Blog posts tagged with: "changelog"

RBAC, the new Backend, Scaling, Notifications and new Catalog customisation options

This is a bumper changelog that covers September and October, so buckle up. The clocks have rolled back, Halloween is upon us, and it's time to wrap up what we've been working on for the last two months. We're got RBAC, the new Backend, Notifications, scaling improvements, custom columns and tables, and a whole raft of plugins.

Towards a more flexible software catalog

Summer is a productive time at Roadie. We've been working a lot to build more flexibility into the Backstage data model and UI. This month we're rolling out custom catalog columns and wider relationship support between elements of the software catalog. We've also revamped how we pull data in, starting with the AWS provider.

Role-based access control in Roadie

Role-based access control and user management is now available in Roadie, with role management, user management and fine-grain control over the catalog, scaffolder and Tech Insights 🎉 as well as the upgrade to 1.26 and new plugins and integrations.

Customising the Roadie UI

Customisations of the sidebar and the Catalog UI have arrived 🎉 as part of a whole suite of tools UI tweaks and tools designed to reduce the cognitive load for users as your catalog grows.

A more customisable Scaffolder

Extensions to the Scaffolder UI and Custom Actions for Templates have arrived 🎉 as part of a whole suite of tools designed to help get more value from automation within Roadie. We've also added the Dynatrace Plugin and adopted the all new, super-shiny PagerDuty plugin.

Repositories have come to the Catalog

Repositories have come to the Catalog (in beta) 🎉 as part of a whole suite of tools designed to help get to a complete catalog. We also have an AWS Resource Provider and new Catalog editing tools. We've also added the End of Life Plugin (both frontend and backend parts) to allow for some neat visualisation of deprecation information.

The Roadie API is now live and scorecards have come to the Catalog

The Roadie API is now live for all users on our Growth Plan 🎉. You can use it to push entities to the catalog, dry-run the scaffolder and interrogate TechInsights scorecards. We've also added Scorecards to the Catalog, excluding facts is now possible when creating TechInsights checks, expanded the use of decorators, upgraded to Backstage 1.21 and added a few new plugins.

Rollups for Tech Insights

Rollups aggregate Scorecard and Check data by team and department, up and down your organisational hierarchy, and let you add scorecard information to teams in the catalog.

Live custom Backstage plugins within seconds

Develop custom plugins with a live preview within Roadie Backstage, and deploy them to production in seconds with the Roadie CLI.

Decorators for rich Team pages

Today we released a feature we call Decorators. Decorators allow you to easily add metadata to the stuff you track in your Roadie Backstage catalog. This metadata is stored within Roadie, and not written to YAML.

New Catalog UI, certified templates, more tutorials

This month we're rolling out a huge visual update to the catalog with much more space to get your work done. We've also got a bunch of new Tech Insights tutorials to help you improve software across your org.