Change logs for Rudder 2.3

Dennis Cabooter

Dennis Cabooter

François Bayart aka A-Kaser (Look a box)

Fix timestamp format in agent logs generated by the ``failsafe'' mechanism (#2994)

Fix Enter button to validate the popup from the creation of a new Directive (#2816)

Fix Enter button to validate the Edit Directive form (#2814)

Prevent to create a group of nodes which couldn’t contain anything if the button `Update' has never been used (#2798)

Fix acceptance of inventories if using a strict umask on system of Rudder server (#2767)

Add more informations in the webapp log file when trying to load Policy Templates fails (#2633)

Fix reports which were not received in Rudder if backslash was used in some Policy Instances variables (#2582)

Fix wrong type of CPU Speed (float instead of integer) attribute in LDAP which lead to not have information about it on nodes and prevent to make search filter about it (#2560)

The popup with the Policy Instances list on the Configuration Rules page doesn’t allow for more than 10 PIs (#2772)

Fix options to sort compliance percentages in Configuration Rules Management screen (#2497)

Various Bug Fixes (#2810, #2651)

Prevent logrotate.d/rudder to be silently replaced and potentially remove user configuration about Rudder log files. (#2872)

Prevent logback.xml to be silently replaced and potentially remove user configuration about Rudder log files. (#2857)

Fix broken upgrade of rudder-cfengine-community from a version earlier than 2.3.8 (#2733)

Prevent cfengine-community package to start cf-agent before to have its promises (#2731)

Fix error during the first installation of Rudder if rudder-inventory-ldap package is not installed before rudder-jetty (#2730)

Fix rudder-jetty package which couldn’t be installed on SLES 32 bits (#2563)

PT ``SSH keys distribution'': Add possibility to take into account network users (special thanks to Michael Gliwinski!) (#2944)

PT ``Job Scheduler'': Job was never launched if start time was between 0:00 and 9:00 AM (#2940)

PT ``Enforce a file content'': Fix the version 2.0 which didn’t generated a valid CFEngine code (#3022)

PT ``Apache 2 HTTP Server'': Apache 2 package was never installed on Debian or SLES 11 (#3023)

PT ``Package management for Debian / Ubuntu / APT systems'': Prevent Rudder from non interactive installation failures with APT if a configuration file has been modified (#2946)

PT ``Enforce a file content'': Add possibility to create or not the file we want to modify (#2945)

PT ``Apache 2 HTTP Server'': didn’t return reports when Apache was successfully installed (#2608)

PT ``User management'': PT could set a fullname of the user only at the creation (#2558)

PT ``User Management'': PT didn’t send error report when checking a user fails (#2557)

PT ``User Management'': PT could set the user password if the password field was filled and the action to do was to only check the User (#2552)

PT ``Set the permissions of files'': Values for Owner and Group were mandatories even if our choice was to not modify them (#2471)

PT ``Time Settings'': Was not able to install NTP package on RHEL/CentOS (#2384)

Various PT Fixes (#2556, #2853)

François Bayart aka A-Kaser (Look a box)

Michael Gliwinski (Henderson Group)

Ade Bradshaw

Gonéri Le Bouder (Teclib)

#2576: Activating ``trace'' log level caused Rudder to fail during deployment

#2560: Could not search for nodes based on their CPU speed

#2375: Don’t give read permissions on generated promise files on the Rudder server

Various improvements for Windows support (#2516, #2499, #2496)

Various UI improvements (#2620, #2483, #2466)

Various system policy templates improvements (#2579)

Various build environment improvements (#2605)

#2527: Added a procedure to change default passwords in a Rudder server installation (http://www.rudder-project.org/rudder-doc-2.3/rudder-doc.html#password-management)

#2523: Document how to upgrade Policy Template library (http://www.rudder-project.org/rudder-doc-2.3/rudder-doc.html#_policy_template_upgrade)

#2559: Reduce default verbosity for LDAP log level, to avoid huge logs

Various packaging improvements (#2568, #2534)

#2564: PT ``Enforce a file content'': Multi-line text was inserted with extra tabs

#2478: PT ``Package management for Debian / Ubuntu / APT systems'': Options for apt-get and aptitude have been changed to avoid them asking questions during silent installs

#2457: PT ``Manage files and folders'': Age criteria was ignored when deleting one file or directory only (not on a subtree)

#2394: PT ``Hosts management'': Base template used when asked to reset the entier /etc/hosts file contents is now configurable in the UI

Various fixes in reporting, variable definition and descriptions (#2614, #2606, #2600, #2555, #2553, #2488, #2485)

Various fixes for Windows compatibility (#2562, #2561, #2554, #2498)

François Bayart aka A-Kaser

Jean Rémond

Michael Gliwinski

#2464: Configuration Rules based on dynamic groups with criteria matching the Network interfaces > IP address'' would not be displayed in the list of Configuration Rules to be applied to new nodes (in the Accept new nodes'' page)

#2456: Policy Instances included in Configuration Rules with several Policy Instances could be applied even when they were disabled

#2444: Web application now gracefully reconnects to the database if connection was lost

#2425: Configuring Policy Instances with several identical values (for multi-valued sections) would cause reporting errors, so exact duplicates are now silently dropped

#2419: Add support for Policy Instances with CFEngine variables in them (ie, ``$'') when they are used as reporting keys in Policy Templates

#2403: Fix the default query for new groups to ensure it’s valid

#2398: Ensure expected reports are counted exactly to avoid a case where compliance was 0% when it should have been 100%

#2368: Improve audit trail for object names in the database

#2289: Fix the hello-world sample plugin to generate a single JAR to ease including it in an existing Rudder server

#2258: Changes to policy server settings were not all displayed in the Event Log in the UI

#2254: Fix default apache configuration to deny read access to the incoming WebDAV directory where nodes send their inventories (POST method only)

#2234: Clarify error message returned by the inventory endpoint when receiving a request that it can’t handle

Various documentation improvements (#2476, #2461, #2408, #2407, #1746, #1624)

Various UI improvements (#2468, #2463, #2458, #2433, #2430, #2404, #2400, #2169, #2156)

Various system policy templates improvements (#2413)

Various build environment improvements (#2459, #2383, #2245, #2242)

#2380, #2455, #2371: rudder-agent and rudder-cfengine-community now depend on the right package to install dmidecode on SLES and RHEL

#2379: Rudder root server’s logrotate script could rotate the /etc/init.d/apache2 file on SLES

#2447, #2269: VirtualHost file installed for Apache and inventory endpoint configuration file (/opt/rudder/etc/inventory-web.properties) were not considered a configuration file by packaging, and local changes could be overwritten on upgrade

#2288: Fix service dependencies so that all Rudder servevr components start in the right order on system boot

#2142, #2440: rudder-server-root init script was missing on SLES

Various packaging improvements (#2475, #2390, #2385, #2345, #2335, #2326, #2291, #2272)

#2470: PT ``Download a file from the shared folder'': Add an option to choose the method to check if a copy is required (MD5 hash, mtime, ctime, etc)

#2454: PT ``Job scheduler'': Fix handling multiple jobs in the same Policy Instance

#2417, #2218: PT ``Enforce a file content'': Fix version 2.1 which regressed to being single-valued, thus breaking existing configurations

#2410: PT ``Name resolution'': Add a field to configure options in resolv.conf

#2409: PT ``Name resolution'': Fix search suffix application (one line instead of multiple lines)

#2391: PT ``Manage files and folders'': Deleting files older than X days could delete files created during the agent run (ie, less than a minute old)

#2387: PT ``Host settings'': Clean up any conflicting lines defining an identical hostname to the one defined in Rudder

#2297: PT ``Download a file from the shared folder'': Add a post-hook section to enable running a command after a file is copied

#2140: PT ``Enforce a file content'': Add the possibility to delete or replace a line using a regexp

#2465: PT ``Enforce a file content'': Enforcing full content of a file is no longer mandatory

#2170: PT ``MOTD configuration'': Validate that MOTD content does not contain double quotes that would break CFEngine generated promises

Various fixes in reporting, variable definition and descriptions #2481, #2467, #2435, #2416, #2393, #2374, #2343, #2225, #1905)

Alexandre Valembois aka VAlu

François Bayart aka A-Kaser

Jean Rémond

Olivier Li Kiang Cheong aka lkco

#2194: Logs for inventory endpoint now use the original filename instead of the constant ``file''

Various packaging improvements (#2147, #2177)

New Policy Template ``Job Scheduler'': this PT enables running a given task at random times over a period (for example, between 2 and 6 AM) across a group of nodes

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#2200: ``Services management'' PT did not correctly setup services to start automatically on boot on Debian systems

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#2146: Two PT categories had the same name (security) causing some display issues

#2111: Adding several allowed networks in the rudder-init.sh script failed

#2091: Error in search with two regex'' match and a or'' composition

#2121: Refactored some database access code to be thread-safe

#1973: Clarified name of popup in ``Accept new nodes'' screen

Various packaging improvements (#2112, #2043)

New Policy Template to run a tripwire'' check on files and folders, and report errors if contents changed: Monitor a file or directory content'' PT (#2055)

#2113, #2131, #2024: ``Cron management'' PT now supports a much wider range of manual time specifications

#2090: ``Manage files and folders'' PT: now warns when trying to set permissions on a link

#2129: ``Fstab configuration'' PT: we can now delete lines based on the destination (ie, /tmp, instead of /dev/sda7)

#2124: ``Fstab configuration'' PT no longer modifies commented lines that match standard line format

#2127: ``Services management'' PT: services were not correctly disabled from starting on boot if they were configured with non-standard runlevels, on SLES 10

#2116: ``Download a file from the shared folder'' PT didn’t set owner, group and permissions as expected

#2066: All backup copies of edited/copied files are now stored in a single directory, /var/rudder/modified-files

#2088: File permissions enforced conflicted with permissions on files copied from server, causing many useless repairs (``Rudder system policy: basic setup (common)'' PT)

#2087, #2067: Erroneous reporting in some cases when updating policy on nodes (``Rudder system policy: basic setup (common)'' PT)

#2080: Packaging didn’t include logrotate configuration for rudder-server-root in RPM packages

Various packaging improvements (#2016, #2039, #2044, #2065, #2072, #2079)

New Policy Template: ``Generic CFengine variable definition'' allows to define values for different hosts, and reuse them in other Policy Instances

#2089: ``Manage files and folders'' PT reported an error when it succeeds when trying to create a directory that already exists

#2042: ``Fstab configuration'' PT can now also delete lines aswell as creating or altering them

#2069: ``Fstab configuration'' PT didn’t support several spaces as a field separator

#2046: ``RUG / !YaST package manager configuration (ZMD)'' PT: reporting was broken when a repository is given but no edition is required

#2045: ``Time settings'' PT: reporting was broken on SLES 10

#1904: ``Apache 2 HTTP server'' PT now uses correct reporting format

Several fixes on ``Download a file from the shared folder'' PT (#2081, #2085)

#2035: We now enforce file permissions of 600 on policy files on all managed nodes (``Rudder system policy: basic setup (common)'' PT)

#2015: Broken Configuration Rules are no longer hidden in the web interface

#1960: On the ``New node management'' page, we cannot close the inventory of a node

#2026, #2036: Default value not taken into account in sub-sections of multivalued sections for newly created Policy Instances

Various packaging improvements

#2022: ``Manage files and folders'' PT: Add the possibility to define a file selection pattern

#2021, #2034: ``Manage files and folders'' PT :Add the possibility to delete or clean a directory/file with a time constraint

#2033: ``User management'' PT: Make the name and password fields optional

#2032: ``Enforce a file content'' PT: Add the possibility to specify the user/group/mode manually or to let CFengine set them automatically

#2030: ``Package management for RHEL / CentOS / (SuSE / RPM systems'' now checks that the ZMD process is running on SLES 10

#2023: Cron daemon configuration'' PT: Manual frequency didn’t allow asterisk *''

#2019: ``RUG / !YaST package manager configuration (ZMD)'' PT: Add proxy related options

#1997, #2006, #2013: Moved the Policy Templates directory from /var/rudder/policy-templates to /var/rudder/configuration-repository/policy-templates. This allows to store other configuration information under /var/rudder/configuration-repository.

#1997, #1999, #2000, #2001: Add a feature to share files from the Rudder server to nodes, via a shared directory: /var/rudder/configuration-repository/shared-files

#1981: Change the size of the textarea in the Policy Instance Editor to make it bigger

#1986: Variables in subsection of a multi-valued section are not saved

#1959: Inventories moved to ``received'' even if the inventory-endpoint returns an error code (and similar preventive bug fix for other curl invocations: #1961)

#1930: Remove a dead link

Services Management (#1927, #1985, #1993, #1994)

Package management for RHEL / CentOS / SuSE / RPM systems (#1976)

Zypper package manager configuration (#2005)

RUG / !YaST package manager configuration (ZMD) (#1987, #1989, #1995)

Cron daemon configuration (#1990)

Fstab configuration (#1956, #1967, #1979, #1980)

!OpenSSH server (#1937)

User management (#1952)

Manage files and folders (#1966, #1968, #1975, #1992, #1996, #2007)

Enforce a file content (#1965, #1970, #1982)

#1934: Corrupted display when adding multiple instances to Policy Instances

#1940: Postgresql error at Rudder installation

Various packaging improvements