Merative ™ Social Program Management 8.0.1.0 iFix2

Merative ™ Social Program Management is now Cúram ™ by Merative™

Release Notes

Abstract

Merative Social Program Management 8.0.1.0 iFix2 Release Notes

Content

Introduction
System Requirements
Download
Installation
Improvements, Resolved Issues, Third Party Updates
Known Issues
Notices

Introduction

Welcome to the Merative Social Program Management 8.0.1.0 iFix2 release.

This is a cumulative release which incorporates the Improvements, Resolved Issues and Third Party Updates contained in all previous 8.0.1.0 interim fix releases. Details of these Improvements, Resolved Issues and Third Party Updates are included separately in the release notes for each of the previous interim fix releases. For the latest version of the release notes, see https://curam-spm-devops.github.io/wh-support-docs/spm/release-notes

Full product documentation can be found in the Product documentation and PDFs.

System Requirements

For information about the supported software and hardware for this release, see the Merative Social Program Management Prerequisites.

Download

See the download instructions for this release at /support/spm.

Installation

Before you run the installer, ensure that all files in your Merative Social Program Management installation are writable.

The installation steps are as follows:

• Extract the contents of the .zip file to a local drive location.
• Run the Merative Social Program Management installer, which can be found in the INSTALLER folder at that location.
• After installing, the appropriate build targets must be run as necessary for your installation.

Additional installation instructions can be found in the Development Environment Installation Guide.

Upgrading

If you are upgrading from a previous version, the Merative Social Program Management Upgrade Helper contains documentation and tools to help you to upgrade your Merative Social Program Management application codebase and database to work with your new version of Merative Social Program Management . The Merative Social Program Management Upgrade Guide describes a recommended process for performing application and database upgrades. The Upgrade Helper contains tools to assist you with implementing the upgrade, including tools to produce a schedule of required migrations for your upgrade, tools to provide information about database schema changes and tools to generate initial SQL scripts for applying changes to your database.

To download the appropriate version of the Merative Social Program Management Upgrade Helper, see the download instructions at /support/spm.

Improvements, Resolved Issues, Third Party Updates

Third Party Updates

Third Party Updates

WorkItem: 275788 - Update the version of the Log4j 2 library to the latest version: 2.17.1

Apache Log4j is a Java-based logging utility that is used as the logging provider for the Social Program Management (SPM) product.

The version of the Log4j used by SPM has now been updated from 2.16.0 to 2.17.1. This new JAR file contains some minor bug fixes and enhancements.

As a result of this upgrade, the following changes have been made in the Java Development Environment deliverable.

• CuramSDEJ\lib\third_party_version.properties - the versions of the specified Log4j JAR files have been updated.
• CuramSDEJ\lib\log4j-api-2.17.1.jar - the version of the JAR has been updated.
• CuramSDEJ\lib\log4j-core-2.17.1.jar - the version of the JAR has been updated.
• CuramSDEJ\xmlserver\log4j-api-2.17.1.jar - the version of the JAR has been updated.
• CuramSDEJ\xmlserver\log4j-core-2.17.1.jar - the version of the JAR has been updated.
• CuramCDEJ\lib\ext\jar\log4j-api-2.17.1.jar - the version of the JAR has been updated.
• CuramCDEJ\lib\ext\jar\log4j-core-2.17.1.jar - the version of the JAR has been updated.

Note that before performing any builds or deployments, ensure that the old versions of the log4j-core and log4j-api JAR files are not present in the directories specified above. If they are, they should be removed before proceeding.

Any references in custom scripts and other artifacts must be updated to point to the new version of the JAR file as specified above.

Known Issues

See the Known Issues section in the 8.0.1.0 on the release notes.

Notices

Before using this information and the product it supports, read the information in "Notices"