EZ Gateway 2021 Changelog

December

2021.13The effective date for Expere EZ Gateway within the scope of this document for this release is January 2022.

There are no updates released for December.

November

2021.12The effective date for Expere EZ Gateway within the scope of this document for this release is December 2021.

General Updates
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Reference: PBI 692343, 694090, 697561
  • Compliance Impacts: This item is not a compliance or regulatory issue.
  • Documentation Impacts: None
Summary: This release includes general updates not visible to the user.

October

2021.11The effective date for Expere EZ Gateway within the scope of this document for this release is December 2021.

October Installation / Upgrade Notes
Note the following installation and upgrade changes since the September 2021 release. The location of the associated changelog is identified in parentheses:
  • Miscellaneous Changes:
    • New Audience Value for Integrator Documentation (2021.11)
    • App Pool Creation (2021.11)
New Documentation URL
Summary: This release includes changes to the documentation URL; specifically, we have created an additional audience value to better support our self-hosted customers with the differences between documentation for downstream users and integrators themselves. With this release, the documentation intended for integrators will use a new audience value, which has been updated on the Document Generation Services Landing Page. Documentation being hosted for your downstream customers will continue to use the existing audience value.
General Updates
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Reference: PBI 698092, 689093
  • Compliance Impacts: This item is not a compliance or regulatory issue.
  • Documentation Impacts: None
Summary: This release includes general updates not visible to the user.
Installation Changes
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Reference: PBI 693411
  • Compliance Impacts: This item is not a compliance or regulatory issue.
  • Documentation Impacts: None
Summary: This release includes changes to the first-time installation process to ensure the install always creates the app pool.

September - Out of Band

2021.10The effective date for Expere EZ Gateway within the scope of this document for this release is September 2021.

General Updates
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Reference: PBI 698092
  • Compliance Impacts: This item is not a compliance or regulatory issue.
  • Documentation Impacts: None
Summary: This release includes general updates not visible to the user.

September

2021.9The effective date for Expere EZ Gateway within the scope of this document for this release is September 2021.

September Installation / Upgrade Notes
Note the following installation and upgrade changes since the March 2021 release. The location of the associated changelog is identified in parentheses:
  • Transform Variable Changes:
    • A new transform variable was added to support the bulk copy functionality: EzConfigServiceCopiesQueueName (2021.7)
  • Octopus Variable Changes:
    • None
  • Changes to Prerequisites:
    • None
  • Miscellaneous Installation Changes:
    • Log File Enhancements (2021.7)
General Updates
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Reference: PBI 686009, 689091
  • Compliance Impacts: This item is not a compliance or regulatory issue.
  • Documentation Impacts: None
Summary: This release includes general updates not visible to the user.

August

2021.8The effective date for Expere EZ Gateway within the scope of this document for this release is August 2021.

Bulk Copy: Transform Changes
  • Type: Feature
  • Reference: PBI 681520
  • Compliance Impacts: This item is not a compliance or regulatory issue.
  • Documentation Impacts: None
  • Installation Impacts: New transform variable
Summary: This release includes the addition of a new transform variable. This variable has been added to support the upcoming Bulk Copy feature.

EzConfigServiceCopiesQueueName

This variable is used to specify which RabbitMQ queue to use between Default Data and EZ Config Service when users are creating copies. By default, this variable is set to "Copies."

General Updates
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Reference: PBI 683460, 683494
  • Compliance Impacts: This item is not a compliance or regulatory issue.
  • Documentation Impacts: None
Summary: This release includes general updates not visible to the user.

July

2021.7The effective date for Expere EZ Gateway within the scope of this document for this release is July 2021.

OPPSA Conversion: Logging Enhancements
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Reference: PBI 681623
  • Compliance Impacts: This item is not a compliance or regulatory issue.
  • Documentation Impacts: None
Summary: This release includes additional details added to the EZ Service Log related to the OPPSA Conversion when the log level is set to 'Debug.' The following items are now included within the log:
  • When converting Organizations, the following items are included in the log file, along with AccountID and OrgID:
    • File returned from Expere
    • File sent into UpdateTransactionForContentUpdate
    • File returned from UpdateTransactionForContentUpdate
  • When converting Policies, the following items are included in the log file, along with the AccountID and PolicyID:
    • File returned from Expere
    • File sent into UpdateTransactionForContentUpdate
    • File returned from UpdateTransactionForContentUpdate
General Updates
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Reference: PBI 679398, 675076, 679417
  • Compliance Impacts: This item is not a compliance or regulatory issue.
  • Documentation Impacts: None
Summary: This release includes general updates not visible to the user.

June

2021.6The effective date for Expere EZ Gateway within the scope of this document for this release is June 2021.

General Updates
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Reference: PBI 676309, 676285, 676563
  • Compliance Impacts: This item is not a compliance or regulatory issue.
  • Documentation Impacts: None
Summary: This release includes general updates not visible to the user.

May

2021.5The effective date for Expere EZ Gateway within the scope of this document for this release is May 2021.

General Updates
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Reference: PBI 668046, 672636
  • Compliance Impacts: This item is not a compliance or regulatory issue.
  • Documentation Impacts: None
Summary: This release includes general updates not visible to the user.

April

2021.4The effective date for Expere EZ Gateway within the scope of this document for this release is April 2021.

General Updates
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Reference: PBI 664498, 667873
  • Compliance Impacts: This item is not a compliance or regulatory issue.
  • Documentation Impacts: None
Summary: This release includes general updates not visible to the user.

March

2021.3The effective date for Expere EZ Gateway within the scope of this document for this release is March 2021.

March Installation / Upgrade Notes
Note the following installation and upgrade changes since the September 2020 release. The location of the associated changelog is identified in parentheses:
  • Transform Variable Changes. The following transform variables were added in 2020.5 to allow the use of only Default Data or only Packages and Packets. (No release note exists).
    • <Property Id="EZGateway.DefaultData.ServiceEnabled" Value="True" />
    • <Property Id="EZGateway.PackagesAndPackets.ServiceEnabled" Value="True" />
  • Octopus Variable Changes. The following changes have been implemented as part of an upcoming feature.
    • The EzConfigServiceQueueName was renamed to EzConfigServiceRepostsQueueName (upcoming Conversion feature)
    • The following variable was added, with the default value listed:
      • EzConfigServiceConversionsQueueName = "conversions"
  • Changes to Prerequisites:
    • .NET Framework is no longer required for EZ Gateway. (2021.3)
      Note: Other components may still require .NET Framework.
    • .NET Core is no longer required for EZ Gateway (2020.11)
      Note: Other components may still require .NET Core.
      Note: This update replaces an earlier change requiring .NET Core 3.1.8 (2020.10)
  • Miscellaneous Installation Changes:
    • Permissions to private keys for STS client certificate no longer manually required. (2020.11)
    • DGS Management Redirect. (2020.11)
General Updates
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Reference: PBI 660584, 661232, 661910
  • Compliance Impacts: This item is not a compliance or regulatory issue.
  • Documentation Impacts: None
Summary: This release includes general updates not visible to the user.
Removed .NET Framework as Install Prereq
Summary: This release includes updates to the installation documentation to remove .NET Framework as a prerequisite for installation. This is a documentation-only update; the prerequisite was eliminated in an earlier release, and it inadvertantly remained documented as a prerequisite. Please note that other components may still require .NET Framework to be installed.

February

2021.2The effective date for Expere EZ Gateway within the scope of this document for this release is February 2021.

General Updates
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Reference: PBI 655672, 654473, 649684, 654835, 656529
  • Compliance Impacts: This item is not a compliance or regulatory issue.
  • Documentation Impacts: None
Summary: This release includes general updates not visible to the user.

January

2021.1The effective date for Expere EZ Gateway within the scope of this document for this release is January 2021.

Updated UpdateTransaction APIs
Summary: This release includes updates to the Update Transaction APIs (Update Transaction and Update Transaction by Name) to provide additional error message detail related to the merging of transaction XML with Default Data organizations and products. The enhanced error messages are returned within the API response. The error messaging is intended to provide additional clarification if there are two data items set as different values within your products.

These changes were prompted by behind the scenes changes to the Expere UpdateTransaction API.

Also note that when doing multiple products for Deposit, the API no longer requires all the policies to be the same.

Updated API Parameters Documentation
Summary: This release includes updates to the web services documentation to list certain parameter items as integers instead of strings. We also updated the documentation to reflect that some values are optional and not required, as they previously were inadvertently documented incorrectly.
General Updates
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Reference: PBI 650906, 651909
  • Compliance Impacts: This item is not a compliance or regulatory issue.
  • Documentation Impacts: None
Summary: This release includes general updates not visible to the user.