Fides 2.16 Release notes

July 25, 2023

Fides for Business 2.16.0

Enhancements

• GPC indicators: All privacy experiences now include a GPC indicator to acknowledge the signal.
• Privacy center empty state: Empty state now exists for the case where there are no relevant privacy notices.

Fixes/changes:

• Moved GPC preferences slightly earlier in Fides.js lifecycle #3561
• Allow Privacy Notices banner and modal to scroll as needed #3713
• Add Systems Applicable Filter to Privacy Experience List #3654
• Render linebreaks in the Fides.js overlay descriptions, etc. #3665
• Privacy center and fides-js now pass in Unescape-Safestr as a header so that special characters can be rendered properly #3706
• Fixed ValidationError for saving PrivacyPreferences #3719

Fides OSS 2.16.0

Enhancements

• Enable/disable integrations: A toggle has been added to system integrations to allow managers to disable system integrations for the purposes of DSR processing #3593

• Navigation update: Moved "Management" tab from nav into settings icon in top right #3701

• Integration form updates: Removed name and description fields from integration form #3684

Fixes

• Broken link to Fides docs site on the About Fides page in Admin UI #3643
• Fixed issue preventing ConnectionConfigs with duplicate names from saving #3770
• Fixed creating and editing manual integrations #3772
• Fix lingering integration artifacts by cascading deletes from System #3771

Developer experience Enhancements

• Reorganized some api.api.v1 code to avoid circular dependencies on quickstart #3692
• Treat underscores as special characters in user passwords #3717
• Make malicious URL test more robust to environmental differences #3748
• Ignore type checker on click decorators to bypass known issue with click version 8.1.4 #3746

Security

• Resolved Zip bomb file upload vulnerability CVE-2023-37480
• Resolved SVG bomb (billion laughs) file upload vulnerability CVE-2023-37481