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Overview

We are making a change to the password policy to ensure at least one special character is present when setting an Alloy password. This will increase password complexity in order to prevent unauthorised access to your Alloy account.

Who will this affect?

Current passwords will remain valid even if they do not contain a special character, so this won't impact existing users immediately after release.

However, this will apply to existing users when they change or reset their passwords. The change will also affect new users setting up an Alloy account for the first time.

Details

New user passwords, and existing users changing or resetting passwords, will need to include at least one special character. A special character is a character that is not an alphabetic or numeric character, e.g. @&*[].

Expected Release Date

28th October 2021

Overview

In order to improve the accessibility of Alloy Meshes, we will be adding support for Open API JSON and endpoint documentation. Following a detailed review of the exposed endpoints and data models, we will also be acting to implement the following deprecations to provide better consistency between naming and conventions with the Alloy Core, Extended and Forge API's. Finally, we will be making changes to the way in which the security token is passed to the Meshes to improve security. 

Security token to be removed from query string

We will no longer be accepting the token parameter which represents an Alloy API token on the query string, this should be passed via the HTTP headers in all future requests using the same key of token.

Example CURL before:

curl -X 'POST' \
  'http://localhost:3000/aws-iot/update-device?itemId=abc?token=123' \
  -H 'accept: application/json' \

Example CURL after:

curl -X 'POST' \
  'http://localhost:3000/aws-iot/update-device?itemId=abc' \
  -H 'accept: application/json' \
  -H 'token: 123' \

MeshResponseWithItemWebModel renames property itemResponse to item

The following meshes are expected to return a response which includes an item payload under the property itemResponse.

• alloy-push-mayrise-notice-mesh
• json-push-alloy-mesh
• telensa-fault-push-alloy-mesh

This property is being renamed to item but we will continue to return itemResponse until the date specified below for Phase 2. 

Example response before:

{
  "itemResponse": {
    "itemId": "af32ef...",
    ...
  }
}

Example response after:

{
  "itemResponse": {
    "itemId": "af32ef...",
    ...
  },
  // we will duplicate the data in the recommended item property
  "item": {
    "itemId": "af32ef...",
    ...
  },
}

Risk calculation mesh to remove itemsResponse property

The risk calculation mesh alloy-push-risk-calculation-mesh is removing the itemsResponse property as it was not correctly indicating the success of the response model, it isn't required and will therefore be removed as part of Phase 1 changes. 

When do these changes take effect?

The above changes will be rolled out in June 2021, with deprecations finally removed in January 2022 with the following expected release dates: 

Expected Release Date

Phase 1: June 24th 2021

Phase 2: February 24th 2022