Release Notes

Introduction 

The release notes provide brief and high-level descriptions of the new features of HaloCAD. Before installing HaloCAD, it is recommended to read the release notes to understand any current limitations or bugs that may apply to this version of the software.

Product Description

HaloCAD acts as the guardian of your CAD files by automatically protecting them with Microsoft Purview Information Protection (MPIP) labels whenever they leave your secure IT perimeter. As a plug-in for CAD applications, HaloCAD offers access to MPIP-protected files, including label handling and privilege enforcement. CAD users will not notice any differences in the handling of CAD files because protection takes place in the background. By seamlessly attaching MPIP labels to the CAD files while they are being created, it provides end-to-end security for those files.

System Requirements

The following system requirements table specifies the minimum and recommended technical specifications, such as software and network resources, necessary to run the product.

Requirements

Supported Autodesk applications for HaloCAD Add-ons 

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Autodesk applications and HaloCAD Add-on

Prerequisites

Before installing the add-on, ensure that the following prerequisites are met:

1. An application is registered with Microsoft Entra ID.

2. An active Office 365 subscription is available.

3. Access to the recommended URLs is enabled.

4. TLS 1.2 or later is enabled on all client workstations to ensure secure communication.

For more information, refer to the Technical Reference Manual.

Code Quality and Security

Secude focuses on software quality and security. This is accomplished by adhering to and exceeding best practices in development, testing, and quality control. Secude has chosen SonarQube as the first building block for building and implementing a robust continuous code quality assurance (QA). SonarQube is a platform for static code analysis for continuous inspection of code quality. It performs automatic reviews of code to detect bugs, code smells, unit test coverage, and security issues in 29 programming languages.

SonarQube is utilized throughout the development process at Secude, and only the highest marks are accepted for a product to be released. It helps to regulate code quality from the beginning of development, find and repair issues promptly, and improve overall software stability.

Each build report can be found under its relevant version heading in this release notes.

Reliability Rating 

1. A = 0 Bugs

2. B = at least 1 Minor Bug

3. C = at least 1 Major Bug

4. D = at least 1 Critical Bug

5. E = at least 1 Blocker Bug

Security Rating

1. A = 0 Vulnerabilities

2. B = at least 1 Minor Vulnerability

3. C = at least 1 Major Vulnerability

4. D = at least 1 Critical Vulnerability

5. E = at least 1 Blocker Vulnerability

Security Review Rating 

The Security Review Rating is a letter grade based on the percentage of Reviewed (Fixed or Safe) Security Hotspots.

1. A = >= 80%

2. B = >= 70% and <80%

3. C = >= 50% and <70%

4. D = >= 30% and <50%

5. E = < 30%

Maintainability Rating 

A=0-0.05, B=0.06-0.1, C=0.11-0.20, D=0.21-0.5, E=0.51-1

The Maintainability Rating scale can be alternatively stated by saying that if the outstanding remediation cost is:

1. <=5% of the time that has already gone into the application, the rating is A

2. Between 6 to 10%, the rating is a B

3. Between 11 to 20%, the rating is a C

4. Between 21 to 50%, the rating is a D

5. Anything over 50% is an E

Build 2.4

New Features

This section lists the new features in the current release.

Added support for AutoCAD integration with Teamcenter. HCADACD-746

Improvements

This section lists the improvements in the current release.

1. In previous releases, asterisks were used in MIP SDK logs to mask Personally Identifiable Information (PII), such as email names and IP addresses. This feature is now extended to HaloCAD logs to also mask information such as label name, label ID, engine ID, policy ID, and watermark text. HCADACD-686

2. Added default values for silent command-line parameters. HCADACD-729

3. Added support to display online documentation directly from the installer UI for both the standard and Reader add-on installers. When the Online Help button is clicked, the online documentation now opens in the user's default browser. HCADINV-730

4. Improved token-sharing encryption and FIPS compatibility by ensuring proper OpenSSL FIPS context initialization and preventing failures in child processes during configuration decryption. HCADACD-738

Fixed Issues

This section lists the fixed issues in the current release.

1. Fixed an issue where the enable_fips registry flag remained set to true even after the Enable FIPS Mode option was unchecked in the installer and did not revert to false. HCADACD-731

2. Fixed an issue where STL and PDF files were exported as protected files despite restricted permissions, and files were created on disk even after a warning message was displayed. HCADACD-770

Known Issues

This section lists the known issues in the current release.

1. Reader: Intermittently, the AutoCAD application will crash when you open a protected file with an unauthorized user account via a recent document list. HCADACD-333

2. Even if the user cache already exists after installation, the Microsoft sign-in dialog will still appear when you close and restart the AutoCAD application. HCADACD-473

3. When attempting to import the protected DGN file into the drawing file, the error message "You have selected an unsupported DGN file." will appear. HCADACD-486

4. If a protected file is opened from Recent documents or using the Open option in the start window, a pop-up message from AutoCAD will be displayed as "Drawing file is not valid" and the file will not open when Startup is set as 2 and Startmode is set as 0 or 1. HCADACD-534

Unsupported Versions

Support for AutoCAD 2023 has been removed in this release.

Quality Gate Report

Please see the table below for a list of SonarQube's key parameters for this version. Refer to the "Code Quality and Security" section for more information on rating definitions.

Quality Gate report