NocoBase v2.0.0-alpha.57: Add new system variables in workflow, including `instanceId` and `genSnowflakeId`

🎉 New Features

• [Workflow] Add new system variables in workflow, including instanceId and genSnowflakeId (#8223) by @mytharcher

🚀 Improvements

• [client] use select for operation column width configuration (#8218) by @katherinehhh

• [AI employees] Fix AI employee not responding on first edit submission
  Delete unnecessary built-in AI employee “Avery Form Assistant”
  Add default initial role permissions for built-in AI employees
  Improve AI employee error handling and output behavior
  Add support for AI to access modal context variables
  Add support for external data sources for AI
  Fix incorrect conversation truncation when AI processes large data volumes (#8191) by @heziqiang

• [Workflow]

  • Add original workflow instance to duplicate API (#8225) by @mytharcher
  • Improve description of changed field in collection event (#8216) by @mytharcher

• [Async task manager] Improved error handling during cleanup tasks by adding exception-catching mechanisms to prevent application crashes (#8215) by @mytharcher

• [Block: Action panel] improve display of hidden blocks, actions, and fields in configuration mode (#8174) by @katherinehhh

• [UI templates] Added UI templates plugin, providing the ability to reuse block templates and popup templates. (#8163) by @gchust

• [Action: Export records Pro] import pro& export pro action support permission control by @katherinehhh

• [Workflow: Approval] Update approval.data to latest version of the approving record when execution end, to match “Latest” record show mode by @mytharcher

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [flow-engine]

  • fix permission check issue for add child records in tree table (#8240) by @katherinehhh
  • Fixed an issue where some block popup record-related variables were displayed incorrectly. (#8060) by @gchust
  • Fixed the issue where actions or tabs added after dragging actions or tabs do not display. (#8224) by @gchust
  • permission check issue in external data sources (#8221) by @katherinehhh
  • fix external data source actions being hidden despite having permission (#8217) by @katherinehhh

• [client]

  • Handle empty linkage rules to prevent errors (#8239) by @zhangzhonghe
  • Fixed the issue where the table block’s operation column could not be removed. (#8230) by @gchust
  • Fixed the issue where preview execution wrote compiled JSX output back to stepParams, causing saved source code to be rewritten. (#8171) by @gchust
  • Fix S3 Pro attachment upload error and improve file preview (#8211) by @katherinehhh

• [cli] license-kit is compatible with the case where DB_PASSWORD is empty (#8220) by @jiannx

• [database] Fix date field query inconsistency between main and external data sources (#8181) by @cgyrock

• [Collection field: Sequence] Fixed an error when the field-sequence repair command encounters a non-existent collection in the current environment. (#8251) by @cgyrock

• [Workflow: Manual node] Fix the issue where error thrown when cancel execution of deleted workflow (#8258) by @mytharcher

• [UI templates] Fix an error where opening an association field popup would incorrectly use a non-association field popup template. (#8233) by @gchust

• [Departments] Fix an issue where aggregate search cannot locate users (#8222) by @2013xile

• [Collection field: Many to many (array)] Fix an issue where many-to-many (array) fields cannot be created when the target key type is Snowflake ID (53-bit) (#8226) by @2013xile

• [License settings] Fix the abnormal display of the licensed plugin (#8214) by @jiannx

• [Action: Import records] Fix the issue where row index in error message is always 1 when error thrown in import action (#8244) by @mytharcher

• [Template print] Fix template print request not working with external data sources by @katherinehhh

• [Workflow: Approval]

  • Fix duplicated rollback of same transaction by @mytharcher
  • Fix the issue where approving makes association to creating new record by @mytharcher
  • Fix the issue where approving makes to-many association to creating new records by @mytharcher