KOS Studio v1.5

KOS Studio Release Notes are official documents published with each new version of the KOS Studio. They provide a clear summary of all changes delivered in a specific release.

Release Notes are essential for anyone working with the KOS ecosystem—developers, integrators, partners, and business stakeholders—because they help users quickly understand:

  • New Features: Highlights of new capabilities or tools added to the platform.
  • Enhancements: Enhancements to existing features, performance optimizations, or user experience updates.
  • Resolved Issues: Issues resolved from previous versions, helping teams track reliability improvements.
  • Breaking Changes: Changes that may affect backward compatibility or require adjustments to existing projects.
  • Known Issues: Current limitations or defects that users should be aware of, often with workarounds or planned fixes.

For developers and technical teams, KOS Studio Release Notes are an essential guide for planning upgrades, testing new features, and ensuring ongoing compatibility in projects built on the KOS smart dispense operating system.

KOS Studio – v1.5.10

June 19, 2024

Resolved Issues

  • Includes minor bug fixes

KOS Studio – v1.5.7

May 28, 2024

Overview

We are excited to announce the release of KOS Studio version 1.5.7. This update brings three significant new features designed to enhance the usability and functionality of KOS Studio for both vendors and users. Most of this functionality is to enhance customer interactions with Artifacts, Instances, and Stores – so if you haven’t already read about these features within KOS, check out this article: Artifacts, Instances and Sources

New Features

1. Market Manager:
  • Overview: The Market Manager is a new tool for KOS vendors who offer artifacts to other vendors in our Artifact Marketplace.
  • Note: Only vendors registered to sell or offer Market Artifacts will have access to this tool.
  • Key Benefits:
    • Vendors can now publish their apps as working artifacts in the KOS Marketplace
    • Applications and features can be made available to all KOS users or a select subset of users within the Market
    • This feature facilitates broader distribution and access to valuable tools, enhancing the overall ecosystem
2. Artifact Manager:
  • Overview: The Artifact Manager provides a comprehensive solution for managing artifacts and their instances within KOS.
  • Key Benefits:
    • Allows Admins to manage Artifacts and their instances, such as device admin UIs
    • Admins can update descriptions, control access, and manage the lifecycle of these artifacts, including deprecating and deleting older instances
    • Supports multiple versions and variants of artifacts, streamlining the development and deployment process
3. Artifact Browser:
  • Overview: The Artifact Browser offers non-admin users a detailed view of available artifacts and their instances without compromising security.
  • Key Benefits:
    • Provides detailed visibility into the artifacts and their instances accessible to non-admin users
    • Ensures the integrity and security of artifact details and definitions
    • Enhances transparency and usability for users needing to understand the available resources without administrative access.

These features are designed to make KOS Studio more powerful and user-friendly, enabling better management, distribution, and usage of artifacts within the KOS ecosystem. We hope you enjoy these enhancements and look forward to your feedback.

For more detailed information on these features and how to use them, please refer to the updated user documentation and tutorials available in the KOS Studio help center.

Resolved Issues

  • When the IP selected in the target drop-down is unreachable, image configuration(and backed API response) shows the error “No instance for selected KOS release.”
    • Updated error messaging in this release.
  • When user logs in and clicks on Diagnostics for the first time, it is not copying json
    • Copy and pasting diagnostics now works
  • Wrong message for Mac OS users
    • While running the simulator, macOS users were seeing Windows keyboard shortcuts. The Simulator now shows the macOS shortcuts when running in a Mac environment
  • KOS Studio Updater still shows white screen and does not seem to download updated version
    • Linux updater was not showing messaging during download – this has been fixed
  • Creating a Maven type artifact stores gives SQL lite error
    • Creating Maven Artifact Stores now works.

KOS Studio – v1.5.0

March 26, 2024

Overview

In the 1.5.0 release, we changed how users are managed. Users are an integral part of the KOS Studio, and by bringing them to the forefront of the experience, and enabling them to transition between organizations, KOS has increased the opportunity for collaborative work.

In this version of KOS Studio, users can now alternate between projects, and organizations, bringing their expertise to individual projects within various organizations. A manager no longer needs to worry about the privacy of specific projects when inviting a user in their organization.

This change added functionality to the user management tool, the projects management tool, and the main navigation. Users now have an account settings option to change their username and update their own password.

This workflow also changed the internal global admin tool enabling a global admin-User to change the status both globally and within a specific organization.

On top of this we have simplified the password process enabling users to reset their own passwords, both within the application and in the unfortunate incident when they forget their password all together.

We have clarified the steps for a new user, giving them clearer directions on how to start the application and where to get initial tokens.

New Features

  • Added support for multiple organizations
  • Added support for multiple projects
  • Introduced account settings

Enhancements

  • Improved responsive times
  • Improved login process enabling users to reset their own passwords, reducing downtime when admin is unavailable.

Resolved Issues

  • In KAB Viewer while extracting a KAB content from along list of folders, scroll bar is cut off
  • No “Created By” information for artifact stores
  • “Local Override” text is wrapping incorrectly on small screen