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Release Notes

9.0.0​

9.0 is our first open-source release of Azul. This represents a significant body of work to prepare the application for public release. As we work through improving the application, we appreciate any feedback or bugs. Please lodge these at https://github.com/AustralianCyberSecurityCentre/azul.

Over past releases, this release is primarily a bug-fix release but features overhauls and improvements to Azul plugins and the UI.

Core​

  • Improvements to network policies and fixes for system health monitoring.
  • Support for configuring topology spread constraints and pod disruption budgets.
  • Pip/uv settings now configurable as part of the Helm chart.
  • Unification of stream handling in core Azul components to better unify handling of S3 or other storage backends.
  • Tested support for istio.
  • Support for AWS in the audit-forwarder component, and various other fixes.
  • Tweaks to make dispatcher and runner more resilient.
  • Improved security handling in various system components.

Infra​

  • Improvements to network policies and fixes for system health monitoring.
  • Support for configuring topology spread constraints.
  • Support for configuring Kafka rack topology settings.

Plugins​

  • Add a Ghidra plugin to enable more future options for analysis. This currently emits the pseudo-C code of supported files as a view in Azul.
  • Python plugin has been reworked and combined into the one plugin.
  • Report feeds plugin has been added.
  • de4dot
    • Upgraded to .NET 8
  • dotnet-decompiler
    • Upgraded to .NET 10
  • maco
    • Better support for setting features on child binaries.
  • tika
    • Now supports larger outputs from Tika.

UI​

  • Dependency upgrades.
  • Added a multi-feature pivot option to enable analysts to drill down on specific combinations of features. This is accessible from a binaries features page. Feedback appreciated for this!
  • Added an indicator of an ongoing operation while uploading a file.
  • Fixes to tooltips falling off the page, table rendering.
  • General cleanup.