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

• This release improves the Git synchronization with Styra DAS.

• Styra DAS requires Rego policies synchronized from a Git repository to have package names that reflect their path.

• Git synchronization now supports the ability to use Git tags in addition to branches.

GUI

• This release allows Styra DAS to improve performance by not preloading all policies and data sources filenames from all systems.

• Styra DAS now supports Git authentication through SSH keys.

• This release improves the performance of reading systems by reducing the number of database calls in the backend.

Systems

• 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.

• 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

• Fixed an issue that caused bundles to change frequently without real policy changes.

• Fixed a cookie setting issue that prevented use of OIDC and SAML SSO without TLS ingress.

GUI

• Fixed an issue that prevented system owners from updating a custom system’s datasource.

• Temporarily disabled data. autocomplete due for performance issues.

• Fixed the formatter issue on bracket notation for keywords in references.

• Fixed an issue where users were unable to create a root level data source on a Multi-File Policy Authoring system.