2.2.0 / 2019-12-22

NOTICE

2.2.0 focuses on updating the front end of CTFd to use more modern programming practices and changes some aspects of core CTFd design. If your current installation is using a custom theme or custom plugin with any kind of JavaScript, it is likely that you will need to upgrade that theme/plugin to be useable with v2.2.0.

General

• Team size limits can now be enforced from the configuration panel
• Access tokens functionality for API usage
• Admins can now choose how to deliver their notifications
  • Toast (new default)
  • Alert
  • Background
  • Sound On / Sound Off
• There is now a notification counter showing how many unread notifications were received
• Setup has been redesigned to have multiple steps
  • Added Description
  • Added Start time and End time,
  • Added MajorLeagueCyber integration
  • Added Theme and color selection
• Fixes issue where updating dynamic challenges could change the value to an incorrect value
• Properly use a less restrictive regex to validate email addresses
• Bump Python dependencies to latest working versions
• Admins can now give awards to team members from the team's admin panel page

API

• Team member removals (DELETE /api/v1/teams/[team_id]/members) from the admin panel will now delete the removed members's Submissions, Awards, Unlocks

Admin Panel

• Admins can now user a color input box to specify a theme color which is injected as part of the CSS configuration. Theme developers can use this CSS value to change colors and styles accordingly.
• Challenge updates will now alert you if the challenge doesn't have a flag
• Challenge entry now allows you to upload files and enter simple flags from the initial challenge creation page

Themes

• Significant JavaScript and CSS rewrite to use ES6, Webpack, yarn, and babel
• Theme asset specially generated URLs
  • Static theme assets are now loaded with either .dev.extension or .min.extension depending on production or development (i.e. debug server)
  • Static theme assets are also given a d GET parameter that changes per server start. Used to bust browser caches.
• Use defer for script tags to not block page rendering
• Only show the MajorLeagueCyber button if configured in configuration
• The admin panel now links to https://help.ctfd.io/ in the top right
• Create an ezToast() function to use Bootstrap's toasts
• The user-facing navbar now features icons
• Awards shown on a user's profile can now have award icons
• The default MarkdownIt render created by CTFd will now open links in new tabs
• Country flags can now be shown on the user pages

Deployment

• Switch Dockerfile from python:2.7-alpine to python:3.7-alpine
• Add SERVER_SENT_EVENTS config value to control whether Notifications are enabled
• Challenge ID is now recorded in the submission log

Plugins

• Add an endpoint parameter to register_plugin_assets_directory() and register_plugin_asset() to control what endpoint Flask uses for the added route

Miscellaneous

• CTFd.utils.email.sendmail() now allows the caller to specify subject as an argument
  • The subject allows for injecting custom variable via the new CTFd.utils.formatters.safe_format() function
• Admin user information is now error checked during setup
• Added yarn to the toolchain and the yarn dev, yarn build, yarn verify, and yarn clean scripts
• Prevent old CTFd imports from being imported