Release Notes
Cumulative release notes from 7.1.0-rc1 to 7.1.0-rc15.
Improvements
Products and Environment Lifecycle
- FC-6705 - Oracle Forms and Reports is now supported
- FC-6762 - Introduced a new WebLogic product parameter 'server-name-cluster-ordering' to control cluster addresses based on server names
- FC-6699 - [#400186] - Add support for fatal error codes on JDBC connection params
- FC-6758 - Platform Model wizard supports cloning to bring across credentials and platform model overrides
- FC-6566 - Support for Oracle Analytics Server 5.5.0
- FC-6807 - Allow on demand provisioning when cloning a model that was on pre-existing infrastructure
- FC-6817 - [#400398] - Support new options in Axway version 7.7.20230530
- FC-6821 - Improve inplace upgrades for different file system layouts
- FC-6832 - Introduced new SOA Product parameter 'soa-on-marketplace' to adjust directories and ports, inline with SOA on Marketplace
- FC-6837 - [#400445] - Alternative copy-domain implementation to cater for adding new managed servers to an existing domain
- FC-6857 - [#400479] - Updates to Axway automation scripts for new Axway version
Patching
- FC-6773 - [#400342] - Added support for the OPatch 'Stack Patch Bundle' (SPB) which significantly improves the experience over the standard OPatches. Oracle Support Document 2846200.1 (How to Apply SOA Stack Patch Bundle - Step by Step Guide) can be found at: https://support.oracle.com/epmos/faces/DocumentDisplay?id=2846200.1
- FC-6816 - [#400396] - Include dependent patches when patching
User Experience
- FC-6556 - You can view the previous committed Blueprint or Model from the Blueprint / Model list if the current one doesn't open successfully
- FC-6534 - Need to execute the same action across multiple Platform Instances? You can now execute actions in bulk!
- FC-6749 - Improved user preferences by initializing the first time the page is viewed
- FC-6577 - [#386189] - During the Platform Model wizard empty database fields are now populated with ? for future action
- FC-6725 - Improved the overall error handling experience to return meaningful errors and documentation to the user
- FC-6777 - Fixed FC-6577 (UI improvement for "?" properties) so that password fields are shown as ***
- FC-6741 - [#1273] - Execution Status is now displayed in the Release Pipeline view.
- FC-5275 - [#1125] - After the 'update' action Myst sets the state to 'Restart Required' if WebLogic detects non-dynamic changes (ie. a WebLogic restart is needed for changes to apply)
- FC-6783 - View preferences for card or list in Application Blueprints are now saved per user profile
- FC-5493 - [#1238] - Added commit date to Platform Model history
Security
- FC-6658 - Improved SSH logging to help with debugging
- FC-6757 - [#400278] - Improved domain creation template file to use the mystWorkspace instead of /tmp
- FC-6769 - Reduced clutter when Myst runs ant tasks making it easier to troubleshoot the logs
- FC-6627 - [#400128] - Added login and logout to audit screen
- FC-6818 - Update jackson library versions
- FC-6847 - [#400406] - Utilise the /tmp directory again when connecting with ssh using run-as-user
- FC-6854 - [#400469] - Upgraded tomcat (which hosts Myst Studio) to 9.0.91
Application Release Orchestration
- FC-6673 - Artifacts screen now displays version, build # and blueprint columns with acceptable load time
- FC-6231 - Release Pipeline polling interval is now configurable via `fc-configuration.properties`. This example runs the polling every hour: `fc.pipeline.polling.schedule=0 0 */1 ? *`
- FC-6126 - Support for extract-files property to handle wildcards as last character. Eg. extract-files=or extract-files=folder/*
- FC-6802 - Execution status is retrieved for only the release pipelines on the current page
- FC-5292 - [#1018] - Added the ability to see Associated Release Pipelines for an Application Blueprint
- FC-6805 - [#400382] - Improved application blueprint and release pipeline retrieval for non system administrative users
- FC-5928 - [#1623] - Add timezone to release pipeline scheduled deployments
General
- FC-6780 - Added OEL8 support
- FC-5294 - [#1025] - More quality of life logging improvements
- FC-6475 - Added support for automatic removal of the demo truststore from setDomainEnv.sh if WebLogic SSL is enabled. A separate action can be run too `patch-setDomainEnv-ssl`.
- FC-6776 - Added more versions to the Continuous Delivery Profile
- FC-6784 - Various Myst CLI fixes
- FC-5999 - Custom actions are now version controlled
- FC-6820 - Improve configure-nm on 14c
- FC-6827 - [#400416] - Axway improvements for operational commands
- FC-6829 - [#400425] - Add Time-To-Deliver override in the UI
- FC-6437 - Add retries for dropping database sessions (for RCU recreation)
- FC-6824 - [#400410] - Changed conditions to include 'FAILED_NOT_RESTARTABLE' for stopping AdminServer via the Node Manager
- FC-6848 - [#400462] - Remove Database Maintenance link - coming in 7.2.0
- FC-6853 - Tidy up logs when configuring JMS resources
Bug Fixes
Products and Environment Lifecycle
- FC-6708 - [#400184] - During provisioning Myst will override the AdminServer property listen-port-enabled to 'true' otherwise, the domain creation will fail. FYI - setting to false is commonly used for provisioning WLS environments that use SSL.
- FC-6786 - Myst reloads the WL classpath after Oracle patches (opatch) are applied to prevent classpath loading issues
- FC-6794 - [#400376] - Improved Axway topology for non-Cassandra and non-internal nodes
- FC-6790 - [#400369] - Fixed a bug where Axway stop scripts were only stopping internal services
Application Release Orchestration
- FC-6690 - Fixed a bug where Four Eyes Principal sometimes caused Release Pipeline approvals to fail and redirect back to login page
- FC-6800 - [#400383] - Fixed a bug where deployments failed because os.walk does not exist in WLST jython 2.2.1
General
- FC-6782 - [#400333] - Fixed `security.py` syntax error when creating JMS Security Policies
- FC-5751 - [#1437] - Additional logging particularly when an action fails
- FC-6496 - [#386125] - Ignore leading white space characters when using `configure-webtier` action
- FC-6855 - [#400476] - Don't auto-compute machine assignments if provided by user
- FC-6855 - [#400483] - Remove mysql8 library (will instead offer as a separate image)
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