As we approach May 4th, we're channeling the Force of a better DevEx with a fresh round of improvements across the Tempest platform. This release includes major improvements to our relationship graph experience, making it faster and clearer to explore connections between your software, services, and teams. We've also included quality-of-life improvements, performance boosts, and bug fixes to keep everything running smoother.

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Spotlights

New and Improved Relationships Graph v2

Graphs in Tempest just got a major upgrade! With a redesigned layout and new controls, it’s now easier than ever to explore service relationships, spot patterns, and navigate complex systems.

Changes include:

• A rebuilt graph interface that improves legibility and highlights all upstream, downstream, and bi-directional relationships.

• More screen space for graph viewing, plus a new bottom toolbar to control node size, graph density, and filtering.

• Color-coded lines to distinguish relationship types by entity.

• Filtering by entity (nodes) and relationship type (edges) to zero in on what matters most.

More details can be found on the Tempest documentation site.

Improvements & Bug Fixes

Security

• Enhanced web application security by adding HTTP security headers, strengthening protection against common web vulnerabilities.

• Improved protection against GraphQL queries with excessive field duplication, mitigating potential denial-of-service risks.

New apps & updates

• Updated various internal dependencies to the newest versions.

Developer Ecosystem

• Released updated versions across CLI v0.1.18, SDK-Go v0.1.6, OpenAPI spec v0.1.6, and Protobuf definitions v0.1.4, bringing improvements and refinements to tooling and integration workflows.

Recipes, projects, deployments

• Tags and ownership is now visible on the relationship graph.

• Fixed issue causing duplicate notifications and graph nodes when publishing recipe updates.