Release notes
- Overview
- Release: 2025-04-21
- Release: 2025-02-26
- Release: 2025-01-21
- Release: 2024-12-11
- Release: 2024-11-29
- Release: 2024-10-24
1. Overview
2. Release: 2025-04-21
New Features
- Assets owned by deleted users are now moved to a "To Be Returned" status to track returns, pending returns, or missing assets.
- Success messages are now displayed at the top of the page.
- Request conversation count in the list view is now shown as a notification badge (displaying "9+" for more than nine notifications).
- Technicians are redirected to a new page with response messages for change approvals done from non-login pages.
- Global search in Changes is now available to requesters with view permissions.
- Regular expression (Regex) search enabled in the request list view.
- Field and Form Rules (On Field Change) can now set SLAs via Execute Script.
- Option to hide ChatGPT integrations added for regions where it is not supported.
- Edit HTML option added in the rich text editor for Notification and Approval Level nodes in change and release workflows.
Improvements
- Non-IT asset count now displayed on the account details page.
- Logging framework changed from JULI to Log4j2.
Bug Fixes
- Templates not associated with a support group are no longer listed for technicians.
- Notifications now use account-specific outgoing mail servers when configured.
- SAML configuration can now be saved in all cases.
- Blank page no longer appears when clicking the "Asset in use" link in the Asset Summary page.
- V3-restricted API error no longer occurs when accessing the GET solutions API.
- Top-up plan can now be saved when associating from the top-up list view page.
- Announcements are now visible in the requester login.
- Error when creating a broadcast message fixed.
- Account names in Spanish can now be searched.
- Contract association from the request details page using the contract association button now works.
- Page no longer crashes when canceling from the MSP details page with Hungarian language selected.
- Task history is now shown for tasks with dependencies.
- Workstations in CMDB are now displayed based on the selected account.
- Work log cost items can now be added when creating a work log.
- Remote access to assets from the request details page now possible.
- Ticket details in the Business dashboard are now clickable.
- Account name is now shown for change work logs added under timesheet.
- Special characters are now properly encoded in ECMSP when editing an MSP account.
- Multiple account advisories can now be edited.
- Prompt now appears when clicking the Change to default site button in the Site list view.
- Page no longer crashes when saving domains in the account details form.
- Preview page under advanced portal settings and login page customization is no longer blank.
- Authenticated LFI vulnerability fixed.
- Contracts can now be imported using XLS files.
- AD import now works with shared domains.
- Special characters in request work log descriptions are no longer encoded in reports.
- Notification template now updates correctly when selecting all accounts.
- Change template option added under admin in the new UI.
- Project association API is no longer externally restricted.
- Increasing content indent in rich text editor fields no longer creates a new table.
- Slow loading of the Select Assets pop-up for SLA-based incidents with over 100 assets fixed.
- Mobile push notifications now work despite Firebase Cloud Manager (FCM) API deprecation.
- LONGTODATE and Group by functionalities now work for columns in query reports with complex or sub-queries.
- Multi-select fields with over 250 values are now disabled.
- Fixed "Close Operation cannot be performed Invalid Input" error when closing a request via email link.
3. Release: 2025-02-26
Behavior Change
- Login URL Update Removed: The ability to update the login web URL from the account add/edit section has been removed.
- SAML Two-Factor Authentication: Two-Factor Authentication is now supported for SAML Login.
- Custom Function Enhancements: Deluge tasks for base64 encoding/decoding now work in custom functions.
- Additional Fields Workflow: The "Save and Close" button in the New Field pop-up is replaced with "Save and Add New," which saves the current entry and opens a new form.
- Conversation Details in Templates: When using the
$ConversationDetailsvariable in Reply/Notification Templates, sender details are appended based on context, with the Requester's name displayed if Reply Forward is triggered. - Increased Field Limits: Default limits for request additional fields have been increased.
- Close Operation Error: An error message is now shown when closing a request via an email link.
- Zia Bot Hyperlinks: The Zia Bot Message view in custom functions now supports hyperlinks.
- File Widget Restriction: For security reasons, the SDCo-ordinator cannot add or edit the File Widget in the Helpdesk Dashboard.
- Two-Factor for Portal Settings: Two-Factor Authentication is now available for Advanced Portal and Application Settings.
Enhancements
- INGOS PatchManagement: Choose between a full endpoint management sync or an IT asset management sync, assign specific customers, configure agent settings, download agents for Windows, Linux, and Mac, and schedule agent scans.
- Select User Icon: A new "Select User" icon has been added beside the Change Requester field in change forms to display detailed user information.
- Attachment Preview: Users can now preview PDF, DOCx, XLSX, CSV, and XLS files.
- Time Format in Reports: Time spent can now be set in the HH:MM format via custom report settings.
- Content Security Improvement: The application no longer requires the unsafe-eval directive in its Content Security Policy header, enhancing security.
- changeDB Logging: changeDB-related logs are now captured in a dedicated log file.
- Live Chat Enhancements: Live Chat is enabled based on operational hours, supports dollar variables in messages, can be initiated for closed requests, and now supports drag & drop attachments.
- Approval Notifications: Acknowledgement notifications for approval predictions are triggered via the Job Executor.
- User Login Two-Factor: Two-Factor Authentication for User Login can now be enabled for Technicians, Requesters, and selected users.
- PDF Export & Inline Edit: Pages can now be exported as PDFs using Field and Form Rules, with support for inline editing and field saving.
- Request ID Column: A new Request ID column has been added to the list view of associated requests in the Problems and Changes modules.
- Site List Popup: Click the Home icon next to the Site field to open the Site List popup as a dialog.
- Agent Status Column: A new Agent Status column has been added to the asset list view to display machine agent status.
Issues Fixed
- Fixed the inability to update additional fields for accounts created via API.
- Resolved an issue preventing replies to technicians when account-specific email and support group addresses are configured.
- Fixed an issue where attachments with no data were sent in scheduled report emails.
- Fixed auto fill issues in the request form on Microsoft Edge.
- Corrected the issue where merging a closed request reset the status to Open.
- Resolved sorting issues in the billing list view.
- Fixed errors during SAML configuration.
- Fixed errors when clicking the "Change default site" option in account details.
- Fixed errors when clicking the approval URL for account changes by MSP users.
4. Release: 2025-01-21
Behavior Changes:
- After the update, you can schedule reports on a yearly basis for specific months.
- When importing vendors, product and service relationships can now be imported simultaneously.
- Merging of Incident and Service Additional Fields:
- All additional fields for incidents and services have been combined into general "Request Additional Fields."
- Encryption for picklist or radio fields in requests is removed.
- Custom ordering for product or software questions is no longer maintained. Instead, ascending or descending sorting is now used by default.
- Once an image is assigned to a question, it can no longer be deselected.
- Multi-line fields are no longer available in the column chooser of the request list view.
- Sorting by single-line fields in the request list view has been removed.
- Swapping between picklist ↔ radio or multi select ↔ checkbox fields is no longer permitted in request additional fields.
- The order of selected options in multi-select fields is preserved in the same sequence they were chosen.
- If a request contained manually defined options before the update and those are later converted to reference options, the previously selected values are retained.
- For a checkbox question with multiple answers, after changing the question type to radio, only the initially selected value remains.
- If a section used in a template is removed from that template, the association and related maintenance data are completely removed after the migration.
- When a field in a condition is no longer present in the current template, that condition will be considered met if the field is missing or empty.
- Sections with duplicate questions can no longer be associated to templates, even if they are inactive.
- Dynamic configurations for accounts, sites, categories, subcategories, statuses, priorities, levels, modes, urgency, impact, request types, and user-defined options are removed.
- An invalid account name only causes that specific record to fail during import without halting the entire process.
- Changes to Analytics Integration:
- After migration, custom request fields are transferred to new tables in the Analytics workspace. Existing reports can either continue to be used or be updated to reference the new schema.
- Please reconfigure the custom request table schema to maintain data consistency within your reporting framework.
Enhancements:
- Minor Change Enhancements:
- Ability to close multiple changes at once from the change list view.
- Additional notification rules for approvals, status updates, SLA escalations, and edits to associated services or assets.
- New mandatory fields for closure rules in the change process.
- Workflow Improvements for Changes and Releases:
- Control whether all or only workflow-specific stages and statuses appear in changes/releases.
- "Copy Change" Function:
- Select which stage details to copy when duplicating a change. Submission stage details can be modified before the copy is created.
- SIEM Integration (INGOS LOG ANALYZER):
- Integrate INGOS Asset Management with EventLog Analyzer to gather, manage, and report on debug and web server logs for security purposes.
- Enable via Admin > Apps & Add-ons > Integrations > LOG ANALYZER.
- Custom Filter Component:
- In "Manage Views" (Requests, Changes, Solutions, Projects, Tasks), you can enable or hide custom views.
- Filter views by All Views, System-created, Created by Me, Private, or Public.
- Report Scheduling:
- Schedule reports to run at specified times of day, days of the week, days of the month, or months of the year.
- Configure an end time to stop generating reports.
- Add CC and BCC recipients on the email configuration page for sending scheduled reports.
- Vendor Enhancements:
- Vendors can now be added specifically for each service desk instance.
- Export vendor details in HTML, XLS, XLSX, PDF, or CSV formats.
- When deleting vendors associated with canceled/closed POs/PRs or expired contracts, they are marked inactive.
- Refined Add/Edit Vendor forms for better user experience.
- Additional vendor fields can be created under Admin > Customization > Additional Fields > Vendor.
Issues Fixed:
- The "Delete" button in the contracts list view is now displayed correctly.
- Problems with account creation for environments with very high default technician counts have been resolved.
- Editing existing ORG roles and creating new roles for sites or departments is now error-free.
- Account name variables in task comment notifications no longer cause errors.
- The Apple push notification certificate was updated to maintain push notification functionality.
Known Stability Enhancements:
- Extensive backend improvements address exceptions arising from synchronization and file operations.
- Broader compatibility to reduce errors in specialized or unique environments.
5. Release: 2024-12-11
Behavior Changes:
- When logging into INGOS Assetmanagement via Outlook, a six-hour inactive timeout is imposed before logging out.
Fixed:
- Fixed "Extra parameter not allowed" error thrown when configuring Advanced Filter in request list view to Category > View Additional fields.
- Unable to send change approvals if the requester associated with the change is deleted from the application.
- Issue while updating CI attributes using Asset/Workstation API.
- Unable to start the application when the database is connected to an external PostgreSQL.
- In some cases, the contracts are not shown under the Billing tab.
- Unable to click the work log customizer icon on the Jobsheet customizer page.
Enhancements:
- Requesters can now use the "Show All" option in the announcement widget to view announcements in the list view.
- FIPS Compliance: INGOS Assetmanagement MSP now supports FIPS mode to comply with Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) of the US government. Enabling FIPS ensures that INGOS Assetmanagement is FIPS 140-2 compliant and uses only FIPS-validated algorithms.
6. Release: 2024-11-29
Behavior Changes:
- Billing Contract V3 APIs have been added to the REST API documentation.
Fixed:
- Account-based font style was not retained when selecting an account.
- New sites and departments were created even when site and department mapping was disabled during AD import.
- Attachments were not retained when a request was created through chat.
- Errors occurred when assigning a technician to a request created by an unapproved user.
- CI relationships could not be imported via XLS files in the CMDB.
- Accounts could not be deleted if a workstation was assigned to another account.
- An error was displayed when clicking the password reset link in the self-service login notification.
- Purchase order approval could not be selected when "All accounts" was enabled.
- Account names were not displayed correctly in contract expiry notifications if they contained Chinese characters.
- The technician page loaded incorrectly when logged in as an account admin.
- The request ID hyperlink did not work in the mobile app on the task details page.
- Exceptions occurred while accessing billing contracts in certain cases.
- Start and end dates were displayed in milliseconds in timesheet notifications.
- Request notes were not in sequential order, and empty lines were removed from paragraphs.
- Additional picklist fields for accounts were not saved if the field value contained special characters.
- Users using mobile SAML authentication faced login issues when exiting the app and resuming while already logged in.
- Additional account fields could not be updated through the API.
- Requests reopened in a new tab after a page reload in technician login when a requester added a note.
- Incorrect locations were shown on maps despite accurate coordinates being provided.
- Blank pages appeared in some scenarios in the custom menu for service requests.
- Errors occurred when associating a purchase order with a service request.
- Translation issues in the Hungarian language version were resolved.
- Text formatting was not maintained when an SLA escalation notification was opened through the bell icon.
- Unexpected errors occurred in some scenarios while creating projects.
- Errors occurred when opening custom triggers linked to deleted items used as criteria.
- Other users were incorrectly listed in the blocked users list.
- Custom trigger notifications were not sent to account managers.
- Generated bills could not be edited if the account name contained double quotes.
- Blank pages appeared when changing relationships for workstations.
- Salesforce integrations failed when there were more than 1000 accounts in Salesforce.
- Editing project and task templates failed when the creator's department was assigned to a department head.
7. Release: 2024-10-24
Behavior Change:
Billing Contract V3 APIs have been added to the REST API documentation tool.
Issues Fixed:
- Account-specific font style is not retained when selecting an account.
- New sites and departments are created even when department and site mapping is disabled during AD import.
- Attachments are not preserved when a request is created through chat.
- An error occurs when assigning a technician to a request created by an unapproved user.
- Unable to import CI relationships using an XLS file in CMDB.
- Unable to delete an account when a workstation is assigned to another account.
- An error is thrown when clicking the password reset link in the self-service login notification.
- Unable to select purchase order approval when "All Accounts" is set.
- Account name is not displayed correctly in the contract expiry notification if it contains Chinese characters.
- The technician page loads under account admin login.
- Request ID hyperlink does not work in the mobile app on the task details page.
- An exception is thrown when accessing billing contracts in some cases.
- Start and end dates are displayed in milliseconds under the timesheet notification.
- Request notes are not in sequential order, and blank lines are removed from paragraphs.
- Picklist additional field for an account is not saved if the field value contains special characters.
- Users using mobile SAML authentication may face login issues if they exit and later resume the app while still logged in.
- Unable to update account additional fields through the API.
- The request opens in a new tab on page reload in technician login if the requester adds a note to the request.
- Incorrect location is shown on maps even though the coordinates are correct.
- In some cases, a blank page appears in the custom menu for service requests.
- An error occurs while associating a purchase order with a service request.
- Translation issue for the Hungarian language.
- Text formatting is not retained when an SLA escalation notification is opened through the bell icon.
- In some cases, an unexpected error is thrown when creating a project.
- Error occurs when opening a custom trigger if an item used as criteria has been deleted.
- Other users are listed in the blocked users list.
- Custom trigger notifications are not sent to account managers.
- Unable to edit the generated bill if the account name contains double quotes.
- A blank page is shown when changing a relationship for workstations.
- Unable to integrate Salesforce if there are more than 1,000 accounts in Salesforce.
- Editing project and task templates fails when the creator’s department is assigned to a department head.