Release Notes DIGIT 2.0

Release Summary

‌DIGIT 2.0 is a baselined release that has got few functional changes, but more of non-functional standardisation changes.

Feature

Description

Advance Payments

Ability to handle advanced payments - platform and Reference implementation in W&S.

Advance Collection integration with W&S

Feature

Description

Infra/Ops Simplification & Enablement

Infra & Service monitoring v1.0.0 (Prometheus, Alertmanager & Grafana)

All Java-based services SpringBoot upgraded from 1.5.X to 2.2.6 for better security, performance and metrics.
Backbone Services migrated to Helm templates to ease deployment on Kubernetes.
Introduced Minio as a digit platform service for SDCs to leverage S3 like object storage feature.
DIGIT on Spot Instances for AWS users saves 60% of the cloud cost.
Configurable SSO with GitHub or Google SSO OAuth for all the Infra apps like Jaeger, Grafana, Kibana.
Jenkins CI/CD as a service with the pipelines

DIGIT 2.0 is a baselined release - considering simplification and standardization as a theme. It is strongly recommended all-state teams upgrade to leverage benefits.
- All services versioning will follow SemVer 2.0, naming conventions and Git Tagging are improved for better tracing.
- Next release might have a few more enhancements to the services naming conventions and handling MDMS and Configs better.
Impact: Functionally, the upgrade to DIGIT 2.0 will not impact the existing environments.

Updated Feature

Description

Baseline version upgrades

Bulk persister changes to support bulk persisting for migration in Persister Service.
Localization URL params to be changed to request params in Localization service
Receipt download link in SMS and email notifications.
Rainwater Harvesting attribute in Property Service
Filestore service enhancement - Support for SDC and S3 implementation.
Maven dependencies upgrade and merging the backend services to the master branch (Upgraded Tracer to 2.0.0, spring boot to 2.2.6, flyway-core to 6.4.3, etc along with code cleanup) for all the services across the services. The Changelog has been added.
Baseline versioning of all the services as per the streaming strategy.

UI Enhancements

Generalized Client-side PDF generation component and integration with Property, Fire NOC, Trade License, and W&S applications).
Generalize acknowledgement screens component
MDMS namespace common component and integration with PT and TL modules.

Updated Feature	Description
Enhancements	Versioned Git Tags for all the services Versioned MDMS and Config data.

Upgrading spring boot and tracer version of all the backend services to enhance the range of non-functional benefits like performance, metrics, and security.
All digit services/configs are baselined to follow the Semantic Versioning. These would enable the partner eco-system, system Integrators and state teams for easy on-going upgrades and integrations.

UI Technical Documents

Backend Service Documents

Infra/Deployment Documents