June 2024 - Dashboard Release Notes

A new HTTP Method for Editable Tables has been added that will send all rows of data when submitting an Editable Table update rather than only those rows that have been edited.

Retrieval of userEntered strings i18n files is now done via a direct download in the end-user (admin only) browser. This means server access is not required to get access to the content. In addition, uploads of these and other supported i18n files can now be done directly from the browser. To upload a file it must be one of the supported filenames;

• messagesStatic_en_GB.properties (for static system strings)

• messagesUserEntered_en_GB.properties (for strings a user has entered into the Dashboard)

• messagesData_en_GB.properties (for user data items that you wish to be translated)

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An option has been added to allow the list of Ciphers to be configurable. A new option has been added to the Configuration Tool GUI, allowing users to specify a list of ciphers they wish to use; otherwise, the default cipher list will be utilised.

The new ciphers option can be found under the ‘Security’ tab, within the ‘Advanced’ section as shown below;

In addition to the Configuration Tool GUI method, Ciphers can also be configured through a new environment variables - PI_TOMCAT_CIPHERS. For more information on Environment Variables, see HERE.

It is now possible to set the email and modules global settings via environment variables (as well as from within the Configuration Tool GUI). When set it will disable the ability to set them via the product user interface. The following new variables have been added;

For more information on Environment Variables, see HERE.

An option has been added to allow users to define an optional HTTPS Certificate Chain. The path to HTTPS Certificate Chain can be configured through the new environment variable - PI_TOMCAT_HTTPS_CERT_CHAIN. The option to configure the path has also been added to Configuration Tool GUI - it can be found under Tomcat > HTTPS:

Added the ability to set a label for Category Objects. If set, this value will replace the name shown to the end-user when browsing the Dashboard.

Addressed another Edge case where unwanted horizontal scroll bars appeared on tables. If you are already zoomed in on the web page, and then load the Category, occasionally, additional scroll bars would appear towards the bottom of the table, and partially overlay across data.

When using externally hosted images in themes, performance was sometimes impacted due to an occasional rises in high memory usage.

Changing password as part of the mandatory post-login flow was previously not possible, when your licence had expired.

Previously, if users selected NULL as the only filter value for a multi-select filter type Category Object (multi-picker, checkboxes), the SQL generated would result in no data being returned rather than using NULL as the filtering criteria.

An upgrade of the Puppeteer library has resolved an issue whereby the footers was disappearing from PDF exports when defined in landscape mode.

Resolved an issue with the save icon disappearing from the UI when attempting to add ‘Write’ protection to a chart, which did not previously have a password protection defined.

The session was previously used to store temporary nonce values used as part of the OpenID Connect login flow. These values have been moved to the database to reduce the data stored in the session and resolve an issue which occurred when using Redis for session storage.

In exceptional circumstances, when there is an issue with the database connection and the application was restarted at the same time, one of the old migration scripts could have run when it should not and could potentially cause data loss.

The Java library has been upgraded from v8 to v11. Windows and Docker environments will include a newer version of Java so there will be no change required.

The Puppeteer library has been upgraded to v21.10.0, which also includes a Chromium upgrade to v121.0.6167.85.

The Angular library has been upgraded to v5.2.11, to benefit from improvements in more recent versions.

When the Renderer is operational, should the browser console generate errors, these will now be logged in the standard renderer log files to allow for fuller log file analysis.

Previously when creating a merged chart, where one of the donor charts included a cumulative measure this returned an inaccurate view in the final merged chart.

Previously, the schedule indicator icon would not be visible on the schedule editor screen when the schedule’s name was very long. Now, the indicator always shows.

Previously, when downloading a generated language file, it would appearing within the dashboard’s file system. Now, it downloads directly to the browser.