[Intelmq-dev] intelmq-manager release 1.1.0

[Sebastian Wagner]

Dear community,

The 1.1.0 contains lots of new features and enhancements. It has better
error handling, display of queue sizes and bot status, support for named
queues, management of groups, debugging functionalities and much more.

It requires intelmq >= 1.1.0. I'll update the deb/rpm packages tomorrow.

Installation instructions:
https://github.com/certtools/intelmq-manager/blob/1.1.0/docs/INSTALL.md

Full changelog:

- Add generic MIT license text to make `reuse` license checker happy (#140).

### Backend
* Using LESS for writing CSS (so CSS is now readonly)
* Fix on several places: intervals won't flood server if there is a lag,
they'll wait till previous request has finished. Auto-delay/boost
depending on server lag.

### Frontend
* Error reporting in a less-disturbing text box rather than an tab-wide
javascript alert. Click to enlarge, double click to hide.
* Much more detailed Error reporting. What was earlier just mere
'SyntaxError: JSON.parse ...' has now included 'Failed to execute
intelmqctl:~/.local/bin/intelmqctl --type json list queues' - see?
That's a full command that'll help the developer so much in debugging.
(Long error reports got automatically truncated to 200 characters.)
* If an error appears again and again (redis down?) it blinks instead of
spamming you, updates its time and show number of times it has been thrown.
* Current tab marked in menu

### Pages

#### Configuration
* New menu item linking selected bot with the monitor (just an icon to
preserve space on precious menu bar). Supports ctrl+click to new tab on
the whole button area.
* New menu item to duplicate current bot, its queues included (and focus
the new one); the new bot is selected and focused so that the user finds
it on a big plan. It is inserted instead of the add button when a bot is
selected.
* You may now see live data, each bot has its queue length in the label
* Button labels (Add bot, Add queue instead of Add node, Add edge) now
makes more sense and won't shock a newcomer
* Clearly visible bot statuses; if bot is not running, its colour is dimmed.
- Manager now supports named queue paths. They are displayed along the
edges and editable.
- Double click edits the bot or the queue
- Code cleanup: New modal window for performing multiple dialog actions.
Intercepting visjs internals without using external Hammer library.
- Enter key submits the edit bot dialog.
- Clicking on the side-menu bot name cycles amongst bot instances in the
canvas.
- Got rid of the dumb "#load" and "#new" parameter → "#new" converted
into a standard URL parameter "configuration=new".
- Button to turn on/off physics
- Detection for bots not configured in runtime but in pipeline
configuration (#166).
- Runtime parameters with the names 'group', 'name' or 'module' were not
editable (they are read-only for the 'generic' section) (#172).
- Message counter for removed queues is correctly reset (#158).

#### Management
* Control buttons (start/stop...) now are not only part of the
management tab but are common even for configuration tab and inspection
panel in monitor tab. They need less configuration (thanks to
$(document).on global configuration feature) and works better with less
code used (single method instead of four of them). There is also a new
red state 'error' for non-standard problems or invalid output from
intelmqctl.
* Clicking bot name support ctrl+click to new tab
* Table doesn't redraw all the time (so that a highlighting of a browser
search is preserved while clicking on a button)
* It is now possible to start/stop a group of bots easily. Additional
panels are linked, so that if you eg. start all the experts, but let
other bots stopped, Experts panel shows that all bots are running and
Botnet panel shows that only some bots are running.

#### Monitor
* Fixed bot crawling in Monitor section (F5 will take you on the same
page, not on the main monitoring page, permanent links, history browsing)
* Prefer updating the destination queues overview table over redrawing
it all the time (so that you can select some text)
* Reloading a page sometimes caused a disturbing 'Error loading' alert
in Firefox if an AJAX request had not yet been completed
* Fixed bug: when clicking on bot destination queue in bot detail, we
won't end in an undefined bot
* Inspect panel allows you to communicate via debug functions of
`intelmqctl` (see and inject messages, process single message and see
output). Ctrl+Enter hits the Process button (hint included in textarea
placeholder). Checkbox 'Inject message from above' marked on first text
ever written to message textarea.
* The new parameters panel that displays the bot's parameters on the
bot's monitor page. For parameters which are filenames, the content of
these files will be shown as text if they reside in the allowed paths
(set in config.php).
* When needed, Path column appears, resizing the Queues panel accordingly.
* Connected with the configuration panel → a link appears next to the
bot title that takes you directly to the bot

### Known issues
* Missing CSRF protection (#111).
* Graph jumps around on "Add edge" bug component (#148).
* wrong error message for new bots with existing ID (#152).

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