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Version: v251118.1

Release Date: 18th November, 2025

Summary

This release includes next updates:

  • Resolves an issue preventing plugins provisioning.
  • Resolves an issue in the 2.3.0 release preventing file uploads from SharePoint due to CSP restrictions.

Package version: 2.3.2

Manual pre-deployment steps

Review/update release pipeline variables

It's important to apply any changes for all environments to pipeline variables before a release created, because every release creates a snapshot of pipeline variables on the moment of creation, and the only way to re-deploy the application with updated variables - creating a new release

  1. Go to Azure DevOps, open Brief Connect project
  2. In left panel navigation go to Pipelines - Library - Variable groups
  3. Review variables for all environments and update where required (outdated values, recent environment changes, requests from business, etc).
  4. Save the changes

Create release for 'Deploy Brief Connect Application' release pipeline

  1. Go to Azure DevOps, open Brief Connect project, go to Pipelines - Releases page
  2. Find Deploy Brief Connect Application release pipeline, click on it to open
  3. If there is no release with a version specified in Package version section above, then execute the instruction below to create a new release. Release name should have the next pattern: v[Package Version] (n), where (n) just a counter, in case multiple releases created for the same package version.
Create new Brief Connect Application release (click to expand) 1. Go to Azure DevOps, open Brief Connect project, go to **Pipelines - Releases** page 1. Find **Deploy Brief Connect Application** release pipeline, click on it to open 1. Click on **Create Release** button on the right 1. Specify the **Package Version** variable with value from **Package version** section above. For example `2.3.1`. 1. Add a description (it's optional). 1. Click on **Create** button 1. Release with version `v[Package Version] (0)` will be created and will be available in the list of releases, after you refresh the page. ![image.png](/.attachments/new-application-release.png)

Pipeline deployment steps (in order)

  1. Deploy release v[Package Version] (n) (where (n) is latest number available, and Package version from the section above) for Deploy Brief Connect Application release pipeline in Azure DevOps to the target environment.

Manual post-deployment steps

Plugin package upgrade

Role required: Brief Connect Administrator

  1. Log into the target Brief Connect environment as Brief Connect Admin user. Open the Admin Panel (https://[WEB_APP_URL]/#/adminPanel)
  2. Select active configuration from the list
  3. Go to plugins tab, and upload the plugin package (see attached zip) in Brief Connect admin panel for the active config. It will overwrite plugin files and push bundle files to the storage file share.
  4. Make sure the only single "DE Supplementary Areas Plugin" is enabled.
  5. Save the config changes

DE Supplementary Areas Plugin.zip

Clear the Server cache

Role required: Brief Connect Administrator

  1. Log into the target Brief Connect environment as Brief Connect Admin user. Open the Admin Panel (https://[WEB_APP_URL]/#/adminPanel)
  2. Open browsers Developer Tools, open Console tab and run the command window.clearCache() there. After successful execution, you should see Cache cleared. Server Result: true message in the console.

Smoke Tests

We recommend following our basic testing guide after this release: Basic testing of Brief Connect - Brief Connect Documentation

Rollback steps to previous version

Execute all deployment steps for the target release from related Release Notes.