Release Notes for Styra DAS On-Premises 0.5.1
Styra DAS On-premises version 0.5.1 was released on May 25, 2021.
Release Summary
This release delivers the new features and enhancements in Styra DAS On-premises 0.5.1.
New Features and Enhancements
This section describes the new features and enhancements in Styra DAS On-premises 0.5.1.
API
- System and Stack configurations returned by the DAS API now have additional fields status.
Backend
- Partial Evaluation is now available as an option for bundle download requests.
Data Sources
- The HTTP plugin supports both JSON and YAML formats and custom headers in the requests. YAML does not support large numbers beyond
int64
.
Git
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This release improves the Git synchronization with Styra DAS.
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Styra DAS requires Rego policies synchronized from a Git repository to have package names that reflect their path.
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Git synchronization now supports the ability to use Git tags in addition to branches.
GUI
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This release allows Styra DAS to improve performance by not preloading all policies and data sources filenames from all systems.
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Styra DAS now supports Git authentication through SSH keys.
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This release improves the performance of reading systems by reducing the number of database calls in the backend.
Systems
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Starting with this release,
GET /v1/systems
API also accepts supplementary query flags that allow omitting various parts of the system configuration object on the output. -
This release constructs optimizations to improve the performance of the compliance API. This API now takes 50%-75% more time than the previous API.
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Helm installation of Kubernetes system provides the following enhancements:
- Adds support to pull images from private repositories.
- Users can now specify node selector, tolerations, and security context.
- Adds checksum annotation to the deployments which calculates the
sha256
checksum of the configuration. - Adds Certificate Authority (CA) certificate to Kubernetes secrets for OPA.
Issues Fixed
This section describes the Issues Fixed in Styra DAS On-premises 0.5.1.
Backend
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Fixed an issue that caused bundles to change frequently without real policy changes.
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Fixed a cookie setting issue that prevented use of OIDC and SAML SSO without TLS ingress.
GUI
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Fixed an issue that prevented system owners from updating a custom system’s datasource.
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Temporarily disabled
data.
autocomplete due for performance issues. -
Fixed the formatter issue on bracket notation for keywords in references.
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Fixed an issue where users were unable to create a root level data source on a Multi-File Policy Authoring system.