Releases: SafeExamBrowser/seb-server-setup
Patch Release v2.2.2
Patch Release SEB Server v2.2.2
This is a patch release for the SEB Server v2.2.0 release and fixes some bugs and includes improvements
Improvements:
SEBSERV-784 Exam: Remove space-characters at begin and end of quit password
SEBSERV-821 Monitoring: Disable Quit All in Monitoring View for Teacher Role
Bugfixes:
SEBSERV-814 Exam fallowupTime is not used within ExamUpdateHandler
SEBSERV-815 Exam: Exam Administrator cannot use Test Run
SEBSERV-818 Monitoring Exam: subsequent LMS Login Name Resolving Cache Issue
SEBSP-217 Cache Issue with Session on scaled setups with more then one sps-webservice
Patch Release v2.2.1
Patch Release SEB Server v2.2.1
This is a patch release for the SEB Server v2.2.0 release and fixes some bugs and includes improvements
Improvements:
- SEBSERV-784 Exam: Remove space-characters at begin and end of quit password
- SEBSERV-821 Monitoring: Disable Quit All in Monitoring View for Teacher Role
Bugfixes:
- SEBSERV-814 Exam fallowupTime is not used within ExamUpdateHandler
- SEBSERV-815 Exam: Exam Administrator cannot use Test Run
- SEBSERV-818 Monitoring Exam: subsequent LMS Login Name Resolving Cache Issue
SEB Server v2.2.0
Within this new version 2.2 we implemented mostly new features for Screen Proctoring and make SEB Server and Screen Proctoring
more stable.
New Features:
- SEB Server - Allow exams with multiple consecutive quizzes in Moodle
- SEB Server - Allow App Signature Key (ASK) for Teacher Roles
- SEB Server - SEB Lock on Assessment Tool gets set as soon as the Exam is imported
- SEB Server - New SEB Settings for Exam Configuration
Change default value of "enableLogging" from false to true
Change default value of "quitURLRestart" from true to false
New iOS setting "mobileShowEditConfigShortcutItem"
New iOS setting "allowUploadsiOS"
New setting "downloadFileTypes"
Improvements:
- SEB Server - Improved Teacher Account administration by SEB Server Admin and Institutional Admin
- SEB Server - Improved name filter in Assessment Tool Lookup. Is now case-insensitive
- SEB Server - Improved start time filter within Assessment Tool Lookup
- SEB Server - Improved Assessment Tool Lookup to not show already imported exams
- SEB Server - Exam quit password is now a normal text field
- SEB Server - Improved SEB auto quit when Exam as finished - check does not rely on cache data now but on actual stored data (prevent unintended auto quits)
- SEB Server - Add manual SEB instructions like SEB Quit, SEB Lock... to Audit Log
- SEB Server / Screen Proctoring - Improve account registration and synchronization
- SEB Server / Screen Proctoring - Improved logging for testing and prod
- Support for newer MariaDB version 11.4
Bugfixes:
- SEB Server - Fixed Sometimes or for certain Exam Templates Screen Proctoring don't get applied in Exam Import
- SEB Server - Fixed Moodle course filter where it was not working on Moodle site
- SEB Server / Screen Proctoring - Fixed screen proctoring initialization on Exam import
- SEB Server Monitoring - Fix lock screen for a client in the state ready not possible
- SEB Server - Fixed colon in quizname causes problems in search
- SEB Server / Moodle - Fixed Decoded quit password in Exam causes errors in Exam Configuration and Moodle
Removed:
- SEB Server - SEB Logs functionality has been removed due to performance issues and obsoleteness of the feature.
SEB Logs can be seen and exported on Exam and SEB Client view level now.
Docker Images:
SEB Server v2.1.0
Within this new version 2.1 we implemented mostly new features for Screen Proctoring and make SEB Server and Screen Proctoring more stable. We also stabilized the SEB Server Moodle Plugin integration for SEB Server Moodle Plugin Version 2.
For a migration from a running SEB Server setup with version 1.x to new major version 2.0, please also read the migration guide.
New Features:
- SEB Server - Screen Proctoring: Client group application for screen proctoring groups. Client groups applied in an exam can now be applied to screen proctoring to have the same groups.
- Screen Proctoring: Deletion of screen proctoring sessions for admin users
- Screen Proctoring: Application View search
Improvements:
- SEB Server - SEB Settings: All new SEB Settings from SEB Win, SEB Mac and SEB iOS now in SEB Settings GUI
- SEB Server - Screen Proctoring: Apply Screen Proctoring to SEB Settings from Exam. When screen proctoring is enabled/disables on Exam, it is also enabled/disabled in the applied SEB Settings for SEB
- SEB Server - Screen Proctoring: Stabilise Screen Proctoring Feature and make SPS API Connection more stable
- SEB Server - Setup: Simplify Spring profiles
- SEB Server - Moodle Integration: Stabilise Moodle Plugin 2 Integration
- SEB Server - Moodle Integration: Make Teacher Accounts not selectable as Exam supporter
- SEB Server - Error Handling: Improve error message and logs in SEB Server
- SEB Server - ASK: ASK Monitoring: Make clearer note when SEB do not send an ASK
- Screen Proctoring: Update to latest Spring Boot version 3.3.2
- Screen Proctoring: Add limit to Screenshot Queue to prevent out of memory
- Screen Proctoring: Make sure Exam Admin and Institution Admin see only supported Exams on SPS
Bugfixes:
- SEB Server - Moodle Integration: LMS Moodle external_id should not be greater than 255 chars
- SEB Server - Moodle Integration: Delete Teacher users when exam is deleted or assessment tool setup is deactivated
- SEB Server - Moodle Integration: using twice the same quiz name in a Moodle Course seems not working
- SEB Server - Monitoring: Notification symbol does not appear when locking a client from the list view
- Screen Proctoring: Prevent queue overflow on metadata store error (due to to long meta data for example)
- Screen Proctoring: Fix RDBMS and S3 store strategy to avoid multiple entries in screenshot_data table when retrying to store screenshot
- Screen Proctoring: S3 Storage: HTTP Connection leak on abandoned image requests (fast time line shift on recorder for example)
- Screen Proctoring: URLEncoded metadata in Header has problem with spaces replaces by '+'
- Screen Proctoring: Can't use screen proctoring with OLAT due to OLAT exam identifier
Docker Images:
SEB Server v2.0.3
Patch Release SEB Server v2.0.3
This is a patch release for the SEB Server v2.0.0 release and fixes a bug related to User Account for none Admin users that were not able to change its own user account
Bugfixes:
- SEBSERV-606 User with single ExamAdmin and ExamSupporter rights are not able to change account settings
Improvements:
- SEBSERV-601 Make SPS API Connection more stable
Patch Release SEB Server v2.0.2
Patch Release SEB Server v2.0.2
This is a patch release for the SEB Server v2.0.0 release and fixes a blocker Bug for Screen Proctoring and Screenshot queue overflow when SEB sends data with too long meta_data that doesn't fit into the DB column.
Bugfixes:
SEBSP-169 Patch Issue 2.0.2: Prevent error and queue overflow when SEB sends too long metadata
Patch release v2.0.1
This is a patch release for SEB Server Version 2.0 release
Bugfixes:
- SEBSP-163 URLEncoded metadata in Header seems to have problem with spaces replaces by +
- SEBSERV-585 Exam Type switches to "not defined" when editing "SEB Restriction Details"
- SEBSERV-595 Moodle Plugin: Quit Password cannot be deleted on Moodle
SEB Server Version 2.0
SEB Server Version 2.0
With the new SEB Server release, SEB Server makes a major version change from 1.x to 2.x. This is mainly because of the new
Screen Proctoring feature for SEB integrated into SEB Server and the removal of live proctoring with Zoom and Jitsi Meet
that is no longer available for SEB Server version 2.x.
For a migration from a running SEB Server setup with version 1.x to new major version 2.0, please also read the migration guide.
New Features:
- Screen Proctoring with SEB and SEB Server. Can be enabled and configured for an Exam. SEB takes and sends screen shots plus Metadata to SEB Server. With monitoring and search functionality.
- Moodle Integration: SEB Server Exam creation from Moodle site with new SEB Server Moodle Plugin 2.0.
- Moodle Integration: Auto Login to SEB Server monitoring for Moodle Teacher with dedicated privileges. Comes with Moodle Plugin 2.0
- Exam Test Run. There is now the possibility to apply an test run for an Exam that is in coming up status. Exam is then in "Running" like state and SEB clients can connect as well as supporter can monitor the exam.
Improvements:
- Improvement of user ID resolution and handshake completion for SEB connecting with SEB-Server. SEB client now sent as much client information as possible and finish up the SEB Server handshake more quickly.
- Connection Configuration Improve (or remove) Date Filter.
- DB Migration Table charset fix for all tables, set to "utf8mb4_general"
- New SEB Settings in SEB Server GUI for version 2.0
- Table sort direction selection and table column length selection stick to User Session
Bugfixes:
- Missing Pending Notification Page Update in Monitoring Detail view
- Importing an exam without template throws error
- LMS name resolving sometimes gets "null" values for names
- New Ready State is not involved within the Filter numbers
- Page of ASK Grants in Exam has table selection action problems
- Sorting of start and end-date in Assessment Tool Lookup not working as expected
- Running Exam without LMS is greyed out without reason
Docker Images:
SEB Server v1.6.0
New Features:
- Connection Configuration: New possibility to select existing Exams for a Connection Configuration.
- Exam: New Possibility to create an exam without LMS/Assessment Tool integration but with direct SEB link.
- Exam Configuration: Batch Delete Action.
- Exam Configuration: Added new SEB Settings from actual SEB Versions.
- Exam: Possibility to apply SEB Settings quit-passwords within the Exam Import or creation of an Exam.
- Monitoring: Two new Filter for ASK and SEB Client Version check.
- Monitoring: IP Changes of SEB clients during active session are not prevented but logged now with SEB logs.
Improvements:
- SEB Server Setup: Default Time-Zone also globally configurable besides per user.
- Exam Configuration Import: No import of hashed password any more. Preset hashed password form imported files gets deleted or reset.
- Configuration Template: Lists contains more entries, better usability.
- Exam: New force delete functionality if an Exam cannot be deleted regularly (mostly caused by LMS Setup disconnection).
- Exam: Added confirmation dialogue on Indicator deletion attempt.
- SEB Server: Log improvements.
- User Account: Possibility to setup SEB Server to set newly registered Users inactive for better control of user registration.
- User Access: Define and Implement new SEB Server feature concept that will provide dedicated user role privileges in the future.
Bugfixes:
- Exam: fixed, LMS/Assessment Tool data update end-time cannot be reset to null.
- SEB Client Connection: Fixed handshake finishing for SEBs that got missing during handshake. SEB Server invalidates unfinished handshakes now.
- Exam - SEB Restriction Details: Additional BEK is not sent to Moodle immediately.
- LMS Integration: OLAT Integration seems to not work correctly with new OLAT version any-more.
- LMS Integration: SEB Lock is not applied, when importing exam using a template.
- LMS Integration: Semicolon in short name of a course in Moodle leads to error message when importing an exam.
- LMS Lookup: Illegal Thread Access Error on LMS Lookup Page.
- Monitoring: ASK: List of sent ASK per SEB Client sometimes shows empty rows.
- Monitoring: SEB Version check caching issue .
- Monitoring: Low page load on sorted SEB connection table for finished or archived exams.
- Monitoring: Monitoring table selection stick to actual selection when updating.
- Forms: Password plaintext view: special chars are masked incorrectly.
- Configuration Template: Wrong deletions on SEB Server update with migration.
Docker-Image:
- Exact release version: docker pull anhefti/seb-server:v1.6.0 (sha256:878f411ee3df84019f2b167ad4fd29ecad77c90063b2ced4e16e69edab74805e)
- Stable minor version: docker pull anhefti/seb-server:v1.6-stable
SEB Server v1.5.0
New Features:
- Security: New Application Signature Key (ASK) integration within SEB Server exams and monitoring
- Security: Minimum SEB Client version tracking within SEB Server monitoring
- LMS Integration: Better Moodle integration with new SEB Server Moodle Plugin
- Exam Maintenance: Added new SEB grouping functionality for Exam (and Exam Template) and Monitoring to be able to view/manage SEB Clients within defined groups (IP range, SEB client OS, ...)
- Exam Maintenance: Batch actions for archive and delete exams
- Exam Maintenance: Added SEB log export for finished and archived exams
- Exam List: Filter for unavailable exams
- Exam Monitoring: Added force SEB Lock Screen feature to be able to send lock screen instruction to SEB client as well as release such from SEB Server
- User Account: Added "Change Password" function also in User Account edit page
Improvements:
- LMS Setup Lookup: Improved parallel data fetch of course and quit data from LMS and added notifications to the UI if background job is still fetching data from LMS in the background
- Zoom Proctoring: Adapted to new Zoom API's, SDK's and Apps
- Zoom Proctoring: Gallery view works now also in the proctoring web-client of the SEB Server
- Open Olat Integration: Added propagation of quit-link and quit-password for exam to Open Olat within the SEB restriction
- Monitoring: Improved performance for active monitoring
- Migration: Improved migration and added database table-char-set check
- SEB Settings: Added various new SEB Settings within the SEB Server database and Configuration Template (not yet in Exam Configuration UI)
- Added Tool-Tips also for list filters / various text and minor UI improvements
Bugfixes:
- Exam Configuration status change to "Archived" is possible for up-coming exams
- Fix handling of invalid SEB Server monitoring UI sessions
- Open Olat LMS Setup access deadlock (serialized token request for LMS Template)
- Fixed exam update background process to update sometimes exams from LMS where nothing changed on LMS side
- Zoom proctoring multiplied participants on room change
- SEB Restriction warning on Exam seems to be not present when restriction fails
- Certificate cannot be imported
- Configuration Template: Filtering column "View": Paging in attribute list shows only one page
- Exam Configuration export SEB Settings should export current settings
- Exam: Name and Date filter does not work correctly
- Export Exam Connection Configuration, special characters in exam name cut of file name
- Zoom proctoring gallery view seems not to work because of cross-origin settings
Docker-Image:
- Exact release version: docker pull anhefti/seb-server:v1.5.0 (sha256:21d62e24dd5cf697ab5f2b437dc458e6c7492ea294f77a424d39d05164d6c8cc)
- Latest stable minor version with patches: docker pull anhefti/seb-server:v1.5-stable