Avola Releases

Avola 3.0.5.20230209.5 was released on February 9th, 2023

Features

• Redesign of ‘Value Lists’ and ‘Value Pair’ pages.

  • New, clear and concise overview and detail pages deliver an improved user experience.

Enhancements and bugfixes

• Multiple improvements have been made regarding the performance of Execution Search functionality. (#3200).

• A bug was fixed concerning the type of dropdown that is shown in decision tables based on the operator.

• Decision tables shown in Execution Results with empty cells of the Business Data type lists no longer show the message “Unsupported List operator: ‘undefined’“. (#3168)

• An issue with Execution Count in case of processing high volume executions was fixed.

• Under certain circumstances formulas in Decision Tables depicted operators without Business Data.

• Business Concepts were not always shown in the dropdown while creating new Business Data.

Avola 3.0.4.20230118.1 was released on January 19th, 2023

Features

• Extensions for ‘Business Domains’ page.

  • Linked concepts are included with functionality to add a new concept and edit, delete existing concepts.

  • Linked projects are included.

• Business data in all cells of a decision table are shown underlined (as a link) if based on an underlying decision table. Left-click on the business data will navigate the user to the page of the respective decision table and a right-click will show a menu with all options for the cell.

• Toggle annotations
  Annotations in decision tables are now hidden by default and can be shown/hidden by using the newly included toggle.

• Extensions for search functionality
  Search functionality has been extended to enable searching ID-fields of decision tables, business data, value lists, value pairs and knowledge sources.

Enhancements and bugfixes

• Various changes have been made in regard to properly process executions in the database for BI purposes.

• A bug was fixed that occurred with testing scenarios that included datetime business data. (#3803)

• Name changes of business data are now automatically updated. (#2876)

• Search functionality is not case-sensitive anymore. (#2836)

• An issue was solved where the decimal field in business data was empty and non-editable.

• A bug is fixed where Avola accounts would be inaccessible after updating decision services with a specific combination of user roles. (#3147)

Avola 3.0.3.20221104.3 was released on November 10, 2022

Features

• Redesigned ‘Business Domains’ page
  The first step in renewing pages under the ‘Domains’ menu. Replacing the old ‘Business Domains’ page, a new layout has been realised showing the most relevant information and enabling applicable users to conveniently view and edit domain rights. All applicable domains will now be shown to the user, with a clear indication if a project from a certain domain is currently opened.

• New functionality for formula editor (decision table)

  • Copy and paste formulas

  • A cursor in order to flexibly make adjustments to (elements of) a formula.

Enhancements and bugfixes

• Various performance and security enhancements have been made regarding the usage of the key vault. Sensitive configuration data is now stored in Microsoft Azure services, separately from the application.

• A bug was fixed that occurred in certain circumstances while editing a decision table where the save-button would remain greyed-out (#2869).

• An issue with time-outs resulted in failure to view execution results.

• The download of a decision service in Excel format is available again (#2948).

• A fix is delivered to ensure the successful creation of BI exports.

• An enhancement now allows the user to create BI exports for archived decision service versions.

Avola 3.0.2.20220831.5 was released on August 31, 2022

Features

An overhaul of the account pages has been realized.

• An all-new ‘Users’ page
  Functionality of previous pages ‘Manage accounts’ and ‘Domain security’ have been merged and implemented in this new page. A toggle on the page allows easy switching to access ‘user roles’ and ‘domain rights’

• A redesigned ‘API accounts’ page
  Replacing the old ‘API access’ page, new layout and functionality has been realized. The wizard to add a new API account now allows to completely configure the account with both environments and domain rights. A toggle on the page allows easy switching to access ‘environments’ and ‘domain rights’

• Transition from .NET 5 (Current) to .NET 6 (LTS)
  The new version will be future proof and supported at least until November 12, 2024 (For more information see: core/releases.md at main · dotnet/core · GitHub )

Enhancements and bugfixes

• Various enhancements have been made to improve performance regarding the processing of executions in Avola. (#2848)

• A mechanism to detect loops in decision logic has been added.

• A bug was fixed that occurred while using the formula editor with Dutch language settings. (#2837)

• An issue with webjobs that resulted in failure to register execution counts has been solved. (#2844)

• A bug was fixed where certain execution results showed errors in Avola. (#2913)

• A bug was fixed that blocked users from bringing a decision service into the development state with archived decision service versions.

• A bug was fixed involving an empty expected conclusion for test scenarios.

• A bug was fixed where an error occurred in a decision table whenever the user would add a new line followed up by a condition based on new business data.

• A bug was fixed that involved saving a decision table after adding a condition based on the Set List. (#2887)

Avola 3.0.1.20220620.6 was released on June 21st, 2022

Significant improvements on both front-end and back-end mark this release as a departure from the Avola Decision version 2 series. This release is planned as the first one in a schedule of upcoming monthly releases.

Features

• An all-new redesigned ‘Decision Table editor’

  • See feature details

• A redesigned ‘Decision Table overview’

  • New layout, removed paging, default link to ‘Decision Table editor’, implementation of favourites.

• A redesigned ‘Decision Service overview’

  • New layout, removed paging, default link to ‘Decision Service versions’, implementation of favourites.

• A redesigned wizard for adding a decision table / condition / business data

  • New layout and added functionality, e.g. directly creating a new list

• The backend framework is upgraded to modern frameworks

  • The internet facing backend applications are also rebuilt in the new framework while for the time being the business logic remains in an updated version of the older framework. This gives us the opportunity to migrate step by step to the most modern technologies, with the latest scalability options, security, and performance benefits, while ensuring the same functionality of the decision engine.

  • During these migrations we have also tried to simplify the infrastructure, centralize the configuration, updated some external libraries, and improved the logging for support and maintenance purposes. A major cleanup!

• Migration of the front-end from ‘AngularJS 1.6’ to ‘Angular 11.2.7’

  • The core of the Avola Modeler is now completely rebuilt in Angular and various pages are migrated as well. Other pages are still in AngularJS and are now displayed within an iframe of the new Modeler. The migration of the remaining pages from AngularJS to Angular will be a central focus in upcoming releases. While migrating these pages, improvements will be made in functionality and user interface.

• New ‘Angular-based’ UI elements

  • Top menu bar, including the search field and notifications menu

  • Righthand side menu

  • Navigation history

• New ‘Angular-based’ pages

  • Decision table

  • Linked knowledge sources (moved to side panel)

  • Linked metadata (moved to side panel)

  • Decision definition (moved to side panel)

  • Decision services (overview page)

  • Decision tables (overview page)

  • Hit Analysis

  • Execution count

  • Execution export (former BI Export)

  • Manage organization

  • My account

  • Regular expressions

Enhancements and bugfixes

• We improved security significantly based on independent third-party penetration testing.

• For security reasons you will be automatically logged out from the Avola Modeler after idle time.

• Users can use the two-factor authentication option again. Due to a bug this feature was temporary unavailable. Go to ‘My account’ and click on ‘Set up two-factor authentication’ to make your Avola account extra secure.

• We fixed a bug in the test scenarios. Once a test scenario was saved or executed, you were unable to change the value of a numeric input parameter to the value ‘0’. (Support tickets #2215 and #2275)

• Access to Swagger of the Execution API is now available for API account. It is no longer possible to access the Execution Swagger with an Avola Modeler account.