Change logs for Rudder 2.7

Rudder 2.7 has reached End of Life the in July 2013. This branch is codenamed ``Powerboat''.

This page provides a summary of changes for each version.

A blog post about all these features is available here: http://blog.normation.com/en/2013/09/03/rudder-2-7/

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.

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 11.10, Ubuntu 12.04 and Ubuntu 12.10

  • Rudder agent: all of the above plus RHEL/CentOS 3, RHEL/CentOS 5, SLES 10 and Ubuntu 10.04

Rudder 2.7.7 (2014-01-16)

Changes

Techniques

  • Technique ``Download a file from the shared folder'' should display where the shared folder is located (#4353)

Bug fixes

Webapp - Administration

  • Fixed: Archive parameter files are named `ParameterName(name).xml' instead of `name.xml' (#4377)

  • Fixed: Parameters are not included when dowloading zip archive (#4374)

  • Fixed: Techniques are not included when downloading zip archive (#4279)

  • Fixed: Size of databases displayed in the web interface are lower than they really are (#4101)

Inventory (webapp, Fusion)

  • Fixed: Without lsb_release installed, RedHat is detected as Scientific Linux (#4360)

  • Fixed: Inventories containing very long (> 4096) process name cannot be send to rudder server via CFEngine (#4314)

Webapp - Config management

  • Fixed: ``Missing node'' error message in rule compliance when a node is deleted (#3955)

  • Fixed: In Rule edit form, group tree is sent to the end of the page if one name is too long (#4175)

  • Fixed: When a Rule is disabled due to an invalid state, some changes made on that Rule may be overwritten (#4209)

  • Fixed: Exporting groups with same name but in different categories to another server Rudder is not working (#4149)

Documentation

  • Fixed: Incorrect English grammar (#4206)

  • Fixed: Remove unused relay documentation placeholder files (#4267)

Webapp - Display, home page

  • Fixed: If a popup is too large for a screen, save buttons can’t be used (#3795)

Packaging

  • Fixed: Rudder server cannot be installed on CentOS and Red Hat 6.5 since dependency `jre' does not exist anymore (#4290)

  • Fixed: Necessary entries in the apache2 sysconfig of SLES systems are missing (#4280)

Techniques

  • Fixed: All techniques should back up all modified/copied files by Rudder (#4371)

  • Fixed: Technique ``Download a file from the shared folder'': permissions defaulted to none (mode 0000) (#4368)

  • Fixed: Incorrect detection of empty password/name in `userManagement' Technique when several user are to be managed (#4347)

  • Fixed: In `userManagement' Technique, the full name is checked only every 60 minutes, resulting in unknown reports (#4346)

  • Fixed: Change the Path statement in `Enforce a file content' Technique (all versions) (#4311)

  • Fixed: With initial-promises, error message is not displayed when policies could not be updated (#4244)

  • Fixed: A Xen Hypervisor on SLES does not make a valid inventory and can’t be accepted into Rudder since binary path to xenstore is wrong on SLES 11 and does not exist on SLES 10 (#4227)

  • Fixed: It is not possible to add a block content or at a specified location of a file using `Enforce file content' Technique (#3293)

  • Fixed: Command to restart rsyslog is not correct on Fedora (#4156) * Fixed: correct some typos is `sshConfiguration' Technique v3.0 (#4328)

Webapp - Reporting

  • Fixed: Reports containing a _ in the ``Policy'' (human readable policy name) are rejected by rsyslog (#4247)

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

  • Yvan Masson

  • Olivier Mauras

  • Christophe Nowicki

  • Joachim Setzer

  • Alex Tkachenko

This is a bug fix release in the 2.7 series and all installations of 2.7.x should be upgraded when possible. This version is not yet marked stable'', since it has not yet proven itself to be reliable on production systems over a period of several months. The current stable'' release is still 2.6.*.

When we release a new version of Rudder it has been thoroughly tested, and we consider the release enterprise-ready for deployment. To be declared ``stable'' we prefer to wait until a version has been available and running in production for several months. However, since new 2.9.* versions has been released, we expect that new version to be declared stable very soon.

Rudder 2.7.6 (2013-11-20)

Changes

Techniques

  • Hide by default sections that are not ``mandatory'' within Techniques (#4105)

  • New Technique added: Partition monitoring (#3984)

Bug fixes

Techniques - Sys & init promis

  • Fixed: The rsyslog version > 5.7.1 drops messages if there is more than 200 messages in 5 seconds and could lead to `No Answer' status of all nodes (#4127)

Logging

  • Fixed: Disabling workflow functionnality should disable change request, however a log about change request is still displayed (#4143)

Documentation

  • Fixed: User manual doesn’t mention RHEL/CentOS 3 support (#4125)

  • Fixed: User manual doesn’t mention Debian wheezy support (#4124)

Webapp - Display, home page

  • Fixed: Links to Node in the change request and event log are broken (#4049)

  • Fixed: Typo in `There are no modifications to save' error message (#4043)

Miscellaneous

  • Fixed: Rudder-agent upgrade fails if one of the binaries is in use during upgrade (#4098, (#3665)

  • Fixed: Error when upgrading from a Rudder server 2.3 if both policy.xml and metadata.xml were existing for the same techniques (#4088)

  • Fixed: Agent upgrade does not work if /opt/rudder/etc/disable-agent file exists (#4087)

Packaging

  • Fixed: Rudder upgrade script is not launched on installation on RPM based systems which could lead to error if Rudder was previously removed (#4121)

  • Fixed: /etc/cron.d/rudder-agent is not installed on Debian/Ubuntu (#4109)

  • Fixed: First inventory sending may not contains UUID (#4147)

  • Fixed: slapd is not always restarted on upgrading, leading to missing schema update (#4132)

  • Fixed: Apache is not started after reboot on RPM systems (#4126)

  • Fixed: If a node has not cron (or equivalent) installed, then the uuid or init script are not restored (#4009)

Webapp - Administration

  • Fixed: Automatic Technique library updater is not launched. (#4116)

  • Fixed: An error occurs when displaying a change request where a directive technique was moved (#4030)

  • Fixed: Correct English in ``change message'' pop-ups (#4151)

  • Fixed: Rudder cannot load several plugins at the same time (#3314)

Webapp - Node management

  • Fixed: A deleted node that is re-added causes appearance of a ``No Machine Inventory'' in the Nodes list (#4085)

Webapp - Config management

  • Fixed: The check of validity of Rudder parameters within variable values is too strict and does not permit spaces (#4063)

  • Fixed: The deletion of a Technique version used by a Directive will throw an error ’ NoSuchElementError ’ (#3687)

Techniques

  • Fixed: Initial Promises were not able to install missing packages (rsyslog, curl or xen) on Debian/Ubuntu due to missing `package_patch_command' attribute in promises (#4070)

  • Fixed: Reports of distributePolicy promises is in `Unknown' status caused by a duplicate reports about `configuration-repository' git lock (#4048)

  • Fixed: Technique `Package management for RHEL / CentOS / (SuSE / RPM systems' v4.0, 4.1 and 5.0: Incorrect clear of cache of installed packaged on promises updates lead to have `No answer' states after a modification of packages in Directive (#4145)

  • Fixed: Remove comma after the promiser from passwordCheck in the distirbutePolicy promises (#4040)

  • Fixed: The failsafe of the initial promises cannot update promises (#4025)

  • Fixed: Reporting message that state that curl is missing should be clearer (#4021, (#4166)

  • Fixed: The first inventory made display disturbing error messages about CPU (#3854, (#4111)

  • Fixed: There is a typo in Rudder file disclaimer (#4032)

  • Fixed: Reporting is never caught if the Rudder server UUID (/var/rudder/tmp/uuid.txt) was more than 33 characters long (#4018)

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

  • Olivier Mauras

  • Jean Remond

This is a bug fix release in the 2.7 series and all installations of 2.7.x should be upgraded when possible. This version is not yet marked stable'', since it has not yet proven itself to be reliable on production systems over a period of several months. The current stable'' release is still 2.6.*.

When we release a new version of Rudder it has been thoroughly tested, and we consider the release enterprise-ready for deployment. To be declared ``stable'' we prefer to wait until a version has been available and running in production for several months. As such, we expect version 2.7 of Rudder to be declared stable very soon.

Rudder 2.7.5 (2013-10-09)

Changes

Bug fixes

Packaging

  • Fixed: Installing rudder-server-root on SLES fails on init script (#4001)

  • Fixed: The logrotate configuration file from Debian/Ubuntu rudder-server-root is duplicate between the old (rudder-server-root) and the new one (rudder) (#4026)

  • Fixed: rudder-server-root package should use logrotate.rhel file for RHEL/CentOS (#4014)

  • Fixed: After upgrading the policy server, the rsyslog configuration is invalid (#4004)

  • Fixed: The packaging appends the Apache DAVLock configuration at every package installation / upgrade (#4003)

  • Fixed: Backup process of /etc//rudder-agent in preinst of rudder-agent RPM should not be made a first install bu during upgrade (#4000)

  • Fixed: The script check-rudder-agent does not repair the Rudder UUID since the add of backup of /etc/\{init.d,default/rudder-agent (#3999)

  • Fixed: Cannot remove rudder-agent package if CFEngine processes are not running (#3992)

  • Fixed: /etc//rudder-agent is removed if the package rudder-agent is upgraded from 2.4.8 on SuSE or RHEL/CentOS (#3997, (#3998)

  • Fixed: The file /opt/rudder/bin/check-rudder-agent contains a typo which prevent from relaunching CFEngine processes (#3996)

  • Fixed: Missing file in the 2.6 migration script (#4020)

  • Fixed: /etc//rudder-agent is removed if the package rudder-agent is upgraded from 2.6.4, 2.6.5, 2.7.1 or 2.7.2 on SuSE or RHEL/CentOS (#3995)

Techniques

  • Fixed: Fix our CFEngine standard lib to be CFEngine 3.5.* compliant but based on modifications of the latest version of it (#4005)

  • Fixed: Remove `owners' attribute from copy_from body in the update.st file (#4002)

  • Fixed: Technique `User Management' v2.0: It gives no answer on password component when removing a user (#3845)

  • Fixed: The system Techniques use the wrong logrotate configuration on RHEL (#4012)

  • Fixed: The logrotate configuration in RHEL does not rotate httpd logs (#4011)

Documentation

  • Fixed: Missing documentation for LDAP authentication with user search (not direct bind) (#3963)

Contributors

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

Release notes

This is a bug fix release in the 2.7 series and all installations of 2.7.x should be upgraded when possible. We have tested it thoroughly on production systems and believe it to be free of any major bugs. This version is not marked stable'', since it has not proven to be reliable on production systems over time yet. The current stable'' release is still 2.6.*.

The previous release (2.7.4) was not publicly announced as it unfortunately did not meet our quality and assurance requirements.

Rudder 2.7.3 (2013-10-03)

Changes

Webapp - Reporting

  • Change rudder sysevents indexes on PostgreSQL (#3988)

Techniques

  • Prevent the /etc/cron.d/rudder-agent script from sending unsollicited e-mails (#3944)

  • Technique ``Package management for RHEL / CentOS / (SuSE / RPM systems'' v4.1: Backport from Rudder 2.6 to Rudder 2.4 (#3919)

  • Technique `Download a file from a shared folder': Be able to exclude files from a folder copy (#3364)

  • Technique `MOTD Configuration': Add an option to append the (MoTD at the beginning or the end of the file (#3950)

  • Technique `Manage files and folders': Add local copy action (#3398)

Documentation

  • Add Advices to separate partitions in server installation section (#3932)

Bug fixes

Packaging

  • Fixed: Since add of a new file to check CFEngine processes and Rudder UUID (#3925), the patch for Debian 5 (about tokyocabinet) does not work anymore for debian/rules (#3976)

  • Fixed: With OpenVZ, cf-agent on the host see all other cf-agent execution and kills them (#3909)

  • Fixed: Logrotate should use `delaycompress' option (#3922)

Webapp - Reporting

  • Fixed: Missing index on DB for ``reports by nodes'' leads to timeout for node list page (#3674)

Webapp - Administration

  • Fixed: Authorized network field are space-sensitive (#3927)

  • Fixed: Missing/incomplete LDAP group support (#3829)

  • Fixed: Package rudder-server-root still install /etc/init.d/logrotate.d/rudder-server-root on Debian/Ubuntu affects Rudder 2.4.8, 2.6.4, 2.6.5, 2.7.1 and 2.7.2) (#3981)

  • Fixed: /etc/init.d/rudder-server-root is no more installed on Debian/Ubuntu (affects Rudder 2.4.8, 2.6.4, 2.6.5, 2.7.1 and 2.7.2) (#3980)

  • Fixed: /opt/rudder/etc/uuid.hive is removed if the package rudder-agent is upgrade from 2.4.8, 2.6.4, 2.6.5, 2.7.1 or 2.7.2 on (SuSE or RHEL/CentOS (#3925)

  • Fixed: Upgrading to Rudder 2.4.8, 2.6.4, 2.6.5, 2.7.1 or 2.7.2 may cause uuid.hive to be removed (#3915)

  • Fixed: The rsyslog configuration deployed at install is invalid (#3914)

  • Fixed: Migration of eventlogs v1 does not work if eventlogs v2 exists (#3906)

  • Fixed: Postinstall script of rudder-inventory-endpoint display a warning about fail of rsyslog restart at first install on RHEL/CentOS (#3900)

  • Fixed: Change request cannot be accepted: multiline text cause merge incompatibility (#3967)

  • Fixed: Available options for rudder.batch.reportscleaner.frequency are not documented in rudder-web.properties (#3940)

Webapp - CFEngine integration

  • Fixed: Wrong stringTemplate definition on a Technique result in a confusing error in the Rudder UI (#3210)

Webapp - Node management

  • Fixed: Creating/Modifying a Group to have a criterion of Software>Release Date will display a datepicker but if we change the criterion to another one like Software>Name , the datepicker will remain until the use of Button `Search' (#3911)

  • Fixed: When saving a group without doing any modifications, we have the dreaded ``server cannot be contacted at this time'' (#3904)

  • Fixed: Rudder returns ``Server cannot be contacted'' if a group criteria is based on a wrong regexp (#3683)

Webapp - Config management

  • Fixed: When we delete a Directive, the tree is not refreshed and we can still click on the deleted directive (#3800)

Techniques

  • Fixed: The promises can’t be deployed on Rudder 2.4 (typo in promises.st) (#3968)

  • Fixed: Remove the comma after the promisers from all Techniques (#3871)

  • Fixed: Technique `Package management for RHEL / CentOS / (SuSE / RPM systems' v4.1: patch_commands have been wrongly backported to 2.4 branch (#3982)

  • Fixed: Rsyslog 5.7.1 drops reports when they come to fast (#3913)

  • Fixed: Technique `Copy file from shared folder': Does not work on root server (#3581)

  • Fixed: Technique `Package management for RHEL / CentOS / (SuSE / RPM systems' v4.1: Reportings are in No Answer state (#3965)

Documentation

  • Fixed: Documentation is missing some more level 2 headers (#3961, (#3957, (#3943)

  • Fixed: Some titles were hidden or partially hidden (#3956)

  • Fixed: Update documentation for LDAP integration (#3949)

  • Fixed: Install documentation for Red Hat/CentOS ignores GPG signatures! (#3941)

  • Fixed: The documentation does not mention the V2 of the API (#3907)

Contributors

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

  • Dennis Cabooter

  • Michael Gliwinski (Henderson Group)

  • Fabrice Flore-Thébault

  • Matthew Hall

Release notes

This is a bug fix release in the 2.7 series and all installations of 2.7.x should be upgraded when possible. We have tested it thoroughly on production systems and believe it to be free of any major bugs. This version is not marked stable'', since it has not proven to be reliable on production systems over time yet. The current stable'' release is still 2.6.*.

Rudder 2.7.2 (2013-09-06)

Bug fixes

Webapp - Node management

  • Fixed: Node management>Groups screen CSS is broken when opening a group (#3901)

Packaging

  • Fixed: The rudder-upgrade scripts fails during upgrade because of a missing SQL migration script for installations of Rudder since v2.3.* (#3905)

  • Fixed: Postinstall script of rudder-inventory-endpoint display a warning about fail of rsyslog restart at first install on RHEL/CentOS (#3900)

Techniques

  • Fixed: /etc/cron.d/rudder-agent is broken after launching cf-agent for the first time until a generation of promises by Rudder server (#3908)

Release notes

This is a minor bug fix release in the 2.7 series and all installations of 2.7.x should be upgraded when possible. The main reason of this minor release was to fix an upgrade bug #3905) if install history goes back to 2.3.. This version is not marked stable'', since it has not proven to be reliable on production systems over time yet. The current stable'' release is still 2.6..

Rudder 2.7.1 (2013-09-03)

Changes

Techniques

  • Technique ``Group management'': make group creation optional (#3378)

  • Technique ``Package management for RHEL / CentOS / (SuSE / RPM systems'': Improve performances of the Technique (#3444)

  • Technique ``Download From A Shared Folder'': Add possibility to set SUID and SGID to files copied (#3115)

Documentation

  • Add Documentation about workflow and change requests (#3577)

  • Create a Technique library upgrade documentation (#3084)

  • Create a usage handbook that summarize common usage scenarios in Rudder (#3009)

  • Explain how to migrate a server to another machine (#2958)

  • Add informations about the rsync modules of rudder-project (#3831)

Bug fixes

API

  • Fixed: API: Changing pending node status doesn’t work (#3874)

  • Fixed: X-API-Version header does not support ``latest'' version (#3817)

Webapp - Administration

  • Fixed: In the inventory promises, the local copy of the inventory sometimes fails with a message saying it is corrupted (#3884)

  • Fixed: Promises are not updated when running agent too often (< 5 minutes beteween 2 executions) (#3849)

  • Fixed: Backport the git lock erase promise if older than 5 minutes from 2.5 to 2.4 (#3531)

  • Fixed: The limit of the eventlog length (64chars) could lead to SQL errors (#3883)

Webapp - Node management

  • Fixed: Strange ordering of groups and categories (#3863)

  • Fixed: Add display name and search for unknown linux (#3841)

  • Fixed: ``Rules to be applied'' in pending nodes doesn’t find Rules on system groups (#3737)

  • Fixed: Errors when accepting/refusing nodes are ignored (#3880)

  • Fixed: Groups screen: Using storage criteria lead to an error caused by the Unit format (#3872)

  • Fixed: On node search, OR'' and include policy server'' leads to 0 results (#3866)

  • Fixed: Error when deleting category (#3861)

  • Fixed: On node search, regex filter on attribute not in node summary is broken with ``OR'' (#3853)

  • Fixed: Add correct display name for Scientific Linux and Oracle Linux (#3839)

Webapp - Display, home page

  • Fixed: On Webapp User Manual, clicking on PDF link sends ends up in 404 (#3819, (#3895, (#3898)

Webapp - Config management

  • Fixed: Delete button in parameter table is missing the new delete button style (#3823)

Webapp - CFEngine integration

  • Fixed: The XML parser which check metadata.xml of the Techniques display a wrong error message when the XML is malformed (Talk about SECTION when it is due to INPUTS) (#3781)

Inventory (webapp, Fusion)

  • Fixed: Error when adding and deleting a node several times (#3887)

  • Fixed: On unknown Linux, Rudder say Can’t merge inventory report in LDAP directory, aborting (#3840)

  • Fixed: Rudder doesn’t support Oracle Linux - Can’t merge inventory in LDAP (#3834, (#3836, (#3837)

  • Fixed: OS Full name should be queriable (#3835)

Packaging

  • Fixed: Wrong dependencies (imageMagick, graphivz,etc..) of rudder-webapp since the documentation is no more builded by the packaging (#3897)

  • Fixed: The script rudder-upgrade checked a wrong apache config file for SuSE and RHEL/CentOS (#3862)

  • Fixed: Wrong dependency for rudder-agent package on SLES (#3882)

  • Fixed: Rudder cron file contains error until the use of CFEngine and will display error into /var/mail for root (#3654, (#3894)

  • Fixed: The rudder-agent cron file installed into debian folder by Makefile during a build is not remove by ``make veryclean localclean'' (#3856)

  • Fixed: The Rudder agent post installation and removal scripts are not cleaning things correctly (#3634, (#3896)

  • Fixed: rudder-upgrade prints an unnecessary warning: ``WARNING: Some event log are still based on an old file format (file format 1), please upgrade first to 2.6 to make this migration'' (#3865)

  • Fixed: The logrotate file of Debian and Ubuntu is duplicated since the name from the packaging is wrong (#3864)

  • Fixed: /opt/rudder/bin/rudder-upgrade requires rsync but no package depends on it (#3813)

  • Fixed: The properties `history.inventories.enable' and `ldap.inventories.removed.basedn' are missing the /opt/rudder/etc/inventory-web after a migration from Rudder 2.3 and `history.inventories.enable' is uslessly added into /opt/rudder/etc/rudder-web.properties (#3810)

  • Fixed: Error on Rudder about lack of RAM memory should be explicit (#3721)

  • Fixed: The files written by syslog in /var/log/rudder/reports/*.log and slapd in /var/log/rudder/ldap/slapd.log are still empty after a logrotate (#3603)

Techniques

  • Fixed: Technique "Package management for RHEL / CentOS / (SuSE / RPM systems: Options could be clearer (#3793)

  • Fixed: Technique ``Enforce a file content'' v3.0: Missing double quote broke the generation of promises (#3811)

  • Fixed: Techniques Package management for RHEL / CentOS / (SuSE / RPM systems'' and Package management for Debian / Ubuntu / APT systems'': Always report success, even on repair (#1175, (#3816)

  • Fixed: Technique ``Package management for RHEL / CentOS / (SuSE / RPM systems'': Package installation using yum doesn’t work (RPM based systems like Red Hat / CentOS) (#3815)

  • Fixed: Technique ``Package management for RHEL / CentOS / (SuSE / RPM systems'' v4.0: Technique uses wrong path for data file (3.0/…) (#3779)

  • Fixed: Technique ``Sudo utility configuration'': Technique is not correctly reporting when applied by multiple rules (#3870)

Contributors

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

  • Dennis Cabooter

  • Michael Gliwinski (Henderson Group)

  • Fabrice Flore-Thébault

  • Jean Remond

Release notes

This is a bug fix release in the 2.7 series and all installations of 2.7.x should be upgraded when possible. We have tested it thoroughly on production systems and believe it to be free of any major bugs. This version is not marked stable'', since it has not proven to be reliable on production systems over time yet. The current stable'' release is still 2.6.*.

Rudder 2.7.0 (2013-07-31)

Bug fixes

API

  • Fixed: API Account Token can not be regenerated (#3790)

Webapp - Administration

  • Fixed: The display of multiline Global Parameter is not really great (#3801)

  • Fixed: The details of an event log about export of parameters cannot be displayed (#3792)

  • Fixed: When there is an error in the API acocunt generation, there’s no error messages appearing in the UI (#3791)

Packaging

  • Fixed: rudder-agent init script ignores the /opt/rudder/etc/disable-agent flag file (#3803)

  • Fixed: The migration script rudder-upgrade does not take into account the new apache configuration of rudder-default (#3802)

  • Fixed: The use of the deprecated API functions should not be able to be done with a version number higher than 1 (#3797)

  • Fixed: ``disable-agent'' feature does not work as expected (doesn’t stop running agents) (#3794)

Techniques

  • Fixed: Technique ``OpenSSH Server'' v3.0: it does not correctly edit ssh ports on systems other than RHEL/SLES (#3758)

  • Fixed: RPM package installation technique version 4.0 uses wrong path for data file (3.0/…) (#3779)

  • Fixed: Technique ``Group management'': make group creation optional (#3378)

  • Fixed: Technique "Package management for RHEL / CentOS / (SuSE / RPM systems: Options could be clearer (#3793)

Changes

Packaging

  • rudder-agent init should return non-zero (0) on status operation if is not running (#3805)

Contributors

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

  • Michael Gliwinski (Henderson Group)

Release notes

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

Rudder 2.7.0~rc1 (2013-07-26)

Bug fixes

API

  • Wrong URL for nodegroup reloading through API (#3775)

  • API calls using JSON content instead of parameters are ignored (#3770)

Techniques - Sys & init promis

  • Use cron.d instead of the crontab to store Rudder cron entry (also in initial promises) (#3731)

  • Cron on RHEL/CentOS and Ubuntu nodes was not checked with initial promises (#3730)

  • Double cron job for Rudder agent when upgrading from 2.5 to 2.6 (#3681)

  • The reporting of ``Common Policies > Update'' could be in a `No Answer' status (#3620)

Logging

  • Non compliant reports flood the Rudder logs on a new installation (#3655)

  • Some debug logs informations about concurrent access were wrong (#3641)

Inventory (webapp, Fusion)

  • Rudder ignores IP aliases on network interfaces (#3669)

Webapp - Config management

  • The Rudder variables in directive values only work with full value (#3689)

  • CFEngine variables name in CFEngine Generic Variable Definition'' Directives no more support dot'' and need a migration script to ``undot'' existing ones (#3642, (#3746)

  • Screen ``Configuration Policy>Directives'': The buttons are ugly (not rounded) (#3688)

  • Cannot use Parameters in directive (#3788)

  • Migration of some Directives version does not work if no modification are made in the parameters with the message ``There are no modification to save'' (#3732)

  • Migration of eventlogs and Change Requests at startup lead to errors (#3772)

Webapp - Node management

  • ``Search nodes'' screen: After a first use of the search button, it is no more clickable until a change (add/remove/modification) of criteria (#3639)

  • Debug log when updating dynamic group is not clear (#3612)

  • An error is displayed in the WebUI and the logs when removing a node because of an inefficient current action (#3517)

Webapp - Administration

  • In the API Account page, several JavaScript issues (#3789, (#3773)

  • It is impossible to know who has created or removed an API account for Rudder (#3766)

  • There is no ID for the API Account (#3784, (#3785)

  • Change Request can’t be validated if it concerns groups (#3644)

  • Change Request can’t be validated if there is trailing spaces in the modified object (#3660)

  • Change Request could display error in the logs if its directive is based on Techniques using fixed regex (IP, Mail) (#3759)

  • Screen ``Administration>Policy Server'': Buttons are broken after first click on them (#3764)

Documentation

  • The ``User manual'' in Rudder 2.7 contains version number of Rudder 2.6 (#3771)

Miscellaneous

  • The output of rudder-upgrade script contains some disappointing messages during upgrade (#3774)

  • Base64 entries are not supported by the migration script for 2.6 concerning the unescaping of directive contents (#3780)

  • Build rudder-agent on SLES 10 is no more possible since the use of the `T' flag with cp in our SOURCES/Makefile (#3678)

  • The rudder-upgrade script could be very long to execute (>5min) (#3611)

  • The script of initialization rudder-init.sh display an error message if called with arguments (#3747)

Architecture - Tests

  • Falacious test error in (TestQuickSearchService (#3760)

Techniques

  • Techniques using reporting based on file edition don’t have proper reporting for kept status with CFEngine 3.4.x (#3618)

  • Technique ``Enforce a file content'': Outdated comments about escaping quotes which is no longer necessary as of Rudder 2.6 (#3787)

  • Deleting packages on Red Hat / CentOS doesn’t work (#3709)

  • Technique ``APT package manager configuration'' was very complex to understand (#2277)

Changes

Techniques

  • Add new Technique: ``Generic CFEngine Command variable definition'' permitting to initialize CFEngine variables from the result of shell commands (#3214)

  • Technique ``MOTD configuration'': Apply best practices (#3629)

Miscellaneous

  • Add support for rudder-agent on RHEL / CentOS 3 (#3648)

Release notes

This version is a release candidate, and contains bug fixes sinces 2.7.0~beta1. 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!

Rudder 2.7.0~beta1 (2013-07-19)

Changes

API

  • Build a REST API to manage all actions in Rudder (CRUD on Nodes, Groups, Directives and Rules) (#3000)

Webapp - Config management

  • Add global parameters that can be used in Directives (#3349)

  • Allow to choose a version of Technique to use when creating a directive (#2797)

Webapp - Node management

  • Add possibility to create a group with a combinations of matching a regex and not matching another regex (#3613)

Webapp - Administration

  • Move the Technique page in the Administration menu (#3707)

Miscellaneous

  • Remove all entries in Rudder-upgrade about upgrade from 2.3 to 2.4 (#3711)

Webapp - Display, home page

  • Add Rudder 2.7 logo (#3728)

  • Make community and support links on the home page more visible (#3699)

  • Rudder documentation available directly on a Rudder server (locally) (#3692)

  • Color ``Delete this node'' button (#3666)

Webapp - Node management

  • Node management link should send user to the list of nodes screen (#3697)

Techniques

  • Don’t update promises when running the standard promises.cf (#3722)

Contributors

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

Release notes

This software is in beta status and contains several new features but 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!