Requirements - 10.1.x

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codeBeamer 10.1.x - General information

codeBeamer 10.1.x is the last release supporting Oracle 12c. Starting with the next release, Oracle 19c will be supported.
The codeBeamer API based on Hessian Protocol will be removed from the next version. It is recommended to start using the Swagger API instead. The REST API will continue to be supported.
LatexPlugin is now deprecated will be removed from the next version.
FlashPlugin is no longer supported and removed.
codeBeamer-10.1.0 is the latest version tested with Internet-Explorer 11, however it remains supported.
codeBeamer 10.1.x is the last release supporting SSO Authentication with Siteminder. It is recommended to start using SAML or OpenID Connect.
The /users Swagger endpoint is now limited to account administrators only.
The /users/search Swagger endpoint now requires at least one search criteria to be defined.

System Requirements

This page describes the hardware and software requirements of codeBeamer 10.1.x. For general requirements, please refer to the wiki page titled System Requirements.

Operating Systems

Windows, Linux and Mac-OS on 64-bit x86 architectures with at least 8 GB memory. 32-bit operating systems are no longer supported.

The amount of memory required depends on the number of concurrent users, and the data in the system.

Virtual Systems

codeBeamer 10.1.x versions are tested with VMware ESX 6.5.0, ESX 6.7.0 and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).

Docker

Docker image is changed, please note the following changes

centos:8.1.1911 is used as a base image
additional environment variables are added
hosted SCMs are removed from the image
codeBeamer is available on http://localhost/ without /cb

Docker image is tested with 18.06.1-ce version of Docker

Docker with OpenShift

Docker and OpenShift configurations are automatic, please follow the installation instructions.

codeBeamer 10.1.x versions are tested with OpenShift (OKD 3.11) on AWS instances

Supported Java Runtime Environment (JRE)

Platform	Version	Tested with	Recommended	Platform
Open JDK	1.8.252 or higher	1.8.0_252-b09.1 / 64-Bit		Windows
Open JDK	1.8.252 or higher	1.8.0_252-b09.1 / 64-Bit		Linux

Supported Application Servers

codeBeamer is shipped and tested with Apache Tomcat 8.5.51. The windows-based installer has the tomcat application server already included.

It is recommended to upgrade to Apache Tomcat 8.5.51 version because of http://tomcat.apache.org/security-8.html

codeBeamer 10.1.x Supported Databases

Database	Version	Tested with
MySql	5.7	5.7.24, 5.7.26
Oracle	Oracle 12c Standard and Enterprise Edition	12.2.0.1.0
Oracle	Oracle 19c Enterprise Edition All automatised tests are successful with Oracle 19.3, however regression tests were executed only with Oracle 12c.	19.3.0.0.0

codeBeamer 10.1.x Supported Browsers

In all browsers, JavaScript must be enabled to use the full functionality of codeBeamer.

Browser	Version	Tested with
Internet Explorer	11 (compatibility mode must be switched off), codeBeamer-10.1.0 is the latest version tested with IE11, however IE11 remains supported.	11.674.15063.0
Firefox	76.0.x	76.0
Chrome	83.0.x	83.0.4103.61

Internet Explorer is tested with Windows 10 using built in Internet Explorer 11. Windows 7,8 Operation Systems with shipped IE11 are also supported but not tested.

For Mozilla browsers ( up from non-tested Firefox version 70 ), it might be needed to toggle the value of dom.storage.next_gen to false in case there are page elements fails to load ( i.e. new comment window ) due to a known issue in Firefox as described in https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/some-pages-or-page-elements-fail-load-after-updating

Source Code Management Systems (SCM)

Git	2.11 or higher	tested with Git 2.11, 2.18.2
Subversion	1.7.x, 1.8.x, 1.9.x	tested with 1.8.8, 1.9.1
Mercurial (requires special support contract)	3.0.1 or higher	tested with 3.7.3
Perforce (requires special support contract)	7.0 or higher	tested with 7.0.16.1930

JIRA Integration

JIRA Server version	Tested with
JIRA 7.2.6 or higher	JIRA 7.2.6 and 7.5.1.

Microsoft Office

Windows 7,10
	Office 2013	IE11
		Chrome (latest)
		Firefox (latest)
	Office 2016	IE11
		Chrome (latest)
		Firefox (latest)
	Office 365	IE11
		Chrome (latest)
		Firefox (latest)

You can find more details about Office Edit support

Office edit / Webdav have problems with Mac Office 2016 does not work with Office edit.