Release Notes (2023-12)

December release notes detailing the evolution of the Stairwell platform


December 22, 2023

YARA Enhancement

Team: General

Added pagination to ListYaraRules.

December 21, 2023

Search Enhancement

Team: Backend

Revision to searching to optimize indexing for better performance and experience.

December 19, 2023

YARA Enhancement

Team: Backend

Revision to YARA scanning and orchestration to improve runtime.

UI Enhancement

Team: Frontend

Introduction of active/passive forwarder modes within the asset policies section. Active is the normal forwarder mode while passive is a check in only mode, designed for pre-landing forwarders but not having them work until put into active mode.

December 15, 2023

Carbon Black Integration Removal

Team: Backend

Removal of the Carbon Black integration.

December 14, 2023

UI Bug

Team: General

Resolved some UI overlapping issues in QA and PROD to ensure objects aren't cut off or misaligned.

Opinion Bug

Team: General

Resolved issue where additional results for provided even though they exceeded the criteria of the search.

December 12, 2023

Scanner Enhancement

Team: Backend

Revision to scanner logic to further improve auto-scaling.

Alert Big

Team: General

Added actual and virtual sightings of assets to alerts. to ensure all possible assets impacted are identified.

December 07, 2023

Upload UI Enhancement

Team: General

Added the ability to return the object hash when objects are manually uploaded via the UI, to make them easier to pivot into and review.

December 06, 2023

Environment Bug

Team: General

Resolved bug to ensure create_time on environments is properly set.

Environment Enhancement

Team: General

Built new ingestion pipeline with Malware Bazaar.

December 05, 2023

Settings Enhancement

Team: Frontend

Users section renamed to profile to further clarify the intent of this section. Currently it houses names of logged in users, their emails, and their role which can be modified by admins.

Threat Report Bug

Team: Frontend

Disallowed additional threat indicators from being added into threat feed environments, instead should be added to designated Stairwell Opinions environment.

Forwarder Enhancement

Team: General

Added ability to schedule periodic back scans on Linux forwarder until real-time monitoring is available.

Threat Report Bug

Team: General

Resolved refresh process for toggle to filter in/out object matches for threat reports.

December 04, 2023

Access Enhancement

Team: Frontend

Improved the way users or a multi-tenancy organization can see what environments they have access to and how that access is being granted.

Search Enhancement

Team: General

Improved the query searching for assets with object file info to make more efficient.