## New Features

- Groundwork: We added some initial back-end and API support for Chef InSpec Waivers with more work to continue in the new year.

## Improvements

- Level Up: Chef Automate now uses Habitat 0.90.6, ElasticSearch 6.8.3, and OpenJDK 11.
- Whack-a-mole: We resolved a few vulnerabilities that popped up from our periodic `npm audit`. (No actual moles were harmed.)
- No Dawdling: Purges will now fail if each step of the purge does not happen within 10 minutes of scheduled execution.
- Bite-sized: Compliance profiles now have server-side filtering and pagination! To maintain backward compatibility, only requests with the `per_page` parameter set to a non-default value, other than zero, will be paginated.
- All the Metadata!: Client Run and Compliance Node detail views now display more metadata.
- What's Up, Doc?: The [API docs](https://automate.chef.io/docs/api/) feature a new section on our authentication header format, which follows the OpenAPI specifications for security definition objects.

## Bug Fixes

- Desensitized: The system now tolerates the final virgule in file paths, such as `/path/to/backupid/`. Previously, when passing a file path for backup purposes, only file paths with the last `/` removed would work, such as `/path/to/backupid`.
- Rock On: We changed our configuration to avoid a low `DefaultMaxTasks` constraint for users on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES). Chef Automate failures with the error message "fork rejected by pids controller" should no longer appear.
- Restored: Input styles on a random assortment of input fields resumed their normal, happy, and uniform styles after recent layout updates.
- Working...: Menus in the top navigation no longer display behind the progress spinner overlay.
- Permanent Marker: Users may no longer edit the name or tags on ingested nodes, or nodes with no manager, but other ingested nodes fields may be edited.
- Noted: Clean up of the scanning functionality ensures that errors, when they exist, are always reported.

## Beta Features
### Applications

- API It Up: The output of Habitat health checks is now exposed via the Applications APIs.
- Expected Behavior: Selecting a health status filter with zero services in the _Service Group_ Details sidebar no longer causes a new service group to be selected.
- Steady: Selecting a new health status filter on the _Service Group_ table will only change the _Service Group_ Details sidebar if the new health status filter results do not include the currently selected Service Group.
- Reversed: The _Service Groups_ display used to switch current and previous health statuses when generating messages about health status changes, but we fixed this.
- Keep It Simple: Note a small performance improvement by avoiding a double fetch of data.

### Identity and Access Management v2

- Speedy: Experience a substantially faster loading of the _Projects List_ page, since we removed a network call per project.
- Re-ordered: The percentage done display now progresses correctly after selecting the _Update Projects_ button. Previously, the percentage done display would sometimes start at 100% and then quickly reset due to a minor race condition.
- Stand Still: The _Global Project Filter_ no longer auto-refreshes its project list while you select your project(s). Previously, users lost their selection due to the periodic auto-refresh of the displayed project list.