Release 24.1
New Features:
Search All Joined Groups - Result Paging and Search Efficiency
Multiple improvements have been made to history searching across all joined groups. The search results support paging, ensuring users can effectively browse results beyond the initial result limit. Paging ensures searching history across all groups has a limited performance impact on the MindLink environment, while allowing further searching of older results with subsequent pages.
To complement paging, the efficiency of histoyr searching has been improved to deliver results more effectively.
Certificate Authentication (CBAC)
MindLink Anywhere supports a new authentication mechanism - Certificate Authentication - allowing a user to be authenticated via a client certificate. The client certificate's subject is used as the claim for validating against an Active Directory object (via LDAP).
More details, including configuration, can be found in the Certificate authentication page.
OIDC - Configurable iFrame or popup authentication
Initial support for OIDC in 23.7 required users to redirect from the MLA Authentication page to their OIDC authority. Release 24.1 provides more flexibility to administrators, offering a configurable 'Prefered signin mode' with 'Redirect' or 'Popup' available.
Note: Pop-up mode will fall back to Redirect if popups are disabled on the browser.
New MLA Themes
The Dark and Light themes in MLA have updated, serving a brand-aligned pallet of colors aligned with the old theme.
Improvements
This version includes the following improvements:
| ID | Details | Product |
|---|---|---|
| FCF-9948 | Use an iframe or popup for OpenID authentication instead of redirect | MindLink Anywhere |
| FCF-9930 | Tidy up administration client asset aliases | |
| FCF-9885 | Improve E2EE server certificate verification and connection logging | MindLink Anywhere, E2EE |
Bug Fixes
This version includes the following bug fixes:
| ID | Details | Product |
|---|---|---|
| FCF-10033 | Disclaimer accept button is not visible till user hovers over it on IE11 | MindLink Anywhere |
| FCF-10015 | Loading history in an MCE group with lots of messages is slow | MindLink Anywhere |
| FCF-10014 | Unhandled exception is thrown when MailKitSmtpClientConnection attempts to dispose during operation | |
| FCF-10006 | Setting group description to empty skips validation and crashes GroupUserInvitationsProjectionModelGrain activation | |
| FCF-10004 | Mention user icon is a low-contrast blue in dark mode | MindLink Anywhere |
| FCF-9988 | Searching for members when creating an MCE group via in-app group management clears the window | MindLink Anywhere |
| FCF-9986 | Hard to add users to multiparty on small screens with lots of COIs | MindLink Anywhere |
| FCF-9984 | Setting group with out-of-scope principals ignores principals but errors at user | MindLink Anywhere |
| FCF-9982 | Data attributes are ignored when creating MCE group if data attribute computation fails | MindLink Ahywhere |
| FCF-9971 | Email notification link won't open group when using OIDC | MindLink Anywhere |
| FCF-9962 | JoinGroupAsyncOperation and LeaveGroupAsyncOperation throw unhandled exceptions when user previously joined federated groups in a previously federated environment | Federation |
| FCF-9946 | Invalid credentials error in MCE powershell only shows for existing users that aren't the admin UPN | MCE PowerShell |
| FCF-9832 | Mentions user search appears to fail to remove non-matching results sometimes | MindLink Anywhere |
| FCF-9760 | Group management is has horizontal scroll, making it difficult to use the window | MindLink Anywhere |
Known limitations
Internet Explorer 11 does not support Conversation Export
Audio calling between the MindLink client and the Skype Mobile app is currently not supported