# 3.5.1 / 2023-01-23 **General** - The public scoreboard page is no longer shown to users if account visibility is disabled - Teams created by admins using the normal team creation flow are now hidden by default - Redirect users to the team creation page if they access a certain pages before the CTF starts - Added a notice on the Challenges page to remind Admins if they are in Admins Only mode - Fixed an issue where users couldn't login to their team even though they were already on the team - Fixed an issue with scoreboard tie breaking when an award results in a tie - Fixed the order of solves, fails, and awards to always be in chronological ordering (latest first). - Fixed an issue where certain custom fields could not be submitted **Admin Panel** - Improved the rendering of Admin Panel tables on mobile devices - Clarified the behavior of Score Visibility with respect to Account Visibility in the Admin Panel help text - Added user id and user email fields to the user mode scoreboard CSV export - Add CSV export for `teams+members+fields` which is teams with Custom Field entries and their team members with Custom Field entries - The import process will now catch all exceptions in the import process to report them in the Admin Panel - Fixed issue where `field_entries` could not be imported under MariaDB - Fixed issue where `config` entries sometimes would be recreated for some reason causing an import to fail - Fixed issue with Firefox caching checkboxes by adding `autocomplete='off'` to Admin Panel pages - Fixed issue where Next selection for a challenge wouldn't always load in Admin Panel **API** - Improve response time of `/api/v1/challenges` and `/api/v1/challenges/[challenge_id]/solves` by caching the solve count data for users and challenges - Add `HEAD /api/v1/notifications` to get a count of notifications that have happened. - This also includes a `since_id` parameter to allow for a notification cursor. - Unread notification count can now be tracked by themes that track which notifications a user has read - Add `since_id` to `GET /api/v1/notifications` to get Notifications that have happened since a specific ID **Deployment** - Imports have been disabled when running with a SQLite database backend - See https://github.com/CTFd/CTFd/issues/2131 - Added `/healthcheck` endpoint to check if CTFd is ready - There are now ARM Docker images for OSS CTFd - Bump dependencies for passlib, bcrypt, requests, gunicorn, gevent, python-geoacumen-city - Properly load `SAFE_MODE` config from environment variable - The `AWS_S3_REGION` config has been added to allow specifying an S3 region. The default is `us-east-1` - Add individual DATABASE config keys as an alternative to `DATABASE_URL` - `DATABASE_PROTOCOL`: SQLAlchemy DB protocol (+ driver, optionally) - `DATABASE_USER`: Username to access DB server with - `DATABASE_PASSWORD`: Password to access DB server with - `DATABASE_HOST`: Hostname of the DB server to access - `DATABASE_PORT`: Port of the DB server to access - `DATABASE_NAME`: Name of the database to use - Add individual REDIS config keys as an alternative to `REDIS_URL` - `REDIS_PROTOCOL`: Protocol to access Redis server with (either redis or rediss) - `REDIS_USER`: Username to access Redis server with - `REDIS_PASSWORD`: Password to access Redis server with - `REDIS_HOST`: Hostname of the Redis server to access - `REDIS_PORT`: Port of the Redis server to access - `REDIS_DB`: Numeric ID of the database to access **Plugins** - Adds support for `config.json` to have multiple paths to add to the Plugins dropdown in the Admin Panel - Plugins and their migrations now have access to the `get_all_tables` and `get_columns_for_table` functions - Email sending functions have now been seperated into classes that can be customized via plugins. - Add `CTFd.utils.email.providers.EmailProvider` - Add `CTFd.utils.email.providers.mailgun.MailgunEmailProvider` - Add `CTFd.utils.email.providers.smtp.SMTPEmailProvider` - Deprecate `CTFd.utils.email.mailgun.sendmail` - Deprecate `CTFd.utils.email.smtp.sendmail` **Themes** - The beta interface `Assets.manifest_css` has been removed - `event-source-polyfill` is now pinned to 1.0.19. - See https://github.com/CTFd/CTFd/issues/2159 - Note that we will not be using this polyfill starting with the `core-beta` theme. - Add autofocus to text fields on authentication pages
What is CTFd?
CTFd is a Capture The Flag framework focusing on ease of use and customizability. It comes with everything you need to run a CTF and it's easy to customize with plugins and themes.
Features
- Create your own challenges, categories, hints, and flags from the Admin Interface
- Dynamic Scoring Challenges
- Unlockable challenge support
- Challenge plugin architecture to create your own custom challenges
- Static & Regex based flags
- Custom flag plugins
- Unlockable hints
- File uploads to the server or an Amazon S3-compatible backend
- Limit challenge attempts & hide challenges
- Automatic bruteforce protection
- Individual and Team based competitions
- Have users play on their own or form teams to play together
- Scoreboard with automatic tie resolution
- Hide Scores from the public
- Freeze Scores at a specific time
- Scoregraphs comparing the top 10 teams and team progress graphs
- Markdown content management system
- SMTP + Mailgun email support
- Email confirmation support
- Forgot password support
- Automatic competition starting and ending
- Team management, hiding, and banning
- Customize everything using the plugin and theme interfaces
- Importing and Exporting of CTF data for archival
- And a lot more...
Install
- Install dependencies:
pip install -r requirements.txt- You can also use the
prepare.shscript to install system dependencies using apt.
- You can also use the
- Modify CTFd/config.ini to your liking.
- Use
python serve.pyorflask runin a terminal to drop into debug mode.
You can use the auto-generated Docker images with the following command:
docker run -p 8000:8000 -it ctfd/ctfd
Or you can use Docker Compose with the following command from the source repository:
docker-compose up
Check out the CTFd docs for deployment options and the Getting Started guide
Live Demo
Support
To get basic support, you can join the MajorLeagueCyber Community:
If you prefer commercial support or have a special project, feel free to contact us.
Managed Hosting
Looking to use CTFd but don't want to deal with managing infrastructure? Check out the CTFd website for managed CTFd deployments.
MajorLeagueCyber
CTFd is heavily integrated with MajorLeagueCyber. MajorLeagueCyber (MLC) is a CTF stats tracker that provides event scheduling, team tracking, and single sign on for events.
By registering your CTF event with MajorLeagueCyber users can automatically login, track their individual and team scores, submit writeups, and get notifications of important events.
To integrate with MajorLeagueCyber, simply register an account, create an event, and install the client ID and client secret in the relevant portion in CTFd/config.py or in the admin panel:
OAUTH_CLIENT_ID = None
OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET = None
Credits
- Logo by Laura Barbera
- Theme by Christopher Thompson
- Notification Sound by Terrence Martin

