Release Notes of Invantive^® Basics 22.1.83-BETA

Version 22.1.83-BETA, released 2022-09-19.

Enhancements:
- Add Bouw7 and Fiscaal Gemak.
- Add Danish, Finnish, Norwegian Bokmal and Swedish.
- Add Gripp CRM.
- Add increase time-out handling.
- Add initial log message to AWS CloudWatch.
- Add Japanese.
- Add license elements for Exact Online Premium.
- Add message code itgenclr133.
- Add tabel HTTPDownloadHistory@DataDictionary.
- Add Tweede Kamer NL API to default keys.
- Add Tweede Kamer provider.
- Add Tweede Kamer Public Data driver.
- Add user agent for client hints.
- Add YouTrack provider.
- Add zlib_compress and zlib_decompress SQL-functions.
- Async improvements on session state.
- Auto-clean local cache of Invantive Customer Service tips.
- Differentiate error message codes when missing.
- Enable action button on user messages.
- Extend trace context to 10 parameters.
- Extend trace logging by partition code.
- Extend various cache storages by optional auto-purge.
- Forward cancellation tokens and allow shuffling of parallel sections.
- Ignore HTTP response disposed exceptions during error handling.
- Improve logging on, error messages.
- Improve user interface language defaulting.
- Include request ID in CloudWatch log.
- Increase initial number of threads for faster HTTP performance at startup.
- Option to simplify IPv4 represented as IPv6.
- Reduce post-mortem trace messages.
- Remove Visma eAccounting.
- Retrieve provider-specific tips.
- Shuffle partitions when requested.
- Simplify text of message itgenlic717 on license expired.
- Store AWS CloudWatch errors log in trace folder instead of (random) default folder.
- Try more intensive to log unfinished trace events when exiting.
- User client caching of Customer Service tip lookups.

Bug fixes:
- Avoid itgenclr060 on Linux when logging native calls.
- Avoid NRE on support email address.
- Avoid NRE on trace logging to AWS CloudWatch.
- Avoid spinning when creating log stream in AWS CloudWatch.
- Fix endless recursion on raising error on assembly check.
- Fix itgenclr008 error on retrieving SYSTEMDATACONTAINERHTTPCACHECONTENTS.
- Fix itgenclr060 DllNotFound on Linux when querying SystemProperties@DataDictionary.
- Fix itgenclr060 on tick count on Linux.
- Fix itgenrst007 on SessionIOs@DataDictionary.
- Fix not able to log in on Exact Online due to changed login screen.
- Fix NRE during file maintenance.
- Fix NRE on logging startup messages to AWS CloudWatch.
- Fix paging on SnelStart.
- Improve discovery of database definition changes.
- Improve error message.
- Improve getting ultimate message code.
- Improve retrieving translations on BOL/Cloud.
- Make arabic again available as display language.
- Prevent itgenlic818 error on invalid SSL settings.
- Reduce AWS log file contention.
- Remove obsoleted Octopus SOAP driver.

Version 22.0.2, released 2022-01-26.

Enhancements:
- Release 22.0.

Version 20.2.247, released 2022-01-04.

Enhancements:
- Add checks on XML directory validity.
- Add configuration variable INVANTIVE_TRACE_STDERR to send trace logging to stderr.
- Add error message on failed calls.
- Add Estonia to service area.
- Add HTTP status code 590 error handling.
- Add message code itgenclr127 for TaskCanceledException.
- Add message codes for some new COM exceptions.
- Add NDJSON export format.
- Add online help queries on forums.
- Add Oracle .NET Core driver.
- Allow canceling execution of queries.
- Allow use of pool identity ID in file name masks.
- Cancellation on pending requests.
- Change execution log and native call logging to NDJSON format.
- Implement HTTP 304 on If-Modified-Since and ETag.
- Improve itgenlic155 error message.
- Improve language code determination for Exact Online.
- Improve license title when no license is set.
- Increase throughput of AWS CloudWatch Log.
- Reduce garbage collection.
- Reduce locking on forwarding trace messages.
- Switch from .net 5 to .net 6 for non-framework deployments.
- Switch to IPv6.
- Write logging as NDJSON.

Bug fixes:
- Add license key check on Visma.net Financials and Knack for discovery.
- Avoid NullReferenceException deploying on Linux with incorrect license key.
- Check if user has rights on connect to Autotask.
- Correctly determine need to execute check itgenrst046.
- Fix incidental HTTP 400 error on token exchange.
- Fix RFC 850 date format for HTTP headers.
- Improve file handling of session IO log.
- Reduce lookup frequency of environment variable value for direct trace.

Version 20.1.538-BETA, released 2021-04-11.

Enhancements:
- Add .NET Core 5.0.
- Add AWS logger.
- Add compiler-options detection.
- Add driver instance-specific session I/O cumulatives.
- Add error handling when CloudWatch is down.
- Add exception class for SQL failures.
- Add helper for RFC 850 date time.
- Add HTTP status 599 support.
- Add log file and trace file name path to Data Hub end-user failure reports.
- Add log text stream.
- Add lookup of HSTS preload status to Internettable.
- Add new_time SQL function and support a wide variety of time zones.
- Add option to close application on console menus.
- Add OS version to trace log to ease analysis of issues.
- Add prefix differentiation for HTTP disk cache.
- Add public query parameters to session I/O in data dictionary.
- Add simulator for OData 401 errors.
- Add source to email address validation.
- Add utcoffset function.
- Add Zoom provider.
- Allow use of 0 and 1 for itgenrst0xx check configuration on environment variables.
- Automatically accept all compression methods on .NET 5.
- Better clean email addresses.
- Check validity of pool identity ID.
- Cleared nullables.
- CSV encode and decode SQL functions.
- Deviating title on sign up per step.
- Differentiate discovered database per version.
- Display deviating error message when license key has been disabled.
- Enable changing domains on Yuki.
- Enable free space on system disk check during startup using environment variable INVANTIVE_MIN_GB_FREE_SYSTEM.
- Enable overrule of UI language by environment variable INVANTIVE_ALLOWED_LANGUAGE_CODES.
- Extend email address verification.
- Improve determination of environment variable values on ASP.Net CORE.
- Improve error handling on invalid JSON in response cache across releases.
- Improve handling of customer service messages.
- Improve message on "Key not in a valid state".
- Include kind request from aggregate exceptions.
- Introduce INVANTIVE_CONFIGURATION_PERMANENT_CACHE_FOLDER and INVANTIVE_CONFIGURATION_INCREMENTAL_DATA_FOLDER environment variables for configuring location of permanent cache (such as Swagger specifications) and incremental data (such as Exact Online sync APIs).
- Log native calls also to disk.
- Make application/xml MIME type text.
- Make correction of invalid dates possible using invantive-sql-correct-invalid-date setting.
- Make locker readonly.
- Make many early compatibility checks fatal.
- Memorize last action.
- Optimizations for incremental loading of data.
- Optimize global state stubs.
- Optimize performance by reducing global state allocations.
- Optimize performanec by reducing global state allocations.
- Reduce CPU usage of trace when idle.
- Reduce length of disk cache file names.
- Refactoring to provide status code to native requests.
- Rename Open Data to Public Data.
- Retry on itgencsy020: Internet time can not be determined.
- Return clearer error when license key has been disabled.
- Rewrite ObjectDisposedException on web fetch to connection closed event.
- Split system and SQL errors.
- SQL HTML encode/decode.
- Try to determine application name and version better when exiting.
- Type and check payload type of HTTP response cache objects.

Bug fixes:
- Added missing hints for MFA page
- Avoid duplicate inclusion of error.
- Avoid duplicate inclusion of message code in errors.
- Avoid NullReference when deserializing JSON.
- Control: Add check workbook structure tool button to check if all required worksheets are registered.
- Do not crash when an invalid value is specified for INVANTIVE_TRACE*.
- Do not include kind request twice in Invantive Cloud errors.
- Fix .NET 5.0 preprocessor directive.
- Fix default license keys for new Public Data subscriptions.
- Fix itgeneon001.
- Fix registering session I/Os in NDJSON.
- Improve concurrency of URL lob cache and other caches by name.
- Improve license present determination.
- Improve locking on session variables.
- Improve Windows 10 detection.
- QT/Control: Fix partition selection.

Version 17.33.329-BETA, released 2019-12-11.

Enhancements:
- Add AccountView.net [ITGEN-4652].
- Add analysis features for HTTP disk cache usage per connector in data dictionary.
- Add Cloud API.
- Add Interbase.
- Add Mac OSX support.
- Add Outlook provider.
- Allow check on maximum length of file name and path combined.
- Allow specification of data container alias to derive IUID from in settings.xml on database level using 'iuidSource' attribute.
- Allow use of custom RSA implementation by setting environment variable INVANTIVE_RSA to "INVANTIVE".
- Allow use of custom RSA key for encrypting long messages.
- Breadcrumbs and translations.
- Bridge Online provider.
- Clarify license encryption error message itgenale013.
- Disable Data Replicator on synchronize statement.
- Disable TLS 1.1 support. SSL and TLS 1.0 were already disabled in 2018.
- Fine-tune messages for locations where Invantive services are not available.
- Ignore more disk cache encryption problems.
- Improve null value handling from/to base64 encoding.
- Improve performance of Invantive Control tables.
- Improve symmetric encryption
- Include global state in event arguments to improve window ownership.
- Increase trial duration from 30 to 90 days.
- Indicate that encrypted value is a license key instead of the default 'password' text on decryption failure.
- Measure duration of encrypt/decrypt operations for HTTP disk cache.
- Restrict number of times a user message is displayed in client editions.
- SQL: Add htmltable table function.
- Update Open Data license keys to include Producer Runtime.
- Update to .NET Core 3.1.
- Use separate keychain for V2 encryption to allow mutual use of old and new releases on one device

Bug fixes:
- Add license and object property checks on synchronize statement.
- Also deliver messages from last 15 seconds of session to Customer Service.
- Avoid IndexOutOfRangeException during thread abortion on compression.
- Avoid InvalidCastException during error handling.
- Avoid ObjectDisposedException during exception handling.
- Change default date format for Excel exports from US to EU format.
- Default current page number to 1 when determining the next page URL.
- Exclude reference to ClickOnce from license mail.
- Improve compatibility of RSA keys between .NET Standard and .NET Framework.
- Improve defaulting of license limits to null instead of 0 to fix itgenyst007 in Data Replicator.
- Load and check license [ITGEN-4399].
- ProcessQueuedMessages runs multiple times in parallel when Power BI retrieves multiple data sets in parallel from Invantive Bridge Online [ITGEN-4303].
- Remove checks itgenilr005 and itgenilr006.
- Simplify aggregate exceptions when possible.

Version 17.31.129-BETA, released 2019-02-04.

Enhancements:
- Add global support by basing times of Data Replicator on UTC instead of local time.
- Add header to Invantive encryption of long messages in IVEC0001 format.
- Add utility for parallel tasks with aggregated exceptions.
- Added state constructor methods for ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core.
- Allow separate specification of folder with database specifications.
- Allow specification of billing reference.
- Allow specification of iiid, osuser, sessionid and frontenduser in configuration environment variables.
- Differentiate between maximum accepted and maximum desired URL length for HTTP-based platforms.
- Differentiate MIME type for Content-Type and Accept header.
- Display partition code in error message [ITGEN-3990].
- Improve error message on invalid content for decryption.
- Improve licenses on Linux.
- Improve performance by reduced use of DateTime.Now.
- Include SQL fragment causing error in error message.
- Memorize content type of HTTP requests.
- Register OData4 URL processed by Bridge Online [ITGEN-4305].
- Split cache files for HTTP disk cache and Data Cache.
- Upgrade components.
- Upgrade to Microsoft.net 4.7.2.

Bug fixes:
- Allow use of direct trace during tear-down phase.
- Avoid "Collection Modified" error when querying Audit trail messages.
- Correct clock measurement against atomic clock.
- Delay Customer Service when calling sender repeatedly [ITGEN-4281].
- Fix NullReferenceException in HTTP caches when answer could not previously be stored.
- Fix race condition in anonymizing URL.
- Fix serialization issue after obfuscation.
- Improve .NET Core compliance.
- Improve thread-safety of concurrent dictionaries.

Version 17.30.20, released 2018-12-27.

Enhancements:
- Add automatic time correction based upon Internet time of Invantive servers.
- Include fetch parameters in session I/O logging.

Bug fixes:
- Avoid itgenhhr023 error when testing headless.
- URL encode '!', '(' and ')' [ITGEN-3256].

Version 17.28.41, released 2018-10-22.

Enhancements:
- Allow transport of application across Invantive Web Service.
- More diagnostics on Invantive Keychain issues.
- Reduce clock duration on dependency injection for improved startup performance.

Bug fixes:
- Avoid casting errors when simplifying aggregate exception data.
- Avoid NullReference on untrusted devices.
- Avoid NullReferenceException in audit logging.
- Ensure that cut out of string always has the right length.
- Fix Null Reference exception retrieving partitions.

Version 17.26.19, released 2018-09-09.

Enhancements:
- Add simplification of aggregated exceptions.
- Add string_split table function.
- Extend string library with remove characters from any char array.
- Improve formatting of errors with nested errors by adding line feed.
- Improve performance of HTTP input value extraction using 'name'.
- Improve performance of retrieval of HTML INPUT parameters on large HTML pages.
- Include metric dimensions in history of audit events.
- Include more trace messages being logged at application exit in trace.
- Include software requirements.
- Increase maximum size of result sets to above 4 billion rows.
- Standardize JSON format for export to ignore null values.

Bug fixes:
- Add proper escaping of reserved words across all SQL platforms.
- Avoid NullReferenceException in tracing during high load in parallel scenarios.
- Avoid repeating line prefix in trace when already printed.

Version 17.24.45, released 2018-07-12.

Enhancements:
- Add base class for JSON debugging.
- Add Id and ProtocolVersion to HTTP disk cache files.
- Add number of HTTP disk and memory cache incorrect version and content counters to providers.
- Add Open Data license to Query Tool and Data Loader.
- Add option to remove key for Invantive Keychain from Microsoft Windows key container.
- Add Sample Dummy data source to Invantive Business.
- Allow ignore errors from File Access Information determination to avoid itgenube078 errors in Query Tool on restricted Windows environments.
- Allow use of a machine-based key pair for cryptographic operations [ITGEN-3094].
- Avoid collateral damage by allowing ignore errors during adding values to an exception's data dictionary.
- Enable configuration of startup checks.
- Ignore exception during collection of HTTP properties on exception [ITGEN-2986].
- Improve performance of trace logging from within Visual Studio by an order of magnitude.
- Make trace logging async from program execution and improve throughput.
- Register Data Container ID and Log On Code in HTTP response cache object to improve correct matching for re-use of disk caches.

Bug fixes:
- Avoid Method not found: 'System.ValueTuple`2 Invantive.Basics.HttpHelper.DownloadUrlToByteArray(System.String)'.
- Improve unwrapping of aggregate exceptions in error handling.
- Raise error when trying to log direct trace to a directory instead of a file.


Details of Release Notes:


Version 17.24.38:
Improve performance of trace logging from within Visual Studio by an order of magnitude.
Background:
20K lines
Unattached: 11 sec
Optimized code: 16 sec
Original: >200 sec

Version 17.23.27, released 2018-06-08.

Enhancements:
- Add thread ID to session I/Os.
- Add UTC time to system/myinfo endpoint.
- Allow filtering on data container ID when downloading feeds on Data Replicator.
- Allow inheritance of inner message codes.
- Allow overruling of OS platform for .NET Core through environment variable INVANTIVE_FORCED_OS.
- Enable trace gathering during startup phase.
- Forward Customer Service validation messages to end user.
- Improve concurrency of Dependency Injection.
- Larger batching of logging messages for massive parallel environments.
- Performance improvements Exact Online for massive parallel environments.
- Support for OAuth Code Grant Flow from AngularJS.

Bug fixes:
- Avoid StackOverflow when enabling direct trace on Power BI.
- Earlier start of sending session I/O statistics.
- Improve web products performance by caching outcome of Info Response.
- Reduce memory allocations by trace on exceptions.

Version 17.14.80, released 2018-02-16.

Enhancements:
- Add Direct Trace to ease analysis of startup problems using the environment variable INVANTIVE_DIRECT_TRACE_FILE_PATH.
- Allow differentiating log files based on the process ID.
- Allow platform specific location of Cache, Providers and Log.
- Obsolete TLS 1.0 support.
- Reduce memory leak by Webhook Receiver Daemon [ITGEN-2431].
- Send all logging in one go instead of one each time [ITGEN-1161].
- Show provider attribute categories in logon screen.

Bug fixes:
- Enable StringifyFormat.JoinNull to correctly handle enum lists.
- Error itgencun016: Could not determine Data Replicator messages [ITGEN-2487].
- Prevent using connection pooling on Invantive Estate through the Invantive Web Service tunnel.
- Reduce lock contention on session I/O registration.
- Reduce number of AggregateExceptions thrown with 1 exceptions.
- Reduce number of signature checks on DLLs.
- There was an error reflecting type 'Invantive.Data.ResultSet' [ITGEN-2395].

Version 17.13.1, released 2017-12-22.

Enhancements:
- Allow configuration of stack trace logging through environment variable INVANTIVE_TRACE_OWN_EXCEPTION_DETAILS.

Bug fixes:
- Define central configuration file folder.

Version 17.12.21, released 2017-12-20.

Enhancements:
- Batch mode for insert on Exact Online.

Bug fixes:
- Fix bug when compressing results where results length = 0.
- Fix determination of domain name for web applications.
- Remove leading backslash from machine name when no domain name present.

Version 17.11.3, released 2017-11-22.

Bug fixes:
- Avoid loss of measured session I/Os not being forwarded during high intensity loads.

Version 17.10.16-RC, released 2017-10-17.

Enhancements:
- Add date occurred at server local time to Data Replicator messages.
- Cache HTTP requests also on disk.
- Enable delete of Data Replicator messages.
- Make compression of HTTP cache configurable.
- Remove dependency on System.Web to allow .NET Standard 2.0.

Bug fixes:
- Give ID of new session I/O an incrementing value.