Hello everyone! It’s been awhile since the last update message, but now that summer is nearly over in the northern hemisphere Kernl will again be receiving regular updates and enhancements.
This doesn’t mean that we weren’t busy though! Let’s dig in.
New Features
- License Management Activated Domains – When viewing your license list, you can now see the domains that have activated the license. If you go into the license detail view, you can make changes to that list. This data will give you granular insight into who is using a specific license.
- Kernl Update Checker Automatic Update Support – With the release of WordPress 5.5 we finally upgraded our update checker library. There are a few differences like it being multiple files now, and the instantiation code changing a bit, but the upgrade path is simple for those who want automatic updates.
Bug Fixes & Miscellaneous Changes
- Package Upgrades (Analytics) – All supporting packages have been upgraded to their latest version for better performance and security.
- Date Retention Bug (Analytics) – We weren’t cleaning up some tables we were supposed to be. This lead to holding onto some data for much longer than 365 days.
- UX Improvements (Analytics) – The UX around selecting and comparing dates for Kernl Analytics was a little bit confusing. We made some changes that make it a lot easier to understand for a first-time customer.
- Data collection issues (Load Testing) – There was an issue where load testing wasn’t collecting data from the master node after an upgrade to the underlying infrastructure. This was resolved.
- UX Improvements (Load Testing) – Some load test templates are large and take awhile to return from the server. An indeterminate spinner was added here to let customers know that things are actually happening. The same situation was happening when long running, high volume tests load initially. There is a lot of data that takes some time to return from the server so an indeterminate spinner was added.
- Infrastructure (Load Testing) – The Kernl WordPress Load Testing box was upgraded from 1vCPU+1GB RAM to 2vCPU+2GB RAM.
- Meta Tag Parsing (Load Testing) – When you verify a site with Kernl, we look for a meta tag in your HTML. Initially we were attempting to find, capture, and validate this using regular expressions. As is tradition, we found this was a bad idea and switched to using an open-source library (Cheerio.js) instead.
- All servers have had their packages upgraded to the latest available versions.
Blog Posts
That’s it for this month!