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Backend Services v2.9

August 18, 2016

Release Notes

NEW

This section describes major new features and improvements in this release.

  • Ability to mark a content type field as unique.
  • User Management support for SAML 2.0 identity providers, including:
  • New Business Logic log retention setting that allows for older logs to be automatically deleted after a specified period of time.
  • New Responsive Images option that allows you to keep the image metadata.
  • The JavaScript SDK is now available as an npm package compatible with NativeScript.
FIXED

This section lists the major resolved defects in this release.

  • JS SDK: Async module is missing under node.js.
  • JS SDK: Registration for push notifications throws ReferenceError under NativeScript.
  • In the portal, data items with a relation fields are not properly saved.
  • Content types are not available in Cloud Code if a Data Link server is down.
  • User fields are shown as undefined in user details.
  • ID of related item is not displayed as Not Set when the item is deleted.
  • No validation for existing or illegal role name on update.
  • Production iOS push certificate cannot be set as active.
  • When a second iOS push certificate is added but not saved, the remaining is not set as active.
  • SWT authentication doesn't work with stored procedures.
  • On the Downloads page, the link to the Photo Album sample for NativeScript is wrong.
  • Logging in a user linked to a social provider does not return principal_id.
  • Data Connectors: 'Download authentication key' button is not working.
  • The email verification link does not work after changing the user account email.
  • Cannot resize image that has space in the name.
  • JS SDK: Unlink from Facebook is not working.
  • JS SDK: syncEnd should be raised even if the sync requests are cancelled.
  • JS SDK: el.cache.clear() and el.offlineStorage.purge() return an error if localStorage is empty.
  • JS SDK: Caching functions should return a meaningful error if cache is not enabled.
CHANGED

This section lists important changes that apply to this release.

  • The JavaScript SDK has gone through these version updates: 1.6.12, 1.7.0, 1.7.1, and 1.7.2; see the JavaScript SDK GitHub page for the change log.
  • A 10 seconds timeout for load image requests has been introduced. On timeout, the requests is answered with an appropriate error message.
  • Responsive Images now respects the EXIF orientation of JPEG images.