The release notes provide information on the features and improvements in the specified version. The release dates that are related to the version of the release are published in the Study guide release schedule.
Improvements
The issues in release mentioned under the section improvements are considered as new functionality, user experience improvements or bug fixes. Issues marked as hotfix are developed in this sprint but applied to the previous release or directly to production, depending on impact.
Optimize batched import (synchronisation) - SG-546, SG-547, SG-552
A number of changes had been applied to the batch import option that is used for ad-hoc or nightly synchronisation of Curriculum data to the Study guide. The execution and management of the synchronisation has been moved to a dedicated server. This eases the management and reporting on the synchronisations executed. A centralised dashboard provides insight in all executed synchronisations including failures that occurred. Another positive side-effect is that the synchronisation itself is reduced in execution time.
For scheduled synchronisation jobs no effect (except the mentioned benefits) are visible for the administrator. For ad-hoc synchronisations the job will handed over to the general server and the report line stating the synchronisation is started will only appear after the general server has started the job. This means that after starting it can take between 10 - 60 seconds for the report line to appear.
Security
An integral part of our development and build process is automatic scanning for known security vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities will be fixed based on their impact, which means that in some cases an immediate hot-fix will be applied, and in other cases the vulnerability will be fixed in the current or next Sprint (release). The security section provides an overview of the vulnerabilities mitigated.
For more information on reported vulnerabilities, see the central database of vulnerabilities.
During this release no vulnerabilities were reported that require mitigation.
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