Linux Foundation Energy has announced v4.2.0.RELEASE of OperatorFabric, a modular, extensible, industrial-strength, and field-tested platform for systems operators. OperatorFabric includes several features essential for electricity, water, and other utility operations. The release includes improvements to templates, email, geo maps, filtering, and more. In addition, there have been multiple bug fixes and dependency upgrades.

Specific updates follow below, and you can also see the full release notes, and the Migration Guide from release 4.1.0 to release 4.2.0.

Features

• Build-in templates :
  • #5432 : In question card build in template add date column for responses
  • #5736 : In message or question list template add the summary as an option
  • #5737 : In message or question list template add rich text editor
  • #5738 : In message or question list template add the option to configure rich text in config file
  • #5595 : In message or question list template add option in config file to choose severity
  • #5596 : In message or question list template add option in config file to choose entity publisher list
  • #5748 : In message template add a field “title of the message”
  • #5722 : In task advanced template add “task title” field
• Emails:
  • #5428 : Add a rate limiter for mail sending per destination address
  • #5727 : Added the email template as a config property
  • #5729 : Added content of the cards to the mail body
  • #5732 : Added the option to send the emails as plain text
• Entity roles :
  • #5422 : Added the role attribute to entity
  • #5607 : Added Entity Roles to Activity Area Screen
  • #5434 : Entities need the CARD_SENDER role to send a card and the CARD_RECEIVER role to receive a card
  • #5614 : Removed entityNotAllowedToSendCard attribute
  • #5707 : Added the ACTIVITY_AREA role
  • #5435,#6014 : Realtime screen uses entity role
• Action Field in cards:
  • #5461 : Add actions field to Card. Handle PROPAGATE_READ_ACK_TO_PARENT_CARD action
  • #5743 : Add new card action KEEP_CHILD_CARDS to replace keepChildCards
• Rich text editor:
  • #5475 : Rich text editor: highlight active styling buttons
  • #5777 : Add a helper html page to deal with delta quills format (rich text editor format)
• Geo map :
  • #5488 : Add a tooltip for icon to zoom on geo map
  • #5784 : Geomap pop up : option to show summary
  • #5844 : Geographical map: visualize which Polygon representing a line on the geo-map belongs to which card in the card list
• Feed Filtering
  • #5815 : Add a filter by process in feed filter screen
  • #5817 : Add a filter by state in feed filter screen
  • #5819 : Add link from Dashboard to Feed setting process/state filters
• Misc :
  • #5448 : Use badge to show entity recipients for user card preview
  • #4791 : Remove deprecated methods in templateGateway / usercardTemplateGateway
  • #5491 : Activity area : show a message when user has no activity area
  • #5049 : Implement cancel ack at the entity level
  • #6067 : Do not exclude current user connected on activity area screen

Bugs

• #5489 : Remove default value https://quiljs.com in link edition in rich text editor
• #5485 : Avoid empty line in ag-grid tables
• #5496 : Task advanced : a last comma that should not be displayed
• #5495 : Task advanced : typo error and no uppercase letters for weekdays and months for french version
• #5499 : Fix navbar hovering style in day mode
• #5555 : Reminder shall remove ack at the entity level
• #5567 : Right menu entries shall not be grayed out
• #5474 : Prevent non admin users from accessing the admin screen through the URL
• #5483 : Recurrent card : add a control in the code to forbid negative number for “minutes to remind before task”
• #5295 : Allow to delete card with id containing special characters
• #5482 : Task advanced : the text for a negative number in “nth day of the month” is not right
• #5502 : Business data management tab : missing accents for french version
• #5652 : Archives/loggging screen : disable admin mode shall reset the search result if admin has no processes
• #5617 : Cards reminder error when Task advanced card has “nth day of month” field greater than month number of days
• #5728 : Fix isAcknowledgmentAllowed() method
• #6104 : usercard error appears only once

Tasks

• #5589 : Card external diffusion : store in mongoDB mails already sent (#5589)
• #5615 : Added a migration script for entity roles
• #5069 : Load test on SSE connection

Dependencies upgrade

• Angular v17.1.1
• angular-oauth2-oidc v17.0.1
• axios v1.6.7
• chart.js v4.4.1
• config (js) to v3.3.11
• confluent to v7.5.3
• Commons-io:commons-io v2.15.1
• com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind v2.16.1
• com.google.guava:guava v33
• cypress v13.6.2
• io.micrometer:micrometer-registry-prometheus v1.12.2
• moment v2.30.1
• moment-timezone v0.5.44
• Node.js v20.11.0
• nodemailer v6.9.9
• ol(openlayer) v8.2.0
• org.apache.commons:commons-compress v1.26.0
• org.apache.commons:commons-lang3 v3.14.0
• org.assertj:assertj-core v3.25.1
• org.slf4j:slf4j-api v2.0.11
• Rabbitmq Docker v3.12.12
• rrule v2.8.1
• spring boot v3.2.3
• Spring Kafka v3.1.1
• Spring Security v6.2.1
• Spring Webflux v6.1.3
• virtual-select-plugin v1.0.41
• zone.js v0.14.3