Shield changelog

Changelog History

• v8.7.3 Changes

  June 09, 2020

  👌 Improvements

  🐳 Docker images are now compiling via the go 1.13 toolchain.

  Agent Registration can now occur through chained load balancers,
  with standards-compliant comma-separated X-Forwarded-For
  headers. Why you would want to do this is beyond me, but ¯_(ツ)_/¯

  🔌 The metashield plugin now trusts system X.509 Root CAs if no
  specific CA is supplied.

  💻 Bootstrap restoration is simpler now, and the UI for init /
  👀 restore is more streamlined. See #680.

• v8.7.2 Changes

  April 23, 2020

  🐛 Bug Fixes

  • SHIELD will now be able to properly authenticate to vault again.

• v8.7.1 Changes

  April 20, 2020

  DO NOT USE

  This version of SHIELD will be unable to perform backups if the core has ever been restarted. This does not cause any permanent damage, but this version will not be able to do backups.

  👌 Improvements

  🔌 The meta SHIELD plugin has two additional (optional) fields.
  The core CA certificate and skip ssl validation fields allow
  us to now properly handle tls.

  Properly Handle 301's from amazon during purge tasks

  Switching bespoke Vault for vaultkv

• v8.7.0 Changes

  March 10, 2020

  🆕 New Features

  • 🔌 SHIELD now features a new metashield plugin for backing up and restoring your shield core(s). This is a standardized way
    ⏪ for SHIELD to backup/restore itself or another SHIELD instance.

• v8.6.3 Changes

  January 03, 2020

  🐛 Bug Fixes

  • 💻 The Web UI, when sorting, is now case-insensitive.
  • 🖨 The data-system-specific storage footprint in the Web UI now no longer
    🖨 counts purged archives against the storage footprint.
  • The core no longer leaks a SQL prepared statement when making requests
    to the SQLite3 backend, fixing an unbounded memory leak.
  • The migration to database schema v12 now reports errors more granularly.

• v8.6.2 Changes

  December 05, 2019

  🚀 This release fixes issues with failed 8.5.0 → 8.6.0 migrations
  👷 that left the interim jobs_new table around.

• v8.6.1 Changes

  December 04, 2019

  🚀 This release chiefly introduces logic to existing and new database
  🚀 schema migrations to fix fallout from the 8.6.0 release, in which
  we mistakenly modified a historic migration to do something.

  ⬆️ All database upgrade paths, including pre-8.6.0 → present,
  🚀 (failing) 8.6.0 deployment → present, and brand new deployments,
  should all work now.

  👌 Improvements

  • 0️⃣ The fs plugin is now quieter by default, and will only turn on
    🌲 per-file debug logging if asked to do so via its own
    🔧 configuration. This should greatly speed up backup operations
    🔒 on busy SHIELDs, since it reduces the database lock contention.

  🐛 Bug Fixes

  🔧 The front-end configuration wizard now properly looks up
  🔌 plugin metadata for an agent. Previously, there was a
  Javascript variable shadowing bug that caused the front-end to
  📇 return any arbitrary plugin metadata as the "correct" one.

  Task cancelation had a n inverted boolean assertion on global
  🛠 tenant-iness that has been fixed.

• v8.6.0 Changes

  November 14, 2019

  ⚠ WARNING

  🚀 Do not use this version. This version has a database schema migration error that will be fixed in an upcoming patch release.

  🆕 New Features

  🐳 Helm Support! This version of SHIELD ships with OCI Docker
  images that can be used in the new (Beta!) helm chart for
  👀 SHIELD. See https://github.com/shieldproject/helm for more
  details, and to give it a spin yourself.

  🔧 The SHIELD Core can now be configured almost entirely through
  🐳 environment variables, for ease of configuration in Docker,
  Compose, and even Kubernetes.

  We have a new Prometheus-compatible metrics exporter, accessible
  at /metrics, and governed by a separate set of HTTP Basic Auth
  credentials.

  💥 Breaking Changes

  🔧 The fabrics array in the configuration file has been replaced with
  the legacy-agents hash.

  🔧 Previously, configuration for this would look like

  fabrics: - name: legacyssh-key: | -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY----- kEy -----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
  

  🔧 Now, that should be configured like the following:

  legacy-agents: enabled: trueprivate-key: | -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY----- kEy -----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
  

  👌 Improvements

  Agent SSH is now constrained to a more secure set of message
  authentication codes (MACs). Specifically, we got rid of one
  embarassing 96-bit MAC algorithm. Ooof!

  💻 Several quality-of-life improvements were made to the web UI
  and message bus / websocket implementations. In general, the
  🌐 web interface is easier to use and more robust now.

  🚚 Old task logs and purged archives will now be removed from the
  database after a minimum retention period has passed. If you've
  ⚡️ been with us since the 0.x days, this update is for you, and
  we're sorry it's taken us so long to do this type of cleanup.

  The SHIELD IP Address (which gets less and less relevant every
  💻 day) is no longer reported via the API / web UI.

  🐛 Bug Fixes

  ⏪ Uncompressed backups can now properly be restored.

  👷 The healthy and paused fields of the Jobs table now no
  longer allows NULL values, landing us squarely back in the
  territory of booleanitude -- things are either true or false;
  there is no maybe.

  Negative daily storage increases now properly convert to kilo-,
  mega-, and giga- units, to help humans understand magnitude.

  ⏱ The api.session.timeout value is now interpreted properly as
  seconds, not hours. This effectively means that sessions now
  expire when they ought to, not several orders of magnitude
  later.

• v8.5.0 Changes

  September 13, 2019

  👌 Improvements

  The shield status command is twice as pretty and three times
  as useful.

  🌐 Cloud Storage detail pages in the web interface now show a
  timeline similar to the one shown for Data Systems, so that
  SHIELD operators have an easier time of troubleshooting failing
  🔧 storage configurations.

  🌲 The SHIELD CLI now displays task+log data for the last
  ✅ test-store task of a given store (for shield store X and
  shield global-store Y), to assist in troubleshooting failing
  🔧 storage configurations.

  🌐 Operators now have a web interface and some CLI commands for
  inspecting the state of SHIELD Data Fixups, and re-running them
  (if / when necessary).

  🔌 The mongo target plugin can now have options applied
  ⏪ individually to just mongodump or mongorestore.

  Passwords and RSA private keys are now properly obscured in
  🌐 the web interface detail pages for both systems and cloud
  👀 storage. People without rights to see such credentials will
  👀 still see the "REDACTED" string instead; but people with the
  👀 required privilege will instead see the blurred-out obscured
  text that they can hover over to reveal.

  The shield tasks command can now filter down to only tasks
  that involve a particular tenant or global cloud storage system.

  🐛 Bug Fixes

  Data Fixups will now be properly skipped if they've already been
  applied. Additionally, names / dates / summaries will be
  updated every time the SHIELD Core boots up, to catch typos
  and mispellings there.

  🌐 The Data System detail page in the web interface no longer has a
  🔌 race condition between the start of an AJAX call for the plugin
  🔧 configuration details and a shield:navigate away from the
  page. Other such race conditions involving AJAX should now also
  🛠 be fixed.

  Switching between tenants (with differing levels of access) now
  properly re-renders the sidebar to show your new privileges.

  👷 The shield job X command now populates the "Status" and
  "Agent" fields, using data in the API responses.

• v8.4.1 Changes

  August 29, 2019

  👌 Improvements

  • ➕ Added a /v2/mbus/status API endpoint that returns metrics about the state of
    the event message bus. This allows for some introspection into what websocket
    connections may be doing at that moment.
  • 💻 The UI now has less wasted space when displaying a bunch of cards for data
    systems.
  • 🔧 Implemented a configurable timeout when making SSH connections to agents. A
    0️⃣ lower default now also keeps dead agents from taking up large amounts of
    ⏱ scheduler worker time.
  • SHIELD now tracks when the last time an agent erred was.
  • 💻 Hidden agents are now sorted under a separate header in the web UI.
  • Hiding, showing, and deleting agents can now be done from the CLI.

  🐛 Bug Fixes

  • We no longer leak the file descriptors and goroutines for detached websocket
    clients
  • 👷 Workers can no longer be starved out when sending events to the message bus
    if the receiver of the message bus is misbehaving because these event sends
    are now asynchronous.
  • 🛠 Fixed a bug where a worker could derefence a nil pointer when certain
    database selects returned no rows.
  • The database layer now has more stringent locking, which both avoids certain
    threads locking each other out in SQLite, and also makes certain series of
    database operations effectively atomic.
  • A couple of fixups would deadlock themselves out of the database and prevent
    🛠 fixups from actually running. Now they don't.
  • 🛠 Fixups now only run once instead of on every startup, like nature intended.
  • ⚡️ The agent "Last Checked At" timestamp was being updated when the task was
    ⏱ pulled off the scheduler, whether or not the agent was actually checked
    (due to other potential errors).
  • Named a fixup without a name.
  • Agents that failed their status checks are now once again marked as such.