Release Notes for SAP HANA Cloud Platform - 13 February 2014
| Function | Type of Change | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Console Client, Deploy | Enhancement | You can now use the following two new commands:
For more information, seerolling-updateandenable. |
| Cockpit | Enhancement | In the cockpit, you can now clearly differentiate infrastructure from application error states for Java applications which makes it easier for you to detect and fix application issues. The status icons are improved, in particular the OK status icon which was sometimes confused with an action. |
| Cloud Environment Variables | Enhancement | There is now a new cloud environment variable HC_PROCESS_ID that contains the process id of the current application process. For more information, see Using Cloud Environment Variables. |
| SDK | Enhancement | The SDK samples will now demonstrate and make use of the SAP HANA Cloud Platform API which is now also published to Maven Central for easier consumption in Maven-based development projects. |
| SAP UI5 | Enhancement | New version 1.18.5 of UI Development Toolkit has been released. For more information, see therelease notes. |
| Feedback Service | Enhancement | You can now provide feedback for the feedback service and its UIs. For more information, seeGetting Feedback for Applications. |
| Cockpit, Destinations | Enhancement | The Destinations editor in the cockpit is extended to support the new authentication type PrincipalPropagation. This new authentication type works for on-premise destinations (proxyType=OnPremise) and requires Cloud Connector version 2 (CloudConnectorVersion=2). |
SAP HANA Cloud Connector | Enhancement | SAP HANA Cloud Connector 2.2 has been released with the following features:
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Release Notes for SAP HANA Cloud Platform - 30 January 2014
| Function | Type of Change | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Cockpit, HANA XS | Enhancement | Users of productive HANA XS systems are now able to create their SAP HANA database users within the cockpit. For more information, seeCreating Your Database User. |
| Cockpit | Enhancement | You can now see the runtime type, for example Java Web or Java EE 6 Web Profile, together with the runtime version. |
| Cockpit | Enhancement | You can now see the process ID for Java application processes in the UI. The process ID for processes that are still running is also shown with each log file, so that you can match a certain log file to a running process. |
| Cockpit | Enhancement | In the process list of the application dashboard, you can now see the aggregated status of processes including run state, runtime version and metrics. This makes spotting problems with individual processes much easier. For more information, seeChecking the Application Status. |
| Cockpit, Monitoring | Enhancement | The following usability improvements are now available:
For more information, see Viewing Monitoring Metrics. |
| SDK, Connectivity Service | Enhancement | The existing SDK sample application “connectivity-outbound-internet” is renamed to "connectivity" and is also extended to cover an example for on-demand to on-premise connectivity. The tutorials below are adopted accordingly to describe both connectivity scenarios, fitting to the extended sample application: |
| SAP UI5 | Enhancement | New version 1.16.9 of UI Development Toolkit has been released. |
| Documentation | Enhancement | SAP HANA Cloud Platform now uses geolocation-based load balancing for SAP HANA Cloud Platform documentation (help.hana.ondemand.com). When opening the documentation, users are routed to the nearest data center. The response time for opening and browsing the documentation is significantly improved for users in the US region. |
| Connectivity Service: Destination Configuration | Incompatibility | To support SAP HANA Cloud Platform service JNDI resource lookups in EJBs with the release of neo-sdk-javaee6-wp-2.25.7, an incompatible behavior had to be introduced concerning the time destinations need to be configured. For more information, seeIncompatibility announcement for neo-sdk-javaee6-wp-2.25.7 affecting destination configuration time. |
| Eclipse Tools | Bugfix | The following issues are now fixed:
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Java EE 6 Web Profile | Bugfix | SAP HANA Cloud Platform services can be injected as JNDI resources in EJBs. |
Release Notes for SAP HANA Cloud Platform - 16 January 2014
| Function | Type of Change | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Cockpit, Monitoring | Enhancement | You can now choose a custom time period when viewing history of metrics for a single process. You can also compare the metrics history of different processes within an application. For more information, see Viewing Monitoring Metrics. |
| ID Service, Authorization Management | Enhancement | You can now directly assign users to groups. |
| Cloud Connector | Enhancement | Version 1.3.2 improves the security of SCC traffic tracing by introducing a 4-eyes principle for the activation of HTTP and RFC protocol traces: activating a trace level that dumps traffic data requires the approval of two separate users. For more information, see Securing the Activation of Traffic Traces. |
| SAP UI5 | Enhancement | New version 1.16.7 of UI Development Toolkit has been released. |
| Console Client | Enhancement | The disabled status for applications processes, as well as maintenance status for applications are now shown in the console client. |
| Console Client, Deploy | Deprecation | The parameter --severity for setting log severity during deploy has been deprecated. |
| Eclipse Tools | Bugfix | An issue with applications deployed on a newly created cloud server (via Run → Run on Server) sporadically not being published on the server has been fixed. |
| Console Client, Deploy | Bugfix | The deploy command now shows improved output in case you are trying to select a non-existing runtime version. |
Console Client | Bugfix | It is no longer possible to start maintenance for an application that is used as a maintenance page. |
For more information about older release notes, see: