Release Notes

🆕 AI Assistant (Technology Preview) - questions about IGUASU can be asked, the answers are based on the documentation

🆕 Use of GitHub repositories as IGUASU flow repositories in our cloud installations

Memory leaks in the UI have been fixed

The maximum time a Processor can spend in Retry with the set Retry configurations is calculated and displayed

New Processors and Services

Upgrade to IGUASU NiFi 2.0

🆕 UI updates can be executed without user interaction

🆕 Several different networks and VPNs can be connected

DistributedMapCacheServer has been renamed to MapCacheServer

DistributedSetCacheServer has been renamed to SetCacheServer

DistributedMapCacheClientService has been renamed to MapCacheClientService

DistributedSetCacheClientService has been renamed to SetCacheClientService

Updates from IGUASU can now be installed by the user and time-controlled (for 3.0 final)

There is th e new standard group viewer - users in this group cannot change/start etc. anything in the system but can only view it There is a new standard group viewer - users in this group cannot change/start etc. but can only view it. but only view

There is an area in the file system that can be used for Services/Processors that require this and also ends up in the backup

GitHub can now be used directly as a repository

Many outdated or functionally duplicate components have been removed. The complete list can be found here. These include possible alternatives

If a Processor or a Service is described in more detail in the User Guide or in a tutorial, this is now linked directly to the component

Restructured and supplemented with new features and customizations

🆕 Records can be easily written to Zendesk via ZendeskRecordSink

🆕 New Processors for working with Parquet: CalculateParquetOffsets, CalculateParquetRowGroupOffsets

🆕 FilterAttribute - new Processor for filtering attributes

🆕 PublishSlack - new Processor for publishing to Slack

🆕 PutZendeskTicket - new Processor for working with Zendesk

Handling improvements for versioning Diagrams

Small UI improvements:

Upgrade to IGUASU NiFi 1.25.0

Backup of all relevant data via own operator

New shortcuts added

Use of the NiFi expression language explained

Tutorial on the use of DynamoDB

Extension of the description for reuse

🆕 Ability to see which Diagram other users are currently editing

🆕 Upload your own bundles to easily extend the functionality or use a bundle in multiple versions

🆕 Display of the version of a bundle (in the case of multiple versions of a bundle)

Improved version of the hybrid cloud connection

Expression language support significantly expanded

🆕 ListenOTLP Processor for processing OpenTelemetry

🆕 EncryptContentAge and DecryptContentAge Processors to support the age-encryption.org specification

🆕 YamlTreeReader for processing YAML as records

🆕 PackageFlowFile Processor

Switch to Java 21

Upgrade to IGUASU NiFi 1.*24. *0

Saxon Update 12.2

Use of the operator code base for the BPC project enabled; expansion of the deployment variants (e.g. in relation to the registry)

Logging adapted for use in Loki

Use of further own NARs or NARs in several versions enabled

Java 21 necessary

🆕 Many tables can be exported as HTML/PDF/CSV. For example, this applies to the list of licenses or Processors, but also to the audit log

The certificate management is now no longer only available for admins, but also for normal users. Editing, downloading and deleting is reserved for the admin

The results of the global search can be further restricted to provide clearer results. Processor colors and icons are displayed in the results for further clarity

Loading very large files in the Editor component and inserting or writing very large amounts of data in other components is prevented. This protects the system and the models, some of which would otherwise this protects the system and the models that would otherwise hold the data

Elements of the diagram can be dragged over the edges when creating/editing, whereby the diagram is then expanded in this direction

If changes have been made in the background in a module that is currently open, this is displayed when saving and you can decide whether to discard your own changes or overwrite the existing ones

🆕 There is a new Record Reader for reading Excel XLSX files

The Provenance table in Monitoring continues to show information in a file view

Saxon EE 12 now runs in TransformXml (XSLT) *.*2. When creating a new Processor, an initial XSLT is provided

The certificate creation and distribution between IGUASU and the BPC is automated via (K8s) operators

Extension of the hybrid cloud tutorial

🆕 Collaboration

🆕 User settings

🆕 The JSONataTransformJSON editor now includes error marking and code completion

Minor improvements

Processors

SSL endpoints terminated in IGUASU can be configured by the IGUASU operator

High memory requirements of IGUASU no longer cause the application to restart

TransformXml - if a file or a lookup service was used as the source for the XSLT, this basic setting must now be selected once on the TransformXml

ListenCloud - the relation failure has been removed. Existing failure relations should be removed

In existing InvokeInubit/InvokeOnPrem and InvokeCloud Processors, the no longer supported property for asynchronous processing must be removed

Description of the creation and use of certificates for hybrid cloud communication with INUBIT

🆕 The editor of the JSONataTransformJSON now supports JSONATA with syntax highlighting (error display and code completion are still open)

TransformXml outputs errors in XSLT as Bulletins

Speed optimizations in the UI

🆕 New MergeMetro Processor (in addition to GetMetro)

You can now search/filter in the BOM/list of licenses

You can now search for multiple terms in the list of Processors/Services when adding them

🆕 The Hybrid-Cloud Processors are now fully tested with INUBIT

Small improvements

Registries anderer Bereiche können nun auch in AWS verwendet werden (z.E.g. shared.virtimo.cloud)

The necessary migration steps for local upgrades are fully described

🆕 Certificate management

Improvements in the UI

🆕 New Processors and Services

🆕 Support for Amazon EKS

🆕 Kubernetes deployment of IGUASU via its own K8s operator

Some properties on the Processors and Services to the BPC have been renamed

The ValidateJSON Processor is described in the JSON Tutorial

The NiFi documentation (e.g. for the description of the ExpressionE.g. for the description of the Expression Langauge) is deployed on https://docs.virtimo.net

🆕 New Processors and Services

🆕 Pre-release of Hybrid Cloud Processors and Services for connecting INUBIT to the IGUASU Cloud(not yet ready for production!)

🆕 Use of various registry clients enabled

🆕 The full run of queues is now displayed directly in the diagram

🆕 New information on the Processor

Registry

Documentation

Our own JSLT Processor has been removed, as there is now one with NiFi

🆕 Metro Processors added

🆕 Audit Log - available in the Monitoring tab

Parameters Support extended

Upgrade to IGUASU NiFi 1.17.0

Dynamic properties can now also contain sensitive values (e.g. passwords) if the Processor supports this (e.g. header values to InvokeHT). Header values to InvokeHTTP)

Detailed metrics for CPU consumption at Processor level

🆕 New Processor allows queries on data coming from Salesforce

🆕 New ConsumeTwitter Processor replaces the previous GetTwitter and uses the current Twitter API

🆕 New Processor to access files on Google Drive

HTTP/2 support (ListenHTTP, HandleHttpRequest)

Java 17

AWS/EKS Support

🆕 New display for Bulletins/Errors

🆕 There is a new central tree view of all Process Groups

🆕 The available Processors or Services are displayed in the system information

🆕 A configurable retry on the outgoing relations is now supported on the Processors

🆕 Selected elements can now be moved directly to Process Groups using the mouse. They can also be moved to any Process Group via the context menu

🆕 A list of the software components used with their licenses is now offered

Properties that configure Services can now be created directly. The Process Group on which the Service is to be created can be selected

If Parameter Contexts are changed on Process Groups, this is now done via a dialog that displays the necessary operations such as stop/start etc. and the result

🆕 Processors can now also be verified - this is used, for example, to check whether a configured system is accessible

The documentation is now displayed in the same way as on docs.virtimo.net; it can also be searched

JSONataTransformJSON can now also write the output completely to an attribute

🆕 PutBPCAuditLog Processor

PutBPCProcessLog Extensions

ListenBPCFlowStarter Extensions

With a corresponding UUID, you can jump to execution instances within IGUASU - this is used from the BPC, for example

Extensions to XmlMerge

Apache NiFi raised to 1.16.3

JSONataTransformJSON can now also be executed on attribute values or an empty JSON

$uuid() → $nfUuid()

$el(<el>) → $nfEl(<el>)

$attribute(<name>) → $nfGetAttribute(<name>)

$attribute(<name>, <value>) → $nfSetAttribute(<name>, <value>)

$lookup → $nfLookup(<key>)

🆕 New Virtimo theme (coordinated with BPC 4 and inubit 8)

🆕 New, optional table view for attributes in all corresponding places in Flow

Filter option for attribute views

🆕 Extensions to parameters and Parameter Contexts

Comments to Controller Services are supported

🆕 JSONataTransformJSON now supports lookups

The rights to Process Groups can be explicitly inherited or overwritten

The descriptions of the flows are now available everywhere during versioning

🆕 Use of the Virtimo Keycloak in the cloud (currently on dev.virtimo.cloud)

Display of version information on IGUASU in the system diagnostics

Consistent read-only mode in production mode

🆕 Deep links are supported across logins

New keyboard shortcuts for the global search and overview

New variant of the TextEditor (no more memory leaks)

🆕 New how-to section in the documentation

🆕 Drivers, such as JDBC database drivers, can now be uploaded and selected directly where necessary

In the TransformXml Processor, the JSON is now additionally surrounded by a CDATA tag when using 'Surround input with <xml> tag' so that entity references such as '&' do not cause any problems.Such as '&' do not cause any problems. If the CDATA has already been added manually, it must be removed again.

🆕 Processor PutBPCProcessLog, for logging process data to a Virtimo Business Process Center

🆕 Processor, to easily call flows from the Business Process Center: ListenBPCFlowStarter

🆕 Processor for mapping/transforming JSON based on JSONata: JSONataTransformJSON

🆕 Saxon EE is included for the TransformXml Processor

🆕 New ModifyPDF Processor to fill form fields in PDFs

🆕 New Minifier Processor to automatically provide the YAML of a Process Group for the Remote Flow. This allows a remote flow to automatically obtain new versions of its configuration

UI update with a lighter appearance

🆕 Central Provenance, in which the past executions of all flows are visible

🆕 Central monitoring of all components used

🆕 Global search

Extension of the Services user interface:

🆕 Save/load and copy/paste input data+attributes in the Content Panel and Queue

Selected modules can now also be moved in the Diagram using the cursor keys (together with Shift pixel by pixel)

To create modules, they can now be dragged and dropped directly from the toolbar into the Diagram

All relations of a new Processor are now auto-terminated by default. Already connected relations can no longer be selected here. When creating a new relation, you can see which relations already have connections

🆕 * Replaying* an event ("Replay") is now supported

In the documentation, all existing documentation is now always displayed as an overview (User Guide, Admin Guide, etc.).)

Process Groups can be released for individual user groups

A hanging Processor that can be terminated now makes this clear directly in the UI

🆕 Display of the server’s system diagnostics (JVM, hard disk, etc.)

🆕 Process Groups can now be downloaded as JSON. This JSON can then be used when creating new Process Groups

🆕 A Process Group can be downloaded as YAML for use in Remote Flow

🆕 the registry users can be imported from the current IGUASU

🆕 Backpressure-Default can be configured specifically for individual Process Groups

🆕 Run Once to start a Processor/Flow once

Parameters can also be used on sensitive properties (passwords)

🆕 IGUASU now always runs securely (initially in single-user mode)

Optimization of the start scripts (e.g. through new iguasu-env.sh, which contains the Java used, for example)

Upgrade guide added to the administration manual

🆕 NiFi Server 1.15.0 integrated (previously 1.13.x)

🆕 Client/server authentications are now supported for HTTPS with the cloud

Since IGUASU now initially runs in single-user mode, the user must be set with his password before the first start (see Setting up single user authentication)

As templates are no longer supported, all templates that are not available as process groups in the IGUASU to be migrated should be imported before the migration. After the migration, they can then be exported as JSON and removed again if necessary

Starting, stopping etc. the Processors (or entire Process Groups) is now only possible via the context menu - the buttons in the toolbar have been removed

🆕 Versioning of flows (at process group level)

🆕 Reuse (of functions encapsulated in process groups) by using versioning

🆕 Display of local changes

🆕 Use of any number of different registries and buckets in the flows

🆕 Management of registries including users, groups and buckets

🆕 Provision of Prometheus-based monitoring in the cloud

🆕 Optimized liveness/readiness probes for IGUASU in Kubernetes

Storage configurations

improved clipboard operations (cut and arbitrary paste)

Better synchronization of diagram and module editor during changes

Display of the executions of a Processor extended

XmlTransformer (XSLT): Resolving external references (e.g. DTDs) disabled.E.g. DTDs) can be switched off

Documentation: Tips for operation and optimization of flows added