Published Release Notes

Define and manage features during application development

You can now define and manage the features and child features that you want to implement in your application. A feature represents any capability in your application that you want to promote to stakeholders during the application development process. When you develop an application and design case types, you can link each case type to top-level features in Designer Studio. In addition, you can associate existing rules with features, which maintains traceability and makes it easier for you to extend the application because you can identify the rules that are associated with each feature.

For more information, see Features.

Create connections to repositories

Pega^® Platform can communicate with common repository technologies. Whenever an action creates a RAP, Pega Platform can browse, publish, or fetch artifacts: for example, when exporting an application, product, branch, or component. Repositories are instances of the Data-Repository class which holds all necessary connection information.

Pega Platform includes tools to connect with the following repository types:

• JFrog Artifactory
• Amazon S3

For more information, see Creating a JFrog Artifactory or Amazon S3 repository connection.

Execute Tests service now supports flows, case types, and PegaUnit test suites

The Execute Tests service now supports running flows, case types, PegaUnit test suites. Use the Execute Tests service to validate the quality of your builds after every build run.

For more information, see Running PegaUnit test cases and test suites with the Execute Tests service.

Support for creating PegaUnit test suites

You can now create PegaUnit test suites to group related PegaUnit test cases and run them in the order that you specify. For example, you can create smoke tests to verify that critical application functionality is working as expected.

For more information, see PegaUnit test suites.

Enable and disable functionality with feature toggles

You can enable and disable functionality in your application for development and testing by creating feature toggles on the Toggle Management landing page. You can also manage the toggles in your application from the landing page. For example, you can review the toggles that you want to retire at the end of a release, or migrate a toggle to other applications by changing the associated ruleset.

For more information, see Creating a toggle.

Support for following users in the Pega Express and Case Manager portals

You can now follow users in both the Pega Express and Case Manager portals. Posts that are made by users whom you are following are displayed in your Pulse activity feed in your dashboard. In addition, an icon indicates whether followed users are online.

For more information, see the following help topics:

• Following a user (Pega 7.3)
• Following a user (Pega 7.3 express)

Enhancements to the Send Email smart shape

The following enhancements have been made to the Send Email smart shape:

• You can now configure the Send Email smart shape in Pega Express.
• You can use templates, such as a rejection template, in your email.
• You can use property values, which allow you to insert the value of a field in your case type, such as First Name, within the email.
• You can insert a link to the case ID in your email.
• You can more quickly configure your recipient list by using two options, instead of one, to send messages to either a list of email addresses or to fields.
• You can choose to send either all case attachments in an email, or you can send attachments of a specified attachment category or an attachment type field. You can specify multiple attachment categories and attachment type fields.

For more information, see the following help topics:

• Sending email from a case (Pega 7.3)
• Sending email from a case (Pega 7.3 express)

Improved requestor management

From the Requestor Management landing page, you can now manage active requestors and debug their activity on all nodes in the cluster, including the current node and remote nodes. You can view performance and requestor details; start the Tracer or Clipboard tool; profile, interrupt, or terminate the selected requestor; and estimate the data size of all requestors on the selected node.

For more information, see Managing requestors.

PegaUnit testing now supports flows, case types, and additional assertions

You can now create PegaUnit test cases for flows and case types to verify that the rule returns the expected output when you run the test case.

Additionally, you can use the following new assertions

• Assigned to – Verifies that the case is routed to the appropriate operator or work queue.
• Case status – Verifies the status of a case.
• Attachment exists – Verifies that an attachment exists.
• Case instance count – Verifies the number of case types, such as child cases, that are created when the test case runs.

For more information, see PegaUnit test cases for flows and case types.

Remotely start automation server jobs to perform branch operations

You can remotely start a job on your automation server, such as Jenkins, after an activity has occurred, for example, after you push a branch to a remote system of record. You can configure a continuous delivery pipeline on the job by using the branches REST service and merges REST service to detect conflicts, merge branches, and return the status of the merge. By remotely starting a job to detect conflicts and merge branches, you can more quickly deliver higher-quality software.

For more information, see the following PDN articles:

• Using branches with Pega repositories in a continuous integration and development pipeline.
• Remotely starting automation jobs to perform branch operations and run PegaUnit tests.
• Performing branch operations in a continuous integration and delivery pipeline with REST services.