What's New in 4.5



1. New Features

  • Designer now supports deprecating packages. Designer polls for list of deprecated packages during online package updates, and notifies the users of the deprecations in all package manager operations as required.
  • Startup and Shutdown policy sets are now included in the Policy Flow View also. These policy sets are visible if the engine version is 4.0.2 Patch 3 or later. The policysets are also included in the documents created by document generator.
  • Designer 4.5 is migrated to use Eclipse 4.3.1.
  • Designer 4.5 works natively on 64-bit systems. Designer Installer takes care of installing appropriate versions (32 bit or 64 bit) depending on the platform.
  • Designer 4.5 is shipped with latest version of NICI (nici 2.7.7 patch 2).
  • Designer now automatically updates eDirectory schema during deploy operations if required. e.g. "DirXML-pkgLinkages" attribute will be added to eDirectory schema if found not present during deploys.
  • Designer now prompts for migrating linkages at startup for older projects.
  • Designer now supports creating & deploying schema attributes with syntax "Integer 64".
  • Designer 4.5 supports Out of Band Sync. You can mark attributes for "out of band sync" on the driver filter editor.
  • Designer now sets up necessary rights for running a job during job deploys.
  • You can now view package readme during package upgrades
NOTE: Click here for a detailed list of bugs and enhancements fixed in Designer 4.5.