Chapter 5. Fixed issues

With this update, the Red Hat Developer Hub Helm Chart does not contain a pull secret that is no longer needed.

Before this update, permission checks by the permission framework would throw an error if a matching permission policy was not previously defined. Therefore, Developer Hub denied the request with an error.

With this update, Developer Hub denies the request without throwing an error.

Before this update, the RBAC administration user interface Permission Policies table did not display the plugin name.

With this update, the RBAC administration user interface Permission Policies table displays the plugin name.

Before this update, Developer Hub API became unresponsive when a user was member of a high number of groups (more than 150) with aggregated relations. Therefore, the user might have failed to authenticate. Also, Developer Hub might have shown an error when opening the user entity in the UI.

With this update, Developer Hub can handle a user member of a high number of groups (more than 150) with aggregated relations.

Before this update, when the OCM plugin is installed, navigating to non-OCM pages triggered unnecessary failed OCM API calls.

With this update, Developer Hub restricts OCM API calls to OCM-related pages.

Before this update, Developer Hub failed to resolve user entities with Azure authentication provider to entities ingested by the MsGraph catalog provider. Therefore, a user authentication with Microsoft Azure could not open a session in Developer Hub.

With this update, Developer Hub resolves user entities with Azure authentication provider to entities ingested by the MsGraph catalog provider. Therefore, a user authentication with Microsoft Azure can open a session in Developer Hub.

Before this update, in a Developer Hub deployment with the default configuration, the application logs displayed the deprecation warning.

With this update, the default upstream.backstage.appConfig configuration uses the backend.auth.externalAccess field rather than the deprecated backend.auth.keys field.

With this update, Developer Hub does not include user IP addresses in the application logs.

Before this update, Developer Hub ignored GitHub search API restrictions to list pull requests. Therefore, Developer Hub might have not displayed all pull requests.

With this update, Developer Hub limits paging to max 1000 results to respect GitHub search API restrictions. Developer Hub show users when additional results are available, suggesting in a tooltip that they can refine their query to retrieve more specific results.

Before this update, after updating a config map or a secret, when pods where restarting to apply the changes, they might have tried to simultaneous lock the database. The situation ended with a dead lock.

With this update, Developer Hub handles simultaneous pod refreshing without a dead lock.

Before this update, the Helm Chart was using an unversioned name for the dynamic-plugins-npmrc secret. Therefore subsequent Helm deployments of the RHDH Helm Chart version 1.2.1 failed after the first deployment with an error that a secret named dynamic-plugins-npmrc exists and is not owned by the current release.

With this update, the Helm Chart creates and uses a dynamic-plugins-npmrc secret that is named in line with the other resources managed by the Helm Chart: <release-name>-dynamic-plugins-npmrc. As a result, the Helm Chart does not fail on the previous error.

Before this update, Developer Hub stopped displaying some metrics such as catalog metrics in the <RHDH_URL>/metrics endpoint.

With this update, Developer Hub displays expected metrics in the /metrics endpoint.

Before this update, Developer Hub had theme issues with plugins using Material UI (MUI) 5.

With this update, Developer Hub includes additional MUI 5 related packages, added to the application shell as shared modules. Therefore, dynamic plugins that use MUI 5 components and tss-react can properly load the currently selected theme. This ensures that MUI 5 components have the correct colors and styling applied to them.

While not strictly a requirement, if a dynamic plugin relies on MUI 5 components with a class name prefix, that behavior can be added to a frontend dynamic plugin by adding the following code to the plugin’s index.ts:

import { unstable_ClassNameGenerator as ClassNameGenerator } from '@mui/material/className';

ClassNameGenerator.configure(componentName => {
  return componentName.startsWith('v5-')
    ? componentName
    : `v5-${componentName}`;
})

This update requires using a version of the @janus-idp/cli package > 1.13.1.

Before this update, creating an RBAC role with name that contains ':' or '/' through the REST API (or RBAC admin panel in the UI) created a role that did nothing and could not be deleted. Although the name of the role showed up in full as written in the POST request, when clicked on for more information about the role it showed only the part of the name written before the first ':' or '/'. Also while the list of RBAC roles did list how many policies were added to the role, when clicking on the role for more information it displayed no users or policies.

With this udpate, Developer Hub validates more strictly role and namespace names in accordance with backstage validation:

Developer Hub invalidates role names that do not conform with the format:

Developer Hub invalidates namespaces that do not conform with the format:

Before this update, conditional policies and policies loaded from files remained active after the corresponding policy files were removed from the configuration.

With this update, conditional policies and policies loaded from files are removed after the corresponding policy files are removed from the configuration.

Before this update, the timestamp in the catalog-info.yaml created by the catalog:timestamping action by the backstage-scaffolder-backend-module-annotator plugin was different from the execution time of the template.

With this update, a unique timestamp is generated on each execution of the template.

Before this update, when a user displayed the virtual machine details in the sidebar, the icon corresponding to virtual machine was not shown.

With this update, the missing icons have been added. Therefore, when a user displays the virtual machine details in the sidebar, an icon shows the virtual machine status.

Before this update, authentication with Github failed when the dangerouslyAllowSignInWithoutUserInCatalog field was set to true and the user was absent from the software catalog.

With this update, when the dangerouslyAllowSignInWithoutUserInCatalog field is set to true, you can authenticate to Developer Hub with a user absent from the software catalog.

Before this update, when the Developer Hub image was configured in both the custom resource and in the 'RELATED_IMAGE_backstage' environment variable, the image defined in the custom resource was not used.

With this update, the custom resource configuration takes precedence and is applied.

Before this update, in the RBAC administration page, the members dropdown was not able to load a large number of users or groups. Therefore, the Developer Hub administrator was not able to select required users or groups to add to the role.

With this update, the dropdown displays initially up to 100 users or groups shown and updates the display once the user starts to search. The search happens across the whole data-set and displays the first 100 results. The user must refine their search to narrow the results to a list containing the desired user or group. Therefore, even with larger numbers or users/groups, the Developer Hub administrator can add required users or groups to the role.

Before this update, a conditional alias that uses $ownerRefs did not work.

With this update, a conditional alias can use $ownerRefs.

Before this update, the ArgoCD plugin was bundled with dynamic backend plugin assets rather than dynamic frontend plugin assets. Therefore the ArgoCD plugin failed to load.

With this update, the ArgoCD plugin is bundled with dynamic frontend plugin assets. Therefore the ArgoCD plugin can load properly.