passbolt/passbolt_api v5.3.0-rc.1

Riders on the Storm

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Release song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubWL8VAPoYw

Passbolt is thrilled to announce that the v5.3.0 API Release Candidate is officially available for testing.

This version introduces among others custom fields and a performance boost for larger organizations.

Head to GitHub and dive in! Make sure to follow the steps here. As always, your feedback is invaluable, give it a try and report any issues you come across.

Enjoy the testing journey! ❤️

[5.3.0-rc.1] - 2025-07-04

Added

• PB-43066 As a developer I can setup my development environment using ddev
• PB-43188 Add Custom Fields Standalone resource type migration

Improved

• PB-43383 Improves the performance of most paginated endpoints
• PB-43659 Improve error handling when metadata key could not be saved due to unexpected reason

Fixed

• PB-43382 As an administrator I should not get a connection error when running the healthcheck when the database is empty
• PB-43007 Fixes emails not sent after v5 upgrade if SMTP credentials are stored in environment variables (GITHUB #545)
• PB-43122 As an administrator retrieving users metadata key, I should not trigger a validation type issue on the missing metadata_keys_id in certain conditions
• PB-43137 Fixes a potential settings conflict in user key policy where key of type rsa should not have a preferred curve
• PB-42784 As an administrator I should not get a health check error when all email notifications are enabled
• PB-43259 Fixes a record not found error on table organization_settings in healthcheck after v5 upgrade (GITHUB #548)
• PB-42072 As a user sharing permissions, I should not get a 500 response if the payload is wrongly formatted
• PB-42071 Fixes 500 errors on malformed UTF-8 character-based URLs when using the JsonTraceFormatter class

Maintenance

• PB-42177 Upgrades CakePHP version to 5.2.5
• PB-43010 Replaces the use of static fixtures with fixture factories in multiple test cases
• PB-41724 Map cake_core cache config with cake_translations in the bootstrap.php file
• PB-42380 Adds the missing v5 resource types on data insertion in the passbolt-test-data vendor