What's new in 6.1.2.2

This topic provides the new features and enhancements that are introduced in this release.

New features

Following new features are introduced in this release:

The Sterling B2B Integrator now enables you to perform secure network communication with SAP Server using the SAP Jco3.X adapter. For more information, see Configuring SAP Secure Network Communication (SNC).
Native PGP Enhancements:
- When you configure the Masterkey, the most recent Subkey from the key ring is used for signing and encryption.
- When creating a Community, you can now choose any PGP server profile.
- When creating a Community, selecting the Do you want to choose any specific key for decryption? option allows you to select a specific key from the profile. When you deselect the option, the key will be selected from the key rings available in the PGP secret key maps. For more information, see Creating a Community.
- When configuring the trading partner profile, you can now select a Subkey based on the Masterkey. Either Masterkey or Subkey can be chosen. For more information, see Creating a Sterling File Gateway partner.
Certified Container Enhancements in Sterling B2B Integrator:
1. A set of new configurations have been added to the Helm charts as follows:
  - terminationGracePeriod - Enables you to gracefully terminate the pod after the configured grace period in seconds. For more information, see Termination of Pods.
  - licenseType - Allows you to specify the license edition as production or non-production as per the license agreement. For more information, see Configuring the Certified Container.
  - extraPVCs.predefinedPVCName - Allows you to configure a pre-created Persistent Volume Claim (PVC) for any additional or extra PVC configuration. For more information, see Setting up PersistentVolume(s).
  - enableVolumeClaimPerPod - Enables you to configure a Persistent Volume Claim for each pod replica in ASI, AC, and API deployments. This option is available only for documents and extra PVC configurations. For more information, see Setting up PersistentVolume(s)
  - fsGroupChangePolicy - Enables you to change the permission and ownership change policy for persistence volumes. For more information, see Configure volume permission and ownership change policy for Pods.
  - sessionAffinityConfig and externalTrafficPolicy - Allows you to configure session affinity and external traffic policy for ASI, AC, and API Kubernetes services. For more information, see Session affinity and External traffic policy for Load Balancer services. For more information on setting up external access for application, see Configuring external access for application backend (non-HTTP) endpoints.
  For more information on configuring the above properties in Helm configuration, see Configuring the Certified Container.
2. Out of the box utilities such as yum, vi, tar, netstat, zip, ping, and lsof are now available in the Sterling B2B Integrator and Sterling File Gateway containers.
The XML Digital Signature service now supports StAX for signing large XML documents. For more information, see XML Digital Signature Service.
AWS S3 client service now allows temporary IAM role credentials for the business process services. For more information, see Amazon Web Service Simple Storage Service.
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Stack updates

Note: This fix pack also includes security fixes and stack upgrades from releases 6038 and 6113.

New security fixes and following stack upgrades are introduced in this release:

IBM® Installation Manager 1.9.2.3
Support for RHEL 9.x
Support for AIX 7.3
Support for Windows Server 2022
Support for POWER10
K8s 1.23 - 1.26
OCP 4.10.x - 4.12.x
Apache MINA core 2.0.23
Apache MINA SSHD common 2.9.2
Apache XML security 2.3.0
Core-io 2.4.1
Dojo toolkit 1.17.3
Jackson databind 2.14.0
Jetty 9.4.47
jQuery 3.6.1
jQuery UI 1.13.2
Liberty Server 22.0.0.13
Spring Security 5.8.0
Woodstox core 6.4.0
XStream 1.4.20

For more information, see Software Product Compatibility Report.