Change logs for Rudder 2.10

Rudder 2.10 has reached End of Life the 5th December 2015. This version is codenamed ``Catamaran''.

This page provides a summary of changes for each version. Previous beta and rc versions are listed below for convenience.

Main new features in Rudder 2.10:

  • Lots of performance and scalability improvements:

    • Promises generation is much faster

    • Removed unnecessary commits to database

    • Overloaded Inventory endpoint does not impact Web Interface anymore

    • Improve CFEngine server promises

    • Do not keep redundant logs

  • Configure agent run interval (from 5 minutes to 6 hours) directly from webapp

  • More flexibility when selecting Rule targets, you can now exclude some groups

  • Get all inventory datas from a node using the REST API

  • Rudder agent is now supported on AIX 5.3+

  • Various improvements on packaging, refactoring and small UI fixes

A blog post (only in French for now) about all these features is available here: http://blog.normation.com/fr/2014/05/18/rudder-2-10/

Installing, upgrading and testing

Documentation to Install and Upgrade is available online. The Download page sums up URLs. We also recommend using the Rudder Vagrant config if you want a quick and easy way to get an installation for testing.

If you upgrade from 2.8x, 2.9.x or 2.10..x to 2.10.5, there is a specific upgrade procedure:

\1. Update the Rudder packages (yum update ``rudder-*'' or apt-get install rudder-server-root

\2. Restart the Web Interface ( /etc/init.d/rudder-jetty restart ), and wait for it to be fully started, and then click on ``Update'' on the top right hand side corner to trigger Policy update

\3. Update the ncf package (yum update ncf or apt-get install ncf)

New installations or upgrades from 2.6.x are not impacted by the issue.

Operating systems supported

This version provides packages for these operating systems:

  • Rudder server: Debian 5, Debian 6, Debian 7, RHEL/CentOS 6, SLES 11, Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 12.10

  • Rudder agent: all of the above plus RHEL/CentOS 3, RHEL/CentOS 5 and SLES 10

Rudder 2.10.20 (2015-12-10)

Changes

Bug fixes

API

  • Fixed: API Parameters create ``overridable'' boolean check doesn’t work (#6695)

Web - Config management

  • Fixed: Read technique access does not give access to techniques (#7514)

Server components

  • Fixed: promises are not regenerated when a node is transformed into a relay (#7301)

Agent

  • Fixed: rudder-agent repository on GitHub does not have a license (#7394)

Initial promises & sys tech

  • Fixed: Use whole path to binaries in cron from check-rudder-agent on AIX (#7525)

  • Fixed: Erroneous use of ``\&'' in initial promises (#7517)

  • Fixed: Use of nonexistant class cfengine_community makes failsafe.cf not copy CFEngine binaries to /var/rudder (#7499)

  • Fixed: ``Update'' component of common technique sometimes return unexpected status and has incomplete reporting (#6648)

  • Fixed: Syslog fails to restart due bad line in syslog-ng.conf (#7389)

System integration

  • Fixed: The rudder-agent cron on AIX uses if then, which makes some security test fails (#7508)

  • Fixed: JVM 8.0: warning about ``Ignoring option PermSize=128m; support was removed in 8.0'' (#7345)

Packaging

  • Fixed: Modify the copy of ncf.conf instead of the original (#7445)

  • Fixed: After a fresh install on Centos, the Rudder server web interface does not work (#7395)

  • Fixed: mvn –quiet is too quiet (#7371)

  • Fixed: make wget quiet during build (#7370)

  • Fixed: Make maven quiet during build (#7317)

Techniques - Tests

  • Fixed: rudder-techniques test script ``technique-files'' doesn’t list promises.cf and failsafe.cf in initial-promises (#7496)

  • Fixed: rudder-techniques test script ``technique-files'' lists files in .git (#7495)

Architecture - Refactoring

  • Fixed: Correct a warning in rudder compilation (#7356)

Release notes

Special thanks go out to the following individuals who invested time, patience, testing, patches or bug reports to make this version of Rudder better:

  • François Bayart

  • Steeve Chailloux

  • David Durieux

  • Fabrice Flore-Thébault

  • Janos Mattyasovszky

This is a maintenance release, part of the 2.10 branch. An end-of-life date has been scheduled for this release (5th December 2015), See our FAQ for details, on the website. As such, it is recommended to upgrade all pre-2.11 installations to 2.11 as soon as possible to enjoy the latest features and improvements of a more mature and stable version.

Rudder 2.10.19 (2015-10-27)

Changes

Bug fixes

Web - Nodes & inventories

  • Fixed: Link from node/directive list to node detail is broken on Firefox (branch 2.10) (#7286)

Packaging

  • Fixed: Maven never uses internal mirror (#7300)

  • Fixed: Temporary files are not cleaned up after build (#7293)

Release notes

This is a maintenance release, part of the 2.10 branch. An end-of-life date has been scheduled for this release (5th December 2015), See our FAQ for details, on the website. As such, it is recommended to upgrade all pre-2.11 installations to 2.11 as soon as possible to enjoy the latest features and improvements of a more mature and stable version.

Rudder 2.10.18 (2015-10-20)

Changes

Bug fixes

Initial promises & sys tech

  • Fixed: The daily cf-execd and cf-serverd restart should use SRC on AIX (#7274)

Techniques

  • Fixed: Ssh key distribution cannot distibute several keys on one user (#7254)

Release notes

This is a maintenance release, part of the 2.10 branch. An end-of-life date has been scheduled for this release (5th December 2015), See our FAQ for details, on the website. As such, it is recommended to upgrade all pre-2.11 installations to 2.11 as soon as possible to enjoy the latest features and improvements of a more mature and stable version.

Rudder 2.10.17 (2015-09-24)

Changes

Documentation

  • Split the html documentation to improve readability and navigability (#6604)

  • Fixed: Document clearly technique upgrades (#7077)

Bug fixes

Initial promises & sys tech

  • Fixed: System technique distributePolicy is not system and has two system var section (#7138)

  • Fixed: Promise copy is not convergent: if the copy is interupted, it will never recover (#7086)

  • Fixed: If the agent schedule is not every 5 minutes, inventory may not be sent anymore (#6718)

Web - Config management

  • Fixed: Rules are not serialized correctly anymore (#7108)

Web - Compliance & node report

  • Fixed: Agent schedule is not historised, so we can’t know what was the agent run interval in the past (#7154)

This is a maintenance release, part of the 2.10 branch. An end-of-life date has been scheduled for this release (5th December 2015), See our FAQ for details, on the website. As such, it is recommended to upgrade all pre-2.11 installations to 2.11 as soon as possible to enjoy the latest features and improvements of a more mature and stable version.

Rudder 2.10.16 (2015-08-19)

Bug fixes

Web - Config management

  • Fixed: System object (techniques, directives, rules, groups) must be always enabled (#7064)

  • Fixed: Editing a rule category remove it from Git - rule categories disapear! (Ranärok ensues) (#6840)

Web - Compliance & node report

  • Fixed: Reporting cannot be used when there is several component with the same value and several messages (#7037)

Techniques

  • Fixed: aptPackageManagerSetting technique doesn’t work on Ubuntu (#6999)

  • Fixed: Reporting on openssh server configuration technique is not correct for port edition (#6942)

Initial promises & sys tech

  • Fixed: Bad regexp in the cron for Rudder nova (#7014)

  • Fixed: A report is missing on system techniques when cron needs to be restartd (#6660)

Architecture - Refactoring

  • Fixed: Remove scala compiler warning about comparing values of type Null (#7072)

Release notes

Special thanks go out to the following individuals who invested time, patience, testing, patches or bug reports to make this version of Rudder better:

  • Janos Mattyasovszky

This is a maintenance release, part of the 2.10 branch. An end-of-life date has been scheduled for this release (5th December 2015), See our FAQ for details, on the website. As such, it is recommended to upgrade all pre-2.11 installations to 2.11 as soon as possible to enjoy the latest features and improvements of a more mature and stable version.

Rudder 2.10.15 (2015-07-09)

Changes

Bug fixes

Web - UI & UX

  • Fixed: No rules displayed in firefox (#6490)

Web - Nodes & inventories

  • Fixed: ldap.attr.networkInterfaceDhcpServer in search node component (#6785)

Documentation

  • Fixed: Wrong hierarchy in archives section of the manual (#6909)

  • Fixed: Broken asciidoc list formatting (#6778)

  • Fixed: Outdated download link in the manual (#6764)

  • Fixed: Broken link and misplaced page in documentation (#6757)

  • Fixed: HashcodeCaching.scala typo error WRNING ⇒ WARNING (#6734)

Web - Config management

  • Fixed: After a partial promise generation, some nodes being a relay may have their promises stored in a non reachable location (#6729)

Initial promises & sys tech

  • Fixed: Nodes using syslogd coninue to report to their old server when changing their policy server (#6845)

  • Fixed: Editing non-existent /etc/rsyslog.d/pgsql.conf in initial promises (#6784)

System integration

  • Fixed: Sometimes, promises get corrupted to the point they can’t be automatically repaired on a node (#6768)

Server components

  • Fixed: When a node is promoted to relay, the old rsyslog conf is never replaced (#6721)

Techniques

  • Fixed: Unexpected status for fileAlterationMonitoring (#6771)

Release notes

Special thanks go out to the following individuals who invested time, patience, testing, patches or bug reports to make this version of Rudder better:

  • François Bayart

  • Olivier Mauras

This is a maintenance release, part of the 2.10 branch. An end-of-life date has been scheduled for this release (5th December 2015), See our FAQ for details, on the website. As such, it is recommended to upgrade all pre-2.11 installations to 2.11 as soon as possible to enjoy the latest features and improvements of a more mature and stable version.

Rudder 2.10.14 (2015-06-02)

Changes

Agent

  • Allow rudder server to remotely run the agent (#6553)

Bug fixes

Web - UI & UX

  • Fixed: Bad RegEx in Groups causes Server to not respond (#6680)

API

  • Fixed: In group API, attribute and comparator names are case sensitive (#6577)

Performance and scalability

  • Fixed: Do not check dns when checking promises (#6616)

Server components

  • Fixed: Webdav allow connection from any network, not only allowed network (#6540)

  • Fixed: Messages forwarded from AIX agent are not dropped on relay/server root after being consumed (#6522)

Techniques

  • Fixed: Typo in Technique ``zypper settings'' (#6677)

  • Fixed: Zypper is called without –non-interactive when filling available updates cache (#6588)

  • Fixed: Technique ``Clock settings'' uses Europe/Paris as China’s timezone (#6450)

Web - Nodes & inventories

  • Fixed: Error 500 when sending multiple files to inventory endpoint (#6508)

System integration

  • Fixed: The rudder-agent profile configuration may override the system MANPATH (#6548)

  • Fixed: Log rotation of reports and slapd is not correctly functional on redhat, as the server continues to write to the move file (#6526)

Packaging

  • Fixed: The detect_os.sh script is not valid (#6486)

Documentation

  • Fixed: Restore procedures has service name mistyped (#6664)

  • Fixed: Old Normation logo in the manual (#6643)

  • Fixed: Broken link in the demo section of rudder README (#6610)

  • Fixed: Bibliography links are out of date (#6609)

  • Fixed: Broken links in the manual (#6607)

  • Fixed: Check spelling and grammar of the manual (#6599)

  • Fixed: Remove references to the Big Red Button in the manual (#6596)

  • Fixed: Fix asciidoc list formatting (#6595)

  • Fixed: Rudder Documentation typo (#6559)

Special thanks go out to the following individuals who invested time, patience, testing, patches or bug reports to make this version of Rudder better:

  • Janos Mattyasovszky

This is a bug fix release in the 2.10 series and all installations of 2.10.x should be upgraded when possible. It is recommended to upgrade all pre-2.10 installations to 2.10 as soon as possible to enjoy the latest features and improvements of a more mature and stable version. When we release a new version of Rudder it has been thoroughly tested, and we consider the release enterprise-ready for deployment. This version is declared ``stable'' since it has proven itself to be stable in production over a period of several months following general availability of the release.

Rudder 2.10.13 (2015-04-13)

Changes

Bug fixes

Techniques

  • Fixed: Please document usage of line replacement in Enforce a file content technique (#5979)

Initial promises & sys tech

  • Fixed: No reports for Propagate promises component on relay (#6404)

Documentation

  • Fixed: Improve documentation of archives management (#6485)

  • Fixed: Badly explain minimum requierement for Rudder in documentation (#6453)

  • Fixed: Outdated chapter: Disable automatic regeneration of promises (#6312)

System integration

  • Fixed: rudder-jetty init script may fail on success (#5653)

Packaging

  • Fixed: Remove python dependency for rudder-agent (#6424)

Release notes

Special thanks go out to the following individuals who invested time, patience, testing, patches or bug reports to make this version of Rudder better:

  • Dennis Cabooter

  • Florian Heigl

  • Peter Keresztes

This is a bug fix release in the 2.10 series and all installations of 2.10.x should be upgraded when possible. It is recommended to upgrade all pre-2.10 installations to 2.10 as soon as possible to enjoy the latest features and improvements of a more mature and stable version. When we release a new version of Rudder it has been thoroughly tested, and we consider the release enterprise-ready for deployment. This version is declared ``stable'' since it has proven itself to be stable in production over a period of several months following general availability of the release.

Rudder 2.10.12 (2015-03-24)

Changes

Bug fixes

Techniques

  • Fixed: Enforce file content Technique doesn’t properly migrate lines from outside the zone to the zone (#6389)

System integration

  • Fixed: Rudder login page doesn’t appear just after the webapp has been started (#6402)

  • Fixed: File /var/log/rudder/\{compliance/non-compliant-reports.log, core/rudder-webapp.log} are not correctly rotated (#6381)

Packaging

  • Fixed: AIX rudder-agent SPECfile fails to build due to a macro expansion error (#6380)

Architecture - Dependencies

  • Fixed: Upgrade Liftweb to v2.5.2 (security issue) (#6426)

Release notes

This is a bug fix release in the 2.10 series and all installations of 2.10.x should be upgraded when possible. It is recommended to upgrade all pre-2.10 installations to 2.10 as soon as possible to enjoy the latest features and improvements of a more mature and stable version. When we release a new version of Rudder it has been thoroughly tested, and we consider the release enterprise-ready for deployment. This version is declared ``stable'' since it has proven itself to be stable in production over a period of several months following general availability of the release.

Rudder 2.10.11 (2015-03-09)

Changes

Bug fixes

Webapp - Display, home page

  • Fixed: rule and group category ID are not displayed (#6323)

  • Fixed: Display UUIDs in rudder web interface in lowercase so they can be used directly. (#6297)

API

  • Fixed: Wrong default category set when creating a Rule (#6314)

Techniques

  • Fixed: it’s not possible to define variables with " in them in generic variable definition (#6279)

  • Fixed: Wrong reporting in Technique Enforce a file content if the file is not present (#6237)

  • Fixed: OpenSSH server technique tries to configure MaxSession on AIX 5.3, but this parameter is invalid on this OS (#6374)

  • Fixed: The fileManagement Technique does not report on AIX (#6362)

Documentation

  • Fixed: SuSE upgrade procedure is missing a ncf upgrade, and the documentation references no-more-present init scripts (#6288)

  • Fixed: documentation states that `Workflow' needs to be set in the config file, but now in rudder web interface (#6283)

System integration

  • Fixed: The rudder-agent package should remove the inittab entry and subsystem on AIX, and should not run ldconfig (#6364)

Packaging

  • Fixed: When I want to upgrade Rudder to latest version, ncf is NOT updated on SLES11 (#6286)

  • Fixed: Unable to install Rudder agent if there is no rsync nor libpcre3 installed on the system on Debian (#6239)

Special thanks go out to the following individuals who invested time, patience, testing, patches or bug reports to make this version of Rudder better:

  • Jean Cardona

  • Florian Heigl

This is a bug fix release in the 2.10 series and all installations of 2.10.x should be upgraded when possible. It is recommended to upgrade all pre-2.10 installations to 2.10 as soon as possible to enjoy the latest features and improvements of a more mature and stable version. When we release a new version of Rudder it has been thoroughly tested, and we consider the release enterprise-ready for deployment. This version is declared ``stable'' since it has proven itself to be stable in production over a period of several months following general availability of the release.

Rudder 2.10.10 (2015-02-06)

Changes

Tools

  • Server side debug for a single agent (#6180)

Techniques

  • Add post hook commands and working update for rpm package installation (#3857)

Bug fixes

Webapp - Display, home page

  • Fixed: Rudder stores too much or too big cookies, causing white page with HTTP status: 413: FULL head (#6146)

Webapp - Node management

  • Fixed: Cannot display software informations on accept new Nodes (#6155)

  • Fixed: When adding a line of search criteria, the category and field from the line above should be the same on the new line (#5905)

  • Fixed: Wrong error message when accepted an already accepted node (#4895)

  • Fixed: Can not move node groups with the form (#4571)

Webapp - Administration

  • Fixed: ``Server cannot be contacted at this time'' when tring to get Event Log details (#6172)

  • Fixed: Cleanup expected reports (#6150)

  • Fixed: Missing login eventlog (#6008)

  • Fixed: Deletion of a Rule will lead to a stacktrace into the diff of the related Change Request (#5374)

  • Fixed: It is overly slow to show the list of Pending Review or Pending Deployment even if the number is 0 (#4359)

  • Fixed: Jetty should compress the files rotated (/var/log/rudder/webapp/*.log) (#3916)

API

  • Fixed: Creating a directive via the api, makes it disabled by default (#6200)

  • Fixed: cannot use ``enabled'' json parameter in Directive API (#6176)

  • Fixed: Technique version cannot be specified with Directive API (#6174) ==== * Fixed: In API/rules include/exclude is ordered for target parameter (#5982)/redmine/issues/5389][#5389]])

Webapp - Reporting

  • Fixed: When two techniques generated with ncf-builder use the same generic method with same parameters, reporting cannot dinstinguish them, and reports ``Unknown'' (#5389)

Performance and scalability

  • Fixed: Performance of RuleCategory repository requests are bad (#6133)

  • Fixed: The way software inventories are saved is totally inefficient (#6075)

  • Fixed: Error in the reports archiving process cause log explosion (#6007)

  • Fixed: Deleting a directive is VERY slow (#6207)

Techniques

  • Fixed: wrong group set by SSH key distribution (#6031)

  • Fixed: Error output on Time settings at first run (#6000)

Techniques - System & initial promises

  • Fixed: Root server splaytime is always 5'' - should be 0'' (#6164)

  • Fixed: syntax error in promises.st (#6131)

  • Fixed: rudder-agent installation may hang infinitely on Centos minimal install due to curl installation (#6035)

  • Fixed: Tests on rudder-techniques are broken due to $() (#5987)

System integration

  • Fixed: rudder-agent-thin: missing /var/rudder/share/man (#6092)

  • Fixed: Upgrading rudder-inventory-ldap between two major OS versions makes slapd unable to operate because of BerkeleyDB (#5741)

Packaging

 * Fixed: Error log when installing rudder-inventory ldap on RHEL6 #6032)

Release notes

Special thanks go out to the following individuals who invested time, patience, testing, patches or bug reports to make this version of Rudder better:

  • Alex Bruni

  • Dennis Cabooter

  • Florian Heigl

  • Lionel Le Folgoc

  • Olivier Mauras

This is a bug fix release in the 2.10 series and all installations of 2.10.x should be upgraded when possible. It is recommended to upgrade all pre-2.10 installations to 2.10 as soon as possible to enjoy the latest features and improvements of a more mature and stable version. When we release a new version of Rudder it has been thoroughly tested, and we consider the release enterprise-ready for deployment. This version is declared ``stable'' since it has proven itself to be stable in production over a period of several months following general availability of the release.

Rudder 2.10.9 ⇒ Not released, major bug in debian installation == (#6232)

Rudder 2.10.8 (2014-12-15)

Bug fixes

Webapp - Configuration management

  • Fixed: System rule are modified when trying to delete a directive (#5923)

  • Fixed: It should not be possible to delete system directives (#5875)

  • Fixed: Correctly display technique removed from source library (#5808)

  • Fixed: Description of default Rule ``Global configuration for all nodes'' is missing a space (#5788)

  • Fixed: On directive tree, tooltips does not appear anymore after directive update (#4223)

  • Fixed: Compliance percents are not sorted correctly (#5714)

Webapp - Node management

  • Fixed: We can’t search for ``Name ='' for an environment variable name in node (#5644)

  • Fixed: When creating a Group or a Rule, the category should be set to the currently selected category (#4367)

  • Fixed: When cloning a group, the group Tree doesn’t refresh (#3796)

Webapp - CFEngine integration

  • Fixed: Splaytime duration must be STRICTLY inferior to the agent period to avoid random run frequency (#5806)

  • Fixed: License of CFengine Enterprise is not mandatory on Enterprise, and should not be enforced by the web interface (#5761)

Webapp - Display, home page

  • Fixed: Missing files on the load page (#5867)

API

  • Fixed: Error message when trying to delete a system directive is horrible (#5915)

  • Fixed: You cannot pass `include' / `exclude' targets as json for Rule API (#5786)

  • Fixed: Using json to create directive is not working with API (#5778)

  • Fixed: Group category cannot be read from json parameters (#5123)

Logging

  • Fixed: Rudder agents crons send far too many mails (#5190)

Documentation

  • Fixed: Rudder readme is totally out of date and irrelevant (#5926)

  • Fixed: User manual doesn’t explain how to use Parameters (#5729)

  • Fixed: Upgrade procedure in reference manual don’t upgrade ncf (#5285)

  • Fixed: The relay server docs don’t mention what do on nodes (#4365)

  • Fixed: Database maintenance chapter doesn’t mention automatic archiving (#3960)

Techniques

  • Fixed: Build are failing because the normal ordering is not respected in technique motdConfiguration v3.1 (#5959)

  • Fixed: [motdConfiguration] REGEX constraint outside of CONSTRAINT block (#5440)

System integration

  • Fixed: Require latest version of ncf including fixes for reporting (#5880)

  • Fixed: dpkg configure error prevents installing rudder-agent due to cf-serverd error (#5785)

  • Fixed: Use nxlog instead of Centreon E2S, as it has less dependencies, and installs on every windows (#5762)

  • Fixed: Call ncf configuration bundle from Rudder, to ensure configuration used is correct (#5597)

  • Fixed: We can configure the Configuration Repository folder in the config file of the Web Interface , but the system Techniques are enforcing the location /var/rudder/configuration-repository (#5347)

  • Fixed: Missing cfengine man pages (#4903)

Techniques - System & initial promises

  • Fixed: System techniques can only setup log settings once on syslog-ng (#5799)

  • Fixed: Initial promises are calling undefined body u_bootstart (#5997)

Windows agent

  • Fixed: Motd technique only work on Unixes, not on windows (#5890)

  • Fixed: Process checking for cf-agent on windows suicide itself (#5619)

  • Fixed: Promises on Windows try to download perl (#5948)

AIX agent

  • Fixed: Technique SSHConfiguration don’t reports properly on Aix for component ``SSH start at boot'' if it is already correctly defined (#5902)

  • Fixed: Technique SSHConfiguration don’t reports properly on Aix for component ``SSH start at boot'' (#5860)

  • Fixed: Technique SSHConfiguration v4.0 fails on AIX - and stops agent execution (#5836)

  • Fixed: Messages sent from an AIX machine via a relay are not forwarded correctly (#5775)

Performance and scalability

  • Fixed: Ldap query to get all software by nodes take ages (#5803)

Miscellaneous

  • Fixed: Null pointer exception on agentTypes class (#5816)

  • Fixed: The definition of the current version of XML format is duplicated (#3352)

Vagrant boxes

  • Fixed: Add a link to rudder-vagrant redmine in Readme (#5228)

  • Fixed: For without do in node_centos6.sh (#5134)

  • Fixed: /etc/hosts gets messed up by sed commands (#4142)

  • Add a test to check boxes source url (#5130)

Release notes

Special thanks go out to the following individuals who invested time, patience, testing, patches or bug reports to make this version of Rudder better:

  • Dennis Cabooter

  • Florian Heigl

  • Lionel Le Folgoc

This is a bug fix release in the 2.10 series and all installations of 2.10.x should be upgraded when possible. It is recommended to upgrade all pre-2.10 installations to 2.10 as soon as possible to enjoy the latest features and improvements of a more mature and stable version. When we release a new version of Rudder it has been thoroughly tested, and we consider the release enterprise-ready for deployment. This version is declared ``stable'' since it has proven itself to be stable in production over a period of several months following general availability of the release.

Rudder 2.10.7 (2014-11-18)

Bug fixes

Webapp - Config management

  • Fixed: Number of enties displayed in Rule table is not saved (#5615)

  • Fixed: No tooltip displayed when you add a new section in a Directive (#5706)

  • Fixed: No groups directory in /var/rudder/configuration-repository (#5509)

  • Fixed: Rule categories list is not sorted (#5471)

Webapp - Display, home page

  • Fixed: Popups buttons may not be accessible after window is resized (#5492)

  • Fixed: White page with HTTP status: 413: FULL head (#4378)

Webapp - Node management

  • Fixed: Policies are not regenerated when accepting a node (#5756)

  • Fixed: Node details is missing plugin extension points (#5767)

Techniques

  • Fixed: Technique `rpmPackageInstallation' v6.0 stores a file in the wrong directory (#5697)

  • Fixed: Permissions may be applied recursively even if not asked to by ``filesPermissions'' Technique (#5632)

  • Rudder is unable to compare two package version correctly (#5587)

  • Fixed: It’s not possible to update package to latest version (#5609)

  • Fixed: Packages are not updated correctly on redhat based systems (#5608)

  • Fixed: Zypper Management Technique doesn’t behave correctly, and should be splitted in two separated techniques (#5662)

  • Fixed: Multiline header is added at each run on managed files (#4650)

  • Fixed: Zypper technique says skipping but returns UNKNOWN. (#5493)

  • Fixed: Generic variables definition forbid `&' character usage (#5605)

  • Update all techniques to respect normal ordering (#5306)

  • Fixed: Acceptance tests are failing on some techniques (#5752)

  • Fixed: On 2.11 rudder-agent, ``Repair'' status is always defined, even if nothing is modified (#5327)

Relay Servers

  • Fixed: Relay servers keeps sending inventories of their managed nodes at every run (#5462)

  • Fixed: When a node changes its policy server, the groups hasPolicyServer are never updated, and so the promises never make their way to them (#5322)

System integration

  • Fixed: ``fatal CFEngine error: in built-in FnCall irange-arg: Integer is out of range'' when using irange on non-linux plateform (#5719)

  • Fixed: Compliance to 0 with ``no reports'' but Technical reports correctly arriving + log about integer out of range for executionStatus (#5569)

Documentation

  • Fixed: Technique upgrade documentation is not correct (#5611)

  • Fixed: Update screenshots to be Rudder 2.10 compliant (#5349)

Inventory (webapp, Fusion)

  • Fixed: Non-unique machine UUID mess up collected inventory (#4490)

  • Fixed: Having multiple agents on a node breaks the values of the node policy server and node administrator user (#5583)

Webapp - CFEngine integration

  • Fixed: Two techniques with the same ID leads to strange error about git tree ids (#5614)

Packaging

  • Fixed: We should trigger slibclean on AIX during rudder-agent upgrades (#5733)

  • Fixed: A Rudder upgrade that leads to a different BDB version usage in slapd fails (#5705)

  • Fixed: We do not depend on apache2 utilities (and need it to use htpasswd) (#5599)

Performance and scalability

  • Fixed: Webapp checking that CFEngine variables used in Directive are correct takes too much time at startup (#5358)

Miscellaneous

  • Fixed: cf-clerk does not compile with Java 8 (#5657)

Windows integration

  • Fixed: list-comptabile-inputs doesn’t work on windows (#5616)

  • Fixed: executor daemon command needs to be different on windows for it to work (#5594)

  • Fixed: System technique make cfengine enterprise copy binairies from /opt/rudder, killing itself (#5590)

  • Fixed: Handling of inventory fails on Windows (#5588)

  • Fixed: The repository for modified files is not activated on Windows (#5581)

  • Fixed: Ports used for file copy between Client and Server is not correct on Windows, preventing copy on Windows (#5431)

  • Fixed: remove use of proxy in curl on Windows, as it is an invalid option (#5429)

Release notes

Special thanks go out to the following individuals who invested time, patience, testing, patches or bug reports to make this version of Rudder better:

  • Dennis Cabooter

  • Matthieu Ca.

  • Florian Heigl

  • Lionel le Folgoc

  • Olivier Mauras

  • Alex Tkachenko

This is a bug fix release in the 2.10 series and all installations of 2.10.x should be upgraded when possible. It is recommended to upgrade all pre-2.10 installations to 2.10 as soon as possible to enjoy the latest features and improvements of a more mature and stable version. When we release a new version of Rudder it has been thoroughly tested, and we consider the release enterprise-ready for deployment. This version is declared ``stable'' since it has proven itself to be stable in production over a period of several months following general availability of the release.

Rudder 2.10.6 (2014-09-24)

Changes

Bug fixes

Techniques - Sys & init promis

  • Fixed: Tools folder are empty! (#5564)

  • Fixed: Cache generated by list-compatible-inputs is cleared by the ncf copy, resulting in perpertual repaired state (#5513)

  • Fixed: The script list-compatible-inputs, copied from ncf, cannot be copied as the path is invalid (#5512)

  • Fixed: System techniques on Windows try to schedule a cron task (#5441)

  • Fixed: command to run fusion-inventory on windows fails due to parsing error in command line (#5430)

  • Fixed: Rewrite initial promises to use normal ordering on 2.10 (#5498)

Techniques

  • Fixed: clock management technique always report repair on Windows (#5341)

  • Fixed: User Management Techniques don’t reports properly on Windows (#5340)

  • Fixed: The Rudder logrotate configuration is not in sync between regular and initial promises (#5544)

  • Fixed: use list-compatible-inputs from ncf, not from tools (#5527)

  • Fixed: Call list-comptible-inputs with /bin/sh (#5519)

  • Fixed: Rewrite techniques to use normal ordering on 2.10 (#5507)

  • Fixed: downloadFile.st contains a syntax error (#5457)

  • Fixed: SSH Configuration Technique does not make timestamped version of all the version of the ssh config file, like other techiques (#5344)

  • Fixed: The Rudder logrotate configuration uses the wrong argument to reload rsyslog on Debian Wheezy (#5486)

  • Fixed: Add a placeholder for new technique on old versions (#5463)

Inventory (webapp, Fusion)

  • Fixed: Inventories generated on Windows are not accepted by the endpoint (#5191)

  • Fixed: FusionInventory: Doesn’t display (most) disk sizes (#4197)

System integration

  • Fixed: error in rudder-upgrade are not clear on service check (#5500)

  • Fixed: Tools directory is not always correctly updated on nodes (#5459)

Webapp - Config management

  • Fixed: Correct HTML: badly closed tag (#5540)

Packaging

  • Fixed: The strict dependency on ncf in rudder-techniques need to be updated (#5545)

  • Fixed: remove list-compatible-inputs from tools (#5532)

  • Fixed: rudder-techniques should require a specific version of ncf (#5522)

  • Fixed: Upgrade rudder-agent can fail if cf-serverd/cf-execd fails to stop gracefully (#4387)

API

  • Fixed: promise not generated, when accepting nodes, (#5530)

  • Fixed: Accepting Nodes via API does not trigger policy update (#5511)

Webapp - Node management

  • Fixed: LDAP error when defining group criteria (#5504)

  • Fixed: The Rule compliance explanations in Rudder’s web UI are not clear (#5413)

  • Fixed: We cannot edit only section of the file with enforce file content (#5301)

Documentation

  • Fixed: Do not use contrib and non-free (#5181)

Release notes

This is a bug fix release in the 2.10 series. All installations of 2.10.x should be upgraded when possible. It is recommended to upgrade all pre-2.10 installations to 2.10 as soon as possible to enjoy the latest features and improvements of a more mature and stable version.

When we release a new version of Rudder it has been thoroughly tested, and we consider the release enterprise-ready for deployment. This version is declared ``stable'' since it has proven itself to be stable in production over a period of several months following general availability of the release.

Rudder 2.10.5 (2014-08-28)

Changes

Bug fixes

Techniques - System & initial promises

  • Fixed: Agent can’t run because some ncf promises are CFEngine 3.6 specific (#5402)

  • Fixed: Promises does not run as expected on a Windows agent (#5339)

  • Fixed: Agent can’t run on Windows as it can’t find ncf promises (#5224)

Release notes

If you upgrade from 2.8x, 2.9.x or 2.10..x to 2.10.5, there is a specific upgrade procedure:

\1. Update the Rudder packages (yum update ``rudder-*'' or apt-get install rudder-server-root

\2. Restart the Web Interface ( /etc/init.d/rudder-jetty restart ), and wait for it to be fully started, and then click on ``Update'' on the top right hand side corner to trigger Policy update

\3. Update the ncf package (yum update ncf or apt-get install ncf)

New installations or upgrades from 2.6.x are not impacted by the issue.

This is a bug fix release in the 2.10 series and all installations of 2.10.x should be upgraded when possible. It is recommended to upgrade all pre-2.10 installations to 2.10 as soon as possible to enjoy the latest features and improvements of a more mature and stable version. When we release a new version of Rudder it has been thoroughly tested, and we consider the release enterprise-ready for deployment. This version is declared ``stable'' since it has proven itself to be stable in production over a period of several months following general availability of the release.

Rudder 2.10.4 (2014-08-13)

Bug fixes

Techniques

  • Fixed: The find call used to get all the files to include in the CFEngine run is not usable on AIX (#5292)

  • Fixed: Inventory are not correctly generated on Windows (#5342)

  • Fixed: Agent run may fail on nodes because some promises have not be correctly updated (#5231)

  • Fixed: fstab Tehcnique empties all options with Rudder 2.11 (#5328)

  • Fixed: In checkGenericFileContent v5.0, no answer in post modification hook (#5318)

  • Fixed: In checkGenericFileContent v5.0, reporting on post modification hook can be unknown (#5312)

  • Fixed: User Management 3.0 reports No Answer for the password component if the password is not set (#5239)

  • Fixed: CheckGenericFileContent does not send reports for post modification hook when we enforce the content of the file only at creatio (#5208)

  • Fixed: Incorrect use of commands without their full path in Sudo Parameter technique (#5187)

  • Fixed: We can’t set the SUID/SGID in technique Manage file and folders (#5325)

  • Fixed: Process management technique uses invalid syntax on CFEngine 3.5+ (#5315)

Web application

  • Fixed: Changes in directives are not taken into account if we only change the case of characters (#5317)

  • Fixed: The table reportsexecution, storing the agent execution on every node, is never emptied, and so can get very big (#5326)

  • Fixed: When using several times a generic_method on same file with class_prefix based on filename, reports will be in Unknown'' and No answer'' status (#5330)

  • Fixed: Popup content can be displayed outside of popup if content grow after intiialisation (#5314)

Packaging

  • Fixed: On AIX, when the crontab is edited to add check_rudder_agent, the service cron is not reloaded (#5310)

  • Fixed: The check-rudder-agent script tries to use the stat command on AIX (#5198)

  • Fixed: Missing dependency on net-tools for rudder-agent and rudder-thin (#5199, (#5380)

System integration

  • Fixed: Apache documentroot for SLES seems misconfigured (#5370)

  • Fixed: Authorized network sometimes have invalid values after rudder-init if you add more than one network (#5103)

Performance and scalability

  • Fixed: Group page is really slow when a lot of groups are defined (#5277)

  • Fixed: Promise generation is slowed down because expected_reports.csv file is written multiple times per node (#5240)

Documentation

  • Fixed: Update screenshots to be Rudder 2.6 compliant (#5348)

  • Fixed: Incomplete command to force inventory (#5205)

  • Fixed: The documentation says there is no Rudder server packages for RHEL 6 (#5204)

Release notes

Special thanks go out to the following individuals who invested time, patience, testing, patches or bug reports to make this version of Rudder better:

  • Florian Heigl

  • Lionel Le Folgoc

This is a bug fix release in the 2.10 series and all installations of 2.10.x should be upgraded when possible. It is recommended to upgrade all pre-2.10 installations to 2.10 as soon as possible to enjoy the latest features and improvements of a more mature and stable version. When we release a new version of Rudder it has been thoroughly tested, and we consider the release enterprise-ready for deployment. This version is declared ``stable'' since it has proven itself to be stable in production over a period of several months following general availability of the release.

Rudder 2.10.3 (2014-07-01)

Changes

Bug fixes

Webapp - Config management

  • Fixed: Cannot open Rule details when a Group contains a quote in its name (#5068)

Techniques

  • Fixed: In User Management Technique v3.0, if the group is not defined, the user is not created because it tries to insert it in group "" (#5149)

  • Fixed: Sudo techniques can fail on Debian 6 if the original files defines Command aliases (#5140)

  • Fixed: OpenSSH Techniques (debian3, 4, centos3 and 4): typo in class names for OS version (#5136), do not set invalid parameters (#5126, (#5127), cannot configure SSH Server on boot (#5144)

System integration

  • Fixed: Demo data generates nodes with Nova hosts, but no ``demo'' license is set, so promises generation fails (#5169)

  • Fixed: Rsyslog conditonnal cannot accept reports from CFEngine 3.6 (#5099)

  • Fixed: The script /var/rudder/tools/check_rsyslog_version will not work with versions containing more digits like ``5.10.1'' (#4757)

  • Fixed: Migration script `rudder-upgrade-database' displays unwanted logs (#5125)

Relay Servers

  • Fixed: The UUID passed to rudder-node-to-relay is case sensitive, and using wrong case renders the node invisible in webapp (#5053)

Webapp - Reporting

  • Fixed: On reports (Rule,Node) pages, a warning is displayed in javascript console (#5111)

Packaging

  • Fixed: check-rudder-agent fails if an error occurs during sourcing /etc/profile (#5119)

API

  • Fixed: Can’t pass correctly json parameter to group API (#5122)

Documentation

  • Fixed: Documentation for installing a relay server uses a group only available on RHEL/CentOS (#5026)

  • Fixed: Documentation states that relay servers are not yet available! (#5005)

Release notes

Special thanks go out to the following individuals who invested time, patience, testing, patches or bug reports to make this version of Rudder better:

  • Cédric Jardin

  • Lionel Le Folgoc

  • Daniel Stan

This is a bug fix release in the 2.10 series and all installations of 2.10.x should be upgraded when possible. It is recommended to upgrade all pre-2.10 installations to 2.10 as soon as possible to enjoy the latest features and improvements of a more mature and stable version. When we release a new version of Rudder it has been thoroughly tested, and we consider the release enterprise-ready for deployment. This version is declared ``stable'' since it has proven itself to be stable in production over a period of several months following general availability of the release.

Rudder 2.10.2 (2014-06-12)

Bug fixes

Techniques

  • Fixed: Technique rpmPackageInstallation: Specified version is not taken into account (#4999)

  • Fixed: Technique sshKeyDistribution: ssh keys are not added or replaced if they don’t finish by equal sign (#4719)

  • Fixed: Technique groupManagement: Members of group are enforced at group creation even if option is not set (#5001)

  • Fixed: Technique User management: cannot create an user if a group using the same name already exists (#4270)

Techniques - Sys & init promis

  • Fixed: Initial promises on server cause an error to be logged due to duplicate ``empty_file_before_editing'' setting (#5003)

  • Fixed: Initial promises for Rudder 2.6 (CFEngine 3.4) cannot be used when upgrading to 2.10 (CFEngine 3.5) (#4996)

  • Fixed: Windows clients may run the execRun command several times - for cygwin and plain windows cases (#4975)

  • Fixed: Date/time is not defined on all reports in failsafe.cf from initial promises (#4966)

  • Fixed: RHEL 3 and 4 don’t report correctly due to ``/bin/date: unrecognized option `–rfc-3339=second’'' (#4963)

  • Fixed: Initial promises don’t fetch new promises anymore on the policy server (#4992)

  • Fixed: cf-agent complains about removed constraint `host_licenses_paid' (#4970)

  • Fixed: Typo in site.st causes promise generation to fail (#5004)

System integration

  • Fixed: check-rudder-agent script fails if run_interval file does not exist (#4997)

  • Fixed: Fix typo in rudder-webapp postint: ``Restrating syslog…'' (#4976)

Packaging

  • Fixed: Package upgrade can fail if /etc//rudder-agent are missing (#5002)

  • Fixed: rudder-agent build rely too much on CPAN availability (#4965)

Documentation

  • Fixed: Documented procedure for Relay Server is invalid (#4722)

  • Fixed: Installation section is too hard to follow (#4998)

  • Fixed: The documentation gives no examples about role management in Rudder (#4960)

  • Fixed: Procedure on how to update the Technique Librairy is invalid (#4822)

Release notes

Special thanks go out to the following individuals who invested time, patience, testing, patches or bug reports to make this version of Rudder better:

  • Fabrice Flore-Thébault

  • Cédric Jardin

  • William Ott

This is a bug fix release in the 2.10 series. All installations of 2.10.x should be upgraded when possible. It is recommended to upgrade all pre-2.10 installations to 2.10 as soon as possible to enjoy the latest features and improvements of a more mature and stable version.

When we release a new version of Rudder it has been thoroughly tested, and we consider the release enterprise-ready for deployment. This version is declared ``stable'' since it has proven itself to be stable in production over a period of several months following general availability of the release.

Rudder 2.10.1 (2014-06-06)

Changes

AIX support

  • Reduce number of dependencies needed by rudder-agent on aix (#4726)

  • Upgrade FusionInventory to version 2.3.6 (AIX only) (#4594)

Bug fixes

Webapp - Config management

  • Fixed: If we select a Rule category (other than top) then reload the Rule page, the state of the Rule table is not coherent. (#4947)

  • Fixed: Rule category can be deleted after the a Rule was added to the category (#4946)

  • Fixed: In Rule grid, mouse hover on ``Not applied'' Rules display a wrong tooltip (#4787)

  • Fixed: A policy generation may occur when nothing has changed (#4859)

  • Fixed: Missing ``Unix Crypt Des'' algo type for AIX password (#4785)

Webapp - Administration

  • Fixed: Changing server security settings should trigger a promise generation (#4640)

  • Fixed: Reloading Technique library doesn’t apply changes to generated promises (#4706)

  • Fixed: Editing a Directive, after creating/cloning, does not show the workflow popup nor redirect to the change request (#4357)

Webapp - Reporting

  • Fixed: Reports cannot be inserted into postgresql due to a limit on ids (#4831)

Webapp - CFEngine integration

  • Fixed: Unconsistencies on generated promise due to bug on comparison logic between them (#4878)

API

  • Fixed: Latest API prefix is not correct (#4800)

  • Fixed: Node API version 4 can only get Node details (#4796)

  • Fixed: Detail level passed as parameter is not used in node api version 4 (#4729)

Techniques

  • Fixed: CheckGenericFileContent can have several ``repaired'' status on each of the different component, even is the end state is convergent (#4805)

  • Fixed: Technique ``Package management for Debian / Ubuntu / APT systems'', typo in the option to install an earlier package (#4754)

  • Fixed: Rudder causes RHEL nodes to be blacklisted in RHN due to intensive yum usage (#3855)

  • Fixed: Job Scheduler Technique should not use ifelapsed to avoid running several time same job (#4841)

  • Fixed: Technique ``APT package manager configuration'': Rudder file header is not added correctly in repository files (#4809)

  • Fixed: Technique ``Download a file from the shared folder'' fails to report correctly on AIX (#4764)

  • Fixed: Adapt Techniques to support Android in 2.10 (#4741)

  • Fixed: On AIX, several techniques try to use the group ``root'' (#4705)

Techniques - Sys & init promis

  • Fixed: cf-agent slowed by users addition into inventory and displays a lot of warnings about that (#4932)

  • Fixed: Automatic reparation method for cf_lock. is only checked once an hour (#4812)

  • Fixed: Reports are not inserted into Rudder because regexp in rsyslog is too greedy when matching execuction timestamp (#4761)

  • Fixed: The initial promises use a remote copy which does not permit the copy of ncf files to /var/rudder/ncf/ and generation of promises fails. (#4894)

  • Fixed: Copy of ncf files on the Policy Server leave removed files, resulting in duplicate promises if we rename or move files (#4837)

  • Fixed: CFEngine complains about a Typo in policy_server initial promises (#4745)

  • Fixed: The Techniques should use user crontabs on AIX instead of cron.d (#4907)

  • Fixed: Add skipidentify cofniguration on Android devices (#4749)

  • Fixed: initial promises don’t detect basic Rudder inventory requirements (machine ID, CFEngine key, CFEngine user, users…) on non Linux/Windows/Android systems (#4696)

  • Fixed: Reports from AIX nodes don’t get parsed due to an erroneous date format (#4703)

  • Fixed: syslogd support partially broken: ``*'' is not always supported for priority, and reload command varies on AIX (#4702)

  • Fixed: cf-agent fails on systems that don’t support ``find . -not …'' (AIX, in particular) (#4700)

  • Fixed: Rudder Techniques try to call miniperl with a wrong authenticate argument (#4825)

  • Fixed: There are StringTemplate variables in the initial-promises (#4824)

  • Fixed: The script /var/rudder/tools/check_rsyslog_version will not work without absolute path of rsyslogd (#4758)

  • Fixed: The initial promises are missing a class definition for force_inventory when /opt/rudder/etc/force_inventory is here (#4765)

  • Fixed: Permit script check_rsyslog_version to stop if an error is encountered (#4869)

  • Fixed: policy_server.dat file is not read on Nodes if its size exceed 40 bytes (#4921)

Relay Servers

  • Fixed: Promises generation fails on relay server (#4716)

  • Fixed: cf-agent -KI doesn’t work with relay feature (#4747)

Packaging

  • Fixed: Rudder init script may not correctly initialize policy_server.dat file, resulting in a non functioning Rudder server (#4915)

  • Fixed: An AIX selection condition is wrong in rudder-agent SPECfile (#4957)

  • Fixed: AIX rudder-agent packages are missing a dependency against tokyocabinet (#4951)

  • Fixed: The check-rudder-agent fix of cf_lock uses echo -n, which is incompatible with AIX (#4925)

  • Fixed: The rudder-webapp post installation script tries to call /etc/init.d/jetty instead of rudder-jetty on Debian based systems (#4920)

  • Fixed: check-rudder-agent should source /etc/profile before starting (#4908)

  • Fixed: The rudder-agent package tries to use an broken pre-installation script on AIX (#4886)

  • Fixed: rudder-agent RPM packages do not detect AIX properly in some cases (#4879)

  • Fixed: rudder-agent package build fails on debian-type OS because it can’t find FusionInventory code (#4830)

  • Fixed: The rudder-agent postinstall script tries to backup sysV type init scripts on AIX (#4801)

  • Fixed: AIX service management for rudder-agent has some bugs (#4704)

  • Fixed: RPM postinst and check-rudder-agent fail on AIX because our ``uuidgen'' is not executable (#4698)

  • Fixed: On AIX, check-rudder-agent script complains uses nonexistant options for ps and echo (#4695)

System integration

  • Fixed: rudder-agent may be stucked by tokyo cabinet database bloating (#4769)

  • Fixed: Default file header should be one liner to prevent header repetition. (#4755)

  • Fixed: cf_lock.tcdb is not cleaned by check-rudder-agent script when update file is older than 10 minutes (#4752)

  • Fixed: Typo in /opt/rudder/bin/check-rudder-agent, prevent cleaning of cf-lock and floods with cron mails (#4686)

  • Fixed: rudder agent is restarted by the cron job even if /opt/rudder/etc/disable-agent is present (#4688)

  • Fixed: A race condition may occur during rudder-server-root initialisation (#4635)

  • Fixed: The script rudder-init.sh should not output CFEngine execution, and keep the output of all commands in the log (#4634)

  • Fixed: When multiples cf-execd are running at the same time, agent is not behaving properly, and node is in NoAnswer state (#4613)

  • Fixed: check-rudder-agent does not adapt it’s check rate to the agent frequency (#4766)

Inventory (webapp, Fusion)

  • Fixed: Solaris Node are not correctly identified by Rudder inventory process (#4701)

  • Fixed: Network interface sharing the ip address are ignored by the inventory parser (#4883)

  • Fixed: Process start date are displayed as ``bad format'' in Rudder web interface (#4742)

  • Fixed: FusionInventory may report duplicated Network interfaces on AIX system, causing Rudder to ignore them (#4882)

  • Fixed: Get Technology Level and Service pack from AIX inventories (#4727)

  • Fixed: Add missing information about microcode version of Power system in AIX (#4725)

  • Fixed: processes start date in AIX inventory displayed as "Bad format’ (#4721)

  • Fixed: Inventories from AIX machines fail with ``invalid structural object class chain (aixNode/unixNode)'' error (#4699)

  • Fixed: Rudder does not report the Virtual Machine type correctly on AIX LPARs (#4826)

Documentation

  • Fixed: The documentation entry concerning the ramdisk state directory gives a wrong mount mode (#4792)

  • Fixed: The documentation entry concerning the ramdisk state directory gives wrong mount options (#4788)

  • Fixed: Update documentation for LDAP authentication (#4680)

Logging

  • Fixed: A developpment log line is displayed when saving Directive edit form (#4660)

Miscellaneous

  • Fixed: Typo in rudder-commons project, display a warning when compiling (#4853)

Release notes

Special thanks go out to the following individuals who invested time, patience, testing, patches or bug reports to make this version of Rudder better:

  • Cédric Cabessa

  • Dennis Cabooter

  • Fabrice Flore-Thébault

  • Mikaël Mantel

  • Olivier Mauras

This is a bug fix release in the 2.10 series. All installations of 2.10.x should be upgraded when possible. It is recommended to upgrade all pre-2.10 installations to 2.10 as soon as possible to enjoy the latest features and improvements of a more mature and stable version.

When we release a new version of Rudder it has been thoroughly tested, and we consider the release enterprise-ready for deployment. This version is declared ``stable'' since it has proven itself to be stable in production over a period of several months following general availability of the release.

Rudder 2.10.0 (2014-03-28)

Changes

Packaging

  • Support for AIX (agent only) (#4595)

  • Harmonize the package maintainers of all Rudder packages (#4667)

Webapp - Administration

  • Harmonize display of new parameters with others in `Settings' page (#4668)

Webapp - Display, home page

  • Add Rudder 2.10 logo: Catamaran (#4676)

  • Rename Rule deployment'' to Policy update'' (#4308)

Documentation

  • Fixed: Update references in documentation to Rudder 2.10 (#4715)

Bug fixes

Webapp - Administration

  • Fixed: Changing agent settings (server security, agent frequency,…) should launch a new promise generation (#4661, (#4640)

Webapp - Configuration

  • Fixed: Editing a Directive, after creating/cloning, does not show the workflow popup nor redirect to the change request (#4357)

System integration

  • Fixed: Authentication to Rudder from LDAP should not require to touch WAR file (#4403)

  • Fixed: Missing property `rudder.debug.nodeconfiguration.path' in configuration file (#4542)

  • Fixed: A race condition may occur during rudder-server-root initialization (#4635)

  • Fixed: The script rudder-init.sh should not output CFEngine execution, and keep the output of all commands in the log (#4634)

Logging

  • Fixed: A developpment log line is displayed when saving Directive edit form (#4660)

Release notes

Special thanks go out to the following individuals who invested time, patience, testing, patches or bug reports to make this version of Rudder better:

  • Olivier Mauras

This version of Rudder is a final release. We have tested it thoroughly and believe it to be free of any major bugs. However, this branch is not marked stable'', since it still has to be proven reliable on production systems over a period of several months. The current stable'' release is 2.6.*.

Rudder 2.10.0~beta1 (2014-03-21)

Changes

Webapp - CFEngine integration

  • Make the agent run schedule configurable from 5 minutes to 6 hours, with configurable offset and splay time (#3679)

  • Make the retention time for modified-files configurable in the web interface (#4369), Change default value for outputs from 30 days to 7 days (#4651)

Webapp - Reporting

  • Add a new kind of reports: report the fact that there was nothing to do instead of reporting a success (#4550)

  • When a report was not received, call it No report'' instead of No Answer'' in compliance details (#4662)

Webapp - Config management

  • Allow exclusion and composition of groups to gain more flexibility in Nodes targeted by a Rule (#4505)

Performance and scalability

  • When generating promises, use a cache for template file (#4521)

  • Avoid useless requests and commits in SQL database (#4428)

  • Keep only the LDIF dump of the inventory when we accept/refuse it, not every time we receive a new inventory (#4560)

  • Don’t write execution report in several log files (#4520)

  • Rudder agents run times should be splayed a maximum to ensure maximum scalability (#4451)

  • allowusers is duplicated in cf-served.cf (#4444)

API

  • Add information from inventory when looking for Nodes through Rest API (#4578)

  • Improve API JSON answers prettification (#4618)

Techniques

Webapp - Administration

  • Rename change message'' feature to change audit log'' and add more explanations (#4153)

Inventory (webapp, Fusion)

  • Support !FusionInventory version 2.3 (#4663)

System integration

  • Rename jetty and slapd init scripts and defaults files to rudder-jetty and rudder-slapd (#4510)

  • Upgrade version of jetty (7.6.14) in Rudder packages (#4477)

  • Rudder 2.10 will not support upgrades from any version older than 2.6.* (#4413)

  • Support Rudder agent on AIX 5.3+ (#4459), building less verbose (#4587), reset Epoch to 0 by default (#4563), Remove deprecated package rudder-cfengine-community (#4561)

Architecture - Refactoring

  • Ease new REST APIs creation (#4600)

Bug fixes

Performance and scalability

  • Fixed: Promise generation takes too long when getting more and more nodes (#4242)

  • Fixed: Rudder web UI freezes when too many inventory are received at the same time (#4497)

  • Fixed: Promise generation process should not lose time by forking to run ``/bin/true'' (#4475)

  • Fixed: cf-serverd looks up reverse DNS for ALL nodes at start up (#4442)

  • Fixed: Duplicated list of nodes authorized to connect to the policy server in the generated promises (#4642)

Webapp - Node management

  • Fixed: duplicated IP addresses across nodes are not accepted, preventing to handle NAT (#4429)

Techniques - System & initial promises

  • Fixed: Remove unused variables ADMIN, POLICYCHILDREN and CHILDRENID from ``common'' system technique metadata (#4573)

Packaging

  • Fixed: rudder-jetty does not consider /etc/default/jetty as a configuration file and replace it silently during upgrade (#3929)

  • Fixed: Missing files to build `rudder-agent' SRPM as standalone (#4466)

Release notes

This software is in beta status and contains a lots of new features. We have tested it and believe it to be free of any critical bugs. The use on production systems is not encouraged at this time and is at your own risk. However, we do encourage testing, and welcome all and any feedback!