Warning for Firefox users on 5.0 while testing encrypted metadata

TLDR: if you are enabling and testing encrypted metadata, make sure all the clients are using v5.1 before hand. Do not use with prior version such as 5.0 as the 5.1 contains important fixes. 5.1 is not yet available on firefox.

Hello everyone,

We want to inform you about a known issue affecting users with the Firefox browser extension version 5.0. This version does not correctly format the encrypted metadata for resources during creation or migrations. Specifically, it omits a mandatory field:
"object_type": "PASSBOLT_RESOURCE_METADATA".

As a result, any resources created or updated using browser extension 5.0 may fail validation when accessed by clients using version 5.1 or later.

The good news: this issue has already been addressed in version 5.1. However, the updated version is still pending approval on the Firefox Add-ons store and is not yet publicly available. If you proceeded to migrate your resources using Firefox 5.0 extension, we advise you to roll back from backup as you may run into issues with release 5.1 on Firefox, or make resources unavailable already for users on Chrome/Edge.

We may update other clients or provide other workaround depending on community feedback.

Thanks for your understanding and support.

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Ref. https://github.com/passbolt/mobile-passbolt-ios/issues/16

Just a happy update on this topic. :grinning_face:
On 22nd of May, version 5.1.1 of the Firefox extension was published on Mozilla Firefox extension page. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/passbolt/

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