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Fast2 release notes - Version 2025.2.0

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The 2025.2.0 is a new minor version, bringing new features, enhancements and bug fixes.

This version guarantees retrocompatibility for the catalog.


Details below…


🔐 Authentication & Team Management

✨ New Features

  • Manage Team: New UI to view and manage team members.
  • Team Creation: Add new members directly from the interface.

🔧 Improvements

  • Role Hierarchy: Introduced a 3-level hierarchy:
    • Superadmin: Can manage admins and users
    • Admin: Can manage users only
    • User: Cannot manage other members
  • Log Access Restriction: Only admins and superadmins can now download worker and broker logs.
  • Profile Info: Team member roles are now visible on their profile leaflets.

🐞 Bug Fixes

  • Fixed issue where logging in sometimes required double-clicking the button.
  • Resolved a Linux-specific bug where refreshing the page would log the user out.
  • Fixed expired worker tokens blocking broker access.

🔔 Notifications

🐞 Bug Fixes

  • Warning messages now correctly display when leaving a mandatory field empty.

🔐 Security

🔧 Improvements

  • Workers are now authenticated when calling broker endpoints.
  • Patched potential XXE vulnerability that could allow file access or remote code execution.

⚙️ Start-up & Configuration

🔧 Improvements

  • New setting: broker.stop.campaign.max.attemps to customize retry timing when stopping a campaign.

🐞 Bug Fixes

  • Console shutdown on some locales no longer shows unreadable characters.

🗺️ Edit Place

🧭 Map Construction

🐞 Bug Fixes

  • Config panel no longer stays open after creating a new map.
  • Warning messages are no longer duplicated when reopening an empty JSTransform config.
  • Prevents unintentional map versioning when no campaign was launched.

📚 Catalog

✨ New Features

  • M-Files Connector: Added support for 2.x-LTS.
  • FileInspector Tool: New task to detect and optionally extract embedded documents in Word files.

🔧 Improvements

  • Alfresco Connector: Can now extract folder-level permissions (from 2.x-LTS).
  • AWSInjector: Stores S3 key in the punnet dataset for AWS targets.

🐞 Bug Fixes

  • DeleteContent Task: Now deletes annotations and linked content (from 2.x-LTS).
  • CSVSource: Now compatible with Java 8.

🚀 Run Place

(No new features or improvements listed)

🧭 Explorer Place

🐞 Bug Fixes

  • Filtering on datetime columns now works correctly.

📊 Maps Overview & Campaign Management

🗺️ Maps Overview

  • No notable changes.

📈 Campaign Management

🐞 Bug Fixes

  • Deleting a running campaign no longer falsely triggers a success message when it fails.

🖥️ Server Place

📦 Libraries

✨ New Features

  • Libraries Tab: View all JARs in the worker-libs folder.
  • Upload JAR: Add new JARs via interface.
  • Search: Locate specific JARs in the list.

🧱 Shared Objects Place

  • No notable changes.

📅 Scheduler Place

  • No notable changes.

🧠 Known Issues

  • Authentication: Linux doesn’t auto-logout on Fast2 kill (fix planned).
  • Trigger Campaign Task: API call blocked unless security is disabled (fix planned).
  • Undo/Redo: Undo may leave ghost tasks or fail to revert config until place is reloaded.
  • Punnet Tracker: “Copy to clipboard” currently non-functional.
  • SleepTask: Sleeps block threads. Use dedicated queues and ensure thread availability.
  • Recent Patches: Some Pro Services patches may not be included — check with your contact. This version is compatible with 2.12 worker libs. (Concerns: ComparePunnets, FileNetInjector, LocalSource)
  • Security Gap: Maps can access local files via JSTransform or ReadContent tasks — restrict UI access or enable authentication.