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2023 Backend Release

2.0.0 (6-Dec-2023)​

Please upgrade the Node Registration module to v16 after upgrading the backend.

  • New features
    • Support for daylight based automation triggers - sunrise, sunset (Swagger)
    • Improvements to the RainMaker License file format. Even though this is backward compatible and does not require updating the license file, please get in touch with the ESP RainMaker support team (esp-rainmaker-support@espressif.com) to get a new license
  • Bug fixes
    • OTA job getting finished incorrectly due to node count miscalculation
  • Other changes
    • Allow finished OTA jobs to be archived (Swagger)
    • Allow setting node group name, description and automation names in other languages. Device and scene names were already possible in other languages
    • Additional details added to the Apple push notification platform certificate expiry email
    • Get command-response list by node Id and status (Swagger)
    • Include Blocked user IPs in the API rate limit violation email (Upgrade to the latest version by following these steps)
    • Upgraded to the latest al2 lambda runtime for improved performance and security
  • Matter Fabric changes

1.2.1 (7-Nov-2023)​

Please upgrade the Node Registration module to v14 after upgrading the backend.

  • Bug fixes
    • Error while OTA job creation due to missing permissions for IoT streams
    • Error while deploying 'ESP-RainMaker-Base' SAR in some AWS accounts
    • Weather automation triggers for a node accessible to the unassociated users

1.2.0 (4-Oct-2023)​

Please upgrade the Node Registration module to v14 after upgrading the backend.

  • New features
  • Known issues
    • OTA job creation may fail on some deployments with 500 - Internal server error

1.1.31 (14-Sep-2023)​

Please upgrade the Node Registration module to v14 after upgrading the backend.

  • New features
    • Custom user context: Special privileged user can carry out user operations on behalf of others. This can be useful for Matter-only deployments. (API to enable)
  • Minor bug fixes and improvements
  • Other changes
    • Base64 data support in in the command - response framework (Swagger)

1.1.30 (17-Aug-2023)​

Please upgrade the Node Registration module to v14 after upgrading the backend.

  • New features
    • Support to tag admin groups, OTA firmware images and jobs (Swagger)
    • New HTTP gateway for cost savings (BETA) (Note: This requires user migration to the new pool. For steps: User Pool Migration Guide)
  • Bug fixes
    • Group sharing removal notifications not getting sent to shared users
    • Change password doesn't revoke tokens from the other user pool
    • Fixes to adding nodes to the parent group while node registration
    • Removed redundant access token from the change password API request body
  • Other changes
    • Added primary or secondary role information to the GET node and group APIs
    • Added shared group names to the GET requests API
    • Special handling for command id 1 (set node parameters) in the command - response framework (Swagger). Needs relevant support in firmware.
    • Create the parent group if not present while node registration via the RainMaker Admin CLI
    • Secondary user able to update NODE level event filter (Swagger)

1.1.28 and 1.1.29 (28-Jun-2023)​

Please upgrade the Node Registration module to v13 after upgrading the backend.

  • New features
    • Adding node tags per batch and per node while node registration via the RainMaker Admin CLI
    • Statistics: online and offline count grouped by type or model (Swagger)
    • Active, inactive and not activated node count summary (Swagger)
    • Ability to transfer super admin ownership (Swagger)
  • Bug fixes
    • Nodes getting removed from other groups on admin group deletion
    • User approval pushing job of a lower priority
    • OTA latest status getting updated even if it is of an older timestamp
    • Trimming spaces while adding node tags
    • Additional validations to the RainMaker Admin CLI
  • Other changes
    • Tagging all AWS resources created by ESP RainMaker
    • Multiple nodes support in the activate or deactivate nodes API
    • Added delete user SMS and forgot password email custom templates (Swagger)
    • Secondary users can now manage automation triggers (Swagger) and event filters (Swagger)
    • Disabled super admin user deletion
    • Disallow ESP-RainMaker-Base-API upgrade
    • Added functionality to get the list of values for a given tag (Swagger)
    • RBAC: return usernames in the API
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Important

With RainMaker 1.1.27, we've added support to switch to the new user pool which has more features than the older one. We encourage you to migrate your user pool to the new one. The old pool will be depreciated soon. Please follow this guide for detailed steps - User Pool Migration Guide. Contact the RainMaker support team if you require any assistance. (esp-rainmaker-support@espressif.com)

1.1.27 (18-Apr-2023)​

Please upgrade the Node Registration module to v12 after upgrading the backend.

  • New features
    • Support to upload files associated with an OTA firmware image (Swagger) (BETA)
    • Support to add tags to nodes while registering them via the RainMaker Admin CLI
  • Bug fixes
    • Incorrect total and next_id in get admin nodes when searched using tags
    • Incorrect node total in Dynamic groups
    • Even though push notifications are disabled on the dashboard, yet notifications are sent to the users
  • Other changes
    • Push notifications for user approval OTA jobs
    • Provision to add role levels to RBAC roles, with 0 being the most privileged user. A user can attach only higher-level roles to other users. This behaviour can be enabled using this API
    • HTML support in terms and policy files
    • Added group_metadata to device groups (Swagger)
note

Important:

  1. We've added changes to switch to the new pool which has more features than the older one. We encourage you to migrate your user pool to the new one. The old pool will be depreciated soon. Please follow this guide for detailed steps - User Pool Migration Guide. Contact the RainMaker support team if you require any assistance. (esp-rainmaker-support@espressif.com)

  2. RainMaker Admin CLI: Changes to extend validity of device certificates Please update the CLI before registering new node certificates.

1.1.26 (16-Jan-2023)​

Please upgrade the Node Registration module to v11 after upgrading the backend.

  • New features
    • OTA priorities for better OTA management (Swagger)
    • Support to expire OTA jobs using the timeout parameter (Swagger)
  • Bug fixes
    • Duplicate dynamic groups
    • Node not getting added to some relevant dynamic groups
    • Dangling shared groups on primary user deletion
    • OTA job getting lost if approved by the user, but the node is offline
    • Validating the count of placeholders in custom push notification messages (Swagger)
  • Other changes
    • Allowing empty dynamic groups
    • Improved latency in the node-to-cloud communication
    • Node group names can now contain spaces
    • OTA status update flow optimisation
    • 'sum' aggregate support in time series data query (Swagger)
    • Allow setting a custom push notification message without placeholders (Swagger)

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