OpsCenter 6.8.43 Release

OpsCenter 6.8.43 Release

Author: orion104

OpsCenter_6.8_Release_Notes.md

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 # Release notes for OpsCenter
 
+# Release Notes for OpsCenter 6.8.43
+31 March 2025
+
+## Core
+* Added new configuration options to the `Authentication` section of `opscenterd.conf` to allow passwords to be handled in a more secure manner. (OPSC-16260)
+  * `password_complexity_enabled` - Configures whether OpsCenter should check for password complexity. Default is False (disabled).
+  * `new_user_password_change` - Requires new users to change their password on first authentication. Default is False (disabled).
+  * `failed_login_attempts_limit` - Configures failed login attempts before user lockout. The default setting is 5.
+  * `user_lockout_timeout_in_seconds` - This sets user lockout after a number of failed login attempts. Defaults to 300 second (5 minutes).
+  * `user_password_expiration_days` - Sets the user password expiration period in days. Default is 0 (disabled).
+  * `password_history_limit` - The number of previous passwords to check against when updating a password. Default is 0 (disabled).
+
+## Best Practice Service
+* Fixed numerous bugs in the best practice service UI that were introduced when upgrading the UI framework version. (OPSC-17625)
+* Fixed a problem with the backup service UI that sometimes caused the config window for a different rule to be displayed when clicking a rule. (OPSC-17658)
+
+## Backup Service
+* Fixed a bug that prevented the deletion of compressed commit logs from the backup staging directory. (OPSC-17075)
+* Improved opscenterd error handling of backup status updates after the backup for an agent has already been marked as complete. (OPSC-17641)
+* Support for Azure env HTTPS PROXY provided by addition of variables `azure_proxy_host` and azure_proxy_port` in `opscenterd.conf`. (OPSC-17645)
+* Updated rolling restarts during the point in time restore for a single datacenter so only the nodes in the specified datacenter will be restarted. (OPSC-16542)
+* Fixed a bug when handling special characters in dropped columns when restoring a table schema. (OPSC-17640)
+* Enabled the compression option for Azure backup destinations. (OPSC-17654)
+* Fixed an issue that prevented the backup and restore of tables using Storage-Attached Indexes (SAI) in DSE 6.9. (OPSC-17678)
+
+## Monitoring
+* Resolved a bug that caused HTML tags to appear in the description of triggered alerts. (OPSC-17624)
+* Added Solr index searcher metrics for DSE Search (Solr) enabled tables. (OPSC-17680)
+
+## UI
+* Fixed an issue in the UI where several lists of keyspace would not display more than 25 items. (OPSC-17663)
+
 # Release Notes for OpsCenter 6.8.42
 31 January 2025