Release notes

• Multiple Catalog collection configurations: Configure more than one collection for the same Catalog fact type, each with its own entity filter, schedule, and cache settings.

• Fixed BigQuery fact collection so entity names and references match catalog entities regardless of letter case.
• Fixed editing an integration's configuration attaching a saved credential to the wrong entry or URL, or silently dropping it. Changing an integration's URL now requires re-entering its credential.
• Fixed the System filter on entity tables so it matches the same entities as campaigns and tracks filtered by System.
• Fixed long owner names being unreadable in filter dropdowns; long names are now truncated with the full name shown on hover.
• Fixed check details scrolling out of view when selecting a check further down a component's Soundcheck tab.
• Fixed the Spotify Templates track toggles to use standard styling, including for already-installed tracks.
• Fixed license and TypeScript errors in the Soundcheck API client.

• Improved the performance and reliability of catalog scans on large catalogs. The track entities table now sorts by name by default.
• Improved certification status history load time for large tracks on PostgreSQL.
• Improved backend startup time.
• Updated the BigQuery client library to v9.
• Clarified in the API docs that submitted facts are only stored when the cache setting is included.
• Clarified the track entities endpoint API docs, which now also accept the not_reported and no_applicable_checks status filters.

• Insights actions: Insights actions are now available in the actions registry. Documentation can be found here
• Performance: Usage dashboards should load up to 20% faster.
• Origin filter: The Usage tab now shows an Origin filter when multiple origins are detected.

• The user group filter now shows group display names instead of raw entity refs. Truncated names show in full on hover.

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• RBAC actions: RBAC actions are now available in the actions registry. Documentation can be found here

• Export integration configurations: Download an integration's configuration as YAML directly from its details page.
• Check entity API: Retrieve a paginated list of entities applicable to a check, including each entity's result state. Results can be scoped to a track or filtered by result state.
• Resolve SCM facts from each entity's own catalog file: SCM fact extractors can now use $origin-filename in their path configuration. Soundcheck replaces the token with the current entity's catalog descriptor filename, ensuring facts are read from the correct file when a repository contains multiple components. This was initially developed to support VLOP campaigns, but it is available to anyone using the SCM collector, particularly teams with multiple catalog descriptor files in one repository.

• Fixed arrow keys changing the selected schedule frequency instead of moving the cursor within frequency fields.
• Fixed conditional permission policies incorrectly denying access to external checks, including when updating or deleting them.
• Fixed campaign status cards counting entities with unreported check results as failures.

• Improved Tech Insights page loading performance by reducing repeated data retrieval and reusing entity-count results for longer.
• Track and check entity tables and CSV exports now show human-readable owner names. Entities with multiple owners show their primary owner.

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• Health page: The Soundcheck health page is now available to all users. The health page shows admins the operational health of their Soundcheck instance, surfacing configuration issues and problems that could affect check accuracy. Soundcheck Health Docs

• Fixed CSV entity export being truncated to 25 rows instead of the intended limit.
• Fixed owner relation expansion for check-level filters on track pages and certification.
• Fixed HTTP 414 errors when track owner filters expand to many groups.
• Fixed entity table sorting so column direction changes are applied consistently.
• Fixed the API client rejecting requests when filtering by multiple track, check, or campaign ids.
• Fixed checks with ownership-based filters remaining permanently in "Not Reported" state when filterCheckExecutionApplicability is enabled.
• Fixed custom medal badges displaying the wrong certified level.
• Fixed collector task scheduling where one collector's ID being a prefix of another's caused incorrect task cancellation.
• Fixed JSONPath resolver crashing on null or undefined intermediate properties in filter expressions.
• Fixed systems missing from Tech Insights statistics when an owner group has parents on different hierarchy branches.

• Removed deprecated filter format: The { catalog: ... } filter format is no longer supported. Configs still using it will now fail validation with a descriptive error message. Replace { catalog: { kind: "Component" } } with { kind: "Component" }.
• Added support for collecting owner entity descriptor facts independently. The catalog collector now accepts an array of collector configurations, enabling each fact type to be configured separately with its own schedule, filters, and cache settings.
• Creating or updating a track or check now surfaces a warning if the owner entity does not exist in the Backstage catalog.
• The checks API now supports filtering by check ids, consistent with tracks and campaigns.
• Check result notes are now visible in the state icon tooltip on the Check Insights page.
• Improved Track Insights load time for tracks with many checks.
• Improved GitHub rate limit handling and caching in the SCM collector.

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• Slack notifications are deprecated in favor of Backstage notifications. To keep Slack as a delivery channel, use @backstage/plugin-notifications-backend-module-slack to forward Backstage notifications to Slack.

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• CSV export: Export entity lists from Check, Track, and Campaign pages as CSV. Exports respect active filters, so you download exactly what you see on screen.
• Code Search extractor: New code-search extractor type for the SCM fact collector that uses GitHub's Code Search API to find code patterns across repositories.
• HTTP rate limiting: Per-collection rate limiting configuration for the HTTP fact collector, giving operators fine-grained control over request throughput.
• Kubernetes subresource support: Collect items in the Kubernetes fact collector can now specify a subresource field (e.g., status, scale, log) to fetch per-resource subresource endpoints.
• Exemption revoke & restore: Revoke and restore exemptions from the UI with a unified exemptions table, permission-gated actions, and a revoked-state guard when creating exemptions.
• Delete check history: New option to delete historical check results when deleting or updating a check, available across GraphQL, REST, OpenAPI, and MCP endpoints. The UI shows an "Also delete check result history" checkbox.
• Configure mode: YAML-sourced checks, tracks, and campaigns can now be edited using UI form tooling and exported as YAML without persisting changes to the database.
• REST API client: Full Soundcheck REST API client exposed for external consumers via createSoundcheckApiClient, covering checks, tracks, campaigns, fact collectors, exemptions, results, and facts.
• New MCP actions: List check entities with state/owner/kind/lifecycle filters; update and delete external checks; revoke, restore, and list revoked exemptions.

• Fixed recertification task failing entirely when a single entity is no longer in the catalog.
• Fixed check filtering by owner returning incorrect results.
• Fixed Campaign creation page incorrectly redirecting to the Campaigns list.
• Fixed list-check-entities MCP action ignoring applicableEntityKinds when a states filter is provided.
• Fixed entity tables showing unfiltered results when owner filters conflict.
• Fixed track compliance showing a bare % instead of 0% when status data has not loaded.
• Fixed stale certifications persisting in the database when an entity's spec.type changes and no longer matches a track's filter.
• Fixed long check names overflowing the confirmation dialog.
• Fixed HTTP 431 errors when ownership filters expand to many groups, by switching catalog queries to POST-based predicate filters.
• Fixed rate-limit errors being swallowed by the worker's catch-all, preventing queue-level backoff from engaging.
• Fixed campaign-type tracks accepted by the update-track MCP action: they now return a clear error pointing to update-campaign.
• Fixed read-only MCP actions incorrectly marked as destructive.
• Fixed .git suffix handling and qualifier injection with spaces in SCM collector repository URL parsing.
• Removed broken "Show Tracks With No Applicable Checks" toggle that referenced a nonexistent enum value.
• Fixed check and manual-check-update permissions missing resource references, enabling conditional RBAC policies like restricting edits to check or entity owners.

• Track level pass rates now display cumulatively, showing total entities that passed each level rather than only those whose highest level is that level. This can be toggled between cumulative and incremental views.
• Replaced all @material-ui/icons with @remixicon/react equivalents for visual consistency with the BUI migration.
• Internationalization (i18n) support added across all major UI components: Cards, EmptyState, Badges, Fix buttons, Import/Export, CheckForm, CheckPage, Filters, GroupSelector, OverviewTable, OverviewPage, and all collector configurator fact-details components.
• Track owner label on the Track Overview page changed from a clickable pill to plain text with icon, distinguishing it from filter controls.
• Notifications now display human-readable group names.
• Improved pagination performance for check and track entity resolvers.
• Track tabs on the entity certifications page are now hidden when all checks are not applicable, controlled by the existing "Show Not Applicable Checks" toggle.
• URL-based pagination for check and track entity tables.
• Tracks and campaigns now surface a distinct "No Applicable Checks" certification state when an entity has no applicable checks.
• New fact.collection.rate_limited counter metric with collectorId label, emitted when a collector hits a 429 response.
• status_code label added to MCP action invocation metrics, distinguishing client errors from server errors.

• Added support for filtering usage data by origin.
• Introduced an extensible insights tracer for instrumenting agentic events. Installation instructions can be found here: https://backstage.spotify.com/docs/plugins/insights/setup-and-installation#agentic-event-capture-installation-optional
• Exported common types and utilities for instrumenting agentic events.

• Improved accessibility of usage page dashboards.
• Fixed Users dashboard trend chart to display active user count instead of event count.
• Fixed incorrect unit labels in the Explore usage table — value columns now display event counts instead of the grouping dimension name.
• Fixed an error within the usage filters when selecting the same day as the start and end dates.

• Improved visual design across usage dashboards including visualizations for agentic usage. Details on how to interpret agentic usage can be found here: https://backstage.spotify.com/docs/plugins/insights/core-concepts/usage-data

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• Import-with-update flow: When importing YAML for tracks, checks, or campaigns, a diff dialog now shows side-by-side comparison of current vs. incoming versions, allowing selective updates instead of silently skipping duplicates.
• Check error visibility: Checks with collector errors now retain their previous state but display a warning indicator and structured error details. Includes a new "Has Errors" filter on the check entities page.
• Badge customization in No-Code UI: Badge color and custom SVG configuration added to the track builder for track and per-level medal badges.
• Exemptions REST API: New GET /exemptions endpoint to query exemptions by check or track, with pagination. New endpoints to revoke and restore exemptions.
• Configurable Jira annotation key: Jira fact collector now supports a custom entity annotation for JQL queries instead of the default.
• Configurable request body size limit: New soundcheck.requestSizeLimit config option (defaults to 10MB).
• ETag caching for HTTP fact collector: HTTP collector now supports ETag-based caching.
• Track MCP actions accept names/descriptions: Track-related MCP actions now accept track names and descriptions as alternatives to track IDs.
• CSV export for exemptions: Exemptions on the Check Page can now be exported as CSV.

• Fixed campaign chart y-axis missing percentage unit and time-window picker disappearing when selected range has no data.
• Fixed historical status charts displaying UTC dates instead of local timezone on Track, Check, and Campaign overview charts.
• Fixed track overview chart not using custom badge colors configured on track levels.
• Fixed compliance percentage showing 100% for imperfect pass rates.
• Fixed certification tab names not truncating for long names; badges no longer appear distorted.
• Fixed session expiry showing raw GraphQL error text instead of a friendly "session expired" message.
• Fixed check entity filter merging silently dropping conflicting filters instead of rejecting them.
• Fixed case-sensitive filter matching causing check detail pages to show 0 entities when accessed from a campaign.
• Fixed owner/org filter returning all entities instead of empty results when the selected owner doesn't exist.
• Fixed daily deleted entity cleanup task skipping chunks where all 50 entity refs had been removed from the catalog.
• Fixed sensitive fact values always showing as REDACTED even when dangerouslyAllowSensitiveFactReads is enabled and RBAC permits access.
• Fixed User entity ownedBy filters not matching memberOf relations, so User-targeted tracks now appear correctly in Tech Insights.
• Fixed DELETE check results endpoint missing permission check; now requires soundcheck.check.delete permission.
• Fixed Add/Remove Exemption buttons not being hidden when the user lacks the required RBAC permission.
• Fixed Tech Insights Explorer parent group entity count not including directly-owned entities.
• Fixed ScmConfigurator form expand/collapse behavior.
• Fixed collector config sections appearing empty; facts now default to expanded with an Expand All / Collapse All button.
• Fixed collector config drift detection repeatedly rescheduling identical tasks when the collector normalizes config.
• Fixed Check Insights rows not reordering when a state filter is active.
• Fixed Azure DevOps work items returning 400 error when a WIQL query matches more than 20,000 work items.
• Fixed Azure DevOps branch policies crashing when API returns policy items without a type field.
• Fixed BigQuery credentials validation silently accepting credentials missing required fields.
• Fixed Kubernetes collector returning 403 on GKE clusters when using scoped RBAC instead of broad container.viewer IAM role.
• Fixed out-of-box check JSONPath expressions using non-standard === instead of RFC 9535-compliant ==.

• Cache get/set/delete operations now wrapped in OpenTelemetry spans for tracing.
• Externalized hardcoded strings in Certifications, Collectors, and Configurator components for internationalization support.
• Increased check stats backfill concurrency to speed up processing.
• Updated liquidjs and pinned tech-insights dependency versions.

• Usage dashboards now load up to 10x faster.

• Removed experimental features, experimental extension points and types not in active use.

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• Added MCP actions: list-integration-facts, list-integrations.
• Added permission gating to all read-only MCP actions.
• MCP actions that accept a check ID now also accept a check name to make actions more natural for conversational use.
• All 45 MCP action responses now include a url field pointing to the relevant Backstage page.
• Added Campaign endpoints to the OpenAPI router.
• Added Create Exemption and Get Exemptions endpoints to the OpenAPI router.
• Added Certification endpoints to the OpenAPI router.
• Added Fact Collection endpoint to the OpenAPI router for on-demand fact collection.
• Moved Check Result Details endpoints to the OpenAPI router.
• Moved certify_world endpoint to the OpenAPI router.
• Check creation API endpoint now supports manual, rule-based, and external checks.
• Added validateChecks, validateTracks, validateCampaigns helpers for offline YAML validation in CI.
• Added collector config schema exports from all backend modules for offline YAML validation in CI.
• Added notification allowlist configuration for selectively controlling which checks/tracks/campaigns trigger notifications.

• Fixed campaign status filter not updating Checks tab, Current Status card, and Historical Status card counts.
• Fixed Check Historical Status state filter returning inflated entity counts.
• Fixed filtering check statuses by state not reflecting the total number of applicable entities.
• Fixed Current/Historical Status panels showing zero counts with multiple filters from the same facet.
• Fixed Current Status panel showing zero counts when filtering by Not Applicable state.
• Fixed group selector showing incorrect entity count for "directly owns".
• Fixed track-scoped check pages dropping the check's own applicability filter.
• Fixed disabling an applicability rule on a check not persisting after saving.
• Fixed Set Status button missing for manual YAML checks without a rule field.
• Fixed NCUI form validation rejecting YAML-defined checks without a description.
• Fixed get-check-history to support external checks.
• Fixed orphan checks (submitted without a YAML/UI definition) causing errors in MCP tools.
• Fixed exported track YAML dropping custom badge color/svg fields during export.
• Fixed DOM error when clicking Justification textbox in Set Check Status dialog.
• Fixed history entries not being added to the browser when URL search parameters change.
• Fixed Track Insights showing duplicated level labels.
• Fixed EntityFilter in OpenAPI Schema to support both object and array.
• Fixed POST /checks/execute to support dryRun as string instead of boolean.
• Fixed Soundcheck entity page extensions (content tab, card, group overview) not being overridable in the new Backstage frontend system by removing explicit type annotations that hid their config schemas.
• Fixed in-memory catalog entity generator quitting early due to transient errors.
• Fixed get-rolled-up-tech-insights MCP action timing out on large tenants.
• Fixed MCP actions leaking raw server errors to AI clients on failure.

• Migrated Entity Soundcheck Tab to Backstage UI.
• Updated Current Status card with separate count/percentage columns.
• Improved Check Historical Status chart — fixed Y-axis, added human-readable labels and detailed tooltips.
• Updated Campaign Historical Status Chart to match Track Historical Status Chart functionality.
• Allow filtering of Check Entities by Not Reported status.
• Added warning on Track/Check/Campaign pages when they are dual-defined in YAML and NCUI.
• Added badge to Track/Check/Campaign list pages when they are dual-defined in YAML and NCUI.
• Invalid Liquid templates in check messages now surface a warning on the Check Detail page.
• Hardened error handling in MCP create/update/configure actions to surface human-readable messages.
• Allow tracks with empty levels to load instead of failing validation - surface a "No checks" warning badge.
• Prevent check deletion if it's associated with a track.
• Deprecated legacy campaign notification system.
• Deprecated legacy filter format with warnings.
• Added TTL to the in-memory L1 cache to prevent stale entity counts when L2 cache refresh fails.
• Added preserveStateOnError option to the POST /results API that prevents error results from overriding existing non-error states.
• Added catalog fallback for CatalogIndexer cache misses so newly registered entities are found between rebuilds.

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• UI migrated to standard Backstage UI components.

• Added an "Export Data" button to hack event pages that allows organizers to download an Excel file of all hacks, organized by category.
• Added a "See all" dialog to the hack followers section, allowing users to view the full list of followers when there are more than five.
• Added category filter to the hack metrics page.
• Added an info alert nudging hack creators to select a category when one is available but none is selected.
• Added search-hack-projects MCP action for searching hack projects with flexible filtering by free text, status, event, tags, skills, location, and member.

• Adjusted default visible filter counts on the Hacks page sidebar.
• Slack notifications are deprecated in favor of Backstage notifications. To keep Slack as a delivery channel, use @backstage/plugin-notifications-backend-module-slack to forward Backstage notifications to Slack.

• Added Soundcheck MCP actions.
• Added Track, Check, and Fact Collector CRUD API endpoints to Soundcheck API with OpenAPI spec.
• Added support for defining campaigns in YAML config as tracks with type: campaign.
• Added ability to export campaigns to YAML.
• Added XML file type support to SCM fact collector with JSONPath extraction.
• Added support for multiple remote config URLs in SCM collector.
• Added job queue monitoring surfacing stale workers, paused queues, and rate-limited queues.
• Added visibility indicator when both UI and YAML collector configs exist.

• Fixed check/track YAML config validation failures preventing startup; errors now surfaced at query time.
• Fixed archiving campaigns when using the new front-end system.
• Fixed ordering of owner names in the owners filter.
• Fix Check, Track, Campaign owner search when multiple owners are selected.
• Fixed campaign entities resolver not applying track/check exclude filters.
• Fixed table result rows for right-click and open-in-new-tab support.
• Fixed not being able to remove external checks on tracks in the UI.
• Fixed gzip causing potential high event loop lag.
• Added validation for check owner field to verify if the value is a valid entity reference.

• Migrated tracks from the legacy normalized programs table into a JSON blob tracks table. Schema validated via Zod; old tables preserved for rollback.
• Refactored milestones and added to the Track JSON blob. Milestone table preserved for rollback.
• Refactored campaigns so campaign data exists within the Track JSON blob. Old tables preserved.
• Batched certification writes and improved error handling.
• Improved messaging with recertification when history is disabled.
• Migrated to latest Backstage UI tokens (requires @backstage/ui >= 0.13).
• Removed unhelpful error when 0 notifications sent for a campaign reminder.
• Updated campaigns GraphQL endpoint to deprecate/remove backend pagination and filtering inputs.
• Migrated API routes for Checks to the OpenAPI router.
• Improved visibility of task failures.
• Migrated Navigation and Overview components to i18n keys.
• Migrated TrackForm, TrackCreatePage, and TrackEditPage to i18n keys.
• Migrated Soundcheck card on Entity page to Backstage UI.

• Update licensing check to utilize CacheService.

• Update licensing check to utilize CacheService.

• Added Pairwise Comparison Voting for hack events. Event organizers can now create pairwise judging sessions where participants compare hacks side-by-side to determine rankings. The system uses the Crowd-BT algorithm to produce statistically rigorous results from individual comparisons, requiring fewer total judgments than traditional voting. Enable with the skillExchange.enablePairwiseVoting configuration flag.

• Newer hack events now appear first when selecting an event while creating or editing a hack post.
• Category filters in the hacks sidebar now update based on the selected event, showing only relevant categories.

• All plugins now leverage native Backstage UI headers as introduced in Backstage v1.49.0. If you are using the New Frontend System, it’s important to update Backstage and the Spotify Plugins at the same time, in order to prevent duplicated or missing page headers.

• Expanded campaign reminder notification templates: Custom notification titles and descriptions now support Liquid template variables (e.g. {{ campaign.name }}, {{ ownerEntityRef }}) and markdown-style hyperlinks.
• Added UI configuration for custom fact collectors: Customers can now configure custom fact collectors directly from the UI without editing YAML.
• Added matchAll mode to the SCM regex fact collector : When enabled, finds all occurrences of a pattern in a file and returns { matchCount, matches[] }. The NCUI gains a corresponding "Match All Mode" option (mutually exclusive with Capture Groups mode).
• Added check conflict detection : Soundcheck now detects and surfaces a warning when a check is defined in both YAML and the NCUI, and provides remediation guidance.
• Added owner and status filters to list pages : Owner and status filters are now available on the Track, Campaign, and Check List pages.
• Added Entity Kind filter to Insights pages : Track and Check Insights pages now support filtering by entity kind.
• Added "Not Applicable" count to the Checks page : The Current Status panel now includes a "Not Applicable" count.
• Added copy-to-clipboard buttons : Now available in the fact explorer, check dry run, and YAML preview.
• Added job queue status to the integrations page : Collectors now display job queue status in the integrations view.
• Added UI support for SCM cacheFullResultsForEtags : This setting can now be configured from the integrations page without editing YAML.

• Fixed notifications being sent for draft campaigns
• Fixed owner field showing entity ID instead of display name on the Track page
• Fixed PagerDuty schedule display in integrations
• Fixed custom number of days filter on the Historical Status chart
• Fixed campaign notification text for campaigns past their target date
• Fixed checker updates failing to propagate filter and metadata changes to dependent tracks
• Fixed check selection dropdown to keep selected checks visible
• Fixed incorrect titles appearing on page load — Names are now dynamically loaded from the catalog entity.
• Fixed check and track filters not applying to the entity table by default
• Fixed "Fix With Fleetshift" column display condition in the Checks Table
• Fixed SCM fact collector using wrong annotation for file lookups — Now correctly uses backstage.io/source-location instead of view-url when both annotations point to different repositories.
• Fixed custom badge colors from track YAML not applying in the frontend
• Fixed an issue where a bad configuration could cause some integration collections to fail.
• Fixed a bug that could cause the SCM collector to fail to collect scheduled tasks.
• Fixed intermittent 500 errors.
• Fixed GroupHierarchyService to self-heal after initial refresh failure.

• Improved Soundcheck's group selector UI
• Changed default table page size to 20 results per page
• Hid the documentation info icons for custom fact collectors without a documentation page

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• The policy-mutate audit event now contains policy diff metadata (roleChanges, targetPrincipals, selfElevation, nameChanged, optionsChanged).

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• Launched Spotify Track Templates - ready-to-use tracks designed to make onboarding fast and easy. Spotify Track Templates automatically create tracks, checks, and required integration configuration, so teams can start getting value from Soundcheck with minimal setup. Creating tracks using Spotify Templates
• Added Event Queue Metrics Logging. Soundcheck can now be configured to log event queue metrics, offering greater visibility into backend job processing and overall system performance. Job Queue Statistics

• Fixed an issue where applying a filter on the Check and Track Insights pages could display data for all catalog entities rather than the filtered selection.
• Fixed Soundcheck track overview filtering for multiple selected owners.
• Fixed an issue where results could be cleared when modifying the filter of a check.
• Fixed an issue where check exemptions and stored check results could get out of sync.
• Fixed an issue that could display entity references instead of names in Soundcheck tables.
• Dropdowns in Soundcheck no longer auto select values when hovered over and not clicked.
• Fixed an issue where the fact explorer could show an empty fact if fact collection failed.
• Fixed an issue where the SCM fact collector would incorrectly use the backstage.io/view-url annotation to resolve the entity's source location when it pointed to a non-SCM URL (e.g., S3).
• Fixed an issue where, in certain scenarios, the "Configure" button was incorrectly disabled for integrations with a custom No-Code UI.
• Fixed an issue where the SonarQube integration displayed an error in the UI after clicking "Configure".
• Fixes worker pool concurrency issues, race conditions, and memory leaks to improve reliability and performance.

• Removed the addStartingConfigurations flag, which allowed the installation of initial configurations for Soundcheck checks, tracks, and integrations.
• Added an optional metadataAnnotations argument to the request body of the /campaigns/entities endpoint.

• Insights filters (facets, date range, and dates) when applied will now also be saved in URL query parameters. Users can share filtered views via URL and maintain filter state when navigating between segments.

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This plugin was not updated in this release.

• Introduced an optional CacheWarmingService that pre-warms long-running values used by Tech Insights (TI) and Tech Insights Explorer (TIE), helping improve page load times for large organizations or those with complex group structures. This feature is fully opt-in—if no configuration is provided, Soundcheck behavior remains unchanged. Performance Tuning Documentation
• Improved UI navigation for the Soundcheck Integrations (fact collectors). Users will now be able to collapse multiple fact-collection configurations in the SCM fact collectors, making finding and navigating these facts much easier.

• Fixed an issue where updating manual checks would clear existing results. Non-functional changes, such as renaming a check or updating its description, will no longer remove saved results.
• Fixed a case where broken cache provider connections could cause some pages to load indefinitely. Cache operations now respect the configurable soundcheck.cache.timeoutMs setting (default: 5000 ms) and will fall back to recomputing values if the timeout is exceeded.
• Fixed a duplicate and conflicting react-aria dependency that caused issues for some customers.

• Added ‘created’ and ‘updated’ timestamps for Check & Track database tables for better visibility into changes over time.
• Check, Track, and Campaign tables sorting tabs are now reflected in the URL search parameters, making table views easier to share and revisit.
• Removed the deprecated Tech-Health service, with all functionality now provided through Tech Insights.

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• Added possibility to configure more complex filter conditions in No-Code UI.

• Fixed search on Tech Insights Explorer pages.
• Fix issue where facts with periods in their name were not being suggested properly.
• Fixed a regression in the Current Status card for a Campaign.
• Fix issue where stale collector config is returned due to stale per-pod in-memory state.
• Fixed an issue where Soundcheck Owner Filter was Not Working in Check Page.
• Fix an issue where collection configuration was not showing as being scheduled or having a source.
• Fix Check Current Status card and Historical Status card to use the same applicable count.
• Fixed an issue where Imported tracks with external checks was showing confusing UI.
• Fix missing Soundcheck Scorecard Extension for Group Entities.

• Removed feature flag for tech health.
• Made Backstage UI default theme for soundcheck.

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• Pushes policy creation, update, publication and deletion as audit events. This enhances security and compliance by providing a traceable log of policy mutations within the system through Backstage's Auditor Service.

• Initial release of Skill Exchange Actions, introducing two new, idempotent actions — search-skills and search-experts — for programmatic discovery of skills and experts within your organization. [docs]
  • Enables AI assistants and automation workflows to query organizational skill data safely and predictably.
  • Supports flexible filtering (by skill name, category, related skills, teams, and more) to power richer internal tooling.

• Fixed issue where not defining the name properly could cause the config to be continuously reset(Removed default value causing infinite loop in SonarQube)
• BullMQ custom Job IDs have been updated to use dots instead of colons, aligning with the latest validation rules.
• Fixed an issue where the number of applicable tracks and campaigns displayed on the Tech Insights status tile did not match the actual number shown in the table below in some cases.
• Fixed an issue where SCM YAML facts were not displayed in the Integration No-Code UI.

• Improved efficiency of retrieval of entity references from catalog.
• Updated integrations' logos.

• Fixed an issue where long Plugin or Action names overlapped each other within the filter dropdown, preventing readability.
• Fixed an issue where the export button was missing under certain circumstances.

• Insights-Backend: dropped support for PostgreSQL 13, as this version is no longer under active support by the PostgreSQL group. The minimum PostgreSQL version is now 14.

• RBAC-Backend: dropped support for PostgreSQL 13, as this version is no longer under active support by the PostgreSQL group. The minimum PostgreSQL version is now 14.

• Hacks that belong to events that have ended can no longer be voted on. If there are zero votable events present, hacks will no longer show.
• Fixed "Post A Hack" button in hack event details to correctly navigate to hack creation form.

• Soundcheck gets a bold upgrade — Tech Insights is now your default landing page, delivering faster performance, streamlined navigation, and a Backstage UI-aligned experience that puts actionable insights front and center. This also includes a redesigned, intuitive, and easy to use group hierarchy filter.
  • Note: This upgrade is behind a feature flag, follow the documentation to enable it!
  • Please be sure that @backstage/ui is installed in your Backstage app when enabling this feature.
• The "Entities Owner Filter" now searches by name, title, and description, making it easier to find the teams for which you’re searching.
• Added sunset notice as a dismissible banner on the Soundcheck Tech Health page.

• Fixed a stability issue if the remote configuration of checks, tracks, or SCM integration is invalid.
• Fixed an issue where the collectors page would error if there are incorrectly formatted values.
• Fixed an issue where a check’s rule path was missing in the UI when using a non-default path resolver.
• Resolved an issue where the "Cannot edit check" warning would occasionally appear after updating a check.

• Some performance improvements
• GQL efficiency updates.

• Insights now features a more compact header style. Please be sure that @backstage/ui is installed in your Backstage app when upgrading.

• RBAC now features a more compact header style. Please be sure that @backstage/ui is installed in your Backstage app when upgrading.

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• Added a Tech Insights page that provides analytics to track software quality metrics across your organization. docs
  • Note: For this feature to render correctly, the @backstage/ui package must be installed and available in your Backstage instance.
• Added total track and campaign counts on the Tech Insights page to distinguish totals from applicable counts.
• Added a manual option to recertify a track. docs
• Added a status filter for the entities table on the Campaign Insights page.
• Added support for personal access token (bearer token) authentication in the Jira integration. docs
• Added support for the issues-count Jira fact that returns the number of issues matching a JQL query. docs

• Fixed an issue where Check Insights page history didn't respect applied status filters.
• Fixed an issue where conditional permissions were incorrectly hiding or showing the edit button.
• Fixed an issue where fetching checks returned all checks even when check IDs were provided to filter by.
• Fixed an issue where using the default issues-search name for a Jira fact prevented the fact collection from executing.

• Breaking Change: The config option soundcheck.remote_file_updates has been deprecated in favor of soundcheck.remoteFileUpdates. You can continue to use the old option for now, but it will be removed in a future release.
• Breaking Change: The config option soundcheck.programs has been deprecated in favor of soundcheck.tracks. You can continue to use the old option for now, but it will be removed in a future release.
• Breaking Change: Jira's Search for issues using JQL API was deprecated and removed for Jira Cloud instances. Soundcheck will now fetch issues-search fact data from Jira's Search for issues using JQL enhanced search API for Jira Cloud instances.
• Updating track filters or levels through the UI now automatically regenerates track certification history for up to 365 days.

• The searchPage external route now defaults to search.root, removing the need to include a binding for this route in bindRoutes when setting up the Backstage frontend, unless you want to override it to point to a different route.

• Introduced configurable admin moderation via skillExchange.admins.postCleanupAdmins (a list of user entity references granted delete and archive permissions).
• Admins can now delete or archive Skill Exchange content directly in the UI; these controls are visible only to admins. Post owners still retain the ability to delete their own content.
  • Applies to: hacks, hack events, mentorships, and mentorship events.

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• Admins can now remove integration UI configurations directly from the database via each Integration’s Details page.

• Updated the campaign insights page to match the layout and display the same information as the track insights page.

• Added Error state as a filter option in check insights.

• Resolved an issue with track history charts that could cause them to exceed 100%.
• Resolved an issue that could prevent newly created tracks and campaigns from being shown in the UI immediately.
• Fixed display issue on campaign form with long list of checks selected.
• Checks page is now reset to the first page when an owner filter is applied.
• Entity links on the Campaign, Track, and Check Insight pages now navigate to the Soundcheck tab with the appropriate Campaign/Track/Check selected when possible.
• Added triggered syncing of collector configs when there is an update to the config triggered by the UI.
• Fixed import / export icons for checks and tracks.
• Improved caching for glob patterns:
  • Added option to cache and use full SCM responses for eTags for the SCM fact collector via the cacheFullResultsForEtags config option. This decreases API calls consumed by SCM when using glob patterns at the cost of increased cache sizes.
• Soundcheck remote file (eTag) caches are now retained for 7 days.

• Added a banner to show a warning when a collector is missing required/recommended configurations.
• GitHub Fact Collector will now return an error message as a fact instead of an error state if dependabot alerts are not enabled for a repository.
• Updated SCM collectors (SCM, GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps) to return collection errors instead of undefined facts if entity location URL is unsupported or integration details are not found.
• Updated default time units from hours to days in Checks and Integrations UI.
• Updated campaign milestones to make descriptions optional.

• If you've annotated your Scaffolder Templates with the backstage.io/time-saved annotation, the Backstage Insights plugin will aggregate and display time savings metrics in the Headlines and Usage tabs.
• For New Backstage Frontend System users:
  • The Insights plugin now includes the Analytics Implementation that was previously provided by @spotify/backstage-plugin-analytics-module-insights. When upgrading, you can uninstall @spotify/backstage-plugin-analytics-module-insights.

• The ability to configure the Backstage Insights plugin using keys under the app.analytics.backstageInsights object in app configuration is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Please place your config directly under backstageInsights at the root of your config YAML.
• The ability to configure event collection via the Backstage proxy backend has been deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Please remove backstageInsights.useProxy or app.analytics.backstageInsights.useProxy from your app config.
• Added improvements to validation when using date range filters

• Introduced support for the @backstage/ui header component. This feature can be activated using the configuration setting: skillExchange.enableSkillExchangeHeaderV2: true.
• Expanded localization support with additional translation options available across all Skill Exchange pages.

• Resolved a navigation issue on the homepage when accessing the 'My Hacks' section.
• Corrected missing translation labels on the Hack Metrics pages.
• Addressed a potential XSS vulnerability related to how images are served.
• Fixed a markdown rendering error that caused improper formatting of comments on hacks.

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• Added a new Integrations Details page that shows information about configured integrations and allows you to test fact collection.
  • The edit page for integration configs now uses the /edit route.

• Notification links now correctly include the base URL.
• The BigQuery collector's cache is now invalidated when its configuration is updated.
• Error logging for fact collectors has been improved to display the error message instead of the full error response.
• Check insights pages now properly appear for Checks where results are sent via API.
• Jira integration no longer ignores custom JQL in certain scenarios.
• Fixed an issue when check’s exclude filters were ignored in some cases on the Soundcheck Entity page.
• Fixed fact references in Soundcheck Integration’s No-Code UI.

• Rate limit handling has been updated for improved performance.
• The performance of Soundcheck's local job queues has been enhanced.
• The check form has been updated to reflect that check scheduling is not recommended.
• The total job queue size for local queues has been added to the OpenTelemetry metrics.
• Etag caching for the SCM collector has been increased to 30 days.
• Direct fact reference input is now permitted for the fact explorer helping those submitting Facts via the REST API.

• Fixed the issue where conditional permissions are enabled for resource permissions for which associated rules are not defined.
• Fixed a bug that could prevent the Backstage backend from starting if the license status check fails.

• BREAKING: The Backstage 1.41.0 release introduced breaking changes to the Scaffolder permissions, you will need to update your related RBAC policy role(s) to take this into account.

• Native integration with Backstage Notification system processors is here! Documentation on how to use Skill Exchange Notifications.

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• Observability just got better with more OTEL metrics for Soundcheck!
• Moving checks and tracks between environments just got easier. Export and import them all via YAML to streamline setup and reduce duplication.
• Smarter, Clearer Track Insights
  • Top failing checks are now grouped by level, so it's easier to spot where things are breaking.
  • Visuals got an upgrade too: 100% stacked area charts now give you a more intuitive view of data trends over time.
• From the Campaign view, you can now send reminders to all owners of entities still failing a campaign — keeping accountability front and center.
  • Access is managed via the soundcheck.campaign.notifications.create RBAC permission.
• Added an updated timestamp to tooltips on the overview page’s check results for greater visibility.

• Fixed an issue affecting color rendering in the Track Insights history chart.
• Addressed a bug where a misconfigured collector could block updates to other collectors’ configurations.

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This plugin was not updated in this release.

This plugin was not updated in this release.

• Notifications are now available in Soundcheck!
  • Status Change Notifications: Get alerts when a check’s status changes (e.g., pass → fail).
  • Track Certification Updates: Stay informed about failures affecting track certifications.
  • Campaign Notifications: Campaign notifications are now part of this system, with detailed updates on what has changed.
  • Customizable Preferences: Enable notifications (via feature flag) and tailor them to your needs.
• See which checks depend on a collector.
• Integration cards now show whether they’re UI-configured.
• No-Code UI Extensions: You can now extend the Soundcheck UI with custom no-code interfaces using the New Frontend System
• Exemptions:
  • You can now filter by the Exempt state for checks.
  • A brand-new Exemptions tab lets you view exempt entities and their justifications directly in Check Insights.
• Added visibility into Soundcheck’s performance and behavior.

• Fixed a menu appearing in the wrong location.
• Fixed certain Markdown content not showing up correctly.
• Fixed certification page navigating to an exempt or not applicable check when there are other valid checks in a Track.
• Fixed validation schema for manual checks.
• Improved logging when there is an issue setting or getting a config for a ConfigurableFactCollector.
• Removed the default initial delay for fact collector tasks. The initial delay can be set in the collector's configuration.

• Soundcheck is now more selective about which entities it enqueues check executions for when a fact is updated.
• Some facts are now classified as sensitive and are by default redacted in the front-end. This can be configured and includes a RBAC rule.
• Updated Check/Track/Campaign filters to be unable to specify conflicting inclusion and exclusion parameters.
• Soundcheck now allows users to configure the worker pool used to evaluate templating in checks' passed/failed messages.
• Added possibility to configure top-level filter, caching, and frequency in YAML for PagerDuty integration.
• Added option to enable check message templating for sensitive facts.
• Removed Soundcheck's use of isolated-vm in favor of time-limited worker threads.
  • Added configurable pool size to Soundcheck template worker pool.

• Fixed header image overflow in mentorships and hack events view.
• Fixed an issue where incorrect filters were passed along when clicking Show All in hack search suggestions.

• Simplified the UI by merging hack event tabs Upcoming and Ongoing to Active.
• Hack events with no active vote sessions are now hidden from the Votable tab.

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This plugin was not updated in this release.

• Draft Tracks: You can now mark tracks as draft! Draft Tracks are perfect for testing and verification, allowing you to refine your Track before making it visible by default. Say goodbye to the pressure of getting everything perfect on the first try!
• Manual Checks: Soundcheck now supports the creation of manual checks, which can be easily set up using the UI and added to tracks. The status of a manual check can be updated directly on the entity’s Soundcheck page in the Track tab by simply clicking the check. Unlike automated checks, manual checks require user input to complete, making them ideal for tasks such as, "Did my team review our published documentation this quarter?"
• Applicability Rules for Checks: Checks now support applicability rules, enabling them to evaluate one or more facts to determine whether they are applicable. These rules are reassessed each time the check is executed.
• Fields that support markdown, i.e. check pass/fail messages, descriptions, now allow certain html tags like details/summary.
• Soundcheck now emits check and certification status change events to the backstage-events plugin. This needs to be enabled in the soundcheck configuration.
• Added possibility to filter SonarQube issues by issue status, severity and type.
• Added possibility to configure top-level filter, caching and frequency in YAML for SonarQube integration.
• Check Exemptions: Soundcheck now supports check exemptions, allowing an entity owner to mark an entity as exempt from a specific check. Exempted checks are treated as passing for Track levels and certifications. Justification is required when creating an exemption, and exemptions can be revoked if needed.

• Improved the error message displayed when no checks are applicable for a track.
• Removed an outdated banner.
• Updated integrations UI to make it more clear when configs are removed.
• Improved the performance of the SCM collector.
• Improved the performance of Soundcheck’s aggregations.
• Fixed the issue when
• Fixed validation of fact names (prohibited spaces). SonarQube integration always used default metric keys if the fact name measures is used.
• Fixed the issue when SonarQube project-tags fact was collected as an empty array.
• Resolved an issue where duplicate milestone notifications were being sent. This occurred because milestones were being deleted and recreated instead of updated.
• Fixed a bug in campaign update notifications where the DateTime object was missing the correct equality operator.

• Enhanced Track Insights Page: The Track Insights page has been redesigned to provide more detailed information about the current state of a track, while also delivering improved performance for a smoother experience.
• Improved Filtering for Track and Check Insights: Track and Check Insights now include a new filter sidebar, making it clearer which filters are active. Filters are now staged, allowing you to review your selections and apply them by clicking “Apply Filter”.
• Added configuration parameters that allow users to opt in to install default checks and tracks
• Most cache entry keys are now postfixed with the Soundcheck version. This should prevent cache incompatibilities between versions.
• Improved UI for adding levels to a track and checks to a campaign.
• Breaking change: SonarQube projects fact will contain only the details about the project associated with an entity.
• Added default limit of SonarQube issues to be collected (1000) to prevent out of memory issues.

• Data export - users can export the events log for a selected calendar month in CSV format.
  • This feature is experimental and made available to most customers. Click here for more information on how to use the feature.

• Custom translations: Custom configure the use of words: Embeds, Mentorships, or Hacks within Skill Exchange, to use alternative naming conventions that are aligned with your organization.
• Feature path customization: Embed, mentor and hack urls can be customized under the skillExchange.embedsPath, skillExchange.mentorsPath and skillExchange.hacksPath configs.
• Notification customization: Notifications can now be customized by creating your own message builder for embeds, mentorships and/or hacks.

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• Added the below additional fact types to Github Integration:
  • Code Scanning Alerts
  • Dependabot Alerts
  • Secret Scanning Alerts
  • Security Advisories

• Updated the YAML parser to include support for anchors and ensure it no longer fails when encountering unrecognized tags. Additionally, introduced basic support for the !reference tag, enabling local dereferencing.
• Some performance improvements to certification status history
• Fixed an issue when the track and campaign insights pages would show N/A in the checks column while there were applicable checks
• Fixed an issue when annotation and label filters containing dots were not applied correctly for checks, tracks and campaigns
• Fixed an issue when liquid templates are not resolved correctly for HTTP fact collector’s headers
• Fixes to Exporting Checks and Tracks to YAML - Exclusion filters are now exported
• Minor UI and UX improvements on the Soundcheck for Entity page

• Checks which are not applicable or exempt (exemptions coming soon) are no longer shown on an entity's Soundcheck tab. Their visibility can be toggled via a settings button.

• Added a new view in the “Usage” tab, enabling analysis of arbitrary actions taken by users in Backstage. It can be used, for example, to drill down to page views in TechDocs, UI interactions in the Catalog, or to understand custom plugin usage. Find out more here.

• Fixed an issue causing the “Users” segment to render incorrectly in Firefox
• Fixed a bug that could cause metrics to be aggregated using unexpected groups
• Fixed a bug that prevented the hostFilter configuration from working under some circumstances
• Fixed a bug that could prevent entity display names from rendering in trend tables
• Fixed links throughout the Usage tab so that they can be opened in a new tab

• The deprecated externalRoutes.searchPageRouteRef route binding has been removed

• Hack metrics dashboard: Review, display, and download various trending metrics and KPIs to communicate the impact of hack events.

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• In line with the open source Backstage framework, support for React 16 has been dropped.

• Added support for specifying a group filter in the configuration. This filters groups down to those relevant to Soundcheck.
• Enhanced the date operator for creating checks, allowing users to input values like -P1Y
• Added support for exclusion filters in Soundcheck. Users can now exclude specific entities from a check. Excluded Entities will show up as not reported on the overview page
• Soundcheck now supports HTTP Third-Party Integration, configurable via YAML and the UI.
• The Azure DevOps collector is now configurable within the UI.
• The Catalog collector can be configured through YAML and UI.
• Added support for label and annotation filters in the UI.
• Soundcheck now records resolved values and rule evaluation details, making this information accessible on the frontend for improved transparency.

• Added sanity checking to SonarQube integration and increased page size.
• Resolved an issue where the Not Reported count was not being calculated correctly when a state filter was used.
• Fixed an issue where Resolved Value could be undefined in the Check Result Details view when the check is run manually.
• Resolved an issue where track entities were not always considering check applicability when calculating the pass percentage.
• Made minor performance improvements.

• Check dry runs now use cached facts if they are available.
• Out of the box checks, tracks, and collectors no longer specify a lifecycle filter (for new installations only).
• BREAKING Soundcheck's /results endpoint was updated to authenticate requests.
  • The endpoint now requires that that credentials be included in the request, and that the user identified in the credentials has the soundcheck.check.update permission.
• BREAKING Soundcheck's /facts endpoint was updated to authenticate requests, and deny users without the new update facts permission.
  • The endpoint now requires that that credentials be included in the request, and that the user identified in the credentials has the new soundcheck.fact.update permission.

• Updated the team search dropdown in Home and Embeds to use the human readable spec.profile.displayName instead of metadata.name.
• Fixed a bug that resulted in invalid date inputs on the Hack Metrics dashboard. The date selection now allows for dates to be chosen in a more flexible manner.
• Fixed a bug where teams with malformed entity profile specs were showing up as empty strings in dropdowns.

• When specifying page paths that a survey should appear on, paths are now normalized to prevent invalid configurations.

• It’s now possible to add descriptions to roles as a way to capture intentions and notes.

• Entity display names are now used when displaying or searching role members. If you need to see the raw entity name, it’s now displayed as a tooltip on hover.

• Removed support for legacy Backstage backend system.
• The minimum PostgreSQL version supported by all plugins is now 13.

• Added a BigQuery fact collector
• Added possibility to configure track badges that display check status and check pass percentage. This also includes an option to choose your badge type while creating a custom check through NCUI.

    badge:
      type: 'status'
  

  
• When someone adds new entries for integrations like SCM, GitHub, GitLab, or Kubernetes in the UI, the system now automatically fills in some default settings from a configuration file (YAML), saving time and effort.
• Added Initial Delay to integration UI config. Previously this was a YAML only config option.
• Added RegEx Flags configuration option to SCM Integration No-Code UI. Previously this was a YAML only config option.
• Removed support for the legacy backend from Soundcheck, please make sure you have migrated to the new backend system.
• Check, Track and Campaign applicability filters now use standard catalog entity filters. Checks, Tracks, and Campaigns created in the UI will use this filter format and automatically migrate existing checks/tracks when updating. Existing Checks, Tracks, and Campaigns using the legacy format will still work as intended.

Old Format

filter:
  catalog:
    kind: Component

New Format

filter:
  kind: Component

• Added better display when there is no data or there are no applicable entities on the track and campaign insights pages.
• Aligned SCM Integration UI with rest of Integration UI styles.
• Increased scheduled checks' timeout from 15 min to 60 min.
• Removed read only check, track and campaign edit pages.

• Added support for longer links across Skill Exchange.

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This plugin was not updated in this release.

• Support for the legacy Backstage backend system is now officially deprecated in all plugins. Exports used to wire up plugins using the legacy backend system will be removed in the February 2025 release of the bundle.
• Customers who have not yet migrated away from the legacy backend system are encouraged to do so beforehand to ensure a smooth upgrade in February. Please refer to the Backend System migration guide for details on how.

• Added batch size configuration to UI for integrations.
• Added GitHub BranchRules fact type (returns all active rules that apply to the specified branch).
• Overview pivot view toggle setting is now saved in local storage.
• Allow scheduling collectors for multiple facts for a given entity if a custom fact collector provides multiple fact references in the CollectionConfig object.
• The Overview page now fetches items from cache and database. This should improve load times for users with large amounts of entities and/or checks.
• Array operators (in, notIn, contains, doesNotContain) will now use equality if provided with non-arrays. This makes them easier to use when a path resolver may or may not return an array when a single-element array is selected.

• Fix for checks not executing when facts were submitted via the API.
• Fix potential 431 errors on the overview page that could be triggered when the selected owner had a large number of subgroups.
• Fact collectors with human durations will now execute tasks scheduled from prior startups at their originally scheduled time.
• Small fix to include the path resolver in exported checks.
• Resolves an issue with initial page size on the insight pages.
• Include track applicability when calculating passed and total count for overview page progress bar.

• BREAKING: Updated the Sonarqube fact collector to collect paged results. This is a minor breaking change, as we have also updated the collector to return facts in line with the responses given by Sonarqube. The fact schemas presented in the UI now also fully match the data available in the 'project' and 'issues' responses.
• BREAKING: Updated the DataDog fact collector to return paginated results when collecting DataDog SLO facts. This is a minor breaking change as the return type of the fact has been updated to be an array.
• BREAKING: Updated schema descriptors for PagerDuty facts.
• Updated the PagerDuty fact collector to return paginated results when collecting PagerDuty incidents facts.
• Removed campaign card from Soundcheck overview page. This campaign card has been superseded by the campaign insights page.

• Fixed a bug that could cause a draft policy to be corrupted and lost while editing the policy or its roles.
• Fixed a bug with policy diffing that incorrectly identified changes to roles and permissions

• The UI has been optimized for the default Backstage theme and should better respect theme customizations.

• The default list configuration fields are now set to optional.

• Minor fixes and improvements to styles, display, and console output in the frontend.

• Support for the legacy Backstage backend system is now officially deprecated in all plugins. Exports used to wire up plugins using the legacy backend system will be removed in the February 2025 release of the bundle.
• Customers who have not yet migrated away from the legacy backend system are encouraged to do so beforehand to ensure a smooth upgrade in February. Please refer to the Backend System migration guide for details on how.

• Soundcheck now offers an improved campaign insights user experience. By clicking on a campaign, you can see the number of days remaining, track progress trends, and explore a wealth of additional insights to enhance your campaign experience! This feature is still maturing.
• Added notifications to campaigns for passing milestones.
  • For customers with active campaigns that have already passed milestones, there will be a one-time burst of notifications for all such passed milestones across all campaigns.
• Added Batch Size configuration for all integrations (Note this is YAML only for this release).
• Added Custom Resource Definition to Kubernetes Integration UI.
• Added exclusion filters to check and fact scheduling (Note this is only supported in YAML for this release).
• Improved the thoroughness of the checks for the --no-node-snapshot flag.

• Resolved an issue with applying custom filters to track entities.
• Fixed a race condition that could prevent collectors' tasks from being scheduled.
• Fixed an issue where fact collection would not trigger a rerun of the check.
  • Check timestamps are also updated even if check state does not change.
• Fixed a front end caching issues where updates sometimes did not reflect in the UIs.

• Improved error messages from the SCM integration.
• Improved string and equality operator handling of boolean values. For example 'true' and true are considered equal as are 'false' and false.
• Soundcheck only connects to Slack from a single pod in a multiple deployment environment.
• Links on Entity Table in the forms now open in a new tab so users don't lose progress if clicking on them accidentally.
• Updated error message when there are invalid inputs for the check JSONPath parser.

• Improvements to namespaces in role memberships

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This plugin was not updated in this release.

• Added Custom Resources as a collectable fact type for the kubernetes plugin.
• Added No-Code UI configuration option for GitLab and New Relic collectors.

• Fixed PagerDuty Integration Service Schema.

• Due to the continued identification of vulnerabilities related to jsonpath-plus, we’ve replaced the dependency with a different library - nimma.

• BREAKING: Special characters in the path parameter must be escaped.
  • For example: path: $.metadata.annotations[pagerduty.com/integration-key] must now be path: $.metadata.annotations['pagerduty.com/integration-key']
• Added all groups to track and check insights filter selection.
• The primary action for checks has been changed from "edit" to "view." on the checks page.
• We now allow setting a Custom default title for the header bar through the title property of the RoutingPage.
• Soundcheck will now only enable the execute check buttons for checks that it can actually execute.The button will be disabled if the check cannot actually be executed.

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This plugin was not updated in this release.

This plugin was not updated in this release.

• Overview Page Improvements.
  • Replaced tabs on the overview page with a dropdown menu, allowing users to select entity group and type.
  • Introduced a pivot toggle for viewing entities on the X-axis.
  • Implemented a text search bar to find entities by name.
• Historical check status now includes a date for each entry.

• Due to a CVE with jsonpath-plus, Soundcheck has switched its JSON path evaluator to the nimma package. This is a breaking change. While most paths that are supported by jsonpath-plus are also supported by nimma, some advanced path queries may break and need to be updated.

• Fixed detection of rate limit errors for SCM collectors for some integrations.
• Fixed an issue with applying lifecycle filters to track insights.
• Fixed an issue where searching for a track/check/campaign by name was not redirecting to the first page of results.
• Archived campaigns will no longer show up on various pages

• Adjusted Soundcheck header styling to show up better on certain backgrounds.
• Soundcheck now Supports custom cert TLS config for redis queues.

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• Fixed a bug that occurred on Skill Profile and Embed pages when user profiles were null.

• Updated the Hack and Mentorship event forms to automatically detect and display images shared from Google Drive.
• Enhanced filtering for catalog entities
  • Added support for additional filters via new configuration options:

  <span class="line"><span style="color:#85E89D">skillExchange</span><span style="color:#E1E4E8">:</span></span>
  <span class="line"><span style="color:#85E89D">  entityFilters</span><span style="color:#E1E4E8">:</span></span>
  <span class="line"><span style="color:#85E89D">    group</span><span style="color:#E1E4E8">:</span></span>
  <span class="line"><span style="color:#E1E4E8">      - </span><span style="color:#9ECBFF">'metadata.name:team1'</span></span>
  <span class="line"><span style="color:#85E89D">    user</span><span style="color:#E1E4E8">:</span></span>
  <span class="line"><span style="color:#E1E4E8">       - </span><span style="color:#9ECBFF">'metadata.name:user1'</span></span>
  <span class="line"></span>

  • Filters must follow the format <period.separated.property>:<filter_value>.
• For users of the new frontend system, you can now override CatalogEntityLoader to provide custom implementations.

• Minor improvements to the survey creation and editing experience.

• We have added a 'Check Dry Run' feature in custom check creation.
  • This feature allows users to test checks against entities without the results being stored, ensuring accuracy and reliability before saving the check.
• We are excited to introduce a new Fact Explorer feature.
  • Users can now view and test fact values while creating their checks, providing a more informed and efficient approach.
• We are introducing Check templates.
  • Check templates are designed to streamline the check creation process, helping Soundcheck users get started quickly with pre-filled configurations. Users still have the option to create their own custom checks if desired.
• Getting Started With Soundcheck.
  • Soundcheck now has a welcome page which provides actions targeted towards new users. These actions will guide them to relevant introductory tasks, enhancing their experience by offering guidance during their first interactions with Soundcheck.
  • Acess this new page via the link on the banner of any other Soundcheck page.
• New Tooltip for NL Badges
  • If an entity is not certified at any level, a tooltip will appear on hover to indicate the entity's uncertified status and provide guidance.
• Fact Collectors can now return Collection Errors that will be visible on the UI.
• Soundcheck now supports default SCM and Github collector configurations on startup that collect the facts necessary for the pre-canned tracks and checks. Users have to set the following flag in the config before starting backstage.

  <span class="line"><span style="color:#85E89D">soundcheck</span><span style="color:#E1E4E8">:</span></span>
  <span class="line"><span style="color:#85E89D">    addStartingConfigurations</span><span style="color:#E1E4E8">:</span></span>
  <span class="line"><span style="color:#85E89D">        collectors</span><span style="color:#E1E4E8">: </span><span style="color:#79B8FF">true</span></span>
  <span class="line"></span>

• Support previously YAML only features in Check Form:
  • Added ‘NOT’ expression to rules input in check form
  • Added Operator prefixes all:, any:, none: input to Check Rule operator inputs. This allows for checking all the elements in a fact value that is an array.
  • Added Fact and List rule value inputs to Soundcheck Check form.
  • Added PathResolver to Check Form.
• Added No-Code UI configuration option for DataDog, Jira, Kubernetes, PagerDuty, SonarQube and SCM Fact Collectors.

• Fixed the 'View Detail' button to show a disabled view if the check is not defined in Soundcheck. This occurs when the check result is submitted directly via the API or added directly to the database.
• Soundcheck forms for Check Tracks and Campaigns are now a regular page. Create pages now have a route, i.e. /soundcheck/tracks/create.
• Improved the performance of check result aggregations.
• Fixed an issue that could cause fact collectors to have their configuration set more often than necessary.
• Resolved an issue where the ‘exists’ extractor could cause a NotFoundError rather than determining that the file does not exist.
• Fixed an issue for excessive error message lengths for check results.

• We have renamed the 'Collectors' tab to 'Integrations' to improve user understanding. This is a UI-only change; the backend will continue to refer to 'collectors’.
• Moved Campaign view page off of full screen dialog into its own page.
• Collector configurations now merge the configurations provided in YAML with the configurations provided via the UI allowing them to be overridden.This allows config options like secrets to be provided in the YAML (or Config manager) but things like collection configs to be provided via NCUI.
• Check Form owner select now auto selects the logged in user by default.
• Optimized and replaced owner select on Track, Check, and Campaign forms with autocompletes.
• Kubernetes Fact Collector now collects facts on entities with either the backstage.io/kubernetes-label-selector or backstage.io/kubernetes-id annotation. Before, the backstage.io/kubernetes-id annotation was required.
• Kubernetes Fact Collector better supports collecting facts on a k8s cluster registered in the Backstage catalog.
• Soundcheck Page Headers are now dynamic based on the current page.
• Migrated soundcheck backend modules to the new auth system.

This plugin was not updated in this release.

• Mentorship events are released. This is a new feature that will enable event post creation, deletion, and association for mentorships. Individual mentorship posts can now be associated with a mentorship event to group a subset of mentorship posts together.
• Adopters can configure a set of remote URLs that contain configuration files that Skill Exchange can read from. This allows adopters to host their configuration for embed priority levels, skills and locations separately.

• Profile Search on the home page of the Skill Exchange plugin now has a configuration option added. When enabled, this will allow the search to make use of the Search APIs filters, improving results for certain search engines. To enable, add the following configuration option to the plugin config:

<span class="line"><span style="color:#85E89D">skillExchange</span><span style="color:#E1E4E8">:</span></span>
<span class="line"><span style="color:#85E89D">    useFilteredProfileSearch</span><span style="color:#E1E4E8">: </span><span style="color:#79B8FF">true</span></span>
<span class="line"></span>

• Theme colors across Skill Exchange were updated for improved readability and consistent use.
• Icon colors were updated for improved accessibility and theming across Mentorships.

• Removed deprecated skillIngestion from config. Please refer to defaultLists in the docs.

This plugin was not updated in this release.

• Soundcheck now has a new Check Insights page allowing users to view compliance for a check across their Software Catalog.
• Added a sticky header with entity names to the Soundcheck Overview page
• Soundcheck now supports authoring checks which validate the elements of arrays.
  • Prefixing an operator with all: will validate that all elements in the array satisfy the condition.
  • Prefixing an operator with any: will validate that at least one element in the array satisfies the condition.
  • Prefixing an operator with none: will validate that no elements in the array satisfies the condition.
• Soundcheck can now be extended with custom path resolvers. Path resolvers are used to extract values out of facts for comparison within checks. By default Soundcheck uses JSON Path, however this can be overridden on a check by setting the pathResolver. Soundcheck now supports the following path resolvers: jsonpath (default), lodash, jmespath, jsonata.
• Added support for collecting facts from glob paths for the SCM fact collector.
• Soundcheck can now collect facts from Kubernetes via an integration.
• Soundcheck can now collect facts from Snyk via an integration.

• Fixed an issue when filters that are cached in local storage are incorrectly merged with URL filters on the Tech Health page
• Resolved an issue where check details would appear not to load if the first check was not applicable to the entity.
• Fixed a defect in the regex fact extractor where caches would conflict.
• Added missing descriptions to default track levels.
• When submitting facts to Soundcheck, checks will now only be triggered if those facts differ from those already in cache.
• Improved performance of the refresh-applicable-entities task.
• Fixed check export in Tech health to include the check's schedule.

• Soundcheck’s check and certification history are now enabled by default.
• Added clearer labels for the overview page tabs when there are categories with the same type.
• Improved the performance of track insights by adding configurable batching and a batchSize option to the entity caching options to control how many entities are pulled from the catalog at a time when refreshing entity caches.
• Soundcheck now enqueues fewer certification jobs in response to check result updates, reducing the number of calls it makes to the software catalog.
• Rule operator input in the create new check form now allows a free form string to be inputted to use custom or advanced operators
• An entity is now considered certified in a level if there are no applicable checks for the entity within that level.

This plugin was not updated in this release.

• Search bar position on embeds and mentorships.
• Hack event duration can be updated to a permanent event.

This plugin was not updated in this release.

• Soundcheck now supports the ability to execute checks on demand from the Entity page.
• Added support for 'not' conditions in Check rules via yaml.
• Updates the 'Does Not Contain' array operator to return true if the array is missing/undefined.
• Added an 'error' state to possible check result states. If errors are encountered when executing a check, the error will be shown in the check details section in the entity overview.

• SCM Fact Collector now supports conditional calls with e-tags. The fact collector will automatically handle 304 Not Modified status codes to reduce the overall api usage. If using the old backend system users will need to include the PluginCacheManager when using this version.

• Fixed the check progress indicators on the Soundcheck overview page and the campaigns pages to show total progress instead of page progress.
• Fixed an issue where multiple backstage instances running Soundcheck would see only one instance pick up changes for remotely provided configurations, including checks, tracks, and the SCM configuration.
• Fixed an issue where the horizontal scroll bar would be hidden if there were many entities on the overview page.
• Ensures that the group tab in tech health displays only groups and no other types of entities.

• Updated the SCM regex facts to accept an optional flags definition, which must match:/^[gimsuy]+$/

This plugin was not updated in this release.

• Changed scrollbar background colors to match the rest of the layout components.
• New experimental feature to display metrics for your hack events. Customers can now access charts covering various KPIs and export data to spreadsheets. To enable, toggle the skill-exchange-enable-hack-metrics feature flag from the Backstage settings.

• Resolved issue in Hacks where the scroll position in lists was not preserved during navigation.
• Resolved issue on skill profiles page where users were not able to scroll the page.

• Feedback: Backstage champions can now run pop up surveys to collect attitudinal data from Backstage users and understand more about their development experience.

• Fixed a bad link in the user engagement headline card.
• Fixed an issue where the names of entities are not being output correctly using the presentation API

• Soundcheck now integrates with Gitlab collecting facts and building checks based on data directly from GitHub
• Added tooltip showing counts on the track insights pages for pass rates
• Added an exists operator which validates whether data exists at a given path within a fact
• Users can now export tracks and checks to yaml from the UI. Exports can be performed via the drop down menu on the Track and Check cards on their respective list pages

• Fixed discrepancies in Tech Health numbers.
• Resolved an issue with certification writes and added migration scripts to correct any erroneous rows that have already been written.
• Fixed an issue that prevented use of the grid view on Soundcheck Tech-Health pages.
• Resolved an issue that can sometimes occur when reading persisted Tech Health filters from local storage.
• Pressing the 'View Campaign' button sent to Slack by Soundcheck no longer shows a warning icon next to it when pressed
• Minor performance improvements to the Track Insights page.
• Fixed RateLimitErrors being incorrectly logged as fact collection failures.
• Fixed parsing of factNames that contain /
  • Scopes within fact ref strings can now contain / and : by enclosing the scope in single quotes. For example: scm:'my/branch'/test.
• Fixed a problem when, in some cases, fact scope is not respected by SCM fact collector.
• Fixed a problem when, in some cases, fact scope is not respected by Github fact collector.
• Fixed an issue where the Slack integration was attempting to connect even when no credentials were provided.

• Added Operator and filter extension points for the new backend system
• Standardized caching by making minor changes to how github collector caches facts
• Made the factName configuration parameter optional for all SCM collectors, Azure DevOps, GitHub and GitLab Fact Collectors.
• Added edit option to the drop down menu on summary cards for checks, tracks and campaigns page
• The rule input field in the Check form for creating and editing checks will now cast string values for booleans and numbers when the form is submitted.
• Added theme overrides using the following component name CheckResultStateBox for customization of the check result box in the Soundcheck tab of the component pages.
• The following check status states are available for override:
  • Passed
  • Failed
  • Warning
  • notReported
  • notApplicable

This plugin was not updated in this release.

• Custom thumbnails for hacks can be created from a new extension point. The thumbnail is generated from hack metadata and returns a URL to the thumbnail image.
  • When a generator is registered, a panel will be included in the hack forms that allows the user to trigger the thumbnail generation. The generator will be called with the title and pitch of the hack, and the URL returned will be used as the thumbnail for the hack post.
• This feature is currently in alpha and it is very likely to change in the future.
• A new configuration setting allows integrators to enable voting for the same hack in multiple categories.
  • To activate this feature, add the skillExchange.experimental.allowMultipleVotesPerHack flag to your app-config.yaml file.
• Hack followers are now visible on the hack details page.

• Fixed an issue with hack card display in search suggestions.
• Fixed some spacing issues with the new layouts in Hacks and Embeds views.

• Enhanced the Tag input field on the hack input form for a smoother user experience. Now, values remain saved even when the field is deselected, eliminating the need to press enter.
• Enhanced visual styling of the hack list view.
• Refined error messages in the hack form for clearer input guidance.
• Improved hack form usability by highlighting required fields.

• Made some improvements to the way the configuration schema is handled

• Soundcheck can now integrate with Jira, collecting facts and building checks based on data directly from Jira
• Soundcheck can now integrate with Azure DevOps, collecting facts and building checks based on data directly from Azure DevOps
• Added support for a new fact type “Incidents” to PagerDuty fact collector
• Soundcheck’s Track Insights view now takes track and check applicability into account
• Added the ability to override the default initial delay for collections in Soundcheck by providing an initialDelay within a CollectionConfig

• Fixed an issue in Soundcheck with limiting executions of scheduled checks when rate limit errors are encountered
• Fixed issues with data discrepancies when viewing Tech Health results by adding timed tasks which will remove results from latest and history for (a) any entities that are no longer present in catalog and (b) any checks that are missing in the latest tables
• Fixed an issue that can occur when Soundcheck is interrupted on startup and which may cause data discrepancies between history and latest when viewing the Tech Health results
• Fixed an issue where scheduled checks created through Soundcheck’s No Code UI would apply to more entities than specified in the filter
• Fixed an edge case where the Soundcheck overview page could paginate out of order
• Fixed an issue in Soundcheck limiting the exporting of the full dataset available in Soundcheck’s Tech Health view
• Fixed an issue in the filter dropdown where owner names could be displayed incorrectly
• Fixed a pagination issue in Tech Health limiting entities and team pagination from functioning in Soundcheck

• BREAKING: For users still using the legacy backend for Backstage, to maintain functionality of the SCM collector, they will need to update the ScmFactCollector in packages/backend/src/plugins/soundcheck.ts:
• Soundcheck now has tooltips to notify users they may not have the ability to configure Collectors that have been defined in YAML
• Removed a configuration option to enable the non-virtualized Soundcheck Overview table
• Removed the createUrlReader utility method (previously used by other Soundcheck packages to construct a UrlReader)
• Improved the accuracy of how Track progress is calculated from Soundcheck’s Track Insights view

This plugin was not updated in this release.

• Newly redesigned cards for Hacks and Events and enabled customization of card styles using the theme overrides. The component and their rules names are:

  • SkillExchangeCard - The main card container.
    • root
  • SkillExchangeCardTitle - The card title.
    • root
  • SkillExchangeCardMedia - Card images.
    • root
  • SkillExchangeCardActions - The card button container.
    • root
  • SkillExchangeCardDescription - Cards descriptions are typically used for the large text content of the card, such as Hack or Event descriptions.
    • root
    • content
  • SkillExchangeCardActionArea - The card action area is used for the primary interaction of the card, such as clicking the card to navigate to a new page. It typically covers the cards title and description.
    • root

• Google Slides, Loom videos, and videos shared from Google Drive can now be seamlessly viewed directly within the Hack details view when added as demo or pitch resources.

• It’s now possible to add labels to Hacks and Events resource links
• Fixed a performance bug in the Hack lists views

• It’s now possible, using app configuration, to filter metrics based on the host where they were collected
• The plugin UI is now better optimized for the default Backstage theme and should better respect theme customizations.
• New landing page: Headlines
  • Headlines is a high level overview of the most important insights
  • You can find detailed Users, Catalog, Templates, and Search dashboards under the “Usage” page

• Fixed a bug that resulted in rare and sporadic 500 errors during data collection
• Fixed a bug that could cause entity names to be rendered incorrectly (this now leverages the entity presentation API)
• Tooltips have been improved throughout all visualizations

This plugin was not updated in this release.

• Soundcheck can now integrate with New Relic, collecting facts and building checks based on data from New Relic.
• Added filters to the Track Insights page. Adopters can now filter Track Insights by owner, lifecycle, type and/or system.
• Adopters can now view a preview of the entities that will be affected by filter selections when creating checks, tracks, and campaigns
• Soundcheck’s distributed job queue’s Redis connection now supports TLS and Redis connection URLs.
• Soundcheck’s SonarQube integration now supports multiple instances and can collect facts on SonarQube measures.

• Fixed the campaign link on the card view of the Tech Health Campaigns page.
• Fixed overview page route history. Browser controls (such as the forward and back buttons) now navigate the overview page correctly.
• Fixed an issue with level progress bars on the Track page that caused them to only ever show 0 or 100%.
• Fixed the results table width on the Soundcheck Overview page.
• Resolved an issue related to transitive owner filtering.
• Resolved an issue related to the caching of certain frontend queries.
• Resolved an issue with aggregation queries which involved a track with filters.

• Improved the performance of the Tech Health and Track Insight pages.
• Certifications which are triggered by result updates now enqueue certification jobs for improved performance.
• Modified the Track Insights page so that the owner filter options display group names rather than their entity references.

This plugin was not updated in this release.

• The main navigation tabs, search bars, and filter sidebar for Hacks, Embeds and Mentorships have been made sticky when scrolling, so it's easier to use these controls when viewing pages with lots of content.
• The Hack and Event navigations tabs have been combined into the main header to save screen real estate.

• Removed support for the legacy Skill Exchange Docker backend service. Support for this service has been deprecated since version 0.9.0, and disabled by default. Any users still using the legacy backend service should migrate to the new Node.js backend service using the instructions here.
• Fixed style issue with Hack sidebar navigation when using the dark mode theme.
• Fixed a bug where commas in Hack names were not being escaped when exporting vote results as a CSV.

• Data rows across all dashboards now show totals in addition to per-day aggregations.
• Tooltips have been added to trends to help clarify their meaning.

• Fixed a bug that prevented the expected HTTP status codes from being sent for all HTTP errors.
• Fixed a bug that prevented user group facets from showing group names in place of their entityRefs.

This plugin was not updated in this release.

• The new Backstage backend system is now supported by the following plugins:
  • RBAC
  • Soundcheck
  • Insights
  • Skill Exchange
• This new backend system was built to make it simpler to install backend plugins and keep projects up to date. It also changed the foundation to one that makes it a lot easier to evolve plugins and the system itself with minimal disruption or cause of breaking changes.
• Benefits to bundle plugin users
  • Simplified Installations
  • Sane Defaults (Easier for adopters who already use the above plugins to keep them up-to-date)
  • Extending Plugins
  • Developer Friendly
• No migrations or updates are required at this time; customers may continue to run their Backstage backends using the “old” system without issue. If you are already running the new backend system, or plan to migrate in the future, you can find instructions on how to install our plugins in the new backend system in our docs for example.

• Soundcheck adopters can now view insights for tracks to help them understand which checks within their tracks need attention along with an entity view that helps them understand the % of checks passing against each entity.
• Soundcheck Overview Page: Campaign cards have been redesigned to appear in a collapsible accordion. The information shown on the cards now aims to give a quick high level summary of the campaign's progress.
• Campaign Details Page: The progress of the campaign shown on this page now closely mirrors the same grid view of the Overview page. Users will now be able to see how entities are progressing on a per-check basis.
• Campaign Notifications: Added optional support for campaign email notifications.
• Tech Health updates
  • All filters on the Tech Health pages have a tooltip with a description of what each filter does.
  • Limited the number of filter options being rendered to improve performance.
  • Fixed rendering issues with Tech Health filters under the dark theme.
  • Improved Tech Health caching and overall performance.
• Added warning field to a check definition (both YAML and No Code UI). This generates warning outcomes rather than outright failures. A warning suggests that the check did not pass successfully, however, this discrepancy will not impact the entity's certification at the given level.
• Added in breadcrumb navigation for Soundcheck.
• Checks and tracks can now be stored in files and referenced by URL. This will enable configurations to be stored and retrieved via URL (such as within a Github repo) for these Soundcheck configurations.
• Soundcheck's functionality can now be extended by providing it with custom operators.
• A default Entity Owner for Soundcheck Tech Health filters is now automatically selected
• Soundcheck Overview page performance improvements.
• We've enhanced the system by introducing dynamic rate limit management for Sonarqube, Pagerduty, SCM, Github, and Techinsights TPI fact collectors. Now, these TPI fact collectors emit RateLimitErrors when they encounter 429 errors. In response to this, Soundcheck will pause and retry rate limited requests.

• Fixed ‘Days left’ calculation for campaigns.
• Fixed campaign deletion Slack notification not being sent
• Fixed an issue that was causing a warning on several Soundcheck pages.
• Graceful handling of slack API connection errors
• Fixed an issue where using the search by name feature of the Track library would only search the current page.
• Resolved an issue with the check validation schema.
• Front-end validation for descriptions are now more consistent with YAML and backend.
• Updated catalog utils to leverage one another rather than calling catalog directly.

This plugin was not updated in this release.

• Introducing the new and updated Skill Profile skill edit experience, users will now be able to select from a list of suggested skills based off of their current skill selections.
• Skill suggestions
  • Suggested skills are powered by other users who have similar skill sets.
  • Suggested skills are also powered by discipline associations defined in the skill ingestions YAML. See below for more information.
• Skill ingestion
  • Skills through ingestion are now treated as the source of truth for all skills used throughout Skill Exchange, rendering previously user created custom skills obsolete.
  • User created custom skills will now be deduped as long as a skill with the same name is defined in the skill ingestion YAML.
  • Skills can now be defined with two extra optional fields: subset and disciplines. Please refer to the Defining Skills for Ingestion section for more information.
• On the Hack events page, events are categorized by 'Ongoing', 'Upcoming' or 'Past', to easily identify which events are currently running.

• Corrected labels to match the aggregations used on displayed values.
• Changed the curve smoothing on the Insights charts to better represent the data being shown.

• Added tooltips to the main charts to help inspect the data points.
• Minor improvements to the trend label to indicate when there is no change.

This plugin was not updated in this release.

• SonarQube integration plugin supports the extraction of the following facts:
  • Projects
  • Project Tags
  • Issues
• Soundcheck’s Tech Health Page now includes a filter for Entity Systems.
• Added a defaultSelectedGroupType configuration option to pre-select a group whose spec.type equals the configured type in the group selector on Soundcheck overview page. To enable this option, add the configuration to your app-config.yaml:

soundcheck:
  overview:
    defaultSelectedGroupType: team

• Users will now be informed when their search filters do not match any entries in the check or track libraries.
• Users on the campaign's edit form are now able to click on any step heading to go to that step.
• The Soundcheck overview page will persist and restore the users’ last selected group.
• Added a field to the track creation form in No-Code UI for a "Documentation URL".
• If users want to improve Soundcheck Tech Health page performance they can enable data caching.
  • Caching can be configured using the configuration show below:

  # The configuration should be added to the soundcheck portion of app-config.yaml:
  soundcheck:
    techHealth:
      caching:
        trends:
          enabled: true
          cacheTtl: 720
        snapshots:
          enabled: true
          cacheTtl: 15
  

  • caching: A section in which caching per data type can be enabled/disabled. Default value is 'true' for both types.
  • trends: A section in which trend data caching can be configured.
  • snapshots: A section in which snapshot data caching can be configured.
  • enabled: A boolean value indicating whether caching is enabled for the data type. Default value is 'true'.
  • cacheTtl: The number of minutes for which the data will be cached, if enabled. Default value is 15 minutes for snapshots and 1440 (24 hours) for trends.
• Added loading indicator to overview page.
• In addition to markdown, check pass and fail messages now also support Liquid templating.
  • The following variables are available for use in templates:
    • entity - The entity the check was executed on.
    • facts - A map of facts used by the check. Individual facts can be looked up in this map by fact reference. For example, facts['catalog:default/entity_descriptor'].
    • Here is an example of a pass message using templates. In this example, Soundcheck would replace {{ entity.metadata.name }} with the name of the entity the check was executed on, and {{ fact.data.integrationKey }} with the PagerDuty integration key from the fact used by the check.

{{ entity.metadata.name }} has a PagerDuty Integration Key defined: {{ fact.data.integrationKey }}

• Resolved an issue that could cause errors related to attempting to delete rows from a table before it exists on startup.
• Improved how the campaign owner name is displayed in Soundcheck Slack notifications.
• Fixed issue where filters were editable when viewing a Check or Track in read-only mode.
• Fixed issue that prevents users from viewing Checks and Tracks created via configuration file.
• Improved the performance of the queries that power Soundcheck's Tech Health aggregations.
• Fixed autocomplete for facts in the Check form so that options are now properly filtered.
• Fixed an issue where certain collectors were showing the "Configure" button as clickable when it should have been disabled.
• Fixed an issue with the loading state of the library pages in Soundcheck.
• Fixed an edge case in getEntityPassRates. This resolves an issue in an edge case where no results match the given entity refs.

• Entity owner filters in the No Code UI will now allow all groups to be selectable, not just entity owners. This is useful in combination with the nested owner filtering changes introduced in a previous patch.
• The /results endpoint used to POST check results to Soundcheck has been modified: the endpoint no longer returns a list of updated results back to the caller.
  • If callers still wish to use the old functionality they may add returnUpdatedResults=true as a query parameter to the endpoint URL.
  • As an example, instead of posting results to /api/soundcheck/results, a caller will now need to post to /api/soundcheck/results?returnUpdatedResults=true to get the same response as before.
  • This change minimizes often unused network throughput and reduces the amount of data that needs to be sent over the wire.
• Added consistent usage of links for the owners of specific campaigns in Soundcheck.
• Updated visibility for soundcheck backend's secret config values.
• Soundcheck no longer allows unrecognized keys in configurations. This should make it easier to identify misconfigurations but may cause validation errors with existing misconfigured instances.
• Added two additional string operators: startsWith and endsWith. The startsWith operator tests if a string starts with a given string. The endsWith operator tests if a string ends with a given string.
• Editable Collectors are now linkable via the following url structure /collectors/:collectorId.

• Minor UI fixes and improvements.

• Improved error handling and messaging when testing policies.

• Introducing the hack digest feature, where users can get Slack updates on the hacks they have been following on a configurable schedule.
  • For adopters who have their Slack integration running, and would like to schedule periodic Slack updates (edits to the hack or new comments) to users who follow hacks, they can specify a cron value to their app-config.yaml (or equivalent) file. This cron value dictates the frequency with which users will receive updates on their hacks, if any updates exist since the last updates were sent. See the the following screenshot for an example:

  # The configuration should be added to the skillExchange portion of app-config.yaml:
  skillExchange:
    # ...
    hackUpdateNotificationsCron: '0 17 * * 1'
    # ...
  

  • This example configuration will send out updates to users on hacks they are following at 17:00 every Monday.

• Fixed an issue where users would be able to vote on their own hacks.
• Fixed issue with hack pagination that was stopping you loading more hacks after the first page.
• Fixed skill search logic to fix a bug in which duplicate search API calls were fired unnecessarily.

This plugin was not updated in this release.

This plugin was not updated in this release.

• We are thrilled to introduce Campaigns within Soundcheck. Soundcheck's Campaigns feature equips organizations to strategically target and manage specific short-term initiatives including built-in Slack notifications when the status of a campaign changes.
  • Some examples include "Upgrade Spring libraries" to use a specific version of spring boot or "Update log4j lib"
  • Adopters can create, edit, delete, and archive a campaign.
  • Integration with email notifications will follow soon.
• The PagerDuty Third Party plugin now integrates with Soundcheck. Learn more here.
• Checks may now compare the value of two different facts. For example, you can create a check which validates that a component's name in the Software Catalog matches the name specified in package.json.

id: is_metadata_name_package_name
rule:
  factRef: catalog:default/entity_descriptor
  path: $.metadata.name
  operator: matches
  value:
    factRef: scm:default/package_json_package_name
    path: $.name

• Owner filters on Campaigns, Checks, and Tracks now work hierarchically. For example, if OrgA is the parent of team1 and team2 applying the owner filter on OrgA will make it applicable to entities owned by OrgA, team1, or team2.
• Check results with the state 'not-applicable' can now be submitted to Soundcheck via its REST API.
• The soundcheck.checks configuration now supports individual check configurations and arrays of check configurations. This allows you to organize related checks into a file or multiple files and seamlessly include them in the main soundcheck.checks configuration using the $include directive.

• Resolved an issue with the GitHub fact collector where a ‘403 Not Modified’ could be interpreted as an error rather than branch protections not being configured under certain circumstances.
• Resolved an issue that could prevent entity owner filters from being used in Soundcheck's Tech-Health pages.
• Resolved an issue with fact collector permissions being inadvertently tied to track permissions.
• Resolved an issue that was preventing boolean comparisons in checks from working correctly when the check was created through the UI.
• Resolved an issue that could prevent filters from being applied to Github fact collections configured through the UI.

• Improved certification history cleanup logic. It now retains certain history outside of the specified window so that the Tech Health page can correctly calculate historical aggregations.
• Improved check result history cleanup logic. It now retains certain history outside of the specified window so that the Tech Health page can correctly calculate historical aggregations.
• Relaxed Soundcheck’s validation of entity references to allow for names longer than 64 characters.
• Minor performance improvement when persisting check results.
• Increased payload size limits to support the submission of larger batches of results and/or facts.
• Added the possibility to set up advanced check and track applicability filters to extend entity filter functionality. Custom filter functions can now be passed to the Soundcheck Builder when instantiating Soundcheck to perform arbitrary applicability evaluation. See the soundcheck-backend README for full details.
• The Github fact collector will now return the previously retrieved branch protection data when Github responds with '404 Not Modified' instead of undefined.
• Added strict enforcement of fact collector configuration schemas. Unrecognized keys are no longer allowed to help users identify misconfigurations.

• Introduced Policy Tester: a system that tests the behavior of RBAC policies.
  • This feature allows RBAC policy admins to configure tests against their permissions, providing a comprehensive view of policy decisions prior to production release.
  • The interface enables administrators to selectively choose specific permissions, and observe the outcomes applied to designated role(s) within their policy.

• Fixed a bug where stale data could be shown in the UI after publishing a policy.

• New hack views, voting, and browsing experience are now available.
  • New features as explained in the limited October update are:
    • Hack context views and list view
    • Hack thumbnails
    • Hack voting updates
    • Vote management panel

• Failed Slack responses will no longer remove the original message.
• Fixed issue where hack members were able to vote on their own hacks.

• Instrumentation is updated for new Hack view
• Added consistent title headers across hacks, embeds, and mentorships.

This plugin was not updated in this release.

This plugin was not updated in this release.

• The Create Track page now includes the ability to add a Track Owner to the Track Form. Defaults to the logged in user.
• The UI for check descriptions, check passed messages, check failed messages, and track descriptions now use a markdown editor.
• Checks are now linkable by ID using the following url format soundcheck/checks/:checkId.
  • Pages will now properly link to the check instead of the checks list page.
• Tracks are now linkable by ID via the following url format soundcheck/tracks/:trackId.
  • Pages will now properly link to the track instead of the tracks list page.
• Soundcheck now provides an endpoint for aggregations at /aggregations, enabling programmatic access to Soundcheck's aggregation functionality.
• Soundcheck now initializes check result history data upon startup when check result history is enabled for the first time.
• Improved fact persistence performance.
• The Github fact collector now uses conditional requests to improve rate limit utilization.
• Collectors and checks are no longer executed immediately, instead they have a delay so that the initial execution follows the specified cadence.
• Soundcheck’s README was updated to make it more clear how to install the GitHub, SCM, and TechInsights Soundcheck backend fact collector modules.

• Resolved an issue that was preventing fact collectors configured through the UI from restoring their configuration after Backstage is restarted.
• Resolved an issue that could prevent a fact collection task from being aborted.

This plugin was not updated in this release.

• Added the ability to tag users in hack comments.

• Skills without defined levels are no longer included on a user's profile.
• Updated line heights on hack cards to be more consistent.
• Resolved spacing bug for bulleted markdown lists.
• Updated the vote count logic when using vote sessions with unlimited number of votes for hacks.

• BREAKING: The Skill Exchange Slack integration now supports adding embed and mentorship participants directly through a button in Slack (instead of linking to the post).
  • If you are currently using Skill Exchange with Slack, you have to make changes in order to keep using the Slack integration. For instructions, see the README.
• The default sort for the Events page is now sorted by last updated date in descending order.
• Flexible is now the default hack location option.

This plugin was not updated in this release.

This plugin was not updated in this release.

• Soundcheck users can now export reports in .csv format from the Tech Health pages.
  • Export reports of current status of checks, tracks, entities, and teams in csv format and share them offline.
• Added a grid view for Checks, Tracks, Entities, and Teams tabs on the Tech Health page.
• Added entity type/lifecycle/kind filters for the Tech Health page.

• Resolved an issue with Check filters generated via UI not applying to parent Tracks.
• Resolved an edge case where the displayed entity counts on the Overview page tabs could be mismatched.
• Updated default page pagination to 10 and enabled pagination options on the Soundcheck Checks and Tracks pages.
• Fixed an issue with nested check rules.
• Fixed an issue where check filters were not included when creating or updating a check via the Soundcheck UI.
• The overview table footer now shows the entities metadata.title when available rather than the humanized entity ref.
• Improved github API (octokit) error logging.

• Fact collectors may now optionally include a name and brief description. This will help users identify and describe fact collectors.

This plugin was not updated in this release.

• New Hack features available are now available, use the following steps to opt-in to the following features:
  • Hack context views Active, Votable, Past, My Hacks, and Following allow users to quickly narrow focus for browsing and searching hacks.
  • List view in Active context allows users to browse more hacks at one time while still viewing key hack details.
  • Identicons generated from hack title text help break up the list view and give hacks a unique visual identifier.
  • Hack votes can be cast directly from cards in the Votable context view without having to open and close a hack.
  • A new vote management panel allows users to quickly review and edit Hack votes.

• Fixed an issue that caused duplicate saved search notifications to be sent.
• Fixed an issue where Event create/edit renders links in preview.
• Fixed an issue where links in create hacks preview would navigate users away from the form.

• Updated chip icons in search bar.

This plugin was not updated in this release.

• Pulse now offers a Progress Bar that helps track engagement of surveys and is automatically available to Pulse users. With the Progress Bar, respondents are informed of their progress, which can help minimize survey abandonment rates.

• Soundcheck users have access to a single, aggregated view of metrics and trends that gives teams and leaders the ability to understand the tech health of their components.
  • Soundcheck now contains a “Tech Health” tab where users can both view and filter aggregate Soundcheck results across teams, components, checks, and tracks.
• Users can now configure the Github fact collector via Soundcheck’s No Code UI .
  • If you already have a config YAML file setup, you will be unable to use No Code UI to configure your collector. In order to use the No Code UI, simply remove the YAML file/reference and you will have access to configure from No Code UI.
  • Configure is only enabled if the user has the collector update permission.
• Introduced before and after date operators, expanding Soundcheck’s capabilities to assess whether a provided date/time fact value occurs earlier or later than a specified date/time, or relative to the current date/time adjusted by a duration.

• Resolved an issue where newly added Checks would not immediately show up in the Track UI.
• Soundcheck's ScmFactCollector can now be dynamically configured with new collector configurations after startup.
• Resolved an issue where newly added Checks would not immediately show up in the Track UI.
• Resolved an issue where changing Fact was not clearing the Path/Operator/Value fields in the Check UI.
• Resolved an issue where the text for warning messages on the Soundcheck Group page was not accurate.
• Tooltips in the overview table now support markdown in check descriptions.

• Fact collectors may now optionally include a name and brief description. This will help users identify and describe fact collectors.

This plugin was not updated in this release.

• Users can now add defined labels to specify priority levels for their Embed posts.

• Fixed a bug that caused initial page search events not to be sent across Embeds, Mentorships, and Hacks.

• Removed unnecessary messaging functionality from Embeds and Mentorships.

This plugin was not updated in this release.

This plugin was not updated in this release.

• Support for multiple "expressions" per level when creating check rules has been added. This provides greater flexibility when creating expressions for checks and allows multiple sets of expressions, which enables more complex rule creation.
• Added /tracks endpoint, providing programmatic access to Soundcheck tracks. See the Soundcheck README for full details and query parameters.
• Soundcheck's No Code UI now supports the creation and editing of check schedules. This allows users to create schedules for their checks and provides both the ability to specify schedules in cron notation or in an ‘every three days’ type specification.

• Fact collection no longer occurs one minute after startup, instead each fact collector executes on their specified schedule(s). This limits the surge of fact collection during initialization and can help to alleviate rate-limiting restrictions.
• Check and Track Pages’ pagination is fixed. Users can navigate through their checks and tracks with the pagination controls at the bottom of those pages with greater ease.
• Increased the number of certifications returned when populating the Overview page. Upcoming fixes will add pagination to the Overview page. This release significantly increases the number of entities that the Overview page can load to 500 from 50.
  • Correlated: A virtualized table is now used by default on Soundcheck's overview page. With the potential for a much larger number of components to be present on the Overview page, the page has been modified to be virtualized which will prevent performance degradation when viewing a large number of components.
• Resolved an issue with check/track filters where an error message would be displayed when the facet had no values.

• Fact collectors may now optionally include a name and brief description. This will help users identify and describe fact collectors.

This plugin was not updated in this release.

• Added a hover feature for Skill Exchange post chips.

• Fixed issue in Embeds and Mentorships where adding a participant created a new post owner instead of creating a new post connection.
• Fixed long URLs cutting off Hack details on viewing Hacks.

• Save Search notifications are enabled by default on Embeds and Mentorships when Slack contact integration is enabled.
• Updated styling of skill chips to improve readability.
• Updated label styling for Mentorship and Embed posts.

• Insights now captures a more complete group hierarchy related to signed in users. This means that if groups are organized hierarchically in the Software Catalog, Insights captures not only the groups that a user is directly a member of, but also that group's parents, recursively up the org hierarchy. This allows the user dashboard to be segmented not just by teams, but also by other higher-level groups like departments or business units.
• It's now possible to configure a filter for what types of groups are captured, for example: filtering out groups that only exist to grant access to applications, interest groups, etc.

This plugin was not updated in this release.

• Added a No-Code UI for checks and tracks management. No-Code UI is a powerful user interface built into the Soundcheck plugin that allows users to manage checks and tracks without writing YAML code. For more information, check out the documentation.
• Integrated Soundcheck with the RBAC plugin. Admins can now use the RBAC plugin to manage (allow and restrict) what individual users or groups can do within Soundcheck. For next steps, check out the documentation.

• Added "No certifications available" warning on Soundcheck overview page in case the selected group doesn't own any entities that have applicable tracks configured.
• We now allow configuring checks for null rules in Soundcheck (see example below).

checks:
  - id: has_description
    rule:
      factRef: github:default/repo_details
      path: $.description
      operator: notEqual
      value: null
    passedMessage: Repo has a description
    failedMessage: Repo does not have a description

• Soundcheck programs are now called Soundcheck tracks - we believe that the term “track” provides a clearer and more intuitive understanding of the program's content. You may still see some references to “Programs” throughout Soundcheck (for example in .yaml configuration); future releases will cover the renaming of the remaining occurrences.

• Fixed a bug affecting performance for scrolling through members when assigning a role.

• Added the ability to filter Mentorships posts by location.
• Added pagination to Home page search and teams to search results with highlighting.

• Fixed a bug where modifying a hack's status might remove associated skills.
• Users no longer need to refresh a page after saving or following posts to see their changes reflected.
• Closing a hack detail modal will no longer cause the list view to reload and scroll to the top of the page.
• Fixed error that occurs while deleting hack event vote session.
• Fixed error when modifying the categories on an existing event.
• Fixed a bug causing an error when deleting hacks with comments.
• Fixed issues with skill ingestion and user management of default skills.
  • If an integrator now sets the systemUser configuration for skill ingestion, then those skills will be visible to other users.
  • Custom skills a user creates are not visible to other users to add to their profile. Only their user-created skills and the default skills are available.
  • If the System User deletes a skill, then it's removed from any post and user profiles it's related to.

• Minor UI accessibility improvements to embed and mentorship cards.
• Minor improvements to the home page search autocomplete and filters.
• Embeds and mentorships are now ordered by creation date, with the newest entries first.
• Deleting an event now unlinks it from any associated hacks.
• Clicking the 'Delete' button in the hack and event edit forms will scroll the confirmation message into view.

This plugin was not updated in this release.

• Added advanced filtering and segmentation functionality to gain valuable insights into Backstage adoption with the default dimensions like 'User group', 'Entity kind' and 'Lifecycle' or custom dimensions.
• Added custom period selection for any date range going back 90 days
• Added tailored dashboards for surfacing insights into user, catalog, search and template usage activity

• Moved insights from the accounts page on backstage.spotify.com to a frontend plugin with insights surfaced directly in a customer’s Backstage instance. Current customers will need to undergo a low-lift migration by installing the frontend Insights plugin.

• Added support for displaying tabs for entities without types (like entities with kind System or Domain) on the Soundcheck Overview page.
  • Such entities will be grouped by their kind and displayed on the tabs with corresponding names (in case at least one track is applicable to such entities).

• Resolved an issue with resolving Azure DevOps URLs.

• Updated Readme.md to include how to create catalog and Soundcheck checks.

• Fixed an bug causing the frontend to show an error when options property is missing in a policy.
• Fixed a bug where the "any-allow" resolution strategy was not honored when importing a policy using the UI "import" button. The system now correctly matches the imported policy's resolution strategy.
• Minor accessibility improvements.
• Minor UI tweaks and improvements.

• Added the ability to filter Embed posts by location. This includes custom location ingestion so that organization-specific locations can be used to filter posts.

• Fixed a bug to improve searchability of Skill Profiles.
• Fixed contrast text when creating an Embed post.

• Search results where a filter is set to a specific location no longer also include locations that are "flexible".
• Updated navigation text for Embeds and Hacks.
• Minor UI improvements to the skills listed on Embed cards.
• Minor styling fix to the Embed text editor placeholders.

This plugin was not updated in this release.

This plugin was not updated in this release.

• The Github fact collector now supports collecting facts on the languages used within a repository.
  • This means you can now create checks based on the specific languages detected in your repository. For example, if you have a website component and want to ensure it’s built using TypeScript, you can set up a check to verify that with this new feature.
• Added initial integration with Azure DevOps. This integration enables Soundcheck to collect information on your software components from their Azure DevOps projects.

• Numerous enhancements to ensure compliance with accessibility standards.
• Soundcheck can now execute a check if at least one fact within an Any clause is present rather than requiring all facts.
• Instead of needing all the facts within an Any clause, we’ve made it possible for Soundcheck to execute a check as long as at least one fact is present. You can now create rules based on the availability of just one fact, making your checks more versatile and adaptable to your specific needs.
• Addressed a small issue with the Github fact collector where, if no branch protections were in place an error message would be logged, causing unnecessary confusion.
• Resolved an issue related to joining paths for certain Source Control Management (SCM) providers.
• Resolved an issue related to scheduled checks. Previously, the results of these checks were not being persisted as they should have been. Now the results of scheduled checks are being persisted as intended.

• Fact collector installation instructions are now updated in the README.

• Advanced Resolution Strategies for RBAC
  • RBAC policy authors can now customize authorization resolution for users with multiple roles. Set your decision resolution strategy effortlessly from our new policy options page shown below:
• Set the default resolution strategy to 'any-allow' for new authorization policies. The default for policies created previously will remain 'first-match'.

• Added pagination to Home page search and teams to search results with highlighting.
• Clicking the 'Delete' button in the Hack and Event edit forms will scroll the confirmation message into view.

• Minor patch that fixes contact labels overlapping input borders.
• Fixed issue when pasting content from Google Docs into the Rich Text Editor fields in Skill Exchange post forms.
• Fixed issue where modifying a hack's status might remove associated skills.
• Fixed bug where closing a hack detail modal would cause the list view to reload and reset the scroll to the top of the page.
• Fixed a bug for saving and following posts that required users to refresh the page in order to see their changes reflected.

• Minor UI improvement to the detailed view pages.
• Minor UI improvements to the Home navigation on smaller screens.
• Minor improvements to the Home page search autocomplete and filters.
• Increased spacing between paragraphs in text content to improve readability.
• Minor updates to user interaction instrumentation events.

This plugin was not updated in this release.

• Insights is soon moving away from backstage.spotify.com (read more on this blog) first with added support for the Insights Backend plugin. Here’s what you need to know:
• There is a new Insights backend package, @spotify/backstage-plugin-insights-backend, which you should install as soon as possible. Support for using the proxy-based configuration will be removed in the future.
• @spotify/backstage-plugin-analytics-module-insights has been updated to forward analytics events to the new Insights backend plugin. If you are unable to install the Insights backend at this time, you can add this configuration to temporarily keep proxy-based event forwarding:

app:
  analytics:
    backstageInsights:
      useProxy: true

• Added "No Level" badges to the tables on the Soundcheck overview page.
• Added tooltips to checks in the overview page results table.
• Added a message in the checks list of a level to indicate to a user when the level has no checks enabled.
• The overview page can now accept a custom title.
  • Set this in your App.tsx file as a property of the SoundcheckOverviewPage:

<SoundcheckOverviewPage title="My Custom Title" />

• The Soundcheck entity card can now accept a custom title.
  • Set this in your EntityPage.tsx file as a property of the EntitySoundcheckCard:

<EntitySoundcheckCard title="My Custom Title" />

• Added operators supporting comparison of semantic versions.
• Facts submitted to the /facts endpoint may now be cached by providing a cache configuration
• Fact timestamps are now optional, defaulting to submission time.
• Added Soundcheck / Tech Insights integration, allowing the use of Tech Insight facts from within Soundcheck.

• Made improvements to the loading of the overview page table. The table can now support the display of more components. We made this change so that the overview page would be more performant for teams that own a large number of components.

• Fixed issue where the Learn More URL was not being rendered.
• Removed extra scrollbars from the Soundcheck overview page.
• Resolved an issue with checks executed against multiple entities. Before, if multiple entities relied on a single fact collector, sometimes the results would not be reported correctly.
• Fixed 401 error when fetching entities from the catalog with authentication middleware. This was preventing the SoundCheck overview from loading, if an authentication middleware was used.
• Resolved an issue with the Soundcheck fact store that caused records to be re-inserted instead of updated. This caused the Soundcheck database to grow for no reason.
• Resolved browser warnings on the overview page.
• Updated styling to resolve misaligned borders for the tables on the overview page.
• Resolved an issue with the validation of facts submitted to the /facts endpoint.

• Moved the action buttons on the Policy page into a context menu.

• Fixed the permission decision dialog showing no options when any plugin returned invalid permission metadata.

• As of version 0.9.0, Skill Exchange no longer requires a Docker service backend to operate, and replaces it with the @spotify/backstage-plugin-skill-exchange-backend plugin. This greatly simplifying the installation and maintenance of the Skill Exchange plugin. After updating to this version you'll be able to safely remove the Docker service and its containers. Migration of the existing data is possible by configuring the backend plugin to connect to the existing database used by the Docker service. For more information about this and how to upgrade, please refer to the migration section of the Skill Exchange plugin. The Docker backend service is now deprecated, and support will cease with the next version. If you'd like to opt out of this update and keep using an external Docker service for the time being, you can do so by following these configuration instructions.
• Filtering in the search dropdowns for Embeds and Mentorships is now case-insensitive.
• Prevent empty searches in home, embeds, mentorships and hacks.
• Improved highlighting of invalid media fields in the Hack form for better understandability.
• The "Interested in Contributing" button is now hidden on the details page for Adoptable hacks that haven't been claimed yet.
• Stop error message when using filter dropdown for Skill Exchange posts in development environment.

• Fixed a bug with adding or searching for a custom skill containing the letter E or M.
• Fixed a bug where empty skill names were allowed as custom skills.
• Fixed a stale cache issue when bookmarking Embeds and Mentorships.
• Fixed a bug that would cause an error to appear when a user edited their skills.

This plugin was not updated in this release.

This plugin was not updated in this release.

• Added a virtualizeOverviewPage configuration option to only render parts of the Soundcheck overview page that are in-view. This improves performance for teams that have a large amount of entities.
  • To enable this option, add the configuration to your app-config.yaml:

soundcheck:
  virtualizeOverviewPage: true

• Added ability to filter entity types out of the Soundcheck overview page if they have no associated entities.
  • For example in the screenshot below, the fictional team Backstage does not have any Libraries associated with it and we do not show the tab in soundcheck
• Program descriptions now support markdown content.
• Added the Soundcheck Fact Framework, including support for fact collection and check execution. See the README for additional details.
• Added SoundcheckBuilder which simplifies wiring up soundcheck-backend.
• Added GitHub integration for fact extraction from GitHub repositories. See the modules README for additional details, including configuration details.
• Added SCM module for out-of-the-box third party integration with select common source control management providers.
• Initial release of soundcheck-client. Provides a FactsApi for submitting facts to soundcheck as well as a FactsClient which implements the API and which can be used to submit facts to a soundcheck instance.

• Cleaned up some unnecessary output in published packages.
• Added Fact Framework utilities shared between Soundcheck backend and frontend.

• Added possibility to filter role’s members by namespace.
• Group users and groups in a single namespace and view namespaces when there is more than one namespace in the catalog.
• Moved the action buttons on the Policy page into a context menu.

• Fixed an issue where the row on the members table does not expand to the full width of the table.
• Fixed the permission decision dialog showing no options when any plugin returned invalid permission metadata.

• Updated User and Team dropdown fields in Hacks and Embed forms to use the Catalog API for finding entities, rather than the Search API. This means search indexing no longer needs to be enabled to create new posts.

• Fixed routing issues where users cannot create or view Hack events.

This plugin was not updated in this release.

This plugin was not updated in this release.

This plugin was not updated in this release.

• The role’s member table now shows the namespace of the members if it differs from the default namespace (following the same pattern as the members search dropdown and catalog page).
• Added automatic sorting for the members table by type, namespace, and alphabetically, rather than by order added.

• Minor UI accessibility improvements.

• Fixed a bug that could cause the SkillProfileDecoratorFactory to be executed unnecessarily.

This plugin was not updated in this release.

This plugin was not updated in this release.

• Check results now validate entity references.
  • Soundcheck now returns an error if a check result with an invalidly formatted entity reference is submitted to the /results endpoint. Read more about this new feature.

• Resolved an issue where users were unable to view the diffing between two policies due to the absence of an active policy.
• Fixed issue logging informative “Policy started” message multiple times.
• Minor UI tweaks and improvements.

This plugin was not updated in this release.

This plugin was not updated in this release.

This plugin was not updated in this release.