As follow-up to our previous release 2311, this blog post provides an update concerning our most recent release 2402, which is available for customers and partners since last weekend. This particular release features highlights such as a Bring-your-own-Git capability, support for Enterprise Search and Data Replication from ABAP.
All available new features can be found on the official release notes page.
Bring-your-own git
You can now connect own Git repositories to your ABAP environment system via the Manage Software Components app. This allows you to manage the lifecycle of software components in a customer-chosen Git service as well as to connect custom CI/CD services. Please note that changes to the code in Git are only allowed through transport requests in the system (details).
Enterprise Search
With enterprise search, it is possible to create a CDS-based search model via enterprise search annotations. These annotations refer to a suitable CDS view entity which can be either reused or created from scratch (details).
Data Replication with ABAP as a Source
The ABAP environment can now be used as source for data replication to SAP Datasphere. The replication scenario covers both initial load and delta extraction as well as replication from public and custom CDS view entities (details).
SOAP Provider Model
The SOAP Provider Model now allows you to expose SOAP services for inbound communication. The description of the service is done via a WSDL file (details).
ABAP Development Tools
- Support for SAP-provided CDS aspects to store field definitions and calculations, such as CDS expressions
- Support for displaying system client in editor tab (details)
- Enhancements to the refactoring functionality for ABAP classes and interfaces (details)
- Availability of the server-driven UI editor for ILM objects (ILMB) (details)
ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model
- Support for the definition of static and instance feature control for fields which have been added for key user extensibility
- Support for generating custom OData UI services based on RAP BO interfaces using a generator wizard
Administration & Operations
- Support for displaying and analyzing ABAP runtime errors with the new ABAP Runtime Errors app (details)
- Support for displaying dependency of scope items in business role templates (details)
- Support for displaying components to which a restriction type belongs to create incidents (details)
- Support for using additional metrics for e-mail transmissions and changes to database table entries in the Health Monitoring app (details)
- Support for using additional metric for e-mail transmissions in SAP Cloud ALM (details)
- Support for copying restrictions from a deprecated restriction type using Mass Change Wizard (details, details)
- Support for monitoring system workload with focus on metrics such as ABAP and HANA CPU time as well as processing time (details)
- Enhancements to the monitoring screens for sampled work process data (details)
- Support for merging of spaces or pages in the SAP Fiori Launchpad via respective apps
Continuous Integration and Delivery
- Support for MANAGE_SOFTWARE_COMPONENTS API to work with software components on ABAP Environment systems
Infrastructure
Integration & Connectivity
- Support for adding the AIR key to a SOAP request in the HTTP header (details)
- Support for configuring event filters for outbound event topics via Enterprise Event Enablement - Maintain Event Channel Binding app (details)
- Support for integrating enterprise event enablement with Advanced Event Mesh service plan (details)
- Support for the specification of customized OAuth scopes in communication arrangements
- Availability of the new function module RS_ABAP_GET_NAMETAB_INFOS_E in ATC scenarios, which comes with new versions of the source code extractor notes bundled in the SAP Note (details)
- Support for Refresh Allowed checkbox and Refresh Token Expiry Time in communication systems (details)
- Support for displaying dependency of scope items in communication scenarios (details)
Additional Information
You can find the product page on SAP BTP, ABAP Environment | SAP Help Portal
For technical documentation, please refer to our Standalone Documentation.
Please refer to SAP BTP, ABAP environment Roadmap for more details about planned features as part of the product roadmap.
As always, please let us know if you have questions.
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