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DMX 5.3.3 released

Posted on by Jörg Richter

DMX 5.3.3 has been released at Nov 11, 2023. It provides security improvements, crucial bug fixes, and some extensions for plugin developers.

Improvements:

  • Security: password hashes are stored with salt (#518) Thanks to @almereyda!
    • Optional additional site-wide salting, new config property dmx.security.site_salt
    • Legacy user accounts are converted automatically as soon as user logs in
  • Security: include session IDs in server log only at FINE level (#514) Thanks to @junes!
  • Configuration: in config.properties explain dmx.host.url in more detail (#517)

Bug fixes:

  • Several URL bugs fixed related to logout/reload (#524)
    • Strip selection from URL if selected topic/association not readable anymore after logout
    • Invalid routes (stale topicmap ID and/or topic ID) are redirected to valid route
  • Several password related bugs fixed:
    • Several users can have the same password (#85)
    • Saving an user account w/o any changes works as expected (#520)
    • User can change her password also if she lacks WRITE permission for the current workspace (#519)
    • Change-username requests are rejected. DMX usernames are fixed. (#521)
    • More clear error message when user tries to empty her password (#523)
  • Webclient search results don’t break in-mid word (#522) Thanks to @gevlish!
  • Line wrap Webclient error notifications (#525)

Plugin development:

  • Core API (BREAKING CHANGE): Credentials makes plain text password available (#515) Thanks to @thebohemian!
  • Core API: add getConfigDir() to DMXUtils (#527) Thanks to @thebohemian!
  • Core’s ValueIntegrator supports custom workspace assignments for created topics/associations (#519)
  • Webservice: boolean return values of RESTful methods are JSON serialized automatically (#516) Thanks to @thebohemian!

Getting DMX 5.3.3

You can update any DMX installation not older than DMX 5.0-beta-4. For update instructions see the DMX Admin Documentation. For developers (who update via git pull) see also this forum posting.

Download DMX 5.3.3 (7.5 MB):
https://download.dmx.systems/dmx-5.3.3.zip

Available DMX plugins (“DMX Geomaps”, “DMX Tableview”, “DMX LDAP”, …) will continue to run in DMX 5.3.3 resp. are adapted already. Please check out:
https://download.dmx.systems/plugins/
https://download.dmx.systems/ci/

DMX source code is available at GitHub:
https://github.com/dmx-systems/dmx-platform

The DMX platform 5.3.3 artifacts are available at Maven Central:
https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/systems/dmx/