Release v20201013

This is the second Oct release of Dispatch. Major changes include:

Features:

• Adds external workflows, allows plugin authors to kick off and monitor external workflows via the Dispatch UI and Dispatch slack bot (#583)
• Adds support for tag types (#604)

Bug Fixes:

• Fixes various issues when starting Dispatch with an "empty" database (no plugins, no configuration) (#597)
• Allow participant-group plugins to be optional (#606)
• Allow document templates to be optional (#599)
• Fixed dependency issue with h11 (again) (#589)
• Fixed slack conversation ignoring channel type (#560)

Improvements:

• Allow incidents to be created in 'Closed' state (skipping resource creation). (#602)
• Migrates pagerduty plugin to a supported library (pdpyras). (#603)
• Documentation improvements around configuration (#600)
• PKCE documentation improvements and compatibility improvements (#609, #617) (Thanks @patcable !)

Release v20201001

This the first release of October,

Bugfixes:

• Fixed issue with a dependency pin (#588)

Features:

• Added a new command command to list active incidents (#581)

Release v20200922.1

This is an hotfix release.

Bug Fix:

• Fixes an issue where core plugins were not loading correctly due to a cyclical dependency for configuration items.

Release v20200922

This is the first Sept release of Dispatch. Major changes include:

Features:

• Makes all plugins optional (#507)

Bug Fixes:

• Fixes issue with Google using '@' instead of '+' for comment assignment (#551)

Improvements:

• Allow custom tags to be passed to sentry (#553)
• Allows tasks to have owners (#522)
• Multiple documentation updates (#530, #531, #532)

Release v20200727

This is the second July release of Dispatch. Major changes include:

Features:

• Adds a new slack command to add events directly to the incident timeline (#491)
• Adds reminder for stable incidents that have been stable for longer than a week (#488)
• Adds the ability to resolve incident tasks directly from a slack message (#489)
• Adds common tags and terms graphs to Admin UI dashboard (#346
• Adds a discoverable flag to term modal to better help with disabling auto-discovery for some terms (#346
• Adds a limited ability to mark an incident as a duplicate via the Admin UI, these incidents are excluded from incident metrics (#500)

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed the user filter in the Admin UI (#479)
• Limits the number of suggested documents in Slack (#482)
• Prevents google groups from being deleted and participants from losing access (#511)
• Unify all Admin UI Comboboxes such that search text is cleared after a selection is made (#484)
• Fixed Admin UI dashboard loading indicators after applying a filter (#485)
• Fixes the links in the Jira plugin (#498)
• Separate plugin install from instance start (you will now have to install pip install -e . and then dispatch plugins install these could be combined in the future) (#497)

Improvements:

• Renames report commands to be more easily found (#512)
• Adds the creator to incident task messages in Slack (#486)
• Adds user detail in the event description (#509)
• Improved plugin documentation (#504, #505, #506)

Release v20200702

This is the first July release of Dispatch. Major changes include:

Features:

• Added feedback message when creating executive report (#405)
• Added a new command /dispatch-update-participant that allows for additional participant metadata (e.g. note on why an individual was invited to an incident) (#443)
• Adds ability to share dashboard "views/filters" via a URL (#453)
• Overlays actual incident data over the incident forecast (#466)
• Adds a new command /dispatch-notification-group that allows for direct editing of notification group emails. (#470)

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed issue where we were attempting to process Slack events without an associated user or channel (#451)
• Fixed an issue creating a new ticket using Dispatch Core (#454)
• Fixed an issue reporting restricted incidents (#456)
• Refactors how common documents are managed, this fixes the creation of duplicate documents. (#461)
• Added default flags to incident type and incident priority models. Also added an exclude flag to incident type model for exclusion from metrics. (#462)
• The event timeline is always sorted chronologically. (#465)
• Updates sample data with the latest schema (#476)

Release v20200617

This is the second June release of Dispatch. Major changes include:

Features:

• Allow for contact information to be customized in email notifications (#408)
• Allow for tags to be associated with an incident on creation (#413)
• Adds a /dispatch-list-my-tasks command (#417)
• Allows slack threads to be banned in incident channels (#425)

Bug Fixes:

• Fixes report reminder message (#404, #405)
• A user is now provided feedback when clicking "Join Incident" slack button (#418)
• Fixed an issue where closed incident tickets weren't being updated (#427)
• Removed Netflix specific logic from the Jira plugin (#430)

Release v20200603

This is the first June release of Dispatch. Major changes include:

Features:

• Enabled advanced graph filtering and windowing (#355)
• Added incident heatmap graph (based on the calendar) (#357)
• Added primary team and primary location graphs to incident dashboard (#359)
• Added new "Task" dashboard with associated metrics (#358)
• Refactored "status" reports into a more generalized data model and added support for "executive" level report. (#356, #382, #383)
• Added the ability to lightly link tasks with external tickets (via comment w/link) (#369)
• Refactors and matures tasks, linking tasks objects to incident participants instead of just emails strings
• Added a UI to allow for incident-type specific plugin metadata (#368, #336) Thanks @willbengtson!
• Refactored client auth providers allowing for custom providers (#374)

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed static content building from setup.py (#346)
• Made Docker builds more reliable by introducing additional keyservers (#346)
• Fixed block_id collisions in daily incident summary in slack plugin (#352)
• Fixed slack secret issue with latest slack client library (#361) Thanks @bsundsrud !
• Fixed reporting error with graphs when some months reported zero data points. (#365)

Special thanks to those who contributed to this release:
@willbengtson @bsundsrud

Release v20200518

This is the May release of Dispatch. Major changes include:

Features:

• Incident forecasting (#297) - @snkilmartin
• Incident timelines (#282, #262 )
• Incident auto-tagger (#233)
• Basic RBAC controls for restricted incidents (#266)
• Plugin management UI (#259)
• Enhanced incident filtering (#238)
• Basic user authentication (#217) - @stefanm8
• Reporting incidents via slack slash command (#294) - @vagharsh
• Added "Join Incident" button to active incident page (#322)

Bugs Fixes:

• Improved incident cost modeling (#274)
• Fixed issue with metric chart loading (#276)
• Fixed swagger documentation (#289)
• Fixed issue with after-hours notification caching (#291)
• Improved global search interface
• Standardized save/cancel interface for CRUD

Special thanks to those who contributed to this release:
@stefanm8 @vagharsh @snkilmartin @willbengtson

Release 20200421

This is the April release of Dispatch. Major changes include:

Features:

• Adds a detailed incident view to Admin UI (including timelines)
• Allows for incident types to suppress notifications (#115, #127)
• Adds location and organization information to participant model (#121)
• Incident table view in the Admin UI enhanced with sorting and filtering (#125)
• Adds VC conference support for Google Meet and Zoom (#132, #170 ) Thanks @willbengtson!
• Allows tags and terms to be associated with Incidents (#161)
• Adds "Join Incident" button to all incident conversation messages (#187)
• Exposed Incident Priorities in the Admin UI (#198)
• Adds timeline models, dispatch events and slack reactions (#204)

Bugs:

• Fixes bug when creating new tags from the Admin UI
• Fixes login redirect to more stable uri for PKCE auth providers (#152) Thanks @willbengtson
• Fixes issue where document dropdown weren't populated (#150)
• Fixes documentation sync with Gitbook (#172)

Changes:

• Deprecated application models in favor of the more generic tags (#140)
• Deprecates dispatch-mark-* commands in favor of dispatch-update-incident (#112)
• Refactored how authentication providers are managed (#139)

Special thanks to all that contributed to this release especially:

@willbengtson @diogomatsubara @scriptsrc @mogindi @thr0nex @mozartilize @karl-johan-grahn @timwheelercom @hydrngea @jnozsc @njoerd114