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 CAD applications for HaloCAD Add-ons

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CAD applications and HaloCAD Add-on version

Prerequisites

The following preparatory steps or conditions must be met before installing the product.

The add-on requires the registration of an application with Microsoft Entra ID, an Office 365 subscription, and access to recommended URLs. For additional information, please 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 statical 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 

• A = 0 Bugs

• B = at least 1 Minor Bug

• C = at least 1 Major Bug

• D = at least 1 Critical Bug

• E = at least 1 Blocker Bug

Security Rating

• A = 0 Vulnerabilities

• B = at least 1 Minor Vulnerability

• C = at least 1 Major Vulnerability

• D = at least 1 Critical Vulnerability

• 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.

• A = >= 80%

• B = >= 70% and <80%

• C = >= 50% and <70%

• D = >= 30% and <50%

• 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 alternately stated by saying that if the outstanding remediation cost is:

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

• between 6 to 10% the rating is a B

• between 11 to 20% the rating is a C

• between 21 to 50% the rating is a D

• anything over 50% is an E

Build 2.2

New Features

This section highlights the new features in the current release.

1. Support for NX 2312 and NX 2406. HCADNX-574

Improvements

This section lists improvements added to the current release.

1. Support has been added for masking or allowing clear text visibility of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in the MIP SDK logs using the registry key mipallowpii.

2. As of the previous release, watermark text was displayed horizontally by default, despite the label being configured to display the watermark diagonally. However, from this release, watermark text will be shown diagonally, as configured. HCADNX-550

3. The least restrictive permission among the linked files is determined and applied to the parent assembly file. HCADNX-586

Fixed Issues

This section provides a list of the fixed issues in the current release.

1. Fixed an issue that prevented files like STEP/IGES/DWG/DXF from being protected when exporting from a protected file via the File > Export option. HCADNX-429

2. Fixed an issue that allowed the HaloCAD Reader Add-on for NX to be installed even when the HaloCAD Reader was already installed. HCADNX-503

3. Fixed an issue that allowed multiple versions of the HaloCAD Add-on for NX to be installed on one machine. HCADNX-504

4. Fixed an issue that prevented exporting the file from the protected file using the Plot option. HCADNX-509

5. Fixed an issue that caused the imported protected part file to be deleted from the ASM file when the HaloCAD Least Permission window's "Esc" button was clicked. HCADNX-548
   

Known Issues

This section describes the known issues with the current release.

1. Standard NX Password-protected file is not supported. HCADNX-21 

2. It is possible to copy/share the protected file when the following options are used, along with view rights. HCADNX-212, HCADNX-214

   1. Copy Geometry to Part

   2. Create Linked Part

3. Reader: When a protected part file is cloned from an assembly file, the newly cloned part file will not be protected. HCADNX-156

4. The NX application will crash when the protected file is saved for the second time in the network-shared location. HCADNX-210

5. Intermittently, the HaloCAD Add-on for NX installation will fail. Workaround: Clear MPIP and HaloCAD dlls from NXBIN. HCADNX-458

6. When attempting to export a protected file in the NX 2206 application, the file will not be exported. HCADNX-527

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