Centro 7.13.0 Release Notes

Overview

Centro 7.13.0 improves users' interactions with Catalog parts, updates importer support, and fixes a number of issues.

Centro 7.13.0 Changes

• Importer Updates:

• Allow deletion of a part and its descendants in one operation.

• Allow deletion of an empty project.

• Allow cookies to be configured as Secure and with SameSite=None to account for new browser policies.

• Show (child) item versions and instance counts in Assembly view.

• Allow multi-selected resource downloads.

Minor Changes

• Admin Area

  • Admin Tags panel pagination error.

• Catalog Parts

  • "Copy Download Link" option added to Resource menu.

  • Change Projects Catalog Part hamburger menu to visible show/hide eye button.

  • Fixed Catalog Part Page tab group cutting off in smaller windows.

  • Disable resource name inputs after they are uploaded.

  • Guarantee that the name of the download assembly .ZIP file matches the name of the top level assembly item.

• Installation

  • Install every required redistributable as part of the WebApp installer.

  • Display the default connection to localhost when no HOST parameter is passed to setup.bat.

• Misc.

  • Create Activity for 'General' zip downloads.

  • Show entered password.

  • Actify Learning Center link added to the About Page.

• Projects

  • Allow toggling the visibility of Hidden Parts in Home Page Project View.

  • Disallow deletion of the Default Project.

• Search

  • Add modify date to search results (Search Page).

  • Display more than 12 Favorited Parts.

• SpinFire Web

  • SpinFire Web engine updated.

Bug Fixes

• Catalog Parts

  • Previous Activity log for deleted Project should show that Project has been deleted.

  • Tags added after upload are not added to the resource.

  • Error shown after editing an existing Link.

  • Resource selection count does not reset when switching parts in the assembly view.

  • The Resources tab doesn't display information about resources in certain scenarios.

  • Error when using Download History Report.

• Miscellaneous

  • An error appears when the user tries to disable any user in list in an APM context.

  • Collapse state for Catalog Homepage sections may not remembered correctly.

  • Tags filter doesn't load filterable tags for the correct part when child is selected.

• Pipelines

  • Concurrent CadToCatalog actions may generate a write-write conflict.

  • Processing the same CAD file with several "CAD to Catalog" do not add all tags to Catalog Part.

  • CAD to SpinFire Action does not create output folder when it doesn't exist.

  • It is not clear whether a retried action eventually succeeded or if it kept failing.

  • A job whose actions all succeeded after 1 or more retries should not be marked as Finished With Errors.

  • Pipeline Host fails to start in some network environments when there are a lot of Pipelines.

  • "Transparent background" option in CADToPNG action has no effect.

  • Pipeline in inconsistent status may allocate jobs while ARCHIVED.

  • Prevent ARCHIVED pipelines from being redeployed at start-up

• Search

  • Error when purging resources when ShapeStore inaccessible.

• SpinFire Web

  • Unable to load SFW files stored at location B while visiting from location A.

Supported Environments

Note

Centro 7.13.0 only officially supports ArangoDB 3.8.x or higher.

Please note that starting with ArangoDB 3.9, we recommend installing ArangoDB Community Edition. Customers who have previously used the Enterprise Edition can follow the migration procedure below, or contact Actify Support.

Related Topics

• Database Enterprise to Community Migration Procedure

• ArangoDB Compatibility Chart

• Centro Windows Database Installation

• Centro Database Installation on Linux

It's recommended to have n+1 core processors where n is the number of total concurrent jobs running.

^† The amount of available free space is dependent on the amount and size of files and revisions uploaded as resources to the Catalog.

Prerequisite Installations

• Microsoft .NET Framework 4.8
  Microsoft .NET Framework 4.8 offline installer for Windows

• Internet Information Services (IIS)

• Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ)

• SDK: Visual Studio Projects using the Centro SDK must now target .NET Framework 4.6.2 minimum and turn on automatic binding redirects. 

Known issues

• (SDK only) CadToSpinFireAction throws IndexOutOfRangeException when running via the Centro SDK. Follow this link for a workaround.