Alpaca

Release Notes

Last Updated: 08/24/2026 The ECG team is pleased to announce the release version 13.0.0 of Alpaca.

This version includes support for the R24, R25, and R26 versions of the BroadWorks API.

13.0.0

Breaking Changes

• Upgraded runtime/build to Java 21

• Added support for ECG Licensing v7.0.0. Contact your ECG representative for a new license

• If using S3/Minio and using a credentials file for authentication, the env variable in /etc/sysconfig/alpaca_config has changed from AWS_CREDENTIAL_PROFILES_FILE to AWS_SHARED_CREDENTIALS_FILE.
• The database connection configuration has changed from spring.data.mongodb.uri to spring.mongodb.uri. This requires a configuration update.

Old

spring:
  data:
    mongodb:
      database: alpaca
      uri: mongodb://localhost:27017

New

spring:
  mongodb:
    uri: mongodb://localhost:27017/alpaca

What's New

• Upgraded to Spring 4
• Migrated caching from Apache JCS to Apache Commons JCS3

What's Changed

• Improved License Details page behavior and messaging
• Improved HTTP/client reliability and SSL handling
• Improved alerting and email notification behavior
• Improved TimesTen connection robustness
• Improved audit log queue execution / shutdown behavior
• [CallCenterReporting] Better timezone handling (including added timezone-focused tests)
• [CallCenterReporting] Fixes for High Water report and several mapping/null-safety issues
• [CallCenterReporting] Prevented possible UnsupportedOperationException by ensuring report list mutability
• Updated S3 integration

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