Release Notes

v1.4.73 (2021-03-31)

Changed:

• Format of response audit log: 4 new fields containing request content range information added between “request content length” and “response code” fields.

Added:

• Support for locking files to /list and /props API endpoints (to provide support for pre-locking to PARSE command in SpectX).

Fixed:

• GzipScan won’t save scan results to database. This regression was introduced in v1.4.71 due to upgrade to a third-party library with a bug.
• SourceAgent, installed as a Windows service to run under domain account, fails to start due to logon failure
• SourceAgent, installed as a Windows service to run under managed service account, fails to start due to missing “Log on as a service” privilege

v1.4.71 (2021-03-01)

Changed:

• Networking and TLS third-party libraries upgraded to latest versions.

Fixed:

• Access to locked indexed gzip files fails. This regression was introduced in v1.4.70.

v1.4.70 (2021-02-18)

Added:

• Support for ExtAPI Plugin.

v1.4.68 (2020-11-27)

Changed:

• JRE upgraded to 1.8.0_275 in packages for all platforms.

Added:

• Configuration properties can be defined as environment variables instead of a configuration file or to override certain properties in the configuration file.

v1.4.67 (2020-11-03)

Changed:

• Configuration key port supports value 0.
• Networking third-party libraries upgraded to latest versions.

Fixed:

• SourceAgent may crash on Linux if launched with system (not bundled) JRE with enabled GzipScan.

v1.4.63 (2020-09-17)

Changed:

• Networking and TLS third-party libraries upgraded to latest versions
• Default value for configuration key gzipscan.nameFilter is !(.sx|.pi|.tar).gz (was !(.sx|.pi).gz)

v1.4.57 (2020-07-17)

Changed:

• CORS headers get now sent along with a response only if corresponding request has an Origin header with the value matching any element in the allowedCORSOrigins. Before, the CORS response headers with ‘*’ as allowed origin got sent if handleHttpOptions was set to true.

Added:

• Configuration parameter allowedCORSOrigins.

v1.4.54 (2020-06-11)

Changed:

• Networking and TLS third-party libraries upgraded to latest versions
• Generic logging made less verbose at DEBUG log level
• File system listing improved on setups using GzipScan and metadata database.
• Explicit polling in the container, if defined, does not run by default at server startup. Use newly introduced configuration key roots.<container>.polling.startup for changing that.

Added:

• Configuration key gzipscan.nameFilter for overriding default file name filter for files to be gzip-indexed.
• Configuration key roots.<container>.polling.startup for enabling explicit polling of underlying filesystem in the container at server startup.

Fixed:

• Linux startup script in “enable-boot-start” mode fails to start SourceAgent when run as root for different non-root user

v1.4.53 (2020-04-24)

Changed:

• bin\sa.bat and bin\sa.env.bat.default removed from Windows distribution of the SourceAgent in favor of newly introduced native launcher (see below).
• JRE upgraded to 1.8.0_252 in packages for all platforms.

Added:

• Service launcher for Windows.
• Configuration key tls.protocols for specifying TLS protocol versions to be enabled

v1.4.52 (2020-02-29)

Changed:

• “-c” command line option for jar file is not any more mandatory if environment variable or system property SA_HOME is set.

v1.4.51 (2020-02-25)

Added:

• Compression in transit for selected files, which can be used in environments with low bandwidth.

v1.4.47 (2020-01-29)

Changed:

• JRE upgraded to 1.8.0_242 (Windows64, Linux64, OSX64) and 1.8.0_232 (Arch Linux ARM 64)

Added:

• new configuration setting log.level which can be used instead of command line switch -v.

v1.4.40 (2019-09-25)

Changed:

• config key dbFilePath renamed to db.file. The support for the old name remains but may be removed in future releases.
• SourceAgent configuration file:
  • ${PROP} construction in configuration file variables, refers corresponding environment variable first, and if it is undefined, refers then corresponding system property
  • configuration parameters expecting directory paths do not support empty values
  • log directory gets created if it is specified but does not exist

Added:

• new configuration keys gzipscan.exclusions and db.exclusions for restricting number of containers to be gzip-scanned and database-managed correspondingly
• containers “explicit polling” configuration extended with 2 more triggers: OS signals and cron-like time spec expressions.

v1.4.37 (2019-07-05)

Added:

• Possibility to disable authentication for particular containers
• Possibility to configure startup at boot in Linux (with Systemd/SysV-style init/Upstart init systems)

Changed:

• Linux/OSX startup script sa-init.d.sh renamed to sa.sh correspondingly. Helper script sa.common.sh removed.

v1.4.36 (2019-06-13)

Added:

• SourceAgent: per-container authentication support
• JRE-bundled packages for Arch Linux ARM 64bit (aarch64)

Changed:

• SourceAgent audit logs format has been changed: a new field (#6) has been added to log records. The filed indicates properties of an authentication key used in requests.

v1.4.28 (2019-01-10)

Fixed:

• Failure to attempt to create own log directory on the very first run fixed startup Windows scripts.