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In the Security Alerts reports, there were no checks to determine if the organization had partial data property.
Jira Server Plugin: instead of assigning the WhiteSource issue type only to the relevant project, it was added to all the screens in the user's Jira environment.
Documentation
New and updated documentation has been published for the Reports APIs and the License and Library APIs.
Azure DevOps Integration Version 21.6.31 (14-July 2021)
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Starting August 1, 2021, Unified Agent versions will be available for a year after their release.
Within the next two releases of the Unified Agent, the default value of the php.removeDuplicateDependencies parameter will be changed from false to true.
Within the next two releases of the Unified Agent, the gradle.additionalArguments parameter for specifying additional arguments to be added to the Gradle commands executed by the agent - will be applied to all Gradle commands (not only to the gradle dependencies command).
Within the next two releases of the Unified Agent, the Maven, OCaml, Modules and the R resolvers will be aligned to the behavior of the other detectors when failErrorLevel is set to ALL by failing the scan if the relevant package manager is not installed.
Documentation
New and updated AVM documentation has been published
New and updated API documentation has been published for 1) Alerts and 2) Groups and Users
The contents of the following topics will be moved. The pages of those topics will be deprecated. Note that after being moved, no changes to the information contained will be made
The contents of Triggering a new Scan in Bitbucket will be moved to WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server.
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The TeamCity plugin will reach its End Of Life starting November 1, 2021. After this date, WhiteSource will no longer provide standard support, including updates and fixes, for the deprecated plugin. Extended Support, which is limited to configuration and Support troubleshooting, will continue until May 1, 2022. Following this date, the TeamCity plugin will no longer be supported by WhiteSource. Please make sure to migrate to the Unified Agent before the end of standard support on November 1, 2021 to maintain full support of your product.
Documentation
The following pages were deprecated:
Requesting an Arbitrary File
GitHub Related Topics
The License Identification page - its content was merged with Changing a Library’s License
TheLicense Analysis page - its content was merged with Understanding Risk Score Attribution
The Policies API page has been deprecated, and a new and updated Policies API page has replaced it.
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Users encountered errors logging in to WhiteSource.
Project name or project token were mandatory parameters for Docker scanning unnecessarily.
Users were unable to delete roles when there were no roles remaining.
When the Inventory Report was exported to MS Excel, there was extra whitespace between the project name and the Direct Dependency.
When password complexity validation was enabled, users were unable to reset their passwords.
NPM/Yarn downloaded artifacts were not always removed at the end of the Unified Agent scan.
In the Unified Agent, a null pointer exception occurred when scanning ANT-based projects with an empty zip file.
Documentation
New and updated WhiteSource Prioritization documentation has been released. See here.
The R Integration page was deprecated and its content was moved to the Unified Agent Configuration Parameters page.
In the next version, the following pages will be deprecated:
Requesting an Arbitrary File
GitHub Related Topics
The License Identification page - its content will be merged with Changing a Library’s License
The License Analysis page - its content will be merged with Understanding Risk Score Attribution
The New Versions Alerts page - its content will be merged with the Project Page
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Using the Unified Agent’s Archive Extractor when trying to scan the root of the operating system resulted in a null pointer exception.
In AVM, a timeout occurred when fetching vulnerabilities information from Fortify.
Documentation
The NuGet Plugin page was deprecated.
In the next version, 21.3.2, the following changes will be implemented:
The Deprecated Features topic will be deprecated and the content will move to the Noticespage
The High Severity Bugs Report topic will be deprecated
The File Systemtopic will be deprecated
Additional modifications will be implemented to the opening documentation sections, beginning with the login/homepage documentation.
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In some cases, information regarding source libraries was not displayed correctly; for example, empty projects were still displayed in some source libraries, or some source libraries appeared as empty.
Running the gcloud auth command failed during Docker scan on Mac computers.
Users with different roles than admins or alert ignorers were able to ignore alerts in VBA mode.
Exceptions occurred when trying to assign licenses as part of update policy alerts.
In the Unified Agent, when scanning NPM, NPM dependencies were not resolved when package.json did not contain name/version attributes.
When downloading a missing jar file, the Unified Agent incorrectly generated success messages.
Added indication for missing copyright references in the Attribution report summary.
When excluding inner modules (projects) in Gradle, the scan would return the wrong dependencies tree.
Azure DevOps Services Integration: In some cases, adding npm.resolveMainPackageJsonOnly=true to the WhiteSource Configuration task parameter led to a scan failing.
Documentation
Beginning in this version the following page was archived and is therefore no longer in use.
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New Feature Announcements
WhiteSource is launching a Beta release of a new generic platform for issue tracker integrations and a plugin for Jira Server. The new platform will provide the ability to integrate with issue tracking systems, in order to automatically create issues when a policy match occurs. The Jira Server Plugin is the first integration developed using the new platform and more out-of-the-box plugins are planned to be released.
Documentation
The following topic has been deprecated:
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Azure DevOps Services Integration: Running a pipeline build from a self-hosted agent resulted in a WhiteSource-generated .encrypted file not being deleted at the end of each WhiteSource build task run.
NOTE: Self-hosted agent builds triggered before 14 February may still contain traces of WhiteSource-generated .encrypted files. These files must be manually removed from the self-hosted agent work folder.On rare occasions, library alerts were not created after the vulnerability sync.
Duplicate hashed source files caused the second one to be considered as unmatched.
In Linux, Python scans failed due to a missing space in the execution of one of the commands used for resolution.
In the Unified Agent, there were exceptions when parsing specific pipfile formats.
Documentation
The following topics have been deprecated and all their content has been merged into the Unified Agent documentation:
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When searching for a library via global search, then searching for a vulnerability via the same search, the page redirects to the library search page.
When resolving several requirments.txt files, the cache of the dependencies was not cleared between the different resolutions.
When running the Unified Agent, the ArchiveExtractor failed to extract files ending with an empty space.
In the “Source File Inventory” report, if users selected to change the library for files they had no permissions to, the Change Library action had no effect and no message was displayed. Now, this action can only be done by selecting the desired files, then Actions > Change Library menu. The users' permissions are validated and a proper message is displayed.
After repeatedly using "Assign Yourself", the pop-up window appears blank and users need to click "Add License Reference" or "Override All” in order to see the mandatory fields.
When running SBT Coursier, the Unified Agent did not run pre-step commands even though pre-step flags were activated.
Changes to licenses being updated either in the index (libraryDataSync API) or in the Admin Console did not trigger alerts calculation.
The Unified Agent did not support the packages.db RPM database
Documentation Updates
The following integration pages have been archived and will therefore no longer be in use. All the material contained therein will be included in the Unified Agent parameter documentation.
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Version 20.12.1.1 (21-December-2020)
Fixed an issue introduced in the latest version (20.11.2) in which unmatched source libraries were missing from the Project/Product page.
Version 20.12.1 (20-December-2020)
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Resolved Issues - Azure DevOps Services Integration (added 10-November-2020)
Fixed an issue where in some cases, users with non-admin permissions were not able to view the WhiteSource open-source risk report. All existing WhiteSource for Azure DevOps Services extension users will need to approve the extension permission changes that were applied in this version. To approve the new changes, do as follows:
Go to Organization Settings > Extensions > Installed > WhiteSource for Azure DevOps Services.
Click Review. The Authorize WhiteSource for Azure DevOps Services popup is displayed.
Click Authorize.
Scanning a project based on a GitHub Repository led to a RangeError error.
Version 20.10.1.1 (4-November-2020)
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Azure DevOps Services Integration
Added the ability to specify custom Unified Agent Configuration parameters to be used by a particular pipeline build. For this, a new field, WhiteSource Configuration, was added to the WhiteSource task. For more information, see here.
Documentation Updates
Unified Agent
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Fixed CVE-2020-2213
Prioritize
Aggregate Modules mode supported (using the -aggregateModules field).
Functionality Changes
In the Project Association page, the Product column was changed from a selection column to a text column. The project association is now only available by checking the desired project(s) and choosing “Assign to Product”, then choosing the desired product from the drop-down list.
When using “APPEND” update requests, in the rare case where only a TRANSITIVE dependency has been added - the new transitive dependency will be added as a direct dependency, so all of the application's mechanisms such as alerts and policies will be applied on it. This is a change to the current behavior. In order to have the new dependency added as transitive, users can then run another “OVERRIDE” Update Request after the append request.
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Upgraded the following:
WildFly to version 10.1.0
JQuery to version 3.5.0
The Unified Agent’s version is now displayed in the Web Application’s Project Vitals.
The docker image retrieval mechanism was improved resulting in a reduction of the UA scanning time.
Resolved Issues
In the Risk Report, in the General Overview panel, when selecting a product, an incorrect title and link were displayed.
While handling getOrganizationInHouseLibraries requests, a Null Pointer Exception occurred.
In situations where Requires review is the least common license in organization/product/project, the License dashboard ceases to function.
The Attribution Report had issues with a misplaced header.
There were issues with proxy settings in the HTML dependency resolution.
The TeamCity plugin always failed as a result of a check policy request.
Under certain conditions, scanning SBT dependencies resulted with errors.
Local libraries used by a Python project were not detected. This ability was introduced in this release, controlled by the python.localPackagePathsToInstall flag.
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This version introduces support for Bamboo server versions up to 7.0.3.
Functionality Changes
Beginning in this version, ignoreSourceFiles is taken into account in the top folder for all cases.
Beginning in this version, Maven resolver will not ignore .jar,.war,.ear,.zip files when ignoreSourceFiles is set.
When setting a Reporter for issues that require one, the reporter will now be chosen from a list (same as selecting an assignee) instead of the previous way where there were text boxes for inserting a Reporter name and display name.
The Unified Agent setting maven.ignoredScopes=NONE is no longer a pre-condition for running Prioritize on Maven projects, but remains as the default setting. Regardless of the Unified Agent configuration file parameter setting, Prioritize analysis will ignore test scope dependencies.
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Previously, in the Library Location Report, when a library had no path it was displayed in the UI as "N/A". This has been changed to an empty string.
Within the next two sprints, WhiteSource will be improving the Unified Agent scan results, mostly regarding Maven resolution. Binaries such as .jar,.war,.ear,.zip will be included in the scan when ignoreSourceFiles is set.
In addition, ignoreSourceFiles will be taken into account in the top folder when packaging appears in the pom file.
Resolved Issues
In some nupkg libraries, libraries which didn’t have a dash ('-') in the display name as the version separator, were not recognized as the same library and therefore did not generate the Multiple Library Versions.
When generated to a .PDF, the Use of Different Versions of Same Library section in the Risk Report had a different title.
Under certain situations, goGradle scans failed with a null pointer exception.
An overlap in the resolvers' bom files resulted in the order of the resolvers being changed.
The Effective Usage Analysis dashboard displayed 0% coverage although vulnerabilities existed.
Under certain conditions, a NoSuchElementException occurred when getting a product approver during update requests.
Under certain conditions, the parsing functionality in Go 1.14 did not work correctly.
Under certain conditions, scans of Docker images resulted in exceptions.
Under certain conditions, new version alerts weren't created.
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Release Unified Agent version 19.9.1
Release WhiteSource Advise for Chrome 19.9.1
Version 19.8.1 (8-September-2019)
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The new Configuration Recommendation mode identifies the environment that the user wants to scan and creates the configuration file automatically.
Added flexibility in Gradle projects scanning: New configuration parameter 'gradle.includedScopes' enables defining which scopes will be included in the scan.
This version provides support for Serverless Framework via a dedicated plugin.
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Enhanced resolution for Maven projects that include multiple libraries with the same SHA-1. In these cases, the library page displays a new hyperlink stating "This SHA-1 has multiple matches: Click here to override the original match". Clicking the hyperlink will open a pop-up window, enabling a user to manually select alternative GAV coordinates from a list.
Optimized accuracy of data in Security Trends Dashboard:
After clicking on a chart, the related Alerts report only displays security vulnerability alerts.
The dashboard keeps its predefined context after navigating to another GUI page.
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The new Containers dashboard enables you to pinpoint security vulnerabilities at various levels, providing a clear view of Kubernetes resources along with the ability to filter, sort, and view the vulnerabilities per pod and image in the cluster. See also The Containers Dashboard.
Unified Agent
Improved csontainer scanning coverage: Added the option to scan a Docker image from a Google Container Registry. See also Google Container Registry Docker Integration
NPM: Added the ability to fetch the project name from the ‘package.json’ dependency file via the Boolean configuration parameter ‘npm.projectNameFromDependencyFile’.
Added support for Julia source files with the file extension ‘.jl’.
Added support for car archive files with the file extension ‘.car’.
Added a behavior rule to the existing 'failErrorLevel' parameter in order to enhance the precision of the scanning policy: If this parameter is ‘ALL’, then scan fails when ‘productName’ and ‘productToken’ are missing, and no ‘projectToken’ is defined in the configuration file. See also The failErrorLevel Parameter of the Unified Agent.
Yarn dependency management: Added the new parameter ‘npm.yarn.frozenLockfile' that enables to run the pre-step with the ‘--frozen.lockfile’ yarn parameter.
Scan report in JSON Format:
Accurate reporting time frames: In addition to a date, a timestamp was also added to the JSON based scan report’s filename. For example, ‘ProjectA-2019-03-01T130102+0200-scan_report.json’.
Added custom attributes data. For each library, the relevant custom attribute values are displayed.
Added policy and vulnerability statistics data to local scan report. See also Unified Agent JSON Report Example
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