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This release could have been a "bugfix" version, but we've decided to make it a major one to emphasize the removal of 1-2 small features.

Baselines have changed

Continuing our enterprise-scale goals, baselines are now a long-running task, running in the background:

  • We had to adapt a few things in the wizards (see "Feature removals"),
  • This feature may not feel important for you, but it will allows us to increase the size of baselines in the future by 100-fold or more. We have experiments with baselines of more than 1 million requirements. We keep the limits as usual for now, until the model is polished (equal to the global limit, 12000, configurable).
  • The UI has changed a little bit, to display the progress bar, in the 4 places where baselines can be created.

Requirements are generated using an internal table

It should be invisible to users, except from edge cases. Requirement keys used to be suggested by querying the whole database and finding the next gap in requirement keys. It would be very slow, sometimes several seconds.

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  • If a customer removes keys, we won't search for "gaps" between already-assigned keys,
  • If you switch the settings between "reassign deleted keys" and "do not reassign", then the table is already populated.

Performance improvements

Those improvements were made in the context of obtaining the Data Center yearly approval.

Bugfixes

Feature removals

They should be minor, but we want to help you communicate with your users.

Baselines: Synchronization with page titles

Some baselines are linked to a Confluence page, which summarizes it. We used to synchronize the title of the page and the one of the baseline. It was a costly feature in terms of performance because we would have to watch all pages in Confluence. We have removed this synchronization. If you want to rename both a page and a baseline, use the rename feature on the baseline tab:

Baselines: The wizard has changed, with a few steps in the process

In any place where we create a baseline (the wizard, the baseline macro in the blueprint, the instant baselines, and the refreeze):

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Step 1. Search

In the search, click Make baseline.

Step 2. Choose the name

A title for the baseline will be automatically suggested.

Step 3. Check the dependencies

This step suggests the dependencies which are
going out of this baseline.

Feature removal: We don't display this step when
the baseline is large (more than 1 page of results,
i.e. 600 requirements), because it is impossible to
calculate the results with accuracy without using large
amounts of memory. We keep this step for legacy
and teaching reasons.

Feature removal: There used to be an "Add" button
for the dependencies, there isn't anymore.

Step 4. Choose options

In the past, the user could choose to freeze now or later;

Now, we have 2 options to choose.

Step 5. The progress bar

Like in the other situations, the "Create baseline" of
the previous screen will create a record in the database,
then display a progress bar, then a final state as seen
in the screenshot.


Baselines: We don't suggest the dependencies anymore

As seen in the Step 3 above:

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