Alpaca 13.0

Alpaca

Release Notes

Last Updated: 09/17/2026 The ECG team is pleased to announce the release version 13.1.0 of Alpaca.

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

13.1.0

What's Changed

  • The Alpaca frontend is now served by the Alpaca Gateway instead of the Alpaca Server.

    • This allows the Gateway to be exposed publicly while keeping Alpaca Server instances protected behind a firewall.
    • Browser traffic now enters through the Gateway for both the frontend application and proxied backend/API requests.
    • Existing server-side APIs, authentication flows, WebSocket traffic, Swagger/API documentation, and selected management endpoints continue to be routed from the Gateway to available Alpaca Server instances.

  • The Gateway now owns frontend route fallback behavior.

    • Direct navigation or browser refreshes on frontend routes such as /login, /logout-complete, or other Angular routes are handled by the Gateway.
    • Backend/API paths are excluded from frontend fallback so they can continue to route to Alpaca Server.

  • The frontend now detects when no Alpaca Server backend is available.

    • If the Gateway is running but no Alpaca Server instances are registered and available, the frontend displays a startup message instead of attempting normal backend requests.
    • Once an Alpaca Server becomes available, the frontend automatically resumes normal startup.

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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