEPLOY-10595 - Project Test Request and Pipeline Test Step now require selection of package for a Package-Based Project. Additionally, when running a Test All step on a release containing multiple packages from the same project, one test request will be submitted for each package. If duplicate test cases exist between the packages, then they will only be executed once.

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• ACCELQ Plugin - see FlexDeploy - ACCELQ Plugin Guide for more details.

Plugin Updates

• Oracle EBS Plugin

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10897 - Added support of Synonyms for EBS XDF object types.

• Oracle SaaS FSM Plugin

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10685 - Oracle SaaS FSM Setup Task file now supports Filter Criteria. This allows for additional filtering of setup task data after export criteria is applied. This is useful when export criteria does not support the attribute(s) needed for your use case. Additionally, csvExport operation has Filter Criteria Preview Mode to help validate Filter Criteria before usage in a deployment process.

• Oracle Integration Cloud Plugin

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10628 - updateConnection operation now has an option to re-activate all integrations using the connection when it's updated. Allows to use specific integrations, all or none.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10419 - Attachment Override Directory input is now available for updateConnection operation.

  • Connection Attachment Override Directory now also supports GLOBAL folder. Attachments placed in GLOBAL folder apply for all environments unless overridden by specific environment folder.

• Oracle Visual Builder Plugin

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10775 - buildApplicationExtension and deployApplicationExtension operations now support additional arguments for "npm install" command. Additionally, it also supports use of specific node version, which will be automatically installed.

• Docker Plugin

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10432 - Updated Docker plugin to support pushing images to Oracle Cloud private and public container registry.

• Kubernetes Plugin

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10517 - Added Additional Arguments input for all the Kubernetes plugin operations, using this input we can utilize different useful flags associated with Kubernetes resource management.

• Terraform Plugin

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10788 - Updated Terraform Plugin operations to support Additional Arguments input.

• Git Plugin

  • FLEXDEPLOY-9852 - Added an input to the git plugin to allow Treeless clone, which may make your full deploy projects more efficient in the amount of time and space used during builds.

• Ansible Plugin

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10276 - Allow user to install multiple roles from ansible galaxy using Install Roles operation.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10313 - Added Additional Arguments input to ansible playbook operation.

• JDBC Plugin

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10577 - The Export and Import operations now upper case the table name from the project property, and compares column names case-insensitively.

Resolved Issues

• FLEXDEPLOY-9916 - Updated SSHJ to 0.38.0. Set the transport timeout to match the timeout. This could in some cases prevent a timeout issue that would have happened earlier than the timeout set in system settings. Resolves the error "Received SSH_MSG_UNIMPLEMENTED while exchanging keys."

• FLEXDEPLOY-9900 - Resolved an issue where home and end key functionality did not work properly on certain inputs.

• FLEXDEPLOY-10798 - File Catalog or Package Files - Resolved an issue where evaluating a single file was always using the project's main branch instead of the selected branch in the popup.

• FLEXDEPLOY-10830 - Made the package-based build operations resilient to a transient failure caused by a temporary file that could not be deleted.

• FLEXDEPLOY-10843 - Topology - Resolved a 6.5 regression preventing users from manually assigning Workflows to Target Groups.

• FLEXDEPLOY-10845 - Prevent a potential authentication bypass issue on REST calls. The calls were still authorized, but some REST calls allowed non-secured data to be read without authentication in certain cases. Affects versions 6.0 < 6.0.0.10, 6.5 < 6.5.0.14, 7.0 < 7.0.0.2. This is fixed in versions 6.0.0.10, 6.5.0.14, 7.0.0.2+. Versions < 6.0 are not affected.

• FLEXDEPLOY-10864 - Resolved NullPointerException if calling the search REST API without specifying any criteria.

• FLEXDEPLOY-10646 - Resolved a regression issue where separating a ListData CSV item with ## would not split the text into the value and label. An enhancement was also added for a third segment for the description. For example: label##value##description.

• FLEXDEPLOY-10704 - It is now possible to delete projects that had been built in releases, which were inactivated after everything is purged.

• FLEXDEPLOY-10742 - Resolved intermittent purge error: "FDML-99997: Purge Failure - ORA-02292: integrity constraint (FD.EVENT_MESSAGE_LISTENER_FK1) violated."

• FLEXDEPLOY-10829 - Incoming Webhooks - Resolved an issue where long Exceptions were not able to be stored in there database properly with error "FDML-99501: Value for [ErrorMessage] can not be larger than 4000."

• FLEXDEPLOY-10908 - Resolved workflow dispatch issue where projects with lower sequence were not dispatched when projects with higher sequence were currently running. This issue was introduced in 7.0.0.1.

• FLEXDEPLOY-10924 - Resolved an issue where direct upgrade from 5.7 or below to 7.0.0.0 was failing with "unique constraint (FD.FD_PERMISSION_UK1) violated" error.

• Salesforce

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10767 - Resolved an issue where Full Compare fails to include few objects.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10768 - Data deployment supports retry of failed records based on Retry Count attribute.

• Groovy Functions

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10900 - Resolved an issue where the FLEXDEPLOY.createRelease function failed with property required error.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10904 - Fixed an issue in the FLEXDEPLOY.addProjectsToRelease function causing incorrect error messages for Pipeline Project Groups

• Releases

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10705 - A user can now view a standalone release within a project they don't have access to, as long as they have read access to the release.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10642 - Resolved NullPointerException when projects in release have no deploy workflow configured.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10733 - Force Deploy on Pipeline Pre-Deploy All step would not correctly show the value on the screen. The label has also been changed to Force Execute.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10774 - Replay of gate or step will now pick up new configuration from active pipeline version respectively.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10781 - Fixed an issue causing pipeline role checkboxes to behave erratically in certain cases.

• Oracle EBS Plugin

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10666 - EBS Plugin now properly matches .sql files in the cp_sql folder, even if the root cp_sql folder is a substring of the install sql folder.

• Oracle Integration Cloud Plugin

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10355 - Resolved issue where blank lines in connectionPlan.properties caused deployment failure.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10356 - Package deploy operation now uses connectionPlan.properties if found in artifacts.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10426 - Resolved an issue with retry for update connection failures.

• Maven Plugin

  • FLEXDEPLOY-4734 - The Maven plugin now finds the correct pom when nested projects are located and a checkout folder is used.

• Node Plugin

  • FLEXDEPLOY-5694 - Resolved an issue where Node plugin fails when there is a space in the project checkout folder.

• Oracle Service Bus Plugin

  • FLEXDEPLOY-9369 - The OSB package-based build operation now correctly finds files that are located in multiple layers of folders, even if the project name is used in the file or folder name.

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Application Updates

Salesforce Integration

• FLEXDEPLOY-7206 - Salesforce now provides an option to exclude Third-party packages from compare.

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• FLEXDEPLOY-8756 - Test Name input on project test request popup and pipeline Test Step definition now provides test name suggestions. Suggestion provided from Project Test Automation Configuration and fdtests directory YAML files.

• FLEXDEPLOY-8841 - On package build, fdtests folder is automatically saved to artifacts directory from repository root when artifacts are produced.

• FLEXDEPLOY-9626 - Tests can now be filtered by Tag, a new field available in the Test Automation Configuration YAML. Tags can be selected for filtering from project test request popup, pipeline test and test all steps, and the invoke test workflow operation.

Release and Pipeline Management

• FLEXDEPLOY-10187 - Added a link to the created Snapshot on the Promote to Release step dashboard view.

• Upload Execution Info Popup has more appropriate default widths for flex fields.

• Added indicators on Release Dashboard - External Approval Gate if the CMS instance has Don't Poll enabled. Customers using Don’t Poll can perform integration using Webhooks.

• FLEXDEPLOY-10580 - When inactivating a project or package, its standalone release are completed.

• Release content can now be filtered using Project Groups as well.

Workflow Execution

• Workflow Execution Threads setting can now be updated without needing restart of FlexDeploy server.

• If workflow execution threads are exhausted, pending executions for environments higher in sort order will be considered first for execution when threads become available, i.e. preference will be given to environments at the bottom on environments list. For example, if Production is at the bottom of environment list then it will have highest preference for execution.

• Deploy priority on Project or Release (defined on content page) will control execution order within specific environment. For example, if there is running execution in Dev environment for Project with priority of 1, then projects with priority of 2 or higher in Dev environment will be queued.

• Additionally, new system setting Project Execution Limits is now added to limit max number of concurrent workflow executions by Project. This can be useful if specific project deploys to many targets. This would allow other projects to continue execution and not exhaust all available threads in pool.

  • Project Execution Limit is controlled by defining limits using project id, project or folder name or name regular expression. See Execution Settings for more details.

• Plugin Execution Threads system setting can now be updated without needing restart of FlexDeploy server.

• Endpoint now supports max concurrent setting to limit how many plugins can execute on a particular endpoint.

• Plugin developers always had ability to limit number of concurrent executions by plugin. This is still supported and configured in plugin.xml but Endpoint max concurrent setting would make more sense now.

• Plugin Execution dispatch updated to efficiently utilize available threads in pool.

• Plugin logs popup in workflow execution page now displays correct icon status, this is particularly useful when plugin executions are Queued due to Endpoint or Plugin threads limit.

• FLEXDEPLOY-8707 - Endpoint test connection now provides additional information on failures. Additionally, server logs will print additional information for debugging in case of endpoint failures.

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• FLEXDEPLOY-10164 - GIT Instance now allows configuration for commit link syntax, which will be mostly useful for customers using On-prem Git repository. Commit links are shown in Execution UI and Change Logs. See FlexDeploy - Git Plugin Guide for more details.

• FLEXDEPLOY-10710 - Added Abort option on the UI for queued workflow executions. Previously only Running executions were allowed to be Aborted.

• FLEXDEPLOY-9518 - Environment State Report now allows viewing attributes 'Workflow Type', 'Workflow Id', 'Workflow Name', 'Workflow Version', 'Package Created By', 'Package Created On', 'Package Updated On', 'Package Updated by', 'Force' (which indicates whether force build or deploy was requested), 'Folder Request Id', 'File Status', 'Work Item Numbers', 'Approved By', 'Snapshot Id'.

• FLEXDEPLOY-9819 - Multiple package(s) can now be selected on deploy request form. Only one version of per package is allowed. This is just quicker option to deploy more packages.

• FLEXDEPLOY-10235 - Added getTaskById, searchTasks, getPendingTasksByChangeTicket, approveTaskById, rejectTaskById methods in FLEXDEPLOY function. This can be utilized for integration with external tools from Webhooks or Pipeline scripts.

• FLEXDEPLOY-10622 - EMAIL Function - Added new methods that allow sending emails with CC, BCC, and allows sending a single email to multiple recipients.

• FLEXDEPLOY-10602 Custom issue tracking system integrations now support implementing search related methods, which would enable search from the build request form, package, and release definition.

• FLEXDEPLOY-10608 - Added Outgoing Webhook event type for Package Status Updated.

• FLEXDEPLOY-10619 - List data for work item fields was throwing an error when trying to open a work item if one the following formats were being used:

  1. ["Break Fix","Problem","Project","Request","Risk Remediation"]

  2. [new ListValueDataObject("value1"),
new ListValueDataObject("label2","value2"),
new ListValueDataObject("label3","value3","Description")]

• Code Editor

  • FLEXDEPLOY-9190 - Editor help is now provided in object constructors. Also fixed an issue causing objects instantiated with fully qualified class names to not provide suggestions.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10023 - RuntimeException should now have groovy suggestions without the need of an explicit import in the script.

• Notifications

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10435 - Resolved an issue with the mention notification email that would sometimes cause longer text to not wrap and shrink in the new Microsoft Outlook client.

Plugin Updates

• Oracle FSM Plugin

  • FLEXDEPLOY-9725 - Export Criteria now supports adding or removing multiple attributes for a given business object. This would allow for further filtering of data exported for setup task.

• Oracle EPM Plugin

  • FLEXDEPLOY-9401 - Added an operation to download snapshots and updated the import operation to support both package and standard deploys. This enables the plugin to provide a clone capability from an existing snapshot.

• Oracle Visual Builder Plugin

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10188 - buildApplication and deployApplication operations now has an option to set Node.js version and optional arguments for npm install command.

• Oracle BI Plugin

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10575 - Added a plugin input to the OBI Deploy operation to force the last-modified timestamp. If Update Last Modified is checked on a Oracle BI V1 project, any dashboards or scorecards that are deployed will have their sub-items' last-modified times updated as well. On an Oracle BI V2 project, the dashboard and scorecard sub-items can be deployed individually, and the deployed items will have their timestamps updated.

• Mule Plugin

  • Mule plugin can now automatically look up and select the recommended runtime version for CloudHub deployments.

• Tricentis Tosca Plugin

  • FLEXDEPLOY-8598 - Plugin operation now supports the Tosca Distributed Execution approach.

• REST Plugin

  • FLEXDEPLOY-5896 - Added the ability to save values from REST response headers through user defined outputs.

Resolved Issues

• Email Communication

  • FLEXDEPLOY-9686 - Resolved an issue where authorizing as a different user on the Email Settings required a server restart in order to take effect.

• GIT Integration

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10587 - Resolved an issue with Git integration that resulted in error "OutOfMemoryError: Requested array size exceeds VM limit".

• Issue Tracking Integration

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10618 - On-perm Jira installations does not support warn option for validateQuery parameter, which caused issues during issue tracking integration. This value is now set to false to avoid failures.

• Projects

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10469 - Resolved an issue related to Package-based project deployments not tracking execution files when plugin operation was executed from child workflow.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-8713 - Resolved an issue that caused artifacts purged icon to not show on the project execution tab. There will also be a display message on the artifacts and variables tabs to indicate they were purged.

• Workflow Execution

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10200 - Resolved an issue to convert Unicode character from log that prevents Execution Steps getting displayed.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-3805 - Resolved an issue where Windows endpoint plugin logs would not show correct working directory.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-7434 - Resolved file transfer issue for Windows endpoints. Error was "net.schmizz.sshj.sftp.SFTPException: Failure".

• Releases

  • Resolved an issue in the View Variables popup where multiselect values would not be comma separated.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10630 - Overriding a scheduled gate would not show the user which performed the override in the Pipeline Execution History popup.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10738 - Changing pages within the Snapshot Compare popup would also change the page on the Snapshot List table

• Purge

  • FLEXDEPLO-10638 - Resolved an issue in the purge that caused some objects to be unable to be purged with error: ORA-02292: integrity constraint (FD.WF_EXEC_PKG_OBJ_CUR_STATUS) violated - child record found.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10734 - Resolved issues that caused Change History to not be Purged even when it was turned on in purge settings.

• Topology

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10344 - Resolved an issue where Updated by/updated on details were not being displayed on the target properties table.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10648 - Resolved an issue where newly configured Environment which was not yet used can not be deleted with error "integrity constraint (FD.ENVIRONMENT_PROPERTY_KEY) violated - child record found".

• Salesforce Integration

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10693 - Resolved Issue with Discover Files for Salesforce Trigger.

• Oracle FSM Plugin

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10635 - Export Criteria set with an empty AttributeName or AttributeValue will be ignored. This previously caused plugin execution failures.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10641 - CSV Export/Import reports are saved in FD_REPORTS_DIR with correct extensions. Processlog will also be saved as an additional report.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10729 - Task code filter text is automatically trimmed when retrieving setup task suggestions.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10730 - Resolved an issue where discover would not take new Task Name if it had changed.

• Oracle EBS Plugin

  • FLEXDEPLOY-9967 - Plugin operations now adds the output of password validation into plugin logs to better understand issues.

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Application Updates

FlexDeploy 7.0.0.0 is significant milestone towards Next Generation UI/UX transformation, building on top of 6.0 and 6.5. This is focused on Release & Pipeline Management as well as Incoming & Outgoing Webhooks. This is not just about consistent and productive UX changes, but many new features are also incorporated.

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• Modern look and feel with new branding is now extended to Release & Pipelines, Incoming & Outgoing Webhook screens.

• Folder can now contain folders as well as projects, this was previously not allowed. Additionally, Releases are also now organized in Folders.

• FLEXDEPLOY-9754 - Projects - An option for displaying execution data in table format is now available for projects and packages. The setting can be found in the options menu next to saved queries.

• FLEXDEPLOY-9755 - Projects - Shows duration next to start time in project execution list.

Release and Pipeline Management

Release Definition

• Releases are now available in Global search as well as Recent activity. In addition, Releases can be marked as Favorite and tags can be assigned to it.

• Releases are now stored in folders. For Customers upgrading from previous version, all Releases will be placed in FlexDeploy folder.

• Release security is now inherited from parent folder, which allows for easier management of security permissions for release. Release can override or inherit security from parent folder(s), which is similar to folder and project security. There is no impact to Customers upgrading from previous versions of FlexDeploy.

• Release Settings are now available. These settings as release permissions can be defined at the folder or release level. Release settings include various options like Snapshot name syntax, Auto complete package & release after deployment to production, options to automatically add content based on work items etc. See Release Settings for more details.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-4174 - Snapshot code committers are not allowed to approve gate. This is configured by release setting.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-6347 - Snapshot name can be customized now using Snapshot Name setting which is defined as Groovy script. Supported variables are CurrentDate, ReleaseName, SequenceNumber (FLEXDEPLOY-8781)

• Release content (project/packages) can be managed much more easily now. UX is similar to how package files are managed. This process also allows for searching packages of specific project easily (FLEXDEPLOY-2515).

• Release content now can be managed by Release Manager role without any knowledge of necessary project/package. This is accomplished by adding Work Items to release and project/packages are added automatically to release content. This behavior is controlled by Auto-Add Content Options release setting, which allows adding content based on package work item mapping, new build or previous build associated with work item.

• Work Items are always added to release when new snapshots are created or new packages are added. This allows release manages to see list of work items being developed for specific release.

• FLEXDEPLOY-4299 - removal of project/package from release content now presents confirmation dialog.

• Completed releases can now be started if necessary.

• Force Complete option is now available to complete release, which will abort any running executions.

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• Change history report is now extended to show changes done for Release, Pipelines, etc.

• FLEXDEPLOY-6484 - Users can now subscribe to receive notifications on specific Flex Work Item changes. This only applies to native work items and not external work items like Jira, Azure Boards.

• FLEXDEPLOY-6759 - Purge has been added for change history records. This is configurable on Purge Settings page, default value for Change History Purge Days is 730.

• Completed packages can now be activated again if necessary.

• Folder tree now contains folders, projects and releases. There is option to filter where only releases or projects can be viewed. Additionally, folders can now contain folders, projects and releases, previously folders and projects were not allowed to be under same parent folder.

• FLEXDEPLOY-10022 - Work item search functionality has been added to the build request form and package work items input.

• FLEXDEPLOY-9928 - Settings - A new theme setting has been added Always Float Input Labels. When true, input labels will float to the top of the input regardless of focus or whether or not a value is provided.

• FLEXDEPLOY-9258 - Endpoints - Added ability to select private key from list of keys stored on the server when setting up SSH authorization for Endpoints. Additionally, added ability to download the public key paired with the selected private key. Upload public key option has been removed from Endpoint screen.

• FLEXDEPLOY-8721 - API tokens for REST API invocations are supported for internal as well as external users. (FLEXDEPLOY-8916)

• New REST API added for V2 - see V2 REST API

Plugin Updates

• FlexDeploy 7.0 plugins will not work with previous versions of FlexDeploy. In general, first two letters of application (e.g. 7.0) and plugin version should match for compatibility.

• The Apigee, Maven, and XPath plugins now require Java 8, this decision was made to resolve security vulnerabilities. Flexagon understands that many customers are forced into using older Java versions by their legacy software, and will attempt to maintain Java 7 compatibility for the near future, as well as Java 6 compatibility for the EBS plugin. We also understand that other customers need to run on newer Java versions. Continue to watch the Plugin Java requirements page for updates. We welcome support tickets for concerns with Java version support.

• FLEXDEPLOY-7760 - Resolved Vulnerabilities CVE-2017-18640, CVE-2022-25857, CVE-2022-38749, CVE-2022-38751, CVE-2022-38752, CVE-2022-41854, CVE-2022-38750 for Kubernetes and Helm plugin.

• FLEXDEPLOY-7759 - Resolved Vulnerability CVE-2022-4065 for TestNG plugin.

• FLEXDEPLOY-7757 - Resolved Vulnerability CVE-2022-31159 for AWS and Docker Plugin.

• FLEXDEPLOY-7757 - Resolved Vulnerabilities CVE-2018-1270, CVE-2022-22965, CVE-2014-0225, CVE-2016-9878, CVE-2018-11040, CVE-2013-4152, CVE-2013-6429, CVE-2013-7315, CVE-2014-0054, CVE-2018-1257, CVE-2020-5421, CVE-2022-22950, CVE-2018-11039, CVE-2013-6430, CVE-2022-22968, CVE-2022-22970, CVE-2014-3625, CVE-2014-1904 for AWS and EC2 Plugin.

• FLEXDEPLOY-7756 - Resolved Vulnerabilities CVE-2022-36033, CVE-2021-37714, CVE-2022-29599, CVE-2021-26291, CVE-2014-3577, CVE-2020-13956, CVE-2015-5262, CVE-2021-29425, CVE-2017-1000487 for Apigee, Maven and MuleSoft plugin.

• FLEXDEPLOY-7761 - Resolved Vulnerabilities CVE-2019-20444, CVE-2019-20445, CVE-2019-16869, CVE-2020-11612, CVE-2021-37136, CVE-2021-37137, CVE-2022-41881, CVE-2021-43797, CVE-2022-41915, CVE-2021-21295, CVE-2021-21409, CVE-2021-21290, CVE-2022-24823 for Oracle SaaS FSM Plugin.

• FLEXDEPLOY-7762 - Resolved Vulnerability CVE-2021-42550 for Docker Plugin.

• FLEXDEPLOY-7764 - Resolved Vulnerability CVE-2016-5725 for Git Plugin.

• FLEXDEPLOY-7773 - Resolved Vulnerability CVE-2018-10237 for Docker, Siebel, Jenkins Plugin.

• FLEXDEPLOY-7783 - Resolved Vulnerabilities CVE-2021-36374, CVE-2021-36373, CVE-2020-1945 for Ant Plugin.

• FLEXDEPLOY-7788 - Resolved Vulnerabilities CVE-2020-10683 and CVE-2018-1000632 for Jenkins Plugin.

• FLEXDEPLOY-7792 - Resolved Vulnerabilities CVE-2020-26939, CVE-2020-0187, CVE-2020-26939, CVE-2016-1000338, CVE-2016-1000342, CVE-2016-1000343, CVE-2016-1000344, CVE-2016-1000352, CVE-2016-1000341, CVE-2016-1000345, CVE-2017-13098, CVE-2020-0187, CVE-2016-1000339, CVE-2020-15522, CVE-2015-7940, CVE-2018-5382, CVE-2013-1624, CVE-2016-1000346 for PeopleSoft, OpenShift, Artifactory XRay, Oracle CPQ, PMD, Siebel, CheckMarx, OWASP Dependency Check, Acunetix, Jenkins Plugin.

• FLEXDEPLOY-7793 - Resolved Vulnerabilities CVE-2014-0114, CVE-2019-10086 for various Plugin.

• FLEXDEPLOY-7795 - Resolved Vulnerabilities CVE-2018-7489, CVE-2017-7525, CVE-2020-10650, CVE-2020-35490, CVE-2020-35491, CVE-2020-36518, CVE-2022-42003, CVE-2022-42004, CVE-2018-1000873, CVE-2019-14379, CVE-2019-14540, CVE-2019-14892, CVE-2019-14893, CVE-2019-16335, CVE-2019-16942, CVE-2019-16943, CVE-2019-17267, CVE-2019-17531, CVE-2019-20330, CVE-2020-8840, CVE-2020-9546, CVE-2020-9547, CVE-2020-9548, CVE-2020-10672, CVE-2020-10673, CVE-2020-10968, CVE-2020-10969, CVE-2020-11111, CVE-2020-11112, CVE-2020-11113, CVE-2020-11619, CVE-2020-11620, CVE-2020-14060, CVE-2020-14061, CVE-2020-14062, CVE-2020-14195, CVE-2020-24616, CVE-2020-24750, CVE-2020-35728, CVE-2020-36179, CVE-2020-36180, CVE-2020-36181, CVE-2020-36182, CVE-2020-36183, CVE-2020-36184, CVE-2020-36185, CVE-2020-36186, CVE-2020-36187, CVE-2020-36188, CVE-2020-36189, CVE-2021-20190, CVE-2019-12086, CVE-2019-14439, CVE-2020-25649 , CVE-2019-12384, and CVE-2019-12814 for EC2, AWS, Docker, Jenkins Plugin.

• FLEXDEPLOY-7798 - Resolved Vulnerability CVE-2020-28491 in AWS Plugin.

• FLEXDEPLOY-7801 - Resolved Vulnerabilities CVE-2021-27568 and CVE-2021-31684 for ServiceNow and XPath Plugin.

• FLEXDEPLOY-7802 - Resolved Vulnerability CVE-2020-15250 for Docker, TestNG, Cucumber, JUnit Plugin.

• FLEXDEPLOY-9152 - Resolved Vulnerability CVE-2023-33201 for various plugins.

• FLEXDEPLOY-10004 - Resolved Vulnerability CVE-2023-4586 for Oracle SaaS FSM Plugin.

• FLEXDEPLOY-9154 - Resolved Vulnerabilities CVE-2018-11307, CVE-2017-17485 for various plugins.

• FLEXDEPLOY-10409 - Updated the Docker Bench Plugin to work with newer versions of Docker Bench.

Resolved Issues

• FLEXDEPLOY-6828 - Resolved an issue where workflow input does not default to initial value when workflow is invoked from pipeline. Previously users needed to save stage execution information as workaround.

• FLEXDEPLOY-7429 - Resolved an issue where attachments added when initially creating the work item would result in an error.

• FLEXDEPLOY-10481 - Dashboards - Panel titles are now capped at 100 characters and overflow correctly.

• FLEXDEPLOY-10482 - Dashboards - Resolved an issue where in certain cases editing Panel inputs in the Customize Dashboard Panel would modify inputs of already placed panels of the same type.

• FLEXDEPLOY-10457 - Integrations - Integration description length is capped at 255 max now.

• FLEXDEPLOY-10429 - Credentials - Resolved an issue where Delete credential was incorrectly disabled if you did not have UPDATE permission on Credentials.

• FLEXDEPLOY-10417 - Packages - Resolved an issue where removing files from a package would not add them back as potential files to add to the package without a screen refresh.

• FLEXDEPLOY-10403 - Folders - Resolved an issue where limited access users would not see any permission error when creating a folder (folder not created but error was not displayed).

• FLEXDEPLOY-10391 - Groovy Code Editor - Resolved issue where editor would sometimes give suggestions for the incorrect function argument.

• FLEXDEPLOY-10369 - UI Selection - Resolve an issue where while selecting Autocomplete options by clicking, sometimes additional options would be selected in multi selection input.

• FLEXDEPLOY-10337 - Projects - Do not navigate away from project if there is an error deleting a Project.

• FLEXDEPLOY-10320 - Saved Queries - Resolved an issue where newly created and modified queries would sometimes not apply all filters and sorts.

• FLEXDEPLOY-10073 - Dashboards - Resolved a few overflow/wrapping issues on Recent Activity and Recent Work Items panels.

• FLEXDEPLOY-10011 - Workflow Request - Resolved an issue seen during submission of a workflow request incorrectly stating that Workflow Input does not exist.

• FLEXDEPLOY-10115 - Post Refresh REST API - Resolved an issue where wrong error message was displayed when trying to refresh an environment with no differences.

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• RestWorkflowPropertyServices - v1/workflows/{workflowId}/properties

• RestWorkflowServices - v1/workflows

• RestSCMDefinitionServices - v1/scm/definition

Incompatible Changes

Release and Pipeline Management

• Releases no longer have the state NOTSTARTED so if you were using this state in a REST call, use SUSPENDED or STARTED instead. The validation of the release to be ready to run is no longer required for STARTED. Instead, creating snapshots contains that validation.

• The CSV format for Uploading and Download Pipeline Stage Execution Info has changed. Any CSV files in the old format should be discarded. A new CSV file with the correct format can be downloaded from the Stage Execution Info popup in the Release Dashboard.

• Background thread names used by execution engine is changed from gateworker, stepworker to releaseeventprocessor.

• FLEXDEPLOY-9981 - ReleaseProjectDataObject - Removed the GroupName attribute, which contained group names (String), and replaced with ProjectGroups attribute, which contains group ids. This affects v2 REST APIs for release and some FLEXDEPLOY methods.

• New release created using V1 API will be placed in FlexDeploy folder and will be initialized with Pipeline based on FlexDeploy folder release settings.

• FLEXDEPLOY.getPipelineStageExecutionInfo() return object was changed to remove the workflowDetailsMetaData and flexFieldsMetaData attributes.

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