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Change log

This document describes any technical changes made to Easit GO between releases.

2024.06

Easit GO have been migrated to Spring Boot and now, instead of a standalone Java application running in Apache Tomcat (installed as a Windows service), comes with an embedded Tomcat. This migration affects the components listed below in your Easit GO installation.

Spring Boot

At the release of Easit GO 2024.06, Spring Boot 3.2.2 is used.

Service container

Apache Tomcat

With the start of this release, as Spring Boot embeds Apache Tomcat with the application, we do not run Easit GO with Apache Tomcat as a Windows Service. Instead we leverage a service wrapper WinSW to install a Windows service that give you the possibility to start, stop and monitor the service as any other Windows Service. The embedded version of Apache Tomcat is at release 10.1.18.

Solution

Save the settings for Apache Tomcat, uninstall the service Apache Tomcat - Removing services and install Easit GO as a Spring Boot application.

Web traffic

IIS / ISAPI

The configuration of IIS, ISAPI filters and its settings have not been changed but the AJP connector settings, that corresponds to the ISAPI settings living in the Apache Tomcat file server.xml have been moved to the properties.xml file for Easit GO.

Solution

Add the AJP connector settings from server.xml to properties.xml and remember to add the property key ajp.enabled as true.

properties.xml

hibernate.dialect

With this release of Easit GO we have updated the dialect used for Hibernate to EasitMSSql2016Dialect.

Solution

Update the value for property key hibernate.dialect to com.easit.util.hibernate.EasitMSSql2016Dialect.

Database

Hibernate

We have updated the Hibernate (an Object/Relational Mapping (ORM) framework) version to 6.4.3, coming from 5.4.31. This update means that we introduced some breaking changes in what data types are used in the database and indexes added to different tables.

Solution

Contact our support for guidance when upgrading Easit GO from 2023.11 or earlier to 2024.06 and later.

Logging

Log4j2 - Lookups

In previous releases of Easit GO, Apache Tomcat added some system properties that was available in the log4j configuration. The most prominent one is sys:catalina.base that we used to know where to place all logs. These are no longer available, or correct.

Solution

Replace any system properties with these properties.

  • sys:bpeBasePath (Path to directory where easitgo.jar exist)
  • sys:bpeConfigPath (bpeBasePath\config)
  • sys:bpeLogsPath (bpeBasePath\logs)
  • sys:bpeAuditLogsPath (bpeLogsPath\audit)

Feedback

As always, please report any issue or problems to our support.

2023.11

No changes were made that affects the installation or its configuration.

2023.05

Database drivers

MSSQL

In this release we have updated the driver used for connecting to MSSQL databases to version 12.2, coming from version 8.2. Due to this update we are effected by changes made in 10.2 where the default value for the property encrypt was changed to true, previously false.

Solution

In order to keep the same behavior prior to 2023.05, please add the string encrypt=false to any connection string.

  • properties.xml: <entry key="dataSource.url">jdbc:sqlserver://localhost;databaseName=example;encrypt=false</entry>
  • Data warehouse configuration: Add ;encrypt=false after the database name.
  • ImportClient: jdbc:sqlserver://SERVER;databaseName=DATABASE;encrypt=false;user=USER;password=PASSWORD

MariaDB / MySQL

We also updated the driver for connecting to MariaDB databases. Coming from version 2.2.0 and updating to 3.1.2. This means that if you are connecting to an MariaDB database you need to update the connection string as shown below.

Solution

  • Connection string for 2.2.0: jdbc:mysql://....
  • Connection string for 3.1.2: jdbc:mariadb://....