The wizards for users, classes and computers now offer object creation again if no object exists yet (Bug 46826)

The radius server identity is not case sensitive anymore. This fixes problems with Windows clients that send their identity in upper case while the computers identity is stored in lower case on the UCS@school radius server (Bug 45684).

A database locking error is now avoided (Bug 46778).

The processing speed of the listener module ucs-school-user-logonscripts.py has been improved (Bug 45802).

The global user import configuration (/usr/share/ucs-school-import/configs/user_import_defaults.json) does not contain any scheme anymore. Its existence was preventing the creation of users without email address. If your configuration was using the default email or username scheme, then it must now be recreated in /var/lib/ucs-school-import/configs/user_import.json. If the input CSV does not supply an email address or username and no scheme is given, new users will not have an email address (or fail to be created without a username) (Bug 45972). The original configuration was:

"scheme": {
  "email": "<firstname>[0].<lastname>@<maildomain>",
  "recordUID": "<email>",
  "username": {
    "default": "<:umlauts><firstname>[0].<lastname><:lower>[COUNTER2]"
  }
}

Within the CLI import the handling of email addresses has been altered: the user import now allows the removal of email addresses. To do so, within the import configuration (json file) a CSV column must be mapped to the email property. To remove the mail address, in the CSV file the fields entry of the email column must be empty. Please note that an email address will only be generated from a configured scheme, when no CSV column for email addresses exist in the CSV file or no column is mapped (Bug 46317).

The internal handling of python hooks for the import process has been improved: syntax and consistency checks are now done after running the pre_create / pre_modify / pre_move hooks (Bug 46317).

Generated passwords of newly created users are now better readable. E.g. similar looking characters are now avoided (Bug 45640).

An internal improvement has been made to give python hooks more flexibility: if available, the responsible line of the CSV file is now attached to an ImportUser object that is about to be deleted (Bug 46384).

User property verification checks are executed in dry-run again (Bug 46571).

A dependency solver was introduced, that will sort the order of autogeneration of attributes from schemes so that they can depend on each other (Bug 46754)

The command line user import now stores the summary CSV files in separate folders for year and month (/var/lib/ucs-school-import/summary/YEAR/MONTH) (Bug 46800).

German translation improved (Bug 46840)

A traceback in the test tool ucs-school-testuser-import has been fixed (Bug 46857).

Passwords for new users are now better readable. They do not contain characters that are difficult to distinguish (like 'I' and 'l' or 'O' and '0') anymore. The number of special characters has been limited to below 20% of the password length and passwords always start with a letter. The Microsoft requirement that passwords contain characters from at least three character classes is met (Bug 45640).

A potential bug when creating new school OUs has been fixed (Bug 46194).

The listing of user objects is not prevented anymore, if a malformed object exists (Bug 46130).

A DC-Slave can now read which GPOs are applied at other schools. This is needed to apply the right GPOs for users which can login at multiple schools (Bug 45992).