FAIR Release Notes: 2.20.0

First released: 25th September 2024

Summary

This release contains further components of the new user groups feature, and introduces building block changes for workspace requests as part of the data access request (DAR) process, see below for more details.

Upcoming items

At present users must have an active workspace to submit a DAR. Work is in progress to enable users without a workspace to request it as part of the DAR process.

This release contains building block changes to enable this feature in FAIR, with workspace changes to follow in a coming release. The end to end feature is expected to be available to users in October.

Released features

Feature	Type	Jira key	Summary
DAR - Request a new workspace as part of the flow	Enhancement	FAIR-8359	This ticket introduces changes required to enable workspace requests during DAR submission.
FAIR UI User group management	Enhancement	FAIR-8372	Administrators can now create, edit and delete user groups in the FAIR UI. See the User Groups section of the knowledge base for more information.
Expose outbound ports for Postgres and SQL Server/Synapse	Enhancement	FAIR-8431	The previous release introduced changes allowing data owners to manage external data sources for datasets. To support this change the standard outbound ports of supported database types will now be open by default in FAIR.