Change Log

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

[3.0.6] - 2024-04-03

Security

Addressed security vulnerabilities found in npm packages

[3.0.5] - 2024-02-05

Fixed

Pinned the cdk-nag package version to 2.27.104

[3.0.4] - 2023-10-20

Security

Addressed security vulnerabilities found in npm packages

[3.0.3] - 2023-08-17

Changed

Updated AWS Amplify 4 to 5 and UI login page
Migrated AWS SDK for JavaScript V2 to V3
Updated outdated libraries
Improvement to service API metrics collection

Fixed

Simulations map not working
Fix Device Type and simulation deletion UI issue (GitHub issue #29)

Removed

CDK Bootstrap requirement for provisioning the CloudFormation stack

Security

Addressed security vulnerabilities found in npm packages

[3.0.2] - 2023-06-12

Changed

Added deployment details in README.md

Fixed

fast-xml-parser vulnerability

[3.0.1] - 2023-04-27

Changed

Upgraded to Node 18
Added App registry integration
Upgraded to CDK 2, React Scripts 5
Upgraded to use ES2022

[3.0.0] - 2021-11-22

⚠️ BREAKING CHANGES

v3.0.0 does not support to upgrade from the previous version due to

Design change
- Using AWS Step Functions instead of AWS Fargate to run a simulator
- Merged devices and widgets into simulations
- Merged device-widgets, sim-settings, and sim-metrics Amazon DynamoDB tables into Simulator DynamoDB table
- Merged all microservices AWS Lambda function into a single microservices AWS Lambda function
AWS CDK to generate AWS CloudFormation template

Added

Support import/Export of device types
Multiple vehicles displayed on map
Ability to define a character set (an alphabet from which the ID will be created) and the length of the ID attribute

Changed

Replace Mapbox map to Amazon Location Service map for the automotive demo
UI framework migration: Angular JS to React
Change helper AWS Lambda function to TypeScript
Abstracted devices - devices are no longer created and stored, they will be generated in the simulator lambda using the specified device type and amount specified for each device type
Simplified boolean attribute: no max and min to generate boolean data
Automotive demo attributes aggregated into a single message

Fixed

Unix timestamp to show the epoch time correctly

Removed

Data attributes: uuid, shortid

[2.1.1] - 2019-12-20

Added

Lambda runtime updated to Node.js 12
CloudFront distribution access log enabled
S3 access log enabled
Public access and public ACLs denied on S3 buckets
Encryption at rest enabled for S3 and SQS using AWS default keys
Docker build image updated to Node.js 12 on ECR

[2.1.0] - 2019-03-23

Added

Removed unauthenticated role from the Amazon Cognito Identity Pool

[2.0.0] - 2019-02-27

Added

Added new data generation algorithms: Sinusoidal and Decay
Added new attribute type for nested (JSON) objects (up to 3 deep) for device type payloads
Added ability to share Device Templates between users of the same installation
Update user interface paging size for widget and fleet listings to 100
Update launch and start limits for widgets and fleets to 100
Added ability for users to stop simulations (single or in bulk of 100) for widgets and vehicles.
Add search ability for widgets (or vehicles) by device id, device type and status
DynamoDB tables switched to be created with PAY_PER_REQUEST billing mode vice PROVISIONED capacity
Added ability for device attributes to be included in the topic as variables
Resolved availability zone offset issue with Fargate cluster VPC

[1.1.0] - 2018-11-05

Added

Change manifest generator to use writeFileSync to eliminate callback deprecation error-* Added development template [iot-device-simualtor.yaml] to deployment folder
Added Amazon CloudFront distribution to simulator console
Set Amazon CloudFront OAI restrictive permissions for simulator console Amazon S3 bucket
Updated signin URL for user invitation emails to Amazon CloudFront distribution domain
Added new device type attribute DEVICE ID which provides a static unique identifier for each generated device constant across simulations
Added ability to bulk start devices by selecting multiple devices on a given page and “one click start” the simulations for multiple devices
Migration from VeriSign AWS IoT endpoints to ATS AWS IoT endpoints

[1.0.1] - 2018-05-23

Added

Added fix for creation of Elastic IPs in legacy accounts that are not vpc-by-default
Added fix for administration microservice IAM policy to include all required permissions to manage users through the simulator console