Release date: July 5th, 2018
Highlights #
What changes can I expect to see on my scan results as a result of this release? #
This release does not include any additional Best Practices, so you will not see issues raised of any type which was not included in a previous release.
You may see changes in your scan results if you were affected by any of the below bug fixes and corrections:
QPD- 1470. You may see additional Platform applications appearing on the Application Overview view, on the “Custom Applications” drop down. There were two issues which were preventing this list from being fully populated. One was caused by row-level ACLs, which prevented scanning of certain plugins. Another was caused by an inconsistency in the use of table columns, and this would have prevented ANY plugin from being scanned.
QPD – 1490. You may see a new application appear on the Application Overview view, on the “Custom Applications” drop down. The application name will be “General Configuration”, and it will group all issues detected of the following types. Issues of the below types were not being included in the issues grid in the Application Overview view, and so would not be included in the export from the issues grid:
- 2.- Unused Inactivity Monitors.
- 16.- High Security Settings plugin disabled
- 35.-Contextual Security Plugin disabled
- 21.- Modules Pointing to Big Tables without Filter
- 23.- The default system User Preference “Rows per Page” set above 100
- 24. JDBC Data Sources with “Use last run datetime” option
- 28.- The “Log/trace level of TaskSLAController” System Property not set to “notice”
- 36.- The System Property “Update on Iterate” is enabled
- 37.- The System Property “Go To Search” is set to “Contains”
- 38.- Debug System Properties Enabled.
- 39.- The “Security Manager” System Property is set to “Allow Access”
- 57.- The System Property “Items per page” includes options over 100
- 58.- The Database Rotation Plugin is disabled.
- 60.- The Database Rotation Default Tables Plugin is disabled.
- 61.- The SOAP Timeout value is over 5 minutes.
- 62.- The System Property “Auto Complete Wait Time” exceeds 750 ms.
- 70.- The System Property “Auto Complete Search” is set to “Contains”
QPD – 1562. You may see the number of issues decrease, and the number of warnings increase by the same number, for the below best practice checks. This is due to the active / inactive flag not being checked on the Configuration Element when these issues were detected. After this release, all of the below issue types should be reported as Warnings, not issues, if the Configuration Element on which they are detected is inactive:
- 1.- Business Rules defined on the Global table
- 15.- Business Rules using GlideRecord and getRowCount
- 24. JDBC Data Sources with “Use last run datetime” option
- 40.- Client Scripts with empty script field.
- 81.- Business Rules without function.
- 91.- Catalog Client Scripts with empty script field.
QPD – 1563. Inactive Catalog items and Catalog Client Scripts have been removed from the Upgradeability View.
QPD – 1577. Any Configuration Element whose last version has been updated by the user “system” is considered an OOTB element. This means that both the number issues, and of modified OOTB elements in the Upgradeability view may be reduced.
New bests practice implemented #
ServiceNow #
There are no new ServiceNow best practices included in this release
Javascript #
There are no new Javascript best practice included in this release.
New configuration item types included in analysis #
This release does not contain any additional Configuration Element Types
New Update Set #
This release does not require any incremental Update Set.
The full UpdateSet to configure a brand-new instance for Quality Clouds version 18.2.5.0 is available on Set up your ServiceNow instance.
Scan Website new features #
Quality Clouds online help available from the website
Access to Quality Clouds documentation site from the website
Display enhancements to the successful scan Email
New Update Set Scan option for registered users.
Minor bugs & fixes
Changes in views #
Executive View
- The Executive View has been enhanced to show the average, calculated over the previous quarter, of the main Quality Clouds indicators across all instances scanned. This should give a useful frame of reference to put the results of your scans in context. The indicators which have been enhanced are:
- Total Issues
- Total Technical Debt
- Quality of Cloud
- Configuration Elements
- Lines of Code Scanned
- Ratio of CEs with issues
Instance profiling
- The Information Items box now includes the number of users with row count preference over 100 in the category breakdown.
- The Number of Issues and Number of Warnings boxes now show a more detailed breakdown:
- ServiceNow BP
- Javascript BP
- Bespoke Rules
- Data Privacy BP
- New label showing if the scan is a Full or Profiling scan
