turbot/steampipe v0.20.0

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Connection Management

• Optimise connection initialisation for high connection count (#3394,#3267,#3236,#3229,#3413)

  • Execute RefreshConnections asyncronously in service startup
  • Start executing queries without waiting for connections to load, add smart error handling to wait for required connection
  • Optimise autocomplete for high connection count
  • Autocomplete and inspect data available before all conections are refreshed
  • Add steampipe_connection_state table to indicate the loading state of connections
  • Add support for import_schema property in connection config, controlling whether to create a postgres schema for a steampipe connection. Closes #3407
  • Optimise schema creation by cloning connection schemas
  • Add locking to ensure only a single instance of RefreshConnections runs
  • Update refresh connections to write comments for exemplar schemas first, followed by remaining schemas.

• Update connection and plugin validation during refreshConnections. (#3432,#3402)

  • ensure failed connections are set to 'error' in connection state.
  • Schema names starting with steampipe_ are to be reserved for steampipe.

Mod Dependency Management

• Support mods requiring different versions of the same depdency mod. (#3302)
• Support transitive dependencies referencing variables from different versions of same mod.(#3337)
• Resource references in dependency mods must be fully qualified. (#3335)
• Locals in dependency mods cannot be referenced. (#3336)
• Fix issue where 'mod install' on an existing mod would sometimes corrupt the 'mod.sp' file. (#3376)
• Fix issue where mod installation would fail silently for unmet dependencies in top mod in force mode. (#3358)
• Fix issue where mod list output is not printed in a specific order. (#3349)
• Fix issue where a mod would install even if plugin dependencies are not met. (#3041)
• Fix issue where running mods with unmet dependencies does not raise warnings. (#3324)
• Fix mod commands failing when using a https prefix. (#3257)
• Fix issue where mod install/update continues installation even with unsatisfied requirements. (#3291)
• Fix nil reference exception when loading a mod using the legacy requires property. (#3347)

Caching

• Updates in cache configuration to allow disabling of all caching on server. (#3258)
  • STEAMPIPE_CACHE environment variable controls both service cache-enabled and client cache-enabled
  • service cache enabled is used by the plugin manager to enable/disable caching on the plugins during startup.
  • client cache enabled is used to enable/disable the cache on the database session.
• Introduce SQL functions to easily manipulate caching functionality - meta_cache() and meta_cache_ttl(). (#3442)

What's new?

• Add support for time-series charts. (#1389)
• Updates to workspace profile - add additional properties and command specific options blocks. (#3223)
• Adds a --progress flag to plugin install to disable progress bars. (#2953)
• Detect older versions of MacOS and warn that Steampipe does not support them. (#3256)
• Updates the default content written to 'default.spc' and remove deprecated blocks. (#3391)
• Show plugin name with stream (if not latest) in the progress bar during plugin update. (#3241,#3330)
• Replace all '...' with ellipsis … in terminal output. (#3441)
• Add check to the mod init function so users are aware if it's run in the home directory or if there are a large number of non-mod files in the path. (#2562)
• Add query column in introspection tables to populate FullName if a QueryProvider references a named query. (#3161)
• Improve error message when running steampipe check/dashboard outside a mod. (#3215)

Bug fixes

• Fixes issue where not being able to open the browser results in a fatal error during login. (#3437)
• Fixes issue where 'internal' would be added twice in the search_path if one is mentioned in the non default search path. (#3397)
• Set mod name in resource metadata for pseudo-resources. (#3405)
• Fix error message when connecting to steampipe cloud if login token has expired or become corrupted. (#3418)
• Fix invalid output format error when running dashboard if output is set in terminal options. (#3293)
• Fixes issue where execution continues even if there's an unexpected error in parsing config. (#3286)
• Fix rendering issues when running .inspect. (#3268)
• Fixes issue where spinner was not showing up in interactive prompt while a query was executing. (#3259)
• Fix crash on shutdown if init not complete. (#3352)
• Fixes issue where workspace introspection option was boolean instead of control/info/none. (#3389)
• Fixes issue where network failures during plugin install was returning 0 exit code. (#3367)
• Ensure successful shutdown after dashboard service start failure. (#3354)
• Ensure plugin-manager command does not execute scheduled tasks - avoid deprecation warnings which make the plugin manager GRPC startup fail. (#3410