New features in 5.14

CloverDX Libraries

We are introducing a new entity to CloverDX platform – CloverDX Library. Each library is a self-contained redistributable package that can contain reusable subgraphs and other resources.

Libraries can be created in CloverDX Designer and then deployed to CloverDX Server. When Designer connects to a Server with libraries installed, it will automatically detect content of libraries on the Server and display them in Component Palette for easy access.

This allows much faster reuse of ready-made solutions compared to previous approaches.

Each library exposes a public interface – a set of subgraphs designated by library author. These subgraphs are automatically shown in Component Palette when Designer connects to the Server. Other resources within the library are hidden (but accessible if needed). This helps library users to focus on the important parts rather than having to navigate in potentially large, shared projects.

Libraries are best used for sharing various artefacts inside your organization. For example, you can use them to share custom connectors, validation rules, various helper processes, use them to enforce data standards and more.

Libraries ensure all your code uses common utilities and prevent copy-paste development. This in turn avoids various copy-paste errors and makes project maintenance easier and more effective.

AWS Secrets Manager support

We are continuing effort to onboard new secrets managers. In CloverDX 5.14, we added support for AWS Secrets Manager.

When creating your Secrets Manager in CloverDX Server Console you can now pick either AWS Secrets Manager or Azure Key Vault. While each secret manager lives in only one cloud (AWS or Azure), CloverDX is not restricting their usage and you can use any secret manager regardless of your deployment model – even on premise if needed.

Secrets stored in a secret manager configured on Server can be used in any context where you can use CloverDX parameters. Secrets can be access using a special syntax ${secret:<manager-name>/<secret id>} (for example, ${secret:aws_prod/dwh-pass}).

Smaller updates

Reformat component renamed to Map

We renamed Reformat component to Map. The change does not have any impact on the component functionality – only label of newly created components will be different. Since this is only cosmetic change, you won’t need to change your existing jobs in any way, and they will work exactly as before.

EmailSender and EmailReader support OAuth2 on Azure

Both components have been extended to allow usage of OAuth2 connection for authorization when using Microsoft Exchange Online via IMAP. This change was implemented as a response to Microsoft’s plan to remove support for basic authentication for Exchange Online in October 2022. Same mechanism can be used with other OAuth2-compatible mailing services (e.g., Yahoo).

Eclipse update

We updated Eclipse IDE, a platform CloverDX Designer is built on top of, to version 2021-09. This should not have any impact on regular users of CloverDX Designer, but you may notice some small user interface changes.

WebLogic 12.2.1.4

We now support newer version of WebLogic for your Server deployments. WebLogic 12.2.1.3 previously supported by CloverDX is no longer supported by Oracle (its “grace period” ended in December 2021) and we recommend all users to migrate to 12.2.1.4 which does not yet have any end of support date announced.

DB2 update

CloverDX now supports DB2 11.5 for its backend database. Previously supported version (DB2 10.5) is end-of-life since 30th April 2020. We urge all customers to upgrade to more recent version of DB2 to ensure their platform fully supported from IBM.

Profiler Console Deprecated

CloverDX Profiler Console is no longer actively developed and was removed from All-in-one installer for CloverDX. This does not affect ProfilerProbe component which remains part of CloverDX and its functionality remains unchanged.

Profiler Console remains available for download as separate package for each supported application server and can be installed as needed.