App Suite Middleware

3rd Party Libraries/License Change

SCR-1409

Summary: Apache Commons Lang 2.6 removed from target platform

The library Apache Commons Lang 2.6 has been removed from the target platform. The code should be migrated to Apache Commons Lang 3.x.

All known dependencies have already been resolved in previous releases.

SCR-1404

Summary: Updated JCTools in target platform

Updated JCTools (Java Concurrency Tools for the JVM) from v4.0.3 to v4.0.5 in target platform

SCR-1394

Summary: Updated lettuce library from v6.3.1 to v6.3.2

Updated lettuce library from v6.3.1 to v6.3.2 in bundle io.lettuce

  • lettuce-core-6.3.2.RELEASE.jar

SCR-1393

Summary: Updated Netty libraries from v4.1.106 to v4.1.111

Updated Netty libraries from v4.1.106 to v4.1.111 in bundle io.netty

  • netty-buffer-4.1.111.Final.jar
  • netty-codec-4.1.111.Final.jar
  • netty-codec-dns-4.1.111.Final.jar
  • netty-codec-http2-4.1.111.Final.jar
  • netty-codec-http-4.1.111.Final.jar
  • netty-codec-socks-4.1.111.Final.jar
  • netty-common-4.1.111.Final.jar
  • netty-handler-4.1.111.Final.jar
  • netty-handler-proxy-4.1.111.Final.jar
  • netty-resolver-4.1.111.Final.jar
  • netty-resolver-dns-4.1.111.Final.jar
  • netty-transport-4.1.111.Final.jar
  • netty-transport-native-unix-common-4.1.111.Final.jar

SCR-1389

Summary: Removed jboss library

The library jboss-jms-api.jar is no longer needed. Therefore, it has been removed.

SCR-1212

Summary: Update BouncyCastle Libraries to Latest

Bouncy Castle Libraries have been updated to include several bug fixes.  Want to update Bouncy Libraries to version 1.78.1

  • bcmail-jdk18on-1.78.1.jar
  • bcpg-jkd180n-1.78.1.jar
  • pcpkix-jkd180n-1.78.1.jar
  • bcprov-ext REMOVED, use bcprov.  ext was extended support of old methods and no longer required
  • bcprov-jkd180n-1.78.1.jar
  • bcutil-jkd180n-1.78.1.jar

API - HTTP-API

SCR-1406

Summary: Added an client defined expiration time to /token?action=acquireToken

The parameter expiry was added to the request acquireToken. Thus, a client is able to define an individual expiry for a login token, see also /login?action=redeemToken. The expiry parameter will only be considered if the value is less the configured value through com.openexchange.tokenlogin.maxIdleTime

SCR-1405

Summary: Renamed parameter in '/login?action=redeemToken'

The parameter secret has been renamed to appId since it is more fitting to the nature of the parameter. secret can still be used, but is deprecated from now on. It will be removed in upcoming releases.

SCR-1403

Summary: New field 'priority' in Event model of HTTP API

The Event model of the HTTP API is extended by a new field named priority. Its value defines the relative priority of the calendar event with the following semantics (see RFC 5545, section 3.8.1.9 for further details):

This priority is specified as an integer in the range 0 to 9. A value of 0 specifies an undefined priority. A value of 1 is the highest priority. A value of 2 is the second highest priority. Subsequent numbers specify a decreasing ordinal priority. A value of 9 is the lowest priority.

SCR-1401

Summary: Removal of transport "websocket" from "pns" API

The transport "websocket" in "pns" API was marked as deprecated with SCR-1297. It is now removed with version 8.27.

Behavioral Changes

SCR-1412

Summary: Caches Transformed to Redis

In an iterative approach, more and more caches are being outsourced from middleware node-local caches (JCS), towards a centralized caching architecture using Redis.

Consequently, the memory requirements for the Redis pods are going to increase - with this, as well as in upcoming releases.

Therefore, it is recommended to increase the memory assigned to the Redis pods via Helm charts ({}resources.limits{} and/or {}resources.requests{}), and to monitor the memory consumption of the Redis pods closely, e.g. by utilizing the exposed metrics like {}redis_memory_used_dataset_bytes{}.

Configuration

SCR-1408

Summary: Added new config option controlling whether to use HTML on reply/forward if preferred

Added new lean config option:

  • com.openexchange.mail.useHtmlOnReplyForwardIfPreferred That boolean config option controls whether to use HTML on reply/forward to/of text-only E-Mails if HTML is chosen as preferred message format. Default value is false. That property is both - reloadable and config-cascade aware.

SCR-1383

Summary: New Property com.openexchange.redis.resilientDatabase

In order to configure an alternative database number for Redis/KeyDB, the following lean configuration property is introduced:

com.openexchange.redis.resilientDatabase

This property allows to configure an alternative database number to use for unrecoverable data like sessions that might be replayed to remote sites in sharded environments with multiple data centers ("Active/Active").

Especially, data stored there would be resilient when flushing the default database after recovering from failover situations.

Databases are only available for Redis stand-alone and Redis Master/Slave.

A negative number means no specific database.

The property defaults to -1, which means that no separate database number is used. It is neither reloadable, nor config-cascade-aware.

Database

SCR-1411

Summary: Added an account index to various calendar tables for improved look-up

Added an index for columns cid and account to following calendar tables for improved look-up:

  • calendar_event
  • calendar_event_tombstone
  • calendar_attendee
  • calendar_attendee_tombstone
  • calendar_alarm
  • calendar_alarm_trigger
  • calendar_conference

SCR-1402

Summary: New Column 'priority' for Database Tables 'calendar_event' and 'calendar_event_tombstone'

The database tables calendar_event and calendar_event_tombstone are extended with a new column as follows:

`priority` INT4 UNSIGNED DEFAULT NULL

This is done through the following update task:

com.openexchange.chronos.storage.rdb.groupware.CalendarEventAddPriorityColumnTask

Packaging/Bundles

SCR-1388

Summary: Removed obsolete bundle 'com.google.gdata'

The bundle com.google.gdata is no longer in use and therefore is removed, along with its reference from package/feature {}open-xchange-oauth{}.