BridgeLab 1.8.0

BridgeLab 1.8.0

HL7/FHIR editor for healthcare integration professionals.

This release is about the ways BridgeLab talks to the outside world, and
about you deciding on them: buying a license, finding out that a new
version exists, and removing your data when you uninstall.

Buy a license from inside the app

Until now the app only said "contact info@techemv.it". Now Help → Buy a
License…, a See prices & buy button on the Professional and
Enterprise cards of the activation dialog, a See prices button on every
"requires a Professional license" prompt and Compare plans on the
trial banner all open the pricing section of the website, where the
checkout runs. E-mail stays for invoices, purchase orders and quotes.

New versions are announced — if you say so

Once a day, a few seconds after start-up, BridgeLab can ask GitHub for the
number of the latest release and, when it is newer, show a banner with
Download (the release page), Skip this version and a close button.
Nothing is installed automatically.

• Nothing is requested before you decide. The Windows installer asks
  during setup (Yes preselected; silent installs are not interrupted);
  every other package asks once, in a banner, at first start. Closing the
  question without answering asks again next time.
• What is sent: an anonymous request to api.github.com — no
  identifier, no license data, nothing about your files. GitHub sees your
  IP address, as for any web request; TECHEMV receives nothing. Offline,
  the check is skipped silently.
• Change it any time in Settings → Privacy → Check for new versions
  at startup.
• For IT departments: turn it off for every user of a machine with
  the environment variable BRIDGELAB_DISABLE_UPDATE_CHECK=1, or a
  policy.json containing {"disable_update_check": true} in
  %ProgramData%\BridgeLab\ (Windows),
  /Library/Application Support/BridgeLab/ (macOS) or /etc/bridgelab/
  (Linux). The Settings checkbox then shows as locked.

The privacy policy describes this, and now also states that a license
activated online repeats its activation in the background, at most once a
day, from 14 days before it expires, to pick up a renewal.

Fixed

• "Delete the application data" on Windows uninstall now does what it
  says. It used to remove only the embedded browser's cache; the
  database — preferences, communication history with message previews,
  test cases, open tabs — plugins and FHIR packages stayed on disk. They
  are now removed too. Your license file is kept, so a reinstall stays
  licensed (use Deactivate first if the machine is leaving), and so is
  the trial state.
• Release assets: the macOS .app.tar.gz updater bundles that still
  appeared on 1.7.0 are no longer produced — nothing used them.

Upgrading

Nothing to do. On Windows, the setup asks the update question once; on the
other packages the app asks at first start. Your data, settings and
license are untouched.

Downloads

See the assets below for installers for Windows, macOS (Intel and Apple
Silicon), Linux, and the bridgelab-cli binaries.

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