Sprint 31 Diavolezza Review

Elio Di Puma

Code Camp Results @Reto Weiss
Milestone Releases @Reguël Wermelinger
Dev-Website @Alissa Villiger
New Documentation Structure @Lukas Lieb
VS Code @Louis Müller
Validation @Fabian Heuberger
REST service API Setting @Reguël Wermelinger
Engine Cockpit @Jacek Lajdecki

Reto Weiss

Code Camp Results

Once again, we had a very productive and code-intensive week in the beautiful Swiss mountains of Engelberg. 🏔️💻

We worked on many different topics, explored new ideas, tackled technical challenges and built some exciting prototypes. Here’s a short overview of what kept us busy during the week:

Topics

Use-Case Driven Events: Exploring a more flexible approach to events. @Alexander Suter
From ThreadLocal to ScopedValue: Taking a closer look at the future of context handling in Java. @Reto Weiss
Resurrect the Rule Editor: Bringing the Rule Editor back to life in the new tech stack. @Elio Di Puma & @Dominik Arnold
Our New Developer Website: Working on the next generation of our developer website. @Alissa Villiger
Smart Workflow Camp '26: Exploring and experimenting with Smart Workflow. @Reguël Wermelinger
Bringing Our License Order App to ivy14: Sharing our experience with the migration. @Bruno Bütler
Indexing Classes Using Jandex: Exploring Jandex for faster and more efficient class indexing. @Fabian Heuberger
Remove Runtime from Design Time: Working on a cleaner separation between runtime and design time. @Lukas Lieb
The JPMS Revolution: Vibe coded an OSGi-to-JPMS converter that auto-generates module-info.java and updates pom.xml, while cleaning up split packages in core for a smooth migration. @Christian Strebel
Making Logger Configuration Easier to Understand: Improving the developer experience around logging. @Jacek Lajdecki
Pack app ZIP Maven goal: Maven goal for packing app ZIPs, parallel Maven builds, and Eclipse-style Java formatting in VS Code. @Louis Müller
Eating Our Own Dog Food: Running an internal Axon Ivy Engine for projects of the ivyTeam. @Lukas Giger
Support optional Market product installation: Ease installation smart-workflow artifacts by clearly separating must and optional dependencies in install wizard. @Tobias Gretler

👉 Interested in the details? Check out the dedicated blog posts linked for each topic.

Reguël Wermelinger

Milestone Releases

Unified access to milestone pre-releases 🎁️.

Audience

Early Adopters

Value

Simplified setup for early adopters of the upcoming 14.0.0 products.
Milestones stay available for a while; so you can do controlled updates
Flexibility to release more often in a defined state (more than Sprint iteration releases)
VSCode-Designer milestone releases enforce the usage of the matching milestone engine.

Screenshots / Code

https://dev.axonivy.com/download/milestone
https://community.axonivy.com/d/1284-developing-in-vs-code-with-a-milestone-release

Milestone artifacts:

VSCode Designer extension
Axon Ivy Engine
Axon Ivy Docker Image
Public API (ivy-project-parent)
Project-build-plugin
Portal

Alissa Villiger

New Developer-Website

The developer website has a new visual design that matches axonivy.com. Content stays the same, only the look has changed.

Audience

Developers

Value

Consistent look across axonivy.com and the developer site
Dark mode for a more comfortable reading experience
Easier navigation to find what you need faster

Discussion

Questions or feedback?

Screenshots / Code

Lukas Lieb

New Documentation Structure

Update the whole documentation to match the new release 📝

Audience

Everyone

Value

Get rid of old screenshots and old Eclipse-based design chapters
Add new application version chapter
Add new document structure
- Introduction: What is Axon Ivy, Getting started, Getting help,...
- Getting Productive: How do I model processes, explain the main concepts, etc.
- Reference: Reference doc e.g. for all the editors
- Desginer: New desginer guide for vscode extension
- Engine: More or less still the same good engine guide 🙂
- Portal: -> redirect to portal guide
- Market: Short intro what is the market etc.
- Technical and Release Info: Release Notes, Migration Notes, System Requirements, etc.
- Glossary
Hold japanese translation as stable as possible

Discussion

What do you think about this structure?
A chapter we should definitly override for the release?

Next steps

Finish this story
New VS Code extension doc
New xhtml editor doc

Screenshots / Code

https://dev.axonivy.com/doc/14.0/en/index.html

Louis Müller

VS Code

We have switched the default browser used, e.g. for process simulation or previewing dialogs, from our custom browser to the official VS Code integrated browser.

Audience

Process developers

Value

By default, the VS Code integrated browser is used.
- Access standard browser features such as DevTools.
- Easily access browser content in AI chat.
The VS Code setting axonivy.browser lets you specify which browser to use:
- VS Code integrated browser
- Custom Ivy browser (legacy)
- External browser

Discussion

Questions or feedback?

Screenshots / Code

Fabian Heuberger

Validation

This sprint our focus regarding validation was on increasing stability and performance of the workspace validation.

Audience

Process Developers

Value

Thanks to the improvements in performance and stability the workspace validation is now able to run without impacting the development of Projects.
The XHTML-validation specifically will no longer use up most of your CPU power and is now much faster.
The validation now only starts once the java projects have been built, this way there are not countless false positives when starting a workspace

Reguël Wermelinger

REST Service API

Fine granular control over REST security headers.

Audience

Process Developers

Value

Cross-Site-Request-Forgery (CSRF) can be disabled per resource.

Screenshots / Code

default:

opt-out:

Jacek Lajdecki

Engine Cockpit

Engine Cockpit has a new PaaS mode that hides some settings

Audience

Cloud Administrators

Value

Engine Cockpit has a new PaaS mode that hides some settings.
Enable by setting IVY_COCKPIT_PAAS=true environment variable, or:

Cockpit:
    PaaS: true

in the ivy.yaml

Hidden settings:

whole "System" menu from the sidebar
"Security systems" from "Security"
License settings (TBD)

Discussion

Next steps

More advanced role concept for administrators

Screenshots / Code

Elio Di Puma

New and Noteworthy

XIVY-19221: Improve output table of the SQL query executor with paging and sorting
XIVY-19292: No longer use OpenSearch templates to prevent the need of cluster-wide permissions
XIVY-18929: Setup test infrastructure for AI prompts
XIVY-19428: Raising third party libraries to the latest available LTS

Bugfixes

XIVY-19602: Transient case and task trigger unnecessary SQL queries
XIVY-19589: System database cache for Security Member is not invalidated and configuration does not work
XIVY-19551: SubProcessCall API creates a new case and task when invoked from a JSF managed bean
XIVY-19438: OpenSearch client wrongly reports SocketReadTimeoutException on every call if the health check fails once during startup
XIVY-19396: Potential redirects to non-relative URLs in dev-workflow-ui on login page
XIVY-19503: Calls to Connection.isValid by the connection pool causes performance problems