We have released new versions of the SAP Cloud SDK. In detail, the following components are now available in new versions:

• Java libraries in version 3.28.1
• JavaScript libraries in version 1.28.1
• Continuous delivery toolkit in version v42

In this blog post, we will walk you through the highlights of these releases. For a complete overview, visit our release notes for the Java libraries, for the JavaScript libraries, and for the continuous delivery toolkit. The release notes also include the change log of all our releases so far.
At the end of the article, you will find a set of instructions on how to update to the new versions.

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Java Libraries: Release Highlights 3.28.1

You can update your dependencies of the SAP Cloud SDK for Java to version 3.28.1 and get the new version from Maven Central.

New Currency Conversion Library

A new Currency Conversion library has been added to the SAP Cloud SDK delivery to facilitate currency exchange rate conversions within your cloud application. The library supports bulk conversions, direct one-to-one conversions from a source value to a target value, and indirect conversions based on inverse rates or a reference currency. To use the library, add the currency-conversion-core and currency-conversion-datamodel Maven dependencies in your pom.xml.

Several further improvements are listed in the full release notes.

JavaScript Libraries: Release Highlights 1.28.1

The JavaScript libraries of the SAP Cloud SDK are now available in version 1.28.1.

Support for OData v4

We moved the OData v4 support from experimental to GA status. Now the library API is considered stable and can be used for production purposes.

Further improbements can be reviewed in the full release notes.

Continuous Delivery Toolkit: Release Highlights v42

We have also released version v42 of our out-of-the-box continuous delivery offering consisting of a ready-made Jenkins server and a complete delivery toolkit.

In the recent releases we keep consolidating the configuration format in alignment with the related services offered on SAP Cloud Platform.

You can find a detailed description of the fixes and improvements in the complete release notes.

How to Update

Java libraries

To update the version of the SAP Cloud SDK Java libraries used in an existing project, proceed as follows:

• Open the pom.xml file in the root folder of your project.
• Locate the dependency management section and therein the sdk-bom dependency.
• Update the version of that dependency to 3.28.1.

With this, you are already done thanks to the “bill of material” (BOM) approach. Your dependency should look like this:

<dependencyManagement>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.sap.cloud.sdk</groupId>
            <artifactId>sdk-bom</artifactId>
            <version>3.28.1</version>
            <type>pom</type>
            <scope>import</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
    <!-- possibly further managed dependencies ... -->
</dependencyManagement>

If you update from a version prior to 3.0.0, have a look at our migration guide.

If you are using the SAP Cloud SDK in a project of the SAP Cloud Application Programming Model, replace sdk-bom with sdk-modules-bom to only update the version of SDK modules, not further dependencies.
You can now recompile your project (be aware of the compatibility notes, though) and leverage the new features of the SAP Cloud SDK in version 3.28.1.

Of course, you can also generate a new project that uses version 3.28.1 from the start by running the Maven archetypes for Neo or Cloud Foundry with -DarchetypeVersion=3.28.1 (or RELEASE).

JavaScript libraries

To update the version of the SAP Cloud SDK JavaScript libraries used in an existing project, use the command npm update in the root folder of your module. Note that this will also update other modules, unless you explicitly specify which packages to update. If you want to check beforehand what will change, use npm outdated.

Continuous Delivery Toolkit

If you are using the pipeline with a fixed version (as recommended since v7), update the continuous delivery toolkit with the following command, that you run on the server hosting the cx-server:

./cx-server update image

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