On-Premise / Private Cloud

DecisionRules on-premise / private cloud release notes

Here you can find the release notes for the on-premise & private cloud version of DecisionRules.

On-Premise / Private Cloud

Version 1.18.1 - 04/2024

Organizations
- Organizations serve for managing users, spaces, and access control under one billing account. Read more here.
Design improvements
- Sidebar
  - Menu item Users & Roles renamed to Space Settings
  - New menu item Organizations
- Navigation bar
  - Indicator of Current Space moved to left side of navigation
- Select space dialog. Read more here.
Folder API
- New addition to our Management API that let's you programatically Create, Read, Update (move and rename) and Delete Folders (including their contents)
Folder Path Functionality
- The new Folder API and some of our older endpoints can now target rules and folders not only by their IDs or Aliases but by leveraging the ?path=/ query parameter.
Console logs
- Refactored creating and saving console logs
- Console logs now work in bulk solve
- Note that format of console log data has been changed
Minor bug fixes

Version 1.17.4 - 02/2024

Fixed edge case bug in DecisionTree solver - automated retesting of decision trees recommended
Minor bug fixes

Version 1.17.3 - 02/2024

Decision Tree Comparison - Added a feature that lets users compare two Decision Trees and easily identify the differences between them. Read more here.
Rule Lock - Added a feature that lets users with according permission lock / unlock rule. Read more here.
Added excluded and included condition columns options in SOLVE function.
Portuguese language support - We are now fully supporting Portuguese.
Updated packages on both client and server, thus removing some known vulnerabilities.
Minor bug fixes.

Version 1.17.0 - 11/2023

New isolated virtual machine environment for scripting rules solver
Improved error messages in scripting rules. Note that this improvement involves a small change in behavior.
Rule evaluation timeout is now returning status code 400 instead of 408
Vulnerability fixes
Decision Table Comparison - Added a feature that lets users compare two Decision Tables together to identify differences between the tables. Read more here.
Export Folder - exporting the selected folder and its contents to JSON format
Import Folder - importing folder and its contents into the selected folder
Show Dependencies - presents all dependencies in a tree-like structure. This visualization is providing providing a clear overview of how rules are interconnected
Added new endpoints to Management API for export folder, import folder, show dependencies
Minor bug fixes

Version 1.16.2 - 8/2023

Bug fixes
We added a Teamwork indicator for rules, which tells you who is currently viewing the same rule as you. This functionality allows you to avoid interference between changes made by multiple individual editors at the same time (BETA version)
Added filter in folders - you can filter rules by state (published/unpublished)
Improvements in the UI
Notification toaster can now be closed by a click
Change of format in the default string logger
Added Spanish language
Improved error handling in Kafka Solver
Verbose logging
Added ability to set pool size for db
Changed solver call policy, where you are now able to call rules from the app itself without api keys read permissions.
Added the functionality of comparing scripting rules. It is now possible to view the differences between two scripting rules and edit the primary scripting rule, reflecting the differences in any way you like. This feature will greatly simplify handling conflicts between distinct versions of scripting rules.
Decision table performance optimization (unsubscribing from observables, less rendering after changes)
Added HTTP calls limit for decision trees and scripting rules (applies the same limit policy as decision tables)
New improved server-side infrastructure for rule, rule-flow and APIs
Introduced wide support for using rule alias instead of rule ID in almost all endpoints of Solver & Management API
Improved security and performance, mostly regarding operations with rules (and rule flows), like getting, solving, and managing rules

Version 1.15.3 - 5/2023

Bug fixes.
Revised Kafka integration for the solver.
Changed solver call policy, where you are now able to call rules from the app itself without API keys read permissions.
Columns of Decision Tables are now resizable! Drag and drop the edges of column headers to resize their corresponding columns.
Improved the search functionality of Decision Tables.
Decision Tables now remember your scroll position and automatically scroll there when you refresh the application or leave and re-enter the table.

Version 1.15.0 - 4/2023

Added support for languages and a translation to Czech
Minor changes of the test bench
Change docker containers to rootless. Now the server and BI containers run under a non-root user. The client container is released in two types with respect to this option. The type can be selected using the tag.
Bug fixes and improved performance

Version 1.14.5 - 3/2023

New REDIS_CACERT environment variable that allows setting a ca certificate for TLS connection with Redis.

Version 1.14.4 - 3/2023

Improvement in several functions, namely AND, OR, TEST, SOLVE & the HTTP functions. These now accept null and {} as valid inputs. This further expands their possible usage. Note that this improvement involves a small change in behavior.

Version 1.14.3 - 3/2023

Bug fix of the Rule Alias field and the Simple JSON editor.
Bug fix concerning the interpretation of numbers in functions.
Improvement in the evaluation of empty array. From now on, empty array is considered a valid value and can enter the evaluation of functions. This allows to work with empty array in the context of functions. This improvement involves a change in behavior. If there is a chance of passing an empty array as input data in one of your decision tables or decision trees, please test the respective rule to make sure the present change does not affect your logic.
Improvement in the evaluation of the functions EQ, NE and ARRAY_INCLUDES. These functions now accept null and {} as valid inputs. Thanks to this, you may for example check if a variable equals null. This improvement involves a change in behavior.
New REDIS_PING_INTERVAL environment variable that allows to set the duration (in milliseconds) for which the server pings the Redis server.

Version 1.14.2 - 2/2023

Fix docker image vulnerabilities
New LOGGER_TIMESTAMP_UTC environment variable that allows setting whether the timestamp in the logs will be in UTC or not

Version 1.14.1 - 2/2023

Added support for using functional expressions (like functions or variables) inside JSON within functions. Thanks to this, you can freely combine objects, arrays and the DecisionRules functions to introduce custom logic. This is a very powerful tool when using integration functions like SOLVE or for advanced data transformations. Read more about JSON and functions.
Update in the evaluation of variables. We are no longer casting primitive values (e.g. numbers or boolean values) saved within variables to string; instead, we keep their original type. Together with this change, we have improved the ability of several functions to cast their arguments to the type they need for evaluation. Please beware that this enhancement involves a change in behavior.
Multiple minor bug fixes.
Small improvement in the rule flow designer layout.
Bug fix in the Management API. Creating rule via Management API now returns an error when the rule with given ruleId and version already exists.
Bug fix involving duplicate rule aliases on multiple spaces.
Improved zoom in decision trees.
Status of rules is now visible thanks to coloring in the folder menu.
New logger now allows to have logs in JSON format.

Version 1.13.1 - 01/2023

Added the ELSE operator in decision tables which allows, among other things, to add the so called default row. The ELSE operator returns true if no row has been triggered before so it is useful for defining fallback rows.
Bug fix involving duplicate rule aliases on multiple spaces of the same user.

Version 1.13.0 - 12/2022

Improved hinting for functions, in particular their arguments. You can now see the hint as you write the function.
Bugfix involving calling of rules in foreign spaces of the same user.
Bugfix in the interpretation of the backslash character. This bugfix involves a change in behavior. Please consult our documentation of Functions for details about the current behavior. If you were not using double backslash or backslash in combination with the double or single quotes character, you do not need to worry about this change.
Bugfix involving the situation in which an input cell of type function is evaluated to a non-boolean value. From now on, such a case will result in an error and the condition will be interpreted as false. This bugfix involves a change in behavior. However, it only affects ill-defined rules.
Enhancement in the behavior of OR function. When a single argument is found to be true, the other values are not validated anymore (they do not even need to be boolean) and the result is automatically casted to true. This enhancement involves a small change in behavior.
New options property allowing to configure the rule solver. For a decision table, it is now possible to include or exclude specific condition columns when calling the solver. See the documentation of Rule Solver API for details.
Audit is now active in Trial by default so new users can freely test this feature.
Adjusted message when owner of teammate space does not have activated Audit.
Added the ruleAlias property to all the rules and rule flows. Rule alias works the same way as rule ID but can be edited by the user and is better human-readable. It can be used to refer to rules in other rules as well as in API calls. It stays untouched when the rule is cloned or exported and imported which greatly simplifies manipulation with rules.
Changing invitation to Space. You can select from users which you have in other spaces now.
Shrunk cells now have the same width for all columns. This allows for better scrolling of Decision Tables without horizontal jumps.

Version 1.12.1 - 11/2022

Bugfix in getting right limits when saving RuleFlow.
Bugfix with invite users into space. Now is validation case insensitive.
Bugfix debug data on DecisionTree
Bugfix defining and solving RuleFlow
Bugfix invitations Bugfix import rules from xslx and csv Improve function validation
Added ROUNDE DecisionRules function that rounds number to even
Fix docker image vulnerabilities

Version 1.12.0 - 10/2022

bug fixes
added functionality where you can add rule of type RuleFlow to the vertex in another RuleFlow rule
improved DecisionTable solver performance

Version 1.11.4 - 12/2022

Fixed the bug when the function did not display its value if it was a simple integer (1, 10, etc.).

Version 1.11.0 - 9/2022

minor bug fixes
fixed buggy date functions added
enhanced DecisionRules table function validations
added option to omit quotes on simple strings, complex string expressions (more than 2 words or string containing special characters [+,-,,/]) still needs quotes on the start and on the end.
added support for arithmetic operations (,-,/,+,%) in functions (1+1).
functions SUM, AVG, MIN, MAX, COUNT, MEDIAN, CONCAT, CONCAT_WS, AND, OR now can accept array as parameter. functions EQ and NEQ now accepts arrays and objects.
improved DecisionTable performance on big rules.
added new functions hinting in DecisionRules tables, trees and SccriptingRules new HTTP functions that can be called within DecisionTable or DecisionTree and perform basic HTTP calls with methods as GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE. Documentation page: Integration functions
new SOLVE functions that can perform solving of other rules within DecisionTable, DecisionTrees and ScriptingRules. Documentation page: Integration functions

enhanced functions editor for DecisionTable and DecisionTrees
enhanced visuals of DecisionTable
enhanced visuals of DecisionRules dashboard panel
Added possibility to perform an offline invitation to the space.
fixed bug with DecisionTable filter
fixed bug with moving rules to another space
support of async/await in ScriptingRules
added RE function that creates ReGex expresion.
added TEST, MATCH, REPLACE, SPLIT that accepts RE functions as arguments

Version 1.10.0 - 8/2022

Audit Logging

Completely new feature that allows users to audit their rule solves. If the audit logging is turned on a given rule, it will create a detailed audit log with useful information after every solve of that rule. Audits have information about the Input/Output, execution time, timestamp, rule metadata, debug data and other useful information.

Click here to learn more about Audit Logging.

Bug fixes
Improved design

Version 1.9.3 - 8/2022

Enhanced automatic vulnerability scanning
Transition to Node.js 16 LTS

Version 1.9.2 - 8/2022

Added new functions ARRAY_REDUCE, PICK and improved function DATE
Removed vulnerabilities and reduced unnecessary packages

Version 1.9.1 - 7/2022

Fixed bug with importing rules in xlsx format
Added new functions ARRAY_MAP, ARRAY_AND & ARRAY_OR
Bug fixes

Version 1.9.0 - 7/2022

Walkthrough tutorial
New visual debug mode for Decison Tables and Decision Trees
Easy copy/paste SDK examples in test bench
Improved space statistics design
Modified debug console outputs to be more human readable
Bug fixes
Improved solver performance
RuleFlow is now callable within ScriptingRules

Version 1.8.2 - 6/2022

Fixed CosmosDB compability mode.
Added new env. variables for specifiing database type
Improved TELEMETRY, log now contains rule id

Version 1.8.1 - 6/2022

Added TELEMETRY
- Telemetry enables measurement of SOLVER API performance on request basis
- Telemetry can be switched on using environment variable
Minor bug fix

Version 1.8.0 - 6/2022

Decision Trees BETA

Brand new way to express your business rules. You can use IF, THEN, ELSE, CONDITIONS and RESULTS elements. Everything is draggable! You can use Decision Trees with current Solver API, so you don't have to make integration changes. Decision Trees also works with Scripting rules and RuleFlow and of course Decision Trees are supported in Management API and new SDKs

Redesigned app layout to better match current corporate design
Generate PDF from Decision Tree
New option to log in via Microsoft account
Rules sorting according name and last user attributes
Preset Values in Test Bench
Clear Debug console
Minor bug fixes
Added ARM64 Support

Version 1.7.2 - 4/2022

Non-technical user friendly Test bench
Decision Tables
- Ability to specify valid-from and valid-to on each row
Management API Changes
- Create RuleFlow
- Update RuleFlow
- Read RuleFlow
- Delete RuleFlow
- Export RuleFlow with all rules
- Import RuleFlow with all rules
Password can be longer than 14 characters
Import / Export RuleFlows with all rules in one package
You can restrict user registration and login within selected domains #server-env-variables
Swagger API Host domain changes according the ENV variable #server-env-variables if needed
RuleFlow general improvement
Minor bug fixes
New environmental variables for SSO
- SAML_CERT
- SAML_CALLBACK_URL