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Release Notes for Styra DAS

This page describes the release notes for Styra DAS delivered in August 2021.

Release Summary​

Styra is built on the Open Policy Agent (OPA), a popular and widely deployed open source project developed by the founders of Styra. With primary credibility for the underlying technology, the Styra team and technology are both proven in production across verticals. Styra enables enterprises to define, enforce, validate, and continually monitor security, compliance and operational policies across the cloud-native application stack. Styra has reinvented the authorization solutions to mitigate customer risk, and reinforce commitment to trust and transparency in safeguarding customers’ data. Styra’s Declarative Authorization Service (DAS) is a sophisticated management plane that provides context-based guardrails, built from a graphical policy library to mitigate risk, reduce human error and accelerate development. Styra makes it possible for enterprises to implement policy-as-code controls and to prove their effectiveness to both internal and external security and compliance audiences.

August 24, 2021​

This Styra DAS 20210824 release delivers the following new enhancements

New Features and Enhancements​

This section describes the new enhancements in Styra DAS 20210824.

GUI​

  • The compliance screen can now detect violations for large clusters and stacks. The last result is saved for quicker load times.

  • This release allows users to now copy the input of each decision from the decision log.

August 17, 2021​

This Styra DAS 20210817 release delivers the following new enhancements and the list of fixed issues.

New Features and Enhancements​

This section describes the new enhancements in Styra DAS 20210817.

GUI​

  • Starting with this release, when configuring a Git repository, the default Git reference is refs/heads/main (previously refs/heads/master).

  • This release introduces live filtering of inventory resources using the navigation filter.

  • Prior to this release, the dialog box was displayed when errors exist outside of the current editor. Starting with this release, compiled Rego errors are now highlighted in the editor.

Issues Fixed​

This section describes the issues fixed in Styra DAS 20210817.

Git​

  • Fixed the Git configuration pane for Library to display the current configuration rather than erroneously defaulting to SSH even for HTTPS-based configurations.

August 10, 2021​

This Styra DAS 20210810 release delivers the following new enhancements and the list of fixed issues.

New Features and Enhancements​

This section describes the new enhancements in Styra DAS 20210810.

Data Sources​

This release adds the following options to HTTP plugin:

  • skip_tls_verification option is used to skip the TLS verification for custom certificates, if set to true.

  • ca_certificate option is used to provide a custom CA certificate that will be used to verify a TLS connection.

GUI​

Starting with this release, browser tabs or window titles are more meaningful based on the current or selected web page.

Issues Fixed​

This section describes the issues fixed in Styra DAS 20210810.

GUI​

  • Any imports aliased as data or input is now considered an error because modules implicitly imports data and input.

  • For some Git repository URLs, Regex returns / at the end of the hostname which results in an extra / between hostname and repository name in the GUI. This release added an additional check in the GUI to add / only if hostname does not end with /.

August 3, 2021​

This Styra DAS 20210803 release delivers the following new enhancements and the list of fixed issues.

New Features and Enhancements​

This section describes the new enhancements in Styra DAS 20210803.

Data Sources​

  • The masks now support complex names that contains . (dot), / (slash), ' (quotes), or " (double quotes) symbols. To remove the objects with a complex name, the name should be enclosed with double quotes.
masks:
  "*":
  - metadata.annotations.'kubectl.kubernetes.io/last-applied-configuration'

Git​

  • DAS now enforces a uniqueness check for Git Repository configurations across systems, stacks and workspaces configurations. The combination of URL, branch, and path must be unique across all Git repositories. Only stacks can have the same configuration as other stacks.

GUI​

  • Starting with this release, branch indicator status is added for system and workspace tracked files. It is important to note that draft indicator holds priority over branch indicator.

Policy​

  • The Terraform system-type in Styra DAS Enterprise now ships with an initial set of policies that map to the MITRE ATT&CK® knowledge base of adversary tactics and techniques. The MITRE ATT&CK compliance pack can be found in your DAS environment under SYSTEMS >> your-Terraform-system view >> Manage Compliance Packs menu.

Systems​

  • This release adds a system dialog that reorders system-types in alphabetical order. This includes usage dialog displays, usage per system-type, and the total number of existing systems.

Issues Fixed​

This section describes the issues fixed in Styra DAS 20210803.

GUI​

  • Fixed an issue where the DISABLE_LOCAL_LOGIN_IF_SSO_ENABLED flag failed.

  • Fixed an issue where users without any drafts were unable to add compliance packs to their systems.

Metrics​

  • Fixed an issue in timeseries metrics when querying decisions resulting from Envoy systems.