# Stork 0.18.0, June 2nd, 2021, Release Notes Welcome to Stork 0.18.0, another monthly development release. The changes introduced in this version are: * **Kea Config Viewer**: Stork has been able to show the most important aspects of Kea configuration: shared networks, subnets, host reservations, and leases. However, earlier versions lacked the ability to present any other parameters. This release introduces the ability to retrieve and display the full Kea configuration as a collapsible tree, which lets users inspect all the configuration elements of the currently running configuration [#531]. * **Leases in HR**: Host Reservation is a part of Kea configuration that reserves certain resources for specific devices. This release of Stork allows users to check the state of all host reservations - whether a given device is actually using one, if there's a lease currently active or expired, or if there's a conflict (i.e., the reserved address is used by another device that is not supposed to use it) [#530]. * **Better process detection**: The process detection subsystem of the Stork agent has been refactored. It is now much more robust in detecting BIND 9 and Kea instances that are located in non-standard paths. The most immediate benefit of this change is that Stork is now able to detect BIND 9 when installed from packages provided by ISC. This change was tested with BIND 9.11, 9.16, and 9.17 on CentOS 7 and Ubuntu 18.04 [#474]. * **Export TLS certificates**: The `stork-db-migrate` tool has been renamed to `stork-tool`. In addition to its existing abilities, it can now export TLS certificates, keys, and tokens from the database [#515]. * **Grafana templates in RPM packages**: The RPM packages now include Grafana templates, which make them easier to deploy [#544]. * **Bugfixes**: The previously broken `listen-only` flag on the Stork agent should now work properly [#536]. * **Testing**: Several testing-related areas have been improved. Kea statistics are now tested [#439]; the qcow2 image generation is now automated, which makes changes deployment in the CI environment much easier [#545]; and several new tests have been added to detect various BIND 9 versions [#474]. Please see this link for known issues: https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/stork/-/wikis/Known-issues. ## Incompatible Changes * **stork-db-migrate replaced by stork-tool**: The earlier tool (`stork-db-migrate`) has been replaced with `stork-tool`, which provides the same abilities with regards to database migration, but also has an additional new feature of exporting TLS certificates. If you use this tool in your automated deployment, make sure you update the tool name as well as the environment variable names. See the manual page for `stork-tool` for details. ## 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. It is available on ReadTheDocs.io at https://stork.readthedocs.io/en/latest/, and in source form in the docs/ directory. 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 Professional support for Stork will become available once it reaches the 1.0 milestone. Existing ISC customers that consider themselves *very* early adopters may get involved in the development process, including roadmap, features planning, and early testing, but the software maturity level does not constitute a typical professional service before the 1.0 milestone. 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 0.17.0 release. ``` * 148 [func] godfryd Added including Grafana dashboard JSON files to RPM and deb packages. (Gitlab #544) * 147 [func] godfryd Added system tests for collecting statistics from various versions of Kea app. (Gitlab #439) * 146 [func] marcin Added new tab displaying a selected host reservation's details. The tab includes the information about the allocated leases for the reservation, e.g. if the reservation is in use by the client owning the reservation or there is a conflict (the lease is allocated to a different client). It also indicates whether the matching lease is declined, expired or there are no matching leases. (Gitlab #530) * 145 [func] godfryd Refactored stork-db-migrate tool to stork-tool and added commands for certificates management. (Gitlab #515) * 144 [func] slawek Added Kea daemon configuration preview in JSON format. (Gitlab #531) * 143 [bug] ymartin-ovh Fixed honoring the listen-only flags in Stork Agent. (Gitlab #536) * 142 [func] marcin Updated Stork demo to expose new features: leases search, Kea database backends and files locations. (Gitlab #542) * 141 [func] godfryd Fixed and improved detecting various versions of BIND 9. (Gitlab #474) ``` Thank you again to everyone who assisted us in making this release possible. We look forward to receiving your feedback.