Centro 8.4.0 Release Notes

Overview

Along with importer updates and many bug fixes, Centro 8.4.0 includes many UI and workflow improvements and enhancements. It also introduces telemetry to help us make improvements in the future.

Starting with Centro 8.4.0, support for Windows Server 2012 is being deprecated.

We strongly recommend migrating to Windows Server 2016 or later versions.

Centro 8.4.0 Changes

• Move Resource to Part

• Telemetry for Centro

• Date range picker added to result filtering in the Jobs Explorer

• Project Top-level Part Count

• Version and Title in Resource Preview

• Importer updates:

8.4.0 Bug Fixes

• 3D Search

  • 3D Search for similars fails from the Search page: Could not load file or assembly ssqh.

• API

  • Endpoint CancelCheckoutByResourceKey does not ensure up to date identity before using permissions.

  • Fix Web API error response messages for validation in multi-tenant web app.

• Mesh

  • Upload UI shows Prem Location as inaccessible even if accessible.

  • Requests with Mesh token auth do not return correct error response format.

  • CatalogPart page does not correctly handle errors caused by live update connection failure.

  • Some resource actions are unnecessarily disabled when remote location is not accessible.

  • Mesh upload actions fail with incorrect error when uploading to a fallback location.

• Misc.

  • Address some issues with not checking ACLs when resolving resource level permissions.

  • Error when enabling Azure AD sign-in: Could not load type from assembly Microsoft.IdentityModel.Tokens.

  • Check-in comment labels misbehaving in SFW Comments view.

• Translations

  • A translation is missing on the "Amend Mesh Rules" window.

  • Missing translation for agent type filter on Pipeline Activity tab.

• UI

  • Scrolling doesn't appear on the Compare page.

  • Misaligned items in search dropdown of nav header.

  • The Clear button doesn't have text in the time filters on the Jobs Explorer page.

  • The tooltips on the thumbnail of Catalog Part aren't on the same level.

  • The slider for the length of the part name on the BOM page is invisible.

  • The Explode View is unreadable on the SFW page.

  • SFW Explode View input slider is unclear in dark mode and not visible otherwise.

  • A number of improvements made to the Dark UI Theme.

Supported Environments

It's recommended to have n+1 core processors where n is the number of total concurrent jobs running.

^† The amount of available free space is dependent on the amount and size of files and revisions uploaded as resources to the Catalog.

Prerequisite Installations

• Microsoft .NET Framework 4.8
  Microsoft .NET Framework 4.8 offline installer for Windows

• Internet Information Services (IIS)

• Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ)

• SDK: Visual Studio Projects using the Centro SDK must now target .NET Framework 4.6.2 minimum and turn on automatic binding redirects.