Security and stability update @ Server @ MentDB Weak
This release includes important security fixes, stability improvements and bug fixes.
All users are strongly encouraged to update.
What's new
All users are strongly encouraged to update.
What's new
- Improved resilience of the internal database connections (automatic recovery, timeouts).
- Automatic database schema upgrade at startup for existing installations.
- Optional certificate and host key verification for FTPS, SSH and SFTP connections (new options in the connection JSON).
- New MQL function
sql encode_std(standard SQL encoding for PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server…). - Many fixes in the MQL functions (math, dates, strings, files, CSV, REST, Excel).
- Copy the new
src,core,lib,bin,docs,casandjdkfolders. The server now requires the bundled Java 21. - Do not delete the
datafolder of an existing installation. - New parameters are available in
server.conf(see the comments in the file). Make surestart_scheduleris set, otherwise the jobs do not start. - Web applications run with the dedicated
webuser: scripts called by an application outsideapp.*must be granted toweb. - Declare a short application name for the portal in each application configuration:
json iobject "configuration" / portal_title "My app" STR; - Behavior changes:
math roundnow rounds half away from zero, application names are limited toa-z,0-9,_and-, and CSV lines with more values than columns now raise an error.
