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The Last Few Releases

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Michal Nowikowski
Michal Nowikowski
Kraken Founder. I’m software engineer focused on full-stack programming and improving software processes.

The last mentioned Kraken CI release on the blog was 0.854. Since then there was several releases: 0.868, 0.909 and the last one: 0.933. They introduce various new features and lots of fixes.

The changes include:

  • added a chart with results history on a flow page
  • added a multi-dimentional table with pass ratio stats of a flow
  • added masking secrets in logs
  • many improvements to the job's log panel like coloring and timestamps on/off
  • added navigation to prev and next flow in breadcrumb on the flow page

More information about these changes is below.

Chart with Pass Ratio History​

The flow page has now two new tabs. One of them is a Results Charts tab. On this tab, a results history chart can be found. It presents a pass ratio line in % units and two more lines: passed and total that shows the number of passed tests and the total number of tests over time.

Pass Ratio Stats of Flow​

On the other tab, Results Stats, a table shows tests passing stats. The dimensions of the table are dynamic. They can be selected from dropdowns available over the table. There can be chosen: Stage, Agents Group and System.

Secrets Masking​

Another feature is related to security. Quite often, a password or some access key needs to be passed during build or test execution. Sometimes this secret is revealed in logs. Now Kraken knows secrets defined in a project and it masks them in the logs. The secrets are caught quite early and they do not leave a machine that traced them to logs. The log database stores only masked passwords.

There is one interesting property of this masking that cannot be found in other CI systems: it can mask multiline secrets like SSH private key.

Log Panel Improvements​

There were added several improvements to the log panel:

  • coloring ANSI color codes in HTML log box
  • turning timestamps on/off
  • showing missing timestamps
  • log loading indicator

The screens below show colored logs and timestamps that are either switched off or switched on.

Flow Navigation Improved​

The last feature presented here is flows navigation. In the breadcrumb bar there are shown two arrows that allow for navigating to the previous flow and to the next flow.