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9.1.1

• Fix hpaMinAvailability failure message
• Fix missingPodDisruptionBudget typo
• Rewrite hpaMaxAvailability check to use go-template

9.1.0

• Add HPA minAvailable and HPA maxAvailable checks
• Fix typo for PDB minAvailable

9.0.1

• Fix comments handling in addOrReplaceValue function

9.0.0

• Expose issue fixer and mutations in the library
• Remove packr in favor of go:embed

8.5.6

• Fix trying to list cluster-level resources

8.5.5

• Fix missing PDB check

8.5.4

• Fix conditional expressions should be at very top of additionalSchemaStrings
• Update alpine to 3.19

8.5.3

• Add quiet flag to polaris audit CLI command to suppress 'upload to Insights' prompt

8.5.2

• Switch to controller-utils package to get workloads

8.5.1

• Update topologySpreadConstraint check

8.5.0

• Add helm-skip-tests flag
• Update CLI docs
• Handle multiple helm-values files

8.4.0

• Change kubernetes.io/ label from name to instance

8.3.0

• Add option to filter audit results by severity level
• Add insights prompt

8.2.4

• Fix nil pointer issue with webhook

8.2.3

• Add category for metadataAndNameMismatched.
• Fix category for priorityClassNotSet.

8.2.2

• Fix webhook server cert dir argument

8.2.1

• Fix on Insights integration

8.2.0

• Minor fixes for NSA checks

8.1.0

• Add insights-host global flag to configure Fairwinds Insights host (defaults to https://insights.fairwinds.com).
• Add new auth sub-commands be able to authenticate on Polaris using Fairwinds Insights credentials
  • login - login using Fairwinds Insights credentials via the web interface or provide a token
  • logout - logout from Fairwinds Insights
  • status - show relevant information regarding login state
  • token - prints the token from local storage
• Add new audit flags to be able to upload Workloads and Polaris results to Fairwinds Insights
  • upload-insights - indicates that the results should be uploaded to Fairwinds Insights. (defaults to false)
  • cluster-name - cluster name that the results belongs to. Creates the cluster if it does not exist. (required if upload-insights is used)

8.0.0

• Change default severity from ignore to warning for priorityClassNotSet, metadataAndNameMismatched, missingPodDisruptionBudget, automountServiceAccountToken, missingNetworkPolicy checks.
• Change default severity from warning to danger for sensitiveContainerEnvVar, sensitiveConfigmapContent, clusterrolePodExecAttach, rolePodExecAttach, clusterrolebindingPodExecAttach, rolebindingClusterRolePodExecAttach, rolebindingRolePodExecAttach,clusterrolebindingClusterAdmin,rolebindingClusterAdminClusterRole,rolebindingClusterAdminRole checks.

7.4.0

• Skip https certificate verification (#920)

7.3.0

• Add a check for topologySpreadConstraint (#879)

7.2.0

• Enable new RBAC / sensitive content / Pod exec checks, add hasPrefix and hasSuffix functions to the GO template, exempt system: name prefixes for RBAC checks, sensitive content checks ignore valueFrom, (#832)

7.1.0

• Let Polaris modify YAML without losing comments/formatting (#821)
• Add checks for RBAC allowing exec or attaching to a Pod (#820)
• Add clusterrolebindingClusterAdmin, rolebindingClusterAdminRole, and rolebindingClusterAdminClusterRole checks + schema tests (#823)

7.0.2

• Fixes for pretty CLI output
• Some new checks (disabled by default)
• Some additional features in templating engine

7.0.1

• Documentation updates

7.0.0

• Better support for polaris fix
• target: Pod is now target: PodSpec (to differentiate naked Pods from Controllers)

6.0.0

• Preliminary support for polaris fix command
• Changes to how Pod owners are determined
• Removed YAML manifests from the deploy/ directory - Helm is now the default install mechanism

5.1.0

• Support --context flag for kubecontext
• Treat core Kubernetes controllers (Deployments, StatefulSets, DaemonSets, CronJobs) as top-level objects, instead of following owner refs

5.0.0

• Renamed multipleReplicasForDeployment to deploymentMissingReplicas
• Changed RunAsRootAllowed and hostNetworkSet default severity to danger
• Changed deploymentMissingReplicas default severity to warning

4.2.0

• New flags --disallow-(config|annotation)-exemptions
• Kubernetes dependency updates
• Documentation updates

4.1.0

• Handle case-insentitivity in capabilities checks
• Change test for PDB disruptions to better handle IaC

4.0.9

• Update Alpine base image

4.0.8

• Fix support for namespace checks

4.0.7

• Fix goreleaser format

4.0.6

• Change goreleaser format
• Fix --helm-values flag

4.0.5

• Bugfix for repeated objects on the dashboard

4.0.4

• Bugfix for validating webhook and non-pod checks

4.0.3

• Fixed bad interaction between --set-exit-score-below and --only-show-failed-tests
• Dependency updates
• Support for Helm chart scanning

4.0.2

• Goreleaser fix

4.0.1

• Goreleaser fix

4.0.0

• Add support for arbitrary resources, like Ingress or PodDisruptionBudget
• Add support check templating (see docs)
• Add support for multi-resource checks (see docs)

Breaking Changes

• In custom checks, jsonSchema is now schemaString
• Check pdbDisruptionsAllowedGreaterThanZero is now called pdbDisruptionsIsZero

3.2.0

• Add --format=pretty option for CLI output

3.1.6

• Fix nil pointer issue with --only-output-failed-tests

3.1.5

• Fix UI display of Ingress checks

3.1.4

• Fixes for exemption annotations for the admission controller

3.1.3

• Fixes for privilegeEscalationAllowed and insecureCapabilities checks to take Kubernetes defaults into account

3.1.2

• Start checking deployment configuration using Fairwinds Insights

3.1.1

• Updated to alpine:3.13

3.1.0

• Added support for Ingress objects
• Fixes for exemptions, including support for exempting entire namespaces

3.0.0

• Breaking - fixed inconsistency in how controller-level checks are handled Custom checks with target: Controller should remove Object from the top-level of the JSON schema (see changes to ./checks/multipleReplicasForDeployment.yaml)

2.0.1

• Fixed Polaris deployment process

2.0.0

• Standardize categories of checks into Security, Reliability, and Efficiency
• Changes to the dashboard UI
• Update controller-runtime

1.2.1

• Update date on dashboard footer

1.2.0

• Add ability to audit a single workload
• Enable pullPolicyAlways by default
• Fix for finding parent resources

1.1.1

• Show controller checks on dashboard
• Fix for orphaned pods w/ controller checks

1.1.0

• Add namespace filter in UI
• Add priorityClass check
• Support reading from STDIN
• Ensure severity is set for all custom checks
• Support audit files which use \r or \r\n as newline character
• Add option to exempt an entire controller from checks via config file
• Fixed case where parent resources trigger error
• Fixed UI zero-state

1.0.3

• Fixed case where parent resources trigger error
• Fixed dashboard link when --base-path is set

1.0.2

• Fixed case where custom CRDs are not covered by RBAC

1.0.1

• Added ARM binaries to releases

1.0.0

New Features

• Added support for custom checks using JSON Schema
• Added support for arbitrary controllers, rather than a pre-configured set
  • removed support for controllers_to_scan in config
• Added the ability to exempt a particular controller from a particular check.
• Docker image now includes the default config

Breaking Changes

• Breaking changes in both input and output formats. See Examples for examples of the new formats.
  • removed config-level configuration for checks like max/min memory settings
  • changed severity error to danger
• Breaking changes to the CLI
  • CLI flag --set-exit-code-on-error is now --set-exit-code-on-danger
  • Flags --version, --dashboard, --webhook, and --audit are now arguments
  • Port flags are now just --port

0.6.0

• Fixed webhook support in Kubernetes 1.16
  • this also removes support for 1.8
• Added support for exemptions via controller annotations

0.5.2

• Fixed missing success messages for resource requests/limits

0.5.1

• Added a few more exemptions
• Started checking exemptions based on controller name prefix
• runAsUser != 0 now passes the runAsNonRoot check

0.5.0

• Added --load-audit-file flag to run the dashboard from an existing audit
• Added an ID field to each check in the output
• Skip health checks for jobs, cronjobs, initcontainers
• Added support for exemptions
• Fixed dashboard base path option

0.4.0

• Added additional Pod Controllers to scan PodSpec (jobs, cronjobs, daemonsets, replicationcontrollers)

0.3.1

• Changed dashboard branding to refer to new org name Fairwinds

0.3.0

• Added --set-exit-code-on-error and --set-exit-code-below-score flags to better support CI/CD

0.2.1

• Fix: Fixed logic on RunAsNonRoot check to incorporate settings in podSpec

0.2.0

• Added --output-format flag for better CI/CD support
• Added --display-name flag
• Added support for StatefulSets
• Show error message if no kubeconfig is set

0.1.5

• Fix: ignore limits/requests for initContainers
• Fix: support custom base path

0.1.4

• Fix: details pages getting template errors
• Fix: support all auth providers
• Fix: Ignore readiness probe for initContainers

0.1.3

• Fix: dashboard not updating when running persistently

0.1.2

• Stored all third-party assets (e.g. Charts.js) to local files to support offline dashboard viewing
• Fix: custom configs in ConfigMap not respected

0.1.1

• Fix: missing config.yaml and dashboard assets in binary releases
• Added some tests and better error handling

0.1.0

• Dashboard fully functional
• Validating webhook functional, but still considered beta
• Checks:
  • Health
    • readiness probe missing
    • liveness probe missing
  • Images
    • tag not specified
    • pull policy not always
  • Networking
    • host network set
    • host port set
  • Resources
    • cpu/memory requests missing
    • cpu/memory limits missing
    • cpu/memory ranges exceeded
  • Security
    • security capabilities
    • host IPC set
    • host PID set
    • not read-only fs
    • privilege escalation allowed
    • run as root allowed
    • run as privileged