# Stork 0.6.0, April 3rd, 2020, Release Notes Welcome to the Stork 0.6.0 release. This is the sixth development release of the Stork project, which aims to provide a modern, responsive, and scalable dashboard solution with a well-defined REST API interface. The long-term goal of the project is to provide a monitoring and management solution for BIND 9, Kea DHCP, and more. Features introduced in this version: 1. **Native Packages**. Stork can now be conveniently installed using native (RPM and deb) packages. This greatly simplifies both agent and server deployments. Note these are the initial packages provided; they're currently optimized for ease of deployment, rather than tight security, so please review your configuration. In particular, Stork Agent opens up a grpc port by default; make sure you tune it to meet your security policy. Two measures to be considered are to modify your `/etc/stork/agent.env` to limit the IP to listen on, and to configure your firewall to allow only incoming connections from your Stork server IP. This will be improved in future Stork releases. The packages are now available on Cloudsmith (https://cloudsmith.io/~isc/repos/stork/). #187, #201, #207 2. **Host reservations in Kea**. Stork is now able to retrieve and display host reservations from Kea. This covers host reservations both when defined in a Kea configuration file as well as when stored in a database. The latter scenario requires the use of the `host_cmds` hooks library to work properly. #188, #223, #214, #210, #206, #219 3. **Cache Hit Ratio in BIND 9**. Stork now has the capability to use the BIND 9 statistics channel to retrieve information. As a first demonstration of this ability, we have implemented cache hit ratio, a parameter which shows how efficient a resolver is in caching responses. More parameters will be added soon. #64, #170, #184, #197 4. **Prometheus exporter for BIND 9**. Stork Agent now has the ability to work as a Prometheus exporter. It can connect to BIND 9's statistics channel and make the data available for Prometheus. #10 5. **BIND 9 recursive dashboard for Grafana**. Stork now comes with a Grafana template for BIND 9's recursive resolver. Many parameters are shown: query and response rates, cache hits, cache misses, cache hit ratio, and more. The dashboard is inspired by existing BIND 9 dashboards. #10 6. **API Documentation**. While the primary interface for Stork is expected to be the web UI, the system provides the ability to integrate with other environments. We provide a rich REST API that can be used by command-line, monitoring, and similar tools. The existing API has now been documented properly. #199 ## Release Model Stork has monthly development releases on the first Wednesday of each month (with some exceptions around holidays). The first major release, version 0.8, is planned for the spring of 2020. We encourage users to test the development releases and report back their findings on the stork-dev mailing list, available at https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/stork-dev. This text references issue numbers. For more details, visit the Stork GitLab page at https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/stork/issues. ## License This version of Stork is released under the Mozilla Public License, version 2.0. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/MPL/2.0 ## Download The Stork source and PGP signature for this release may be downloaded from: https://downloads.isc.org/isc/stork The signature was generated with the ISC code signing key which is available at: https://www.isc.org/pgpkey ISC provides documentation in the Stork Administrator Reference Manual. It is currently available only in the source form in the docs/ directory, and the Sphinx tool is required to build it. This is expected to change in a future release. We ask users of this software to please let us know how it worked for you and what operating system you tested on. Feel free to share your feedback on the stork-dev mailing list (https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/stork-dev). We would also like to hear whether the documentation is adequate and accurate. Please open tickets in the Stork GitLab project for bugs, documentation omissions and errors, and enhancement requests. We want to hear from you even if everything worked. ## Support Professional support for Stork will become available once it reaches the 1.0 milestone. Existing ISC customers that consider themselves *very* early adopters may get involved in the development process, including roadmap, features planning, and early testing, but the software maturity level does not constitute a typical professional service before the 1.0 milestone. Free best-effort support is provided by our user community via a mailing list. Information on all public email lists is available at https://www.isc.org/mailinglists/. If you have any comments or questions about working with Stork, please share them to the stork-dev List (https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/stork-dev). Bugs and feature requests may be submitted via GitLab at https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/stork/issues. ## Changes The following summarizes changes and important upgrade notes since the Stork 0.5.0 release. ``` * 50 [bug] marcin Corrected a bug which caused unexpected deletion of the host reservations fetched from the Kea configuration files. (Gitlab #225) * 49 [func] matthijs Updated Prometheus & Grafana in the demo installation with BIND 9. Implemented BIND 9 exporter in Go and embedded it in Stork Agent for showing Cache Hit Ratio. Implemented DNS traffic simulator as web app for the demo installation. Internally it runs a single query with dig, or starts flamethrower (a DNS performance tool) for selected server with indicated parameters. (Gitlab #10) * 48 [doc] marcin, sgoldlust Documented the use of Host Reservations in Stork ARM. (Gitlab #223) * 47 [func] marcin Stork server periodically fetches host reservations from the Kea instances having host_cmds hooks library loaded. (Gitlab #214) * 46 [func] marcin Host reservations are listed and the UI. It is possible to filter reservations by reserved IP address or host identifier value. (Gitlab #210) * 45 [func] matthijs Retrieve some cache statistics from named and show Cache Hit Ratio on the dashboard. (Gitlab #64) * 44 [func] godfryd Added possibility to run Stork server without Nginx or Apache, ie. static files can be served by Stork server. Still it is possible to run Stork server behind Nginx or Apache which will do reverse proxy or serve static files. (Gitlab #200) * 43 [func] marcin Implemented data model for IP reservations and detection of IP reservations specified within a Kea configuration file. Detected reservations are not yet used in the UI. (Gitlab #188, #206) * 42 [func] godfryd Prepared scripts for building native RPM and deb packages with Stork server and Stork agent (total 4 packages). They are prepared for Ubuntu 18.04 and CentOS 8. (Gitlab #187) * 41 [func] godfryd Added settings in Stork. They are stored in database, in setting table. No UI for settings yet. (Gitlab #169) * 40 [func] godfryd Exposed access to API docs and ARM docs in new Help menu. (Gitlab #199) * 39 [func] matthijs Update the data model such that applications can have multiple access points. Parse named.conf to detect both "control" and "statistics" access point. (Gitlab #170) ``` Thank you again to everyone who assisted us in making this release possible. We look forward to receiving your feedback.