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Release Notes for Styra DAS

This page provides Styra DAS SaaS Release Notes for May 2025.

May 21, 2025​

The Styra DAS 20250521 release delivers the following changes.

Fixed Issues​

New UI Policy Builder fixes​

The New UI Policy Builder rendered condition input values inconsistently, such as rendering false as 0 in some circumstances.

May 14, 2025​

The Styra DAS 20250514 release delivers the following changes.

New Features and Changes​

New UI Additions​

Added separate decision metrics graphs for Kubernetes system Mutation and Validation decision metrics.

Upgraded to OPA v1.4.2​

The internal version of OPA used by Styra DAS has been upgraded to OPA 1.4.2. This version of OPA addresses the recent OPA vulnerability CVE-2025-46569, which is detailed in the Styra blog post CVE-2025-46569: OPA REST API Path Injection Vulnerability. While this vulnerability did not affect DAS itself, customers are recommended to upgrade their deployed OPAs to v1.4.2, particularly those customers who customize their OPA deployments and may not be following OPA Security best practices. Customers who cannot upgrade deployed OPAs to v1.4.2 are encouraged to review the OPA Hardened Configuration Example or review the workarounds detailed in the above Styra blog post.

Fixed Issues​

New UI policy editor error when evaluating policy selection in a Stack​

In the New UI policy editor, an error occurred when choosing to evaluated selected lines of a Stack policy rather than the whole policy.

New UI Policy Builder fixes​

Policy Builder allowed invalid input value types for arrays in rule conditions.

May 7, 2025​

The Styra DAS 20250507 release delivers the following changes.

New Features and Changes​

New UI Additions​

For systems using the Policy Builder, the Policy Builder's visual policy graph is shown with the relevant graph paths highlighted in the decision details view.

Support for Istio Ambient installations in Istio systems​

The Istio system install instructions now include steps and install assets for Istio Ambient.

Fixed Issues​

Decision indexing error for decisions that cannot be parsed​

In cases where a decision could not be properly parsed during decision indexing, the decision indexing process would stop at that decision, causing the decision log shown in the DAS UI to fall behind.

New UI policy editor results did not scroll for long errors​

In cases where policy evaluation resulted in a long error message, the Result pane in the new UI policy editor did not scroll to show the full error message.

New UI Policy Builder fixes​

  • Policy Builder view in decision details would flicker during loading.
  • Evaluate panel initially displayed incorrect type for array inputs.

May 1, 2025​

The Styra DAS 20250501 release delivers the following changes.

New Features and Changes​

New UI Additions​

Added ability to download decisions from the decision preview view. Replay decision from decision log in Policy Builder. Users with a System Manager role can create policies in the Policy Builder.

Fixed Issues​

New UI policy editor code coverage disappears on scroll​

In the new UI policy editor, in some cases the code coverage indicators would disappear when scrolling in the policy.

New UI Policy Builder fixes​

  • Policy Builder allowed invalid input value types in evaluate panel
  • Policy Builder graph did not render array values correctly
  • Policy Builder did not show boolean value in evaluate panel