UCS@school Kelvin REST API 1.10.2 documentation

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Changelog#

v1.10.2 (2024-10-07)#

  • Fixed: When restarting the OPA service, a crash was possible when the API is under high load (Bug #57000).

v1.10.1 (2024-07-25)#

  • Fixed a bug that would lead to misleading log messages when changing the password hashes of a user (Bug #56590).

  • Swagger UI dependencies are now served statically instead of using CDNs (Bug #56314).

v1.10.0 (2024-03-05)#

  • Changed: The API base url, for example the portal link, now redirects to the OpenAPI docs page (Bug #55556).

  • Fix: The HEAD endpoint for schools could return an outdated result due to a caching issue (Issue #108).

  • Fix: The GET endpoint for schools does now return “None” for non-existing file servers instead of raising an error (Issue #137).

v1.9.0 (2023-10-17)#

  • The hostname for objects in the Kelvin API is no longer case sensitive (Bug #54305).

  • The UCS@school Kelvin REST API UCS@school app can now only be installed if the UCS@school app is locally installed. (Bug #54333).

  • Fixed a cache issue where a correct object URL could still lead to a 404 response (Bug #56699).

  • Disable OPA telemetry (Bug #56193).

v1.8.10 (2023-08-24)#

  • Re-enable username validation checks for creation and modification of users (Issue #98).

  • Remove all old school groups from user when removed from a school (Bug #56121).

  • Automatically add all school groups to user when added to a school (Bug #56121).

  • The UCR-V ucsschool/validation/username/windows-check is used during username validation (Bug #56152)

v1.8.9 (2023-05-19)#

  • Fix group membership when removing admins from schools (Bug #55986).

  • Update upstream dependencies to fix security vulnerability (Bug #56097).

v1.8.8 (2023-05-04)#

  • Validate usernames to avoid Windows reserved names (Bug #53519).

  • Return HTTP 404 for non existing roles, instead of 422 (Issue #83).

v1.8.7 (2023-03-30)#

  • Prevent logging of sensitive information, such as passwords, in the OPA log (Issue #71).

v1.8.6 (2023-03-07)#

  • Fix error in udm_properties check for school classes (Issue #72).

  • The script update_openapi_client no longer fails due to multiple jar-files (Issue id-broker-plugin#17).

  • UCS@school lib hooks were not called when the UCS@school Kelvin REST API was called. This has been fixed (Issue #61).

v1.8.5 (2023-02-22)#

  • Fix h11._util.LocalProtocolError: Can't send data when our state is ERROR traceback (Bug #55730).

  • General performance improvements, with focus on object existence, searches and user creation (Issue #56).

  • Upgrade to Python 3.11 (Issue #56).

v1.8.4 (2023-02-16)#

  • Security fix in login (Issue #64).

v1.8.3 (2023-01-16)#

  • Unhandled exceptions are logged (Bug #55114).

  • Move operations succeed, when a language header is set.

v1.8.2 (2022-12-20)#

  • Speed up validation when creating or changing users (Bug #55384).

  • Use the LDAP client library uldap3 instead of a custom implementation to get better support and improved performance during direct LDAP calls (Issue #50).

v1.8.1 (2022-12-07)#

  • Compare OU names case insensitive (Bug #55472).

  • Calculate group names using OU names from LDAP (Bug #55456).

  • Fixed: Setting UCS@school roles with context type school in PATCH led to inconsistent UCS@school Users (Issue #47).

v1.8.0 (2022-11-11)#

  • Add support for arbitrary context types for users (Bug #55355).

  • Added a configuration option to enable the evaluation of password policies when creating UCS@school users (Bug #55408).

  • Internal: Added option to check password policies when creating or modifying users (Bug #55393).

  • Added the possibility to send an Accept-Language header with each request.

  • All forwarded UDM errors are now structured the same way as FastAPI validation errors (Issue #30).

  • Fixed handling of role strings attribute if schools attribute is empty.

v1.7.0 (2022-07-18)#

  • Breaking change for UCS@school Kelvin REST API clients below ``1.7.0``: Add work group support in user resource (Bug #54891).

  • Allow the creation of school classes without share (Bug #54875).

  • Add a correlation ID to the headers of requests and responses. Write the ID to the log (Issue #25).

  • App Center scripts were added to keep the state of UCR variables, which are set manually inside the docker container (Bug #54959).

  • The request time is now added to the log file (Issue #28).

  • Validation errors are logged as warnings to make filtering the log easier (Issue #895).

  • Add HEAD /schools/{school_name} endpoint (Issue #24).

  • Allow mapping UDM properties to work groups (Bug #55259).

  • The multipart library output is not logged anymore (at DEBUG level), when retrieving a token (Issue #27).

v1.6.0 (2022-08-24)#

  • Security Issue: An error causing group shares to be created with wrong permissions has been fixed. The permissions of existing shares will be fixed during the joinscript (Bug #55103).

  • Creating schools with OU names including underscores is now allowed, if the DC name is passed, too (Bug #55125).

v1.5.6 (2022-06-30)#

  • Remove create_share from school class objects to avoid conflicts with older Kelvin client versions (Bug #54916).

v1.5.5 (2022-06-23)#

  • Add work group resource (Bug #54876).

  • Allow the creation of school classes without share (Bug #54875).

  • Entering an invalid school URL does result in HTTP error-code 422 instead of 500 (Bug #52895).

  • Enable log rotation of the Open Policy Agent (Bug #54247).

  • The validation was adapted to prevent invalid school names in multi-server environments (Bug #54793).

  • An error has been fixed, which was raised by invalid UCS@school roles during the validation (Bug #54653).

  • Improve date validation error messages (Bug #54812).

  • Added documentation for the classes resource (Bug #52734).

  • Updated descriptions of variables in the Swagger UI to fit the expected values and added JSON Examples to descriptions where needed (Bug #54739).

v1.5.4 (2022-04-27)#

  • The valid date range is now specified (Bug #54668).

  • A new App Setting was added to configure the amount CPU cores utilized by the UCS@school Kelvin REST API (Bug #54575).

  • It is now possible to define multiple schools for users via PATCH and PUT requests (Bug #54481, Bug #54690).

v1.5.3 (2022-02-08)#

  • Fixed token requests with authorized user and wrong password leading to HTTP 500 (Bug #54431).

  • The user get route now uses the correct filter when searching for UDM mapped properties (Bug #54474).

v1.5.2 (2022-01-07)#

  • The Kelvin API can now be installed on servers with the role DC Primary and DC Backup (Bug #54310).

v1.5.1 (2021-11-30)#

  • The Open Policy Agent component was added to components documentation (Bug #53960).

  • The log output of the Open Policy Agent is now written to /var/log/univention/ucsschool-kelvin-rest-api/opa.log (Bug #53961).

  • The test suite for the ucsschool.lib component was improved (Bug #53962).

  • Username generation counter can now be raised above 100 (Bug #53987).

  • The no_proxy environment variable is now honored by the Kelvin REST API when accessing the UDM REST API (Bug #54066).

  • The user resource now has an expiration_date attribute, which can be used to set the account expiration date. A user won’t be able to login from that date on (Bug #54126).

v1.5.0 (2021-09-10)#

  • Unix homes are now set correctly for users. (Bug #52926)

  • The Kelvin API now supports udm properties on all Kelvin resources except roles. (Bug #53744)

v1.4.4 (2021-06-29)#

  • The Kelvin API now supports UDM REST APIs using certificates, which are not signed by the UCS-CA. (Bug #52766)

  • The UCS@school object validation now validate groups, schools and roles case-insensitive. (Bug #53044)

v1.4.3 (2021-06-16)#

  • A security error was fixed, that allowed the unrestricted use of the Kelvin API with unsigned authentication tokens. Please update as fast as possible (Bug #53454)!

v1.4.2 (2021-05-26)#

v1.4.1 (2021-05-03)#

  • No error message is logged anymore after the deletion of an object (Bug #52896).

  • Repeated restarts of the Kelvin server have been fixed.

v1.4.0 (2021-04-20)#

  • The FastAPI framework has been updated to version 0.63.0.

  • Open Policy Agent was added for access control and implemented partially for the user resource.

  • The Kelvin API now supports creating schools.

v1.3.0 (2021-02-18)#

  • It is now possible to change the roles of users. See manual section Changing a users roles for details (Bug #52659).

  • Validation errors when reading malformed user objects from LDAP now produce more helpful error messages (Bug #52368).

  • UCS@school user and group objects are now validated before usage, when loading them from LDAP. See manual sections Resources and Backup count of validation logging for details (Bug #52309).

  • A bug setting the properties profilepath and sambahome to empty values when creating users has been fixed (Bug #52668).

v1.2.0 (2020-11-12)#

  • Improve user resource search speed: find all matching users with one lookup (Bug #51813).

  • Add fallback for retrieving LDAP connection settings from UCR if environment variables are not available (Bug #51154).

  • Add attribute kelvin_password_hashes to user resource. It allows overwriting the password hashes in the UCS LDAP with the ones delivered. Use only if you know what you’re doing!

v1.1.2 (2020-08-11)#

  • The OpenAPI schema of the UDM REST API has been restricted to authenticated users. The Kelvin API now uses the updated update_openapi_script, passing credentials to update the OpenAPI client library (Bug #51072).

  • The school class resource has been modified to accept class name containing only one character (Bug #51363).

  • Setting and changing the password attribute has been fixed (Bug #51285).

  • The UCS CA is now registered in the HTTP client certification verification backend to prevent SSL certification errors when communicating with the UDM REST API on the Docker host (Bug #51510).

  • The school_admin role is now supported (Bug #51509).

  • Update Docker image base to Alpine 3.12, updating Python to 3.8 (Bug #51768).

v1.1.1 (2020-06-15)#

  • The validation of the name attribute of the SchoolClass resource has been fixed to allow short class names like 1.

  • The password attribute of the User resource has been fixed.

  • The signatures of the UserPyHook methods have been adapted to be able to await asynchronous methods.

  • The UCS CA is now added to the certifi SSL certification store.

  • Support for the school_admin role was added.

v1.1.0 (2020-04-15)#

  • The UDM REST API Python Client library has been updated to version 0.4.0, so it can handle authorized access to the UDM REST API OpenAPI schema.

v1.0.1 (2020-02-17)#

  • The ucsschool lib has been extended to allow for context types other than school in ucsschool_roles attribute of most resources.

v1.0.0 (2020-01-20)#

  • Initial release.

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