Announcing ConnectALL 4.3: Enhanced Capabilities and User Experience

We are excited to announce the general availability of ConnectALL version 4.3! This release is packed with new features and adapter-specific enhancements designed to streamline your workflows, improve usability, and provide greater control over your data synchronization.

Highlights

• Event-driven Push Synchronization for GitHub: ConnectALL now supports real-time, webhook-based Push synchronization for GitHub Cloud and GitHub On-Premise, instantly triggering downstream updates in destination applications without waiting for scheduled polling intervals. 
• Automatic Retry for Push Sync: Failed push-based synchronizations (such as unprocessed webhooks) are now automatically retried according to the automation's standard schedule, providing identical reliability and data consistency as poll-based syncs. 
• New VMware vSphere Adapter: Collect virtual machine details and utilization metrics including CPU, memory, host, and cluster data and synchronize them into applications like Clarity for rolling-period consumption analysis and cost tracking.

Adapter-Specific Updates

GitHub Adapter Enhancements

• Adds event-driven Push synchronization for GitHub On-Premise and Cloud, eliminating polling latency by instantly pushing updates to destination applications (for example, Rally, Jira) when Sync Type is set to Push. 
• The downstream updates are automatically pushed for the GitHub events across Issues (opening, editing, closing, reopening), Issue Comments (creating, editing), and Pull Requests (opening, merging, closing).

New VMware vSphere Adapter

• Synchronizes VM resource metrics (CPU usage, memory utilization, costs) and logical entities (vCenter Instances, Data Centers, Clusters, ESXi Hosts, Resource Pools, Virtual Machines) into destination applications like Clarity. 
• Supports Time-Scaled Value metrics and dynamic date mapping via a new _DATE system field to track resource consumption trends over rolling periods. 
• Supports unidirectional synchronization only. Data flows securely from vSphere to the destination applications; ConnectALL does not write or synchronize data back to vSphere. 

Clarity Adapter Enhancements 

• New TSV Fields for VCF Utilization: Record timesheet and utilization data into relative Smart-Date windows by mapping boundary fields (TSV Start and TSV End) alongside the _DATE system field.
• Symmetric Related Field Configuration: Ensure TSV value fields and period boundary fields are configured symmetrically in both directions. This ensures period boundaries and updated TSV values are always packaged together in the synchronization payload.

ConnectALL MCP Server (Beta)

• New Model Context Protocol server enables natural-language interaction with ConnectALL data and workflows via external AI assistants, IDEs, and MCP-compatible clients.

ConnectALL Platform Enhancements

• Automatic Retry for Push Sync: Automatic retry for Push sync type failures (for example, unprocessed GitHub webhooks), matching existing Poll sync retry behavior. 
• Cross-Adapter Support for Translate Record ID: Translate record ID capabilities have been expanded, allowing you to select automations beyond those of the original source adapter. 
• Automation Schedules Lock Status Filter: Easily locate and manage automations in the Automation Schedules section using the new Lock Status filter (ALL, Locked, or Unlocked).
• Instance URL Configuration for Install/Upgrade: To strengthen security, fresh installations and upgrades to version 4.3 require specifying your ConnectALL instance URL within the connectall.properties file. 
• Installer Abort Handling: Improved deployment integrity; the installer automatically halts execution if an error occurs during Database script or Liquibase execution on fresh installs or upgrades.
• Extended Batch Processing Support: Batch processing capabilities have been extended to the Flat File and vSphere adapters.

 Customer Voice:

• DE190858: Resolved an issue where the Tosca adapter failed while reading Test Case objects.
• DE195956: Fixed field mapping retrieval failures with ArmorCode and resolved dropdown selection issues in Entry Mapping. 
• DE203744: Fixed an issue that caused a "Could not read: Object not found for Object ID: Null" error in the Rally to Jira automation.
• DE205722: Resolved an issue where Connection Properties were dropped after updating credentials. 
• DE208906: Fixed an issue where Rally to Jira automation received "error retrieving fields from Jira" error when reloading fields after ConnectALL SaaS 4.2 upgrade.
• DE207907: Improved Project Field Mapping screen load performance for automations with large schemas. 
• DE202877: Fixed an issue that prevented successful connections to Rally V2.
• DE205153: Fixed a UI issue that incorrectly added passwords back into automations, resulting in execution failures.
• DE195891: Fixed an issue where the Create and Update synchronization operations were incorrectly disabled for the _INPUT system field in the Logic AND Gate adapter, even when enabled in Entity Mapping.
• DE205123:Resolved a sync issue where mapped Team field values were overridden during subsequent sync cycles.
• DE192199: Fixed an issue where screenshots auto-named with timestamps were duplicated in ALM when a change was made in Jira.
• DE207913: Fixed an issue that caused incorrect or excessive styling conversion in Jira descriptions.
• DE203640: Optimized the ConnectALL Purge job to prevent it from running for multiple days and affecting upgrades.
• DE209410: Fixed an issue where selected Jira projects were not persisted correctly when using the search selection.
• DE209531: Resolved improper coupling of Rally Parent/Child project selections when merging multiple automations.
• DE208075: Fixed an issue where Group Associations became unchecked when modified.
• DE209464: Resolved task assignment sync failures in the Clarity adapter.
• DE209532: Fixed an issue where changing the initiator cleared selected projects while merging automations.
• DE197102: Fixed a stack overflow error that occurred when processing records with description fields containing URLs or complex data.
• DE202977: Fixed an issue where the Reload Fields operation timed out in ConnectALL automations.
• DE203003: Fixed an issue that caused synchronization failures with the error "Timeout waiting for idle object."
• DE204742: Fixed an issue where a long-running poll on automation caused an abort on startup.
• DE208674: Fixed an issue where the MVEpic automation remained locked for an extended time during event processing.
• DE209783: Fixed an issue where identical status values were synced to Jira when no status change occurred in Rally.
• DE209391: Fixed an issue where sorting automations by name in the UI was not working.

Noteworthy Pointers

• Documentation:
• New ValueOps ConnectALL 4.3.0 Documentation: Link
• Broadcom Software Academy:
• ConnectALL Training Courses: Link
• ConnectALL Sim Lab:  Link
• ConnectALL Academy Home Page: Link
• ValueOps ConnectALL Community: Link
• ConnectALL Solution brief: Link
• Legal Notices:
• SaaS Listing: Link
• Specific Program Documentation (SPD): Link
• How to Subscribe to receive GA Letter automatically: Link
• ConnectALL to stop support on MYSQL, MSSQL, Oracle databases from Dec FY26. Contact support for Migration to Postgres.

Scheduled Upgrades

ValueOps ConnectALL Release and Support Lifecycle Dates

If you are an On-Premise customer, you can download your copy of ValueOps ConnectALL Release 4.3 online at Broadcom Support where you can also utilize Broadcom’s case management system. To install your product, follow the installation procedures for your product at Tech Docs. If you are a SaaS customer, your environment will be automatically upgraded to the new release at a scheduled time following the 4.3 GA release date. Customers can expect a follow-up communication with additional details related to automatic upgrades. If you have any questions or require assistance, please contact Broadcom Support.

For a list of free Education courses, please visit Broadcom Academy. We update courses based on functional impact as well as high demand; therefore, courses created from previous releases may apply to the current release. 

Best Regards,

ConnectALL Team