Product Update - v21.27

Details of the product update v21.27 from 8th of July 2021.

Improvements and Updates

Node.js Sailor 2.6.26

We released a new Node.js Sailor 2.6.26 which improves the communication and speed with queueing system. In particular with new sailor we:

Return to consume-based approach in communication with RabbitMQ.
Improve the re-connections to RabbitMQ.

Here is the NPM package release link.

Executions page slow loading

With the 21.27 release we improved the loading speeds of the execution threads. In this scope the following improvements were done:

Optimised the internal communications between the UI and back-end services.
The revised and improved the threads list (execution page) and individual threads pages.
The default time intervals for listing the threads is now 7 days instead of previous 30 days.

We also added a new environment variable to the system (BRAN_RETENTION_MONTHS_MESSAGES) This variable defines the number of months to store the data for Executions page. The default value is 1 (1 month).

Fixed Bugs

Addressed the failed to fetch step_id and related problems from amqp routing key in case when an old node.js sailor (earlier than 2.3.0) library is used in the component.
Fixed the problem of hard-coded session secret. A new required environment variable FRONTEND_SESSION_SECRET is introduced.

Components

REST API component

FIXED OAuth2 authentication strategy limitation: refresh_token property is now optional for Access Token Response (also optional in OAuth2 standard).

Delta Detection Component

REFACTORED to maester-client library based on object-storage-client library.
UPDATED to sailor version 2.6.24.