Ben Busse - August 7, 2017

DreamFactory 2.8 just shipped! The 2.8 release is packed with new features, including support for FTP, SFTP, FTPS, WebDav, IBM Informix, MQTT, and SAML/OpenID SSO. Head on over to Bitnami or GitHub to install DreamFactory 2.8.

Read more about DreamFactory’s new features.

Here’s what’s new:

Version 2.8 release notes

  • API enhancements
    • Added FTP, SFTP, FTPS, and WebDav as file services.
    • Added MQTT as an IoT service.
    • Added SSO support for SAML and OpenID Connect.
    • Added IBM Informix as a database service (requires DreamFactory Silver/Gold license).
    • Added event scripting interface to API Limits for triggering limit alerts (requires DreamFactory Gold license).
    • Added service and resource information to Logstash API.
    • Cleanup to improve pull event map and API docs from services.
    • Made DELETE behavior consistent across local and remote file services.
    • Fixed issue creating Belongs_To and Many_Many relationship records in database services.
    • Fixed boolean type filters in Postgres.
  • Miscellaneous enhancements and bug fixes
    • Reworked event structure to allow non-API driven service events.
    • Reworked lookup storage and modeling to ease session usage.
    • Now caching CORS config.
    • Now allowing empty lookup values.
    • Improved handling for date and time fields, including microseconds and timezone adjustments.
    • Added support for PDO constants directory in database config options.
    • Fixed migrations and other issues for SQL Server when using the DBLIB driver.
    • Added support for new regions in AWS services.
    • Fixed S3 file listing when number of files is too large.
    • Added username field for LDAP integration to shadow user.
    • Added DF_JWT_USER_CLAIM env option to include user attribute in JWT.
    • Fixed Vagrant box provisioning script for Cassandra driver.