Changelog
🚨Security Fix (ES) Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)
🚀New (ES) auth_key_pbkdf2 rule
🧐Enhancement (ES) Fields rule performance improvement
🧐Enhancement (ES) Resolved index API support
🐞Fix (ES) index resolve action should be treated as readonly action
🐞Fix (ES) /_snapshot and /_snapshot/_all should behave the same
🚨Security Fix (ES) search template handling fix
🚀New (ES) 7.9.3 & 6.8.13 support
🧐Enhancement (ES) full support for ES Snapshots and Restore APIs
🐞Fix (KBN) fix crash in error handling
🐞Fix (ES) don't remove ES response warning headers
🐞Fix (ES) issue when entropy of /dev/random could have been exhausted when using JwtToken rule
🚀New (ES) 7.9.2 support
🐞Fix (KBN) fix code 500 error on login in Kibana
🚀New (ES) introduced must_involve_indices option for indices rule
🧐Enhancement (ES) negation support in headers rules
🧐Enhancement (ES) x-pack rollup API handling
🐞Fix (KBN) deep links query parameters are now handled
🐞Fix (KBN) make sure default kibana index is always discovered (fixes reporting in 6.x)
🐞Fix (ES) /_cluster/allocation/explain request should not be forbidden if matched block doesn't have indices rules
🐞Fix (ES) remote address extracting issue
🐞Fix (ES) fixed TYP audit field for some request types
🐞Fix (ES) missing handling of aliases API for ES 7.9.0
🚀New (ES) 7.9.0 support
🧐Enhancement (ES) aliases API handling
🧐Enhancement (ES) dynamic variables support in fields rule
🐞Fix (ES) adding aliases issue
🐞Fix (ES) potential memory leak for ES 7.7.x and above
🐞Fix (ES) cross cluster search issue fix for X-Pack _async_search action
🐞Fix (ES) XFF entry in audit issue
🐞Fix (KBN) SAML certificate loading
🐞Fix (KBN) SAML loading groups from assertion
🐞Fix (KBN) fix reporting in pre-7.7.0
🧐Enhancement (ES) cluster API support improvements
🐞Fix (ES) X-Pack _async_search support
🐞Fix (ES) _rollover request handling
🐞Fix (KBN) multitenancy+reporting regression fix (for 7.6.x and earlier)
🐞Fix (KBN) "x-" headers should be forwarded in /login route when proxy passthrough is enabled
🐞Fix (KBN) SAML metadata.xml endpoint not responding
🐞Fix (KBN) NAT/reverse proxy support for SAML
🐞Fix (KBN) SAML login redirect error
🐞Fix (ES) _readonlyrest/metadata/current_user should be always allowed by filter/fields rule
🚀New 7.7.1, 7.8.0 support
🧐Enhancement (KBN) tidy up audit page
🧐Enhancement (KBN FREE) clearly inform when features are not available
🧐Enhancement (KBN) ship license report of libraries
🧐Enhancement (ES) filter rule performance improvement
🐞Fix (KBN) proxy_auth: avoid logout-login loop
🐞Fix (KBN) 404 error on font CSS file
🐞Fix (ES) wildcard in filter query issue
🐞Fix (ES) forbidden /_snapshot issue
🐞Fix (ES) /_mget handling by indices rule when no index from a list is found
🐞Fix (ES) available groups order in metadata response should match the order in which groups appear in ACL
🐞Fix (ES) .readonlyrest and audit index - removed usage of explicit index type
🐞Fix (ES) tasks leak bug
🚀New 7.7.0, 7.6.2, 6.8.9, 6.8.8 support
🧐Enhancement (ES/KBN) kibana_access can be explicitly set to unrestricted
🧐Enhancement (ES) LDAP connection pool improvement
🐞Fix (ES) better LDAP request timeout handling
🐞Fix (ES) remote indices searching bug
🐞Fix (ES) cross cluster search support for _field_caps request
🚨Security Fix (ES) create and delete templates handling
🐞Fix (KBN) Regression in proxy_auth_passthrough
🧐Enhancement (KBN) whitelistedPaths now accepts basic auth credentials
🧐Enhancement (KBN) Dump logout button, new ROR Panel
🧐Enhancement (KBN) removed ROR from Kibana sidebar. Admins have a link in new panel.
🧐Enhancement (KBN) avoid show login form redirecting from SAML IdP
🚀New (KBN) OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication connector
🚨Security Fix (KBN) server-side navigation prevention to hidden apps
🐞Fix (ES) Interpolating config with environment variables in SSL section
🐞Fix (KBN Ent 6.x) Fixed default space creation in
🐞Fix (KBN 6.x) Fixed error toast notification not showing
🐞Fix (KBN Ent) Fixed missing Axios dependency
🐞Fix (KBN Ent) Fixed SAML connector
🐞Fix (KBN) Toast notification overlap with logout bar
🧐Enhancement (KBN) Restyled logout bar
🧐Enhancement (KBN) Configurable periodic session checker
🚀New (ES/KBN) 7.6.1 compatibility
🚀New (ES) customizable name of settings index
🧐Enhancement (KBN) configurable ROR cookie name
🧐Enhancement (ES/KBN) handling of encoded ROR headers in Authorization header values
🧐Enhancement (KBN) user feedback on why login failed
🐞Fix (ES) support for multiple header values
🐞Fix (ES) releasing LDAP connection pool on reloading ROR settings
🐞Fix (KBN) multitenancy issue with 7.6.0+
🐞Fix (KBN) creation of default space for new tenant
🐞Fix (KBN 6.x) in RO mode, don't hide add/remove over fields in discovery
🐞Fix (KBN 6.x) index template & in-index session manager issues
🚀New (KBN) 7.6.0 support
🧐Enhancement (KBN) less verbose info logging
🧐Enhancement (KBN) start up time semantic check for settings
🐞Fix (KBN Free) missing logout button
🐞Fix (KBN) error message creating internal proxy
🐞Fix (KBN 6.x) add field to filter button invisible in RO mode
🎁Product (KBN) Launched ReadonlyREST Free for Kibana!
🚀New (ES) 7.6.0 support, Kibana support coming soon
🚀New (KBN) Audit log dashboard
🚀New (KBN) Template index can now be declared per tenant instead of globally
🚀New (ES) custom trust store file and password options in ROR settings
🧐Enhancement (ES) When "prompt_for_basic_auth" is enabled, ROR is going to return 401 instead of 404 when the index is not found or a user is not allowed to see the index
🧐Enhancement (ES) literal ipv6 with zone Id is acceptable network address
🧐Enhancement (ES) LDAP client cache improvements
🐞Fix (ES) /_all/_settings API issue
🐞Fix (ES) Index stats API & Index shard stores API issue
🐞Fix (ES) readonlyrest.force_load_from_file setting decoding issue
🐞Fix (KBN) allowing user to be logged in in two tabs at the same time
🐞Fix (KBN) logging with JWT parameter issue
🐞Fix (KBN) parsing of sessions fetched from ES index
🐞Fix (KBN) logout issue
🚀New (KBN) Configurable option to delete docs from tenant index when not present in template
🧐Enhancement (ES) Less verbose logging of blocks history
🧐Enhancement (ES) Enriched logs and audit with attempted username
🧐Enhancement (ES) Better settings validation - only one authentication rule can be used in given block
🧐Enhancement (ES/KBN) Plugin versions printing in logs on launch
🧐Enhancement (ES) When user doesn't have access to given index, ROR pretends that the index doesn't exist and return 404 instead of 403
🐞Fix (ES) Searching for nonexistent/forbidden index with wildcard mirrors default ES behaviour instead of returning 403
🐞Fix (KBN) Switching groups bug
🚀New (ES/KBN) Support v6.8.6, v7.5.0, v7.5.1
🚀New (KBN) Group names can now be mapped to aliases
🚀New (ES) New, more robust and simple method of creating custom audit log serializers
🚀New (ES) Example projects with custom audit log serializers
🐞Fix (KBN) Prevent index migration after kibana startup
🧐Enhancement (KBN) If default space doesn't exist in kibana index then copy from default one
🧐Enhancement (KBN) Crypto improvements - store init vector with encrypted data as base64 encoded json.
🧐Enhancement (ES) Better settings validation - prevent duplicated keys in readonlyrest.yml
🚀New (ES/KBN) Support v7.4.1, v7.4.2
🚀New (KBN) Kibana sessions stored in ES index
🐞Fix (ES) issue with in-index settings auto-reloading
🐞Fix (ES) _cat/indices empty response when matched block doesn't contain 'indices' rule
🚀New (ES/KBN) Support v7.4.0
🚀New (ES) Elasticsearch SQL Support
🚀New (ES) Internode ssl support for es5x, es60x, es61x and es62x
🚀New (ES) new runtime variable @{acl:current_group}
🚀New (ES) namespace for user variable and support for both versions: @{user} and @{acl:user}
🚀New (ES) support for multiple values in uri_re rule
🧐Enhancement (ES) more reliable in-index settings loading of ES with ROR startup
🧐Enhancement (ES) less verbose logs in JWT rules
🧐Enhancement (ES) Better response from ROR API when plugin is disabled
🧐Enhancement (ES) Splitting verification ssl property to client_authentication and certificate_verification
🐞Fix (ES) issue with backward compatibility of proxy_auth settings
🐞Fix (ES) /_render/template request NPE
🐞Fix (ES) _cat/indices API bug fixes
🐞Fix (ES) _cat/templates API return empty list instead of FORBIDDEN when no indices are found
🐞Fix (ES) updated regex for kibana access rule to support 7.3 ES
🐞Fix (ES) proper resolving of non-string ENV variables in readonlyrest.yml
🐞Fix (ES) lang-mustache search template handling
🚀New (ES) Field level security (FLS) supports nested JSON fields
🐞Security Fix (ES) Authorization headers appeared in clear in logs
🧐Enhancement (KBN) Don't logout users when they are not allowed to search a index-pattern
🧐Enhancement (ES) Headers obfuscation is now case insensitive
🚀New (ES/KBN) Support v7.3.1, v7.3.2
🚀New (ES) Configurable header names whose value should be obfuscated in logs
🚀New (KBN) Dynamic variables from user identity available in custom_logout_link
🧐Enhancement (ES) Richer logs for JWT errors
🧐Enhancement (ENT) nextUrl works also with SAML now
🧐Enhancement (ENT) SAML assertion object available in ACL dynamic variables
🧐Enhancement (KBN) Validate LDAP server(s) before accepting new YAML settings
🧐Enhancement (KBN) Ensure a read-only UX for 'ro' users in older Kibana
🐞Fix (ES) Fix memory leak from dependency (snakeYAML)
🐞Security Fix (ES) indices rule can now properly handle also the templates API
🧐Enhancement (ES) Array dynamic variables are serialized as CSV wrapped in double quotes
🧐Enhancement (ES) Cleaner debug logs (no stacktraces on forbidden requests)
🧐Enhancement (ES) LDAP debug logs fire also when cache is hit
🚀New (ES/KBN) Support v7.2.1, v7.3.0
🐞Fix (PRO) PRO plugin crashing for some Kibana versions
🐞Fix (ENT) SAML library wrote a too large cookie sometimes
🐞Fix (ENT) SAML logout not working
🐞Fix (ENT) JWT fix exception "cannot set requestHeadersWhitelist"
🐞Fix (PRO/ENT) Hide more UI elements for RO users
🐞Fix (PRO/ENT) Sometimes not all the available groups appear in tenancy selector
🐞Fix (PRO/ENT) Feature "nextUrl" broke
🐞Fix (PRO/ENT) prevent user kick-out when APM is not configured and you are not an admin
🚀New (PRO/ENT) Kibana request path/method now sent to ES (good for policing dev-tools)
🚀New (ES) User impersonation API
🚀New (ES) Support latest 6.x and 5.x versions
🐞Security Fix (ES) filter/fields rules leak
🐞Fix (KBN/ENT) allow more action for kibana_access, prevent sudden logout
🐞Fix (KBN/ENT) temporarily roll back "support for unlimited tenancies"
🚀New Support added for ES/Kibana 6.8.1
🧐Enhancement (ES) Crash ES on invalid settings instead of stalling forever
🧐Enhancement (ES) Better logging on JWT, JSON-paths, LDAP, YAML errors
🧐Enhancement (ES) Block level settings validation to user with precious hints
🧐Enhancement (ES) If force_load_from_file: true, don't poll index settings
🧐Enhancement (ES) Order now counts declaring LDAP Failover HA servers
🐞Fix (ES) "EsIndexJsonContentProvider" had a null pointer exception
🐞Fix (ES) "es.set.netty.runtime.available.processors" exception
🧐Enhancement (KBN) Collapsible logout button
🧐Enhancement (KBN) ROR App now uses a HA http client
🧐Enhancement (KBN) Automatic logout for inactivity
🧐Enhancement (KBN) Support unlimited amount of tenancies
🐞Fix (KBN/ENT) concurrent multitenancy bug
🐞Fix (KBN) Avoid sporadic errors on Save/Load buttons
🚀New Support for Elasticsearch & Kibana 7.2.0
🐞Fix (ES) restore indices ("IDX") in audit logging
🧐Enhancement (ES) New algorithm of setting evaluation order
🚀New (ES) JWT claims as dynamic variables. I.e. "@{jwt:claim.json.path}"
🚀New (ES) "explode" dynamic variables. I.e. indices: ["@explode{x-indices}"]
🐞Fix (PRO/Enterprise) preserve comments and formatting in YAML editor
🐞Fix (PRO/Enterprise) Print error message when session is expired
🐞Regression (PRO/Enterprise) Redirect to original link after login
🐞Regression (PRO/Enterprise) Broken CSV reporting
🧐Enhancement (PRO/Enterprise) Prevent navigating away from YAML editor w/ unsaved changes
🐞Fix (Enterprise) Exception when SAML connectors were all disabled
🐞Fix (Enterprise) Concurrent tenants could mix up each other kibana index
🐞Fix (Enterprise) Cannot inject custom JS if no custom CSS was also declared
🐞Fix (Enterprise) Injected JS had no effect on ROR logout button
🐞Fix (Enterprise) On narrow screens, the YAML editor showed buttons twice
🐞Fix (Elasticsearch) Reindex requests failed for a regression in indices extraction
🐞Fix (Elasticsearch) Groups rule erratically failed
🐞Fix (Elasticsearch) JWT claims can now contain special characters
🧐Enhancement (Elasticsearch) Better ACL History logging
🧐Enhancement (Elasticsearch) QueryLogSerializer and old custom log serializers work again
🐞Fix (PRO/Enterprise) ReadonlyREST icon in Kibana was white on white
🐞Fix (Enterprise) SAML connectors could not be disabled
🐞Fix (Enterprise) SAML connector "buttonName" didn't work
🚀New Support for Elasticsearch & Kibana 7.0.1
🧐Enhancement (Elasticsearch) empty array values in settings are invalid
🐞Security Fix (Elasticsearch) arbitrary x-cluster search referencing local cluster
🐞Fix (Elasticsearch) ArrayOutOfBoundException on snapshot operations
🧐Enhancement (PRO/Enterprise) History cleaning can now be disabled ("clearSessionOnEvents")
🚀New Support for Elasticsearch 7.0.0 (Kibana is coming soon)
🧐Enhancement (Elasticsearch) rewritten LDAP connector
🧐Enhancement (Elasticsearch) new core written in Scala is now GA
🐞Fix (Enterprise) devtools requests now honor the currently selected tenancy
🐞Security Fix (Enterprise/PRO) Fix "connectorsService" error in installation
🚀New Support for Kibana/Elasticsearch 6.7.1
🧐Enhancement (Enterprise >= Kibana 6.6.0) Multiple SAML identity provider
🐞Security Fix (Enterprise/PRO) Don't pass auth headers back to the browser
🐞Fix (Enterprise/PRO) Missing null check caused error in reporting (CSV)
🐞Fix (Enterprise) Don't reject requests if SAML groups are not configured
🐞Fix filter/fields rules not working in msearch (in 6.7.x)
🧐Enhancement Print whole LDAP search query in debug log
🚀New Support for Kibana/Elasticsearch 6.7.0
🧐Enhancement (PRO/Enterprise) JWT query param is the preferred credentials provider
🧐Enhancement (PRO/Enterprise) admin users can use indices management
🧐Enhancement (PRO/Enterprise) ro users can dismiss telemetry form
🐞Fix Audit logging in 5.1.x now works again
🐞Fix unpredictable behaviour of "filter" and "fields" when using external auth
🐞Fix LDAP ConcurrentModificationException
🐞Fix Audit logging in 5.1.x now works again
🐞Fix (PRO/Enterprise) JWT deep-link works again
1.17.2 went unreleased, all changes have been merged in 1.17.3 directly
🐞Fix (Enterprise) Tenancy selector showing if user belonged to one group
🐞Fix (PRO/Enterprise) RW buttons not hiding for RO users in React Kibana apps
🐞Fix (Enterprise) Tenancy templating now works much more reliably
🐞Fix (Enterprise) Missing tenancy selector icon after switching tenancy
🐞Fix (PRO/Enterprise) barring static files requests caused sudden logout
🐞Fix Numerous fixes to better support Kibana 6.6.x
🐞Fix Critical fixes in new Scala core
🐞Fix Exception in reindex requests caused tenancy templating to fail
🧐Enhancement Bypass cross-cluster search logic if single cluster
🐞Fix (PRO/Enterprise) SAML now works well in 6.6.x
🐞Fix (PRO/Enterprise) "undefined" authentication error before login
🐞Fix (Enterprise) Default space creation failures for new tenants
🐞Fix (Enterprise) Icons/titles CSS misalignment in sidebar (Firefox)
🧐Enhancement(Enterprise) UX: Larger tenancy selector
🐞Security Fix (Enterprise) Privilege escalation when changing tenancies under monitoring
🐞Fix (Elasticsearch) compatibility fixes to support new Kibana features
🧐Enhancements (Elasticsearch) New core and LDAP connector written in Scala is finished, now under QA.
🚀New Feature Support for Kibana/Elasticsearch 6.6.0, 6.6.1
🚀New Feature Internode SSL (ES 6.3.x onwards)
🧐Enhancement(PRO/Enterprise) UI appearence
🧐Enhancement Made HTTP Connection configurable (PR #410)
🐞Fix slow boot due to SecureRandom waiting for sufficient entropy
🐞Fix Enable kibana_access:ro to create short urls in es6.3+ (PR #408)
🧐Enhancement X-Forwarded-For header in printed es logs ("XFF")
🧐Enhancement kibanaindex: ".kibana@{user}" when user is "John Doe" becomes .kibana_john_doe
🐞Fix (Enteprise) parse SAML groups from assertion as array of strings
🐞Fix (Enteprise) SAMLRequest in location header was URLEncoded twice, broke on some IdP
🐞Fix (PRO/Enteprise) "cookiePass" works again, no more need for sticky cookies in load balancers!
🐞Fix (PRO/Enteprise) fix redirect loop with JWT deep linking when JWT token expires
🧐Enhancement (PRO/Enteprise) fix audit demo page CSS
🧐Enhancement (Enteprise) SAML more configuration parameters available
🚀New Feature (PRO/Enteprise) set ROR to debug mode (readonlyrest_kbn.logLevel: "debug")
🐞Fix(PRO/Enteprise) compatibility problems with older Kibana versions
🐞Fix(PRO/Enteprise) compatibility problems with OSS Kibana version
🚀New Feature "kibanaIndexTemplate": default dashboards and spaces for new tenants
🧐Enhancement Support for ES/Kibana 6.5.4
🧐Enhancement Upgraded LDAP library
🧐Enhancement (Enterprise) Now tenants save their CSV exports in their own reporting index
🐞Fix(PRO/Enteprise) Support passwords that start and/or end with spaces
🐞Fix (PRO/Enterprise) Now reporting works again
🧐Enhancement Support for ES/Kibana 6.5.2, 6.5.3
🚧WIP: Laid out the foundation for LDAP HA support
🧐Enhancement Support for ES/Kibana 6.4.3
🚀New Feature (PRO/Enterprise) configurable server side session duration
🚀New Feature [LDAP] High Availability: Round Robin or Failover
🧐Enhancement Support for ES/Kibana 6.4.2
🐞Fix (Enterprise) Multi tenancy: sometimes changing tenancy would not change kibana index
🐞Security Fix (Enterprise/PRO) Avoid echoing Base64 encoded credentials in login form error message
🧐Enhancement (Enterprise/PRO) Remove latest search/visualization/dashboard history on logout
🧐Enhancement (Enterprise/PRO) Clear transient authentication cookies on login error to avoid authentication deadlocks
🐞Fix: External JWT verification may throw ArrayOutOfBoundException
🚧WIP: Laid out the foundation for internode SSL transport (port 9300)
🚀New Feature [JWT] external validator: it's now possible to avoid storing the private key in settings
🧐Enhancement Support for ES/Kibana 6.4.1
🧐Enhancement Rewritten big part of ES plugin documentation
🧐Enhancement SAML Single log out flow
🐞Fix (Enterprise/PRO) cookiePass works again, but only for Kibana 5.x. Newer Kibana needs sticky sessions in LB.
🧐Enhancement (Enterprise/PRO) much faster logout
🐞 Fix (PRO/Enterprise) bugs during plugin packaging and installation process
🚀New Feature Users rule: easily restrict external authentication to a list of users
🧐Enhancement Support for ES 5.6.11
🐞Hot Fix (Enterprise/PRO) Error 404 when logging in with older versions of Kibana
🚀New Feature (Enterprise) SAML Authentication
🚀New Feature Support for Elasticsearch and Kibana 6.4.0
🚀New Feature Headers rule now split in headers_or and headers_and
🧐Enhancement Headers rule now allows wildcards
🚀New Feature (Enterprise) Multi-tenancy now works also with JSON groups provider
🐞 Fix Multi-tenancy (Enterprise) incoherent initial kibana_index and current group
🧐Enhancement Support for Elastic Stack 6.3.1 and 5.6.10
🚀New Feature (Enterprise) Custom CSS injection for Kibana
🚀New Feature (Enterprise) Custom Javascript injection for Kibana
🚀New Feature (PRO/Enterprise) access paths without need to login (i.e. /api/status)
🐞Fix (PRO/Enterprise) Navigating to X-Pack APM caused hidden Kibana apps to reappear
🚀New Feature: map LDAP groups to local groups (a.k.a. role mapping)
🐞 Fix (Elasticsearch) wildcard aliases resolution not working in "indices" rule.
🧐Enhancement: it is now possible now to use JDK 9 and 10
🐞 Fix (PRO/Enterprise) wait forever for login request (i.e. slow LDAP servers)
🐞 Fix (PRO/Enterprise) add spinner and block UI if login request is being sent
🐞 Fix (PRO/Enterprise) if user is logged out because of LDAP cache expiring + slow authentication, redirect to login.
🐞 Fix (PRO/Enterprise) let RO users delete/edit search filters
🚀New Feature: Introducing support for Elasticsearch and Kibana v6.3.0
🐞 Fix (Enterprise) multi tenancy - switching tenancy does not always switch kibana index
🧐 Enhancement: when login, forward "elasticsearch.requestHeadersWhitelist" headers. (useful for "headers" rule and "proxy_auth" to work well.)
🚀New Feature: DLS (with dynamic variables suppoort) Thanks DataSweet!
🚀 New feature: Field level security
🚀 New rules: Snapshot, Repositories, Headers
🧐 Enhancement: custom audit serializers: the request content is available
🐞 Fix readonlyrest.yml path discovery
🐞 Fix: LDAP available groups discovery (tenancy switcher) corner cases
🐞 Fix: auth_key_sha1, auth_key_sha256 hashes in settings should be case insensitive
🐞 Fix: LDAP authentication didn't work with local group