Version 5.6.2

Released on 17th of August 2023

This release includes the new features released with Frends 5.6, listed in New Features, as well as improvements and bug fixes from the earlier releases.

UI & Log Service

Improvements

• Added opt-in support for RabbitMQ Quorum queues

• It is now possible to delete old Process versions

• It is now possible to select the visible columns in the Process instance list again

• It is now possible to filter the Task list with "Show only updatable" to show only Tasks that have available updates

• It is now possible to filter the Process list with Trigger type

• Process instance list has a new field indicating if it has logged steps

• Instead of showing "No instances" the Process instance list now shows instances from the latest execution, e.g. the last 7 days that had executions when there's initially no executions during the last 7 days

• Remote Subprocess target Agent group is now possible to be chosen dynamically

• Process variables are now deployment specific

• Process list pagination is now handled server-side which improves the performance

• Changing filters on the Process instance list and Process list are no longer pushed to the page history on the browser, so clicking back will take you to the previous page instead of modifying the filters

• Page loads times and performance improved, especially for the API Management

• Improved Process instance count update processing speed

• Updated to Microsoft.Data.Sql to allow using newer Azure authentication models, such as Managed identities

• UI tweaks, fixes and performance improvements ​

Bug fixes

• Fixed issue with Process instance list when Promoted variable name contains a dot

• Fixed issue with Monaco editor's autocompletion when there's multiple fields

• When importing Environment variables the Description field is now updated as well

• Disabled changing fields that should not be editable for API Triggers in the Trigger shape

• On the Process instance list fixed the time filter from being modified when using the search functionality

• Copying Triggers and exclusive decision shapes now correctly copies fields when there is a naming collision

• Fixed editing OAuthProvider's WellKnownMetadataLocationOverride to not cause an error

• Corrected access rights for getting feedback URL from the backend

• Improved database cleanups to prevent cleanups from being timing out

• Fixed Process execution counts not updating correctly

• Fixed issue with Agent group dropdown not being populated in Process instance list

• Log service now processes heartbeats that have been sent at the exact same time

• Fixed issue when filtering by tags that contained illegal characters

• Fixed compiling cross-platform Processes where the element name contained a double quote

• Log service now reads Agent heartbeats in batches which prevents heartbeats from being queued up causing Agents to seem to be offline eventhough they are online

• Limited Agent configuration option is now correctly included in the Cross-platform Agent configuration

Agent

Improvements

• Updated to Microsoft.Data.Sql to allow using newer Azure authentication models, such as Managed identities

• Cross-platform installer now reminds about opening firewall ports when installing the Agent with HTTP(s) ports configured and Windows firewall is in use

Bug fixes

• Agent SQLite database locked when running multiple File triggers fixed

• Fixed problem with Trigger HTTP endpoint not being accessible if there were routes with overlapping route parameters being used

• Cross-platform Gateway Agent now correctly recovers from target Agents being temporarily unreachable

  • Note: The HealthCheckApiKey needs to be set to have no value ("HealthCheckApiKey": "",) on the target Agents appsettings.secrets file so that the Cross-platform Gateway Agent can access the health check endpoints. Gateway agent can still have this key set