Release Notes for SquaredUp DS Standalone

For the full list of new features in DS Standalone see What's New in SquaredUp DS Standalone

6.4.1

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Issues Addressed

  • The color for a hyperlink, when included in the Broadcast message, conflicts too much with the coral background color and makes it difficult to read (SQ-5436)
  • Improvements to grid performance when editing and moving columns (SQ-5435)

Known Issues

  • Chained custom scope on a perspective does not visually update correctly on undo / redo (SQ-5235)
  • Single-object scope panel does not clear its configured scope when scope tag is deleted (SQ-5234)
  • Removing the contents property from the dashboard JSON editor does not register as an undo action (SQ-5207)

6.4.0 (Release Candidate)

Improvements

  • A message broadcasting system has been implemented which allows you to enter markdown content to show on all dashboards (SQ-5138)
  • You can now add a tile above another tile when editing a dashboard (SQ-4108)
  • DS has been upgraded to use PowerShell 7.4.6, so if you use .NET Core in your PowerShell tiles you'll need to upgrade to .NET 8.0 (SQ-5323)

Issues Addressed

  • Export to Excel uses UTC time for Local Time (SQ-5360)
  • Bar Graph sort ignores bars with '0' value (SQ-5354)

Known Issues

  • Chained custom scope on a perspective does not visually update correctly on undo / redo (SQ-5235)
  • Single-object scope panel does not clear its configured scope when scope tag is deleted (SQ-5234)
  • Removing the contents property from the dashboard JSON editor does not register as an undo action (SQ-5207)

6.3.1

Issues Addressed

  • Minor updates

Known Issues

  • Chained custom scope on a perspective does not visually update correctly on undo / redo (SQ-5235)
  • Single-object scope panel does not clear its configured scope when scope tag is deleted (SQ-5234)
  • Removing the contents property from the dashboard JSON editor does not register as an undo action (SQ-5207)

6.3.0 (Release Candidate)

Improvements

  • A new Markdown tile has been added that allows you to add richer content to your dashboards such as links, lists, images and more! (SQ-5242)
  • Tear-off tiles (SQ-5306)

Known Issues

  • Chained custom scope on a perspective does not visually update correctly on undo / redo (SQ-5235)
  • Single-object scope panel does not clear its configured scope when scope tag is deleted (SQ-5234)
  • Removing the contents property from the dashboard JSON editor does not register as an undo action (SQ-5207)

6.2.1

Issues Addressed

  • Update DOMPurify to new Release Versions 2.5.2 & 3.1.2 (SQ-5310)

Known Issues

  • Chained custom scope on a perspective does not visually update correctly on undo / redo (SQ-5235)
  • Single-object scope panel does not clear its configured scope when scope tag is deleted (SQ-5234)
  • Removing the contents property from the dashboard JSON editor does not register as an undo action (SQ-5207)

6.2.0 (Release Candidate)

Improvements

  • A tile fullscreen mode has been added. (SQ-5281)
  • You can now rename a provider by simply selecting it on the Integrations page and editing the name field. (SQ-4653)

Issues Addressed

  • DOMPurify security fixes have been implemented (SQ-5296)

Known Issues

  • Chained custom scope on a perspective does not visually update correctly on undo / redo (SQ-5235)
  • Single-object scope panel does not clear its configured scope when scope tag is deleted (SQ-5234)
  • Removing the contents property from the dashboard JSON editor does not register as an undo action (SQ-5207)

6.1.1

Issues Addressed

  • Add undo functionality when editing a dashboard (SQ-5123)

Known Issues

  • Chained custom scope on a perspective does not visually update correctly on undo / redo (SQ-5235)
  • Single-object scope panel does not clear its configured scope when scope tag is deleted (SQ-5234)
  • Removing the contents property from the dashboard JSON editor does not register as an undo action (SQ-5207)

6.1.0 (Release Candidate)

Improvements

  • 24 hour time option (SQ-5120)
  • Trend lines for time-series graphs (SQ-3601)
  • EAM-X: Alert description / field improvements (SQ-5118)
  • Undo / Redo buttons for dashboard draft editing (SQ-5123)
  • Performance drill-down page improvements
    • Trend lines (sq-3601)
    • Min, max, avg options (SQ-4816)
    • Data range options (SQ-5197)
    • Custom timeframe placement redesign (SQ-5197)
  • Auditing improvements (SQ-5301):
    • Folder filter ability
    • Last 24 hrs audit events loaded by default
    • Filter on multiple types of event at the same time (e.g. Dashboard moved + Team Folders modified)
  • Scalar Tile: Text can be left-aligned, centered or right-aligned (SQ-4953)
  • Number format improvement (SQ-3098): Decimal number format support has been added for small units and separator format support has been added for large units.
  • VADA: performance improvements in Analyze mode (SQ-4868)
  • Initial page size / speed load improvements (SQ-5195)

Issues Addressed

  • The scope panel does not reflect changes made by the undo / redo functionality, even though the underlying tile JSON has been updated as expected. This may be confusing to users (SQ-5209)
  • When the browser is set to use Arabic as the display language, the Date Heatmap does not show any data and an error is logged in the browser (SQ-5215)

Known Issues

  • Chained custom scope on a perspective does not visually update correctly on undo / redo (SQ-5235)
  • Single-object scope panel does not clear its configured scope when scope tag is deleted (SQ-5234)
  • Removing the contents property from the dashboard JSON editor does not register as an undo action (SQ-5207)

6.0.2

Issues Addressed

  • Some text input fields, such as the auditing connection string field and the provider default headers / url parameters fields are difficult to see in the Light Mode (SQ-5150)

6.0.1

Improvements

  • Removed the redundant haupgrade command, as these types of upgrade are not supported for v5 upwards (SQ-5131)

Known Issues

  • None

6.0.0 (Release Candidate)

Improvements

  • Date Heatmap: add aggregation options for Web API, SQL and PowerShell tiles (SQ-5082)
  • SquaredUp Cloud aligned color pallet and styling (SQ-4941)
  • Time series data as bar graphs (SQ-4690)

Issues Addressed

  • Azure Log Analytics integration for .US endpoint failing (SQ-5089)
  • Top n Bar formatting not converting values to days (SQ-5055)
  • Mustache picker buttons disappear if timeframe mustache Is used in query (SQ-5081)
  • Second Splunk tile on a dashboard automatically uses the first Splunk tile's search query (SQ-4840)
  • Sorting of date fields from custom template in grid sorts by string value rather than date (SQ-4866)

Known Issues

None

5.9.1

Improvements

  • Ability for admins to disable Personal Dashboards feature from 5.9 RC (SQ-5050)

Issues Addressed

  • Home dashboards in folders prevents new dashboards/folders being created (SQ-5008)

Known Issues

None

5.9.0 (Release Candidate)

Improvements

  • New visualization: Date heatmap (SQ-4817)
  • New visualization: Vertical bar chart (SQ-4961)
  • Tile copy/paste functionality (SQ-4978)
  • Dashboard favorites (SQ-4980)
  • Home dashboard (SQ-4980)
  • Personal dashboards for all users (SQ-4979)
  • Cleaner list of tiles with better categorization of tiles (SQ-4966)
  • “The X Tile” provides help in connecting SquaredUp DS to SquaredUp Cloud for quicker setup
  • Donut tile labeling improvements (SQ-4946)

Issues Addressed

  • Named Users list dropping to 5 Users on Primary if secondary restarted while primary is offline (SQ-4977)
  • Zero value is not displayed in Web API scalar tile (SQ-4973)

Known Issues

None

5.8.1

Improvements

  • Minor updates to dashboard packs

Known Issues

None

5.8.0 (Release Candidate)

Improvements

  • Conditional custom colors based on label and value on many tiles and visualizations (SQ-4888)
  • Option to show data points on line graph (SQ-4830)

Issues Addressed

None

Known Issues

None

5.7.2

Issues Addressed

  • Slow performance and database locked errors when in HA configuration

Known Issues

None

5.7.1

Issues Addressed

  • Dashboard tiles all make data requests on dashboard initial load, regardless of visibility (SQ-4898)
  • Security improvements (SQ-4849, SQ-4848, SQ-4847)

Known Issues

None

5.7.0 (Release Candidate)

Improvements

  • Improvements to timeframes (SQ-2429) (SQ-2816) (SQ-4047)
    • Expanded duration options
    • Custom duration using ISO8601 format
    • Timeframe picker in applicable Connect tiles (Web API, PowerShell, SQL and Azure)
  • Improvements to the Line Graph tile (SQ-2880) (SQ-3384) (SQ-4113) (SQ-4637)
    • Configurable threshold line
    • X-axis draws to last date/time and in the future
    • Vertical grid lines
    • Sparkline color line label matching
  • New admin control
    • Recycle Bin for dashboards and perspectives (SQ-2726)
    • Last login time in the named user list (SQ-2406)
  • Other improvements:
    • Alerts list: showing every minute for first 59 minutes (SQ-4467)
    • Alerts list: readable and sortable date in “resolved” column (SQ-2395)
    • Donut: scrollable legend to fix tile height (SQ-4769)

Issues Addressed

  • Miscellaneous bug fixes with line graph visualizations

Known Issues

None

5.6.1

Issues Addressed

  • Minor bug fixes

Known Issues

None

5.6.0 (Release Candidate)

Improvements

  • Limit results option in Status tiles (SQ-4691)
  • Wrap sub labels in Status tiles (SQ-4643)
  • Allow API query parameters to be set at provider level (SQ-4092)

Issues Addressed

  • Grid tile with only one row cannot export data to Excel (SQ-1528)
  • SQL Line Graph does not export grouping field value to Excel (SQ-3345)
  • “entity” column value is blank when exporting Status tiles to Excel (SQ-4379)
  • Performance degradation on initial loading of a dashboard (SQ-4744)

Known Issues

None

5.5.1

Issues Addressed

  • Minor bug fixes

Known Issues

None

5.5.0 (Release Candidate)

Improvements

Issues Addressed

None

Known Issues

None

5.4.1

Issues Addressed

  • Columns with the same name in Grid tiles inherit the same width on refresh (SQ-4612)
  • Mustache value cannot be used in SQL query via ODBC connection (parameterised query) (SQ-4634)

Known Issues

None

5.4.0 (Release Candidate)

Improvements

Issues Addressed

  • FIPS preventing SquaredUp from running correctly (SQ-4471)
  • SVG in Image tiles are not loading correctly under certain circumstances (SQ-4528)

Known Issues

None

5.3.1

Known Issues

  • Dollar sign in URL turns into %24 for GET method (SQ-4296)

5.3.0 (Release Candidate)

Improvements

  • New visualization: Status Image (SQ-3844)
  • Default dashboard timeframe (SQ-2368)
  • Scalar: conditional colors (SQ-3757)
  • Donut: display improvements (SQ-3168)
  • Adjustable row height in all grid tiles (SQ-4233)
  • Easily share your dashboard with our Community: Dashboard Packs(SQ-4172)
  • New Community Dashboards website (SQ-4172)
  • Security improvements (SQ-4440, SQ-4441, SQ-4442, SQ-4443, SQ-4444, SQ-4445)
  • Supports installation on Windows 10 (SQ-4145)

Issues Addressed

  • PowerShell bar graph does not show 0 value (SQ-4434)
  • Installation fails if the IIS password contains angle brackets (SQ-4420)

Known Issues

  • Dollar sign in URL turns into %24 for GET method (SQ-4296)

5.2.1

Known Issues

  • Dollar sign in URL turns into %24 for GET method (SQ-4296)

5.2.0 (Release Candidate)

Improvements

  • New PowerShell visualization’s execution controls and security options
    • Set your own Run As accounts (SQ-4186)
      • If you are upgrading from a previous version, check if your PowerShell profiles use different identities to run the scripts. If they do, save them as Run As accounts instead of keeping them in the profile script. See Managing PowerShell Run As accounts
    • Choose execution interval, timeout and environment (SQ-4147, SQ-4231, SQ-4094)
    • Each script now runs inside its own child process (SQ-4146)
  • New visualizations available for the Splunk tile (SQ-4043)
  • Configurable switch to open links in same or new tab (SQ-2713)
  • GitHub samples link from the top right hand menu ☰ (SQ-4275)
  • Option to turn off drilldown in Open Access (SQ-3750)
  • Security improvements (SQ-4241, SQ-4179, SQ-1366)

NOTE: Best Practices for Security for deployment of SquaredUp DS have been updated.

Issues Addressed

  • HTML Web Content tile link does not open in the new tab (SQ-3947)
  • PowerShell scalar does not recognize decimal data type (SQ-4132)

Known Issues

  • Dollar sign in URL turns into %24 for GET method (SQ-4296)

5.1.1

Known Issues

  • HTML Web Content tile link does not open in the new tab (SQ-3947)

5.1.0 (Release Candidate)

Improvements

  • New visualizations available for the Elasticsearch tile (SQ-3952)
  • New visualizations available for the PowerShell tile (SQ-3792)
  • New visualizations available for the SQL tile (SQ-2428)
  • Headers can be configured and saved in all Web API providers (SQ-4017)
  • SquaredUp DS Standalone Enterprise Edition.

For the full list of the features in the Enterprise edition, see What's New in SquaredUp DS Standalone

Issues Addressed

  • ServiceNow – No default view is used when API access is limited (SQ-2366)
  • Display issue when navigating away from a dashboard with a web content tile using an embedded display mode (SQ-1508)
  • API access token not refreshed if current token was not provided with an “expires_in” property (SQ-4028)

Known Issues

  • HTML Web Content tile link does not open in the new tab (SQ-3947)

5.0.5 (Release Candidate)

For the full list of the features in this first release of DS Standalone see What's New in SquaredUp DS Standalone

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