Release Notes

The following changes are cumulative since the last full release.

New Features

• Documentation upload tool added to Package Manager.
• descriptor.xml files now support new <networking> entity to describe required open ports.
• BEAR package manager has moved to Compatibility Level 2 and supports automatic firewall configuration.
• ac_markdown generates HTML with predictable anchor names for each heading.
• ac_markdown supports styles for highlighter pen, and several table cell background colours.
• 'stop_appserver' attempts to forcefully kill processes that fail to stop gracefully.
• Added set_relative_path() method to ac_markdown to allow images to be processed if the link is not valid for the current working directory.
• Documentation creation tool set added to Developer Tools.
• New UI skin "Kyoto" applied to the public interface.
• New UI skin "Retro" applied to the admin interface.
• New library 'ac_markdown.php' adds total support for extended Markdown and more.
• Robust multilingual selectors for admin, public, and mobile interfaces.
• ac_toc_v1.php now supports automatic opening of a TOC to the current page if the URL matches the value of 'ac:link'.
• Mobile device detection finction 'is_mobile()' added to the 'shared_lib.php'.
• New 'call' property in form_processor_v2.php which results in Javascript code being passed and called to ac_ajax_v3.js.
• New generic mobile page classes "in shared_lib/html_filters/", "mobile_page.php" and "mobile_app_page.php".
• Simplified HTML requirements for common elements with streamlined CSS.
• Simplified a greatly reduced size of CSS files by 40%.
• Improved functionality of events to support complex stacked events in ac_event_v3.js.
• Improved functionality of AJAX to support sending and executing a named Javascript function in ac_ajax_v3.js.
• Improved functionality of panels to support horozontal panels in ac_panel_v3.js.
• Table of contents builder Javascript class ac_toc_v1.js.
• Updated admin UI.
• Updated public UI.
• Resources for public mobile UI.
• Opcache controls in the Developer Toolkit for pre-compiled code.
• Updated for ACHE 4.0.
• Removed special on-the-fly files from the Developer Toolkit Package Wizard. This reduces human error in packing software versions.
• Arbitrary mount partition functionality for Physical Storage management.
• Physical Storage devices with partitions but none mounted are shown as semi-in use.
• Custom BEAR HTTP error pages.
• Added bear session key override to USER class in shared_lib.php. This allows for any application to easily ensure that Admin pages have access to the main bear session.
• Allow micro patching up and down within the same micro version.
• Added Changelog viewer to Logs & Monitoring.
• Added ac_flat_file_parse to the shared library. This provides data extraction of arbitrary flat file formats.
• System details now associates an IP address with a network interface name.
• Added disk IO and service time monitoring graphs.
• Added capacity change history monitoring graphs.
• Added network throughput resource monitoring graphs.
• Dynamic shared memory sizing future proofs the shared memory varibale repository.
• HTTP Control display loads faster and is more responsive.
• Package Manager is now functional.
• write_ini_file now returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure to write INI file.
• Package Wizard shows users which files cannot be included in a package and gives reasons why they are omitted from selection.
• Package install, uninstall, backup functionality completed.
• Autodetection of local BEAR database installation triggers a database startup wait for the Application Server startup.
• Backend functionality for a new perpetual non rotating archived event log. This is an alternative parallel to the shorter lifespan event logs.
• Trace file entries enhanced with Task ID (TID) so that trace events can be associated with a known task or user request.
• Added form_processor->reest_messages() to form_processor_v2.
• Added ac_ajax.postLoad() to Javascript and AJAX documentation in the Developer Toolkit.
• Enhanced ac_ajax_v2 with new postLoad() handler for easy dynamic page displays.
• Added new ac_config.php to the shared library. This provides consistent and easy per-application configuration management.
• Added support for new hash algorithms to the SWAPI 2.1 Client Test Tool
• Added support for all compiled in hash algorithms to the generic SWAPI 2.1 client handler swapi_2.1_client.php in the shared library.
• Added generic SWAPI 2.1 server handler swapi_2.1_server.php to the shared library. This comes with support for user-defined token authentication mechanisms.
• Updated Developer Toolkit documentaion to add form_processor_v2->clean_dynamic_fields() reference information.
• Added clean_dynamic_fields() to form_processor_v2 to facilitate the processing of dynamic user fields.
• Added execute_root_job.php to the shared library for third party plugins to use deep system integration.
• Added ac_datetime.php class to the shared library.
• GUI Admin footer displays contextual package version and copyright information.
• API service configuration options during initial setup.
• API service configuration options in HTTP Control.
• TLS protocol and granular cipher control for Admin and public HTTPS services.
• Support for multiple application servers to register to the same database.
• Re-usable databases on re-install of the application server.
• Cluster registrations added to initial setup as silent background configuration.
• Running status now returned by the "bear_status" command.
• Service jobs (root executions) run immediately.

Deprecated Features

• Built-in developer documentation.
• SSL v3 support for HTTPS connections.
• Removed X509 certificate configuration from initial setup in favour of an auto setup routine.

Bug Fixes

• RAID device health and usage status not shown in Physical Storage admin tool.
• ac_markdown->text2html() Rentered URLs in text incorrectly when encapsulated (such as in quotes).
• 'stop_appserver' sometimes leaves httpd service fully active and enabled.
• 'bear_status' command returns a 'FAILED' state for the appserver even when it was running.
• Admin UI becomes unresponsive when submitting a new application package with no actual file uploaded.
• HTML tables generated by ac_markdown used obsolute non CSS attributes.
• HTML tags did not declare default page language.
• Execution time for ac_tables operations not accurate in Developer Tools: ac_tables UI.
• Multi-level paths for tables fail validation in Developer Tools: ac_tables UI.
• Unauthorized file download requests result in a generic HTTP 404 page not found error.
• Improved font ratios for documentation specific page displays.
• Autoselection for ac_toc.addTOC() would result in an unusable TOC if sub levels were defined.
• Developer Tookit Package Wizard generates unusable application packages if a license key is auto generated.
• Multilingual packages would installl without creating all required preload directories in the 'resources' path.
• Public facing language selector would not honour mobile interface contexts.
• First initialised language cached by 'ac_datetime' would cause unexpected date and time formatted strings.
• Autoselect for fields in 'ac_toc_v1.php' fails for strings with special characters.
• Table text within documentation pages too large.
• Mobile header 'Home' link fails with HTTP 404.
• Incorrect format of times with leading zeroes in output from 'ac_datetime_v2.php'.
• Javascript in built-in 'mobile_header.inc' blocked user created window.onLoad() calls.
• Bad icon link in built-in 'mobile_header.inc' resulted in no logo graphic on mobile pages.
• Incorrect built-in footer.
• Stylesheet not loaded for built-in page header.
• Some valid IP addresses would be rejected in various system administration tools.
• Turning off "precompile source" does nothing.
• Setting a package as prime fails.
• Disk wipe performance impacted by not enforcing correct block size.
• Disks with non XFS file systems that are not mounted are shown as not in use.
• Upgrading a package does not recompile and cache changed code until BEAR restart.
• Firewall reactivated automatically during BEAR restart even if service wss disabled.
• Storage sector misalignment on disks supporting logical sectors smaller than physical sectors. This would lead to silent failure of file system creation.
• None HTTPS resources are blocked as false positive for cross site scripting violations in some browsers.
• Chromium based browsers applying un-approved input area highlighting.
• Broken image on some HTTP error pages.
• Duplicate firewall entries for the BEAR application server on HTTP configuration update.
• Error message missing on validation error of creating new storage file system.
• Storage configuration might not persist after reboot.
• Failure to auto create application config in 'ac_config.php'.
• Upgrade pre and post scripts not running.
• Upgrades via the GUI do not update the output of the 'bear_info' command or offline changelog.
• Physical Storage job status elapsed time only updated sporadically.
• Physical Storage job status not updating if job failed.
• Event Distribution tool not displayed.
• Incorrect colour selection in ac_2D_graphs->create_donut_chart() would resort to default colour schemes regardless of calls to ac_2D_graphs->set_colour().
• Garbage text on Changelog viewer when page loads.
• Package Install/Upgrade created the application master INI files in the wrong path.
• Incorrect permissions on upgrade scripts.
• Reduced race condition chance that leads to package file download failure due to temp file deletion.
• Package Install/Upgrade would silently fail without error if unpacking a file failed.
• Page elements may fail to ever load on Mocrosoft Edge browsers.
• BEAR cannot be upgraded because the base file permissions on many files prevents overwrite.
• Package Uprgade fails silently without error.
• HTTP Control display for Pending Updates often displays "null" when there is no update pending.
• Calls to ac_ajax.postLoad() resulted in Javascript errors that would causes some browsers to fail to render updates.
• Garbage bytes leading some shared memory includes would cause some browsers to fail to render updates.
• ac_config could fail in ac_config->set() due to failure to lock table.
• Resource utilisation graphs not accurate.
• Installation of package backup would fail if packaged had been patched.
• HTTP Control certificate management failed to upload and apply certificates.
• Initial password validation and user creation password validation aligned.
• Initial setup password failed if it contained spaces.
• Backup will gracefully ignore special files that cannot be transferred.
• Form validation fails if there are over 1,000 variables returned. Limit raised to 5,000.
• IPv6 addresses caused initial setup to fail during database registration.
• ac_tables->use_table() returned non boolean values.
• Log events missed any metadata over 32 bytes long.
• ac_tables signatures fail if binary signature ended in a null byte.
• Resource Monitor not reachable prior to initial setup. This prevents registering the system as a combined database/application server host.
• Hyphen causes a local hostname to fail validation.
• Updated ac_tables to avoid auto optimise if there is a signature timestamp later than the last write timestamp.
• PHP error log not writable by apache resulting in no error logging.
• Broken session failure event loging in multiple session handler functions.
• Missing session login call to slogin() causes ghost sessions.
• Incorrect session handler log messages for slogin().
• AC Tables may retain previous file handle in ac_tables->init_table().
• AC Tables performance or hangs on table queries due to incorrect line count variable type.
• Code quality revision for BAER application.
• Code quality revision for ac_graphs.
• Code quality revision for ac_config.
• Code quality revision for ac_email.
• Code quality revision for ac_tables.
• Failure to duplicate an AC Tables table in Developer Toolkit.
• Deadlocking issue in ac_tables->check() calls.
• Fixed Developer Toolkit ac_tables output format of the timestamps.
• Updated Deveoper Toolkit ac_tables documentation to clarify the use of the "id" column.
• Updated INI writer file locking sequence to avoid deadlocks.
• Package admin modules fail to display current page selection marker in GUI.
• Log Rotation may fail to create required tables and logging functions.
• Missing Certificate Authority directory causes initial setup to fail.