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Version 21.4.1 (25-April-2021)

New Features & Updates

ProductDescription
WhiteSource for GitHub.com

WhiteSource has launched the ability to scan cloud infrastructure configurations (IaC) to find misconfigurations before they are deployed. For this, a WhiteSource IaC Check was introduced which runs in parallel to the existing WhiteSource Security/License Check. In addition, IaC violation alerts are displayed via GitHub Issues.

WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server, 
WhiteSource for Bitbucket Data Center,
WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise,
WhiteSource for GitLab
Previously, the only way to provide the integration's activation key to the Remediate container was by using a prop.json file.

Beginning in this version, the activation key is also supported as an environment variable called W4D_BOLT_OP_ACTIVATION_KEY (as an alternative to providing it as a prop.json file).

WhiteSource Advise for IntelliJ,
WhiteSource Advise for WebStorm,
WhiteSource Advise for PyCharm,
WhiteSource Advise for Eclipse,
WhiteSource Advise for Visual Studio,
WhiteSource Advise for VS Code

Beginning in this version, you can configure the plugin/extension to alert only on detected vulnerabilities satisfying a given minimum severity level (as opposed to always showing Low, Medium and High severity vulnerabilities).
WhiteSource Advise for WebStormBeginning in this version, WhiteSource Advise will not scan the node_modules folder of a selected project.

NOTE: The GitHub Enterprise, Bitbucket Server, and GitLab integrations in this version support version 21.3.2 of the Unified Agent. The GitHub.com integration in this version supports version 21.4.1 of the Unified Agent. The WhiteSource for Bitbucket integration in this version supports version 20.12.2 of the Bitbucket Add-on.

Resolved Issues

ProductDescription

WhiteSource Advise for VS Code

In specific scenarios, when installing the extension on a WhiteSource Dedicated Instance-related environment, scanning resulted in connection issues.

Version 21.3.2 (11-April-2021)

NOTE: The GitHub Enterprise, Bitbucket Server, and GitLab integrations in this version support version 21.3.1 of the Unified Agent. The GitHub.com integration in this version supports version 21.3.2 of the Unified Agent. The WhiteSource for Bitbucket integration in this version supports version 20.12.2 of the Bitbucket Add-on.

Resolved Issues

ProductDescription

WhiteSource Advise for IntelliJ,
WhiteSource Advise for WebStorm,
WhiteSource Advise for PyCharm,

Better handling when the developers' environment is disconnected from the internet or has no access to the WhiteSource servers.

WhiteSource Advise for Visual StudioIn some cases, scanning a C# project resulted in an exception, and in addition, no vulnerabilities were displayed.
WhiteSource for GitHub.comWhen adding an empty whitesource-config repository from a default "main" branch to the integration, it was not initialized with WhiteSource configuration files.
WhiteSource for GitLabWhen using the security dashboard, issues were published but the commit comment was not updated with scan results and remained with a "scan in progress" indication.

Version 21.3.1 (4-April-2021)

New Features & Updates

ProductDescription
WhiteSource Advise for IntelliJ IDEA,
WhiteSource Advise for WebStorm

An improved notification message is now displayed when no vulnerabilities are found in a scanned project.

WhiteSource Advise for IntelliJ IDEA

Added support for the "apply from" script plugin in Gradle projects, which can reference a dependency file contained within the scanned project or outside of it.
NOTE: Remote script location is not supported.

WhiteSource Advise for Eclipse,
WhiteSource Advise for Visual Studio

Beginning in this version, you can configure the plugin to alert only on direct dependency vulnerabilities (as opposed to both direct and transitive vulnerabilities).
WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server, 
WhiteSource for Bitbucket Data Center,
WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise,
WhiteSource for GitLab,
WhiteSource for GitHub.com

For NPM projects only - Added support for remediation of transitive npm packages when a package-lock.json is present. 
NOTE: This functionality is disabled by default.

WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server, 
WhiteSource for Bitbucket Data Center,
WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise,
WhiteSource for GitLab,
WhiteSource for GitHub.com

Beginning in this version, a new WhiteSource Security/License Check summary will be displayed in case a scan results in an empty inventory (as opposed to when one or more Security/License issues are detected).

WhiteSource Remediate Remediate sometimes, and Renovate often, needs to query github.com for tags and releases (e.g. for release notes fetching).

Customers using Renovate especially will get rate limited by github.com quickly if they don't provide authentication with every request. Guidelines on how to do that are provided here.

NOTE: The GitHub Enterprise, Bitbucket Server, and GitLab integrations in this version support version 21.2.2 of the Unified Agent. The GitHub.com integration in this version supports version 21.3.1 of the Unified Agent. The WhiteSource for Bitbucket integration in this version supports version 20.12.2 of the Bitbucket Add-on.

Resolved Issues

ProductDescription

WhiteSource Advise for IntelliJ

When scanning a large Gradle project (~20 modules), the plugin would run for an excessive amount of time, which resulted in the IDE being frozen.

WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server, 
WhiteSource for Bitbucket Data Center,
WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise,
WhiteSource for GitLab
Improved rotation of the application container logs by modifying the maximum log size from 10GB to 2GB, and the maximum history days from 600 to 60 days.

Version 21.2.2 (14-March-2021)

New Features & Updates

ProductDescription
WhiteSource Advise for IntelliJ IDEA,
WhiteSource Advise for PyCharm,
WhiteSource Advise for WebStorm

Beginning in this version, you can configure WhiteSource settings (Settings > Tools > WhiteSource) either on a global (affecting all projects) or project level (affecting a single project only).

WhiteSource Advise for VS Code,
WhiteSource Advise for GitHub Codespaces

Beginning in this version, you can configure the plugin to alert only on direct dependency vulnerabilities (as opposed to both direct and transitive vulnerabilities).

WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server, 
WhiteSource for Bitbucket Data Center,
WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise,
WhiteSource for GitLab
Beginning in this version, to improve performance, the integration will only clone the specific repository branch instead of cloning all branches before performing a scan.

NOTE: The GitHub Enterprise, Bitbucket Server, and GitLab integrations in this version support version 21.2.1 of the Unified Agent. The GitHub.com integration in this version supports version 21.2.2 of the Unified Agent. The WhiteSource for Bitbucket integration in this version supports version 20.12.2 of the Bitbucket Add-on.

Version 21.2.1 (28-February-2021)

New Features & Updates

ProductDescription
WhiteSource Advise for IntelliJ IDEA,
WhiteSource Advise for PyCharm,
WhiteSource Advise for WebStorm
  • Beginning in this version, you can configure the plugin to alert only on direct dependency vulnerabilities (as opposed to both direct and transitive vulnerabilities).
  • Plugin activation notifications are no longer displayed after restarting the IDE.

WhiteSource Advise for WebStorm

Scanning a project that does not contain any package-lock.json file now results in a notification asking the user to ensure the project is built before being scanned with WhiteSource Advise.
WhiteSource Advise for PyCharm

An improved notification message is now displayed when no vulnerabilities are found in the project.

WhiteSource for GitHub.comBeginning in this version, to improve performance, the integration will only clone the specific repository branch instead of cloning all branches before performing a scan.

NOTE: The GitHub Enterprise, Bitbucket Server, and GitLab integrations in this version support version 21.1.2 of the Unified Agent. The GitHub.com integration in this version supports version 21.2.1 of the Unified Agent. The WhiteSource for Bitbucket integration in this version supports version 20.12.2 of the Bitbucket Add-on.

Resolved Issues

ProductDescription

WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise

In a forked repository with branch protection rules in place, when the last commit in a PR did not trigger a scan (not a valid push), then a neutral check run was created. In such a case, even if new vulnerabilities were introduced as part of the PR, merging the PR was still possible.

WhiteSource for GitHub.com

In cases where the WhiteSource License Check was enabled, license policy violation data for libraries with an unknown license (Requires Review license type) were not surfaced in the integration.

Version 21.1.2 (14-February-2021)

New Features & Updates

ProductDescription

WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server, 
WhiteSource for Bitbucket Data Center,
WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise,
WhiteSource for GitLab

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.
See here for more information.

WhiteSource Advise for PyCharm,
WhiteSource Advise for WebStorm

  • Added support for PyCharm 2020.3
  • Added support for WebStorm 2020.3

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

ProductDescription

WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server, 
WhiteSource for Bitbucket Data Center,
WhiteSource for GitHub.com,
WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise,
WhiteSource for GitLab

  • When two or more valid push events occurred a few seconds apart from each other within the same repository,  new issues (which didn’t exist before) were sometimes created twice. NOTE: In this case, the duplicate issue(s) will be auto-closed.
  • In version 21.1.1 - in some edge cases, issues were not being created due to an internal exception.

WhiteSource Advise for PyCharm,
WhiteSource Advise for WebStorm

  • When multiple dependency paths were detected as part of a transitive dependency vulnerability, the indication of the number of paths detected inside the Brief Vulnerability Information popup was missing.

Version 21.1.1 (31-January-2021)

New Features & Updates

ProductDescription

WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server, 
WhiteSource for Bitbucket Data Center
WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise,
WhiteSource for GitHub.com,
WhiteSource for GitLab

  • Added License Policy Violations support for non-base branches, therefore WhiteSource now provides full support for License Policy Violations:
    • Ability to enable/disable a WhiteSource License Check (which runs in parallel to the existing WhiteSource Security Check).
    • Ability to enable/disable the display of License Policy Violation Issues.
    • Ability to define whether the WhiteSource License Check should always result in a success conclusion status.
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

ProductDescription

WhiteSource Advise for PyCharm

  • When vulnerabilities with different severities (high/medium/low) were found on a project, the Problems Tool Window displayed all issues as errors (instead of displaying high severity vulnerabilities as errors, and medium/low severity vulnerabilities as warnings).
  • In some cases, dependencies declared inside a requirements.txt file were incorrectly identified when declared in a case-sensitive way.

WhiteSource Advise for PyCharm,
WhiteSource Advise for WebStorm

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

ProductDescription
WhiteSource for GitHub.comWith 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,
WhiteSource Advise for IntelliJ IDEA,
WhiteSource Advise for PyCharm,
WhiteSource Advise for WebStorm,
WhiteSource Advise for VS Code,
WhiteSource Advise for Visual Studio

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

ProductDescription

WhiteSource Advise for IntelliJ IDEA,
WhiteSource Advise for PyCharm,
WhiteSource Advise for WebStorm

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

ProductDescription

WhiteSource Advise for PyCharm,
WhiteSource Advise for WebStorm

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
  • Added support for IntelliJ IDEA 2020.2
  • Added support for IntelliJ IDEA 2020.3
  • Added support for displaying scan results in the Problems Tool window (in addition to the Inspection Results window).
    NOTE: This feature is available in version 2020.2 and above of the IDE.
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

ProductDescription
WhiteSource Advise for IntelliJ IDEAScanning a Gradle project following file changes would sometimes not show markers for detected vulnerabilities.

WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server,
WhiteSource for Bitbucket Data Center

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

ProductDescription
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, 
WhiteSource for Bitbucket Data Center,
WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise,
WhiteSource for GitHub.com,
WhiteSource for GitLab

Global Repo Configuration:
  • Added the ability to migrate existing repositories to the Global Configuration for a specified list of repository owners only.
  • Added the ability to control whether a migration will trigger a WhiteSource scan.
  • Added a new migration mode, fixInheritance to update the inheritedFrom parameter values in local .whitesource configuration files to the correct whitesource-config Global Configuration repository.
WhiteSource Advise for Visual Studio Code
  • Added support for macOS.
  • Added a configuration setting allowing to enable/disable scanning of devDependencies. The default is "disabled" mode.

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

ProductDescription
WhiteSource Advise for IntelliJ IDEAThe 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

ProductDescription
WhiteSource Advise for Eclipse
  • Added support for Eclipse 2020.3
  • Added support for Eclipse 2020.9

WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server, 
WhiteSource for Bitbucket Data Center
WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise,
WhiteSource for GitHub.com,
WhiteSource for GitLab

  • (BETA) Added License Policy Violations support:
    • Ability to enable/disable a WhiteSource License Check (which runs in parallel to the existing WhiteSource Security Check).
    • Ability to enable/disable the display of License Policy Violation Issues.
    • Ability to define whether the WhiteSource License Check should always result in a success conclusion status.

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

ProductDescription

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

ProductDescription
WhiteSource Advise for IntelliJ,
WhiteSource Advise for Eclipse,
WhiteSource Advise for VS Code,
WhiteSource Advise for Visual Studio
  • Added the ability for WhiteSource administrators to enforce the use of personal (individually-used) license keys to activate WhiteSource Advise. For more information, see Managing User Access for WhiteSource Advise

NOTE: This feature is only available when using version 20.11.1 or later of WhiteSource Advise.

WhiteSource Advise for IntelliJ IDEA
  • Added support for IntelliJ IDEA 2020.1

WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server,
WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise,
WhiteSource for GitHub.com,
WhiteSource for GitLab

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

ProductDescription

WhiteSource Advise for IntelliJ,
WhiteSource Advise for Eclipse,
WhiteSource Advise for VS Code

  • When CVSS3 data was available for a vulnerability, WhiteSource Advise displayed CVSS2 severity instead of CVSS3 severity information.
WhiteSource Advise for IntelliJ
  • When no WhiteSource suggested fix was available for a vulnerability, WhiteSource Advise skipped the display of such vulnerability.

Version 20.10.2.1 (8-November-2020)

Resolved Issues

ProductDescription
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

ProductDescription
WhiteSource Advise for IntelliJ IDEA
  • Added support for Gradle

WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server,
WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise,
WhiteSource for GitHub.com,
WhiteSource for GitLab

  • The WhiteSource Security Check now displays a summary of the number of total remaining vulnerabilities present on the base branch. NOTE: Both the baseBranches and displayMode configuration parameters need to be used, and the displayMode parameter needs to be set to diff.
WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server

In the WhiteSource Integration page:

  • When selecting repositories to integrate with WhiteSource, it is now possible to search for a particular repository name.
  • A Clear Selection button was added in order to clear selected repositories after having selected multiple repositories via the Selected repositories only option.

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

ProductDescription
WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server
  • The WhiteSource Add-on had a limitation where you could only integrate up to 1,000 repositories.
  • In the Global Repo Configuration, it was not possible to specify a Project Key when using the ignoredRepos parameter inside the global-config.json file.
WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server,
WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise,
WhiteSource for GitHub.com,
WhiteSource for GitLab
  • Remediate - No fix Pull Request/Merge Request was generated for library yaml.v2-v2.2.2.
  • When Global Repo Configuration was enabled, in some cases, scans were not triggered after a valid push was performed.

Version 20.9.2 (11-October-2020)

New Features & Updates

ProductDescription

WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server,
WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise,
WhiteSource for GitHub.com,
WhiteSource for GitLab

  • Added a "WhiteSource Configuration Change" Check Run (GitHub.com/GitHub Enterprise)/Commit Status (GitLab)/ Build Status (Bitbucket Server) confirming that any changes made to a repository's .whitesource file are valid and available for its consumers. 
  • Added a package-lock.json file to the list of Supported Package Manager Configuration Files which triggers a valid WhiteSource scan.
WhiteSource for GitHub.com
  • 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 20.9.1 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

ProductDescription

WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server,
WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise,
WhiteSource for GitHub.com,
WhiteSource for GitLab

  • Global Repo Configuration: Ability to exclude specific repositories from the integration. A new parameter ignoredRepos was added to the global-config.json file.
  • The following features are supported only when using the baseBranches configuration:
    • When a scan is triggered, any existing Issue content will be updated if a change occurred (for example, when an additional base branch contains the same issue, or if the severity of a vulnerability was modified)
    • When a scan is triggered, if a previously auto-closed Issue has resurfaced inside a repository, WhiteSource will re-open the closed issue and add a comment to it to specify the reason for re-opening. NOTE: In WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server, a new Issue will be opened in such cases, and no comment will be added.
WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server,
WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise,
WhiteSource for GitLab
  • Added a new parameter, controller.url, to the UI configuration tool for when configuring the deployment file (prop.json), which lets you modify the name of the App container (default is wss-ghe-app/wss-gls-app/wss-bb-app).
WhiteSource Advise for Visual Studio Code
  • Ability to perform an automatic scan after activating the extension or after changes are applied to any of your workspace folders (for example, a new folder is added, an existing project was re-built). A new parameter Enable Automatic Scanning in Workspace was added to the extension settings (enabled by default).
  • Added performance enhancements.

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

ProductDescription

WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server,
WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise,
WhiteSource for GitHub.com,
WhiteSource for GitLab

  • Global Repo ConfigurationWhen adding the whitesource-config repository to the integration, a README file is automatically generated with instructions on how to start.
  • When removing and then re-adding a repository to the integration, its associated WhiteSource Project will now be re-used instead of creating a new project with a numbered prefix. NOTE: Existing projects containing the numbered prefix will remain with the prefix. To remove this prefix, delete the relevant WhiteSource project and in the next valid push, a new project will be created with the correct naming convention.
  • The following features are supported only when using the baseBranches configuration:
    • WhiteSource Security Check summary: Added the ability to only show the diff of detected vulnerabilities between the current commit and its base branch commit, for non-base branches. A new configuration parameter displayMode was added for this purpose, and it contains two options ("baseline" and "diff"). Newly integrated repositories will automatically inherit the "diff" functionality. Refer to the relevant integration's ".whitesource File" section for more information.
    • Issues generated by the integration that are no longer part of the WhiteSource project inventory (due to alerts being ignored or libraries being removed) will be auto-closed by the integration upon the next valid push. NOTE: In WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server, such issues will be deleted (instead of closed).
    • The originating branch of a detected security vulnerability is now added to the content of an Issue (inside the Vulnerable Library) section. 
WhiteSource Advise for Visual Studio Code
  • Added performance enhancements.

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

Version 20.8.1 (30-August-2020)

New Features & Updates

ProductDescription
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
  • Ability to display the WhiteSource project token inside the WhiteSource security check (as part of a Check Run for GitHub.com/GitHub Enterprise, Commit Status for GitLab, and Build Status for Bitbucket Server).
  • Added a WhiteSource security check confirming any change made to the Global Configuration Repository is valid and available for its consumers. 
  • When migrating existing repositories to the Global Configuration, the WhiteSource security check provides real-time feedback about the migration status of each repository. 
WhiteSource for GitHub EnterpriseSupport 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

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

Version 20.7.2 (3-August-2020)

New Features & Updates

ProductDescription
WhiteSource Advise for Eclipse, WhiteSource Advise for IntelliJ IDEA
  • Added minor enhancements.
WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server,
WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise,
WhiteSource for GitHub.com,
WhiteSource for GitLab
  • (BETA) Ability to migrate existing repositories to inherit a global configuration
  • After a vulnerable source library is introduced on an integrated repository, more details on the specific vulnerable source file(s) are now displayed both inside the generated issue as well as inside the WhiteSource Security Check (as part of a Check Run for GitHub.com/GitHub Enterprise, Commit Status for GitLab, and Build Status for Bitbucket Server). 

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

Version 20.7.1.1 (23-July-2020)

Resolved Issues

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

ProductDescription
WhiteSource Advise for Visual Studio
  • Added support for scanning non SDK-style projects (such as VSIX extensions) which generate an assets file.
  • Added performance enhancements.
WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server,
WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise,
WhiteSource for GitHub.com,
WhiteSource for GitLab
  • Added support for Poetry package manager.
  • (BETA) Ability to generate a global configuration, to be applied to all newly-selected repositories. This requires the creation of a new repository called whitesource-config which will contain the configuration file template. In addition, it is now possible to define and apply one of the following onboarding options for all your newly-selected repositories:
    • Create an onboarding PR/MR including the .whitesource configuration file with inherited configuration
    • A .whitesource configuration file with inherited configuration will immediately be pushed to the default branch of all integrated repositories without creating any onboarding PRs/MRs
    • Integrated repositories will be scanned without creating a .whitesource file or onboarding PR/MR
  • This version introduces the ability to specify multiple base branches. A new parameter baseBranches was added to the .whitesource configuration file for this purpose. Specifying one or more base branches in this parameter means that:
    • For each specified branch, scanning results will be sent to a new WhiteSource Project containing the branch name as a suffix.
    • An Issue will only be created for the specified branch names.
    • For existing integrated repositories which do not contain the baseBranches parameter, Issues will be generated for all branches.
  • After a valid push is performed on an integrated repository, more information such as a dependency hierarchy and a suggested fix is now displayed inside the WhiteSource Security Check (as part of a Check Run for GitHub.com/GitHub Enterprise, Commit Status for GitLab, and Build Status for Bitbucket Server). 
WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server
  • Users with Write (in addition to Admin) permissions on an integrated repository can now see the WhiteSource Integration tab inside the Bitbucket Server instance.

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

ProductDescription
WhiteSource Advise for Visual Studio
  • WhiteSource has launched the WhiteSource for Visual Studio extension, giving Visual Studio developers visibility and security alerts on problematic open source components while continuing to develop within their own environment. For more information, see here.
WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server, WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise, and WhiteSource for GitLab
  • This version introduces the ability to deploy the integration using Helm Charts. A wss-deployment folder was added to the integration packaging containing the relevant Helm Charts configuration template. 
WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server, WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise, WhiteSource for GitHub.com, and WhiteSource for GitLab
  • This version introduces the creation of a Service User in the WhiteSource Application following integration set-up. In older versions of the integrations,  a new user key was added to the user who performed the integration via the Integrate tab in the WhiteSource Application.

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

Version 20.6.1.1 (23-June-2020)

New Features & Updates

ProductDescription
WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server, WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise, and WhiteSource for GitLab
  • Ability to define a Proxy configuration using environment variables in WhiteSource Remediate. See here for more information.
WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server
  • When removing a repository from the WhiteSource plugin, any issues previously created in that repository will be removed.

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

ProductDescription
WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise, and WhiteSource for GitLab
  • This version introduces the ability to enable WhiteSource Renovate capabilities from within WhiteSource Remediate.
  • This version introduces the ability to disable the creation of GitHub/GitLab issues while enabling WhiteSource Remediate to generate fix PRs/MRs.

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

ProductDescription
WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server, WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise, and WhiteSource for GitLab
  • This version introduces the ability to provide a custom .whitesource configuration file as part of the app container, in order to apply it globally to all of your organization's repositories.
    Doing so will apply the file to all onboarding PRs/MRs for newly selected repos.
  • This version introduces the ability to globally disable Issues creation across all of your organization's repositories. A new optional parameter named bolt4scm.create.issues was added for this purpose to the UI configuration tool (prop.json) in a new "Issues" section.
  • This version introduces the ability to disable check runs (GitHub Enterprise),  build statuses (Bitbucket Server), or commit statuses (GitLab) globally across all of your organization's repositories. A new optional parameter named bolt4scm.create.check.runs was added for this purpose to the UI configuration tool (prop.json) in a new "Issues" section.
  • Root/privileged permissions have been removed from the 'app' and 'scanner' containers. 

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

Version 20.4.2.2 (17-May-2020)

New Features & Updates

ProductDescription
WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise
  • From this version onward, the Remediate database image and container (remediate-db) will no longer be required as part of the integration. Instead, Remediate will operate in-memory.
WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server, WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise, and WhiteSource for GitLab
  • Support for Gradle Kotlin projects
  • Support for Gradle in WhiteSource Remediate  

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

Version 20.3.1 (29-March-2020)

New Features & Updates

ProductDescription
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

ProductDescription
WhiteSource for GitHub.com

Support for Gradle in WhiteSource Remediate

WhiteSource for Bitbucket Server

  • From this version onward, the Remediate database image and container (remediate-db) will no longer be required as part of the integration. Instead, Remediate will operate in-memory.
  • Improved usability and enhanced control over the WhiteSource scanning. An onboarding Pull Request is now generated on each selected repository upon the WhiteSource add-on configuration. A .whitesource configuration file will be part of the PR. WhiteSource will only start scanning the repository once the PR is merged.
  • Using the new projectToken configuration parameter in the .whitesource configuration file, it is now possible to map a Bitbucket repository to an existing WhiteSource project. This provides added flexibility in terms of organizing projects in WhiteSource originating from various integrations.
  • The .whitesource configuration file now includes a parameter configMode, which lets you use an existing Unified Agent configuration file. This can be done by providing either a local Unified Agent configuration file, or fetching the config file from an external location using the configExternalURL parameter.
  • This version introduces the ability to generate fix PRs on-demand without defining workflow rules in advance.

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

Version 19.11.2 (8-December-2019)

New Features & Updates

ProductDescription
WhiteSource for GitHub Enterprise, WhiteSource for GitHub.com, and WhiteSource for Bitbucket ServerSetting 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

ProductDescription
WhiteSource for Bitbucket ServerThe .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 ChromeRemoved browser permissions for the Chrome extension that were not used by WhiteSource.

Resolved Issues

ProductsDescription

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

ProductDescription

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

ProductDescription

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.