What's New in 4.3

This topic describes the enhancements and fixes in Micro Focus Connect 4.3.

Core product updates

The following core product updates are available:

Hotfix 1: Added support for complex password enforcement.
Added ability to synchronize comment fields for ALM/QC, Atlassian Jira, ALM Octane and AzureDevOps.
Added operating system support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8. For details, see Support Matrix.
Added Security Roles to control which users can access Micro Focus Connect configurations. For details, see Manage users.
Enhanced calculated value functionality to identify specific item types.
Extended transformations between data types (for example, enum to boolean).
Changed instanceof when processing multiple values. If any entry in the set of values is an instanceof the specified type, instanceof returns "true".
Added ability to trim or purge audit data for a Connection. All iterations more than one month old will be deleted.
Disabled automatic refresh of field labels in the UI. You can manually trigger a refresh using the Update Labels command in the Connection.
Improved database handling of import with large datasets.
Updated value map layout in Connections to improve performance with large value maps.
Renamed Refresh server data to Flush Server Cache.
Improved display in audit view, allowing for more data to be accessed without filtering.
The Connection status and its tabs - Connection Messages and Charts - are now refreshed in real time during the run.
Improved info level logging to reduce noisy entries.
Improved system messages, providing more process information.
Improved iteration messages and duration reporting.
Improved Connection status reporting during execution.
Improved prompt for user credentials on restart.
Improved performance when stopping and editing connections.

Core product fixes

The following issues have been fixed:

Fixed issue when projects have the same name on both sides of a Connection.
Fixed issues parsing UTF-8 characters.
Fixed issue of re-encoding passwords when re-importing a configuration xml file.
Fixed issue with proxy setup when not using a user/password.
Fixed issues with attachments using UTF-8 characters in their names.
Fixed issue when importing cross references.
Fixed issue in checking for Connector updates. It now correctly displays current and available versions on the Marketplace.
Fixed issues that prevented synchronization from recovering an item that it failed to delete, that should have instead been considered for update.
Fixed issue where users could not type field names in calculated value fields.

Command line client

The following command line client updates are available:

Added ability to get data sources and connections.
Added ability to automatically trim Jira types based on connections. This improves performance of Jira DataSources and Connections with large amounts of unused types.
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:

Updated library locations to newer Apache site.
Added support for comment syncing.
Added additional relationship support options.
Added support to use Atlassian wiki renderer for additional wiki-to-html support.
Added support to link fixVersions (Releases) with additional issue types.
Improved performance by limiting types and relationships as defined by the user.
Improved first time synchronization performance related to large numbers of projects and boards.
Added support for custom multi-checkboxes.
Added labels to field displays.
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:

Added ability to re-use ALM/QC data source with multiple workspaces.
Added ability to use the ALM/QC as an authenticator for logging in to Micro Focus Connect.
Added support for comment syncing.
Fixed issue when an attachment name contains non-ascii characters.
Updated readme to describe the algorithm used to determine default test/requirement/release folders.
Updated readme to reflect support of ALM 15.
Fixed issue where Requirement Type was a string (now represented as an enum).
Fixed: The exported configuration xml file indicated the wrong version.

ALM Octane Connector

The following updates are now available in the ALM Octane Connector:

Added support for comment syncing.
Added ability to turn on comment deletion for the Connect API Key.
Improved logging when first discovering which workspaces are accessible.
Improved messaging when ALM Octane returns http 502 and 403 errors.
Fixed issues with Application Modules when syncing multiple workspaces.
Updated 'team' field to be represented as an enum.
Fixed character encoding issues.

Connector readmes

Updated all connector readme library entries to reflect the recent Apache location changes.