# Stork 0.11.0, September 2nd, 2020, Release Notes Welcome to the Stork 0.11.0 release. This is a development release of the Stork dashboard for Kea. This is somewhat smaller release than usual. Some team members enjoyed a well-earned vacation this month, and those that were in the office focused on pushing a major release of Kea 1.8.0 out the door. With the summer holiday period coming to a close and the full team back in the office, we expect the next Stork release to be a bit bigger. The changes introduced in this version are: 1. **Security improvements**. For the last couple of months, Stork has been adding many new features in each release. This time, we are focusing on security improvements. Many dependencies have been updated to their latest versions without any known vulnerabilities (#362), the credentials are now passed in a more secure way that is not susceptible to data leakage in proxy logs (#375), and the sanity checks for the log viewer capability are now vastly improved (#348). 2. **UI improvements**. The status of BIND 9 daemons is now displayed correctly (#379), and the tables are displayed better on low-resolution (720p) devices (#295). Also, the dashboard no longer shows daemons that are not monitored (#365). 3. **Documentation**. The section explaining how to use the Stork agent as a Prometheus exporter for BIND 9 was expanded (#382). 4. **Bug fixes**. Stork no longer gets confused when the database access password uses uppercase letters (#361), and the daemon status is now presented correctly after recovering from a connection breakdown (#384). 5. **Stork Environment Simulator**. Running Stork demo is a popular way to get your first experience with Stork. Previously, there were two separate pages — DHCP Traffic Generator and DNS Traffic Generator — that could generate some basic traffic. Those two tools were merged and evolved into Stork Environment Simulator. Its capabilities were extended, so now you can add all machines to Stork server with a single click and simulate failures by stopping and starting services (#380). Please see this link for known issues: https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/stork/-/wikis/Known-issues ## Release Model Stork has monthly development releases on the first Wednesday of each month (with some exceptions around holidays), although we sometimes delay it a bit for last-minute changes. We encourage users to test the development releases and report back their findings on the stork-users mailing list, available at https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/stork-users. This text references issue numbers. For more details, visit the Stork GitLab page at https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/stork/issues. ## License This version of Stork is released under the Mozilla Public License, version 2.0. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/MPL/2.0 ## Download The easiest way to install the software is to use native deb or RPM packages. They can be downloaded from: https://cloudsmith.io/~isc/repos/stork/ The Stork source and PGP signature for this release may be downloaded from: https://downloads.isc.org/isc/stork The signature was generated with the ISC code-signing key which is available at: https://www.isc.org/pgpkey ISC provides documentation in the Stork Administrator Reference Manual. It is available on ReadTheDocs.io at https://stork.readthedocs.io/en/latest/, and in source form in the docs/ directory. We ask users of this software to please let us know how it worked for you and what operating system you tested on. Feel free to share your feedback on the stork-users mailing list (https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/stork-users). We would also like to hear whether the documentation is adequate and accurate. Please open tickets in the Stork GitLab project for bugs, documentation omissions and errors, and enhancement requests. We want to hear from you even if everything worked. ## Support Professional support for Stork will become available once it reaches the 1.0 milestone. Existing ISC customers that consider themselves *very* early adopters may get involved in the development process, including roadmap, features planning, and early testing, but the software maturity level does not constitute a typical professional service before the 1.0 milestone. Free best-effort support is provided by our user community via a mailing list. Information on all public email lists is available at https://www.isc.org/mailinglists/. If you have any comments or questions about working with Stork, please share them to the stork-users list (https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/stork-users). Bugs and feature requests may be submitted via GitLab at https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/stork/issues. ## Changes The following summarizes changes and important upgrades since the Stork 0.10.0 release. ``` * 101 [func] godfryd Merged Stork DHCP Traffic Simulator and Stork DNS Traffic Simulator into one web application called Stork Environment Simulator. Added there capabilities for adding all present machines in demo setup and ability to stop and start Stork Agents, Kea and BIND 9 daemons. This allows simulation of communication issues between applications, Stork Agents and Stork Server. (Gitlab #380) * 101 [func] marcin Restrict log viewer's access to the remote files. The log viewer can only access log files belonging to the monitored application. (Gitlab #348) * 100 [func] godfryd Improved user experience of updating machine address/port. Improved visual aspects. Added refreshing state from the machine after changing the address. (Gitlab #283) * 99 [func] godfryd The DHCP dashboard now is presenting only monitored daemons. The daemons that have monitoring switched off are not visible in the dashboard. (Gitlab #365) * 98 [bug] marcin Corrected an issue causing false errors about broken communication with the monitored Kea application after the application was brought back online. (Gitlab #384) * 97 [bug] godfryd Improved layout of various tables that they are displayed correctly on smaller screens. Fixed address of the machine that is displayed in the tables (previous it was always showing 127.0.0.1). (Gitlab #295) * 96 [doc] matthijs Add documentation on monitoring the BIND 9 application. (Gitlab #382) * 95 [func] godfryd Fixed presenting an application status on a machine tab with BIND 9 application. Previously it was always red/inactive. Now it is presented the same way as it is for Kea app: status per each daemon of an app. (Gitlab #379) * 94 [bug] marcin Fixed an issue whereby the user was unable to login to Stork when database password conatined upper case letters. In addition, passwords with spaces and quotes are now also supported. (Gitlab #361) * 93 [func] marcin Login credentials are passed in the message body rather than as query parameters. In addition, the user information is obfuscated when db tracing is enabled. (Gitlab #375) ``` Thank you again to everyone who assisted us in making this release possible. We look forward to receiving your feedback.