StackState release notes
Release notes up to v4.2.x of StackState
This page describes StackState version 4.2.
The StackState 4.2 version range is End of Life (EOL) and no longer supported. We encourage customers still running the 4.2 version range to upgrade to a more recent release.
StackPack release notes can be found on each StackPack page. See StackPack versions.
StackState v4.2.x
v4.2.4
Improvements
It is now possible to configure whether ClusterRoles and ClusterRoleBindings need to be installed by the Helm chart using the
cluster-role.enabledflag. STAC-11749Added support for interacting with external systems using self-signed certificates. STAC-11738
Added documentation and support for backup and restore for self-hosted Kubernetes setup. STAC-11548
Bugfixes
Fix issue blocking the sync service and not letting process topology any more. STAC-12116
Fixed problem where LDAP users with a special character in their DN could not be authorized. STAC-12059
Fixed issue that caused filtering on a domain containing an ampersand to redirect to the Views page. STAC-11797
v4.2.3
Improvements
StackState's HDFS pods now run without privileges in Kubernetes. STAC-11741
Adding an additional role field for Keycloak authentication. STAC-11609
StackState now supports API tokens for authentication of the StackState CLI, making it possible to use the CLI with Keycloak or OIDC as authentication provider. STAC-11608
Authentication settings are now directly configurable on the helm chart. STAC-11237
Bug fixes
Fixed issue that prevented traces from being ingested into StackState. STAC-11733
Fixed issue that caused the StackState helm chart to fail with custom image registries. STAC-11717
Fixed issue that prevented
copy_images.shscript from working with containers without a docker.io prefix. STAC-11697Fixed issue that caused the old and new state to disappear for certain health state changes in the Event Perspective. STAC-11691
v4.2.2
Bug fixes
Fix for Stackstate helm chart to include correct version of AAD sub chart. STAC-11654
v4.2.1
Improvements
Add support for running StackState on an OpenShift Kubernetes cluster. STAC-11549
Bug fixes
Fixed issue that prevents StackState distributed Kubernetes installation from starting when the database initialisation process fails due to a pod restart. STAC-11618
v4.2.0
Features
Display external events in the Events Perspective. Improve Event Detail panel and event filtering. STAC-10638
Alert on Problem Clusters in Slack. STAC-10567
Ingest events from external systems related to topology in StackState. STAC-8183
Improvements
Support OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication provider. STAC-10083
Bug fixes
Fixed issue where duplicate negative ids in a component template leads to
lastUpdateTimstampFieldmissing. STAC-11495Fix issue where kafkaToES would not log when it is dropping data. STAC-11434
Fixed issue where kafkaToES would not adhere to the index size boundaries when historic data is stored. STAC-11433
Upload of a new StackPack now returns more details on why an uploaded StackPack is not valid. STAC-11094
Fixed issue that caused a baseline stream to disappear if the associated stream's filter was changed. STAC-10872
Fixed issue that caused incoming telemetry data to be rejected due to incorrect interpretation of telemetry data end timestamp. STAC-10777
Fixed bug where a non-existing datasource in a synchronization template would cause the synchronization to stop processing. STAC-10774
Fixed issue that disregarded filters when populating the selection field name dropdown. STAC-10759
Fixed issue that caused checks to ignore a change to a streams filter under certain circumstances. STAC-10733
Fixed issue that caused an error when StackState attempted to connect to an LDAP server using LDAPS on certain versions of the JVM. STAC-10606
Fixed issue that made it impossible to save changes to functions in the Settings screen. STAC-10180
Next to the admin and guest roles StackState now has a standard power user role. It has the same permissions as an admin user except it is not allowed to grant permissions or to upload stackpacks. STAC-10170
UPGRADE NOTE: It is strongly advised to review the roles your users have and limit the number of admin users. Users that need to configure StackState can be given the role of power user instead. STAC-10170
Fixed issue that caused a security exception to occur when using a groovy regex in the Analytics environment. STAC-9947
Fixed issue that caused an error when showing the Component Details pane for a component or relation originating from a removed synchronization. STAC-8165
StackState v4.1.x
v4.1.3
Bug fixes
Fixed issue that caused the CLI to fail to run on systems with an older GLIBC library. STAC-10609
Fixed issue that prevented historical data from displaying in the Health Forecast Report. STAC-11207
v4.1.2
Bug fixes
Fixed issue that caused event handlers to produce a security error on specific OpenJDK 8 versions. STAC-10893
Fixed issue that prevented Slack event handler from working in certain circumstances. STAC-10797
Fixed issue that caused opening of certain Azure telemetry streams to show an error in the GUI. STAC-10778
Improvements
Introduced configuration setting
stackstate.topologyQueryService.maxLoadedElementsPerQueryconfiguration to tweak the amount of loaded elements we allow during query execution. STAC-11009
v4.1.1
Bug fixes
Fixed issue that prevented users from deleting certain metric streams. STAC-10623
Fixed issue that caused an error when StackState attempted to connect to an LDAP server using LDAPS on certain versions of the JVM. STAC-10606
v4.1.0
Features
Introduced Traces Perspective to identify root causes of down-time and performance issues. STAC-7646
Introduced Autonomous Anomaly Detector (AAD) [beta] that identifies anomalies in metric streams with zero configuration. STAC-7403
Introduced the ability to deploy StackState on the OpenShift, AKS and EKS Kubernetes platforms. STAC-7328
Improvements
Improved navigation in the StackState UI. STAC-9448
Added support for Splunk token-based authentication for Splunk versions 7.3 and later. STAC-9032
Added ability to star views for easy access. STAC-8805
StackState shows a warning when a license key is about to expire or an error when it is invalid or has expired. This includes the option to update the license key from that screen directly. STAC-7453
StackState CLI is now shipped as a standalone binary for Linux and Windows. STAC-5614
Bug fixes
Added eager short circuit while loading elements on a query. STAC-10354
Fixed issue that prevented suggestions from showing up when filtering the component type list. STAC-9822
Fixed issue that prevented synchronization statistics from being displayed on the Synchronization settings page. STAC-9815
Fixed issue with Kubernetes deployment that redirects users to the webuiconfig instead of StackState application. STAC-9811
Fixed issue where check updating would retry indefinitely when an element is already gone. STAC-9323
Fixed issue that redirected users to a stream URL instead of the StackState application. STAC-9186
Fixed issue where component version information was not properly merged during synchronization. STAC-8624
Fixed issue where state service could not find some elements due to querying with an incomplete time slice. STAC-8195
Propagation function will be re evaluated for all related components when the body of the function changes. STAC-4114
StackState v4.0.x
v4.0.4
Bug fixes
Fix issue where the readcache sometimes produces the wrong data, causing intermittent failures in state and view calculation. STAC-10328
v4.0.3
Bug fixes
Fixed issue that prevented time travel under certain circumstances. STAC-9551
v4.0.2
Bug fixes
Support Splunk token-based authentication for Splunk versions 7.3 and later. STAC-9032
Fixed bug that prevented the health check metric chart from opening. STAC-9251
Fixed bug that caused multi param propagation function values to be lost after a component update. STAC-9582
Fixed bug that caused the log to be spammed with messages for a deleted checkstate. STAC-9323
v4.0.1
Bug fixes
Fix transaction boundaries while running legacy propagation function. STAC-9161
Fix some cases when checks on new or updated components would fail to start and remain in an "Unknown" state. STAC-7949
Fix an issue that in some cases prevented properly storing security subjects from CLI. STAC-7569
v4.0.0
Features
Telemetry perspective to see all Telemetry streams for a set of components. This first release is limited to 5 components at a time. In later releases this will be improved with a larger set of components which will be supported.
Improvements
Ability to find components in the topology perspective. STAC-7764
Performance enhancements for views
Bug fixes
This release deprecates the withCauseOf stql construct. See https://l.stackstate.com/R8opqs for more info on how to migrate existing view. STAC-7884.
The groovy sandboxing has been improved to cover a number of edge cases.
The groovy sandbox is stricter and favors security at the cost of flexibility All accessible classes and packages are listed in the
<stackstate dir>/etc/sandbox.conf. STAC-5032Proper handling for trailing slash in a receiver URL configuration. STAC-7817
Upgrade the requirement and documentation of Static Topology to use AgentV2. STAC-8640
processmanager-properties.confwas merged intoprocessmanager.conffor both StackState and StackGraph. If you have changes to either one of those configuration files, you changes will need to be reaplied after upgrade. STAC-8473The authentication for the admin API (port 7071 by default) is now configured separately from the normal authentication and, for new installations, it is enabled by default. If authentication was enabled for this api (by default not) this requires a change in the StackState configuration file. If it was not enabled it is strongly advised to enable it now and change the password. See the
application_stackstate.conf.examplefile for an explanation on how to do both. STAC-7993It is now possible to configure a proxy for event handlers, see https://l.stackstate.com/FcUps8 for how to set this up. STAC-7784
Allow STS process manager to perform HTTPS health check. STAC-7718
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