RCE 10.0.0 "Green Monkey" (Sept 22, 2019)

New Features

• Implemented Welcome Screen
• Implemented Icon Caching
• Implemented experimental SSH uplink functionality
• Implement file-based import of credentials and authorization groups
• Let user display group ID for published components in network view
• Allow users to rename logical nodes of an instance

Documentation

• Written first draft of Administrator Guide

Optimization

• Decreased size of serialization of WorkflowGraph
• Perform icon scaling of integrated tools at integration time instead of execution time

Infrastructure

• Upgraded to Jackson 2,10,0, Apache SSHD 2.3.0, Commons-Compress 1.19, ActiveMQ 5.15.10, BouncyCastle 1.64, JSch 0.1.55
• Extended BDD test coverage
• Fixed installation of .deb package on Ubuntu systems
• Fixed declared dependencies of .deb package

Miscellaneous

• Fixed typo in logging message of InputLoader
• Improved error messages in XPathLoader
• Improved parsing of XML files by XML Loader
• Improved user feedback on headless servers
• Set command line flag for profile upgrade to --upgrade-profile
• Prevented bursts of background task execution after suspending and resuming

RCE 9.1.1 (June 26, 2019)

Bugfixes

• Fixed incorrect display of error messages in the tool integration wizard
• Fixed a display error in the workflow data browser that occurred with very short tool executions
• Fixed an error that allowed to edit preconfigured outputs of the Switch component
• Fixed errorneous behavior when opening component help via the context menu
• Minor other fixes

RCE 8.3.0 (July 05, 2019)

TiGL Viewer

• Decoupled the distribution of TiGL Viewer from RCE (i.e., it is not included in RCE releases anymore)
• Made the path of the TiGL Viewer configurable

Libraries

• Migrated all remaining uses of Jackson 1.x to Jackson 2.x (9.x.x backport)
• Upgraded Jackson 2.9.8 to Jackson 2.9.9

Licensing

• Updated license information

Bugfixes

• Fixed minor NPEs

RCE 9.1.0 (June 07, 2019)

TiGL Viewer

• Decoupled the distribution of TiGL Viewer from RCE (i.e., it is not included in RCE releases anymore)
• Made the path of the TiGL Viewer configurable

Licensing

• Updated license information

Bugfixes

• Fixed erroneous "undo" behaviour for database component, integrated tools, switch component, evaluation memory, output writer, converger and XML loader component
• Fixed a bug in accessing tool documentation via SSH connections

RCE 9.0.0 (March 13, 2019)

Workflow Execution

• Workflow execution is now robust against temporary network disconnects and overloaded instances
• It is now explicitly verified that the workflow controller can access all components before starting a workflow
• Added "wf show" command to open the runtime view of an executing workflow
• Improved "wf details" command output
• Improved general error handling

Authorization

• Added group-based authorization for components: Users can create any number of groups, invite each other, and publish their components for specific groups or make them public
• Added a dialog for managing authorization groups
• Added a 'Component Publishing' view. Here one can publish components either as public or assign them to specific authorization groups
• Added console commands for managing authorization groups and component permissions

Tool Integration

• Introduced stricter and more consistent naming rules for component ids/names, versions, and assigned group names. Note that local components that do not match these new rules must be renamed before they can be published again.
• Added "export" option to download and store tool documentation
• Added validation to already existing tool names

Remote Access

• All published tools can now also be accessed over SSH connections
• Tool documentation is now also accessible over SSH connections
• Added "auto-reconnect" option for SSH connections
• Enabled cancelling of remote tools
• For workflows published for remote access, the Palette group can now be configured
• Add a flag to the ra-publish command to prevent "Dispose on Success"

Components

• Added tolerance settings to evaluation memory
• Enhanced placeholder validation and replacement in the output writers data sheet
• New helper components 'SCP Input Loader' and 'SCP Output Collector' for remote access workflows.
• The TiGL Viewer Component does now also accepts file types other than CPACS.

Misc./Internal

• Upgraded the underlying Eclipse platform to Eclipse Photon
• Switched to Java 8u161 as minimum runtime requirement
• Upgraded to Jackson 2
• Made RCE runnable on newer Windows platforms
• Rearranged menus and menu items
• Improved documentation
• Improved Checkstyle ruleset
• Upgraded .deb repository signatures to SHA-256
• Made the internal secure storage more robust, and also usable in headless mode
• Disabled GPG key import and Linux repository setup scripts until they can be properly updated
• Added a solution for parallel handling of binary artifacts with SVN and Git-LFS, removing the need for post-release Git additions
• Ensured proper build and Eclipse workspace import when checking out from the Git mirror repository
• Made the "Test Script Runner" used for self-verification a standard part of all builds
• Added SPDX-compliant license headers to all source files
• Various GUI enhancements

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug that forbid the result verification feature to work with CPACS tools
• Fixed a bug that does not delete the working directory if the XML mapping of integrated CPACS tools fails
• Fixed a bug which lead to leftover workflow files in the RCE temp directory
• Fixed a bug which caused severe performance issues in the workflow execution wizard on GTK systems
• Fixed erroneous "undo" behaviour for optimizer, script and design of experiments component and partially for database component
• Various minor fixes

Profile Data Changes

• Previous component publication entries in configuration.json and published.conf have no effect anymore. Use the new authorization system to re-publish these components as intended. You may need to delete the old publication entries manually to eliminate the (harmless) warnings on RCE startup.
• Due to internal secure storage changes, any stored passwords, placeholder values, and Cluster Job Monitoring entries must be entered again.
• There will be a dialog prompting for a profile upgrade upon first startup of RCE 9.0

RCE 8.2.3 (Nov 15, 2018)

Workflow Engine

• Significantly reduced the RAM usage of workflow and component hosts
• Added rate limiting for remote component initialization to prevent network timeouts in complex workflows
• Fixed an issue that prevented workflows from being cancelled in the "preparing" state

Security

• Addressed several security issues by upgrading libraries and securing the way archives are unpacked internally ("Zip Slip" vulnerability)

Misc/Internal

• Improved, compacted and reduced log output
• Added unit tests for internal archive handling
• Added automatic debug-level logging of large network messages

RCE 8.2.2 (May 30, 2018)

• Upgraded external librariers (Apache MINA, SSHD) to fix an SSH connection issue that occurs due to changes in Java version 8u161

RCE 8.2.1 (May 24, 2018)

• Fixed a bug in the Optimizer component. Lower and upper bounds were not applied properly when using the input data type Vector
• Minor fix in the TiGL Viewer process handling
• Minor logging and other internal improvements

RCE 8.2.0 (Feb 02, 2018)

Synopsis

• Added a new workflow component 'XML Values' to read and write values from XML files
• Improved UI support for exporting simulation data into projects
• Fixed a performance issue in complex workflows with nested loops

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SSH and Remote Access

• Restored the default SSH inactivity timeout of 10 minutes which was accidentally set to 10 seconds in 8.1.0

Tool Integration

• Added the missing 'Queue' input handling to dynamic inputs of integrated CPACS tools

Components

• New workflow component: XML Values
• Enhanced the XPath chooser dialog
• OutputWriter: Added UI support to set the root location relative to the current workspace
• OutputWriter: When writing to a workspace relative root location a placeholder makes the location explicit; relative paths without this placeholder will be rejected in RCE 9 and later.

GUI

• Added 'Import...' and 'Export...' menu entries to the file menu
• Added the Command Console to the views that are openen by default with a fresh profile
• Integrated PDF viewer (PDF4Eclipse): Set a different default renderer to enhance compatibility
• Improved the sorting options of the Workflow Data Browser
• Improved the Timeline view to avoid zooming and refreshing issues
• Added Workflow Data Browser support for exporting to the currently selected folder in the Project Explorer
• Fixed and improved the automatic separation of host and port when filling in the network connection dialog using copy-and-paste

Documentation and Help

• Updated and improved the developer guide regarding Eclipse formatter settings and the Workspace Mechanic plugin

Misc/Internal

• Fixed a performance issue with nested loops that caused workflows with large numbers of inputs/outputs to slow down drastically, sometimes resulting in time outs
• Script components are now also properly reset within nested loops between loop iterations
• Improved stability when shutting down RCE instances quickly after their startup
• Added an internal BDD test scripting feature (still under development) with basic documentation
• Added "--use-default-workspace" launch option for skipping the GUI workspace chooser dialog
• Various improvements to the "Instance Management" feature (still in development), e.g. proper handling of aborted downloads
• Improved TiGLViewer process handling to prevent UI freezes on first start
• Fixed a bug that prevented the execution of workflows with nested loops if there was a high number of connections between the components within the nested loop.
• Fixed some rare unit test failures
• Various code quality, log output, and build process improvements

RCE 8.1.1 (Nov 17, 2017)

• Internal improvements to enhance building RCE as an external developer
• Improved and expanded the user and developer guides
• Fixed bugs in fault tolerant loop's button activation and runtime behavior
• Fixed a bug that caused tools and workflows executed via SSH connections to create an additional (incorrect) directory level when writing to an output
• Fixed a bug in CPACS Tool Integration that caused tool imitation mode not to work properly
• Several minor fixes