# Stork 0.19.0, Aug 11th, 2021, Release Notes

Welcome to Stork 0.19.0, another monthly development release. The 
changes introduced in this version are:

* **Angular 12 and PrimeNG 12**. The Stork web interface has been 
migrated to the latest versions of Angular 12 and PrimeNG 12 libraries. 
Besides a slightly streamlined look, new versions offer a number of 
under the hood improvements: better async operation, more unified styles 
that are easier to use in consistent way and more. From the developer's 
perspective, it is good to pay back a technical debt every once in a 
while. Together with the major libraries, many dependencies have been 
updated as well. This process eliminated some security deficiencies in 
those libraries [#405, #548].

* **Agent address binding fix**. Earlier Stork Agent versions always 
bound to all IP addresses, regardless of the IP specified. This is no 
longer the case and Agent now properly binds to specific IP address 
[#559].

* **Testing update**. While this is not a user visible change, we made a 
number of improvements in the way how we run tests and deploy the demo 
in internal test setup. Migration to new Karma 6.3 addressed several 
vulnerabilities and improved the way we run tests [#548]. The routines 
to internal demo deployment have been hardened and improved [#553, #565].

* **Rakefile clean-up**. Rake is our build system, which over time got 
complicated. We spent some time to clean it up and document its targets 
better [#566].

Please see this link for known issues: 
https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/stork/-/wikis/Known-issues.

## Incompatible Changes

* None.

## Release Model

Stork has monthly development releases, with some exceptions.

We encourage users to test the development releases and report back 
their findings on the stork-users mailing list, available at 
https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/stork-users.

This text references issue numbers. For more details, visit the Stork 
GitLab page at https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/stork/issues.

## License

Stork is released under the Mozilla Public License, version 2.0.

   https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/MPL/2.0

## Download

The easiest way to install the software is to use native deb or RPM 
packages. They can be downloaded from:

   https://cloudsmith.io/~isc/repos/stork/

The Stork source and PGP signature for this release may be downloaded 
from:

   https://downloads.isc.org/isc/stork

The signature was generated with the ISC code-signing key which is 
available at:

   https://www.isc.org/pgpkey

ISC provides documentation in the Stork Administrator Reference Manual. 
It is available on ReadTheDocs.io at 
https://stork.readthedocs.io/en/latest/, and in source form in the docs/ 
directory.

We ask users of this software to please let us know how it worked for 
you and what operating system you tested on. Feel free to share your 
feedback on the stork-users mailing list 
(https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/stork-users). We would also like 
to hear whether the documentation is adequate and accurate. Please open 
tickets in the Stork GitLab project for bugs, documentation omissions 
and errors, and enhancement requests. We want to hear from you even if 
everything worked.

## Support

Professional support for Stork will become available once it reaches the 
1.0 milestone. Existing ISC customers that consider themselves *very* 
early adopters may get involved in the development process, including 
roadmap, features planning, and early testing, but the software maturity 
level does not constitute a typical professional service before the 1.0 
milestone.

Free best-effort support is provided by our user community via a mailing 
list. Information on all public email lists is available at 
https://www.isc.org/mailinglists/. If you have any comments or questions 
about working with Stork, please share them to the stork-users list 
(https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/stork-users). Bugs and feature 
requests may be submitted via GitLab at 
https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/stork/issues.

## Changes

The following summarizes changes and important upgrades since the Stork 
0.18.0 release.

```
* 150 [bug] godfryd

    Fixed reading STORK_AGENT_PROMETHEUS_KEA_EXPORTER_ADDRESS
    and STORK_AGENT_PROMETHEUS_BIND9_EXPORTER_ADDRESS environment
    variables in Stork Agent.
    (Gitlab #559)

* 149 [func] godfryd

    Upgraded Angular and PrimeNG to version 12.x.
    (Gitlab #405)
```

Thank you again to everyone who assisted us in making this release 
possible.

We look forward to receiving your feedback.