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Release Notes for Styra DAS

This page describes the release notes for Styra DAS delivered in January 2022.

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.

January 31, 2022

This Styra DAS 20220131 release delivers the following new enhancement.

New Features and Enhancements

This section describes the new enhancements in Styra DAS 20220131.

GUI

  • Prior to this release, large data sources were shown in the GUI which caused slow downs and even browser crashes. Starting with this release, the DAS GUI now supports large data sources. If a data source is larger than 1 MB, it is not displayed in the browser and the user is given the option of downloading it.

January 25, 2022

This Styra DAS 20220125 release delivers the following new enhancements.

New Features and Enhancements

This section describes the new enhancements in Styra DAS 20220125.

Data Sources

  • Starting with this release, AWS S3 data source now pulls JSON and YAML files from an S3 bucket and recursively into directories, and loads into DAS. It uses Rego for transformation or filtering on data before it's loaded into DAS. It authenticates using IAM access key and secret access key that is stored as a secret in DAS.

  • This release supports transformation or filtering feature using Rego for all plugins (Git, S3, Kubernetes, and so on) like HTTP or LDAP.

GUI

  • For Bundle Registry, Decisions, and User Activity Exports, the DAS now displays exporter statuses for existing and configured exporters in the WORKSPACE and SYSTEMS >> Settings pane. Metrics exporters' statuses are displayed on the respective cards under WORKSPACE >> Settings >> Monitoring Integrations Settings pane.

January 18, 2022

This Styra DAS 20220118 release delivers the following new enhancements.

New Features and Enhancements

This section describes the new enhancements in Styra DAS 20220118.

GUI

  • This release shows mocked and unmocked URLs used for http.send or opa.runtime.

January 11, 2022

This Styra DAS 20220111 release delivers the following new enhancements.

New Features and Enhancements

This section describes the new enhancements in Styra DAS 20220111.

Decisions

  • DAS now supports decision latency in timeseries and decisions when using OPA as an embedded Go library.

GUI

  • This release shows mocked and unmocked URLs used for http.send or opa.runtime.

  • The Decision Replay Mode is enabled for all tenants.

  • LIBRARIES now loads its data when expanded in the navigation pane.

Systems

  • Starting with this release, all system types are set to use the latest OPA and SLP versions known to DAS.

January 4, 2022

This Styra DAS 20220104 release delivers the following new enhancements and issues fixed.

New Features and Enhancements

This section describes the new enhancements in Styra DAS 20220104.

GUI

  • DAS now supports exporting decisions and user activity to Azure Blob Storage. This is configured under the WORKSPACE >> Settings >> User Activity Export pane.