Control Center Release Notes

Last modified: November 4, 2024

These release notes cover changes to the app management functionality and other features of the Mendix Control Center.

To see the current status of the Mendix Control Center, see Mendix Status. Here you can also see planned maintenance and past incidents.

2024

November 3, 2024

New Features

  • Mendix Admins can now centrally manage cloud permissions through the Control Center for apps deployed in the Mendix Cloud. This enhancement provides greater oversight over user roles and actions within different environments. This feature is available to companies that use Company Roles.

October 31, 2024

Improvements

  • Control center has a new menu structure to make it easier to find the pages. Roles and Permissions still shows the flat menu, but this will be updated soon.

October 24, 2024

New Features

  • On the Apps page, we added a search bar that allows you to find an app using either the app ID or the app name.

October 17, 2024

Improvements

  • We have made performance improvements to Software Composition. Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) generated automatically upon the creation of deployment packages now show up on the Software Composition page within minutes.

September 29, 2024

New Features

  • We have centralized project roles at the company level. This enhances your ability to govern access across all Mendix projects and also enables the programmatic assignment of project roles via the Mendix Projects API. You can migrate your project roles to the centralized company-level project roles on the Roles & Permissions page. We expect you to complete the migration by January 1, 2025.

September 5, 2024

New Features

  • Deep links have been added to the Software Composition page to enable unique identification and easy shareability.

September 3, 2024

Improvements

  • Recently, performance issues were identified in the Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) generation process, which occurs during deployment package creation. Mendix has resolved these issues, ensuring that SBOM generation and the associated Software Composition capabilities are now fully compatible with the following versions of Studio Pro: 9.24.26 and above, 10.6.12 and above, 10.12.3 and above.

    Previously supported Studio Pro versions (9.24.22 to 9.24.25, 10.6.9 to 10.6.11, 10.10.0 to 10.12.2, and 10.13) will no longer result in SBOM generation and visibility in Software Composition. Make sure you upgrade to a compatible Studio Pro version to continue to use Software Composition. Any historical data within Software Composition remains accessible regardless of the upgrade.

July 29, 2024

New Features

  • We introduced the Apps with License Keys tab on the Deployed Apps page, which provides a comprehensive overview and management capabilities for all apps with issued license keys. This new feature allows you to view apps with active license keys across all environments, resend or download licenses, and update Technical Contacts as needed.

June 14, 2024

New Features

  • We have launched the beta version of Software Composition, which provides visibility into component dependencies for every Mendix application environment. You can access the feature in Control Center and Apps navigation pane. This feature is available for select Studio Pro versions for free and licensed applications deployed on Mendix Public Cloud and Mendix for Private Cloud.

May 16, 2024

New Features

  • We have added a new tab to the Apps page: the Private Cloud tab. Here you get an overview of all the apps deployed on Mendix Private Cloud Connected.

April 4, 2024

New Features

  • We have introduced a Marketplace content curation feature for public Marketplace components. If your organization has established governance policies and guidelines for using Marketplace components, you can now translate them to curation settings. Components that meet these requirements will get a RECOMMENDED label.

Improvements

  • We have improved the Apps page as follows:
    • We have implemented column-based filters that empower you to do complex filtering operations.
    • We have made it easier for you to copy the application name, the app id, and the environment name.

February 8, 2024

Improvements

Deprecations

  • We removed the Default App Roles tab in the Apps page in Control Center.

January 22, 2024

New Features

  • We introduced the Private Marketplace page in Control Center, which allows Mendix Admins to approve or decline requests for publishing content to your organization’s private Marketplace.

2023

December 14, 2023

New Features

We upgraded the Apps page as follows:

  • You can now see the information of your apps combined with the information of their environments. (Currently only licensed and free apps deployed on the Mendix Public Cloud have distinct tabs, but eventually all deployment options will be supported.)
  • You can use different kinds of filters and sorting options to analyze your application landscape more closely.
  • You can check the Mendix version deployed in your repository to check whether your Mendix version is up to date.
  • You can now update Technical Contact on the Apps page.
  • You can deactivate multiple free apps in one go.
  • You can export the information of apps to an Excel file.

December 7, 2023

Improvements

We made the following improvements to the access management on the Portfolios page:

  • On the Members tab, the Status column in the list now shows whether a user is active or deactivated. Moreover, you can remove all the deactivated users from a portfolio in one go.
  • All the pending invites now appear on the Pending Invites tab.

October 26, 2023

Improvements

Fixes

  • We fixed an issue where deactivation of some apps led to unexpected errors.

October 12, 2023

New Features

  • On the Security page, Mendix Admins can now disable the digital signing of the content of emails from Mendix, if it interferes with other email safety measures.

September 7, 2023

Deprecations

  • We have removed the Onboarding page.

August 28, 2023

New Features

  • We have released the beta version of the Application Health Dashboard, which provides an overview of the alert status of the whole application landscape in your company.

August 17, 2023

Improvements

  • On the Members page you can now sort members based on the number of apps to which they belong.
  • We introduced an export feature to make it possible for you to export email domains on the General Settings tab of the Company Settings page.

July 13, 2023

New Features

  • We added the Member ID column to the Active Members and Deactivated Members lists on the Members page. The column also appears in the Excel file, when you export the member information from these lists.
  • We introduced Member ID search functionality on the Member page.

Improvements

  • We fixed column alignment issues and added responsive column resizing for member list columns to improve readability and visual aesthetics.

July 3, 2023

Deprecations

  • We removed the Marketplace Content section, which had been deprecated since March, 2023.

May 17, 2023

New Features

  • We have upgraded our Portfolio Management tool with new features:
    • You can now have multiple portfolios at the same time!
    • You can now create portfolios with different levels of visibility to people in your company: private or restricted.
  • We have added the Portfolios page to Control Center, which provides Mendix Admins with governance features for portfolio management in your company.

May 16, 2023

New Features

  • You can now set up an SSO (BYOIDP) to allow Mendix users to sign in to Mendix Platform services, including Studio Pro, using identity federation between the Mendix Platform and your corporate IdP.

March 16, 2023

Improvements

  • On the Apps page, we increased the limit of apps you can activate or deactivate to 100.

February 23, 2023

New Features

  • We have released a feature where you can add and manage a Security Contact for your company. A Security Contact is informed if there are critical security issues with the Mendix Platform and platform-supported Marketplace components.

    With this feature, you can do the following:

    • Add a new Security Contact to your company

    • Remove an existing Security Contact and replace it with a newer one

    • Adjust the Security Contact’s name

    For more information on security issues, see Security Advisories.

2022

November 10, 2022

Improvements

  • We improved the way Company Brand is stored and distributed. The company logo that is uploaded in Company Brand will be updated throughout the platform where it is used.
  • We removed the Brand Colors feature for Company Brand.

September 15, 2022

New Features

  • We introduced the Billing Accounts page where Mendix Admin can update the payment card information for their company at any time.

August 25, 2022

Fixes

  • We fixed an issue where Mendix Admins were not able to invite users to their company’s apps.

August 11, 2022

New Features

  • We have introduced the Marketplace Content page, where Mendix Admins can manage the visibility of Marketplace Content in Studio.

June 9, 2022

New Features

  • The free Mendix Cloud environment of an app can now be deleted from the app details page.

Improvements

  • The free and licensed Mendix Cloud environments of an app are now visualized on the app details page.

April 21, 2022

Improvements

  • We expanded the export-to-Excel functionality for both the Apps page (which includes the App ID) and the Cloud page (which includes the App ID, Environment ID, and Environment URL).

2021

October 1, 2021

New Features

  • We have released the company Onboarding functionality that enables setting up Mendix onboarding specifically for all new members of your company. You can set up an onboarding email that new users get as soon as they create their Mendix accounts and a company onboarding page that new users land on.

September 6, 2021

New Feature

August 26, 2021

Improvements

August 19, 2021

Fixes

  • We fixed an issue with the app’s Team page where Mendix Admins could not add or remove team members.

July 27, 2021

Improvements

  • We improved the External Members overview on the Control Center Dashboard so that a list of external members from a specific company appears when you click a part of the pie chart.

June 1, 2021

Improvements

  • We added a tab on the Cloud page that displays details on Free Environments.

May 7, 2021

Fixes

  • We fixed an issue where some graphs in the Control Center Dashboard were loading indefinitely.

April 26, 2021

New Features

  • We released the Control Center Dashboard, which provides an overview of various activities for your company on the Mendix Platform. This feature is currently in beta, and you can provide feedback via the feedback button on the right of the page.

March 9, 2021

Improvements

  • Mendix Admins can now edit the name and description of an App Access Group once it has been created.
  • On the Members page, Mendix Admins can now deactivate Technical Contacts and the last Scrum Master in a team.

March 4, 2021

Improvements

  • We removed the old Company Admin pages. But you are already using the Mendix Control Center as a Mendix Admin, right?

February 23, 2021

Improvements

  • We have updated the App Projects page, where you can now do the following:
    • Open the Team page from the project details page in order to manage team members and add yourself to a team (if you are a Mendix Admin)
    • Deactivate or delete an app or a team member

February 5, 2021

Fixes

  • We fixed an issue where new Mendix Admins did not get access to environment nodes. (Ticket 114913)

February 4, 2021

New Features

  • We released the Mendix Control Center, which provides governance and control features for Mendix Admins (formerly known as Company Admins).

Improvements

  • We moved the existing Company Admin features in the Developer Portal to Control Center.