What's New in StarTeam 17.2

This topic describes the new and enhanced features available with StarTeam 17.2.

MyWork Web Dashboard

17.2 Service Pack 1: MyWork Web Dashboard is a modern web-based application that provides MyWork Perspective and Global Search through a web browser.

For details, see MyWork Web Dashboard.

TLS-based encryption

StarTeam 17.2 supports TLS-based encryption to provide communication security. The TLS protocol is implemented using OpenSSL 1.1.1 and requires setting up digital certificate for the server. StarTeam TLS implementation does not require client certificates.

To support backward compatibility, Starteam 17.2 clients will continue to support all previous TCP/IP protocols - the SSL protocols, as well as the non -secure TCP protocol. TLS connections will use a separate port and are only compatible with 17.2 or higher clients. It is important to note that if customers intend to use multiple ports, they should work with their IT group to open the new port.

For details, see Enabling TLS secure sockets protocol in StarTeam Server .

In addition, we've added support for secure ActiveMQ MPX connections using TLS. For more details, see Configuring ActiveMQ MPX with secure protocols SSL/TLS .

StarTeam Layout Designer Enhancements

StarTeam Layout Designer has several usability enhancements. Here is a quick summary of the enhancements. For more details, see Layout Designer.

Support for connecting to TLS enabled servers
Preview & testing of custom forms before deploying to server.
Multi selection of controls
Support for operations on multiple controls
Support for standard keyboard shortcuts such as cut copy paste delete select all when editing controls
Drag and drop control creation support for non-property controls
Default unique naming for all controls no longer need to type names
Ability to scale images to fit Image control size
Expanded default image support allowing .bmp, .jpg, .wbmp, .jpeg, .png, .gif.
Improved Group control handling, selecting the Group Control will now select child controls and will move with the Group Control.
Radio control wizard dialog improvements, removal of already used values and captions set to value.

StarTeam Pull Request

StarTeam 17.0 introduced code review capabilities using Pulse. This exciting technology is helping teams to continuously examine the health and quality of their changes and decide if the changes are ready to be merged or released: Team members can not only collaborate to conduct peer reviews of code changes but also view recent activity in projects and views.

StarTeam 17.1 extended the code review functionality to cross view (VCM Promote, Rebase or Replicate) change packages. Administrator are able to control whether the code reviews are mandatory before change packages can actually be committed. Additionally StarTeam GIT Client was enhanced to support Pull Request capabilities.

17.2 CPC release now supports Native Pull Request. StarTeam users can choose to merge their changes by using VCM or by creating a Pull Request and merge their changes after a code review in Pulse.

For more information on how to configure Pulse, see Set up Pulse.

My Work view

A new My Work view displays in progress work assigned to you. The view spans Process Items, Reviews and Change Packages across multiple projects.

For details, see My Work.

Support for Oracle 19c

StarTeam Server now supports Oracle 19c.

For a list of supported databases, see Databases.

Support for SQL Server 2019

StarTeam Server now supports SQL Server 2019. Customers interested in enforcing database level encryption should install Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server(x64) and turn on the SQL Server force encryption setting using SQL Server Configuration Manager.

Tomcat Version Upgrade

Upgraded the bundled Tomcat server to V 9.0.37

Azul Zulu OpenJDK Upgrade

Upgraded the bundled Zulu Open JDK to V8.0.265 in the all the StarTeam 17.2 binaries.