Insight 4.2 release notes
Performance improvements and impacts
In order to make Insight faster we have had to change the JAVA-API. That means that any custom development against Insight JAVA-API might be affected and you will need to go through any scripts or plugins developed to Insight in order to make sure that nothing has been broken between Insight 4.1 and 4.2. The reason why we do this kind of major impact on the JAVA-API is for our customers own good. We need to make sure that Insight is reliable and do not use more CPU usage than necessary.
Most of the scripts developed by you will probably not be affected. The major changes are about the data model in Insight. We have removed referenced classes from our major classes. So an ObjectBean class no longer have a getter or setter to get the ObjectTypeBean. You will only get the "objectTypeId" and you will have to load the object type if you really want to access it.
So again, if you have created any custom scripts or plugins you will need to look into them, otherwise you don't need to do anything. For your info, none of our groovy script examples were affected.
Read the Insight JAVA-API Javadoc.
Bug fixes and improvements
- Delete object schema cog not visible
- General reports fixes
- LDAP, External CSV fixes minor fixes
- Icon fixes when adding new icons
- Referenced Custom Field fix when bulk editing
- Regex validation fix when removing the expression
- Referenced Custom Field fix when using the custom field on screens without the parent custom field
- Faster rerendering of Object list view when hiding a column
- Custom Field configuration - show attributes for object, is now a multiselect dropdown
- Object overview - Multi reference attribute with 5+ references, the "Show All" element when hovered now correctly displays all the available references
- Insight Discovery import performance improvements
Before upgrading to Insight 4.2
Upgrading from JIRA 2.x?
For Insight 2.x users, make sure that you upgrade to the latest version of Insight 3.x before upgrading to Insight 4.2 if you are on Insight 2.x.
This is very important for the upgrade process!