Appkit SDK 4.8.0 Release Notes

It is now possible to map a user’s LDAP roles to the application user’s group. This differs from the previous implementation to the AD pre-authorization filter, in that it reads the groups directly from the user object instead of querying for AD groups that the user belongs to.

enabled: true
user: #Service account used to connect to LDAP.
password: #Password for the service account. This can be encrypted using the twigcrypt binary.
url: #Full URL to the LDAP server.
user-search-base: #LDAP search base to restricted the search to.
user-search-filter: #LDAP search filter to restrict the LDAP search.

It is now possible to use basic authentication against a Solr cloud platform using the parameters userName and password in the platform configuration.

The value of a highlighted field is now stored as the "display" field value, rather than replacing the original "actual" field value.

UTC dates sent from the browser are now retained as UTC when passed to Solr.

All Solr Stats components are now mapped to the Appkit response object. See The Stats Compnents for more information.

In provided templates, some of the CSS and JavaScript files under /twigkit/api/static/** had the wrong content type. This prevented some browsers from executing the files properly. This is fixed.

Fixed an issue that sometimes caused the session cookie used for activity tracking to reset and be incorrectly assigned.

Fixed an issue in the RoleBasedAuthorizationFilter that sometimes resulted in a Null Pointer Exception.

Fixed an issue that sometimes prevented highlighting of multivalue fields.

Previously, request signals generated by App Studio did not specify whether a filter was excluded or not (a negative filter). Now, filter metadata represents excluded filters with a - symbol in front of the filter value.

Fixed an issue with the <search:box> tag that caused the query term used in the search box to differ from the value of the query associated with the tag.