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# Canarytrace for DevOps
quay.io/repository/canarytrace/canarytrace-pub:<Major>.<Minor>.<Patch>-devops-timestamp

# Canarytrace Pro
quay.io/repository/canarytrace/canarytrace-pub:<Major>.<Minor>.<Patch>-pro-timestamp

# Canarytrace Shipper
quay.io/canarytrace/shipper:<Major>.<Minor>

# Canarytrace Installer
quay.io/canarytrace/installer:<Major>.<Minor>

Canarytrace 4.22.0, Installer 1.0#

Released 08. 05. 2022

🚀 New features

Added Kubernetes secret into examples
Added support for Elasticsearch 8.x
Installer1.0: added autodetection version of the Elasticsearch and update v7 and added support for Elasticsearch v8

📦 Changes

Canarytrace 4.21.6#

Released 02. 28. 2022

🚀 New features

Added RequestLog service - Collects all requests and responses between browser and server.
Pairing request and response from browser.
Added Cherry-picking from postData payload from request.
Added Trace ID - send extra headers with all requests from a browser.
RequestLog: added totalEncodedDataLength and shouldReportCorbBlocking values.
Added CoverageAudit measures how much resources ( javascript and css ) is not used.
Added env CONFIG for custom Webdriver.io config.
Print environment variables, version of packages and UUID into stdout when Canarytrace start.

Canarytrace: 4.21.5 https://canarytrace.com
WebdriverIO: 7.16.12
Lighthouse: 8.0.0
Node.js: v16.13.1

Canarytrace uuid: b4c8ce4cc114934ac4edf3235321db0e
Canarytrace mode: smoke

Added preStopHook - sends a notification when Canarytrace is stopped due to Kubernetes.
Added lifecycle checker - sends a notification if was Canarytrace stopped due internal error.

📦 Changes

services/WdioPerformanceEntries.js save Hero Elements only if is allowed.
Elasticsearch: print payload if is observability allowed.
Update base image on 16.13.1-alpine3.14.
Change format of UUID to 16 bit lowercase string.

💥 Breaking Change

Option EDITION was renamed to MODE. MODE=smoke is default.
Update WDIO on 7.16.12
ResponseIntercept and RequestIntercept services was removed. Replaced by a RequestLog service.

🐛 Bug fixes

Fix clear cache in smoke mode.
Ignore performance entries during performance audit.

Canarytrace 4.10.3#

Released 12. 07. 2021

🚀 New features

Response Intercept - Collect all responses incoming from backend to the browser.
PAUSE_BETWEEN_SMOKE - Added ENV for pause between every tested URL.
Print uuid and labels into command line after start.

📦 Changes

ENV_PRINT - Better print into command line.
Count of PerformanceEntris - Better print into command line.

📝 Documentation

Command Line

Canarytrace 4.9.1#

Released 06. 07. 2021

🚀 New features

Console Intercept - Collects messages, warnings, errors, debug, info etc. from browser console.

📝 Documentation

Console Intercept

Canarytrace 4.8.0#

Released 05. 07. 2021

🚀 New features

Hero Elements - Easily measure render time of individual parts of your web application with Hero Elements, e.g. when exactly is displayed to user login button or some banner?

📝 Documentation

Hero Elements

Canarytrace 4.7.0#

Released 05. 07. 2021

🚀 New features

Conditions for generate report - Generate reports only if any of the metrics has a low score.
Memory Intercept - Collects information about used and available memory during test.
WaitForLoadEventEnd - Added to smoke mode. Canarytrace wait for full load of the page.

📦 Changes

Performance audit - desktopDense4G is a default network throttling preset.
WDIO configuration: connectionRetryCount - Reduced the number of attemps on 1.

📝 Documentation

Shipper 1.4#

🚀 New features

Canarytrace generate reports such as Lighthouse HTML report and Trace report and Shipper send them to the AWS S3.

📝 Documentation

Canarytrace Shipper

Canarytrace 4.4.0#

Released 27. 06. 2021

🚀 New features

Trace events report - Canarytrace records of activity in Chrome's processes for the Trace Event Profiling Tool.
Prints the generated reports (Lighthouse HTML report and Trace evets report) at the end of the run.
Added Canarytrace Shipper example.
Added option PT_AUDIT_REPORT and PT_AUDIT_TRACE for generate reports.

📝 Documentation

Canarytrace 4.3.2#

Released 25. 06. 2021

🚀 New features

Lighthouse: added options PT_AUDIT_MAX_WAIT_FCP and PT_AUDIT_MAX_WAIT_LOAD

💥 Breaking Change

Option EDITION was renamed to MODE. MODE=smoke is default.

📦 Changes

Upgrade Kubernetes deployment scripts

📝 Documentation

Canarytrace 4.2.16#

Released 13. 06. 2021

📦 Changes

Upgrade Lighthouse 8
Upgrade Webdriver.IO from v6 on v7.5
Upgrade on Selenium 4
Canarytrace and Canarytrace Smoke editions are in one docker container. You can switch between them.
Print more metainformation into elasticsearch indices, e.g. version, edition etc.
Prepare for implementing Cypress.io

🐛 Bug fixes

Fix duplicate storage performance entries
Fix Canarytrace Smoke: accept only first navigate request

Canarytrace Smoke Pro 3.0.6#

Released 16. 03. 2021

📦 Changes

Added new error message Test did not finished on time! when testing collection of landing pages it takes too long.

🐛 Bug fixes

smoke-cronjob.yml Increase resources.

Canarytrace Installer 7.10.0#

Released 11. 02. 2021

📦 Changes

Compatible with Elasticsearch 7.10.0 and Kibana 7.10.0

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Canarytrace Smoke Pro 3.0.5#

Released 21. 01. 2021

📦 Changes

Performance audit isn't run if response code of navigate request is higher than 399.
Performance audit is run in a separate step called performance audit

🐛 Bug fixes

Fix bug with duplicate objects from Network.responseReceived and repair checker of wrong url.

Canarytrace Smoke Pro 3.0.3#

Released 19. 01. 2021

🐛 Bug fixes

Url validator: url with special symbols or incomplete format.

Canarytrace Smoke Pro 3.0.2#

Released 09. 01. 2021

🚀 New features

Docker image contains a deployment scripts for k8s

Canarytrace Smoke Pro 3.0.1#

Released 04. 01. 2021

🚀 New features

Creating and saving a better report from Lighthouse 6.4.1
Remove label ENV and added label labels which is stored in all elasticsearch indices. Labels contains useful information about setup Canarytrace.
Automatically added label with throttlingType
Better login in a elasticsearch services.
Loging full response if is response code > 399
Performance Audit: maxWaitForFcp and maxWaitForLoad: increase from 10.000 ms to 100.000 ms
Added PT_AUDIT_THROTTLING options, e.g. desktopDense4G, mobileSlow4G, mobileRegular3G