[stork-users] Stork 1.4.0 is now available

[Everett B. Fulton]

Stork 1.4.0 is a new development release of the Stork dashboard for
monitoring Kea servers.

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

Documentation for Stork is available at:

     https://stork.readthedocs.io

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# Stork 1.4.0, June 1st, 2022, Release Notes

Welcome to Stork 1.4.0, another development release. Due to a shorter
release cycle than usual, the set of changes is modest this time. The
changes introduced in this version are:

**Stork agent daemon detection**: The agent will now print a warning if
Kea/BIND9 process detection ends without detecting any running daemons
[#713].

**Log colors**: The logging colorization can now be controlled with the
`CLICOLOR` and `CLICOLOR_FORCE` environment variables [#722].

**Bug fix: download troubleshooting info**: A bug that previously caused
the troubleshooting information to often not include any event details
has been fixed [#707, #743].

**Bug fix: servers without stat_cmds**: The Stork server no longer sends
statistics queries to the Kea servers without using the stat_cmds hook
library. Sending such queries caused unnecessary command processing by
the Kea servers and excessive error logs in Stork [#742].

**Documentation**: The Stork gallery on wiki and README file have been
updated [#643].

**UI tweaks**: The shared network and subnet pool utilization bars are
now spaced properly to make them more readable [#741].

**Testing**: The `rake unittest:backend_db` command now properly uses
the PostgreSQL container for testing [#733].

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

## Incompatible Changes

None.

## Release Model

Stork has monthly development releases, with some exceptions.

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

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
(ARM). It is available on ReadTheDocs.io at
https://stork.readthedocs.io/en/latest/, and in source form in [the doc/
directory](https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/stork/-/tree/master/doc).

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

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
1.3.0 release.

* 212 [bug] slawek

     Corrected a bug, which resulted in returning a null value instead of
     a list of events in a machine dump tarball.
     (Gitlab #743)

* 211 [bug] slawek

     The Stork server no longer sends statistics queries to the Kea
     servers not using the stat_cmds hooks library. Sending such
     queries caused unnecessary commands processing by the Kea
     servers and excessive error logs in Stork.
     (#742)

* 210 [bug] slawek

     Fixed the rake tasks that ran the database in a Docker container but
     were connecting to the database on localhost.
     (#733)

* 209 [func] slawek

     Log a warning message when no monitored application is detected.
     (Gitalab #713)

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

We look forward to receiving your feedback.

-- 
Everett B. Fulton
ISC Support