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.