SE-17418 # Removed support for Microsoft Window 8.x which is now at EOL for support from Microsoft. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/announcements/windows-8-1-end-support-january-2023
SE-17616 # Updated 3rd party libraries to their latest version.
Apache Solr upgraded to version 9.0. https://solr.apache.org/guide/solr/latest/upgrade-notes/major-changes-in-solr-9.html This is a significant upgrade of Solr for Operational Reporting Server, and SICS Search. Be sure to export and import your ORS data as detailed in the system admin guide. See: SICS Operational Reporting Server - Setup and Configuration.
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SE-16384 Eliminate XSD violations # Remove violations of the XSD strict enforcement, partially to support the new .NET Core client and partially to just be correct. Example: SicsWsAdministrationEntryPoint.isAvailable
The modifications to the schema are detailed in the XSD Changes section of the system documentation.
https://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema11-1/#cos-element-consistent If the {particles} property contains, either directly, indirectly (that is, within the {particles} property of a contained model group, recursively), or ·implicitly·, two or more element declarations with the same expanded name, then all their type definitions must be the same top-level definition, that is, all of the following must be true:
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SE-13088 # Removed support for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 which is now at EOL for support from Microsoft. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/microsoft-sql-server-2012
Removed support for Oracle 12c which is now at EOL for support from Oracle. https://www.oracle.com/us/support/library/lsp-tech-chart-069290.pdf
SE-6370 # Added Support for PostgreSQL 11+ https://www.postgresql.org/files/documentation/pdf/11/postgresql-11-A4.pdf
SE-3237 # First delivery of P&C and Life API Server .NET Core Clients.
The new clients are compatible with both Windows and Linux.
The new clients have not yet been tested with our automated test framework.
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SE-11844 # Unicode support in Microsoft SQL Server is now fully implemented via the use of the <unicodeMode>true</unicodeMode> datasource setting.
SE-11416 # 3rd party libraries used by SICS has been updated to their latest version, giving SICS access to new functionality and the latest security patches.
eMessaging # SICS eMessaging Server now uses JAX-WS for creating and consuming Acord SOAP messages. This was changed to remove the dependency to XMLBeans 3.
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SE-9505 # Support for Windows Server 2022
SE-11259 # Microsoft Edge is now supported as a replacement for Internet Explorer
SE-8919 # The Axis 1 generated stubs has following minor changes:
1. Array wrappers # Each array type class has been wrapped inside their corresponding wrapper class.
Axis1 client (Old)
In the example below, you can see that the chainedOperations method was returning an array ChainedOperationResponse[] for all the chained operation responses and also accepting an array ChainedOperationRequest[] for all the chained operation requests. To migrate, simply wrap all array references to their corresponding wrapper classes.
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No changes # No technical changes in release 21.3.
SE-1277 # SICS now offically supports MySQL compatible databases.
SE-6251 # IBM DB2 was removed as a supported platform.
All DB2 related libraries & JDBC drivers were also removed from the delivered software.
SE-4218 # Background # 3rd party libraries are starting to require Java 11+.
To enable SICS to get access to new functionality and the latest security patches, SICS now requires Java 11+ and is shipped with Amazon Corretto 15.0.2.7.1.
JDBC Driver Versions # DBMS JDBC Driver Version Oracle 19.9.0.0 Microsoft SQL Server 9.2.0 MySQL 8.0.23
SE-3307 # Background # In SE-3307, SICS eMessaging Server was upgraded from using Apache Axis 1.4 SOAP stack to its successor: Apache Axis2 Web services engine due to security vulnerabilities in the Apache Axis 1.4 SOAP stack and also as a technology upgrade to achieve significantly greater speed than earlier versions of Apache Axis.
Axis 1 generated client stubs are deprecated, and new client stubs were generated based on Axis2 XML bean data bindings.
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