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Changelog

Tracking updates to the StackHawk platform and HawkScan since 2019

April 13th, 2023

StackHawk Platform

Improvement

Billing

Cleaned up some rough edges around the self-service experience.

Improvement

Slack and Microsoft Teams Integration

Updated the Slack and Microsoft Teams integration management pages to be consistent with other integrations.

April 4th, 2023

HawkScan (3.0.0)

Added

gRPC Scanning (Beta)

Added support for scanning grpc applications.

Added

NTLM support (Beta)

Users can now add NTLM authentication to their scans.

March 28th, 2023

StackHawk Platform

Improvement

Bug Fixes

Fixed minor bugs throughout the app.

March 23th, 2023

StackHawk Platform

Improvement

Application Environment Cards

Environment cards will now display our new API type icons with your next scan!

Improvement

Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements

Cleaning up some sneaky bugs and improving the all-round performance of our app.

March 20th, 2023

StackHawk Platform

Added

(Enterprise) Microsoft Azure DevOps Boards

Integrate StackHawk with Microsoft Azure DevOps Boards to track findings as work items.

Improvement

GitHub CodeQL Code Snippets

The relevant code snippets for a GitHub CodeQL SAST finding will now be displayed in StackHawk.

Improvement

Webhook Integration

Added the ability to specify which scan event(s) a webhook receives.

March 9th, 2023

HawkScan (2.12.0)

Improvement

Gitlab Dast Report

Fixed formatting of markdown links in the Gitlab DAST report.

Fixed

Java Runtime Inference

Fixed a bug where HawkScan could select a different version of Java to start Zap on systems with multiple versions of Java installed.

Fixed

waitForAppTarget

Fixed a bug where app.waitForAppTarget could fail when running in Docker.

Fixed

OpenApi Spec Parsing

Fixed a null-pointer issue when parsing incomplete OpenAPI specifications with empty POST request bodies.

March 7th, 2023

StackHawk Platform

Improvement

Webhook Integration

Added the ability to specify which application(s) a webhook applies to so that webhook receives alerts only for relevant scans.

February 21st, 2023

StackHawk Platform

Added

(Enterprise) Teams and Member Role

Create groups of applications with Teams and assign users the Member role to limit their access.

February 14th, 2023

StackHawk Platform

Improvement

Settings

Various bugfixes and improvements.

Improvement

Webhook Integration

Added the ability to create and enable multiple webhooks.

Improvement

Audit Log

Improved how Scan Policy events are displayed in the audit log.

January 30th, 2023

StackHawk Platform

Improvement

Application Filter Dropdowns

Filters now automatically update when selecting Applications and Environments on the applications and scan results pages.

Improvement

Tech Flags UI

Tech Flags in application settings has been redone for easier access and configuration.

January 25th, 2023

HawkScan (2.11.0)

Added

Windows Installer (BETA)

HawkScan can now be installed on Windows operating systems with a dedicated MSI installer.

Added

(Enterprise) Scan Policy Management

Added support to customize the application scan policy directly from the StackHawk Platform, enabling HawkScan to deliver faster and tailored scan results.

Fixed

OpenApi Spec Parsing

Fixed a bug when parsing large OpenApi specifications.

Fixed

Updated Log4J

Updates Log4J library to 2.19.0.

January 11th, 2023

StackHawk Platform

Added

Support for Snyk Groups

Added the ability to connect a Snyk Integration at the Snyk Group Account level.

Improvement

Auth Getting Started updates

Various updates to the Auth Getting Started examples.

Improvement

Organization Details Page

The account's billing status is now shown.

January 6th, 2023

HawkScan (2.10.0)

Improvement

Updated Networking Libraries

Underlying Netty and Apache networking libraries were upgraded to the latest versions, supporting HTTP2.

Improvement

Embedded Scripting Engine Updates

Embedded Kotlin and JavaScript scripting engines now have access to the HawkScan configuration at runtime.

Added

Support for Limited YAML Anchors in OpenApiConf

Added the app.openApiConf.maxAliasesForCollections setting to control the number of allowed anchor aliases when parsing a YAML OpenApi definition.

November 29th, 2022

StackHawk Platform

Improvement

Jira Cloud Integration

Improved the Atlassian Jira Cloud integration to enable selecting an issue type when triaging findings into Jira issues.

Improvement

Invite User Flow

Users invited to an existing account now have a streamlined sign-up experience.

November 3rd, 2022

StackHawk Platform

Added

GraphQL Operations tab

Added a new Operations tab, visible only for GraphQL scans, that includes a complete list of operations used during a scan.

Added

HawkScan Rescan button

Generate the CLI or Docker command for rescanning your application with the Rescan findings button. Rescan allows you to test an application for only previously discovered findings.

November 3rd, 2022

HawkScan (2.9.0)

Added

HawkScan Rescan

Rescan an application to quickly test only previously discovered findings.

Added

GraphQL Custom Variable Injection

Configure HawkScan GraphQL API scans with Faker supplied data for better scan results.

Added

Windows Powershell support

Run the StackHawk CLI on a Windows terminal using an included hawk.ps1 PowerShell script.

Fixed

HawkScan Configuration Parsing

Improved the linting and validation of stackhawk.yml files to catch unexpected fields in the HawkScan configuration.

October 20th, 2022

StackHawk Platform

Improvement

GitHub Integration Pull Request Checks

Our GitHub integration will now consider the failure threshold (set using hawk.failureThreshold in your configuration) to communicate scan success or failure in build checks and pull-request comments. Pull-request comments have been updated to include more relevant information in an easier-to-consume format.

October 13th, 2022

StackHawk Platform

Improvement

Account Details Page

Users can now get their code contributors count via Github Integration or Code Contributors Script without contacting Stackhawk Sales team

October 3rd, 2022

StackHawk Platform

Improvement

Members Page

Organization owners can now upgrade admin users to owners.

September 28th, 2022

StackHawk Platform

Improvement

Enhanced Application Filter

The application filter now includes the application uuid, allowing for all applications, even those with conflicting names, to show up in the filter dropdown.

September 22nd, 2022

StackHawk Platform

Added

GitHub Integration Pull Request Checks

You can now get GitHub pull request checks and comments from StackHawk by installing the official StackHawk GitHub App and updating your stackhawk.yml with the correct scan tags.

Fixed

SAST Buttons

Fixed some instances where our SAST buttons weren't quite styled to our standards.

Fixed

SAST Application Badging

Applications mapped to SAST integrations will now always show the appropriate badging on the applications page.

September 20th, 2022

HawkScan (2.8.0)

Added

Custom Variable Injection

HawkScan can now generate smarter values when scanning with an OpenAPI configuration. Custom variables can now be configured with Faker supplied data for better scan results.

Added

Custom Test Scripts

Users can now add their own active scan tests with HawkScan Script support, enabling application security checks using custom business logic and/or data.

Added

GraphQL Exclude Operations

Specific operations can now be ignored when scanning GraphQL APIs. The graphqlConf.excludeOperations setting can be populated with pairs of GraphQL operation names and types, and those operations will be excluded from the scan.

Added

Custom Scan Discovery

HawkScan can now intercept the HTTP traffic from any software development tool that supports proxy configuration. Discover your web application with Postman Collections, Cypress test suites, and even Curl commands.

Added

Postman Scan Discovery

HawkScan users with Postman Collections can discover more of their scanned application with new configuration for Postman Scan Discovery.

Improvement

Scan Discovery

Documentation has been added describing Scan Discovery the process for spidering and discovering your web application with HawkScan.

August 29th, 2022

HawkScan (2.7.0)

Added

Custom Variable Injection for REST APIs

You can supply a list of custom variables for each parameter in your OpenAPI definition, and HawkScan will randomly inject a variable from the corresponding list when scanning your API.

Added

Scan Tags

Scan Tags are name value pairs that represent metadata you can use to capture additional state or context around a scan.

Improvement

More info in CLI banner

When run with the --debug flag, the CLI banner now displays additional information on the current scan.

Fixed

Various YAML config validation bugs

Certain fields around GraphQL and auth scripts were not being validated properly. These fields are now properly validated.

Fixed

Windows CLI instability issues

Fixed classpath construction issues with the ZAP subprocess in Windows environments.

Fixed

Active Script exception handling

HawkScan will now terminate a scan when an active script fails.

Fixed

Domain level cookies not being sent to the application

Cookies scoped to the domain of the application being scanned are now passed to the application correctly. For instance, *.example.com vs app.example.com.

August 29th, 2022

StackHawk Platform

Fixed

Platform Stability

Fixed several bugs that caused spontaneous page hangs or crashes in the StackHawk UI.

August 23rd, 2022

StackHawk Platform

Added

Summary Scan Reports

Generate reports summarizing your most recent scans across all applications and environments.

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