Halon 4.0 introduced a feature we call “live staging” where you can deploy multiple running configurations at the same time, with per-connection conditions. It allows you to reliably rollout changes or new features to a production system for only a few testing IPs, or a select percentage of the traffic. With Halon 4.7, we proudly present “live debugging” using which you can add logpoints to your scripts. It enables you to inspect the full context of SMTP transactions in real-time, using the live staging conditions as connection selector.

Those points are added directly to the Monaco-based IDE, and results are inspected on a per-connection basis. You can create multiple points, triggered by multiple messages, and jump back and forth between them.

We’ve also added a HELO/EHLO phase script, support for ARC in DKIMSign() and a full implementation of draft 18 on Github, EdDSA (ed25519) and a native boolean type with corresponding strict comparison operator. The standard library have many new functions such as rsa_sign() and verify, idna_encode() and decode, aes_encrypt() and decrypt.

We hope that the live debugging will come handy! Please see the changelog on Github for a full list of improvements and changes, or get in touch with us if you want more detailed information.