FlexDeploy 8.0 Release Notes

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Last updated: May 04, 2024 by Erick Jones
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Known issues

  • FLEXDEPLOY-8.0.0.0 is affected by FLEXDEPLOY-11985 - When some customers upgrade to 8.0.0.0, they will hit an error: Error deploying web application directory [/u01/flexdeploy/apache-tomcat-flexdeploy/webapps/flexdeploy] java.lang.IllegalStateException: Error starting child ... Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: oracle/i18n/util/LocaleMapper. If you hit this, see Solution for Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: oracle/i18n/util/LocaleMapper This solution will be automatically implemented in 8.0.0.1 and future versions.

  • FLEXDEPLOY 7.0.0.0 to 7.0.0.5 and 8.0.0.0 are affected by FLEXDEPLOY-12078. These versions do not properly purge as much data as they should. The artifact repository and database could be larger than expected. Upgrading to 7.0.0.6 or 8.0.0.1 is recommended to allow the appropriate data to be deleted.

FlexDeploy 8.0.0.1 (4-27-2024)

Version Details

Application Updates

General

  • FLEXDEPLOY-4296 - Email Settings now allows using Microsoft Graph APIs for sending and reading approval emails.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-5709, FLEXDEPLOY-6719 - FlexDeploy now has two default dashboards for Developers and Leaders. These new dashboards can be further managed by the owner, who will be an admin user randomly selected from existing users. These dashboards are added as a starting point for users upgrading from FlexDeploy 5.7 or earlier.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-7572 - A copy code button has been added for Testing and Credential Store instances to allow for a copy of the Property Key code.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-9147 - Revived the traffic light concept on the target screen. Targets are color-coded for quick reference of their configuration status.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11685 - Add Tag action has been added on the Environments page.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11687 - Added the ability to filter the "Last Login On" column by date on the Users page.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11926 - The ServiceNow CMS instance now renders a Groovy Editor for Approve, Reject, and Additional Info scripts.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11953 - The Target screen will now indicate if any linked endpoints are inactive with a warning message.

Custom Branding

  • FLEXDEPLOY-2527 - A new category has been added for "Display Settings" under System Settings where customers can configure custom branding (header colors, logo) and alert banners. For example,

    • Define your company logo with a link to your intranet on the FlexDeploy header.

    • Different header colors to indicate FlexDeploy stage vs production installations.

    • Add alerts that users see upon login (can be dismissed during the session).

Projects

  • FLEXDEPLOY-8812 - Custom icons can now be uploaded and used for Projects. Administrators have access to a separate admin popup where custom icons can be managed.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10390 - Added branch id as a column for the branches table on the Project Configuration -> Source Control page. (column is hidden by default).

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11783 - The Invoke Workflow step in the Workflow Execution details view now displays the version and has a link back to the workflow.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11786 - Flex Fields now uses Field Type (TextField, Checkbox, etc) selection instead of DataType and SubDataType.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11916 - Promote to release, rebuild, and edit workflow have all been consolidated to the details header in the Workflow Execution details view.

Release and Pipelines Management

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11663 - An environment filter has been added when adding a new stage to a pipeline.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11668 - Irrelevant Release Settings are now hidden on Standalone Releases

Blueprints

  • FLEXDEPLOY-9957 - The Environments used by Blueprints can now be changed while populating the Blueprint form.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11970 - Weblogic Server/Cluster is now a project-level prompt.

REST API

  • FLEXDEPLOY-12042 - v2 REST API for initiating Post Refresh requests is now available.

Groovy Functions

  • FLEXDEPLOY-3943 - FLEXDEPLOY Function now has new methods to manage project properties.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10812 - FLEXDEPLOY function now has new methods to manage Release Work Items.

Isolated Networks

  • FLEXDEPLOY-8056 - FLEXDEPLOY function methods added to allow export of Configuration, Build, and Snapshot archives. These methods can be used to automate the export of necessary files to be transferred from the source to the target server in an isolated network setup.

  • The export and import process is optimized for performance and memory usage.

  • The export and import process now also manages Folder Issue Tracking configurations.

  • Isolated Networks solution now allows managing folder-level notifications, approvals, and windows on the target server.

  • A change history record is now available to indicate the successful import of the export archive.

  • The application error table now indicates failure information if the import of the export archive fails.

  • Release settings can now be managed on target server and they are not imported from source server.

New Plugins

  • Oracle Managed Cloud Plugin

    • Plugin to manage CEMLI objects in Oracle Managed Cloud for EBS.

Plugin Updates

  • Oracle EBS Plugin

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11680 - Added Target Location attribute for Integrated SOA Gateway object type. Previously files for SOA Gateway object type were not copied to any folder on the EBS file system.

  • Oracle SOA Suite Plugin

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11648 - Composite revision previously only allowed numbers in the format of x.x.x.x.x (e.g 1.1.1.1). This restriction has been removed to allow milestone names or patch numbers in the revision (e.g. 1.1.1.1-alpha or 1.1.1.1_1234).

  • HP UFT Plugin

    • FLEXDEPLOY-10834 - The Plugin now allows for capturing screenshots in the reports section.

  • Groovy Plugin

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11076 - Resolved an issue where classpath entries were not added properly to the classpath with Java 11+.

  • ServiceNow Plugin

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11824 - The ServiceNow Plugin inputs are easier to work with because inputs that are not needed no longer show up.

Resolved Issues

  • General

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11928 - Resolved an issue where SCM commits migration failed when the SCM Integration Instance was inactive.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11985 - Startup scripts now delete xmlparserv2.jar and xmlparserv2_sans_jaxp_services.jar from the libext folder if present as they are not needed and cause runtime issues.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11997 - Resolved an issue with FlexDeploy running on Oracle Database where searching for values with a comma could throw an ORA error. This was a regression in 8.0.0.0.

  • UI/UX

    • FLEXDEPLOY-12001 - Resolved an issue preventing more than 1000 chips from being displayed in a select input.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11850 - Resolved an issue with Target Groups drop downs where Loading more... was displayed even when more data was unavailable.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-12113 - Clicking the Select All option in UI select dropdowns will now consider the search filter and only select visible options as opposed to always selecting all available options.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11778 - Popups now ask for confirmation before navigating away using links inside the popup when changes have been made in the popup.

  • Folders

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11647 - Resolved an issue where projects and releases were not viewable from the folder tree view when a user doesn't have read access to the root FlexDeploy folder.

  • Projects

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11714 - The project build sequence can now be set to 0 (previously, the minimum value allowed was 1).

    • FLEXDEPLOY-10625 - Resolved an issue where a user could not run/reject a scheduled task from the project execution task page despite having Scheduled Task update permission.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-10728 - Build and deploy action buttons are now hidden for inactive and completed packages.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11580 - Resolved an issue that prevented Project scoped Predeploy Workflow properties from showing up on the Project Properties screen.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11742 - Post-build deployment is now executed as a 'cideploy' user.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11777 - Project Files - Resolved an issue where checkbox type attributes (for custom Project type attributes only) were showing as modified when evaluating if the default value script didn't return true or false.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11844 - Resolved an issue where users without update access could see a confirmation popup when navigating to a page if another user recently toggled a switch value on the page.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11866 - Resolved an issue where duplicate rows were showing up when filtering by status on the project files screen for deploy execution when multiple endpoints were involved.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11913 - Resolved an issue where a 404 page was shown if a user tried opening a workflow they didn't have access to from the Project configuration page. The workflow links are now disabled if a user doesn't have read access to them.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-12149 - Resolved an issue where the Test Name suggestion on the test request form may not provide proper results.

  • Release and Pipelines Management

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11947 - Resolved an issue where Project triggers for Releases were not updated with correct details when the branch or build environment was updated on the Project/Package within a Release.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11477 - Resolved an issue where invalid cron expressions could be saved on the pipeline definition editor for the Schedule gate/step.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11925 - Resolved an issue causing the Service Now Ticket "Description" field to also update the Step "Description" field in the External Approval Gate configuration.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11735 - Resolved a regression in 8.0 causing Snapshot Content exports to be missing several columns of data.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-12000 - Column widths have been adjusted in the Upload Execution Info popup. In addition, the Fixed Layout setting can now be used on the table to allow custom column widths.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-12013 - Resolved an issue causing a null pointer error when copying a pipeline if the email data contains null or if the pipeline role permission action is missing.

  • Workflows

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11656 - Delete of a workflow will now show an error if the workflow is used in other active workflows.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11903 - Resolved an issue causing the selected workflow version to show incorrectly if a dirty confirmation was canceled while changing versions.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-12012 - Resolved an issue where Workflow Input List Data Groovy script edit may fail with the "already exists in this list" error. Also, List Data Groovy script execution failure is now presented with an error instead of the entire script shown as possible list options.

  • Topology

    • FLEXDEPLOY-9584 - Resolved an issue by displaying a proper error message when attempting to delete a target group that has execution-related data, instead of just showing Internal Error - Constraint violation.

  • Integrations

    • FLEXDEPLOY-12127 - Resolved an issue where Credential Store Integration tabs were not disabled if the user did not have permission to view them.

  • Webhooks

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11785 - Resolved an issue when filtering by empty or not empty for the Resubmitted By column on Webhook Message and Scheduled Event Message tables.

  • Security

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11520 - Resolved an issue (NullPointerException) when username and password are updated simultaneously on the Profile page.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11962 - Resolved an issue where attempting to log in with the wrong password while 2fa is enabled resulted in 2 failed attempts instead of 1.

  • Dashboards

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11909 - Work Item links on the Recent Work Items panel now go to the FlexDeploy Work Item page.

  • Post Refresh Requests

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11853 - Resolved an issue where post-refresh-related workflow requests would not execute right away.

  • Project Type Customization

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11775 - Resolved an issue on the Project Types screen where reordering an attribute above the SOURCE attribute in a custom project type would show an error.

  • Property Definitions

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11856 - Reorganized Workflow Properties, Work Item Fields, and Flex Fields to ensure consistent behavior and placement of input fields.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11856 - Resolved an issue causing Environment selections to jump to the top of the list if selecting multiple.

  • Flex Fields

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11886 - Validation for Integer and Long Flex Field types has been improved.

  • Salesforce

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11978 - Resolved an issue where package file search was not displaying '-meta.xml' files.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11574 - The Add Subcomponents popup now filters out any items recently added to the Package.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11995 - Resolved an issue where a JAXB error occurred when adding a sub-component for Notification Type Config.

  • Change Management

    • FLEXDEPLOY-10802 - External change manage system ticket descriptions are now updated on internally stored objects, this happens during status polling. This allows for viewing updated descriptions on change tickets.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11976 - Change ticket for FreshService change management system now uses the plain-text description.

  • Tasks

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11888 - Resolved an issue where External Users could not use actions on the Tasks page for Release Snapshot Tasks when they were able to from the Release Dashboard.

  • Reports

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11854 - Resolved an issue on the Environment Discrepancies report causing some rows to appear duplicated.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-12062 - Resolved an issue on the Environment Discrepancies report that would undo column changes in certain cases.

  • Purge

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11703 - Resolved a purge-related query issue that ran slowly on Postgres. This should reduce database load.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-12076 - Resolved Purge Failure - Numeric Overflow, which could happen with the purge on isolated network target servers.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-12078 - Resolved an issue for the purge that affects version 7.0.0.0 to 7.0.0.5 and 8.0.0.0. These versions do not properly purge as much data as they should. The artifact repository and database could be larger than expected. Upgrading to 7.0.0.6 or 8.0.0.1 is recommended to allow the appropriate data to be deleted.

  • REST API

    • FLEXDEPLOY-10849 - Resolved an issue that caused an index out-of-bounds error when attempting to approve a gate with V1 REST and not being a member of any groups.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-12155 - The Integration Instance Search API now returns the expected data.

  • Plugin Execution

    • FLEXDEPLOY-8046 - Resolved an issue where plugin logs sometimes printed process output (or error) mixed with the print of the environment variables.

  • Peoplesoft Plugin

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11907 - Resolved an issue with the log file name by using the SET LOG statement name for the log file. If not provided, the default file name will be used.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11931 - The source attribute list of value options for Datamover objects now only allows SCM.

  • Oracle SaaS FSM Plugin

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11943 - Resolved NullPointerException during discover files operation for the Oracle SaaS FSM Project.

  • Oracle Database Plugin

    • FLEXDEPLOY-12094 - Resolved an issue where grants to views would attempt to be created before the views were created.

  • REST Plugin

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11792 - Workflow executions will no longer fail if the plugin execution output value is null. The output's value will now be saved as null.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11793 - Resolved a NullPointerException with the REST Plugin. If a REST call made by any of this plugin's operations returns an empty response body, and the plugin input FDR_VALIDATION_SCRIPT is not empty, a NullPointerException will no longer be thrown.

  • Angular Plugin

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11861 - Resolved an issue where the buildAngularApp operation resulted in an error if the project path contained a space.

  • Anchore Plugin

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11922 - Resolve NullPointerException when FDDKR_INP_REGISTRY_ACCOUNT_CODE is not set.

  • Helm Plugin

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11993 - Resolved Helm plugin deployment issue in case the current context in kubeconfig file is different than the target context of deployment.

  • HP UFT Plugin

    • FLEXDEPLOY-12021 - Resolved an issue where the UFT plugin now utilizes logs to find the report output directories. If not found, the default path is considered.

Incompatible Changes

  • FlexDeploy internal API should not be invoked directly from Groovy scripts, and FlexDeploy now prevents such API invocation from Groovy scripts. FLEXDEPLOY function and REST API can be utilized from Groovy script as necessary.

FlexDeploy 8.0.0.0 (3-30-2024)

Application Updates

FlexDeploy 8.0.0.0 marks the completion of Next Generation UI/UX transformation, building on top of 6.0, 6.5, and 7.0. This is focused on Workflow as well as Project Type customization. This is not just about consistent and productive UX changes; many new features are also incorporated.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10239 - Underscores are now escaped in like clauses, so searching for them is possible. Likewise, underscores are no longer wild cards in search.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10206 - Standardized allowed characters in name and code fields throughout FlexDeploy.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11021 - Performance improvement for reading group permission checks. This improves application launch performance.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11180 - Exposed RestFunctions to Issue Tracking System, Change Management System, and Credential Store Provider Groovy API implementation scripts. Additionally, exposed LogFunctions to Credential Store Provider scripts.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11231 - Incoming, Outgoing (webhooks), and Scheduled (events) now have a dedicated FUNCTION_NAME variable that can be used in log functions.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11309 - Download 24 Hours Logs now has an alternate download option that will include 3 thread dumps in the zip archive.

  • FD_WORK_ITEMS variable is now available in workflow execution which contains a comma-separated list of work items being built or deployed as part of the build or deploy workflow respectively. This is the same as the FD_ITS_TICKETS variable.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11412 - Recently used Project Branches will now be remembered and suggested at the top of drop-downs.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11412 - A new user setting has been added "Default Branch Sorting" that allows sorting Branch selects by updated date instead of alphabetically.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11506 - New outgoing webhook events have been added - Pipeline Version Activated and Workflow Version Activated.

Security

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11605 - Upgraded Tomcat to 9.0.87 to resolve vulnerabilities CVE-2024-24549 and CVE-2024-23672.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-7790 - Updated Cucumber plugin to resolve vulnerabilities CVE-2022-31129, CVE-2017-18214, CVE-2022-24785, CVE-2020-11022, CVE-2020-23064, and CVE-2023-22467.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-7800 - Resolved vulnerability CVE-2019-10172 for Siebel, Salesforce, ApexSec, Oracle Forms, Cucumber, EBS, Oracle BI, JUnit, Tricentis Tosca, and Automation Anywhere plugins.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10898 - Resolved vulnerability CVE-2020-15250 for FlexDeploy by updating the version of JUnit.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11326 - Updated commons compress in various plugins and FlexDeploy to resolve vulnerabilities CVE-2024-26308 and CVE-2024-25710.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11327 - Updated Jackson Databind in various plugins and the FlexDeploy application to resolve vulnerability CVE-2023-35116.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11330 - Updated the PostgreSQL JDBC driver to a newer version to resolve vulnerability CVE-2024-1597.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11369 - Upgraded com.nimbusds:oauth2-oidc-sdk to 8.36.2 to resolve SNYK-JAVA-COMNIMBUSDS-1243767.

Next Generation UI/UX

  • Modern look and feel with new branding is now extended to Workflows and Project Type customization screens.

  • Tables on various screens now support simple search (ctrl+ k), which can quickly filter results.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10533 - Admin Operations now display as tabs across the top of the page instead of an operation select drop-down.

  • User Profile

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11646 - The default navigation tabs for Projects and Releases have been changed to All instead of Favorites.

Workflow Management

  • FlexDeploy 8.0 delivers a new workflow designer that simplifies and modernizes the management of workflows.

  • Workflows can be searched using Global Search. Recent workflows will also show up when Global Search is invoked.

  • Tags can now be applied to Workflows.

  • Workflow security permissions can now be overridden at individual workflow levels to allow for finer-grained access to workflow management when necessary. Additionally, Bulk Update Permissions is available to simplify the update of permissions on more than one workflow.

  • Copy and Delete Workflow action is now available.

  • The workflow code is now stored as YAML. For customers upgrading from the previous version of FlexDeploy, workflow XML code will be automatically migrated to YAML.

  • Workflow Inputs now support values larger than 4000 bytes.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10433 - List Data fields for Property definition now support more than 4000 characters.

  • Workflow Inputs can now be hidden or disabled conditionally even based on values in other inputs. Additionally, a list of values for input can be derived using Groovy script execution.

  • Workflow changes are now captured for the Change History Report.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10831 - Variable FDBLD_SCM_SOURCE1_CHANGES has been removed from the workflow editor suggestions, previous usages resulted in an error saying the variable does not exist.

  • Workflow Designer

    • Workflow steps can now be dragged to a new location.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-2282 - Raise Fault operation now supports Groovy script for the name and details of the fault.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-6334 - Wait operation now supports Groovy script for wait interval.

    • Workflow version notes can now be added with version to document change details.

    • When working with Groovy, Shell, Batch, Jython, Python, or PowerShell plugins, syntax highlighting and variable assistance are available in script input. This simplifies the modification of script code in the workflow.

    • The error handler is now available in workflow designer to customize the handling of failure situations.

    • Run Groovy operation is now available to execute Groovy script directly as part of workflow execution.

Project Types

  • The rich code editor is provided for the customization of built-in project types where users can customize how files are categorized into file types as well as their default attribute values.

  • The project type determines the file types expected to be sourced in the project and the details collected for each file, which is used to build and deploy the file. See Project Types to create custom project types with various file types and their attributes. Custom project type is very useful with various generic plugin operations (Unix & Windows Shell, Jython, Groovy and Python, etc.), where you can create powerful custom Package-based Build and Deploy automation.

Saved Query

  • Saved Queries can now be shared with groups or globally. Only the original query owner can edit the query but shared users can still view it and receive subscription notifications

  • Additionally, Saved Queries now supports scheduled exports (Subscriptions) in either PDF or CSV format.

    • Enabling subscription means the saved query will execute on a specific schedule and generate a CSV or PDF report, which will then be emailed to users that subscribe to the specific saved query.

    • Subscription is enabled by saved query owner which requires setting of format and schedule. Other users who share specific saved queries can subscribe to receive emails.

    • This is supported mainly for Reports, but expect more to be added in the future. For example, users can now enable subscriptions to receive emails of the previous month’s deployment details.

Release and Pipeline Management

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10165 - Copy Pipeline action is now available, where the user can copy the active version of an existing pipeline.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11337 - Promoting a Project build to a Release now includes a link to the snapshot in the post-promotion snack message.

Salesforce

  • FLEXDEPLOY-10936 - The Sequence All action has been incorporated into Salesforce Data Deployment, facilitating automatic sorting of data objects according to their dependencies.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11198 - Enhanced exclude filters in Salesforce deployment projects now allow for filtering both Objects and Members more effectively.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11395 - Updated the default Salesforce API Version to 59.0.

SAP

  • SAP release change request operation enhanced to extract the data files and co-files from the trans directory (FDSAP_TRANS_DIR). Import operation enhanced to transfer the files to the trans folder.

  • Enhancements have been made to SAP deployments to support deployment of Java objects to the SAP NetWeaver Application Server.

Application Errors View

  • Application Errors view is now provided on the Admin Operations page. This is only accessible to Administrators. This page will show System errors. Administrators can create saved queries and subscribe for email notifications. As such errors are happening in background processing, they may go unnoticed, it is recommended that Administrators subscribe for updates using saved queries. These errors are included in the 24-hour logs download.

Plugin Updates

  • Docker Plugin

    • FLEXDEPLOY-6064 - Added a new operation to pull an image from a remote Docker container registry e.g. Docker Hub, Amazon ECR, or Microsoft ACR. User can pull the image with one or more tags.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-10745 - Added new input Target Tag Name in the tagImage operation, and it's mandatory input.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-10745 - Updated the order of precedence for 'Docker Registry Account'. Now Plugin input (FDDKR_INP_REGISTRY_ACCOUNT_CODE) will take precedence over Target property (FDDKR_REGISTRY_ACCOUNT_CODE), it's applicable for all the operations of the Docker plugin, wherever 'Docker Registry Account' is in use.

  • Kubernetes Plugin

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11441 - Kubernetes Plugin now supports manifest file-based deployment to OCI (Oracle Cloud) managed Kubernetes cluster.

  • Helm Plugin

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11443 - Helm Plugin now supports Helm Chart-based deployment to OCI (Oracle Cloud) managed Kubernetes cluster.

  • Oracle BI Plugin

    • FLEXDEPLOY-6388 - Added Java 11 compatibility.

  • Oracle Transaction BI Plugin

    • FLEXDEPLOY-6388 - Added Java 11 compatibility.

  • Oracle Analytics Cloud Plugin

    • FLEXDEPLOY-6388 - Added Java 11 compatibility.

  • Jython Plugin

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11779 - executeCode and executeCodeFile operations now can be used with Packaged-based projects.

Resolved Issues

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11505 - Resolved Artifactory Integration Test Connection to work with users that have only repository access.

  • FLEXDEPLOY-11637 - Resolved an issue where EMAIL function usage in Groovy script causes Internal Error - Invalid API Invocation, transaction already in progress. Found: API Transaction.

  • Salesforce

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11744 - Resolved an issue where the Salesforce Deployment summary shows 1 test success even though no test cases were executed.

  • Folders

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11868 - Resolved an issue where the Delete of folder notification was incorrectly checking update permission instead of delete.

  • Projects

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11097 - Fixed a rare issue that would sometimes cause a Utility Request form to not display newly created environments without a screen refresh.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11438 - Resolved an issue causing table filters to not apply on both the execution tasks tab and request tasks tab.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11475 - Resolved an issue causing the selected Pre-deploy workflow to not be displayed on the Project configuration if the user did not have READ Workflow access.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11540 - ITS, Branches, and Replacements no longer show as valid copy project options when copying a Utility Project.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11613 - Resolved an issue causing the committed user filter to not work on the execution files tab.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11771 - Resolved an issue on the Execution Details page that would cause the header status to not refresh if it was in Queued status.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11799 - All inputs will now be shown in the Invoke Workflow step in the Project Execution Details view. Previously only inputs with a value were shown.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11817 - Resolved a NullPointerException that could occur when creating a project from a blueprint in some cases.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11859 - Unassigning a workflow from a project without assigning a new one would not remove the workflow property set from the Target Group configured on the project.

  • Project Package

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11411 - The Sequence All Files action is now disabled for dynamic packages.

  • Project Triggers

    • FLEXDEPLOY-10874 - Resolved an issue that would rarely cause the 'Upcoming project execution date' to be in the past.

  • Topology

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11344 - Inactivating or Activating a Target Group from the list page will now correctly remove it from the list if it no longer matches the active/inactive filter.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11676 - Resolved an issue where the User with Delete endpoint permission is getting an error - User does not have delete permission for Endpoint.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11713 - A more accurate error message is now displayed when trying to delete an Environment that has been used in Workflow Requests.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11727 - Target groups now get added to recent access when clicking on the row instead of opening the edit popup.

  • Release and Pipeline Management

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11104 - The "Differences Only" checkbox, found on snapshot comparisons and gate details, logic has been adjusted to more accurately show what will be deployed.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11311 - Configuring the Pipeline on a Release required both Configure Pipeline permission and Read Pipeline global permission. For 8.0 the Read Pipeline global permission requirement has been removed.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11494 - Copy stage gates/steps are now disabled if the stage has no gates or steps.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11568 - Resolved an issue causing Gate and Step execution positions to potentially display in random order.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11600 - Resolved an issue in the create snapshot popup where clicking the pending snapshot link would not open in certain cases.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11746 - FLEXDEPLOY.createReleaseProject now clearly indicates whether the Package is not found or is inactive.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11767 - Resolved a NullPointerException in Wait Step when a valid wait seconds value is returned but as Long or String data type.

  • Groovy

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11759 - Resolved an issue with the groovy formatter that would incorrectly put a space between the != operator.

  • Notification Templates

    • FLEXDEPLOY-9821 - Resolved an issue causing the Notification Templates List page to not refresh when re-assigning events or creating new templates.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11869 - Copy Notification Template is now hidden if the user does not have Create permission.

  • Integrations

    • FLEXDEPLOY-10649 - Resolved a regression issue where out-of-the-box Change Management Systems no longer allowed adding custom Ticket Fields.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11527 - Resolved a NullPointerException that occurred during the test connection for OCI Cloud Account when the private key file format was invalid.

  • Webhook

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11248 - Resolved an issue where the actor was being set incorrectly on Outgoing Webhook Messages for multiple event types.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11249 - Resolved an issue that caused outgoing and incoming webhook log messages to not refresh.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11781 - A few missing fields in outgoing webhook payloads have been added. Notably pipelineExecutionId from the Pipeline Stage Completed event and snapshot.createdBy and snapshot.createdOn in the Snapshot Completed event.

  • Groups

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11523 - Resolved an issue while adding group members. If a new user was created from the drop-down it would be selected.

  • WebLogic Plugin

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11590 - Resolved an issue in the WebLogic restart domain operation that caused excluded servers to be restarted as though not in the list when multiple comma-separated server names were provided.

  • Subversion Plugin

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11660 - Resolved an issue with the Subversion plugin Tag operation where Tag Path input would cause a StringIndexOutOfBoundsException if it did not end with '/'.

  • SonarQube Plugin

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11683 - startSonarScan operation will no longer generate scan results. To generate scan results use analyzeCode or retrieveScan operations.

  • PMD Plugin

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11684 - Rule File Name as input or project property will correctly work when the path contains spaces.

  • Checkmarx Plugin

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11689 - Resolved an issue where Scan Results were generated only when an XML report was requested.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11766 - Resolved an issue where Failed scan can result in “JSONObject["details"] is not a string”.

  • HP Test Plugin

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11732 - Resolved an issue in executeUFT operation where Application Path was still required even when VB Script was being passed in.

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11751 - Resolved an issue where executeUFT operation would fail if the VB Script path contained a space.

  • Microsoft Teams Plugin

    • FLEXDEPLOY-11782 - For userSendNotifcation and teamSendNotification operation an appropriate validation error is thrown if the password grant type is not set on the Messaging Account.

Incompatible Changes

Installer

  • FlexDeploy Installer 1.0.18 or later should be used with FlexDeploy 8 upgrades.

  • The path of external jars (besides Oracle database driver jars) has changed from FLEXDEPLOY_HOME/apache-tomcat-flexdeploy/libext to FLEXDEPLOY_HOME/apiext.

REST API

  • applications attribute has been removed from response data for /v1/folder API. Use subFolders attribute instead. The application concept was previously removed with FlexDeploy 6.0.

  • requestAllFiles query parameter is no longer valid for GET - v1/project/{projectid}/version and it should be ignored in Response data as well.

  • folderRequestId and folderVersionId attributes have been removed from response data for GET- /v1/workflowrequest/{workflowRequestId} API, as the Application concept was previously removed with FlexDeploy 6.0.

  • As indicated on FlexDeploy 7.0 Release Notes, the following APIs have been removed.

    • RestTestingToolServices - v1/administration/testautomation/testingtool

    • RestChangeManagementSystemServices - v1/administration/changemanagementsystem

    • RestIssueTrackingSystemServices - v1/administration/issuetrackingsystem

    • RestPluginServices - v1/administration/plugins

    • RestResourceTypeServices - v1/administration/resourcetypes

    • RestEndPointServices - v1/topology/endpoint

    • RestEnvironmentServices - v1/topology/environment

    • RestInstanceServices - v1/topology/instance

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

    • RestWorkflowServices - v1/workflows

    • RestSCMDefinitionServices - v1/scm/definition

Blueprints

  • Blueprints and all of the blueprint dependencies are now created as a single unit. As a result the final blueprints confirmation popup now takes a folder path directly instead of the Folder select. The folder path will be created if it does not exist. This is similar to how blueprints worked before 6.0.

Workflows

  • The workflow group and subgroup have been removed and migrated to tags associated with the workflow. Certain groups and subgroups, such as Build, Deploy, and Test, were omitted when converting to tags.

  • The Workflows URL has changed from /flexdeploy/faces/workflows to /flexdeploy/next/#/workflows

ProjectTypeEnum Removal

  • The ProjectTypeEnum has been removed due to the addition of custom project types. Any usage of ProjectTypeEnum in custom Groovy scripts will no longer work and should be replaced with String. The following methods have been removed completely and should be replaced with getProjectType (returns String):

    • ProjectStageExecutionImpl - getProjectTypeEnum()

    • ReleaseProjectVersion - getProjectTypeEnum()

HTTPS Agent

You must upgrade your HTTPS agent(s) to version 8.0.

Plugins

Previously installed plugins will be removed and newer versions will be installed during the upgrade process. Note that previous versions of plugins are not compatible with FlexDeploy 8.0.

The following plugins were previously deprecated and are now removed.

The following macros are not currently supported in the footer:
  • style