4.2.0
This introduces a clean mechanism for handling authentication plugins and provides significant speed enhancements.
- ICAT now contains no authentication plugins but it does provide an Authenticator interface for plugin writers. If you plan to use
the new authn_db database authentication plugin you will need to manually move data from the old table to the new passwd table.
- The login call now accepts two parameters, the mnemonic for the authentication plugin and a map of credentials. This change
necessitated the increase in the version number to 4.2.
- There was a serious performance bug in release 4.1 and to a lesser extent in 4.0. In both case this affected read operations -
search and get. This bug in the marshalling of the XML has now been addressed.
- Previously JMS messages had the property "query" set to the primary key and the actual query value was not available. They are now
assigned correctly to the properties "query" and "entityId".
- You will need an up-to-date version of JAX-WS such as the one packaged with Glassfish 3.1.2
- The main database schema is almost unchanged. The only difference is that some text fields have been made larger.
- A bug has been fixed in the handling of enum types in expressions.
4.1.1
This is a bug fix to release 4.1.0.
- Aggregate functions (MIN, MAX, AVG, COUNT etc) no longer generate an internal exception.
- Minor improvements to the installation documentation.
4.1.0
This is the first release of ICAT4 which is meant to be approaching production quality.
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More changes to the API - too numerous to list here providing
- support for pluggable authn,
- support for rule based authz,
- support for notifications and
- a powerful search mechanism
- Database independent
- More regular schema with simple provenance mechanism
4.0
Technology
preview release - not for production use
3.3.4
- Changed the JPA provider from TopLink to EclipseLink
- Removed Dataportal from the installation
