Announce the guac-visualizer 0.4.5 release

Signed-off-by: Ben Cotton <[email protected]>

README.md

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content/blog/2024-09-24-guacviz-0.4.5.md

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+---
+title: guac-visualizer 0.4.5 released
+layout: post
+authors: 
+  - GUAC Maintainers
+date: 2024-09-24
+tags:
+  - releases
+  - guac-visualizer
+---
+
+Version 0.4.5 of the experimental [GUAC Visualizer](https://github.com/guacsec/guac-visualizer) is now available.
+The GUAC Visualizer is an experimental utility that can be used to interact with GUAC services.
+It acts as a way to visualize the software supply chain graph and explore the supply chain.
+
+The main change in version 0.4.5 is the addition of a new window that displays known information about a package.
+This package information box, contributed by [Shafee Ahmed](https://github.com/shafeeshafee), gives you quick access to information about a package's vulnerabilities, SBOM source, and [SLSA](https://slsa.dev) attestations.
+
+![Screenshot of the GUAC Visualizer package information display showing vulnerabilities for a log4j package](/images/blog/2024-guacviz-040.jpg)
+
+This release also includes an update of the GraphQL schema to work with recent GUAC releases, plus a few other minor fixes and dependency updates.
+See the [GitHub release page](https://github.com/guacsec/guac-visualizer/releases/tag/v0.4.5) for a full list of changes.
+It includes first-time contributions to the GUAC Visualizer from:
+* [Kris Borchers](https://github.com/kborchers)
+* [Ben Cotton](https://github.com/funnelfiasco)
+* [@haosanzi](https://github.com/haosanzi)
+* [Parth Patel](https://github.com/pxp928)
+
+If you paid close attention to the GUAC Visualizer, you might have noticed that the previous release was version 0.3.1.
+What happened between then?
+Several changes in the build pipeline were necessary due to changes in the tools we use.
+Versions 0.4.0 through 0.4.4 were part of the diagnosis and remediation of build pipeline issues.
+As part of this work, we've now created a CI build workflow that runs a build on all pull requests.
+This is a common practice and will help us catch some issues earlier.
+We'd love your help with GUAC Visualizer.
+See the "[help wanted](https://github.com/guacsec/guac-visualizer/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22help+wanted%22)" or "[good first issue](https://github.com/guacsec/guac-visualizer/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22)" tags in GitHub for suggestions.