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 for PDM solution includes HaloCAD PROTECT and MONITOR capabilities and interacts with the respective PDM application. Files in SOLIDWORKS PDM folders are closely monitored. When a file is cut or copied to a non-SOLIDWORKS PDM folder, HaloCAD intercepts and protects it before reaching the destination folder. Also, any previously encrypted SOLIDWORKS application files or PDF files copied/moved to the SOLIDWORKS PDM folder will be decrypted and saved.

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

Recommended URLs, addresses, and ports for MPIP

MIP SDK doesn't support the use of authenticated proxies. So, make sure you set the Microsoft 365 endpoints to bypass the proxy. View a list of endpoints at “Microsoft Online Documentation”. However, Microsoft recommends the following:

Recommended endpoints

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

Version 1.3

New Features

There are no new features in this current release.

Improvements

This section lists the improvements in the current release.

1. Support for preventing a file from being moved or copied from the SOLIDWORKS PDM folder to a non-SOLIDWORKS PDM folder. The user will receive a message that copying the file is blocked due to an action rule configured in HaloEngine. HCADSWP-188

2. As with this release, while downloading a file, the HaloCAD component determines whether an item is checked-out because this would prevent metadata extraction, therefore it is checked-in to execute metadata extraction and subsequently checked-out. During the forced check-in event, the history is updated with the message “HaloCAD for SWPDM to get metadata”. HCADSWP-87

3. As with this version, you must restart your computer after the installation is complete. The installer will display a message asking the user to choose whether to restart automatically after installation or manually later.

4. In the HaloENGINE monitor log, a new field called fileBlockedByRule is added to show the result of the decision. HCADSWP-211

Limitation

When a non-office protected file with a .pfile extension is copied to the SOLIDWORKS PDM vault folder, the file will be decrypted, but the extension will not be removed. HCADSWP-133

Fixed Issues

This section lists the fixed issues in the current release.

1. Fixed an issue that prevented the encryption of .pjpeg, .ppng, .ptiff, .pmsg, and .pgif files when copying from a non-SOLIDWORKS PDM folder to the SOLIDWORKS PDM folder, resulting in a HaloCAD error message. HCADSWP-89

2. Fixed an issue that caused the same values to be logged in the fsize and in fields of the monitor log when attempting to copy files from the SOLIDWORKS PDM folder to a non-SOLIDWORKS PDM folder using the Move To and Copy To options. HCADSWP-201

3. Fixed an issue that prevented non-office file extensions from being changed while copying them from the SOLIDWORKS PDM folder to the non-SOLIDWORKS PDM folder; however, the files were successfully encrypted. HCADSWP-148

4. Fixed an issue that caused a .tmp file to be created when an unprotected file from the SOLIDWORKS PDM folder was moved to a non-SOLIDWORKS PDM folder. HCADSWP-210

Known Issues

This section lists the known issues in the current release.

1. A screen capture of a protected HaloCAD file is possible. HCADSWP-15

2. Using the COPY and XCOPY options, it is possible to copy a file from the SOLIDWORKS PDM Vault to a non-SOLIDWORKS PDM folder. HCADSWP-34

3. If Folder Name or Client Hostname metadata is defined in the classification engine, files will not be encrypted when copied from a SOLIDWORKS PDM folder to a non-SOLIDWORKS PDM folder. HCADSWP-85, HCADSWP-41

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