[stork-users] Stork 0.12.0 is now available

Michael McNally mcnally at isc.org
Wed Oct 14 17:43:37 UTC 2020


Stork 0.12.0 is a new development release of the Stork monitoring and
configuration dashboard and it can be downloaded from:

   https://www.isc.org/download#Stork

Documentation for Stork is available at https://stork.readthedocs.io.

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# Stork 0.12.0, October 14th, 2020, Release Notes

Welcome to the Stork 0.12.0 release. This is a development release of the
Stork dashboard.

The changes introduced in this version are:

1. **BIND 9 fix for multiple addresses**. Previous Stork agents had
problems parsing BIND 9 configurations that had more than one address
specified in their allow lists. This is now fixed. #411

2. **Events viewer**. Previous Stork agents were able to display the last
15 events in a small panel in the dashboard. This was useful, but very
basic. The capability has been now significantly expanded: the event
viewer widget on the dashboard now has a paging mechanism, so
earlier/later pages can be viewed, and there's an entirely new full page
events viewer. #357

3. **Breadcrumbs navigation**. Some users have reported that navigating
around the Stork UI can be confusing. The newly added breadcrumbs
navigation should make it more obvious and the navigation should be more
intuitive. #337

4. **Verbose mode for DB migration**. Stork does not publish any DB
schema; it provides a `stork-db-migrate` tool that performs the migration.
This is more flexible, as over time there will be cases when the schema
and data migration require some processing and cannot be easily done in
plain SQL. However, we received a report that on certain systems the
schema migration failed and it was difficult to diagnose the problem.
`stork-server` and `stork-db-migrate` now allow users to migrate up and
down to specific schema versions and enable logging all queries. #366

We now have a solution for two issues reported: the ability to handle
large configurations with thousands of subnets (#398) and no more
confusion for Stork if the Kea IP address changed (#409). Both have
candidate solutions that are at various stages of review, and they are
expected to be part of the 0.13 release, expected next month.

Please see this link for known issues:
https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/stork/-/wikis/Known-issues.

## Release Model

Stork has monthly development releases on the first Wednesday of each
month (with some exceptions around holidays), although we sometimes delay
it a bit for last-minute changes.

We encourage users to test the development releases and report back their
findings on the stork-users mailing list, available at
https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/stork-users.

This text references issue numbers. For more details, visit the Stork
GitLab page at https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/stork/issues.

## License
This version of Stork is released under the Mozilla Public License,
version 2.0.

   https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/MPL/2.0

## Download

The easiest way to install the software is to use native deb or RPM
packages. They can be downloaded from:

   https://cloudsmith.io/~isc/repos/stork/

The Stork source and PGP signature for this release may be downloaded from:

   https://downloads.isc.org/isc/stork

The signature was generated with the ISC code-signing key which is
available at:

   https://www.isc.org/pgpkey

ISC provides documentation in the Stork Administrator Reference Manual. It
is available on ReadTheDocs.io at https://stork.readthedocs.io/en/latest/,
and in source form in the docs/ directory.

We ask users of this software to please let us know how it worked for you
and what operating system you tested on. Feel free to share your feedback
on the stork-users mailing list
(https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/stork-users). We would also like
to hear whether the documentation is adequate and accurate. Please open
tickets in the Stork GitLab project for bugs, documentation omissions and
errors, and enhancement requests. We want to hear from you even if
everything worked.

## Support
Professional support for Stork will become available once it reaches the
1.0 milestone. Existing ISC customers that consider themselves *very*
early adopters may get involved in the development process, including
roadmap, features planning, and early testing, but the software maturity
level does not constitute a typical professional service before the 1.0
milestone.

Free best-effort support is provided by our user community via a mailing
list. Information on all public email lists is available at
https://www.isc.org/mailinglists/. If you have any comments or questions
about working with Stork, please share them to the stork-users list
(https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/stork-users). Bugs and feature
requests may be submitted via GitLab at
https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/stork/issues.

## Changes
The following summarizes changes and important upgrades since the Stork
0.11.0 release.

* 105 [func] godfryd

    Added a new page with events table that allows filtering and
    paging events. Improved event tables on dashboard, machines and
    applications pages. Enabling and disabling monitoring now
    generates events.
    (Gitlab #380)

* 104 [bug] matthijs

    Stork was unable to parse inet_spec if there were multiple addresses in
    the 'allow' clause.  Also fix the same bug for 'keys'.
    (Gitlab #411)

* 103 [func] godfryd

    Introduced breadcrumb that shows current location in Stork
    web application.
    (Gitlab #337)

* 102 [func] tomek

    The stork-db-migrate tool can now migrate up and down to specific
    schema versions. The SQL tracing now works and can be used to
    export SQL schema to external file.
    (Gitlab #366)

Thank you again to everyone who assisted us in making this release
possible.

We look forward to receiving your feedback.


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