Release Notes v8.7.0

[Björn Kimminich]

v8.7.0

🎓 Hacking Instructor

• #440: Added new Hacking instructor, providing an interactive onscreen tutorial guiding users step-by-step through certain challenges in Juice Shop and teaching about the underlying vulnerabilities briefly
  • Currently supports Login Admin (Basic SQL injection) and XSS Tier 1 (DOM XSS) challenge

♻️ Compatibility

• Added support for Node.js 12.x on all supported platforms
• Removed CI jobs and pre-packaging of archives for Node.js 11.x (⚡️)

🎛 API

• #1080: Renamed endpoints rest/product into rest/products to use appropriate plural form (⚡️)

🎨 UI/UX

• #1085: Added welcome banner upon initial startup providing some context and an info link (kudos to @rockydevnet & @nilp0inter)
• #1075: Closing all challenge solved-notifications when the close-button is clicked while holding the Shiftkey
• #1070: Infobox requesting feedback on Gitter/GitHub is not shown any more when gitHubRibbon is disabled (kudos to @rockydevnet)

🐛 Bugfixes

• #1069: Fixed contrast problem of color theme deeporange-indigo
• #1086: Fixed the default Angular icon showing up in Google search results as the favicon (kudos to @nilp0inter)
• #1088: Fixed notifications not properly re-triggering in CTF-enabled customizations
• #1090: Fixed several issues in Request Data Erasure functionality and tests on all levels

🌐 I18N

• Extended 🇮🇱, 🇬🇷 and 🇹🇷 translations

🛅 Miscellaneous

• #1073: Repaired and re-enabled tests that were temporarily disabled
• #1076: Fixed issue with integration test job never failing despite tests failing on Travis-CI

This release bundles the outcome from all Hack'n'Code working sessions of the Juice Shop Track at the Open Security Summit 2019