github grafana/grafana-kiosk v1.0.13

3 hours ago

Features

  • Add -headless flag (env KIOSK_HEADLESS, default false) to run the browser without a display, for servers and CI pipelines with no attached screen (#279)
  • Add -disable-chromium-kiosk-optimizations flag (env KIOSK_DISABLE_CHROMIUM_KIOSK_OPTIMIZATIONS, default false) to opt out of kiosk-specific Chromium flags if they cause compatibility issues (#279)
  • Add Chrome flags for reliable kiosk operation: disable background timer throttling (keeps Grafana auto-refresh running when the window loses focus), disable hang monitor (suppresses "Page Unresponsive" dialogs), disable Safe Browsing updates, suppress telemetry uploads, allow drill-down popups (#279)
  • Add -restart-delay-ms flag (env KIOSK_RESTART_DELAY_MS, default 5000) to set the delay before automatically restarting after a session error; kiosk now recovers from browser crashes instead of exiting (#276)
  • Add -browser flag (env KIOSK_BROWSER, default chrome) to choose between Chrome and Microsoft Edge as the launched browser (#267)
  • Add -browser-path flag (env KIOSK_BROWSER_PATH) to point at an explicit Chromium-based browser executable; overrides -browser (#267)

Bug Fixes

  • Fix -browser-path being rejected at startup — an explicit browser path is now honored regardless of the -browser value, so any Chromium-based binary can be used (#277)
  • Fix silent Chrome fallback when Edge binary missing — startup now exits with a clear error message instead of silently launching Chrome when browser=edge is set but no Edge binary is found on PATH (#277)
  • Fix startup failures on slow or busy devices — the browser is now given 60 seconds instead of 20 to come up, so a cold start on hardware like a Raspberry Pi no longer aborts the session and forces a restart (#316)
  • Fix Azure AD login hanging on shutdown instead of exiting cleanly (#276)
  • Fix crashes during API key and ID token login — an error while intercepting requests would take down the whole kiosk process; these are now logged and the session continues (#276)
  • Fix Grafana Cloud login failing to submit the login form on some pages (#276)
  • Fix ID token login occasionally letting requests through without the configured token attached (#276)
  • Fix silent exits on bad config — startup validation failures now log a descriptive message with a fix suggestion before exiting (#276)
  • Speed up Azure AD and Grafana Cloud login by 3 seconds each — fixed delays replaced with waits that continue as soon as the page is ready (#260)

Tests

  • Add integration tests that run the kiosk against a real Grafana container (#279)
  • Add a browser abstraction so login provider flows can be unit tested (#260, #276)

CI/CD

  • Drop the coverage badge, whose publishing step failed on every push to main (#316)
  • Update k1LoW/octocov-action to v1.5.1 (#269)

Dependencies

  • Update chromedp to v0.16.0 and cdproto to the 2026-08-04 snapshot, picking up upstream Chrome DevTools Protocol fixes (#271, #312)
  • Update google.golang.org/api to v0.297.0 (#312)
  • Build with Go 1.27.1 (#312)
  • Update github.com/magefile/mage to v1.17.2 (#268)
  • Update transitive dependencies to their latest releases, including golang.org/x/crypto v0.56.0 (#312)

Documentation

  • Document the release process rule against leaving an empty [Unreleased] section (#270)
  • Fix the action-update procedure so correctly pinned actions no longer look stale (#316)

Chores

  • Reorganize login providers into dedicated sub-packages (#278)

New Contributors

Full Changelog: v1.0.12...v1.0.13

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