November/December 2017 - SimCapture On-Premise Version 5.8.6

The complete history of the SimCapture On-Premise 5.8.6 release

Updated at April 18th, 2023

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We are happy to bring you these new releases and always want to hear what you have to say! Any feedback is welcome, and we encourage you to contact our support team with any of your comments or questions. They can be reached at SimCaptureSupport@laerdal.com or 877-LAERDAL.

This article contains the complete history of the SimCapture On-Premise 5.8.6 release including any LLEAP releases, hardware, and security updates.

Release version 5.8.6

Laerdal Medical is happy to announce the release of SimCapture version 5.8.6. This new version includes some updates to our password requirement capabilities plus much more.

For more information about upgrading your system to SimCapture 5.8.6, please contact our support team via email at SimCaptureSupport@laerdal.com or call 877-LAERDAL. Previous release notes, documentation, and further updates can all be found on the Laerdal Medical Customer Solution Center.

Update on Flash

Please see our recent product announcement related to Flash & the Future of SimCapture on our Customer Solution Center site.

Password requirements

Summary

Provide clients the ability to invoke password requirements for end-users so our software better aligns with the security requirements set forth by their organizations.

Phase 1 Includes Password requirements including the number of characters, uppercase, lowercase, numbers, and special characters.

Phase 2 Includes (included in v5.8.7 release): Enabling the system to validate that a user sets a unique password x number of times before reusing a password.

Improvements

Password requirements include number of characters, uppercase, lowercase, numbers, and special characters.
Configure it so passwords automatically expire every X Days.
Within the upload spreadsheet, any auto-generated passwords must be compliant, but any provided passwords will not be validated on upload.

Details

Currently, the Password Requirements will not be validated if changing passwords within the Exam System, iPad Debriefer, or Center Sign-In.

Please see the configuration setting below. The default settings represent the way the system works currently without any changes. If you have any configuration changes that you would like to make, please contact the SimCapture Support team.

Configuration	Description	Default	Options
Allow External Id	Allow a user to use their external id as part of their password	True	True/False
Allow First Name	Allow a user to use their first name as part of their password	True	True/False
Allow Last Name	Allow a user to use their last name as part of their password	True	True/False
Minimum Lower Characters	Minimum number of lower-case characters a user must include in their password	0	0-99
Minimum Upper Characters	Minimum number of upper-case characters a user must include in their password	0	0-99
Minimum Number Characters	Minimum number of numerical characters a user must include in their password	0	0-99
Minimum Special Characters	Minimum number of special characters a user must include in their password (See Special C)	0	0-99
Minimum Total Characters	Minimum number of total characters a user must include in their password	0	0-99
Password Expiration Days	Number of days until a user must set a new password	0	Can be set to any number of days, 0 = Not Activated
Password Expiration Time Span	Amount of time until a user must set a new password	00:00:00	Can be set to any time span, 00:00:00 = Not Activated
Special Characters	Set of characters are used to validate against “special characters”	`~!@#$%^&*_-+=`\|(){}[]:;"'<>,.?/	Any set of the special characters

New LLEAP versions verified

Tested and validated that these new versions of LLEAP work with our software:

LLEAP Version: 6.3.0.3141
- Resolved some issues where this version would result in various on-screen errors appearing when loading up the Instructor Application

Note: There were instances when installing the new LLEAP versions would delete the SimCapture plugin. If you experience issues after upgrading, please be sure to validate our plugin is still installed properly and if further problems persist, please contact the SimCapture Support Team.

Bug fixes and improvements

Resolved an issue with editing permissions for custom annotations so that now participants are only allowed to edit/delete Annotations that they themselves have made. Admins are still able to edit/delete all Annotations, regardless of the owner.
Fixed an issue with our webcam setup where the second webcam feed in a session was not recording any audio.
Resolved an issue with the framerate of our webcams not staying fixed at 30fps.
Adjusted reports to properly display Scenario Title instead of Scenario ID on some usage and event reports.
As a permanent fix to some reporting errors, we had fixed in the past where the numbering of evaluations would get duplicated, we have now calculated via the Djb2Hash method. This should prevent collisions from occurring going forward.
Resolved an issue with our new Exam System Tray Application would not work properly if the room name contained whitespace characters.

release 5.8.6 on prem on premise