27.2.0 Release Notes

Description

This release will introduce x509 certificates to all PDF exported in Audit Reports, Audit Observations, Issues, Change Controls, and Tasks. A x509 certificate is a digital signature to PDFs coming from the ZenQMS app to assure the end user that the PDF was indeed issued by ZenQMS and that it was not altered in any way since it was generated.

We have also restricted OJT Organizers from marking users compliant in the future.

There are also minor improvements to Audit Reports and bug fixes throughout the application.

Schedule

Date: 16-MAY-2024

Time: 9pm EDT / 1am UTC (17-MAY-2024)

Impact

Users who are exporting Audit Reports, Audit Observations, Issues, Change Controls, or Tasks to PDF are impacted.

Users using OJTs and Audits also have a minor impact.

Documentation

This release is being managed through change control 301-73 and a full set of validation documents will be published after the release. You can download a copy of the first stages of the system release record, including the requirements and testing traceability matrix for release notes here 27.2.0 System Release Record 301-73 Release Notes. An entire release record will be available for review after the release is completed, in the auditor share account.

We expect no downtime.

Version Details

ZenQMS comprises a microservice architecture that breaks up large functions into smaller services. This reduces risk in the development and release process. As such this flagship release version is actually composed of the releases of the individual services components. It is entirely possible for a component service to not change versions in a release cycle even if other components do. Here is the summary for this release.

ZenQMS Release 27.2.0 contains the following “FixVersions”. We use FixVersion as an internal versioning scheme for our modules/services and maintain them in Jira.

AUTH 5.11, DM 2.2, IM 6.6, PDF 8.0, TM 5.6, TRAIN 2.5, ZENQ 25.10

Updated Modules

Audits
Documents
Change Control
Issues
Login/Authorization
PDF generation service
Tasks
Training

Unchanged Modules

Account Backup
Administration
Daily Summary emails
Import/Export Data service
Reports
Settings
SSO configuration

Important Notes

This announcement plus the banner announcement in the application to ALL users is our formal announcement for the release.
Deployment (as always) is handled by the ZenQMS team.
The Insights feature is entering Beta phase and is being deployed in this release. This does not impact most users and likely if it does impact you, you are already aware of this impact. There is a separate section in the traceability matrix covering the requirements of this feature. We are including these requirements for informational purposes only. If you are not participating in this Beta phase, then this does not impact you.
The ZenSign feature is entering Beta phase and is being deployed in this release. This does not impact most users and likely if it does impact you, you are already aware of this impact. There is a separate section in the traceability matrix covering the requirements of this feature. We are including these requirements for informational purposes only. If you are not participating in this Beta phase, then this does not impact you.
For more information about Beta features and their impact on our validation documents, please read the FAQs for Validation Documentation for Beta Features article.