2024.05.13 Release Note

May release comes with 3 major features and many UX improvements:

• Whisperer creation form
• TCP payload UX improvements & decoder plugins
• Timezone management

Upgrade risk

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• No compatibility issue 👍
• No breaking changes 👍

Key changes

• Whisperer creation form
• New plugin slot to decode TCP contents with 3 plugins available
• UX improvements of TCP details
• Timezone management

How to upgrade

1. Use Helm chart 3.0 from repository
2. Adjust global.version field value to 2024.05.13 in your values.yaml
3. Deploy

tip

See Reference documentation for details.

Versions

Spider

New versions of Spider components:

Component	Version	Docker tag
Helm chart	3.0	-
Analysis UI	10.7	2024.05.13
Controllers	1.2	2024.05.13
Whisperers	6.1	2024.05.13
Back office	-	2024.05.13
Login UI	-	2024.05.13
Monitoring UI	-	2024.05.13

Dependencies

These components are set up in the correct versions by the Helm chart:

Dependency	Version	Docker tag
Elastic stack	7.17.4	7.17.4
Redis	7	7-alpine
Traefik	2.11	2.11

Compatibility

Spider has been successfully tested under these versions of dependencies:

3rd party software	Version
Helm	3.14
Kube	1.24 - 1.28

List of changes

Helm chart

✨ New features
⚙️ Improvements
🐞 Bug fixes

Analysis UI

✨ New features	New form the create Whisperers with reduced configuration. Makes it more straightforward for users. New plugin slot to decode TCP payloads Plugins released for HTTP, MQTT, Redis New option to adjust timezone of displayed dates Associated to Whisperers As a user default
⚙️ Improvements	Add confirmation step when regenerating an API Key from installation tabs of Whisperers and Controllers Add an 'Install' permission on Controllers to allow a different user than admin and the Controller owner to regenerate the API key and install the Controller TCP content tab improvements Timeline New handle on timeline cursor to move through time Headers on top pf packetLots Delay between 2 packetLots Filter on packetLot TCP details improvements New handle on timeline cursor to move through time TCP global tab improvement Progressive loading of TCP parsed items (page of 25) Extract and decode JWT dates in HTTP Headers tab
🐞 Bug fixes	Controller DELETE button was shown even when user had no right. Fixed.

Controllers

✨ New features
⚙️ Improvements
🐞 Bug fixes

Whisperers

✨ New features
⚙️ Improvements
🐞 Bug fixes

Back office

✨ New features
⚙️ Improvements	Change Controller access management A user having direct access to a Controller has always access to it, even when a team is selected When the team has access to the Controller with different permissions to access namespaces or to manage the Controller, permission are combined with OR.
🐞 Bug fixes

Login UI

✨ New features
⚙️ Improvements
🐞 Bug fixes

Monitoring UI

✨ New features
⚙️ Improvements
🐞 Bug fixes

Online documentation

Updated parts:

• Testing installation
• Installing Whisperers
• Creating a Whisperer
• Controller permission
• Timezone settings and Whisperers timezone configuration
• Decode TCP payloads plugin
• TCP tabs description

API impacts

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This section informs about any impact on Spider API, so you may adjust your scripts.

No change

Data impacts

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The table below tells if there are data mapping changes in Elasticsearch indices, associated or not with migrations (Yes ✅ / No ❌).
Migration are automated at upgrade time, but they may leave unattended indices that you have to remove manually.

Index	Description	Migration