What's New in 4.3
This topic describes the enhancements and fixes in Connect 4.3.
Core product updates
The following core product updates are available:
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Hotfix 1: Added support for complex password enforcement.
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Added ability to synchronize comment fields for ALM/QC, Atlassian Jira, ALM Octane and AzureDevOps.
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Added operating system support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8. For details, see Support Matrix.
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Added Security Roles to control which users can access Connect configurations. For details, see Manage users.
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Enhanced calculated value functionality to identify specific item types.
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Extended transformations between data types (for example, enum to boolean).
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Changed instanceof when processing multiple values. If any entry in the set of values is an instanceof the specified type, instanceof returns "true".
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Added ability to trim or purge audit data for a Connection. All iterations more than one month old will be deleted.
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Deactivated automatic refresh of field labels in the UI. You can manually trigger a refresh using the Update Labels command in the Connection.
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Improved database handling of import with large datasets.
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Updated value map layout in Connections to improve performance with large value maps.
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Renamed Refresh server data to Flush Server Cache.
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Improved display in audit view, allowing for more data to be accessed without filtering.
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The Connection status and its tabs - Connection Messages and Charts - are now refreshed in real time during the run.
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Improved info level logging to reduce noisy entries.
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Improved system messages, providing more process information.
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Improved iteration messages and duration reporting.
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Improved Connection status reporting during execution.
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Improved prompt for user credentials on restart.
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Improved performance when stopping and editing connections.
Core product fixes
The following issues have been fixed:
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Fixed issue when projects have the same name on both sides of a Connection.
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Fixed issues parsing UTF-8 characters.
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Fixed issue of re-encoding passwords when re-importing a configuration xml file.
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Fixed issue with proxy setup when not using a user/password.
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Fixed issues with attachments using UTF-8 characters in their names.
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Fixed issue when importing cross references.
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Fixed issue in checking for Connector updates. It now correctly displays current and available versions on the Marketplace.
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Fixed issues that prevented synchronization from recovering an item that it failed to delete, that should have instead been considered for update.
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Fixed issue where users could not type field names in calculated value fields.
Command line client
The following command line client updates are available:
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Added ability to get data sources and connections.
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Added ability to automatically trim Jira types based on connections. This improves performance of Jira DataSources and Connections with large amounts of unused types.
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Added ability to use installcert from behind a proxy.
Jira connector
The ALM/QC Connector has been updated to enable the following new features and enhancements:
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Updated library locations to newer Apache site.
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Added support for comment syncing.
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Added additional relationship support options.
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Added support to use Atlassian wiki renderer for additional wiki-to-html support.
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Added support to link fixVersions (Releases) with additional issue types.
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Improved performance by limiting types and relationships as defined by the user.
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Improved first time synchronization performance related to large numbers of projects and boards.
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Added support for custom multi-checkboxes.
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Added labels to field displays.
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Fixed issues related to user field mappings with Jira Cloud Versions.
For additional updates, refer to the Jira Connector readme.
ALM/QC Connector
The ALM/QC Connector has been updated to enable the following new features and enhancements:
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Added ability to re-use ALM/QC data source with multiple workspaces.
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Added ability to use the ALM/QC as an authenticator for logging in to Connect.
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Added support for comment syncing.
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Fixed issue when an attachment name contains non-ascii characters.
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Updated readme to describe the algorithm used to determine default test/requirement/release folders.
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Updated readme to reflect support of ALM 15.
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Fixed issue where Requirement Type was a string (now represented as an enum).
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Fixed: The exported configuration xml file indicated the wrong version.
ALM Octane Connector
The following updates are now available in the ALM Octane Connector:
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Added support for comment syncing.
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Added ability to turn on comment deletion for the Connect API Key.
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Improved logging when first discovering which workspaces are accessible.
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Improved messaging when ALM Octane returns http 502 and 403 errors.
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Fixed issues with Application Modules when syncing multiple workspaces.
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Updated 'team' field to be represented as an enum.
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Fixed character encoding issues.
Connector readmes
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Updated all connector readme library entries to reflect the recent Apache location changes.
See also: