diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst index ca8fd664f9..6d39a5f6e0 100644 --- a/CHANGELOG.rst +++ b/CHANGELOG.rst @@ -150,6 +150,23 @@ Changed Contributed by @Kami. +* StackStorm Web UI (``st2web``) has been updated to not render and display execution results + larger than 200 KB directly in the history panel in the right side bar by default anymore. + Instead a link to view or download the raw result is displayed. + + Execution result widget was never optimized to display very large results (especially for + executions which return large nested dictionaries) so it would freeze and hang the whole + browser tab / window when trying to render / display large results. + + If for some reason you want to revert to the old behavior (this is almost never a good idea + since it will cause browser to freeze when trying to display large results), you can do that by + setting ``max_execution_result_size_for_render`` option in the config to a very large value (e.g. + ``max_execution_result_size_for_render: 16 * 1024 * 1024``). + + https://github.com/StackStorm/st2web/pull/868 + + Contributed by @Kami. + Improvements ~~~~~~~~~~~~