COMMON-2022JUN

• Obsolescence management
  • Maven (3.8.5)
  • Eclipse (4.23) 
  • Removal of loki library – Replacement with standard C++11 functionality
  • Python Dependencies (10)
  • Java Dependencies (11)
• C++ Logging
  • Performance study 
  • New C++ logging macro allowing to reuse logger instance
  • Performance improvement in logger XML parsing
• C++ modernization and best practices
  • The "using" statement was removed from header files
  • ACE_TSS replaced by C++11 TLS (Thread Local Storage)
  • Loki singleton replaced by C++11 functionality
  • ACS exceptions passed by reference
• ACS Command Center to properly handle Python output
• Component Caller API security proposal
• BulkDataNTOpenDDS now aligned with several improvements from BulkDataNT (RTI DDS) implementation
• Modules' test stabilization (10+ additional tests now working properly)

COMMON-2022AUG:

• Maintenance
  • RHEL 8 bug-fixes
  • Prevent flooding of logs from Castor
  • Prevent errors parsing log4j configuration files
  • Clean up of warnings in ACS' codebase
  • Component Caller fix for current version of Tornado
• Component Caller API - Security Proposal
• Component generator is now installed with ACS
  • Added Characteristic Component and BACI Properties support
• Maven and PyPI deploy version now configurable with ACS_DEPLOY_VERSION variable
• ACS Exception stack trace in Python should now be easier to read

COMMON-2022OCT

• Maintenance
  • Avoid pyenv rehash on ACS installation directories when there are no permissions
  • EventConverter now logs events being handled and problems during handling
  • Use official Python site-packages directory (lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages)
    • Symlink lib/python → lib/pythonX.Y available for transition period
  • MonitoringSyncTool base schema fallback fixed
  • Codegen MANIFEST.MF no longer appears as modified after building ACS
  • Component generator improvements for Java
• Python coverage support for 'make test' is enabled with ACS_COVERAGE variable
  • Intended to use with build system only
• Obsolescence Management
  • Java Dependencies (14)
    • ACS JMS deprecated selector (csselector) replaced by ActiveMQ's selector
    • Extjars now being tracked as part of ExtProds with Pip
  • Python Dependencies (14)
    • Plus tracking of 68 transitive dependencies
  • ARCHIVE/ICD ExternalDependencies module installs third party dependencies using Maven and Pip

COMMON-2022DEC

• Prevent exceptions in BDNT destructor
• New function available to delegate default handling (logging) of CORBA exceptions, std::exception and non-standard exceptions
• New flag in acsMakeCheckUnresolvedSymbols script which suggests candidate libraries for missing symbols

COMMON-2023APR

• Maintenance
  • Small fix in generic handling of anonymous exceptions
  • Lowered log priority for optional BACI property parameters
  • MonitoringSyncTool to jump dummy parents in schema hierarchy
  • buildPython script improvements in problems detection
  • Characteristic Components in Python now properly inherit BACI properties from ancestors
  • Rename of non-standard internal files and classes in C++ logging system
• Obsolescence
  • Java 17 compatibility
  • TMCDB Explorer to make use of JPA Criteria API
• ACE/TAO retrieved from GitHub
• CORBA::Exception now inherits from std::exception
• EventConverter supports custom metadata in events and configuration of redis channel prefix/suffix
• Support for test coverage reports in Python, C++ and Java

COMMON-2023JUN

• Decouple ACS from some Eclipse dependencies using Tycho
• CDB API REST available
• BACI Properties Configuration Tool available
• ACE/TAO patches are now applied to cloned repositories directory structure
• Optional Maven execution during installation of ACS JAR files using MAKE_NOMAVEN environment variable
• Merge ExternalDependencies and JavaDependencies in a single directory
• <artifact>-flattened-pom.xml files are not present after running make
• Maven GroupId can now be configured with ACS_DEPLOY_GROUP environment variable
• Fix cdbWrite not handling strings correctly in some cases
• ACS Makefile POM files should allow parameterized repository ID
• Implement ComponentCaller API access policies

COMMON-2023AUG

• CDB API REST service implemented
• BPCT
  • Extended functionality to work with CDB API REST
  • Script to generate YAML configuration files from a currently configured CDB
• acsStartRemoteTmcdb script now has two additional options
  

  • --no-services: should only start up the containers.

  • --no-containers: should only start up the services.

• Fixed bugs related to CDB script commands (cdbRead and cdbjClearCache).
• Added report mechanism of Maven and Pip dependencies licenses

• Reduced critical zone protection block in loggingService, resulting in cleaner code and slight performance improvement

• Refactoring of NC Publisher in Java to better handle errors, including CORBA timeouts

COMMON-2023OCT

• Upgrade Jakarta EE, Hibernate 6.x, Spring 6.x, SpringBoot 3.x and Tomcat 10.x|11.x
• EventConverter: Improved handling of connection error to Redis
• PySimpleClient and requests package import together causes to wait for ACS manager
• ACS Maven commands should be made in batch-mode
• Upgrade Tycho and Eclipse versions for COMMON
• Notification Channel problems in thread checking NC status
  
• Java: Replace deprecated "new Type" for primitive wrapper classes in ACS
  
• Manager should ping clients asynchronously
• acsStartJava to support add-opens parameter
• Correct some ACS Phase A tests