On August 4, 2022, Blue Octopus releases the upgrade to Octopus Platform version 2.9. The upgrade window will be between 9:00 and 9:30 and in principle does not affect the service.
NEW FUNTIONALITIES
Notifications panel: se ha agregado un nuevo panel en la parte superior derecha del menú principal en el cual se pueden ver todas las notificaciones importantes relacionadas con la organización seleccionada y con el software Octopus Wifi. Además, en la pantalla de login se ha añadido un nuevo apartado a la derecha en el cual se ve un listado de todas las actualizaciones recientemente añadidas a la plataforma.
Help and access to support on the login screen: a new section has been added at the bottom of the login screen which shows the contact details of the support team as well as direct access to the Octopus Wifi Wiki.
FIXED BUGS
Emojis in polls: a bug has been fixed, which caused that emojis in polls were not displayed correctly.
General performance improvements: optimizations have been made throughout the platform to improve loading times of lists and reports when the volume of selected data is very large.
On August 1, 2022, Blue Octopus releases the upgrade to Octopus Platform version 2.8. The upgrade window will be between 9:00 and 9:30 and in principle does not affect the service.
NEW FUNTIONALITIES
Ruijie integration: at the request of some of our integrators, Ruijie devices are now available for use with Octopus Platform.
Revision of the legal texts section: the entire legal texts section has been redesigned to allow versioning of the same legal texts, as well as the functionality to review user acceptances and accepted versions of the same.
FIXED BUGS
Legal checkboxes in the WLANS section: when there was only one access method configured in the localization (specific form), a bug that prevented the activation of the legal text checkboxes in the wlans section has been corrected.
On June 27, 2022, Blue Octopus releases the upgrade to Octopus Platform version 2.5. The upgrade window will be between 9:00 and 9:30 and in principle does not affect the service.
NEW FUNTIONALITIES
Introduction of improvements in the management of passwords for managing users: Introducing greater security in the management of passwords to align with the objectives of ISO 27001 or ENS of customers. It is now possible to configure the password policy per organization (password length, use of upper/lower case, minimum number of characters, numbers, symbols, double factor configuration...).
Texts related to the room number: the literals referring to the room number in the PMS login method have been improved to include references to the apartment number, since it will not always be a room from which the customer logs in, it could be an apartment.
Improved REST API authentication: the login process has been improved to incorporate the latest changes of the Symfony framework when logging in with the API to improve the security and speed of the application.
FIXED BUGS
Error when changing organizations: fixed the error that when using the top right selector to change the active organization, it did not automatically reload the page, showing incorrect data.
Error reports Dashboard general when selecting a Realm as context: the error that prevented to show statistics for a Realm has been corrected, also the hiding of the error screen when selecting a valid context with data has been corrected.
Error when displaying the connection end time in the REST API Connections endpoint: the error that caused the end date of user connections to appear as null when querying through the API has been corrected.
Error when creating a location without having a previous organization: the error that caused a new user partner to create locations before even being assigned to a valid organization has been corrected, resulting in inconsistent data being generated.
Error in the sorting of the list of Contacts (global users): error that caused some of the filters in the list not to sort the columns correctly, showing an empty table, has been corrected.
On May 17, 2022, Blue Octopus releases the upgrade to Octopus Platform version 2.5. The upgrade window will be between 9:00 and 9:30 and in principle does not affect the service.
NEW FUNCTIONALITIES
Revision of navigability and functionality of the email sending module: improvements and adjustments in the mail template (renamed and reunified together with the message subjects as "mail content") along with the extension of campaign statistics and the possibility to see the recipients of a generated audience.
Encryption of AWS machine disks: with a view to improving security, the process of encrypting the data disks of the machines used by the platform in AWS has begun.
RDS instances revision: in order to improve the platform's speed and stability, the type of instance of the platform's RDS machines (databases) has been improved to one with greater processing capacity.
FIXED BUGS
Error in the timezone of registered users:: the error that affected some of the registered users whose login date was assigned with several hours difference from the current one has been corrected.
Revision of the Facebook APP: due to the request of Facebook itself, the APP used for Facebook login on the platform is reviewed and re-evaluated with the Facebook team to ensure that it continues to work smoothly.
On April 28, 2022, Blue Octopus releases the upgrade to Octopus Platform version 2.5. The upgrade window will be between 9:00 and 9:30 and in principle does not affect the service.
NEW FUNCTIONALITIES
External post-login video campaigns: possibility to display a Vimeo or YouTube video as a post-login campaign on the platform.
Audiences on user lists: it is now possible to generate an audience for campaigns for a single list of users registered on the portal.
Amazon SES: configuration has been added to the platform to send emails through the Amazon AWS platform itself and not by traditional SMTP.
SAML Azure AD: corporate integration with Microsoft's Azure AD for SAML 2.0 protocol has been added.
Help Buttom in the platform: added a help button in the main menu with platform wiki and technical support data for faster access.
FIXED BUGS
Error when trying to recover password: when requesting a password reset in the login page, a 500 error was displayed in orange that prevented to complete the process and reset the password.
Error in the selector in the access section: after creating an access (ticket or mac) when returning to the list of issued accesses, it appeared empty due to the selection of an automatic wrong group.
Error in the services of the ticket list: when changing the context in the ticket list, the services of the previous context remained active.
EN language error in WLAN legal terms: a ghost EN language with empty texts was registered.
Error with Nuclias Cloud and Juniper Mist: a bug was detected in the code of these manufacturers that caused the portal not to appear and instead a 404 error page was displayed.