Connexion v16.2 R2 (16.2.xxxx)

16.2 introduces many new features as well as some functional changes.

Message database indexes have been updated to provide faster maintenance operations on large databases. If you have large message databases, upgrading from earlier versions will take some time. This upgrade is currently a one-way operation. If you need to downgrade from 16.1 to an earlier version, please contact support.

This version of the remote agent no longer includes MongoDb. You must add the mongoDb packages to your available packages prior to deployment. This version includes new decoupled MongoDb logic. For remote agents, you must deploy the MongoDb 3.6 package (for versions less than 16.0) or MongoDb 4.0 package (for versions 16.0 and up).

Please review the changes included in 16.2, and ensure you do proper validation testing prior to deploying 16.2 to production.

If you reference internal assemblies (any assemblies other than Connexion.Core), please ensure your custom devices/logic work as expected prior to production deployment. Some internal interfaces have changed.

Released On
Version	v16.2.xxxx
Release Type	Release
	v16.1 Features & Updates

Connexion

.NET 4.8 may need to be manually installed if your systems don't have internet access.

All Connexion libraries now target .NET 4.8. If you are referencing any Connexion assemblies, you will need to target .NET 4.8 in your projects. Please note that all non-core libraries are internal and subject to change.

.NET 4.8 must be deployed to remote agent host machines prior to deploying this release (assuming they are not already running 4.8)

Connexion Release

Integrator

Installer Descriptions
Gateway and Gateway Management Application: Connexion.Gateway.16.x.xxx.exe
Gateway Management Application Only: Gateway.ManagementUI.16.x.xxx.msi
Remote Integrator: Connexion.Integrator.16.x.xxx.exe
Remote Agent Push Update: Integrator.RemoteAgent.16.x.xxx.msi
Remote Updater A Push Update: Integrator.UpdaterA.16.x.xxx.msi
Remote Updater B Push Update: Integrator.UpdaterB.16.x.xxx.msi

Nuget Packages [Public feed: https://pkgs.dev.azure.com/conevity/Connexion_Public/_packaging/Connexion/nuget/v3/index.json]

Type	Area	Ticket	Summary

Type	Area	Ticket	Summary
Feature	Anonymizer	76	Major rework of the HL7 Anonymizer: replace names using an HL7 profile, add path mode, handle EI data types, separate field description components with `->`, use compiled Regexes in the final replacement phase, deterministic Regex ordering, re-orderable replacements, free-text date/time shift alignment with DTM shift, and custom string replacements support.
Feature	Anonymizer	79	Remove license check from anonymizer; persist anonymized message when output is set to Attachment; hard-code UserStorage / Attachment key; add transient HL7Message in user storage.
Bug Fix	Anonymizer	80	Times weren't being anonymized in several cases; name variants leaking into free text; UI fix to use base HL7 type + component index instead of leaf type; various fallout/merge fixups; AI-reviewed fixes.
Refactor	Anonymizer	81	Anonymizer should no longer use `HL7Standard` (obsolete); use `IHL7Profile` to calculate the Path string; fix DataType string representations; general simplification + Resharper passes; re-jig HL7 placeholder replacements.
Feature	Editor / Text Viewer	82	Add Navigate Back/Forward in source code, Go To Definition (with right-click menu item), remember scroll position on navigation, center the function in the editor on Go To Definition.
Feature	Editor / Text Viewer	83	Add synchronized scrolling option, option to set `CollapseThreshold` for long lines, expose the Editor so its options can be set.
Feature	Queue Device	84	Allow queued messages to be Shelved if they cannot be processed.
Feature	Metrics	85	Backport HL7v2 metric device from v17; add copy/paste to the HL7 metrics device; remove beta flag from Metrics UI and update documentation URL.
Bug Fix	Metrics	15	Metrics configuration incorrectly included channels — MetricsProvider now verifies parent objects are enabled.
Bug Fix	Metrics	86	Fix potential unobserved exception in the metrics service.
Bug Fix	Metrics	87	Fix incorrect metric definition in Kafka writer.
Feature	Gateway	24	Ability to multi-select remote agents in the GW dashboard.
Feature	Gateway	88	Add remote agent database version to the Gateway dashboard export; make the gateway user dashboard RA locks a hyperlink so other users' RA locks can be cleared; make GW tabs UI match CXN; select another available tab after deleting a tab.
Bug Fix	Gateway	22	Don't propagate full exception details from Gateway registration methods to the remote agent.
Bug Fix	Gateway	25	Queue-size dialog in v16 GW times out for larger DBs.
Bug Fix	Gateway	50	Error thrown when copying and pasting channels between CXN and GW.
Bug Fix	Gateway	89	GW bulk pause channels threw an exception; device overlay call not dispatched.
Bug Fix	Gateway	90	Channel count not updated on the Import Dialog for GW.
Bug Fix	Gateway	91	Fix issue where post-deployment report isn't valid CSV; GW deployment dialogs no longer sent to back when clicking certain buttons; fix mismatched commas in GW dashboard export.
Feature	Channel Manager	32	Ability to filter the Channel Manager State column on `Starting` and `Stopping`.
Feature	File Writer	37	FileWriter can now access UserStorage and Attachments.
Feature	HL7 Inbound	92	Add certificate information to the HL7 inbound device (easier thumbprint copy to HL7Spy).
Bug Fix	HL7 Inbound	19	SSL radio buttons not set correctly in the HL7 inbound device.
Bug Fix	HL7 Inbound	93	Fix Generate Cert button on inbound HL7; HL7 inbound "expiring soon" check changed to 2 months (from 10).
Feature	HTTP Listener	94	Warn on the HTTP listener UI when CXN is running as part of a cluster (port binding / cert commands must be run on all app servers).
Bug Fix	HTTP Listener	95	HTTP Listener certificate not properly wired up (thumbprint/expiry not populated on UI).
Feature	Certificates	96	Add ability to query a single certificate by subject; validate the issuer of our certificate is who we expect.
Feature	Certificates	97	Modernize creation of Self-Signed certificates and centralize install logic; new class to set permissions on self-signed certs; consolidate CertificateHelper classes.
Bug Fix	Certificates	20	Updated certificate logic wasn't backwards compatible with 16.1.
Bug Fix	Certificates	98	Fix `CryptographicException` (Access denied / Bad Data) after removing the unmanaged X509 class; check certificate Subject name instead of thumbprint (thumbprint rotates every few days).
Refactor	Certificates	99	Remove the unmanaged X509 class (replaced by modernized path).
Task	Certificates	33	Verify the client certificate dialog is working properly; don't show cert confirmation dialog if there is a match to the 'Host Machine Name'.
Feature	Security	100	Change encryption padding in the Secure Sender to `OaepSHA256` with backwards compatibility for v16.1 and earlier.
Bug Fix	Secure Sender	101	Message trace not showing secure senders correctly.
Feature	Licensing	102	Add `LicenseIssuerVerification` (release-mode only), with optional strong-name and version comparison.
Bug Fix	Licensing	103	Fix issue checking the wrong certificate issuer; license-issuer verification fixups.
Feature	Dashboards	104	Add Kafka reader and writer dashboards; update remote reader dashboard.
Feature	Alert Template	105	Add async overload to alert template.
Feature	Package Manager	106	Move channel load/save logic to the Package Manager Dialog with minor review improvements.
Bug Fix	TaskManager	107	Fix unobserved `AggregateException` / `InvalidOperationException` on task transition to final state; fix miscellaneous TaskManager bugs.
Bug Fix	Message DB	2	Message DB hosted on a different machine than the config DB showed errors in the maintenance log.
Bug Fix	Remote Agent	21	Only one remote-agent statistic published for `remoteagent_host_info`.
Bug Fix	Remote Agent	29	Remote agent MongoDB service commands could act on mongo instances not started by the RA.
Bug Fix	Remote Agent	108	Attempt to observe HTTP exception thrown when laptop is hibernating; handle minor RA performance-monitor permission issue.
Bug Fix	Mongo	28	Mongo user query with a term ending in `
Bug Fix	Configuration	31	Adding new configuration properties with default global strings required a manual channel save; add status and protect against concurrent runs; fix collection modified during loop.
Bug Fix	Custom Code	39	Custom-code breakpoints don't work when a global tag is in the code; update custom-code debug template to .NET 4.8.1.
Bug Fix	Phi Log	35	Phi log message referenced the wrong output directory.
Bug Fix	CXN UI	109	Fix NRE when searching in the CXN UI; strip newlines from device status used as a search result; fix search tooltip.
Bug Fix	CXN	110	CXN ports not getting released on one developer's laptop (added diagnostic error handling).
Bug Fix	Installer	111	Test fix NRE in Integrator Installer; fix signing of MSI files (sign only in release, throw if signing fails); fix issue where MSIs weren't included in the bundle.
Bug Fix	DB Poller	112	Update SQL generation in DB poller to better support non-SQL-server and allow field names containing `_`.
Bug Fix	Mail	113	`SerializableMailMessage` lost attachments when using the `MailMessage` constructor.
Bug Fix	Branch Device	114	Don't show `IMessageContext` parameters in the branch-device output window.
Bug Fix	HL7 Validation	115	Minor UI tweak to the HL7 Validation device.
Bug Fix	SQL Connection	116	Fix clipped password border on SQL connection control.
Bug Fix	Fixed-Width File Reader	117	UI tweaks.
Bug Fix	Triggers	118	Fix `trgAddDeviceGlobalSetting` / `trgDeleteDeviceGlobalSetting` from modifying all rows.
Bug Fix	Stats	119	Some statistics weren't unpublished when the represented object was deleted (group, channel).
Bug Fix	App Server	120	Fix: repository group count could show zero after the active app server changed.
Bug Fix	FTP Reader	121	FTP reader device not properly configured to allow certificate queries.
Bug Fix	NLog	122	Code changes required for NLog v6; reference `Nlog.Targets.AtomicFile`; fix `NLogTraceListener` reference; `LogManager` no longer sets `AssemblyResolver`'s path too early.
Bug Fix	Imports	123	Fix exception `"Cannot perform a system-level import when the import file has an empty or missing group name..."` thrown for all import types.
Bug Fix	Map Grids	124	Removed brittle logic that committed map-table cells programmatically (fall back to default grid behavior).