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@lucaderi lucaderi released this 02 Feb 13:48

ntopng 5.4 (July 2022)

Breakthroughs

  • New search bar, with more results, information, links
  • New listening ports page when collecting process information from nProbe (agent mode)
  • New support for ELK version 8 and standardized ELK export format
  • New packages for Ubuntu 22.04
  • New Centrality Map in service map
  • New Similarity Map
  • Major performance improvements for periodic scripts
  • New alert exclusion management (for checks and nDPI flow risks)
  • Introduce Vue.js in the frontend
  • Expose Chart Vue components for external websites

Improvements

  • Add new alerts (DHCP Storm, DNS Fragmented, Scan Detection, ...)
  • Add Top Dropdown menu (Top Clients, Top Servers, ...) to the alert explorer
  • Add ability to set historical flow permission to users
  • Rework and Improve Maps (Service/Periodicity/Host)
  • Improve buttons look and feel using latest Bootstrap version
  • Improve Historical Flow and Alerts information (add many new fields for better analysis)
  • Improve IEC support (e.g. iec_invalid_transition)
  • Add various mapping (DNS answers, DNS query types, ICMP answers, ...)
  • Improve documentation, added all the available checks description
  • Improve Exporter IP Flow Layout
  • Improve ClickHouse queries performance with a better use of indexes
  • Improve ZMQ flow idle timeout handling
  • Updated ECS to 8.1 version
  • Add various SNMP checks
  • Add npm and Webpack support
  • Add new alert exclusions fields (Domain and IssuerDN)
  • Add DGA domain handling received via ZMQ
  • Add Network matrix for view interfaces
  • Add VLAN field support to alert exclusions
  • Add Top Sites for flows collected from nProbe
  • Add ELK dump frequency to Settings
  • Implement Network/FQDN exclusion for alerts
  • Add 'dpi' and 'guessed' badge to flow list and details
  • Add support for L7 confidence
  • Add ClickHouse search in JSON fields
  • Add filters to Service/Periodicity maps
  • Add --offline option to force offline mode in case of limited connectivity
  • Add support for Active Monitoring selection in recipients
  • Add copy button for all external link
  • Allow download of PCAP in Historical Flows Explorer
  • Add Flow Exporter to view interfaces
  • Add ECS support to ELK flow dump
  • Add MAC Address to View Interfaces
  • Add Similarity check

Changes

  • Remove Telemetry
  • Move UDP unidirection to nDPI alerts
  • Disable flow dump to syslog on MacOS due to broken openlog API on Sierra and later
  • Rework MAC/IP Reassociation alert used to detect spoofind and MITM (Man In The Middle) Attacks
  • Separate data retention into Flow/Alerts data retention and Timeseries/Top data retention
  • Reduce number of (unnecessary) threads

nEdge

  • Add alert when a Gateway is unreachable
  • Improve the Captive Portal

Fix

  • Fix cookie attributes to the user and password cookies on the 302 redirect response
  • Fix various GUI incorrect/undefined names
  • Fix datatables incorrect data visualization
  • Fix RRD timeseries implementation
  • Fix log spam in case of endpoint not working
  • Fix modals not hiding
  • Fix alert/historical page filters not working correctly
  • Fix bugs with flows informations while using View Interface
  • Fix time format, shown as local instead of server time in some pages
  • Fix format validations not correctly working
  • Fix nProbe template flow mapping
  • Fix access to uninitialized obj leading to segfault
  • Fix idle time too low
  • Fix invalid risk set from nDPI to ntopng's Flow class
  • Fix dns large packets alert incorrectly triggered
  • Fix network discovery
  • Fix CSV download
  • Fix bug that prevented flows to be dumped on ClickHouse
  • Fix external URLs not correctly working
  • Fix database initialization
  • Fix IEC continuous dissection
  • Fix NetBIOS name should not be used for hostnames
  • Fix various CSS bugs
  • Fix filter operators
  • Fix name lookup
  • Fix for detecting ZMQ drops
  • Fix Historical Filters lost when switching windows
  • Fix traffic directions with mirrored traffic
  • Fix various API not correctly working
  • Fix range picker not correctly working
  • Fix crash when using interfaces with no database
  • Fix various nil description
  • Fix SIGABRT on shutdown with Views
  • Fix for SNMP bridge alerting
  • Fix external links not working
  • Fix flow drilldown not correctly working