Release Notes and Known Issues

This is a maintained list of known issues that are most likely to be encountered. If you discover anything not included here, please let us know at support@ionchannel.io . The information in the Unique Committers tile indicates that the data only...

2022-09-13 [Bug Fix]  Fixed an issue that resulted in an error when viewing product and vulnerability detail pages.

2022-08-05 [Bug Fix]  Fixed an issue that resulted in committer data not being applied to an analysis.

2022-06-07 [Bug Fix]  Fixed an issue that resulted in the FilesAnalyzed tag not being included with top-level packages.

2022-05-19 [Bug Fix]  Fixed an issue that could result in a vulnerability being identified as affecting the wrong version(s) of a product when NVD changed the vulnerability range after initial publication. 2022-05-13 [Bug Fix]  Fixed an ...

2022-04-05 [New Feature]  Added support for dependency detection in glide.yaml and glide.lock files.

2022-03-23 [Improvement]  Removed the restriction of editing an existing project's source in the UI. 2022-03-21 [Improvement]  Made ruleset_id optional in CSV import files. The default ruleset will be used if no ruleset ID is provided. ...

2022-02-24 [Improvement]  Removed the requirement for providing a ruleset ID when creating projects via the project/createProject endpoint and the create-project, create-projects, create-projects-spdx Ion Connect commands. The default ruleset w...

2021-12-15 [Improvement]  Added the ability to detect Python dependencies in any .txt file containing the word "requirements" in the filename (e.g., dev_requirements.txt). 2021-12-07 [Bug Fix]  Fixed an issue where the dependency scan wo...

2021-11-12 [Bug Fix]  Fixed an issue where the API search endpoint would return the same product and version multiple times. 2021-11-09 [Improvement]  Added support for v2 and v3 yarn.lock files. [Improvement]  Enhanced CPE product dat...

2021-10-25 [Bug Fix]  Restored GitHub committer data from 2019-01-01 to present. 2021-10-14 [Improvement]  Improved package.json dependency resolution speeds. The result of this is faster analyses for projects with a package.json file.

2021-09-07 [Improvement]  Optional Maven dependencies within direct and transitive dependencies are no longer included in a project's list of dependencies. If an optional Maven dependency exists as a direct dependency, it will still be included...

2021-08-25 [Bug Fix] Fixed an issue that would sometimes result in existing rulesets not being displayed on the Ruleset List page. 2021-08-23 [Improvement] Added a default ruleset to all teams. This ruleset requi...

2021-07-30 [Improvement]  Improved product search results to include results when decimal places are not included. For example, a search for version 15 will include results for 15.1, 15.2, etc. 2021-07-27 [Improvement]  Improved product ...

2021-06-25 [Improvement] Product searches will now include the edition component of a CPE. This provides the ability to include sp2 in the product details and find CPEs that include that edition. Additionally, searching for something like "...

2022-01-14 [Improvement]  Improved the speed of repository searches. 2022-01-11 [Bug Fix]  Fixed an issue with attempting to get the latest analysis (via API) from a project that has never performed an analysis. 2022-01-07 [Bug Fi...

2021-05-27 [Bug Fix]  Fixed an issue where the product details page of a product with a special character in the name would not display any information. 2021-05-24 [Improvement] Added the ability to detect Go dependencies using a go....

2021-04-29 [Bug Fix]  Fixed an issue where the days since last commit value in a project export file would provide a very large number when no commit data is available. 2021-04-28 [Improvement]  Significantly improved the speed that p...

2021-03-30 [New Feature]  Added the set-source and set-type commands to Ion Connect CLI tool. These commands allow you to change a project's source URL/branch and the type of project. 2021-03-29 [New Feature] Added the average time f...

2021-02-26 [New Feature] Added change of control data for GitHub repositories. This information can be found in the community scan data in the old_names object. Old names represent a previous organization/name of the repository. 2021-02-...

2021-01-29 [New Feature] Added initial support for projects to be created with an SPDX file via Ion Connect. 2021-01-26 [Improvement]  Improved the product search. Results are now obtained faster, return most relevant results first, ...

2020-12-30 [Bug Fix]  Fixed an issue where invitations to a team were expiring sooner than intended. 2020-12-29 [Bug Fix]  Fixed an issue where null values were reported as zeros in a project export file. 2020-12-28 [Improvemen...

2020-11-25 [New Feature]  Added major and minor versions behind the latest version to dependency data. [Improvement] Improved the error message when attempting to invite someone to a team with an invalid email address. 2020-11-24 [...

2020-10-30 [New Feature]  Added the ability to provide a date range to the v1/ruleset/getProjectHistory API endpoint. [New Feature]  Added the ability to provide a team ID with the /v1/gitlab/analyzeProjectByUrl API endpoint. [Improvemen...

2020-09-30 [New Feature]  Added an indication on the Analysis History page for changes in a project’s ruleset. When a ruleset has changed in a given day the box on the history calendar will have a black border. Hovering the mouse over that d...

2020-08-30 [New Feature]  New software releases will now be prepackaged for easier Ion Channel on-premise installations 2020-08-27 [Improvement]  Changed project list search functionality to filter results entirely by the search term ...

Ion Channel started keeping public release note records on 2020-07-20. 2020-07-20 [Improvement]  When the text of the container image is longer than what will fit within the tile, the word "detected" will be displayed instead. [I...