Release notes¶
The following notes are provided to help you understand the major changes made between releases, and therefore may not include minor bug fixes and updates.
Anaconda Team Edition 6.1.6¶
Released February 24, 2022
What’s new
Updated Anaconda Team Edition to meet Accessibility compliance
Enable an end-user to mirror, install and upload CRAN packages in Windows environments
Provided additional airgap functionality
Improve the user experience with LDAP
Refactored and Improved integration with Keycloak
Ability to add certificates to Keycloak truststore for LDAP
Improvements
- Airgap:
Documentation on pulling down the package tarball on a schedule.
Automate the process for updating artifacts.
- LDAP:
Ability to link users that are assigned a group in Keycloak to the group in Anaconda Team Edition.
The ability for an admin to grant channel access to groups which can include groups an admin is not a member of.
The ability for an admin to edit the permission on a group - to increase or decrease permissions.
The ability for an admin to manage user access using LDAP groups.
The ability for a user to distinguish between an Anaconda Team Edition group and a group defined in Keycloak
Added new platforms - Linux-ppc64, Linux-s390x, and osx-arm64
Azure AD integration with Anaconda Team Edition
Changed the wording from PyPI to standard python and CRAN to standard r
Added type to mirror drop-down of standard python and standard r
The user is now able to install packages from a sub-channel
- conda-repo-cli:
Added conda-repo-cli whoami command
Ability to set a certificate file post-install: conda repo config –set ssl_verify cert.cer
Cleaner error messages to inform the user
Ability to display CVEs via CLI
Improvements to help channel: conda repo channel –help
- Keycloak:
Store and manage users directly in Keycloak
Store and manage groups directly in Keycloak
Store and manage roles directly in Keycloak
Store and manage user-group relations directly in Keycloak
Bug fixes
- CRAN:
Licensing filtering - user can now utilize the exclude filter for license restriction
Mirror to include binaries, so that users can install libraries without each user having to (re)compile libraries
CRAN mirror configuration page no longer duplicates package filter information
- LDAP:
User count licensing limit user access
Updated the ability to scroll on dependents and metadata tabs
CVE score now displays a 0.0 when the CVE has a cleared or mitigated status
Updated sorting on CVE tab to allow end-user to sort by channel and package
The edit button is now enabled when a token name is edited
Removed the need to refresh the page after adding a channel or subchannel to a group
Corrected the selection select all checkboxes for packages to only work on the current page and not to all pages related to a package or packages within the channel
The date range in mirror configuration is now hidden due to backend work needed
Fixed the package search latency issue and refresh problems
Anaconda Team Edition 6.1.5¶
Released October 1, 2021
What’s new
- Customer’s now have the ability to install an airgapped instance of Anaconda Team Edition
Updated install preparation instructions
Easy to self install
Centralized location to pull updated packages and associated CVE metadata
Updated the upgrade and restore path
Improvements
Improved the warning message when setting a future date in the mirror scheduling tool
Deleted artifacts wiill no longer show up when customer is performing a search
Improved CVE filtering
Updated group role mapping with Active Directory integration for the admin role
Improved the ability to add or update a license
- Improved mirror performance:
Default to monthly schedule
Default to active mirror
Updated edit function to ensure all current fields are available when editing
Corrected the double package format of .conda and .tar.bz2
Bug fixes
Group create button is now active when intiating a group
Notification now appears when you delete a token
No longer recieve multiple notifications on mirror deletion
Searching for a package now displays current package information
Tokens now grant only specific access
Mirror event history is displaying current status
conda-repo cli help now display correct help instructions
Anaconda Team Edition 6.1.4¶
Released February 4, 2021
What’s new
Ability to mirror from another installation of Team Edition via https.
Ability to upgrade Team Edition and maintain current settings and filters.
Role Mapping: when additional roles are added to User Management, Admin is able to restrict or add additional permissions to the end user.
Ability to mirror from repo.anaconda.cloud.
Ability to move, copy, and delete artifacts within a package.
Easily upgrade a license key from the Admin user’s UI dashboard
Improvements
Improved the support and documentation for custom certificates.
Mirror frequency and performance issues.
When you remove a subdirectory, it is removed from the package artifact list upon updating the mirror.
Added notification that frequency is in UTC time.
- CVE improvements:
CVEs are now updating in Team Edition every 4 hours to align with NIST.
All CVEs have the correct status for reporting (Reported or Anaconda Curated: Active, Cleared, Mitigated, or Disputed).
Ability to filter by CVE status (Reported or Anaconda Curated: Active, Cleared, Mitigated, or Disputed).
Display the CVE date as shown by NIST for Published and Modified.
Display the date Anaconda curated the CVE.
Bug fixes
Dashboard now displays the correct package count for a channel.
An error duing customer logout experience with Team Edition was caused by a miscommunication between web socket and callback endpoint API.
Sorting in channels not working as expected.
Ability to sort all pages of package artifacts by Size, Version, Last Updated, and Platform.
Ability to sort packages based on Name.
Issues with conda repo functionality for conda repo channel copy and conda repo upload options have been fixed.
Index of cache on Team Edition related to If-Modified-Since header has been fixed.
API to trigger on channel index refresh lead to displaying inconsistent information between the channel and actual artifacts in the channel.
Anaconda Team Edition 6.1.3¶
Released August 10, 2020
What’s New
CVEs will be automatically fed to and updated on the Team Edition dashboard, so you no longer have to mirror them.
CVEs will now be pulled down from NIST and listed as Reported (not curated).
CVEs that are curated by Anaconda will now be designated with a checkmark and a label defining the stage of curation.
You can now search for CVEs in the search bar at the top of Team Edition (Admin only).
CVEs are displayed using an algorithm. When one or more CVEs are associated with a package, the score that is displayed is based on the highest score and risk state of a CVE for each file.
Clicking on the number of CVEs related to a package file will show a CVE listing view.
The number of unique CVEs for a package is displayed at the package level.
When viewing files in a package, the appropriate CVE score (or N/A) will be displayed based on the number of CVEs and severity.
The metadata will now display all the CVEs score information.
All the packages affected by a CVE will be associated with that CVE.
Improvements
Each CVE status can be seen by clicking on “info” icons and viewing meta information.
It is now more clear that the CVE number is a clickable link.
There is greater distinction between Anaconda curated and non-curated CVEs via a checkbox selection.
More than two mirrors can now be run at the same time.
Bug fixes
The heirarchy for mirroring filters has been corrected; now, if a package is added to both “include” and “exclude,” the package will be excluded.
System metering (Prometheus) is now showing up properly.
Admins can now update user roles and create custom roles.