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# Appkit SDK 4.8.0 Release Notes

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**Release date:** 10 January 2020

## New features

* 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.\
  To enable this filter, add a configuration file under `conf/security/ldap/provider.conf` with the following parameters:

  ```yml theme={"dark"}
  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.

  ```

## Improvements

* 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.

## Bug Fixes

* All Solr Stats components are now mapped to the Appkit response object. See [The Stats Components](https://lucene.apache.org/solr/guide/7_5/the-stats-component.html#statistics-supported) 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.