Breaking: Remove AWS Session Manager feature#3236
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Pull Request Overview
This pull request removes the AWS Session Manager feature from NETworkManager due to maintenance challenges with the underlying AWS Session Manager Plugin (not actively maintained, keyboard layout bugs) and lack of a test environment. Users can still use AWS Session Manager via the PowerShell feature with the aws ssm start-session command.
Key changes:
- Complete removal of AWS Session Manager feature code, views, and view models
- Removal of AWSSDK.EC2 package dependency
- Documentation updates to reflect the removal and provide alternative usage via PowerShell
- Settings migration logic to handle removal from existing installations
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| Source/NETworkManager.Models/ApplicationManager.cs | Updated GetDefaultList() to exclude AWSSessionManager, but contains a logic error |
| Website/docs/changelog/next-release.md | Documents the breaking change with migration notes (contains typo) |
| Website/docs/application/aws-session-manager.md | Added deprecation warning with workaround using PowerShell |
| Website/docs/application/powershell.md | Added AWS SSM examples to PowerShell documentation |
| Website/docs/faq/powershell-cmd-apps.md | Added AWS Session Manager example using PowerShell |
| Source/NETworkManager/ViewModels/* | Removed AWS Session Manager view models |
| Source/NETworkManager/Views/* | Removed AWS Session Manager XAML views and code-behind |
| Source/NETworkManager/NETworkManager.csproj | Removed AWSSDK.EC2 package reference |
| Source/NETworkManager.Models/AWS/* | Deleted all AWS-specific model classes |
| Source/NETworkManager.Profiles/* | Removed AWS Session Manager profile properties |
| Source/NETworkManager.Settings/* | Removed AWS Session Manager settings and added upgrade logic |
| Source/NETworkManager.Documentation/* | Removed AWS documentation references and license file |
| Source/NETworkManager.Localization/Resources/* | Removed AWS-related localization strings |
| Source/GlobalAssemblyInfo.cs | Updated assembly version to 2025.11.16.0 |
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- Source/NETworkManager.Localization/Resources/StaticStrings.Designer.cs: Language not supported
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| Upgrade your [.NET Desktop Runtime to version 10.0 (LTS) - x64](https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/10.0/runtime) before you install this version. [#3229](https://github.com/BornToBeRoot/NETworkManager/pull/3229) | ||
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| - `AWS Session Manager` feature has been removed. The [AWS Session Manager Plugin](https://github.com/aws/session-manager-plugin) is not actively maintained and contains several bugs (e.g. German / Spain keyboard layout issues). The current code base was also difficult to maintain and extend, and I currently have no test environment. | ||
| The Sync feature (EC2 instances -> Profiles) has been removed as well, because it was limited to AWS Session Manager only. This will be re-introduced in a future release to support multiple proividers (`AWS`, `Azure`, etc.) and more features like `Ping Monitor`, `PuTTY` or `Remote Desktop`. |
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Typo: "proividers" should be "providers"
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@BornToBeRoot I've opened a new pull request, #3237, to work on those changes. Once the pull request is ready, I'll request review from you. |
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* Initial plan * Fix typo: proividers -> providers in changelog Co-authored-by: BornToBeRoot <16019165+BornToBeRoot@users.noreply.github.com> --------- Co-authored-by: copilot-swe-agent[bot] <198982749+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: BornToBeRoot <16019165+BornToBeRoot@users.noreply.github.com>
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This pull request removes all references to AWS Session Manager and the AWSSDK.EC2 library from the documentation and codebase. Additionally, it updates the localization resource file to use German comments and descriptions. The most important changes are grouped below.
Removal of AWS Session Manager and AWSSDK.EC2 references:
ApplicationAWSSessionManagerentry from theDocumentationIdentifierenum and removed related documentation mapping inDocumentationManager.cs. [1] [2]GetIdentifierByApplicationNameandGetIdentifierBySettingsNamemethods. [1] [2]LibraryManager.csand removed its license file from the project. [1] [2] [3] [4]StaticStrings.Designer.cs.Localization and versioning updates:
StaticStrings.Designer.csto German and changed the resource builder version. [1] [2]GlobalAssemblyInfo.csto2025.11.16.0.To-Do
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