1 Introduction

These Release Notes provide an overview of AppWorks Gateway 16.7.0,
including new features, delivery information, and supported platforms.
OpenText recommends that you read these Release Notes in conjunction
with the documentation included with the software package. If any
conflicts exist, the Release Notes supersede the other documentation.

We also recommend that you check OpenText Developer
(https://developer.opentext.com/) for any patches or documentation
updates that may have been posted after the initial release of AppWorks
Gateway 16.

Note:

• For other OpenText products that make use of AppWorks, such as Tempo Box, Content Server Mobile ,and eDOCS InfoCenter, make sure to check the https://knowledge.opentext.com release notes on My Support for those products to confirm which versions of AppWorks they are compatible with.

1.1 Release Notes Revision History

2 About AppWorks Gateway

The AppWorks Gateway is the Enterprise Application Development and
Management platform for OpenText. AppWorks allows you to quickly and
easily build purpose-specific apps for the Enterprise using the Web
technologies we are all familiar with: HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. These
apps, called AppWorks Apps, can connect to the OpenText EIM Suite using
a common RESTful API.

2.1 New Features

AppWorks Gateway 16 Includes the following new features.

• New Admin Interface
• Enhanced Apache Camel based Reverse Proxy
• Service Software Development Kit.
• Native Push Notifications API
• Enhancements to Mobile Client Tracking and remote wiping
• PostgreSQL and SAP HANA Database support.
• OpenText Directory Services OAuth 2 support
• OpenText Directory Services Two Factor Authentication ( TFA ) support
• New Mobile Client Runtime for iOS
• New Mobile Client Runtime for Android
• Native Device Push Notifications
• iOS Document Provider Technology
• Android Secure Access Framework
• Client JavaScript API (AppWorks JS)
• Command Line Interface (CLI) for hybrid app building

AppWorks Gateway 16.0.1 Includes the following new features.

• iOS 10 Mobile Client Support
• Android N Mobile Client Support
• AppWorks Gateway Server Bug Fixes

AppWorks Gateway 16.1.0 Includes the following new features.

• Support for Tempo Box 16.1
• Proxy Blacklist functionality in Proxy Rules
• Proxy Template for Content Server Forms
• Proxy Server Template for Brava Server

AppWorks Gateway 16.2.0 Includes the following new features.

• Support for Content Server Mobile 16.2
• Proxy Server Template for Office 365 Content Server Integration

AppWorks Gateway 16.2.1 Includes the following new features.

• AppWorks Desktop Client for Windows and macOS
• Support for eDOCS InfoCenter Desktop app
• Proxy Server Template for eDocs InfoCenter Integration

AppWorks Gateway 16.3.0 Includes the following new features.

• Support for eDOCS InfoCenter Mobile
• Localisation support for AppWorks Desktop clients for macOS and Windows
• Mobile clients support for iOS 11 and Android 8
• Support for OpenText Media Manager Mobile
• AppWorks Gateway Multi Tenancy support
• Support for web.xml less SpringMVC applications as Gateway services
• Scanning API support in Android Mobile client
• Enhancements to AppWorks JS API
• Updates to Admin Interface deployments page

AppWorks Gateway 16.4.0 Includes the following new features.

• Support for Tomcat 8.5
• Support for Tomcat 9.0
• Push Notifications API Geolocation Support

AppWorks Gateway 16.5.0 Includes the following new features.

• Support for Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) for Mobile and Desktop Clients
• Captiva SDK for mobile clients for Scanning via AppWorks JS
• Docker Containerisation Support
• Realm Support in Mobile Clients
• AppWorks Gateway support for Oracle JDK 11 and OpenJDK 11 with Tomcat 9.0.x only
• Enhancements to app and service deployment mechanism
• Mobile Client UI updates

AppWorks Gateway 16.6.0 Includes the following new features.

• Support for SAML 2.0 authentication via OTDS in Desktop Clients

AppWorks Gateway 16.7.0 Includes the following new features.

• macOS Catalina support in Desktop Clients
• iOS 13 support in iOS Mobile clients
• Android 10 support in Mobile Clients
• AppConfig MDM Support for iOS and Android clients
• Android MDM Managed App support

2.2 Discontinued and deprecated features 16.0.1

• iOS versions less than 9.3 no longer supported

2.3 Discontinued and deprecated features 16.3.1

• iOS versions less than 10.0 no longer supported

2.4 Discontinued and deprecated features 16.4.0

• iOS versions less than 10.3 no longer supported

2.5 Discontinued and deprecated features 16.5.0

Note:

• Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) is replaced by Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM)
• AppWorks 16.4 Mobile and Desktop clients will work with AppWorks Gateway 16.5.0 and above but in order to use notifications, which in 16.5.0 and above use FCM, you MUST upgrade the clients to the 16.5.0 or above versions

2.6 Discontinued and deprecated features 16.6.0

• Tomcat 8.0.x is no longer supported as it is end of life
• Apple iOS 10.3.x certified support is removed in the AppWorks Mobile clients and its variants

2.7 Discontinued and deprecated features 16.7.0

• Apple iOS 10.3.x is no longer supported.
• macOS High Sierra no longer supported for macOS Desktop clients
• AppWorks Gateway Installation options of embedded OTDS and Derby database removed. In previous releases, these options were intended for initial evaluation and development purposes only.

3 Packaging and Documentation

Downloads and documentation for AppWorks Gateway 16.7.0 are available on OpenText Developer
(https://developer.opentext.com/).

3.1 Packaging and Delivery Information

The software and documentation for includes:

• AppWorks Gateway 16.7.0 A full server release that is provided as a
  single ZIP archive. The AppWorks Gateway is available on OpenText Developer
  (https://developer.opentext.com/).
• AppWorks Desktop Clients are also available from OpenText Developer
  (https://developer.opentext.com/).
• AppWorks Mobile Clients for iOS and Android are available in the Apple AppStore and Google Play Store

4 Supported Environments and Compatibility

This section provides details about supported platforms, systems, and versions.

4.1 Supported Systems

Note:

• Oracle JDK 11 and OpenJDK 11 are only certified and supported with Tomcat 9.0.19.
• It is recommended to use the versions of Tomcat listed above due to security enhancements in the listed versions.
• Java 10 or 12 is not currently supported.

Notes on Supported Platforms:

C = Certified

This platform was used for regression testing with this release of the
AppWorks Gateway. Use of this platform is fully supported by OpenText
Customer Support for customers that have purchased product licenses.

S = Supported

This platform received limited testing for this release of the AppWorks
Gateway. Use of this platform is fully supported by OpenText Customer
Support for customers that have purchased product licenses.

Not Listed = Unsupported

This received no testing by OpenText. There may or may not be known
issues with this platform. Its use is not supported by OpenText Customer Support.

4.2 OpenText Product Compatibility

The section provides details about which versions of other OpenText
products are compatible with this release of AppWorks Gateway 16.

Note:

• For the latest compatibility information for OpenText
  products, that use AppWorks refer to the Compatibility Matrix
  (https://knowledge.opentext.com/go/matrix) on the OpenText
  Knowledge Center.

4.3 Language Support

AppWorks Gateway is currently localized in the following languages. Future releases may add additional languages.

• UI = User interface only
• B = Both user interface and online help
• P = Partial Localisation for Admin Interface

5 Installation, Upgrade, and Patch Notes

This section provides additional installation and upgrade information,
including related or third-party product information and any required
critical patches.

5.1 Installation Notes

Before you install AppWorks Gateway, review these additional installation notes and verify related product or third-party product requirements.

Note:

• Ensure you are running the supported versions of Tomcat, Java, and your preferred Database
• Apache TomEE is NOT a supported platform for this release
• OpenText recommends running AppWorks Gateway on a dedicated server
• If you are using MySQL as the target database, ensure you set the setting of max_allowed_packet_length to a suitable value ( e.g. 1024M)
• When using an external database you must add the relevant JDBC drivers to the AppWorks Tomcat lib folder.
• Ensure you allocate at least 4096 MB to the Tomcat Java Maximum memory pool option ( -Xmx4096m )
• As part of the AppWorks Gateway installation package we include a modified Tomcat server.xml so make sure you take a backup of your existing server.xml before install and add any customisations you have made to the server.xml from the AppWorks Gateway installation package
• AppWorks Gateway 16.2 and above requires the use of the 16.2 or above versions of the iOS and Android Mobile clients
• AppWorks 16.2 to 16.7 mobile clients are compatible with 16.6,16.5,16.4,16.3, 16.2 and 16.1 versions of AppWorks Gateway.
• For full Gateway 16.5.0 and above compatibility you need to use the 16.6.0 or above desktop and mobile clients
• For macOS Desktop Notarisation support , with macOS Catalina ,you must use the 16.7.0 clients
• AppWorks Desktop Clients only support systems that support AppWorks OAuth 2 authentication.
• Hybrid apps must include the app.properties entry of type=app, desktop to be installable in the desktop client
• When using the oAuth 2 or OTDS non oAuth 2 authentication flow in the Gateway please ensure that the Gateway's server URL is resolvable from clients running the mobile or desktop clients.
• If you need to change the database used by the AppWorks Gateway please contact OpenText Support to request an update of the opentext.properties file with your new required settings
• When using the Android clients with HTTPS all servers must use a certificate chain that is FULLY trusted by the Android System trust store otherwise https connection will fail
• It is not possible to change the configured OTDS server post setup and therefore a change in OTDS server requires a fresh install of AppWorks Gateway
• If you are using SAML 2.0 authentication ,via OTDS, make sure you do NOT proxy OTDS via the AppWorks Gateway and your SAML 2.0 IDP must be using forms based authentication.
• If you use Outgoing rules in the AppWorks Gateway Proxy there is a known issue (OTAG-9475) and the workaround is to add / to the root of the match path, so in the above example, the outgoing rule must be configured “/some/path”. Note, the default tenant name is OTAG, so if you're not running as a tenant (most likely scenario), the above example would be “/OTAG/some/path”

5.2 Upgrade Notes

Before you upgrade, review these instructions.

Note:

• Due to the changes in AppWorks 16 there is NO upgrade path from AppWorks 1.X to AppWorks 16.X

• There is no upgrade path from AppWorks 16 to 16.0.1 or 16.1 or 16.2 or 16.2.1 or 16.3.0 or 16.4.0 or 16.5.0 if your database used is the embedded Derby version. A fresh installation is required. Also note that the embedded OTDS and Derby options are deprecated in 16.7.0

• Upgrades from 16 to 16.01 or 16.1 or 16.2 or 16.2.1 or 16.3.0 or 16.4.0 or 16.5.0 with the other supported database platforms is supported

• If you are upgrading directly from 16.1.0 to 16.3.0 there is an issue that requires an upgrade from 16.1 to 16.2.1 first and then an upgrade to 16.3.0). This is fixed in version 16.3.1 and above.

• During Upgrade do not overwrite the opentext.properties file in Tomcat conf directory.

• When upgrading to AppWorks 16.7.0 ensure you replace the otag-tomcat-listener jar file in Tomcat lib directory with the one from the 16.7.0 release. There should only be one otag-tomcat-listener jar in the lib folder for 16.7.0.

• When upgrading to AppWorks 16.7.0 from 16.6.0 or 16.5.0 ensure you replace the otag-sdk-bus jar file in Tomcat lib directory with the one from the 16.7.0 release. There should only be one otag-sdk-bus jar in the lib folder for 16.7.0.

• When upgrading from AppWorks 16.x to 16.7.0 ensure you remove the entire gateway folder from Tomcat-Home before extracting the AppWorks 16.7.0 zip bundle into Tomcat-Home directory.

• In AppWorks 16.2 and above the two Notification related Database tables have been replaced by a new database table to improve performance. During the upgrade to AppWorks 16.2 or above the old data is not migrated to the new database but a migration process can be provided on request.

• On Linux systems do not use Tomcat installed via a package manager as the AppWorks Gateway Tomcat.

• All Services and components deployed must include the latest AppWorks SDK

• If you are using OTDS 16.4.3 or above and you are NOT carrying out a fresh install of AppWorks Gateway 16.7.0 make sure you add the resource principal of the Gateway resource to the administrators of the Gateway's OTDS partition ( See Install documentation for details)

Note:

• If you are using AppWorks Services you may need to uninstall all services when upgrading to AppWorks Gateway 16.7.0 and then reinstall them once you have completed the upgrade to 16.7.0, this doesn't apply to app only deployments.

5.3 Install Notes for AppWorks Gateway 16.6.0 Hot Fix 1 Only

1. Stop the instance of Tomcat running the AppWorks Gateway 16.6.0 instance

2. Download the 'AppWorks-gateway-16.6.0-hotfix-001.zip' from the downloads page on developer.opentext.com and unzip to the Tomcat home directory e.g. /usr/local/tomcat/

3. Ensure that 'otag-camel-http4-2.22.4.jar' is in the '/gateway/WEB-INF/lib/' directory

4. Delete 'camel-http4-2.22.4.jar' from '/gateway/WEB-INF/lib/' directory, taking a backup if you wish to do so.

5. Delete the old 'otag-sdk-bus-16.5.5.jar' from '/lib/' directory as the patch contains a new 'otag-sdk-bus-16.5.6.jar'

6. Restart Tomcat and check the logs for a clean startup

6 Fixed issues AppWorks Gateway 16.0.1

AppWorks Gateway 16.0.1 contains the following fixes and improvements

7 Fixed issues AppWorks Gateway 16.1

AppWorks Gateway 16.1 contains the following fixes and improvements

8 Fixed issues AppWorks Gateway 16.2.0

AppWorks Gateway 16.2.0 contains the following fixes and improvements

9 Fixed issues AppWorks Gateway 16.2.1

AppWorks Gateway 16.2.1 contains the following fixes

10 Fixed issues AppWorks Gateway 16.3.1

AppWorks Gateway 16.3.1 contains the following fixes

11 Fixed issues AppWorks iOS Mobile Client 16.3.1

AppWorks iOS Mobile Client 16.3.1 contains the following fixes

12 Fixed issues AppWorks Gateway 16.6.0

AppWorks Gateway 16.6.0 contains the following fixes

13Fixed issues AppWorks Gateway 16.6.0 Hot Fix 1

AppWorks Gateway 16.6.0 Hot Fix 1 contains the following fixes

14Fixed issues AppWorks Gateway 16.7.0

AppWorks Gateway 16.7.0 contains the following fixes

15 Known issues

16 Contact Information

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