Release Notes - 21.09-LTS

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codebeamer 21.09-LTS (Emma) - Licensing information

Every customer should renew their codebeamer 21.09-LTS Licenses before upgrading, please contact with your Sales representative using sales@intland.com email address.
From 21.09-LTS the features below require appropriate licenses
- Horizontal Deployment
- Clustering
- Storing Artefacts (such as Documents, Attachments etc.) into the database instead of file system
- Document-Tracker

codebeamer 21.09-LTS does not support MySQL-5.x! For more information please refer to Requirements - 21.09-LTS
Please refer to How to migrate from MySQL 5.7 database to MySQL 8.0 if your instance is using MySQL 5.7.
Migration from MySQL and Oracle to PostgreSQL is available: Database Migration to PostgreSQL.

Project Templates, Horizontal Deployment files created with earlier codebeamer versions cannot be imported/processed, they must be exported/recreated again.

Hessian based API solution is deprecated in Emma version and will be removed in Felicity.

codebeamer 21.09-LTS (Emma) - General information

The codename for You must login to see this link. Register now, if you have no user account yet. is Emma -- for further information on release codenames please refer to Codebeamer Release Codenames
Please note that Upgrading to Emma version can take several hours. It is highly recommended to execute during Weekend.
Users must convert database to UFT8MB4: Migrate MySQL database to UTF8MB4 character encoding.

Mass Edit functionality enhancements
- The functionality can now be disabled
- It can also be configured to execute the updates on items and show the results individually
- The "Check mandatory fields during Mass Edit" checkbox can now be disabled (removed), which forces the Mandatory validation to always happen
- See the related configuration at: Mass Edit
New Feature: Mass Review
- Workflow based review can now be executed on multiple trackers (similarly to the Mass Edit functionality)
- Mass Review depends on the same permissions as the Mass Edit functionality
- The "Tracker - Mass Edit" permission has been renamed to "Tracker - Mass Edit/Review"
Test Management
- Test Runs can be mass generated from multiple Test Sets -- requires setting the "massTestSetRunGenerationEnabled" application configuration to true under the "testManagement" node
Intelligent Table View
- ITVs are now resizable similarly to regular table views
- Regular and Intelligent Table Views can be configured to have their resizability always enabled
- <RELATED DOCUMENTATION IS YET TO BE CREATED>
Maintenance mode
- codebeamer can now be set to "Maintenance mode", which prevents users without the right authorization to log in while Maintenance mode is active
- Users not having the related permission are also logged out when the system is switched to "Maintenance mode"
- A new "Access in Maintenance mode" user group permission has been introduced for this
- For more information, see: Maintenance mode
Enhanced permission control for Comments/Attachments
- When "commentsAndAttachmentFieldPermissionConfig" is set to true in the application configuration, the permissions for the "Comments/Attachments" functionality can be configured the same way as any other fields on trackers
- The simpler configuration on the "Permissions" tab of the tracker configuration continues to take effect and they are evaluated with the field-level permissions of the tracker
- During the deployment of Emma, all trackers of all projects on the environment is updated to have the permission of the "Comments/Attachments" field set to "Unrestricted"
- IMPORTANT NOTE: After the deployment of Emma, the "Comments/Attachments" field permission of all projects that are imported from a pre-Emma template are set to "None" by default. It means that (if the enhanced permission control is enabled for Comments/Attachments) the permissions need to be manually updated for users to be able to use the Comments functionality on the given project.
Reusability of Excel import settings/mappings
- The settings applied for an Excel import is now saved for the given User and Tracker
- Users importing from Excel to the same tracker have their previous settings/mappings reapplied automatically
- This functionality can be configured to work on Project level (instead of User/Tracker level)
Display Public Tracker Views of Single Reference Trackers
- The user does not need to define separate Reference Views for each reference field.
- Filtering the items within the Reference Selector overlay became easier
Traceability Browser Widget usability changes
- Users now can easily create a Traceability Browser Widget of a Dashboard page using an already saved Traceability preset.
- Users are able configure a Traceability Browser Widget using the User Interface, and then use the Generate Wiki markup button and paste the generated markup to a wikitext field of a Work Item.
Copy Work Item link from Item Details page
- Work item link can be copied to the clipboard easily using one click or using a keyboard shortcut.
Ability to delete Shared Field and other Shared Field usability changes
- Old / unused Shared Fields are deletable, so unnecessary Shared Fields will not appear any more within the application.
- Managing Shared fields became more understandable and clear.
Redesigned Member type filter
- Member fields are now using autocomplete filtering for selecting users / groups instead of selecting them from a pick list which caused rendering performance problems.
Introduced pagination for members of Project Admin - Members page
- Project Admin - Members page became fast, administrators can easily manage members and roles (using drag & drop / context menus / icons) even more than 3 thousands of users in a selected project
Working Set performance and stability improvements
- Merge request dialogs show reliable information.
- Orphan branch hierarchy can be recreated when creating new working set
Stability of Run in Excel
- Import processes will be executed in a background job and they will work on a small amount of item at the same time which will decrease the memory consumption of excel imports.
Stability of Tracker Excel import
- Import processes will be executed in a background job and they will work on a small amount of item at the same time which will decrease the memory consumption of excel imports.
Refactor model of View if owner permission
- When a user has only View if Owner permission in a tracker then it is resource dependent to validate the accessibility of items.
- It is necessary to check the content of Assigned to, Owner, Submitted By, Team fields. Therefore the data model was changed and this permission checking process became fluid, the execution time of cbQL Queries is significantly decreased.
Rest/Swagger API calls can be throttled
- System admin of the codebeamer can control the number of API calls
- For more information please refer to API Throttling.
Audience for OpenID can be whitelisted
- System integrators are able to define while list audience
Stability of Project removal process
- Removing a project is a heavy process, which could have caused a performance problems on the server
- Now codebeamer cuts the load on the server and make this process more relieable

codebeamer 21.09 - Service Packs

Please find our published service packs using the following link:

Available service packs

codebeamer 21.09-LTS - Release Notes

BUG-6059631 - Traceability browser shows false field updates at all levels
BUG-6035414 - After submitting a join request, the user is not able to see the project in question anymore in the Project Browser
BUG-5975578 - Unable export Review Hub items to Word due to ClassCastException: gson.JsonObject cannot be cast to gson.JsonPrimitive
BUG-5861332 - Test Run creation from baseline testcase creates Test Run from Head testcase
BUG-5853374 - Project deployment - Task - reviewer configuration not taken over properly to the target server
BUG-5767058 - Second picture in item description not exported to Word
BUG-5660786 - If the Test Steps field is read only then it is not possible to write any other field via API
BUG-5642199 - Word export fails when trying to export certain meta data fields included in a loop
BUG-5412316 - Reusable test step is not inserted into a test case
BUG-6045828 - Obfuscate task field values and task field history for MySql

codebeamer 21.09-RC3 - Release Notes

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Bugs

BUG-6027340 - Some German characters are not escaped in Escalation rule names
BUG-6018198 - branch view is empty if tracker specific baseline is selected
BUG-5969273 - Fields cannot be changed in Document Edit view
BUG-5956092 - Filtered view does not work with document view hierarchy
BUG-5932941 - After the successive ReqIF imports the application will be slow down and unresponsive
BUG-5929445 - Unclear Trigger State Transition workflow action definition
BUG-5767801 - Document view does not load deleted node in baseline mode
BUG-5750232 - Shared field problems in reports

Tasks

TASK-6018388 As a developer I want to know when an API can call next time

codebeamer 21.09-RC2 - Release Notes

Bugs

Please note that codebeamer 21.09-RC2 upgrade procedures were only executed based on the following versions and databases.

21.04-SP2
- Oracle 19
- MySQL 8 (MySQL 5.7 must be upgraded to MySQL 8 before)
20.11-SP7
- Oracle 19
- MySQL 8 (MySQL 5.7 must be upgraded to MySQL 8 before)

BUG-5989656 - Logging work with unspecified Kind fails from dialog even though Kind is not mandatory
BUG-5961114 - Inconsistent shared link results
BUG-5938541 - Project Deployment - Field "Execute as" available in workflow action/change handler configurations
BUG-5929445 - Unclear Trigger State Transition workflow action definition
BUG-5928636 - Color panel in Document Edit View is partially hidden
BUG-5892748 - Importing high number of users can crash the system by running out of space
BUG-5859736 - Project deployment - Import fails due to a tracker name conflict
BUG-5859735 - Project deployment - Field references are not set after the deployment on target server
BUG-5859606 - Project deployment - problems with change handler after import / strange audit entries
BUG-5853374 - Project deployment - Task - reviewer configuration not taken over properly to the target server
BUG-5853156 - Project Deployment - Availability of guard condition is not deterministic after deployment on target server
BUG-5841899 - Custom table column index (-1) out of range error message
BUG-5829863 - ORA - 30006 ; Exception: resource busy, acquire with wait timeout expired
BUG-5767684 - References not Copied to Branch if Reference Field has Custom Filter
BUG-5698416 - Clicking on the item in the middle panel of Document View won't expand the tracker's hierarchy tree on the left
BUG-5653859 - Tracker Item filter with Oracle DB does not work properly.
BUG-5653552 - Group By on "Work Item Tag" field shows private Tags
BUG-5637354 - Baseline does not show items of deleted tracker (tracker still in trash)
BUG-5636938 - Inconsistent options for Context-menu and Burger-menu with Test Case and Test Run trackers
BUG-4147673 - Horizontal scrollbar missing in Document View "Show tree from this item" view

codebeamer 21.09-RC1 - Release Notes

Please note that codebeamer 21.09-RC1 upgrade procedures were only executed based on the following versions and databases.

21.04-SP2
- Oracle 19
- MySQL 8 (MySQL 5.7 must be upgraded to MySQL 8 before)
20.11-SP7
- Oracle 19
- MySQL 8 (MySQL 5.7 must be upgraded to MySQL 8 before)

Epics

EPIC-5636376 - Run excessive Excel Import codebeamer operations using Background jobs
EPIC-5585133 - Working-Set Stabilization
EPIC-4882888 - Working-Sets for Component Development
EPIC-5578955 - Limit Rest API / Swagger requests
EPIC-5525882 - Fast Account Filter Selector supporting large number of accounts
EPIC-5521516 - Making Excel Importing using less Resources
EPIC-5516466 - Traceability Widget improvements
EPIC-5507955 - Database schema performance optimizations
EPIC-5310768 - Official PostgreSQL Support for production
EPIC-5644340 - Mass test run creation from test sets
EPIC-5644307 - Search for users by project ID and user status
EPIC-5530546 - Make OpenID audience filtering configurable
EPIC-5441780 - Comment/attachment permissions based on status
EPIC-5357232 - Maintenance mode for codebeamer
EPIC-5110329 - Save Excel Import settings
EPIC-5110270 - Intelligent Table View - Supporting Resizable columns
EPIC-5587685 - Customized Default Personal Wiki Page
EPIC-5639437 - Selective deployment
EPIC-5338262 - Supporting new Group Permission Shared-Field - Admin
EPIC-5285592 - Deployment usability enhancements

User Stories

US-5836127 - As a DevOps engineer I want to configure 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' in apache
US-5744169 - As a system administrator I want to limit the usage of APIs
US-5726357 - As a user I want to use CSRF token
US-5722869 - Support common server Time zone using cbQL
US-5709665 - Checkbox for processing each Mass Edit item separately
US-5659474 - Change default Windows installer
US-5600769 - Create possibility to execute long processes in background
US-5600642 - Providing UUID codes in email notifications to support simple email filtering rules
US-5585136 - Working-Set Feedback and Stabilization
US-5531337 - Making Uploading file process faster, reducing operation overhead
US-5530760 - Webdav related improvements
US-5527059 - Providing new Licensing Options
US-5521525 - Making Excel Import-update less resources
US-5521522 - Making Run-in-Excel Import using less resources
US-5521520 - Making simple Excel Import using less resources
US-5516660 - Fast Account Filter Selector supporting large number of accounts
US-5516250 - Traceability Widget / Wiki Plugin UI enhancements
US-5516234 - As a system administrator I do not was to let users use Remember Me function
US-5508842 - Organize indexes in MySQL, PostgreSQL and Oracle
US-5507956 - Support MySQL 8.0.23
US-5504498 - Refactor tracker item permission handling
US-5290134 - As a user I do not want to let browser cache any page
US-5290130 - As a system admin I do not want to let normal users to send emails with XSS
US-5163735 - File system binaries cache
US-4940812 - Supporting Australian Western Standard Time Zone
US-4931659 - Find solution to check database status
US-4931658 - Measure performance of PostgreSQL
US-4931656 - Implement MySQL database migrator
US-4931650 - Check database schema indexes
US-4931647 - Support PostgreSQL database
US-4923966 - Remove product and version information of 3rd party tools
US-4481265 - Vertical Deployment - Preserve Project Workflow
US-4481263 - Vertical Deployment - See All Changes
US-5660766 - Using Public Views of Single Reference Trackers
US-5644317 - Extend users/search request parameters with Project ID and User Status
US-5642084 - Resizable columns at the Traceability Intelligent Table View
US-5582448 - Configure audience whitelisting for OpenID authentication
US-5526109 - Resizable columns at the inner tables of Hierarchical Intelligent Table View
US-5526094 - Resize columns at Table view without having to go the the view settings
US-5464834 - Query maintenance mode via Swagger
US-5464829 - Switch to Maintenance mode via Swagger
US-5441920 - Get virtual field permission settings for Comments/Attachments via Swagger
US-5441905 - Display comments/attachments in accordance with their virtual field settings
US-5441864 - Set comments/attachments permissions field-like
US-5436919 - Prevent user logins in Maintenance mode
US-5436875 - Switch codebeamer to Maintenance mode
US-5436843 - Sysadmin function to invalidate user sessions
US-5436611 - User group permission for maintenance
US-5127713 - Automatically save Excel Import Format and Mapping per Tracker and User
US-5704578 - Disable Mass Edit via application config
US-5688226 - Mass Review functionality
US-5688178 - Application configuration for removing mandatory field validation checkbox from Mass Edit

Tasks

TASK-5841511 - Make test management update scripts run after project template import
TASK-5760636 - Tracker unlock is not possible for project admin
TASK-5707079 - Export Baseline to ReqIF
TASK-5706624 - Implement individual item processing for Mass Edit
TASK-5659554
TASK-5597029 - Disable the editability of the "Reported as" field
TASK-5569062 - Swagger - Check and fix deployment endpoint in 21.04
TASK-5567070 - Remove "Export as Project Template" menu option from Trackers Tab
TASK-5564435 - Make default "Regular" test run type selection configurable
TASK-5432072 - Member filtering improvements to find relevant results more easily
TASK-5238456 - Opening Admin->Members of project does take very long time
TASK-5147085 - Support different time zone for report results on various date fields
TASK-4660326 - EPA (security) scan | Caching issues

Bugs

BUG-5933522 - Uploading a large file using on unstable network upload process can block user interface
BUG-5902672 - User cannot verify Mass Edit results
BUG-5892451 - Review Hub diff has reversed panels and style highlighting
BUG-5888189 - ReqIF Import: Excel Import crash after creating tracker via ReqIF
BUG-5888172 - In Document Edit View, autocomplete choice list is not removed from page upon saving
BUG-5888163 - Inconsistent incompatibility messages at suspected merge
BUG-5879169 - Confusing behaviour of inline editing of old revision items
BUG-5856582 - Excel master template ruins export with regular template
BUG-5847777 - Temporary login failure using OpenID connect
BUG-5847754 - SAML Configuration - Domain Filter
BUG-5845897 - Selecting many items in the tree causes a performance problem and sometimes even a reboot
BUG-5841927 - User suggestion list remain there after deleting the searching characters
BUG-5841918 - Recently selected dialog does not pop up anymore
BUG-5838744 - Non-breaking space in table cell of DOORS ReqIF import cause strange result
BUG-5832519 - REQIF file contains German umlaut like äöü, we get malformed error by opening it
BUG-5809602 - ReqIF export/import adds undesired max. value definition to field configuration
BUG-5804728 - Cannot disable .htaccess file update
BUG-5788544 - TestRun upgrade script issue with deleted trackers
BUG-5788288 - Depends on is broken after renaming tracker - items can not be released
BUG-5788142 - Mass Edit: Transaction Aborted without further information to the user
BUG-5785523 - Excel export silently disregards master template
BUG-5784231 - New line character in excel cell does not create new line in wikitext type field in codebeamer at import from excel
BUG-5776080 - Items with references in description are considered changed directly after creating a working set
BUG-5776023 - No Discard Change Warning When Navigating to Another Wiki-Page While Inline-Editing
BUG-5767109 - When applying e-signature via SSO of credentials not assigned to the approval task the current user is logged out and new user is logged in
BUG-5760488 - Not possible to export to Word when using a selection from the filtered left tree in Document View
BUG-5760067 - Inconsistences in labelling of Stacked bar charts
BUG-5736171 - Test management - Test step changes affect each other
BUG-5730554 - Renamed Status field does not reflect in the right panel of the Document Edit View
BUG-5730462 - Pipe character in tracker name brakes office export dialogue
BUG-5729945 - Filter is case sensitive
BUG-5726611 - Paging is not possible in Field Changes and Workflow Changes tabs of Tracker Audit Trail
BUG-5725447 - If Test Set created from more than 500 items selected in Table View then Test Set will contain the subset of the items above 500
BUG-5720470 - False confirmation of saving invalid decimal values
BUG-5719695 - Message about lack of permissions for a Test case is received only after typing the Conclusion
BUG-5709632 - Manually updating an item while it's being mass edited leads the Mass Edit to fail
BUG-5706619 - Unprivileged users see the "Create Project" button
BUG-5706569 - Cannot remove recipient from custom email workflow action configuration
BUG-5704111 - ApiCallbackValidityUtil does not work with "auto" callback URL feature
BUG-5701808 - Workflow action removes entire comment instead only attachment
BUG-5701622 - ReqIF issue - missing information in the exported ReqIF file
BUG-5701606 - System Admins see a warning about non-configured password policy even if Open Id is configured
BUG-5698641 - 'Mandatory if' function does not work properly in the Test Run creation dialog in case of bypassing the pre-approval of a formal test run
BUG-5683729 - Misleading Widget name after cut/paste
BUG-5678571 - Unable to add test steps in overlay editor
BUG-5674130 - Closing review with status update causes high CPU load
BUG-5670151 - Planner View - Sort does not work with items grouped by Shared Field
BUG-5670079 - Reference selector dialog - When using "Group by" results are cleared
BUG-5660572 - Document type tracker - Using the "+ New Item" option in Trackers causing Unexpected System Error
BUG-5651607 - When search users, unnecessary calls to backend without results but with long runtime (3 tickets, similar issues, but still different)
BUG-5649583 - Unable to edit tracker item while it's being duplicated
BUG-5644578 - User cannot login several hours long - lock wait timeout exceeded - Update User Last Login
BUG-5644517 - Not possible to check the "union" option of "depends on" in inherited trackers
BUG-5642025 - Inability to see all Tracker Item comments in Table View
BUG-5641161 - WebDav - Opening a word/excel through file manager, randomly results in error
BUG-5639373 - ReqIF import issue - unique constraint (CALMDB.TASK_SEARCH_REVISION_PK) violated
BUG-5637371 - No underline for Closed Items
BUG-5634328 - Intelligent Document View - Setting up baseline/version on references is causing inconsistences in the view's Level(s)
BUG-5628550 - ReqIF - Empty value of all Choice Field after importing ReqIF
BUG-5625091 - Documents - deleted folder can be downloaded
BUG-5621327 - codebeamer license update via environment variable not working anymore
BUG-5615043 - Shared field option cannot be removed in tracker configuration
BUG-5596958 - Excel import - Picture is only imported when there is some text in its cell
BUG-5587287 - Changing the label of "Reported bug(s)" breaks Test Results view and Report Bug functions
BUG-5584545 - Test Coverage result seems incorrect
BUG-5581263 - Reference selection views reset tracker field permissions
BUG-5569821 - Unable to override the value of error.user.password.not.changed
BUG-5567468 - New tab is not visible after editing menus.xml
BUG-5567037 - Test Run and Test Set trackers are renamed to Run and Set
BUG-5567028 - Bug And Or Logic in Reports: does not save new filter settings when and or logic is involved
BUG-5564835 - Duplicate key 'type' in Swagger API result
BUG-5561990 - Copied Items in Working-Sets Behave Inconsistently
BUG-5561617 - Report - "You have unsaved changes in the current Report!"
BUG-5558096 - Big project delete freezes codebeamer
BUG-5557904 - Enhanced Selection Dialog - Expanding a parent selects the parent
BUG-5527060 - Upstream and Downstream Reference arrows are not displayed in case of items without Summary in Document View
BUG-5521529 - Status Options are recreated after project deployment
BUG-5517044 - Guard/Condition Description is missing after Project Configuration Deployment
BUG-5516525 - Change the time format in the log file
BUG-5509038 - Project Deployment - Field dependency configuration is missing from deployment project
BUG-5501107 - Project Configuration Cleaner - Not Visible value shown in Public View filtering condition in case of unresolved Project reference
BUG-5495143 - Security problem with recently viewed item names
BUG-5468581 - Interwiki link is converted in an unwanted way
BUG-5468239 - After the patch apply there are problems with the editor on Windows
BUG-5459401 - Merge Request - Tracker Merge Request - Item merged from working set does not contain merge comment
BUG-5437026 - Open links in new browser tab feature does not work for certain links
BUG-5436904 - Mass Edit selection keeps selected after mass editing action performed
BUG-5436866 - Unexpected reordering of items in table view
BUG-5436783 - Sticky Header disappears during editing of the description of an item in Table view
BUG-5432514 - Rename Item does not work
BUG-5379907 - User with floating license cannot generate signature
BUG-5369868 - Review does not properly handle duplicate references
BUG-5357489 - Issues with file attachments with special characters
BUG-5338595 - Subtree root is cleared from direct URL link after login
BUG-5338534 - Coverage Tracker option does not work in Requirement Coverage plugin
BUG-5317937 - Subfolders can't be opened on WEBDAV's web interface
BUG-5314748 - System error occurs when trying to authenticate through SAML integration
BUG-5298791 - Tracker item details hangs when saving lots of Wiki fields
BUG-5298273 - Uploading more files - add space or enter after the file names
BUG-5293809 - Cannot edit permissions of non-restricted fields
BUG-5284742 - Recursive Mass Edit omits filter criteria
BUG-5263193 - License - Strange license page loading during parallel Selenium Test Set
BUG-5263147 - Null pointer exception by merging branches
BUG-5230215 - Document Edit View takes 23 secs to open and load the content
BUG-5179269 - Test Run filter in baseline is not functional
BUG-5157878 - NPE on CBQL Select
BUG-5151470 - Test Management - If item 'Edit Any' tracker permission is revoked from user, then test step reuse UI is broken
BUG-5093939 - Not all Releases are displayed when using Test Cases by Last Run Result Widget
BUG-5053283 - Release Stats Plugin filter parameters are not working
BUG-5035383 - SMTP password property can't be removed using GUI
BUG-4972443 - Wiki links are exported to Word as absolute links despite this option is not set
BUG-4963600 - After applying 'Clear All Suspected' option in Mass Suspected Diff page, not all suspected flag will be cleared
BUG-4963586 - Multiple elements can not be created using Ctrl + Enter shortcut
BUG-4921097 - numpad is not working in all fields => e.g.: Kanban Board to enter the min/max story points
BUG-4915488 - Changes are lost in document edit view if using Enter key
BUG-4915272 - Adding comments with Mass Edit does not work
BUG-4893565 - Field dependency which defined in the Test Steps table of Test Case tracker does not work
BUG-4757431 - Date filtering with custom date field is not working properly
BUG-4674235 - JS Error on Document View when an item has the same id as its tracker
BUG-4615463 - Collapsed groups in Kanban Board will expand in case of editing/moving a card
BUG-4402729 - Failed to create Branch from large number of multiple trackers
BUG-4375677 - Hierarchy of branched items is not preserved in Document View after Merge Request performed
BUG-4116051 - Branch merge problems when moving tracker item
BUG-4027887 - Tracker search does not work on branches
BUG-3870196 - Menu items are disappearing when displaying tooltip
BUG-3829912 - Test Case of type Folder / Information blocks completion of Test Set
BUG-3581778 - Swagger - Suspect setting are ignore when creating / updating items via Swagger API
BUG-2998470 - Multiple branch merge - branched item improperly marked as updated
BUG-2896415 - Monospace styling not working with anchor starting text
BUG-1981022 - Line break removed when using mono-spaced text