Release Notes CORE 2.9 - WIP

Release Summary

DIGIT CORE 2.9 release includes 2 new services, 1 new module, several technical, security features and bug fixes. The highlight of this release is the separation(unbundling) of CORE from DIGIT.

• New Services and Modules: Signed Audit, Internal Gateway, Service Request.

• Technical Enhancements and Fixes:

  • Filestore Service:

    • Fixed flow to store and retrieve files from Azure blob storage.

  • PDF Service:

    • Fixed bug where _create API creates duplicate PDF for each request.

  • SMS Notification Service:

  • Mail Notification Service:

    • Added support for attachments.

    • Disabled consumer listening on sms topic.

  • User OTP Service:

    • Added support for sending OTP via email by emitting email events.

  • User Service:

    • Added fallback to default message if user email update localization messages are not configured.

    • Fixed bug where updating citizen profile causes server error.

  • Workflow Service:

    • Introduced state level business service fallback as part of v2 business service search API.

    • Separated out v1 and v2 APIs to maintain backward compatibility.

    • Enhanced workflow service to send descriptive errors for bad requests.

  • Inbox Service:

    • Introduced event based inbox and deprecated dependency on searcher-service for fetching inbox items.

    • Separated out v1 and v2 APIs to maintain backward compatibility.

    • Introduced a new API to get records based on the provided search criteria(analogous to searcher service).

  • Dashboard Analytics:

    • Introduced feature to perform DIVISION operation on metric chart responses.

  • Encryption Client Library:

    • As part of privacy changes, enc-client library was introduced to support encryption-related functionalities so that every service does not need to call the encryption service.

  • National Dashboard Ingest:

    • Added support to allow user with national dashboard adaptor role to ingest data regardless of the tenant the user belongs to.

  • Codegen:

    • Enhanced codegen utility to support openAPI 3.0 specifications.

  • DIGIT Developer Guide:

    • Backend Guide - This guide provides detailed steps for developers to create a new microservice on top of DIGIT and deploy it on DIGIT cluster. A sample birth registration spring-boot module was developed as part of this guide.

    • Frontend Guide - This guide offers a systematic view of how to create the application screens on DIGIT. A sample birth registration frontend module was developed as part of this guide.

• Non-functional:

  • Dashboard Analytics Service:

    • Load tested dashboard analytics and documented improvement in performance.

  • PDF Service:

    • Performance testing of bulk PDF generation.

  • Billing Service:

    • Performance testing of bulk bill generation.

Technical feature additions

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