2018 Release Notes

Audit logging functionality has been extended to include

Automatic application creation now requires the user to have the Evaluate Applications permission, which requires a minimum role of Application Evaluator, for the designated parent organization.

Scanner functionality has been extended to include Python coordinate detection via the requirements.txt file.

Audit logging functionality has been extended to include

The user interface for adding waivers was improved to make it easier to understand what exactly is waived and the scope of the waiver (application, parent organization, or root organization).

Nexus IQ for Jenkins 3.3.20181102-112614.a65c3f1 now supports the expansion of environment variables for manually-entered application IDs.

Fixed a bug that caused a failure to load Success Metrics Reports on some data sets.

Audit logging functionality has been extended to include

When applying for policy violation waivers, inform users when an older report needs upgrading before applying for waivers.

Release 53 introduced a bug that prevents the processing of HTTP requests that use GZIP compression. Among others, this hinders the Eclipse plugin from performing similar matching. The new release resolves that issue.

Audit logging functionality has been extended to include

Waivers have been updated to support waiving a specific violation. This aligns policy waivers with the updated Policy Violation Comparison Behavior.

A new auditing feature has been introduced. For this release, auditing is limited to authentication-related events. We will extend the auditing functionality incrementally in future releases. Out of the box, each audited event will be written to a dedicated audit log file as a JSON object allowing for easy line-by-line parsing for inspection, analysis, and extraction of desired data. Audit logging can be customized in your IQ Server configuration.

A new configuration option has been added that, given a path to a license file, will automatically install that license on an unlicensed IQ Server.

The data that Success Metrics charts are based on is now also accessible via an API.

The Promote Scan REST API allows an existing scan data file to be promoted to a different stage. This means that it will be evaluated at the current point in time at the specified stage. This evaluation will use the most recent security and license data as well as your current policies against the snapshot of the application that the scan data file represents.

The Dashboard now provides an Age Filter for time-based filtering of violations. The default window is 30 days with additional options of 24 hours, 7 days, 90 days, 12 months, and 'all time'.

Two new charts have been added to Success Metrics:

These new charts replace the 12-Week Policy Violation Trends functionality.

Updated a vulnerable dependency of Nexus IQ CLI to fix a zip extraction vulnerability that was exposed when running in its XC (Expanded Coverage) mode.

Policy Violation Grandfathering now supports manual grandfathering of existing policy violations at the application level. Subsequent evaluations will treat these policy violations as grandfathered.

In celebration of our 50th release, we've changed the versioning scheme of IQ Server. For this release, and all future releases, we're dropping the "1." prefix to indicate the continuous stream of features the IQ Server team delivers, and also highlight the feature increments throughout releases.

We have streamlined the display of JavaScript results by significantly reducing the noise. Individual JavaScript files identified as belonging to the same component are aggregated and presented as a single line item. This improves the readability and comprehensibility of JavaScript results while retaining all of the discovered vulnerabilities and occurrences.

The Policy Violation Grandfathering feature allows policy violations to be "grandfathered" to streamline the process of onboarding new applications with existing policy violations. Migration of large datasets could take longer to migrate, in our testing it was less than 10 minutes on fast disks.

We have changed the policy violation comparison (diffing) feature to make it more accurately highlight risk.

Updated Jetty to fix several vulnerabilities related to HTTP request parsing.

The Component Information Panel has been updated to display policy violations instead of security vulnerabilities and license issues.

In some cases, the IQ CLI and our CI plugins for Bamboo and Jenkins recorded incomplete pathnames for the components in applications, causing misleading information in the Occurrences tab and issues in detecting proprietary components. We have fixed this in the new versions of those tools but there's a catch: If you previously configured regular expressions for proprietary components that only match exact pathnames, i.e. do not start with .* or similar wildcards, those regular expressions might need updating to account for the fixed pathnames.

Updated JavaMail to fix leaking host and username in message headers (SONATYPE-2017-0492).

Updated a vulnerable dependency of Nexus IQ CLI to fix a Zip Slip vulnerability that was exposed when running in its XC (Expanded Coverage) mode.

Nexus IQ Server now has a Component Labels REST API for adding and removing component labels for an application.

Nexus IQ Server now has a Component Versions REST API for returning a list of versions for a component.

The "Getting Started" page now indicates if there are any connectivity issues with Sonatype Data Services.

A persistent warning is displayed if the default password for the built-in 'admin' account is not changed.

Nexus IQ for Jenkins 3.0.20180425-130011.728733c now supports automatic application creation.

Sonatype CLM for Maven 2.8.1-01 now supports automatic application creation. As part of these changes, anonymous access is no longer supported and credentials must be provided in order to communicate with Nexus IQ Server.

Nexus IQ for Bamboo 1.8.0 now supports automatic application creation.

RubyGems packages are now supported in Nexus Firewall. Available data includes identification, licenses, and security vulnerabilities.

Nexus IQ Server has added a "Getting Started" page to facilitate onboarding administrative users. For non-administrative users, a list of helpful "Learning Topics" are provided.

A performance issue was found in 1.45 with certain access patterns to violation data. This has been fixed in 1.46. All users of 1.45 are advised to upgrade.

This version of Nexus IQ Server uses a revised format to store the policy violation data to reduce its disk space consumption. Installations that have applications with a long history of policy evaluations or with a high frequency of policy evaluations will benefit from this upgrade.

Nexus IQ Server now allows the automatic creation of applications. Users with permission to manage automatic application creation can enable this feature and specify the parent organization for any automatically created applications. When enabled, if a policy evaluation is performed for an application ID that does not exist, a new application with that ID will be created automatically instead of failing. Only the Nexus IQ CLI has been updated to take advantage of this new feature as of this release.

Nexus IQ CLI no longer supports anonymous access. With this change, we begin the process of phasing out support for anonymous access from Nexus IQ clients.

The Nexus IQ Server login window has been updated with styling that matches the other forms within the application.

Upon first start, the Nexus IQ Server will now automatically download and import the current Reference Policy Set. This removes the need for an administrator to manually find, download, and import policies when getting started with IQ for the first time. The manual import capability is still provided.

The Nexus IQ Server infrastructure has been upgraded, bringing with it many benefits including a more powerful configuration format for its networking and logging.

If you wish to use a configuration file from a prior version, then you must update it.

The Product License page has been enhanced to display additional important information including company name, primary contact name and e-mail address, license type(s), licensed users, expiration date, and days remaining. Additionally, we have provided more guidance for license installations.

Fresh installations starting with this version will, by default, create a "Sandbox Organization" with a child "Sandbox Application". This is to help facilitate the training of new users by providing a premade and safe sandbox for them to learn within. Please refer to the sample data configuration for more information.