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Version 0.10.0 FutureReady

This version is NOT COMPATIBLE with older lxHive versions. (server requirements, codebase, database model).

Currently there are no plans to release database migration functionality. Please launch a request to [email protected] if you need help with migrating records from older lxHive versions.

Summary

Extensive changes in regards to stability, testability, reporting administration and configurability. This release focuses on support for modern server environments and advances in an overall simplification and refactoring process.

  • PHP 7 support
  • Slim 3
  • Replace legacy Mongo Driver with MongoDB
  • Advanced reporting queries with the new ExtendedQuery Extension

Misc, General code refactor

  • Consolidation of exception handling
  • Code separation, restructuring and division into modules, controllers, services and APIs
  • Decoupling third-party dependencies (notably Slim)
  • Consistent use of dependency containers for services
  • Removing logic out of index.php into new Bootstrap module; index.php now only has 3 LOC
  • Support for Monolog handlers for production and development mode: ChromePHPHandler, FirePHPHandler, Streamhandler, ErrorLogHandler
  • Removal of obsolete code
  • Increase of code testability
  • Separation of autoloading for unit tests and benchmarks
  • Linting, PSR-1, CircleCI
  • Improved /about endpoint includes extensions and LRS information
  • Consolidation of agent and uuid processing

ExtendedQuery Extension (new)

  • Fragmented reporting queries, closely modelled on MongoDB, query language
  • Documentation in progress

Configuration Module (new)

  • Extensive model changes
  • Templates
  • Globally accessible config service
  • Version awareness
  • New authentication scopes configuration
  • Configuration model for extensions
  • Documented config template

Bootstrap Module (new)

  • New Bootstrap module loads configuration and boots app
  • Boot modes: Web (default), Console, Testing, Config, None
  • Service container creation according to boot modes

Parser Module (rewrite)

  • Combining parser logic in parser module
  • Switch payload parsing to stdClass

Controller Module (rewrite)

  • Migrate controller logic from ols Resource into new "Controller" module
  • Improved permission validation

Router Module (new)

  • Lightweight and extendable router API

Authentication Module (rewrite)

  • New centralised Auth Service is faster and easier to configure
  • Removed AuthScopes collection, services and models
  • Permission inheritance and user ID
  • Changes to oAuth and basicAuth services

Database/Storage module (replaced):

  • PHP 7 ready: switch to ‘ext-mongodb’, removed support for legacy ext-mongo
  • Complete new low-level Storage API
  • Performance improvements by removing all third-party dependencies
  • Basic schema
  • Collection Indexing
  • Query expression API
  • Started unifying document properties
  • Statement documents include user ID

Admin API (new)

  • Bundled administrative tasks into new API
  • Input validators
  • Most administrative tasks are now REST ready (next milestone)

Extensions API (new)

  • Installation
  • Configuration
  • Model
  • Controller
  • Symfony events

Validator Module (changes)

  • Slight improvements to JSON validator
  • Debug mode for HTTP errors
  • Conformance improvements

Admin Console (changes)

  • New multistep ./X setup command
  • Removed obsolete "AuthScopes" commands
  • ./X status command give LRS status report
  • Improved output styling and added command hints
  • Strict validation for emails and passwords

Unit test (new)

  • PHPUnit configurations, base classes, with instructions and examples
  • Started migration tests
  • Mongo test API

Benchmarking (new)

  • PHPBench support and configuration

Third Party support

  • Removed sokil/php-mongo
  • Switch to Slim 3 (see above); decoupling from code
  • General review of dependencies, removed obsolete ones, updated others

PHPDoc:

  • Removed "docs" folder with compiled documents to keep documentation current
  • Added bash script helper for documentation generation
  • Continued to add missing code documentation
  • Changes to Sami configuration

Version 0.9.1

  • Include StatementRefs in StatementResults
  • Mongo log
  • Console improvements
  • Migration script
  • Default (token based) statement.authority
  • GET /statments format param implementation
  • Improved oAuth views with configurable css, logo
  • Statement attachments (multipart) - support for UTF-8 and base64
  • Conformance improvements