Created by James Hurrell, last modified on Mar 12, 2024

2.x

Release - 2.12.1-funcrel

  • Customer bug fixes

Release Notes - 2.12.x

Release - 2.12.0-funcrel

  • Customer bug fixes

Release Notes - 2.12.x

Release - 2.11.7-funcrel

Release date - March 12, 2024

  • Internal bug fixes

Release Notes - 2.11.7-funcrel

Release - 2.11.6-funcrel

Release date - March 7, 2024

  • Customer bug fixes

Release Notes - 2.11.6-funcrel

Release - 2.11.5-funcrel

Release date - February 21, 2024

  • Parameterize the Health Dashboard default view from the config file: User can now choose the default view to be accessed in Health Dashboard by configuring the CMP.json. See Health Dashboard json configuration options.
  • Customer bug fixes

Release Notes - 2.11.5-funcrel

Release - 2.11.4-funcrel

Release date - September 01, 2023

  • Customer bug fixes

Release Notes - 2.11.4-funcrel

Release - 2.11.3-funcrel

Release date - June 27, 2023

  • Customer bug fixes.

Release Notes - 2.11.3-funcrel

Release - 2.11.2-funcrel

Release date - April 25, 2023

  • Improvements to the Green indicator - see Green - 1.0
  • Minor bug fixing in the Admin Center.
  • Minor UI bug fixing.
  • Throughout the dashboard, the word "Score has been replaced with "Grade".

Release Notes - 2.11.2-funcrel

Release - 2.11.1-funcrel

Release date - March 16, 2022

Release Notes - 2.11.1-funcrel

Release - 2.11.0-funcrel

Release date - February 02, 2022

  • This release comes with customer bug fixes.

Release Notes - 2.11.0-funcrel

Release - 2.10.0-funcrel

Release date - November 15, 2022

  • The NO_ROLE role (read-only role) has now been made available for selection in the CAST Dashboard Administration panel for all Dashboards (in previous releases this role was not available for selection). Refer: User roles - 2.x and above
  • Admin Center:
    • Search option: A search option is provided for the table header in the CAST Dashboard Administration for all the Dashboards
    • Delete option: A delete/remove option (to delete the selected user/s from the local schema) is provided for the SAML/LDAP user/group in CAST Dashboard Administration panel for all the Dashboards.
    • Info icon: An info icon is provided (which shows a tool tip) is provided for SAML/LDAP user/group in CAST Dashboard Administration panel for all the Dashboards.

Release Notes - 2.10.0-funcrel

Release - 2.9.0-funcrel

Release date - October 13, 2022

 

  • Usability Improvement: Snapshot "% Difference" value is now available in color code, the value appears in Green color when the difference value is positive and in Red color when difference value is negative.

Release Notes - 2.9.0-funcrel

Release - 2.8.0-funcrel

Release date - August 18, 2022

  • Performance improvement: Performance of Portfolio>Trends>Tiles and Portfolio>Trends>Detail Graph is improved.

Release Notes - 2.8.0-funcrel

Release - 2.7.0-funcrel

Release date - July 07, 2022

  • This release contains only bug fixes.

Release Notes - 2.7.0-funcrel

Release - 2.6.3-funcrel

Release date - June 17, 2022

  • Users can assign 'All Applications" to multiple profiles or a single profile without adding any role to the selected profile/s. When using the "All Applications" authorization, any new Applications that are onboarded will automatically be included in the authorization.

Release Notes - 2.6.3-funcrel

Release - 2.6.2-funcrel

Release date - June 01, 2022

Release Notes - 2.6.2-funcrel

Release - 2.6.1-funcrel

Release date - April 08, 2022

Release Notes - 2.6.1-funcrel

Release - 2.6.0-funcrel

Release date - March 25, 2022

  • Performance improvement in Admin page/User authorization view: Pagination and react virtualization has beed introduced in user, profiles and license tables and selectors, to increase the performance of the pages. Now it takes only 45 mins to load 850+ user data.

Release Notes - 2.6.0-funcrel

Release - 2.5.2-funcrel

Release date - February 18, 2021

  • Pagination has been implemented in CAST Administration page (profiles and users tabs).

  • The .ICO file used in the Dashboards (visible in the browser tab) has been updated and improved. Now it is visible in all browser themes (like in dark mode).

 

Release Notes - 2.5.2-funcrel

Release - 2.5.1-funcrel

Release date - January 28, 2021

If a legacy type license key is still being used, users with the Admin role will now see messages explaining that a new license key format is available. Refer: Dashboard Service license key configuration#UIbehaviourwhenusingalegacylicensekey. Refer: Dashboard Service license key configuration#UIbehaviourwhenusingalegacylicensekey).

Release Notes - 2.5.1-funcrel

Release - 2.5.0-funcrel

Release date - January 11, 2021

  • New executable JAR file to replace ZIP file. Includes a wizard installer:

  • It is now possible to encrypt the username / password for CAST Storage Service/PostgreSQL and/or LDAP individually, instead (as in previous releases) of having to encrypt both:

  • It is now possible to add/edit a license key using the UI.

  • Now SAML user/ group can be added from UI.

  • Now, in ISO-5055 View, all the Dashboard contents are based on Compliance.
  • Bug fix to resolve CVE vulnerabilities found in CAST Dashboards, for Apache Log4j: CVE-2021-45105 and CVE-2021-44832 
    For details, please refer: 

Release Notes - 2.5.0-funcrel

Release - 2.4.3-funcrel

Release date - December 16, 2021

Release Notes - 2.4.3-funcrel

Release - 2.4.2-funcrel

This version is not available.

Release - 2.4.1-funcrel

Release date - December 14, 2021

Release Notes - 2.4.1-funcrel

Release - 2.4.0-funcrel

Release date - November 18, 2021

  • It is now possible to change ISO tile's mode to grade, compliance and violations with corresponding drill down data, using Industrystandard tile configuration.
    For example: N    ow it is possible to change the mode to compliance with corresponding drill down data, as displayed in the below screens.

When you select "Compliance" as the mode, "Compliance" is selected in detailed view of the ISO tile drilldown.

Release Notes - 2.4.0-funcrel

Release - 2.3.1-funcrel

Release date - October 13, 2021

Release Notes - 2.3.1-funcrel

Release - 2.3.0-funcrel

Release date - September 30, 2021

  • UI - Improvements to the Roles/Data Authorization interface (Refer: User roles - 2.x and above). The new interface has two tabs Profiles and Users (by default Profiles tab is displayed).

Profiles tab: Lets user to add New Profiles. After adding the Profile, user can assign: Roles, Applications by Name, Applications by technologies, Applications by tags to the selected Profile/s.

Users tab: Lets user to assign profiles to Users/Groups.

  • Support for CTDM: Dashboard 2.3.0 supports CTDM (Contextual Technical Debt Measure - version 2.x), i.e., OMG Technical Debt will be measured using CTDM (Contextual Technical Debt Measure) which is a union of AIP and ISO index measures. To view the output, user must have installed the latest version of the extension OMG CTDM (2.x).

Release Notes - 2.3.0-funcrel

Release - 2.2.1-funcrel

Release date - September 23, 2021

  • This release contains only bug fixes.

Release Notes - 2.2.1-funcrel

Release - 2.2.0-funcrel

Release date - September 03, 2021

  • A new parameter "SnapshotThreshold" [default value 1500] has been added in cmp.json/cmp-ISO.json to check if the total snapshot count is more than the default value. If snapshot count is more than the default value then all slow loading tiles will not be displayed (after login) in the portfolio view, therefore increasing the performance of the home page. Refer: Health Dashboard json configuration options.

Release Notes - 2.2.0-funcrel

Release - 2.1.0-funcrel

Release date - July 07, 2021

  • A graphical user interface has been implemented for managing the assignment of role and data authorizations to users and groups of users. This interface replaces the existing mechanism provided by the roles.xml and the authorizations.xml files. 

This feature is in beta version and MUST NOT be used if you have re-used an existing authorizations.xml file with the new deployment and this file contains authorizations defining specific "restrictions" or which define "application name patterns". In this case, the user interface must not be used and instead authorizations and roles must be updated using the REST API (see /server/authorizations and /server/roles web services).

  • Technology filter is implemented in Health Dashboard Health measure page: This feature helps to select the required technology from the available list of technologies.

  • Default View drop-down provides Default View and ISO-5055 View. This option lets you switch between AIP (Default View) and ISO tile view.

Release Notes - 2.1.0-funcrel

Release - 2.0.1-funcrel

Release date - June 25, 2021

  • This release contains one bug fix for an issue which is specific to the Engineering Dashboard when embedded in AIP Console. 

Release Notes - 2.0.1-funcrel

Release - 2.0.0-funcrel

Release date - May 17, 2021

  • SAML authentication mode is now supported in 2.x WAR and ZIP files.
  • Microsoft Windows Service installer - A batch script is now available to install a Windows Service specifically to handle the startup and shutdown of the deployed ZIP files.
  • Shutdown script for ZIP file deployment on Linux - A shutdown.sh script has been added for deploying the ZIP files on Linux. For Microsoft Windows deployments, use the CTRL+C keyboard option to gracefully stop the web application. 

Release Notes - 2.0.0-funcrel

Release - 2.0.0-beta1

Release date - March 19, 2021

  • Dashboard 2.0.0-beta1 is the first release of the CAST Dashboards that will use Spring Boot technology. It is now possible to deploy the CAST Dashboards without a standalone web application server such as Apache Tomcat - the web application server is instead embedded within the delivered dashboard. This will simplify and speed up the deployment of the CAST Dashboards
  • Latest snapshot will be auto-selected while changing the business criteria and size indicators.

  • In Size indicators, the Metrics related ONLY to the selected size indicator is displayed.  (Check boxes for the size indicators are replaced with radio buttons. This allows you to select only one size indicator at a time).

Release Notes - 2.0.0-beta1

1.x

Release - 1.28.9

Release date - July 07, 2022

  • This release contains only bug fixes.

Release Notes - 1.28.9

Release - 1.28.8

Release date - June 01, 2022

  • This release contains only bug fixes.

Release Notes - 1.28.8

Release - 1.28.7

Release date - April 08, 2022

  • This release contains only bug fixes.

Release Notes - 1.28.7

Release - 1.28.6

Release date - March 25, 2022

  • This release contains only bug fixes.

Release Notes - 1.28.6

Release - 1.28.5

Release date - January 11, 2022

  • Bug fix to resolve CVE vulnerabilities found in CAST Dashboards, for Apache Log4j: CVE-2021-45105 and CVE-2021-44832 
    For details, please refer: 

Release Notes - 1.28.5

Release - 1.28.4

Release date - December 15, 2021

Release Notes - 1.28.4

Release - 1.28.3

Release date - December 06, 2021

  • This release contains only bug fixes.

Release Notes - 1.28.3

Release - 1.28.2

Release date - November 18, 2021

  • This release contains only bug fixes.

Release Notes - 1.28.2

Release - 1.28.1

Release date - September 30, 2021

  • This release contains only bug fixes.

Release Notes - 1.28.1

Release - 1.28

Release date - September 03, 2021

  • This release contains only bug fixes. 

From 1.28 release onwards, only bug fixes will be provided in the 1.x series of Health Dashboard. 

Release Notes - 1.28

Release - 1.27

Release date - July 07, 2021

  • Technology filter is implemented in Health Dashboard Health measure page: This feature helps to select the required technology from the available list of technologies.

  • Default View drop-down provides Default View and ISO-5055 View. This option lets you switch between AIP (Default View) and ISO tile view.

Release Notes - 1.27

Release - 1.26

Release date - April 29, 2021

  • The ISO 5055 (ISO/IEC 5055) Overview section is available "out of the box" in version ≥ 1.26. It contains five tiles that display information about the entire portfolio of Applications (multi-Application page) or a single Application. 

  • "Search Application" option is added in "Number of application" view 

By entering the Application name (or just the initial letter/s of the application) you may view the application.

If the entered Application name is not in the available list of Applications, then following message is displayed.

  • Release version is given in the home page (in the place of build number)

Release Notes - 1.26

Release - 1.25

Release date - March 19, 2021

  • Latest snapshot will be auto-selected while changing the business criteria and size indicators.

  • In Size indicators, the Metrics related ONLY to the selected size indicator is displayed.  (Check boxes for the size indicators are replaced with radio buttons. This allows you to select only one size indicator at a time).

Release Notes - 1.25

Release - 1.24

Release date - February 17, 2021

User notification added for cache refresh

  • Following user notification is displayed when a new application is added.

  • Following user notification is displayed when a new snapshot is taken.

  • Following user notification is displayed when an authorization file/configuration is changed.

Release note - 1.24

Release - 1.23

Release date - January 12, 2021

  • API timeout period now configurable in Health Dashboard: A new option has been added to the cmp.json file that allows users to configure, how long the Health Dashboard will wait for the API to respond while fetching data: timeoutPeriod. This option is set by default to 60000ms (1 minute) and a custom value can be used when your Health Dashboard contains a large number of applications or several extremely large applications to increase the timeout period. 
  • Functional release of the new layout redesign 

Layout redesign at a glance:

Grade valuation section: Grade feature helps you to filter the grade of the application in the following areas: Compliance, Total Violations, Critical Violations, New Violations, Added Critical Violations, Removed Violations, Removed Critical Violations.

Quick facts: Quick facts feature helps you to get the summary of the snapshot selected from the graph, for the selected characteristics/criteria.

Risk profile: The Risk Profile section helps you to view criteria and rules of the selected snapshot. 

Module mapping: Shows all the modules present in the selected application. 

Snapshot Comparison: Snapshot Comparison lets you compare two or more snapshots. 

Release Note - 1.23

Release - 1.22.0-beta2

Release date - November 27, 2020

A continuation of the beta release for the new Health Dashboard interface. Some bugs have been ironed out and some small changes to layouts have been made since beta1. One new feature has been introduced.

Border/highlight feature for the selected module, in the Module Mapping section. When you select a module from the module selector, the Specific module will be highlighted with a border in module treemap section:

Release Note - 1.22

Release - 1.22.0-beta1

Release date - October 22, 2020

By default, at single Application level drill down, the following four tabs will be available, reducing the number of available tabs to simplify the display of data:

  • Size Indicators
  • Health Measures
  • Technical Debt (OMG)
  • Top Priority

The display of data for the Size Indicators, Health Measures and Technical Debt (OMG) tabs has been completely redesigned:

Additional information is displayed below the new data display, for example for a Health Measure:

When Industry Standard index extensions are in use, a new drop down option is available to display the relevant data:

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A new tab/page can be created for custom trends:

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Release Note - 1.22

Release - 1.21

Release date - October 16, 2020

  • Tooltip details for all the portfolio details are available in view/graph

Release Note - 1.21

Release - 1.20

Release date - September 08, 2020

  • Tech Debt - OMG tile and related data can be removed

Release Note - 1.20

Release - 1.19

Release date - July 31, 2020

  • Improvements for OMG Tech Debt - Drill down from HD to ED

Release Note - 1.19

Release - 1.18

Release date - June 16, 2020

  • What’s New option added - In the left menu panel, a What's New icon has been added below the existing Help icon.

  • Check for update features in Dashboards - A Check for update option has been added to the user profile drop down list for admin users.

Release Note - 1.18

Release - 1.17

Release date – May 09, 2020

  • OMG Automated Technical Debt support in Dashboards - OMG Technical Debt Tiles has been added in the portfolio and application view with the option to drill down.
  • Industry-standard as assessment Model – Support for Industry standard Index extensions which provides the ability to configure industry-standard tiles as a grade, compliance, and violations. Drill down gives a detailed view of the assessment model based on the standards.

Release Note - 1.17

Release - 1.16

Release date – April 02, 2020

  • Module Treemap - Improve display of the list of Modules in the Modules Treemap view.
  • Trends and Snapshots comparison - Improve behavior of the Trends and Snapshot Comparison views.

Release Note - 1.16

Release - 1.15

Release Date: February 29, 2020 

  • Module Search – Search capability enabled in all Module Dropdown across the Dashboard.

Release Note - 1.15

Release - 1.14

Release Date: January 31, 2020

  • Module Treemap – New Rule display selector introduced, enabling users to explore risk-based on Technical Criteria or rules.
  • Module Treemap – A new snapshot selector added. Users can now switch to different snapshots to compare the results.

Release Note - 1.14

Release - 1.13.2

Release Date: December 28, 2019

  • Health measure & Module TreeMap – Quality measures and quality distributions are now available along with the quality rules.

Release Note - 1.13.2

Release - 1.10

Release Date: July 09, 2019

  • Trend Page – Module Trending has been introduced in the Trend page, enabling users to explore various metrics trends across different modules.

Release Note - 1.10