core_v2.9: Unbundled CORE 2.9 Release

DIGIT CORE 2.9 release includes 2 new services, 1 new module, several technical, security features and bug fixes. The highlight of this release is the separation(unbundling) of CORE from DIGIT.

• New Services and Modules: Signed Audit, Internal Gateway, Service Request.

• Technical Enhancements and Fixes:

1. Filestore Service:

• Fixed flow to store and retrieve files from Azure blob storage.

2. PDF Service:

• Fixed bug where _create API creates duplicate PDF for each request.

3. SMS Notification Service:

• Added API for sms bounce back tracking.

4. Mail Notification Service:

• Added support for attachments.

• Disabled consumer listening on sms topic.

5. User OTP Service:

• Added support for sending OTP via email by emitting email events.

• Removed DB timezone dependency.

6. User Service:

• Added fallback to default message if user email update localization messages are not configured.

• Fixed bug where updating citizen profile causes server error.

• Fixed bug where employee details are updateable via citizen profile update API.

7. Workflow Service:

• Introduced state level business service fallback as part of v2 business service search API.

• Separated out v1 and v2 APIs to maintain backward compatibility.

• Enhanced workflow service to send descriptive errors for bad requests.

8. Inbox Service:

• Introduced event based inbox and deprecated dependency on searcher-service for fetching inbox items.

• Separated out v1 and v2 APIs to maintain backward compatibility.

• Introduced a new API to get records based on the provided search criteria(analogous to searcher service).

9. Dashboard Analytics:

• Introduced feature to perform DIVISION operation on metric chart responses.

10. Location Service:

• Fixed bug where search on root level boundary type yields empty search response.

11. Privacy Exemplar:

• Data privacy changes for masking/unmasking PII data were introduced as part of this exemplar. Steps to enable data privacy at module level can be referred to as part of WS exemplar here - Detailed Steps to configure privacy in W&S module

12. Encryption Client Library:

• As part of privacy changes, enc-client library was introduced to support encryption-related functionalities so that every service does not need to call the encryption service.

13. National Dashboard Ingest:

• Added support to allow user with national dashboard adaptor role to ingest data regardless of the tenant the user belongs to.

14. Codegen:

• Enhanced codegen utility to support openAPI 3.0 specifications.

15. Persister:

• Enhanced persister to make it compatible with Signed Audit Service.

16. Human Resource Management Service:

• Fixed bug where employee search causes server error in single instance clusters.

17. DIGIT Developer Guide:

• Backend Guide - This guide provides detailed steps for developers to create a new microservice on top of DIGIT and deploy it on DIGIT cluster. A sample birth registration spring-boot module was developed as part of this guide.

• Frontend Guide - This guide offers a systematic view of how to create the application screens on DIGIT. Both citizen and employee frontend modules were developed as part of this guide.

Non-functional:

1. Dashboard Analytics Service:

• Load tested dashboard analytics and documented improvement in performance.

2. PDF Service:

• Performance testing of bulk PDF generation.

3. Billing Service:

• Performance testing of bulk bill generation.