Cloudomation Release Notes

2020/03 Version 2

Breaking Changes

• Changes in pricing
  Pricing based on productive executions of tasks replaced the token-based pricing model. Productive task executions are called “connections”.  The “Token Report” section was removed from the UI.
  Ref: CLOUD-2145
• Removed “inputs” resource
  The “messages” and “inputs” resources were merged into a combined resource called “messages”. The new messages resource provides additional functionality to design message forms to request a response from Cloudomation users.
  Ref: CLOUD-1622

New Features

• Development mode
  Tasks can be executed in development and productive mode. Task executions (connections) in development mode are free of charge.
  Ref: CLOUD-2059
• User Interface redesign
  The user interface was overhauled with a new color scheme and a cleaner design.
  Ref: CLOUD-2991

• Extended upload and download functionality
  Users can now upload and download flow scripts, settings, and files through the UI directly in the respective views.
  Ref: CLOUD-1306, CLOUD-2330
• Editable files
  Text files in the “files” resource can now be edited in the Cloudomation UI.
  Ref: CLOUD-1480

• Standard API documentation
  Cloudomation API now provides OpenAPI schema and SwaggerUI.
  Ref: CLOUD-2027
• Advanced search in list views & REST API
  All list views in the UI and the Cloudomation REST API now support filter expressions.
  Ref: CLOUD-11
• Filter expressions in flow API
  All flow-api list calls now support filter expressions.
  Ref: CLOUD-1646
• Improved dependency overview
  Users can now see live which dependencies a flow script is currently waiting for, as well as which dependencies it waited for in the past.
  Ref: CLOUD-2044
• Display of recent executions in flow record
  The flow record view now shows the last 3 executions of that flow.
  Ref: CLOUD-601
• Two-factor authentication
  Users can now activate two-factor authentication for logging into Cloudomation.
  Ref: CLOUD-2558
• Parse pdf in flow script
  Users can now parse the contents of pdf files directly in flow scripts.
  Ref: CLOUD-2525
• REST multipart POST upload
  The REST task type now supports multipart post uploads.
  Ref: CLOUD-2524
• Powershell task type
  Users can now access Windows machines via Windows Remote Management and execute Powershell scripts.
  Ref: CLOUD-1851
• Kubernetes task type
  Users can now manage Kubernetes directly in flow scripts.
• PostgreSQL task type
  Users can now access PostgreSQL databases directly from flow scripts.
  Ref: CLOUD-1620
• Google API task type with Oauth2
  Users can now use all Google APIs, and authenticate against Google APIs with oauth2.
  Ref: CLOUD-392
• Email attachments
  Users can now send emails with attachments directly from flow scripts. 
  Ref: CLOUD-1082
• Created/modified timestamps for all records
  All resources now provide created at/created by and modified at/modified by fields.
  Ref: CLOUD-815
• Protect API against denial-of-service
  The load-balancer now enforces rate-limits.
  Ref: CLOUD-699
• Improved pagination display for long lists
  The pagination control will skip pages when there are more than 9 pages. The pagination will always show buttons for the first two pages, last two pages, two before the current page, and two after the current page.
  Ref: CLOUD-733
• Changed database backend
  Improved scalability by migrating to PostgreSQL as a database backend.
  Ref: CLOUD-2016

Bug Fixes

• Files resource now refreshes when modified
  In contrast to all other resources, the files resource did not push updates to the UI. This is now fixed.
  Ref: CLOUD-1086 Files resource does not refresh when modified
• Order of opened records fixed on page refresh
  Previously, page refreshes changed the order of opened records. Opened records now stay sorted when the page is refreshed.
  Ref: CLOUD-1085 page refresh reorders open flows
• Files resource can now handle several executions requesting the same file
  Previously, only one execution could request a file at any one time.
  Ref: CLOUD-2612 file_futures cannot handle two executions requesting the same file at the same time
• Cancelling paused executions now cancels them immediately
  Previously, paused executions could only be cancelled after resuming them.
  Ref: CLOUD-1429 cancel paused execution is done only after execution “resume”
• Fixed sorting of numerical columns
  Sorting of columns of various types was fixed (numbers, timestamp, duration, filesize).
  Ref: CLOUD-136 sort number column as number (not string)