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The January 2018 Kitewheel release brings together several streams of work that we have been performing on the back end and the underlying user interface technology. A lot of these changes have no immediate noticeable user interface impact but set us up well for what is coming in future releases. 

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Kitewheel now enforces a stricter password policy than it did before. All passwords in Kitewheel must now meet the following requirements: 

  • At least 8 characters - though we would encourage longer ones if possible - up to a maximum of 50 characters 
  • Contain one lower case letter, contain one upper case letter, one digit and one of the characters: !@#$%^&*
  • Can not be a password that has been used in the five previous passwords

Password Expiry 

Passwords will now expire after 90 days and you will be asked to choose a new password when you log in: 

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Once we  have upgraded to React 16 that is then the basis for larger user interface changes that we have planned for later this year. We tried to fix some obvious UI bugs as we went through the code - but not get distracted from the main job of replacing the AltJS component. The following issues were cleared up as we went through the code: 

  • The organization list did not scroll right to the bottom 
  • The link to the Twitter Streaming API documentation had rusted because Twitter updated their documentation and didn't put any redirects in place!
  • It was previously possible to put a word into the Iterations or Duration input boxes on the Testing Settings box 
  • It was also possible to enter a single number into the Data input box of the Testing Settings box - Kitewheel does not consider this valid JSON

Acquia Lift Node Improvements

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