These release notes are for PhixFlow 6.0.1.
This release is for Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL.
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Installation / Upgrade
To install a new PhixFlow instance, follow the standard installation instructions.
To upgrade an existing PhixFlow instance, follow the Standard Upgrade Instructions plus the special instructions for all intermediate releases.
This release has no special instructions.
Prerequisites
This PhixFlow release requires:
- Java 7
- Apache Tomcat 7
One of:
- Oracle 11g or 12c (preferred)
- SQL Server 2008R2 or later
- MariaDB (MySQL) 10.0.14 or later
Features / Improvements
System Administration
Security
It is no longer possible to create a new user without also setting a password, and this avoids a number of secondary issues arising from users that have no password set.
Active Directory Integration
Active Directory integrations can now directly specify the rootDN within which to search for user records.
Performance
Data Caching
The default value of the System Configuration default pipe cache size, set in the 6.0.0 migration scripts, has been increased to 100,000.
Bug Fixes
Installation
Migration Scripts
Unique ids containing characters outside of a given range of [a-f0-9] has now been removed and replaced by correct ones in the installer. New migration scripts have been added in order to replace those ids with correct ones in the existing databases.
Affected tables are: privileges and role_privileges.
Streams
Local Attributes
Stream Attributes that were flagged as local and whose attribute expressions returned list values could cause analysis to fail with an internal error. This has now been resolved.
Collectors & Exporters
Database Exporters
Database Exporters now use a separate thread pool in which to run parallel exports. This was done to remove one possible cause of deadlocks (which resulted in the system hanging).