Kordon 1.7.0

We’re proud to present Kordon 1.7.0—internally known as the performance rewrite.

We’ve been working on this one for a while because it had some big goals: making it blazing fast to work with thousands of assets and tens of thousands of tasks.

We know, the last release was also about performance—but we took it even further.

We kind of hope we can stop focusing on performance for a while now. 😅

New Features

✅ Task completion in the side panel
You can now power through your information security tasks directly in the task list view! Open a task in the side panel, complete it, and move on—without ever going into the full task details view.

Actually, tasks now always open in the side panel by default. But if you need more details, clicking on the task name again will still take you to the full view.

🎯 Filters in list views persist as you navigate
The list views now remember your filters between visits. So if you’re working on controls but take a quick detour to the requirements list, you won’t have to reset your filters when you come back. Kordon remembers.

Bug Fixes

🐞 Completion evidence visibility fixed
Previously, only the assignee could see completion evidence. That wasn’t very productive… Now, everyone with access to the task can see the evidence. Useful for auditors and security managers, right?

Improvements

⚡ List view performance boost
Pagination now happens on the server side, making even the largest lists snappy. Plus, calculated fields are cached for extra speed.

🔍 Faster filtering
Filters now run on the server side, with calculated fields cached for even better performance.

🚀 Improved search
Search now runs server-side, making it significantly faster for all data sets. For now, searches work for full words only, but we’ll add better partial search in upcoming releases.

📧 User emails always converted to lowercase
No more email conflicts due to case sensitivity—every email is automatically converted to lowercase.

🔑 Integrated authentication with Google, Microsoft, Okta, and Keycloak
No need for a separate Keycloak Docker anymore—SSO authentication with Google Workspace, Microsoft Entra, Okta, and Keycloak is now built into Kordon.

📦 Smaller container size
We’re not saying the internet would run out of space, but moving around smaller containers is always a good thing.

⏳ Background tasks introduced
Kordon can now run tasks in the background, improving performance for upcoming features. For example, cache maintenance can now be handled in a separate background job and Docker, making things even smoother.

🔒 Integrated TLS support for HTTP
Kordon now includes built-in TLS support, so there’s no need to place it behind a separate TLS termination proxy.