Kodex EE Releases

This page contains information about Kodex releases.

This is a bugfix release:

Fix a problem in the database administration view that would cause an unexpected error when toggling the database selection on the right.

This is a feature release:

Default roles are now applied to all newly created objects.
SSO group mappings are also performed for the SSO superuser group. I.e. if you are in the superuser group, you will nevertheless receive any additional organization roles defined for that group in the SSO group mapping. Before, members of the superuser group were excluded from this mapping process.

This is a bugfix release:

Fix a problem with the 0002 migration of the SSO plugin that tried to creat indices that already exist.

Release v0.3.4 requires a database migration.

These are bugfix releases:

Fix a problem with a missing settings entry for the SSO database, leading to the SSO database migrations not being shown in the web app.
Fix a problem with the object roles, which did not support the editor role.

This is a bugfix and feature release, adding the following functionality and fixes:

Migration Script Generation: It is possible to generate SQL migration scripts directly in the Kodex application, making it easier to manually run the required migrations.
Fixes in project roles: The project role generation now works as intended.
Fixed in default roles: The default role generation now works as intended.
UI improvements: The sidebar menu and navbar were improved.

This is a planned feature release, adding the following functionality to the Kodex application:

Role-based workflow management: Implements role-based workflow management for all projects. Users can define project roles based on organization roles, enabling e.g. validation workflows when defining new pseudonymization configurations. This change also introduces advanced versioning of data models, which is required to enable the workflow management.
Default role creation: Implements creation of default roles for specific object types in an organization. Superusers can define default object roles for specific object types that will be applied to all created objects of the type. This enables superusers to define standard roles e.g. for reviewers, which will be automatically assigned based on organization roles of specific users.

This release requires a database migration.

The following new data models were introduced with this release:

Change Requests: Change requests can be attached to any object in Kodex and describe a proposed change to that object. They are used in the role-based workflow management. Users without administrative privileges that cannot directly change specific objects (e.g. a blueprint) can instead propose a change. Users with the reviewer role (which includes administrators) can then review this change and approve or reject it.
Default Object Roles: As described above, default roles describe the set of object roles that will be attached to a newly created object in an organization. This allows us to define user roles on projects based on organization roles.

The following new endpoints were introduced in the Kodex API with this release:

Change Requests: API endpoints to create, view, edit and delete change requests. Every object (project, stream, action) has a new set of URLs to work with change requests, e.g. GET /api/v1/projects/<project-id>/change-requests will return all change requests for the given project, POST /api/v1/projects/<project-id>/change-requests will create a new change request for a project, DELETE /api/v1/projects/<project-id>/change-requests/<request-id> will delete a change request.
Default Object Roles: API endpoints to create, view, edit and delete default object roles. GET /api/v1/orgs/<org-id>/default-roles will return all default object roles for an organization, POST /api/v1/orgs/<org-id>/default-roles/<object-type> will create a new object role for a given object type (e.g. project), DELETE /api/v1/orgs/<org-id>/default-roles/<role-id> will delete a default role.

The following changes were introduced in the Kodex user interface:

to be done, will be updated shortly

This is a bugfix release:

Fix the version of the go-helpers library, which was outdated in the 0.2.16 release causing an issue with environment variables when launching Kodex.

This is a bugfix release:

Fix a problem with single-sign-on (SSO) that caused an unmitigated error in the frontend:
- Under some circumstances, the REST API returned two concatenated JSON responses containing error information, notably when a given SSO session expired. This led the response parsing to fail in the web application, which in turn caused the application to get stuck in the verification screen.
- The backend code was fixed to only return a single JSON object with additional error information that can be properly parsed by the web application in these cases.
- An expired SSO session will now properly trigger the web application to start the re-authentication workflow.