Notifications App Release Notes

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Notifications 3.9.0 Copied

Released: 30 October 2025

New features and enhancements Copied

These are the new features and enhancements of this release:

Issue key Release description
OBAN-404 Added a new placeholder notification.name that displays the name of the triggered notification. This allows you to reference the specific notification name in your messages, making notifications clearer and easier to identify.
OBAN-441 Moved incident table field override settings from Target to Notification configuration, allowing dynamic placeholders in custom field values and making ServiceNow integrations more flexible and easier to configure.
OBAN-445 Updated the placeholders dialog to let users copy templates directly to the clipboard by clicking on them, streamlining the setup of notifications.

Issues fixed Copied

These are the issues we have fixed in this release:

Issue key Release description
OBAN-449 Updated Spring Framework to version 3.5.6 to address a high-severity security vulnerability CVE-2025-41249.

Notifications 3.7.0 Copied

Released: 25 July 2025

New features and enhancements Copied

These are the new features and enhancements of this release:

Issue key Release description
OBAN-293 The Notifications REST APIs are now available and support creating, retrieving, updating, and deleting notifications, as well as notification targets.
OBAN-407 Updated the Notification app to align with the latest UI framework.

Notifications 3.6.0 Copied

Released: 10 June 2025

New features and enhancements Copied

These are the new features and enhancements of this release:

Issue key Release description
OBAN-324 Email is now available as a notification target. Notifications can be sent to an email address or distribution list using the settings of an SMTP server. TLS is supported as well as custom server certificates for private SMTP servers.

Issues fixed Copied

These are the issues we have fixed in this release:

Issue key Release description
OBAN-329 Fixed an issue with the notifications count not updating properly when changing time presets.
OBAN-380 Resolved the following CVEs related to libxml2 and spring-security-crypto:
  • CVE-2024-56171
  • CVE-2025-22228
  • CVE-2025-24928

Known issues Copied

These are the known issues affecting this release:

Security advisory ID Known issue description
CVE-2025-22868 In SQLite versions 3.44.0 to 3.49.0, the concat_ws() SQL function contains an integer overflow vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this by providing a large, attacker-controlled separator argument, leading to insufficient memory allocation and a heap-based buffer overflow.
CVE-2025-29087 A reported security vulnerability allows an attacker to cause excessive memory consumption by providing a malformed token during parsing.
CVE-2025-4638 A vulnerability in the inftrees.c component of the zlib library, bundled with PointCloudLibrary (PCL), can lead to undefined behavior due to improper pointer arithmetic. This issue primarily affects PCL versions older than 1.14.0, or installations where WITH_SYSTEM_ZLIB is explicitly set to FALSE.

Notifications 3.5.0 Copied

Released: 25 March 2025

New features and enhancements Copied

These are the new features and enhancements of this release:

Issue key Release description
OBAN-325 Microsoft Teams is now available as a notification target. Notifications can be sent to an MS Teams channel using a Workflow URL, which can be generated through the channel’s Workflows option.
OBAN-326 The entity Notification URL now takes users to the Activity tab of the entity details panel.
OBAN-328 When navigating to an entity from a Notification URL, the page now displays the entity’s ancestors and descendants.
OBAN-352 The group Notification URL now navigates to a drill-down view of the triggered group.

Issues fixed Copied

These are the issues we have fixed in this release:

Issue key Release description
OBAN-363 Resolved the following high-severity security vulnerabilities:
  • CVE-2024-12797
  • CVE-2025-24970

Notifications 3.4.0 Copied

Released: 23 January 2025

New features and enhancements Copied

These are the new features and enhancements of this release:

Issue key Release description
OBAN-308 The ${url} placeholder now redirects the user to the Entity Viewer app.
  • For grouped notifications, the URL will correspond to a context named after the configuration (entity filter and groupings).
  • For entity notifications, the URL will link directly to the associated entity.

Legacy releases Copied

Notifications 3.3.0 Copied

Released: 4 October 2024

New features and enhancements Copied

These are the new features and enhancements of this release:

Issue key Release description
OBAN-305 Upgraded the base image to resolve CVEs.
OBAN-306 App workloads now restart if any of their configuration options change via a helm upgrade.

Notifications 3.2.1 Copied

Released: 16 August 2024

Minimum required ITRS Analytics Platform version: 2.5.0

New features and enhancements Copied

These are the new features and enhancements of this release:

Issue key Release description
OBAN-307 Upgraded iam-tools to version 2.6.0 to resolve critical CVEs.

Notifications 3.2.0 Copied

Released: 10 April 2024

New features and enhancements Copied

These are the new features and enhancements of this release:

Issue key Release description
OBAN-259 Implemented GetBulkMetrics to fetch notification statistics.
OBAN-282 Updated Kubernetes containment rules in line with Platform 2.2.0 changes.

Notifications 3.1.0 Copied

Released: 23 January 2024

Caution

Before upgrading, you must first uninstall all ITRS Analytics apps. Due to a breaking change in a core library (Spring Boot), you need to upgrade all ITRS Analytics apps at the same time. Make sure that you reinstall the latest mutually compatible versions of ITRS Analytics apps. See the ITRS Analytics Compatibility Matrix.

New features and enhancements Copied

These are the new features and enhancements of this release:

Issue key Release description
OBAN-260 Upgraded Spring Boot to version 3.2.1, which resolves the following reported security vulnerability: BDSA-2023-3298 or CVE-2023-46589.

Notifications 3.0.0 Copied

Released: 8 December 2023

New features and enhancements Copied

These are the new features and enhancements of this release:

Issue key Release description
OBAN-247 Upgraded app for compatibility with ITRS Analytics Platform 2.0.

Notifications 2.1.0 Copied

Released: 31 July 2023

New features and enhancements Copied

These are the new features and enhancements of this release:

Issue key Release description
OBAN-210 The Slack test connection now checks whether the channel’s name is configured instead of its ID. This prevents an error previously encountered when only the channel name was supplied and it did not match the channel ID.
OBAN-216 ServiceNow is now available as a notification target.
  • When notifications are triggered, a new ServiceNow incident is created. The affected entities are tagged with the notification-url attribute that contains a permalink to the ServiceNow incident.
  • While the notification is active, reminders are sent as comments to the existing incidents.
  • When the notification is cleared, a final comment is posted to the incident.
  • When the entity or group gets triggered again, a new incident will be created.
OBAN-221 Placeholders are now supported in ServiceNow incident table field values.
OBAN-222 The following placeholders are now supported:
  • ${entity.attribute[<attribute name>]}
  • ${entity.dimension[<dimension key>]}
  • ${group[<group name>]}
OBAN-235 The following self-monitoring data are now available:
  • Notification Failed At: A metric that contains the timestamp of the most recent notification failure.
  • Notification Succeeded At: A metric that contains the timestamp of the most recent notification.
  • Notification Failure Message: An attribute that contains the error message corresponding to the most recent notification failure.

Issues fixed Copied

These are the issues we have fixed in this release:

Issue key Release description
OBAN-206 Renamed targets are now correctly reflected in the value of the notification-url attribute for Slack and ServiceNow.
OBAN-209 The Snackbar error is not displayed when the error is handled from the UI with a dialog, such as when a target or notification is out-of-sync or not found.
OBAN-211 When a notification is updated with one or more targets that have been deleted, a new dialog is displayed, indicating that the targets (which are not found) will be removed from the selection.
OBAN-212 Updating the target’s channel ID now correctly updates the notification-url attribute value to point to the new channel.
OBAN-213 Previously, it was possible to save an out-of-date notification when you double-click the Save button. A dialog is now displayed indicating that the notification will be updated.
OBAN-224 Entities with their notification-url attribute removed due to a notification or target being disabled are now correctly re-tagged when the notification or target is re-enabled.

Notifications 2.0.0 Copied

Released: 28 June 2023

Caution

Upgrading to the Notifications app version 2.0.0 will not be compatible with previous versions of the app. Any existing notification configurations and internal states on notifications by a previous version of the app will be permanently and irreversibly deleted when you upgrade.

Caution

Before upgrading, you must first uninstall all ITRS Analytics apps. Due to Web Platform security changes, you need to upgrade all ITRS Analytics apps at the same time. Make sure that you reinstall the latest mutually compatible versions of ITRS Analytics apps. See the ITRS Analytics Compatibility Matrix.

New features and enhancements Copied

These are the new features and enhancements of this release:

Issue key Release description
OBAN-125 Inactive entities are now detected through the inactive-since attribute instead of last-observed.
OBAN-149 Renamed Conditions field to Filter in the main configuration screen.
OBAN-150 Improved error handling when configuring the notification trigger timings.
OBAN-151 Decoupled integration-specific target configurations from the main configuration screen and moved them to a new screen. You can now manage targets independently of notifications, while multiple notifications can now use the same target. Notifications may only use targets of the same type, such as Slack. The Notification app has also been moved out of Alerting and into its own top-level item on the sidebar.
OBAN-183 Restricted notification and target names to a maximum of 50 characters, and notification and target descriptions to a maximum of 150 characters.
OBAN-188 Cloned notification configurations are now disabled.
OBAN-191 User actions related to CRUD operations on target and notification configurations are now logged in a parsable and searchable format.
OBAN-194 A placeholder message is now shown when no targets have been configured for an integration.
OBAN-195 Improved error messages when saving a notification or target configuration.
OBAN-196 Notification configurations prior to version 2.0.0 of the app are removed during the upgrade.
OBAN-201 The notification entity filter and groupings cannot be modified after being set. To change the filter or grouping, the notification configuration needs to be cloned.
OBAN-204 Notification and target names are now limited to 50 characters, while notification and target descriptions are limited to 150 characters.

Issues fixed Copied

These are the issues we have fixed in this release:

Issue key Release description
OBAN-134 Attempting to enable a draft notification prior to setting the mandatory notification target fields no longer results in an error.
OBAN-137 The notifications table has been made adaptive to the screen size.
OBAN-138 Entities are now correctly tagged with a Slack permalink when a Slack channel name is used in the configuration instead of an ID.
OBAN-148 The ${url} placeholder now points to the correct ITRS Analytics URL.
OBAN-175 Notifications are no longer triggered on inactive entities.
OBAN-176 A more meaningful error message is shown when trying to save a grouped notification using a placeholder that is only available for non-grouped notifications.

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