Changelog

Version 44

ETA: November 2024

Cloud Transformation-specific improvements

The following improvements are only applicable if you are using Txture's Cloud Transformation module:

• Cloud Functions and Scalable Compute Groups (Autoscaling groups) are now first class citizens for importers and business cases
• Improved some assessment rules

Generic improvements

• Improved performance for many queries - particularly aggregations

Version 43

Release date: 2024/09/19

Cloud Transformation-specific improvements

The following improvements are only applicable if you are using Txture's Cloud Transformation module:

• Various performance improvements for the proposal generation
• Proposals can now scale the required instance size based on SPEC benchmark of the used CPU

Generic improvements

• Failed login attempts can now be logged
• New main menu
• Improved performance of sorting in the repository.
• The Txture Cloud Knowledge Base now contains information about a wide variety of CPUs. CPUs are now selectable in the asset sheet and will provide additional information.
• Improved performance of change propagation evaluation for highly-connected assets.
• Added a new set of predefined asset type icons designed for Enterprise Architecture use cases.
• The "About" dialog now shows a direct contact link to the Txture Sales partner.
• The visual layout of the Icons page has been improved.
• Deleting a user (manually or otherwise) will now also delete all notification rules which specifically reference that user.

Version 42

Release date: 2024/06/18

Cloud Transformation-specific improvements

The following improvements are only applicable if you are using Txture's Cloud Transformation module:

• Shared components providing container engines can now be automatically proposed
• Business Case Builder preferences have been simplified and separated from global Target Architecture preferences
• Bills of Material can be sorted by price now

Generic improvements

• The query bar has been redesigned and now allows to reorder query blocks
• The admin changelog can now be searched case-insensitively
• Cluster tables allow to multi-select assets
• The cluster matrix performance has been improved drastically and headers are now sorted alphabetically
• Various improvements to the stacked bar chart
• Restrictions of the Groovy sandbox (forbidden classes and methods) are displayed in a dedicated modal
• Performance improvements for the Zombie table (for restoring assets that disappeared temporarily from a data source)
• Faster Azure importer

Warning:

For non-container deplyoments, Java 21 is required starting with version 42.

Version 41

Release date: 2024/03/29

Cloud Transformation-specific improvements

The following improvements are only applicable if you are using Txture's Cloud Transformation module:

• Shared components can now automatically be used in new Target Architecture proposals
• Improved features for modeling deployment environments in Business Applications (formerly known as Application Templates)
• Dedicated target architecture settings for instance right sizing

Generic improvements

• Changes originating from an scheduling group can now be displayed for each importer in the group separately
• Completely revamped importer UI (only available as preview for now)
• New report type: quadrant report
• Reports can now be viewed from different scenarios on the dashboard for better comparison

Version 40

Release date: 2024/01/18

Cloud Transformation-specific improvements

The following improvements are only applicable if you are using Txture's Cloud Transformation module:

• Business Case card layout has been improved and now allows directly editing cases
• Proposal issues are now also shown in the Business Case Builder
• The shared component "Used by" view now lists the weights and cost shares for all applications
• Improved reporting speed for business cases
• A new property "Storage Right Sizing" was introduced to allow for rightsizing of storage asset as well
• Assessment recommendations have been revamped and now communicate the results much clearer
• Deployment stack tree reports can now group assets by their technology
• Business case Excel exports gained a new column to ease tracking of individual replacement actions
• Improved proposals for SQL Server replacements using dedicated images for various cloud providers
• A new "primary" flag allows to specify required cloud service strategies for proposals
• Simpler filters for the proposal bill of materials

Generic improvements

• A new configuration option has been added that allows logging in via email addresses in addition to usernames
• New option to disable global conditional styling rules per report

Version 39

Release date: 2023/11/10

Cloud Transformation-specific improvements

The following improvements are only applicable if you are using Txture's Cloud Transformation module:

• Custom line items are now exported to Excel
• Pricing options for proposals are collapsed by default in order to avoid visual clutter
• Simplified creation of reports on Business Cases in the BCB
• The Business Case Builder now has a new "Total Cost" comparison mode
• The Transformation Cockpit now boasts a fresh look for its navigation
• Google Cloud custom instance sizing is now fully supported
• Advanced storage mappings considering tiers and redundancy

Generic improvements

• Improved error messages for filter scripts
• Survey administrator will be notified about comments within a survey via email
• Merge consolidation can now be restricted to a scope query to work on
• AWS data sources can now leverage IAM roles for improved permission control
• The admin sidebar has been redesigned: commonly used items are now displayed further up

Version 38

Release date: 2023/08/24

Cloud Transformation-specific improvements

The following improvements are only applicable if you are using Txture's Cloud Transformation module:

• Redesigned conflict / shared component view in the Transformation Cockpit
• Various solution workbench improvements to allow easier solution modeling
• New consolidation to import cloud cost and carbon footprint estimates for the current AS-IS cloud assets
• Performance improvements for large Business Cases
• New target architecture license option to control software licenses: Either BYOL or a specific license can be chosen

Generic improvements

• Various hyperscaler importer improvements
• Password strength estimation for local users
• Added sort options to the bar chart visualization
• New Kubernetes importer for easier data ingestion and better TA proposals
• New follow up sections for surveys to model deployment stacks

Version 37

Release date: 2023/06/23

Cloud Transformation-specific improvements

The following improvements are only applicable if you are using Txture's Cloud Transformation module:

• Newly structured Assessment outcomes
• Graphical view of proposals moved to a new tab "Solution Workbench" that allows advanced editing and exporting of Target Architecture proposals
• Line items in the bill of materials of Target Architecture proposals have a new, cleaner layout
• Improved labelling of multi AZ products in proposals
• Each Business Case in the Business Case Builder now has its own query and Business Cases can be cloned
• Target Architecture preferences have been grouped to ease configuration
• New overview of all properties and assets that are considered during Assessment
• Added pricing information on fees for burstable cloud computing instances
• The user defined cloud approach is the new default in the target architecture view

Generic improvements

• Various improvements to the Google Cloud, AWS and Microsoft Azure importers
• New delegation button at the end of a survey
• Ability to query by importer group (rather than just importer)
• "Exact match" merge consolidations are now faster
• A new cleanString method has been added to the scripting utilities to ease common Groovy data cleaning tasks

Version 36

Release date: 2023/04/27

Cloud Transformation-specific improvements

The following improvements are only applicable if you are using Txture's Cloud Transformation module:

• Improved proposals mappings and cost forecast for burstable instance types
• Carbon footprint is now written to properties for all replaced assets
• Energy consumption and CO2 emission chart in Transformation Cockpit
• Improved display of migration waves in application specific mode
• New target architecture preference for the compute instance selection based on closest match: Allow to slightly downsize a product instance
• Extended instance information for business case excel exports
• Many improvements to capture rightsizing information about the current cloud estate

Generic improvements

• HTTP(S) proxies can now be configured from the system configuration
• Improved reporting for merge consolidations
• Autogenerated new properties that show EOL date and vendor of technologies
• Cluster tables can now be exported to Excel
• Detail button for change propagation rules to find all affected assets

Version 35

Release date: 2023/03/14

Cloud Transformation-specific improvements

The following improvements are only applicable if you are using Txture's Cloud Transformation module:

• Application Cost Distribution Chart in the transformation cockpit
• Better display and simplified creation of shared components
• Cloud preferences are now validated in the form to report invalid settings
• Application and Business Case proposals show their region now on a map

Generic improvements

• Shiny new loading spinner :)
• Many improvements to the Azure importer (Service Fabric, Mappings, SQL Elastic Pools, ...)
• The Kubernetes data source allows to configure multiple cluster credentials
• Vertical bar charts in reporting
• Importer groups can now be renamed
• Performance optimizations for the importer admin view
• New permission model to create links between asset: write permission is only required on the source asset (previously write permissions were required on the source and target asset)
• Intro tour modal for new Txture users
• Support for importer group names in the asset source query and column

Version 34

Release date: 2023/02/02

Cloud Transformation-specific improvements

The following improvements are only applicable if you are using Txture's Cloud Transformation module:

• Exporting proposals now contains the custom line items and carbon footprint estimates
• Assessment results can now be filtered by outcome type
• Initial support for generating Terraform scripts out of target architecture proposals (beta feature)
• Multiple new charts for the executive summary exports
• The "Discovery" phase got renamed to "Data Collection"
• New technology overview chart for the Data Collection view with insights into used technology versions

Generic improvements

• Replaced internal SQLite with PostgreSQL for better scalability
• Suggested indices are now displayed in the structure editor
• Any Groovy scripting editor now has a couple of example scripts
• Various improvements to the Azure importer
• New report type: stacked bar chart
• Donut charts and stacked bar charts offer to download CSV values
• Improved overflow handling of long header labels in the cluster matrix visualization
• Date-filter option for timeline view of assets and links and importer change modal
• New option for survey data collection questions to only consider data from the repository instead of user answers

Warning:

With the release of Txture 34 the internal configuration database is migrated from SQLite to PostgreSQL 15+. In addition, an upgrade from Tomcat 9 to Tomcat 10.1 is required. If you are not using a SaaS instance, please have a look at the migration guide.

Version 33

Release date: 2022/11/22

Cloud Transformation-specific improvements

The following improvements are only applicable if you are using Txture's Cloud Transformation module:

• Soon-to-be EOL technologies are now highlighted more prominently in the Discovery phase of the Transformation Cockpit
• Packed circle chart displays the relative sizes of application stacks
• New table report in the discovery view which shows the data sources of collected application data

Generic improvements

• Querying by source now also works on property importers and surveys
• Tenants and sources can now be used in all visualizations
• Dry-run option for consolidations
• Ability to sort importers by the last execution date
• Last run information of importers is displayed alongside the source information of assets
• Comment notification emails contain more useful information for the user
• Read-only tasks (e.g. report generation) can now be executed on a second task queue eliminating the need to wait for other tasks (e.g. an importer)
• New UI to show and filter importer logs
• Dedicated importer for CloudScape
• Various improvements and simplifications to importer configuration
• Survey admin reporting improvements: the recipient list can now be sorted and filtered
• Added confirmation questions for surveys
• New option to split multi values in aggregations (e.g. in the donut chart)

Warning:

Surveys URLs were changed: assessment.html was renamed to survey.html. You might need to adapt the allowed redirect urls in your OAuth configuration.

Version 32

Release date: 2022/09/20

Cloud Transformation-specific improvements

The following improvements are only applicable if you are using Txture's Cloud Transformation module:

• New target architecture preference: CPU vendor
• Strategy-based proposals: this new feature will eventually replace the "service model" preference and allows for a much more fine-grained control of the preferred strategy when moving to the cloud.
• Assessment rules now suggest aforementioned migration micro-strategies
• Redesigned summary view for applications in the Transformation Cockpit
• Target architecture proposals and assessment outcomes can now be exported to PDF for all applications in one go
• Search bar for rules in the Assessment Preferences
• The Bill of Materials view of a proposal now displays more details about the CPUs used
• New option to consider the current location of assets as the target location

Generic improvements

• User admin allows to sort by login date
• Many survey improvements:
  • Surveys can now be configured to not allow answering questions anyway, if a restriction applies
  • Option to deactivate delegation and commenting
  • Questions can be moved between sections
  • Small UI improvements
  • Option to disallow asset creation in link-generation questions
  • Automatically suggest questions texts for property questions
• Failed emailing attempts are now logged
• Merge consolidation now accepts a query as base assets to work on
• Improved property mapping UI for importers
• New all-in-one Stratozone importer
• The number of assets of a given type is now displayed in the structure view. Additionally, there is a donut chart in the sidebar.
• API exports can now be configured to only contain specific columns
• Propagation rule log download to help debugging complex propagation rules

Version 31

Release date: 2022/07/20

Cloud Transformation-specific improvements

The following improvements are only applicable if you are using Txture's Cloud Transformation module:

• Target architecture proposals can be downloaded in an Excel (xlsx) format
• Option to print a complete application assessment including target architecture
• Improved display of technology pins for proposal: option to compare products and show their features Read more
• Country flags are now shown for the location selection
• The performance of the target architecture scenario CSV export was improved
• Proposal can now suggest AWS Outpost products Read more
• The cloud carbon footprint is estimated for each proposal and a target architecture preference allows to prefer proposals with low emissions Read more

Generic improvements

• User mentions in comments trigger an email notification to the users
• Tenants of a user are now displayed on the user management page
• The neighbourhood of an asset is now displayed in a mini tree report in the asset detail sidebar
• "Query over time" reports can now display multiple lines (for different properties) and group assets by a property value Read more
• Comments can now be exported to a CSV file for assets in a report
• Propagation rules now allow to refer to links as links rather than refs. refs is deprecated and will be removed in the future.
• Link generation consolidations gained syncing behaviour
• Donut charts gained a "radius" mode in addition to the already present "angle" mode.
• Reports can now be shared using a deep link available in the sharing dialog
• Stakeholder assets (corresponding to Txture accounts) now optionally remain when a user is deleted (and are marked with an "inactive" property)
• Survey changes can now be filtered by type (comments, asset changes, free text questions)
• Option to filter by tenant
• New filters in propagation rules overview: filter by compile errors and state
• Link generation consolidation gained the ability to define source and target queries
• Metadata changes (responsible importer, modification date, etc.) are rendered properly in the timeline

Version 30

Release date: 2022/05/09

Cloud Transformation-specific improvements

The following improvements are only applicable if you are using Txture's Cloud Transformation module:

• Target architecture preferences allow to select government regions as target locations Read more
• Improved the proposal warning display
• Technical components without a deployment stack now get a default deployment stack to account for incomplete modelling and improve proposal accuracy
• Improved taxonomy technology search autocomplete
• Added migration tool recommendations for cloud products Read more
• Added export functionality to migration waves Read more

Generic improvements

• Visual editor for all places supporting markdown notation
• Option to change the date, time and number display format in Txture
• Added GBP as currency conversion option
• Custom code editor now supports a search bar
• New "Share" dialog for easier sharing of reports

Warning:

We changed the IP address of our API (api.txture.io) to 34.117.204.19 on February 23 2022. The old IP was 35.244.131.130. Please update any firewall rules you may have. No need for action if you are using Txture as Software-as-a-Service.

Version 29

Release date: 2022/03/16

Generic improvements

• Editing assets now has undo/redo functionality
• Empty properties are now hidden by default when viewing an asset/link
• Improved display of expiring API tokens
• Data sources now have a description field and show the importers based on that data source
• Improved handling of notifications and added an option for monthly notifications
• Ability to cancel running scheduling groups
• User invite emails can now be customized

Cloud Transformation-specific improvements

The following improvements are only applicable if you are using Txture's Cloud Transformation module:

• Proposal technology pins now offer products from the same category
• Prices can be displayed in EUR
• Proposals gained the option to include "custom line items" as fixed monthly values or percentages Read more
• New target architecture preference to specify preferred technologies
• New Proposal comparison modes: Proposals can now be compared on aggregated product group cost and different pricing models Read more

Warning:

Txture 29 requires OpenJDK 17 or higher. No need for action, if you operate Txture as a container or you are using Software-as-a-Service.

Version 28

Release date: 2022/01/27

Generic improvements

• New importer: RVTools
• Several improvements for the AWS, Stratozone and Azure importers
• New query optimizer leading to improved query times for the most common repository queries
• Show last importer run in asset source tooltip
• Interactive link creation in tree reports
• Bars in aggregation report can now be reordered
• Improved physical sizing of graphical reports
• Redesigned importer preview table
• New asset icons
• Dashboard tagging
• Excel exports now display source and target asset type for links
• Most settings previously found in the txture.properties can now be set in the admin area and do not require a restart of Txture any more
• Existing links can be redirected to a different source or target when editing a single link

Cloud Transformation-specific improvements

The following improvements are only applicable if you are using Txture's Cloud Transformation module:

• Better cloud benefit calculation for some rules
• Improved block storage size calculation for virtual servers
• Azure SQL Server on VMs in proposals are now displayed as an underlying virtual server
• New rendering of migration proposal cost over time for different pricing models
• Migration proposals can be exported to CSV and JSON
• Shared components can now distribute their cost between the involved applications

Version 27

Release date: 2021/11/09

Generic improvements

• Improved donut chart labels.
• Increased performance for structure changes.
• More tables for Movere importer.
• New vertical mode for tree reports.
• Conditional styling can now apply color maps to ranges of values e.g. to visualize number properties
• Heavily improved AWS importer.
• Stratozone importer.
• Secondary indices can now be defined on properties to improve query speed.
• Donut charts gained the ability to have a base color assigned, from which other colors will be derived.
• Dashboards containing templates are now capable of merging variables and function as a "dashboard templates". Additionally, the dashboard selector has a new and clearer design.
• A new admin dashboard can now display current server load and perform disk performance benchmarks for easier troubleshooting. It also allows to conveniently toggle the maintenance mode and check upcoming scheduled jobs.
• You can now run an entire importer group without creating a scheduled task.

Cloud Transformation-specific improvements

The following improvements are only applicable if you are using Txture's Cloud Transformation module:

• Filter bar for the provider list
• Increased reliability for scheduled target architecture tasks
• Saved proposals can now be commented and their history be displayed

Warning:

This release includes possibly breaking changes:

• Since this version, Txture uses a new indexing format for its database. This entails the need to rewrite existing indices and therefore leads to a longer startup time for the first startup with Txture 7. The duration depends on the performance of the hardware, but modern systems should reindex at more than 20 MB / s. A txture home directory that is 1 GB in size will therefore need about 50 seconds for the first startup.
• The default claim for OAuth / OIDC authentication changed from sub to oid. If you have a specific claim set, you will not be impacted by this change. If you haven't, please set the OAuth authentication claim to sub or contact our support.

Version 26

Release date: 2021/09/06

Generic improvements

• Easy column reordering in "Show columns" dialog for tables
• Link merge consolidation
• Switch axes button for cluster matrix
• Ability to import folder from GCP
• Search bar for changelog filter
• JIRA importer can now import links
• Used data source of an importer can now be changed
• Renamed and unified naming of "node-styling rules" to "conditional styling"
• Negated starts-with and ends-with queries
• Filter bar for dashboard management
• Survey recipients can now delegate a survey to others users
• OAuth authentication now uses optional profile pictures for users
• Data sources copy functionality (like importers)
• License validity information displayed in the about dialog
• User script importers have been extended to be able to use most data sources
• New reports overview: it is now possible to filter by type
• Survey comments can now be exported in CSV format
• Improved performance of the survey changes timeline

Cloud Transformation-specific improvements

The following improvements are only applicable if you are using Txture's Cloud Transformation module:

• Cloud migration preference groups are now available as a dedicated asset type that can be linked to applications. Application target architecture and assessment preferences can then be set on these assets.
• Comments for an assessment decision are now visible in the print view
• Target Architecture tree view now offers a full screen mode
• Transformation cockpit now displays whether product instances are SAP certified
• Improved proposal comparison
• "Alternative Proposals" allow to easily create a very similar proposal in a different location or with a different provider
• A network-type was added to the cloud domain model in order to model VPCs in the target architecture

Version 25

Release date: 2021/06/29

Generic improvements

• Ability to filter asset by properties on their links
• Columns shown in a link-generation question of a survey can be configured
• New report type Cluster Table: A hybrid of table and cluster matrix, this report type comes in handy, if one wants to display several properties of assets segmented by some criteria.
• "Add neighbor" queries allow to restrict the link direction.
• Dashboards can now be cloned and sorted easily

Cloud Transformation-specific improvements

The following improvements are only applicable if you are using Txture's Cloud Transformation module:

• New assessment rules
• Database pricing now considers backup space as well
• New target architecture option "Technology replacements". This feature allows to consolidate technologies while moving to the cloud.
• Improved filtering capabilities and license information, storage classes and product instance families in the instance selection dialog of a proposal
• The default value for monthly runtime in the price calculation was adapted from 720 to 730 hours
• The assessment view now shows whether the target architecture preferences are compliant with the rule recommendations
• Improved target architecture proposal overview design
• We now support product filters for easier proposal selection

Version 24

Release date: 2021/05/10

Generic improvements

• Scripted data source: this handy new feature allows to connect to HTTP sources and files and modify them using all of Groovy's power before importing the data
• In addition to CSV, reports can now also be exported in JSON format under a stable URL
• Improved disk-based caching of compiled propagation rules improves the Txture startup time massively, when using many rules.
• Usability fine tuning for surveys
• Tree reports now allow to align assets of the same asset type horizontally
• New importers: OData and Movere
• Merge consolidation now allow to use a "scope query" defining assets that are in scope for a merge
• Many new feature permissions define different levels of admin capabilities
• Sortable Gantt charts

Cloud Transformation-specific improvements

The following improvements are only applicable if you are using Txture's Cloud Transformation module:

• Assessment rule tooltips are now also displayed in the data completeness section
• Target architecture proposals can now be printed or export to PDF
• Improved instance selection dialog for compute and storage instances
• Extended data validation on Txture Cloud XLSX importer
• Target architecture proposals with missing pricing components are now clearly marked
• Select proposals can now share components with one another. E.g. common clusters or databases can be properly handled in the target architecture landscape scenario.
• Pricing data for many new products

Version 23

Release date: 2021/03/08

Generic improvements

• Txture now supports provisioning users and roles via SCIM
• Cloud importers now display tags/labels
• Improved donut chart: export, coloring, configuration
• Improved cluster matrix report: allows now manual sorting of rows and columns
• Property categories are now sortable
• Survey emails can now use Markdown
• Markdown tables in Txture employ proper styling
• Links in the asset sheet are now sorted
• Excel importer
• Ability to import cost per project for GCP

Cloud Transformation-specific improvements

The following improvements are only applicable if you are using Txture's Cloud Transformation module:

• Support for Application Templates in the Transformation Cockpit
• Initial work for migration planning feature
• Custom target architecture proposals now allow to add new assets
• Improved persistence of selected and modified target architecture proposals
• Plenty of updated and improved cloud readiness rules
• Improved consistency for data completeness warning
• New "problem fixing" mode in Transformation Cockpit: simplified asset sheet that allows to fill data completeness gaps efficiently
• Proposal improvements: better handling of OS EOL and extended EOL dates, prices for spot instances
• Strategy settings are now available in the tabs of the phases (Assessment and Target Architecture)
• Improve aggregation of Migration Recommendation

Version 22

Release date: 2021/01/19

Generic improvements

• Completely redesigned asset sheets. Links and properties are now separated and property categories are foldable.
• New change propagation UI and engine. New UI allows for better development experience and organization of rules. New engine improves compile times particularly for a large number of rules.
• New data source: Jira
• Querybar now allows filtering by number of links
• New query "transitive shell". Allows following path while selecting all traversed assets.
• Tasks in scheduling groups can now be ordered
• Importers can now be "dry-run" to preview changed and newly imported assets
• Survey sections and link generation questions can now be restricted
• Improved GCP importer: new types, better performance
• Optimized queries by property values
• Cluster matrix reports can now aggregate cell assets
• Dashboards are accessible via static deep links that can be shared between users
• Node styling rules can now be sorted
• More asset types in ServiceNow importer
• SSH / WinRM importers can now use a minimal agent to collect more information
• Node Styling rules reordering

Cloud Transformation-specific improvements

The following improvements are only applicable if you are using Txture's Cloud Transformation module:

• Initial support for a two-level application concept (application template with individual application instances)
• Proposals now include more PaaS services such as Google App Engine, Azure Web Apps, Google Cloud Run and similar services.
• Improved selection of Azure SQL database products.

Version 21

Release date: 2020/11/10

Generic improvements

• Improved logging for change propagation rules
• Improved clarity of Excel template introduction sheet
• Security fixes
• Markdown now supports tables
• Option to notify users on failing importers
• New option to transfer asset ownership to other importers upon importer deletion
• Option to disable role syncing for user importers
• Ability to load custom JDBC drivers
• The GCP importer now allows to import:
  • Projects
  • Storage Buckets
  • Load Balancers

Cloud Transformation-specific improvements

The following improvements are only applicable if you are using Txture's Cloud Transformation module:

• New assessment rules to incorporate source code analysis results
• Cloud proposals can now also be created from scratch
• Heavily improved proposals - now making more use of PaaS offerings

Version 20

Release date: 2020/09/25.

Generic improvements

• New report type: chord visualization
• Importer enhancers allowing to enrich imported data with external information
• Change propagation now exposes all property value metadata such as maintenance type, last modified date, etc.
• File-upload datasource as an alternative to the Text datasource
• Scheduling support for entire importer groups
• CAST Highlight importer

Cloud Transformation-specific improvements

The following improvements are only applicable if you are using Txture's Cloud Transformation module:

• Interactive proposals allowing changing migration actions and used products
• Support for multiple cloud simulation scenarios and comparison
• Provider discounts
• Support for enabling/disabling and weights on assessment rules
• Cloud replacements for storage
• Cloud replacements considering clusters
• Renamed the Cloud Preferences section in the Transformation Cockpit into Target Architecture Preferences
• Renamed the Assessment Rules section in the Transformation Cockpit into Assessment Preferences

Version 19

Release date: 2020/07/24.

Generic improvements

• New report type: scatter plot
• Cluster matrix reports can now be exported to Excel
• Redesigned 'Show columns' menu in table reports
• Permission system now allows more fine-grained permissions for application features
• Survey feature: Added option to resend invitation email to existing users
• New data sources and importer:
  • ServiceNow
  • Microsoft SCCM
  • Google Cloud Storage - CSV and JSON can be directly read from GCP storage buckets

Cloud Transformation-specific improvements

The following improvements are only applicable if you are using Txture's Cloud Transformation module:

• Reorganized Target Architecture section in Transformation Cockpit. Proposals are now grouped by the 6 Rs migration strategies.
• Syncing to the target architecture landscape is now handled as a consolidation.
• Allow setting of enterprise discounts for cloud providers
• Reorganized Cloud Assessment Rules section in the Transformation Cockpit including more details about each assessment rule.
• Improved styling of Assessment section print layout in the Transformation Cockpit.

Version 18

Released on 2020/06/02. New features:

• Target architectures of all applications can now be exported, queried and visualized in a new scenario
• Improved labelling of migration strategies for generated target architectures
• New structure-based Txture Cloud Excel importer
• Admins can now define a welcome message displayed next to the login form
• Several new Cloud Assessment Rules and renaming from Cloud Readiness Rules into Cloud Assessment Rules
• VMware importer can now also use newer APIs (VMware 6.7 and 7.0+)
• Surveys can now be copied easily
• New survey recipient view with pagination and CSV export
• Ability to select recipients when clicking on "Send email to new users" in survey management
• Cloud Readiness Report can now be printed
• Add a "confirm existing list contents" button to list-reviewing questions in survey
• Donut chart can now also show "Others" in a new list report
• Countless small usability improvements

Version 17

Released on 2020/04/10. New features:

• Heavily redesigned and improved Cloud Transformation Cockpit
  • Option to compare cloud proposals
  • Compare on-demand pricing with discounted pricing
  • Improved switching between all applications and a single application
• Completely revamped importer configuration: eliminated the need to configure asset and link importers separately for some importer types
• Many new rules improve the cloud readiness assessment of applications
• Users receiving several surveys are now displayed an overview of all their surveys
• All emails sent by Txture are now logged
• New cloud properties allow rightsizing of instances
• It is now possible to use subsets of enumerations for cloud readiness assessment relevant properties
• SaaS-only providers are now implicitly used in the provider selection for cloud proposals
• EOL-dates for operating systems are now considered for cloud readiness assessment
• Survey recipients now get feedback on their progress
• Markdown support for property descriptions
• Countless small usability improvements
• Increased robustness of task scheduling
• All docker images are now smaller and use Alpine Linux as a base image

Version 16

Released on 2020/02/20. New features:

• New page header design: the coordinates and time_machine button is now unified in the update indicator
• Renamed "View" to "Report"
• Hierarchical y-axis categorizations can now be used for the Gantt chart
• Node-styling now works for assets based on properties of their links
• Many usability improvements for the Transformation Cockpit:
  • Extended graph and table reports in the application-specific Discovery section
  • Survey integration in the application-specific Discovery section
• Assets can now be cloned easily in the Repository or in table reports
• Usability improvements to surveys
• A survey question can be answered with "Accept" if the data is already correct
• Context-sensitive documentation and documentation search is now directly available from the main navigation
• Timeline shows scheduling group as commit author
• Database performance improvements
• Improved general repository performance (search, importers etc.)
• Increased compatibility with different OAuth providers
• Importer improvements:
  • Importers now parse numbers in different locales correctly
  • Fixed an issue where multiple importers in the same scheduling group would overwrite each others changes, resulting in overall empty commits
  • Fixed an issue where the "last modified date" was not assigned correctly to imported links under certain circumstances
  • Improved handling of simultaneous changes on the same asset by multiple users
  • Increased robustness of change propagation

Version 15

Released on 2019/12/10. New features:

• Vastly improved Transformation Cockpit
• Assets now snap to the grid in the dependency report
• Deleted assets can now be restored using the time machine
• Ability to define importer priorities on a property level
• Markdown support for texts in surveys
• Key-based authentication for SSH importers
• Improved Cloud Proposals for application containing mainframe technologies
• Helper tools to read CSV/JSON from columns in importer
• Enhanced visualization of Cloud Proposals

Warning:

This release includes possibly breaking changes:

• There is an upgrade process scheduled in the first server startup. Please note that especially for Txture deployments with long histories the first server startup can take up to a few hours. The upgrade performs a change in the persistence of the asset graph for reasons of performance optimization.
• The link importer options of the VMware importer always returned the same values, regardless of their direction (e.g. VMs -> Host returned the same as Hosts -> VMs). Please check that your settings still match the link importer direction.

Version 14

Released on 2019/10/10. New features:

• LeanIX importer
• Kubernetes importer supports Amazon EKS
• Txture Excel importer for Cloud Transformation module
• Property importer improvements on value synchronization
• Aggregation visualization
• Change notifications (preview)
• Copying of importers
• Cloud Transformation Cockpit for improved process flow
• Improved Cloud proposals on operating systems and certifications
• Option to disable Cloud Assessment Rules (former Cloud Readiness Rules) individually

Warning:

There is an upgrade process scheduled in the first server startup. Please note that especially for Txture deployments with long histories the first server startup can take up to a few hours. The upgrade performs a change in the persistence format of the asset graph for reasons of performance optimization.

Version 13

Released on 2019/08/19. New features:

• HyperV Importer
• Improved VMware importer. This might require reconfiguration of your VMware importer.
• Cloud migration proposal have been extended to new technologies and products.
• OAuth implementation. Txture now allows to authenticate users via OAuth.
• The structure is now a report on its on an can be embedded in application outside of Txture.
• Increased sorting performance in the repository
• Significantly improved "Propose mapping" function for importers

Warning:

Some VMware importer column names have changed, as the were erroneous before (e.g. RAM size was returned in bytes, when the column was named 'RAM in MB'). Please have a look at your VMware importer configuration to check whether any column names changed that were in use. Remap them to Txture properties accordingly.

Version 12

Release of Txture on 2019/06/15. New features:

• Complete redesign of the report management tab
• New database engine with better performance and reduced on-disk size
• UX improvements for cloud migration reports and cloud pricing
• Rewrite of the table component with strongly improved performance and new features
• Reports can now be shared with roles or specific users
• Simpler time machine UI and with details of the applied changes and graphical overview of changes over time
• New REST endpoint to export report assets via CSV
• Cloud proposals can now be marked as selected and will then be used for the migration roadmap
• New data sources for importers: SSH / WinRM
• Administration area now shows the configuration values of txture.properties
• Option to send welcome emails to new users

Version 11

Release of Txture on 2019/04/01. New features:

• Cloud pricing feature: cloud proposals now allow to estimate the costs for each proposal for various providers.
• Hierarchical cluster matrix: the cluster matrix feature was enhanced to allow grouping by several parameters on each axis.
• Performance improvements for the asset and survey timeline
• Several new asset importers for the AWS data source
• New importer for Oracle Cloud
• Various bug fixes

Version 10

Release of Txture from 2019/01/29. New features:

• Extensions to Cloud transformation module
  • Allows Txture users to plan cloud migrations based on the individual readiness of applications.
  • Improved replacement options in the cloud for complete deployment stacks.
• New Gantt chart visualization (requires license update) for EAM use cases.
• Additional AD-Importer filter. Allows filtering the imported users without modifying the base DN.

Version 9

Release of Txture from 2018/12/11. New features:

• Txture now runs on OpenJDK 1.8 eliminating the need for our customers to obtain support for Oracle Java 1.8
• Completely revamped export dialog. It is now also possible to export assets and links to Microsoft Excel™ documents.
• Active Directory importer. While similar to the LDAP import, the new AD importer removes a lot of configuration need.
• Improved column management in table-based reports
• Possibility to use multiple dashboards and share them with other users or roles.
• The asset detail sidebar is now resizable.
• Improved matching rules for the association importer
• Applied node-styling rules are now explained in a legend for most reports.
• Queries for Datetime-Properties can now be relative to now.
• Various improvements to surveys

Info:

(Optional) Most reports now have a legend indicating which node-styling rules have been applied. In order for this legend to work, labels must be set for each node-styling rules.

Version 8

Release of Txture from 2018/10/11. The following new features have been included in this release:

• Commenting and attaching files on assets and properties; both displayed in the asset detail sidebar
• Timeline per asset in the asset detail sidebar showing all past changes
• Adaptions and improvements to the query bar
• Upgrade of the survey feature including general surveys and asset-based surveys
• Cluster matrix visualization can resolve arbitrary paths to related asset types as row and column entries
• New "Waterfall" visualisation type for investigating change in amount over a given ordered property (e.g. application cloud migration phases)
• The following importers have been added:
  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation (RHEV)™
  • Kubernetes
• Profile pictures for users

Version 7

Release of Txture from 2018/08/13. The following high level features and functionality has been implemented:

• Pre-configurable reports via reporting templates with placeholders (*)
• Custom sub-captions for assets and links via node styling rules
• Property importers to import property values from external data sources onto existing assets or links
• New "Tree" visualisation type to display asset dependencies in a flexible tree layout
• Change propagation now supports filters on link properties during traversal to neighboring assets
• Improvements to importer transaction handling
• New importer types
  • Check_MK
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Alibaba Cloud
  • OpenStack

Info:

Link importers are not automatically scheduled and executed based on their corresponding asset importers anymore. As a consequence link importers now need to be scheduled explicitly.

Version 6

Release of Txture from 2018/06/12. The following high level features and functionality has been implemented or was changed:

• User importers configurable in admin area
  • Dynamically assignable roles from import data
  • In txture.properties all keys starting with txture.security.userimporter are deprecated and can be removed in Version 7
• Importers for Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure
• Importers for LDAP
• Better status monitoring of importers including log access via admin area
• Importers allow filtering of import data rows
• Importers allow dynamic columns for data transformation
• Application of node styling rules in asset sidebar
• Minor design improvements in dependency report
• Shifting from external configuration database to internal database
  • In txture.properties the keys starting with txture.persistence are deprecated and can be removed in Version 7
• Improved file logging for importers and application
  • Log files txture.log and error.log are continued as daily txture.log (including error log)
  • loggerConfig.xml is obsolete

Info:

User importers are now part of the administration user interface and the existing user importer, which was derived from settings in txture.properties, is mostly migrated automatically. As the scheduling is not migrated, the user importer needs to be re-scheduled manually via the user interface.

Version 5

Release of Txture from 2018/04/06. The following high level features and functionality has been implemented:

• New visualization types
  • "Count over time" to indicate e.g. historical changes to the use of a certain operating system in VMs
  • "Donut chart" to indicate group-wise counts e.g. applications a division is responsible for that have low vs. medium vs. high mission-criticality
  • "Cluster matrix" to group assets that have 1 or 2 properties in common, e.g. applications that are similar due to same mission-criticality and same range of operational cost
• Structure editor now supports refactorings to the information model during runtime and in a graphical way

Warning:

The modelDefinition.xml will be replaced by the new modelDefinition.json which is created during startup of Txture. The modelDefinition.json is not intended anymore for manual editing, as the administration area now offers a Structure Editor to perform adaptations to the information model.

During startup the information model definition is now more strictly validated and corresponding errors are reported in the logs similar to this example:

Information model validation errors and warnings

The validation of the current Information Model finished with 1 error(s) and 0 warning(s). The Information model is INVALID. The following is the list of issues encountered during the validation process.

Information Model Validation: [ERROR] The Internal Name 'My Property' must be unique, but is used by multiple elements.
    Offending Element Txture ID: t:49e1de7a-2c68-4cd4-b362-8d78a61ca1d7
    Offending Element Txture ID: t:08a58bdb-5aa9-4c26-9fa7-31fc2ca525cf

Any errors that occur need to be fixed as part of refactorings in the modelDefinition.xml, before Txture can be started and used again.

Once the validation passes modelDefinition.json will be produced and the modelDefinition.xml will be renamed to modelDefinition.xml.legacy.

Version 4

Release of Txture from 2018/02/09. The following high level features and functionality has been implemented:

• Integration of the admin area into the client application
• User and role based access control based on information model elements like aspects, classes or properties
• Multi-tenancy supports the restriction of visibility of assets according to assigned tenants (*)
• REST API for external applications to interact with Txture
• Management of external feature permissions and REST access tokens
• Script based propagation of asset state (BETA) (*)
• Management of custom icons for assets
• Rule based styling of assets and associations in visualizations

Warning:

• txture.properties

  • Remove application.version
  • Remove the first segment of the cron expression of txture.security.userimporter.trigger(only 5 segments are allowed, with the first segment representing minutes)

• modelDefinition.xml

  • Change namespace with the root element to '... xmlns="http://www.txture.io/ModelDefinition" ...'

Version 3

Release of Txture from 2017/10/06. The following high level features and functionality has been implemented:

• Application-wide language to query assets based on properties and paths
• Multi-column sorting in the repository and table visualizations
• Graph visualization now supports expandable asset groups
• Graph visualization now supports auto-grouping by properties, similar to groups by aspects/layers
• Graph visualizations can be zoomed in/out and panned
• Multiple assets can be edited/deleted at once
• Consistent undo/redo capabilities across all visualizations
• Information model properties for date/time has been introduced
• Information model properties for date/time ranges has been introduced
• Customizable, user-specific dashboards with configurable widgets
• Fine-grained, role-based access control for users, user groups, assets and read/write/create-delete actions
• Query-Bar for all visualizations types

Version 2 and prior

A change log has been part of the distribution of Txture. See the README-style changelog files within your web archives.

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