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9 February 2022, v2.2.3-rc2

v2.2.3-rc2

This is the second release candidate for v2.2.3. This release contains everything from v2.2.3-rc1 with the addition of some new changes.

New Features

  • See v2.2.3-rc1

Fixed

  • Fixed "incomplete file" issue when attempting to download a report template
  • Fixed report archiving failing to write zip file
  • Fixed toast messages not showing up when swapping report templates
  • Fixed sidebar tab appearing below delete confirmations
  • See v2.2.3-rc1

Changed

  • Upgraded dependencies to their latest versions (where possible)
    • Django v3.1.13 -> v3.2.11
    • Did not upgrade docxtpl
      • Awaiting to see how the developer wants to proceed with issue #114​
      • Not upgrading from 0.12 to the latest 0.15.2 has no effect on Ghostwriter at this time
  • Collapsed the Domain model's various categorization fields into a single categorization field with PostgreSQL's JSONField type
    • An important milestone/change for the upcoming GraphQL API
    • Categorization is no longer limited to specific vendors
    • Going forward, the field can be manually updated with valid JSON
    • Ghostwriter will look for JSON formatted as a series of keys and values: {"COMPANY": "CATEGORY", "COMPANY": "CATEGORY",}
  • Converted the ReportTemplate model's lint_result field to a PostgreSQL JSONField
    • An important milestone/change for the upcoming GraphQL API
    • This change increases reliability and performance by removing any need to transform a string representation back into a dict
    • Little to no impact on users but templates may need to be linted again after the upgrade
    • If a template is affected, the status will change to "Unknown" with a single warning note: "Need to re-run linting following your Ghostwriter upgrade"
  • Converted the Domain model's dns_record field to a PostgreSQL JSONField and renamed it to dns for simplicity
    • An important milestone/change for the upcoming GraphQL API
    • This change increases reliability and performance by removing any need to transform a string representation back into a dict
    • This field was always intended to be edited only by the server, so this change should not require any actions before or after upgrading
    • If an existing record's DNS data cannot be converted to JSON it will be cleared and user's can re-run the DNS update task
  • Added a "sticky" sidebar tracker to user sessions so the sidebar will stay open or closed between visits and page changes
  • Removed the legacy health_dns field from the Domain model
    • This field was part of the original Shepherd project and was an interesting experiment in using passive DNS monitoring to try to determine if a domain was "burned"
    • It became mostly irrelevant when services that supported this feature (e.g., eSentire's Cymon) were retired
  • Changed some code that will be deprecated in future versions of Django v4.x and Python Faker
  • Made it possible to sort the report template list
    • Sorting on this table is reversed so clicking "Status" once will sort templates with passing linter checks first
  • Updated the admin panel to make it easier to manage domains for those who prefer the admin panel
  • Some general code clean-up for maintainability
  • See v2.2.3-rc1

Security Changes

  • Updated Django to v3.2.11 as v3.1 is no longer supported and considered "insecure" going forward
  • Fixed unauthenticated access to domain and server library exports
  • See v2.2.3-rc1

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