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Version 21.1.2 (14-February-2021)
New Features & Updates
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WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server, | For improved visibility and troubleshooting, a startup check mechanism was added in the app container, which upon startup, provides a clear indication of the connectivity status between itself and the remediate container, the repository platform (SCM) API, and the WhiteSource application server. The startup check also validates the activation key provided in the initial configuration. |
WhiteSource Advise for PyCharm, |
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NOTE: The GitHub Enterprise, Bitbucket Server, and GitLab integrations in this version support version 21.1.1 of the Unified Agent. The GitHub.com integration in this version supports version 21.1.2 of the Unified Agent. The WhiteSource for Bitbucket integration in this version supports version 20.12.2 of the Bitbucket Add-on.
Resolved Issues
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WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server, |
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WhiteSource Advise for PyCharm, |
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Version 21.1.1 (31-January-2021)
New Features & Updates
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WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server, |
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WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server, WhiteSource for Bitbucket Data Center, WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise, WhiteSource for GitLab | With the release of version 20.12.3 of the Unified Agent, the default dependency resolution for npm projects has been optimized by relying on the package-lock.json file (the npm.resolveLockFile Unified Agent configuration parameter default value is now true). |
NOTE: The GitHub Enterprise, Bitbucket Server, and GitLab integrations in this version support version 20.12.3 of the Unified Agent. The GitHub.com integration in this version supports version 21.1.1 of the Unified Agent. The WhiteSource for Bitbucket integration in this version supports version 20.12.2 of the Bitbucket Add-on.
Resolved Issues
Product | Description |
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WhiteSource Advise for PyCharm |
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WhiteSource Advise for PyCharm, | In some cases, a wrong transitive vulnerability tree was displayed for vulnerabilities detected under a direct dependency. |
Version 20.12.3 (17-January-2021)
New Features & Updates
Product | Description |
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WhiteSource for GitHub.com | With the release of version 20.12.3 of the Unified Agent, the default dependency resolution for npm projects has been optimized by relying on the package-lock.json file (the npm.resolveLockFile Unified Agent configuration parameter default value is now true). |
WhiteSource Advise for Eclipse, | Added enhanced WhiteSource Advise license validation. WhiteSource Advise will periodically validate the activation credentials and delete its data in case the license key has expired. |
NOTE: The GitHub Enterprise, Bitbucket Server, and GitLab integrations in this version support version 20.12.2 of the Unified Agent. The GitHub.com integration in this version supports version 20.12.3 of the Unified Agent. The WhiteSource for Bitbucket integration in this version supports version 20.12.2 of the Bitbucket Add-on.
Resolved Issues
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WhiteSource Advise for IntelliJ IDEA, | In some cases, when the Remember license key option was enabled during activation, the activation credentials would not be saved upon restarting the IDE. |
WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server, WhiteSource for Bitbucket Data Center, WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise, WhiteSource for GitLab | A .whitesource file pointing to a custom whitesource-config repo which is not the default one, led to the global repo configuration (global-config.json) being taken from the default whitesource-config repo location. |
Version 20.12.2 (3-January-2021)
New Features & Updates
Product | Description |
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WhiteSource Advise for PyCharm, | WhiteSource has launched WhiteSource Advise for PyCharm and WhiteSource Advise for WebStorm plugins, empowering JetBrains developers with important, valuable information on security vulnerabilities concerning open-source components employed in their development projects. |
WhiteSource Advise for IntelliJ IDEA |
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WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server, WhiteSource for Bitbucket Data Center | From this version onwards, the Administration > WhiteSource Integration page enables the Bitbucket administrator to select Projects to integrate with WhiteSource, instead of Repositories. Once a project is selected by the Bitbucket administrator, the project administrator will be able to access the WhiteSource Integration page from the Project > Project settings page and decide which repositories within that project to integrate with WhiteSource. NOTE: Customers upgrading from an older version of the integration will be automatically migrated to the new WhiteSource Integration model. This means that for each already integrated repository, the repository will be automatically selected inside the Project > Project settings page. |
NOTE: The GitHub Enterprise, Bitbucket Server, and GitLab integrations in this version support version 20.12.1 of the Unified Agent. The GitHub.com integration in this version supports version 20.12.2 of the Unified Agent. The WhiteSource for Bitbucket integration in this version supports version 20.12.2 of the Bitbucket Add-on.
Resolved Issues
Product | Description |
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WhiteSource Advise for IntelliJ IDEA | Scanning a Gradle project following file changes would sometimes not show markers for detected vulnerabilities. |
WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server, | In an integrated repository page, the Critical severity metric inside the WhiteSource Security widget was modified to High in order to align with the WhiteSource UI severity metrics. |
Version 20.12.1 (20-December-2020)
New Features & Updates
Product | Description |
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WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise, WhiteSource for GitHub.com | Added ability to define a whitelist of GitHub Organizations and/or GitHub repository owners who can integrate with the WhiteSource integration. |
WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server, | Global Repo Configuration:
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WhiteSource Advise for Visual Studio Code |
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NOTE: The GitHub Enterprise, Bitbucket Server, and GitLab integrations in this version support version 20.11.2 of the Unified Agent. The GitHub.com integration in this version supports version 20.12.1 of the Unified Agent. The WhiteSource for Bitbucket integration in this version supports version 20.11.1 of the Bitbucket Add-on.
Resolved Issues
Product | Description |
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WhiteSource Advise for IntelliJ IDEA | The No proxy HTTP setting was ignored by the plugin. |
WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server, WhiteSource for Bitbucket Data Center, WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise, WhiteSource for GitLab | The scanner container did not clean up between container restarts, resulting in a potentially large growth in the container’s disk size. |
Version 20.11.2 (6-December-2020)
New Features & Updates
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WhiteSource Advise for Eclipse |
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WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server, |
NOTE: This feature currently supports only base branches (using the baseBranches parameter). A License Check Run (GitHub)/Commit Status (GitLab)/ Build Status (Bitbucket) will not be created on non-base branches when using displayMode=diff as part of the configuration in the .whitesource file. |
NOTE: The GitHub Enterprise, Bitbucket Server, and GitLab integrations in this version support version 20.11.1 of the Unified Agent. The GitHub.com integration in this version supports version 20.11.2 of the Unified Agent. The WhiteSource for Bitbucket integration in this version supports version 20.11.1 of the Bitbucket Add-on.
Resolved Issues
Product | Description |
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WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise | Renovate config presets were not being resolved. |
WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server, WhiteSource for Bitbucket Data Center | In the WhiteSource Security Report (Code Insights), the table listing each vulnerability was not displayed correctly. |
Version 20.11.1 (22-November-2020)
New Features & Updates
Product | Description |
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WhiteSource Advise for IntelliJ, WhiteSource Advise for Eclipse, WhiteSource Advise for VS Code, WhiteSource Advise for Visual Studio |
NOTE: This feature is only available when using version 20.11.1 or later of WhiteSource Advise. |
WhiteSource Advise for IntelliJ IDEA |
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WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server, |
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NOTE: The GitHub Enterprise, Bitbucket Server, and GitLab integrations in this version support version 20.10.2 of the Unified Agent. The GitHub.com integration in this version supports version 20.11.1 of the Unified Agent.
Resolved Issues
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WhiteSource Advise for IntelliJ, |
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WhiteSource Advise for IntelliJ |
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Version 20.10.2.1 (8-November-2020)
Resolved Issues
Product | Description |
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WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise | In some cases, two scans were triggered for the same commit. This led the issue publishing process to run twice at the exact same time, causing duplicate issues to be created. |
Version 20.10.1.1 (25-October-2020)
New Features & Updates
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WhiteSource Advise for IntelliJ IDEA |
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WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server, |
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WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server | In the WhiteSource Integration page:
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NOTE: The GitHub Enterprise, Bitbucket Server, and GitLab integrations in this version support version 20.9.2 of the Unified Agent. The GitHub.com integration in this version supports version 20.10.1 of the Unified Agent.
Resolved Issues
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WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server |
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WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server, WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise, WhiteSource for GitHub.com, WhiteSource for GitLab |
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Version 20.9.2 (11-October-2020)
New Features & Updates
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WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server, |
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WhiteSource for GitHub.com |
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NOTE: The GitHub Enterprise, Bitbucket Server, and GitLab integrations in this version support version 20.9.1 of the Unified Agent. The GitHub.com integration in this version supports version 20.9.2 of the Unified Agent.
Version 20.9.1 (4-October-2020)
New Features & Updates
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WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server, |
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WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server, WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise, WhiteSource for GitLab |
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WhiteSource Advise for Visual Studio Code |
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NOTE: The GitHub Enterprise, Bitbucket Server, and GitLab integrations in this version support version 20.8.2 of the Unified Agent. The GitHub.com integration in this version supports version 20.9.1 of the Unified Agent.
Version 20.8.2.1 (13-September-2020)
New Features & Updates
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WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server, |
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WhiteSource Advise for Visual Studio Code |
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NOTE: The GitHub Enterprise, Bitbucket Server, and GitLab integrations in this version support version 20.8.1 of the Unified Agent. The GitHub.com integration in this version supports version 20.8.2 of the Unified Agent.
Resolved Issues
- WhiteSource Advise for Eclipse: Reinstallation of the WhiteSource Advise plugin caused multiple entries in the Builders view.
Version 20.8.1 (30-August-2020)
New Features & Updates
Product | Description |
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WhiteSource Advise for Visual Studio Code | WhiteSource has launched the WhiteSource for Visual Studio Code extension, empowering Visual Studio Code developers with important, valuable information on security vulnerabilities concerning open-source components employed in their development projects. For more information, see here. |
WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server, WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise, WhiteSource for GitHub.com, WhiteSource for GitLab |
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WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise | Support for a Check Run on a pull request generated from a forked repository. |
NOTE: The GitHub Enterprise, Bitbucket Server, and GitLab integrations in this version support version 20.7.3 of the Unified Agent. The GitHub.com integration in this version supports version 20.8.1 of the Unified Agent.
Resolved Issues
- When a vulnerability affected multiple packages, only information on a single package was shown in the WhiteSource security check.
- Global Configuration: Adding the migration.json file to a non-default branch generated a failed WhiteSource security check.
Version 20.7.3 (16-August-2020)
NOTE: The GitHub Enterprise, Bitbucket Server, and GitLab integrations in this version support version 20.7.2 of the Unified Agent. The GitHub.com integration in this version supports version 20.7.3 of the Unified Agent.
Resolved Issues
- WhiteSource for GitHub.com, WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise: Migrating specific repositories to the global configuration using the excludeRepos parameter led to incorrect results.
Version 20.7.2 (3-August-2020)
New Features & Updates
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WhiteSource Advise for Eclipse, WhiteSource Advise for IntelliJ IDEA |
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WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server, WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise, WhiteSource for GitHub.com, WhiteSource for GitLab |
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NOTE: The GitHub Enterprise, Bitbucket Server, and GitLab integrations in this version support version 20.7.1 of the Unified Agent. The GitHub.com integration in this version supports version 20.7.2 of the Unified Agent.
Resolved Issues
- WhiteSource for GitHub.com, WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise: When the content of a "WhiteSource Security Check" exceeded GitHub's size limit for a Check Run, the check run content was not displayed.
- WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server, WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise, WhiteSource for GitHub.com, WhiteSource for GitLab: As part of the Global Repo Configuration, the whitesource-config repository had to be initialized with a README file in order for the global-config.json and repo-config.json files to be automatically generated by the integration.
Version 20.7.1.1 (23-July-2020)
Resolved Issues
- All Repo Integrations: In some scenarios, the WhiteSource Security Check summary functionality led to a NullPointer exception where we could not identify the package dependency file path. This led to the Check Run/Commit Status/Build Status being in Pending status for 6 hours, after which a timeout mechanism marked it as Failed.
NOTE: The GitHub Enterprise, Bitbucket Server, and GitLab integrations in this version support version 20.6.2 of the Unified Agent. The GitHub.com integration in this version supports version 20.7.1 of the Unified Agent.
Version 20.7.1 (20-July-2020)
New Features & Updates
Product | Description |
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WhiteSource Advise for Visual Studio |
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WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server, WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise, WhiteSource for GitHub.com, WhiteSource for GitLab |
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WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server |
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NOTE: The GitHub Enterprise, Bitbucket Server, and GitLab integrations in this version support version 20.6.2 of the Unified Agent. The GitHub.com integration in this version supports version 20.7.1 of the Unified Agent.
Version 20.6.2.2 (7-July-2020)
New Features & Updates
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WhiteSource Advise for Visual Studio |
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WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server, WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise, and WhiteSource for GitLab |
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WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server, WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise, WhiteSource for GitHub.com, and WhiteSource for GitLab |
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NOTE: The GitHub Enterprise, Bitbucket Server, and GitLab integrations in this version support version 20.6.1 of the Unified Agent. The GitHub.com integration in this version supports version 20.6.2 of the Unified Agent.
Resolved Issues
- WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server: When uninstalling the add-on, the activation key and list of integrated repositories were not cleared.
Version 20.6.1.1 (23-June-2020)
New Features & Updates
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WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server, WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise, and WhiteSource for GitLab |
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WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server |
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NOTE: The GitHub Enterprise, Bitbucket Server, and GitLab integrations in this version support version 20.5.2 of the Unified Agent. The GitHub.com integration in this version supports version 20.6.1 of the Unified Agent.
Version 20.5.2.1 (10-June-2020)
New Features & Updates
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WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise, and WhiteSource for GitLab |
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NOTE: The GitHub Enterprise, Bitbucket Server, and GitLab integrations in this version support version 20.5.1 of the Unified Agent. The GitHub.com integration in this version supports version 20.5.2 of the Unified Agent.
Version 20.5.1.3 (03-June-2020)
New Features & Updates
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WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server, WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise, and WhiteSource for GitLab |
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NOTE: The GitHub Enterprise, Bitbucket Server, and GitLab integrations in this version support version 20.4.2 of the Unified Agent. The GitHub.com integration in this version supports version 20.5.1 of the Unified Agent.
Resolved Issues
- WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise: When running the wss-ghe-app container, a FileNotFoundException error message appeared in the logs.
Version 20.4.2.2 (17-May-2020)
New Features & Updates
Product | Description |
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WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise |
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WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server, WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise, and WhiteSource for GitLab |
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NOTE: The GitHub Enterprise, Bitbucket Server, and GitLab integrations in this version support version 20.4.1 of the Unified Agent. The GitHub.com integration in this version supports version 20.4.2.2 of the Unified Agent.
Resolved Issues
- WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise: When performing a scan, the local Maven registry directive was ignored.
Version 20.3.1 (29-March-2020)
New Features & Updates
Product | Description |
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WhiteSource for GitHub.com | Support for Gradle Kotlin projects |
NOTE: The GitHub.com integration in this version supports version 20.3.1 of the Unified Agent.
Version 20.2.2 (15-March-2020)
New Features & Updates
Product | Description |
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WhiteSource for GitHub.com | Support for Gradle in WhiteSource Remediate |
WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server |
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NOTE: The GitHub Enterprise, Bitbucket Server, and GitLab Server integrations in this version support version 20.2.1 of the Unified Agent. The GitHub.com integration in this version supports version 20.2.2 of the Unified Agent.
Resolved Issues
- WhiteSource Advise for Eclipse - Quick fix did not work when the version was provided as a variable
Version 19.11.2 (8-December-2019)
New Features & Updates
Product | Description |
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WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise, WhiteSource for GitHub.com, and WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server | Setting the minSeverityLevel parameter in the .whitesource configuration file now also affects the WhiteSource Security Check summary list. |
Version 19.11.1 (24-November-2019)
New Features & Updates
Product | Description |
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WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server | The .whitesource configuration file now includes a parameter minSeverityLevel, enabling you to decide whether to open a new Bitbucket Server Issue only if a certain Security Vulnerability Severity level is available. |
WhiteSource Advise for Chrome | Removed browser permissions for the Chrome extension that were not used by WhiteSource. |
Resolved Issues
Products | Description |
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WhiteSource for GitHub.com, WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise | When executing a scan with either the LOCAL or EXTERNAL values set for the configMode parameter in the .whitesource configuration file, the includes and excludes parameters are ignored. |
Previous Releases
Version 19.9.2 (27-October-2019)
New Features & Updates
Product | Description |
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WhiteSource for GitHub.com, WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise | This version introduces the ability to generate fix PRs on-demand without defining workflow rules in advance. |
WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise, WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server | A Health Check API endpoint was added to the wss-scanner Docker image. |
Version 19.9.1 (22-September-2019)
New Features & Updates
Product | Description |
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WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise, WhiteSource for GitHub.com, and WhiteSource for BitBucket Server | An indicator has been added indicating when automatic remediation is available for the specific vulnerability. |
WhiteSource for GitLab Core | WhiteSource is launching the WhiteSource for GitLab Core beta version, enabling GitLab users to access WhiteSource security alerts within GitLab’s native environment. |