AnyLogic Cloud: Release notes

Cloud 2.4.1 — Apr 2024

Cloud now supports Java 17.
Animation improvements:
- Cloud now better handles searching within the JAR files, which can be useful if your custom library JAR contains 3D shapes you want to use in the model.
- The new animations.json configuration file has been introduced for Private Cloud instances.
Private Cloud improvements:
- The Private Cloud installations now include the diagnostics utility.
- Private Cloud now supports Ubuntu 22.04 and the ED25519 SSH encryption key format.
- Fixed an issue where the backup script saved redundant Cassandra-generated data.
- Fixed a rare issue where Linux settings would prohibit reading Cloud configuration files, rendering the administrator panel web UI unusable.
In scatter plots, you can now choose to display multiple outputs for a single input.
The subscription management screen has been slightly redesigned.
Minor interface improvements have been introduced.

New experiment types are introduced: Optimization and Optimization with replications.
Several chart improvements:
- New scatter plot options: line or dotted line display.
- Box plot now labels the X and Y axes with the names of its input and output elements.
Private Cloud improvements:
- Improved installation script logging.
- The root distinguished name (rootDn) in Active Directory configurations can now be specified explicitly.
Minor improvements:
- The version name in the breadcrumbs now opens the Version tab of the model if a user has permissions to access it.
- The animation displayed on the General tab of the model or embedded on the third-party website now uses the default input values.
Public Cloud users who do not have a subscription are now subject to a 5-minute time limit on the duration of multi-run experiments.

Several improvements have been made to charts:
- The density and mean and error plots now allow time to be used as the X-axis value.
- The mean and error plot is now also available for the Variation with replication experiment.
- The mean is now displayed on the box plot.
- You can now use a varying input to create a scatter plot.
- When setting the time axis format, you can now select specific time units to display.
- Renamed multiple plots for consistency.
General improvement of UI text in AnyLogic Cloud for better consistency and readability.
Private Cloud users can now set a custom title for the instance page in the administrator panel.
The problem that caused the backup script to save too many snapshots has been resolved.
The signup, login, and user customization forms can now display the password as it is being entered.
Several security updates have been implemented.

Model comments now support hyperlinks.
A new Date and Time value picker is now available in experiment dashboards.
Exported run results in Excel files now contain links to output files.
In the sidebar, there is now the Duplicate experiment button.
The Time axis format widget for time charts has been reworked.
Minor Private Cloud installation script improvements.
The documentation on the Custom UI feature is added.
Various UI improvements have been introduced.
New Private Cloud configuration files and feature toggles are added.
The TLS 1.3 protocol is now enabled by default.
Fixed a bug occurring when a model is uploaded to the Private Cloud instance with guest access disabled.
API clients have been updated.
Internal services of AnyLogic Cloud are reworked in preparation for future features.

Private Cloud instances now support configurable password policies.
Social network sharing buttons are now available on the model screen.
Model descriptions now support hyperlinks.
Some UI changes have been introduced to the administrator panel of Private Cloud.
Cloud search engine now allows for more complex search queries.
Cloud API clients now support using files as inputs and outputs.
Several Private Cloud configuration files have been reworked.

Cloud now uses Java 11.
Cloud web UI now uses Angular 13.
Several third-party libraries were updated to fix performance and vulnerability issues.
Multiple aspects of the UI are improved.

Private Cloud instances can now be integrated with LDAP and Active Directory servers for user authentication.
Built-in Chinese and Russian localizations.
Multiple aspects of the UI are improved.
The documentation now includes guides on update and uninstallation of Private Cloud instances.

Guest access can now be disabled for Private Cloud instances.
AnyLogic Cloud experiments can now produce files as output.
The JavaScript API client can now be used to create Monte Carlo 1^st order experiments.
Multiple aspects of the UI are improved.

Subscribers of AnyLogic Cloud now have access to the AnyLogic 9 technology preview.

Performance of the model galleries — the Public models and My models pages — is improved.
Various improvements for the installation script are introduced.

The administrator panel is added for Private Cloud administrators, enabling a number of features:
- User management
- Service component management
- UI customization
The administrator account is now created with default credentials.
Data of all experiments of a specific model version can now be downloaded in JSON format.
Various improvements for the installation script are introduced.
The documentation of Java API is now available.

Private Cloud instances now support the HTTPS protocol.
Models that interact with the native code via the Java Native Interface now can be run in Cloud.

The backup and restore tools are now improved and introduced in the form of simple shell scripts.

A simple installation script is introduced, allowing for easy deployment of Private Cloud instances.

Versioning of Private Cloud is improved, enabling the simple upgrade of instances.