Yearly release of mendelson opensource AS4 for 2021
What is new
- Support for colorblindness: Since the icons in the transaction overview
are in red or green and therefore in case of red/green blindness (9% of all
men are affected, 0.8% of all women) overlays with additional symbols can
now be displayed. They are displayed above the colored icons - The structure of the Linux shell scripts for starting the software has been
completely reworked - they can be extended thus in the future more simply - A new notification system for the user interface has been introduced. Most
notifications no longer have to be confirmed via a dialog. Instead, there
is a notification mechanism, where the message is displayed in a colored window
(overlay) in the lower right corner of the main window. - Under File HTTP Server Configuration, it now displayed how to restrict the
inbound TLS protocols - Since it is possible (possibly by mistake) to define different keystores
for the input and output of the system, there is now a warning in the automatic
automatic configuration check if these two keystores do not match. - For expired certificates, there is now additional information in the notification
system and in the system events, so that the user can quickly identify the
certificate - All outgoing HTTPS connections now have SNI (Server Name Indication) support,
as does the connection test - There is a warning if too many directories are monitored in too short a
time. Each monitored directory means a polling process of a directory. If
the monitoring intervals are too short when there are too many partners, either
the time intervals can no longer be observed or the system is only busy polling
directories. This can cause the system to react with timeouts to its own client
or incoming data connections - Better Mac OS integration: On the Mac OS, there is a bar at the top of the
screen for each running software. If contains options for "About" and "Preferences".
These are now provided with the corresponding functions. In addition, the
main menu of the application is now also available at the top of the screen
and no longer directly in the main window. There were also problems when displaying
the icon for the application - In ENTSOG 3.5 it is defined that you CAN have an own URL per PMode (optional
extension) - this has been added
Resolved problems
- Client-Server Interface: Under Cent OS, TLS 1.1 connections are no longer
allowed by default, so the internal communication between the client and server
has been switched to TLS 1.2 - In the certificate manager, a key was generated in the key generation dialog
even if you closed the window with a click on "x" - It was possible to access the underlaying database from other hosts. Now
this is only possible from the host where the application is running. You
can configure/extend this in the file "database.acl" in the installation
directory (if necessary). - There was a problem with the lockfile of a server instance. Another started
server instance recognized the lockfile, but then deleted it. - In dark mode the log color "green" was too pungent and it has
been chosena darker shade - There was a problem establishing an outbound connection if a client authentication
using a certificate was required - When certificate data was in UTF-8, this was displayed in the certificate
management incorrectly - Fixed a problem in the interaction between the internal lib MINA and TLS
1.3 - For some certificates, the internal calculation of the trust chain took
so long that the user got the impression that the client was hiding. The depth
of the trust chain calculation was reduced. It can now can happen in very
rare casesthat no CA is displayed for a certificate, even though it is actually
authenticated. But this is only a display problem and seems to us as a reasonable
solution.
Updated software packages
- Update to commons pool 2.9.0 (database connection pooling)
- Update to commons dbcp 2.8.0 (database connection pooling)
- Update to Apache Batik 1.13 (SVG - scalable images)
- Update to Bouncycastle v1.67 (Crypto API)
- Update to Lucene 8.6.0 (System events)
- Update to MINA 2.1.3 (Client-Server Interface)
- Update to flatlaf 0.45 (Dark mode)
- Update to apache HTTPClient 4.5.13