Version 1.4

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Breaking changes

[Breaking change] mquery now users typedconfig library instead of the previous config.py file.

• if you deployed mquery using docker (configurable by environment variables)
  then no action is required and this is backwards-compatible for you
• if you deployed mquery natively using the default configuration, no action is required
• finally, if you deploy mquery natively and changed the default config.py, you will have to create a mquery.ini
  file with your config. The format is very simple. Example of a complete config file (there are only 4 possible
  configuration keys supported currently. All are optional):

[redis]
host=localhost
port=6379

[mquery]
backend=tcp://localhost:9281
plugins=

New features

• It's now possible to limit the number of yara-scanned files (Make it possible to limit the number of yara-scanned files #339)
• It's now possible to disallow running slow queries (Make it possible to disallow slow queries (or warn user about the problem) #315, Keep track of is_degenerate in ursa expressions #312)
• Added a configurable /about page, to describe your instance (Add a configurable about page #341)
• Daemon now has a --scale flag, to automatically fork into mutliple processes (Add a feature for daemon forks #298)
• More flexible user roles (Assign rules to users #350, Create permissions for a locked down user role #314)

Documentation

• Mquery component documentation (Improve component support documentation #334)
• Yara support documentation (Improve yara support documentation #333)
• S3 support documentation (Open-source, document and explain the S3 plugin/integration #327)

UI Improvements

• Progress bar now shows more information (Give more details about the query progress before cancel #345)
• Counter race condition fixed (Fix a counter race condition #348)
• Bootstrap update and following fixes (Fix the hamburger menu in bootstrap 5 #346,

Improvements

• A big backend improvement - jobs are now scheduled with a rq framework (Use rq as a task scheduler for daemon. #317)
• Exceptions thrown during filtering with plugins are now handled correctly (Use rq as a task scheduler for daemon. #317)
• Login is now faster - there are no unnecessary redirects (Make login faster - no unnecessary redirects #322)

Bugfixes

• /about route fixed (Fix the /about route #343)
• Indexing script won't skip the last few files anymore (Fix filename collection in the index script #328)
• Actually raise errors from the API (Fix regression - actually raise errors from API #311)
• Fix multi-agent job completion (Fix for multi agent job completion #282)

Others

• Dockerignore and Gitignore updated (Update .dockerignore and .gitignore #344)
• Some obsolete features removed from the codebase (Remove obsolete feature - priority #330, Remove compact and index buttons #313, Christmas cleaning! Remove unused files #306)

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This discussion was created from the release Version 1.4.