Alpaca Backend Changelog

All notable changes to the Alpaca Backend

v0.72.1 - v0.72.2 (2025-12-11)

  • Read and pass licenseFile from cosmo.json correctly to the container
  • Fix issue that prevented using AAD authentication when creating containers for Azure DevOps repositories
  • Make properties in BC container request overridable from user input while also using a configuration

v0.72.0 (2025-12-08)

  • Upgrade to .NET 10 (incl. dependencies packages)
  • Adapt to changes in OpenAPI & Swagger
  • Support API paging when retrieving graph groups for an Azure DevOps organization
  • Fix issue that the server address in the container launch configuration should not contain the server instance
  • Review and streamline XML docs of all API endpoints
  • Review and replace misleading API endpoints:
    • POST /AzureDevOps/Backlog/{organization}/{project}/{sourceOrganization}/{sourceProject} ->
    • POST /AzureDevOps/Backlog/import with request body
    • GET /AzureDevOps/Branch/{organization}/{project}/{repository}/branches ->
    • GET /AzureDevOps/Branch/{organization}/{project}/{repository}
    • GET /AzureDevOps/Repository/{organization}/{project}/{repository} ->
    • GET /AzureDevOps/RepositoryConfig/{organization}/{project}/{repository}
    • GET /AzureDevOps/Repository/{organization}/{project}/{repository}/bcArtifacts ->
    • GET /AzureDevOps/RepositoryConfig/{organization}/{project}/{repository}/bcArtifacts
    • marked the old endpoints as obsolete for now
  • Add dedicated container endpoints with simplified models:
    • POST /Container/Container (generic endpoint remains unchanged)
    • POST /Container/Container/azureDevOps
    • POST /Container/Container/gitHub
    • POST /Container/Container/standalone
    • POST /Container/Container/demo
  • BC Artifact properties are now overridable when creating a container

v0.71.0 (2025-12-05)

  • Rework for handling of trusted NuGet feeds

v0.70.0 (2025-11-27)

  • Add endpoint to retrieve Azure DevOps demo container configurations
  • Add endpoint to create containers based on an Azure DevOps demo configuration
  • Implement BcArtifact selection while creating containers for an Azure DevOps repository

v0.69.0 (2025-11-19)

  • Implement reading of AL-Go configuration settings

v0.68.0 - v0.68.1 (2025-11-18)

  • Add support for authentication with Azure management tokens
  • Set default backend URL for COSMO users
  • Update dependency packages

v0.67.2 (2025-11-14)

  • Set artifact defaults already when retrieving the configuration of an AL-Go project

v0.67.1 (2025-11-11)

  • Remove unnecessary Kubernetes label validation for branch names again

v0.67.0 (2025-11-10)

  • Add endpoints to retrieve the current user together with their type
  • Retrieve the user profile from Graph API instead of Visual Studio API
  • Additionally extract the COSMO domain of a user from its Graph profile
  • Update dependency packages

v0.66.0 - v0.66.1 (2025-10-30)

  • Add endpoint to retrieve Azure DevOps pull requests
  • Implement support to create containers based on a cosmo.json (Azure DevOps)
  • Implement retrieval to read the container configuration from a cosmo.json (Azure DevOps)
  • Streamline and reuse models from GitHub for Azure DevOps container configuration
  • Implement translation and merge of ipArtifacts (Azure DevOps)
  • Implement origin-based container request pre-processing
  • Implement validation of URL and DevOps artifacts (Azure DevOps)
  • Add endpoints to create and revoke PATs (Azure DevOps)
  • Add support for authentication with Azure DevOps pipeline token

v0.65.0 (2025-10-29)

  • Add endpoint to update CI/CD of an Azure DevOps project

v0.64.0 (2025-10-24)

  • Improve error handling while migrating project to template process

v0.63.0 (2025-10-22)

  • Modify endpoint to receive container/image creation status to use bool flags for easy access in consuming Powershell

v0.62.0 (2025-10-22)

  • Add a ProjectHelper class to map GitHub workflow to container configuration

v0.61.0 (2025-10-21)

  • Update Snippet endpoints to return the whole commit message of a snippet as description in case there is no dedicated description

v0.60.0 (2025-10-16)

  • Add demo-containers configuration

v0.59.0 (2025-10-14)

  • Add Endpoint to get info about published and installed apps in the container

v0.58.1 (2025-10-13)

  • Improve error handling when reading Github project settings

v0.58.0 (2025-10-09)

  • Add endpoint for syncing GitHub secrets/variables to Kubernetes secret

v0.57.0 (2025-10-08)

  • Add Copilot instructions and support for GitHub workflow authentication

v0.56.1 (2025-10-01)

  • Fix issue where customizing a new project in a new organization causes an error while creating ChildTasksTemplates

v0.56.0 (2025-10-01)

  • Add endpoint to retrieve container configurations and prune obsolete ones
  • Add support for the ChildTasksTemplate extension in the customizing function

v0.55.1 (2025-09-26)

  • Fix issue where trying to create a container for a branch containing non-alphanumeric characters caused an error

v0.55.0 (2025-09-23)

  • Internal improvements & refactorings
  • Support AL-Go setting assignPremiumPlan for premium experience in Alpaca containers

v0.54.0 (2025-09-17)

  • Include areas when importing an Azure DevOps project backlog
  • Update dependency packages

v0.53.4 (2025-09-12)

  • Fix issue where existing service connections were not correctly used when onboarding an Azure DevOps project

v0.53.3 (2025-09-11)

  • Fix issue that may have occurred when updating the Templates repository in an Azure DevOps project
  • Enhance error handling when initializing Azure DevOps projects

v0.53.2 (2025-09-10)

  • Fix issue where the enterprise backend was not correctly used when creating or onboarding an Azure DevOps project

v0.53.0 - v0.53.1 (2025-09-09)

  • Add new endpoint to import the backlog of another Azure DevOps project
  • Fix process retrieve for process customization

v0.52.0 (2025-09-09)

  • Adapt to AL-Go workflow inputs
  • Update dependency packages

v0.51.0 (2025-09-02)

  • Harmonize PowerShell execution within APIs

v0.50.0 (2025-08-29)

  • Add new container actions: get logs, execute scripts (DLL collection, base app preparation, restart NAV/BC server instance), retrieve event logs, and download files
  • Implement script execution with async status tracking and WebSocket-based command execution in containers

v0.49.0 (2025-08-28)

  • Add endpoint for project creation
  • Refactor Kubernetes label value validation and normalization
  • Restore BcArtifact default values (were previously removed with v0.46.1)
  • Update dependency packages

v0.48.1 (2025-08-14)

  • Remove all forward and back slashes from the start and end of snippet group names

v0.48.0 (2025-08-13)

  • Introduce container type, add IDs to GitHub models

v0.47.0 (2025-08-07)

  • Add process customizations to configs

v0.46.1 (2025-08-07)

  • Fix containers always using default BC artifact values (e.g. country "w1")

v0.46.0 (2025-08-07)

  • Implement retrieval of process modifications based on namespace via tenantId

v0.45.0 (2025-08-05)

  • Changed repository for template type "AlpacaPTE" to "cosmoconsult/Alpaca-PTE-Template"

v0.44.0 (2025-08-05)

  • Add container functions and endpoints to create, update and delete (BC) containers

v0.43.0 (2025-08-05)

  • Update dependency packages
  • Add customize function for Azure DevOps projects

v0.41.1 (2025-07-14)

  • Streamline some Azure DevOps and GitHub models, add Id properties
  • Add tests for GitHub BranchService
  • Update cache when changing the assigned entity of a GitHub repository
  • Update dependency packages

v0.41.0 (2025-07-10)

  • Add organization and project to repository model
  • Add more properties to branches model: organization, project, repository, isMineOrDefault
  • Extend tests

v0.40.2 (2025-07-09)

  • Swagger: Don't require unique actionName/operationId per namespace but only per controller
  • Swagger: Set the action name as the description of the operation

v0.40.1 (2025-07-08)

  • Move backendUrl retrieval (from variables, variable group and service connection) to dedicated endpoints
  • Return default backendUrl on DevOps organizations/projects and GitHub owners/repositories (default backend is determined by Azure AD Tenant or GitHub owner)
  • Add initial support for 4PS backend
  • Improve caching for repository retrieval
  • Set correct htmlUrl on repositories
  • Return branch names without prefix
  • Update dependency packages

v0.40.0 (2025-07-07)

  • Add dedicated endpoints for Azure DevOps Repositories and Branches

v0.39.1 (2025-07-02)

  • Add dedicated endpoint to retrieve the assigned entity of a GitHub repository again

v0.39.0 (2025-07-02)

  • Support specific backend per Azure DevOps project (defined in variable group or service connection)
  • Check if the current user is a Project Collection Administrator when assigning a COSMO entity to a project
  • Remove default values for BcArtifact to enable inheritance again

v0.38.0 (2025-06-30)

  • Improve repository retrieval & also include repositories where the user is only a collaborator
  • Add Container namespace and endpoints to retrieve containers
  • Add separate Azure DevOps authentication and connection
  • Add endpoints to retrieve DevOps organizations, projects and their assigned entities
  • Streamline entity handling between Azure DevOps and GitHub
  • Streamline handling for Azure DevOps organizations/projects and GitHub owners/repositories
  • Update dependency packages

v0.37.1 (2025-06-10)

  • Improve repository search

v0.37.0 (2025-05-30)

  • Remove backendUrl from repository configuration
  • Setting a custom backendUrl is now done via the variable ALPACA_BACKEND_URL (on organization or repository level)
  • Minor internal improvements
  • Update dependency packages

v0.36.0 (2025-05-22)

  • Add additional properties to update GitHub repository settings from variable ALPACA_REPO_STANDARDS
  • Update dependency packages

v0.35.0 - v0.35.2 (2025-05-08)

  • Add new endpoint to get the list of COSMO entities (together with the related office)
  • Add new endpoint to assign a COSMO entity to a GitHub repository
  • Automatically retrieve the assigned COSMO entity when getting a GitHub repository

v0.34.0 - v0.34.1 (2025-05-02)

  • Improve variable retrieval logic to enable overriding organization variables on repository level
  • Enhance error handling when getting custom properties of a repository
  • Update dependency packages

v0.33.0 (2025-04-17)

  • Enhance processing of scheduled background jobs
  • Minor internal improvements

v0.32.1 (2025-04-29)

  • Remove optional route parameters and update XMLDoc generation

v0.32.0 (2025-04-17)

  • Update AL-Go

v0.31.0 (2025-04-15)

  • Update AL-Go

v0.30.1 (2025-03-26)

  • Fix search to return default branch of repositories

v0.30.0 (2025-03-13)

v0.29.0 (2025-03-06)

  • Automatically apply Alpaca repo standards configured in org variable on repo initialization

v0.28.1 - v0.28.2 (2025-03-05)

  • Fix Image build

v0.28.0 (2025-03-05)

  • Add endpoint to get the custom properties of a repo

v0.27.0 (2025-02-26)

  • Merge GitHub specific services, adapt structure and tests

v0.26.0 (2025-02-26)

  • Update dependency packages
  • Remove duplicate GitHub endpoints
  • Add tests for RepositoryService

v0.25.0 (2025-02-15)

  • Update dependency packages
  • Internal improvements
  • Add GitHub specific endpoints

v0.24.0 (2025-02-06)

  • Move to GitHub
  • Update to AL-Go v6.3

v0.23.0 (2024-12-10)

v0.22.0

  • Add support for alpaca.json configuration

v0.21.0

v0.20.0

v0.19.1

v0.19.0

v0.18.2

v0.18.1

v0.18.0

v0.17.2

v0.17.1

v0.17.0

v0.16.0

v0.15.0

v0.14.0

v0.13.0

v0.12.0

v0.11.0

v0.10.0

v0.9.0

v0.8.1

v0.8.0

v0.7.0

v0.6.1

v0.6.0