Change logs for Rudder 2.8

Fixed: check-rudder-agent script fails to create a new UUID if not defined and no backup exists (#4607)

Fixed: Typo in the deletion of lock file if the promises are not updated (#4604)

Fixed: A rare race condition can lead to an error when looking at compliance while a deployment is in progress (#4559)

Fixed: Remove unused data from the LDAP tree initialization (#4575)

Fixed: When accepting several nodes, one policy generation is triggered for each of them (#4492)

Fixed: Too many Rules are displayed on the Home page ( 3 system Rules are included ) (#4570)

Fixed: Last update detection is broken, causing cron remove cf_lock database and flood with emails every 5 minutes (#4582)

Fixed: Missing dependencies declaration (rsyslog-pgsql) in debian may prevents from installing Rudder server correctly (#4569)

Fixed: Documentation does not build anymore due to an unclosed section (#4572)

Upgrade CFEngine version to 3.5.3 (#4553)

Technique `Group management': Add an option to enforce group content (#4467)

Technique `ssh keys distribution': Have several keys per users (#4439)

Technique ``Generic Variable definition'': Allow empty values (#3848)

Technique `Group management': Set GID of group (#3843)

Add a script to change Rudder policy server IP/host name (#4325)

Improve zypper detection and usage on SLES10 agents (#4449)

Add a section in documentation about sizing of a Rudder server (#4053)

Add information about firewall for rudder-webapp (#4131)

Fixed: Technique Package Management for RPM systems'': Wrong operator for This version or any earlier one'' (#4447)

Fixed: Technique ``Download a file from the shared folder'': Error message when a copy failed using does not explain what actually failed (#4278)

Fixed: Technique ``RUG / !YaST package manager configuration (ZMD)'': `security-level' option is misnamed `package source policy' (#4128)

Fixed: Technique ``Package management for APT systems'': packages with suffix :amd64 are not correctly detected (#3830)

Fixed: Technique `Download a file from the shared folder': Cannot copy a file from the shared-folder on the root server (#3581)

Fixed: Technique `Group management' v3.0: There is no backup to file repository when updating /etc/group file (#4471)

Fixed: Technique ``Download a file from the shared folder'': Explanation about which files will be copied are not correct (#4354)

Fixed: Newline characters may be missing from archived files in configuration repository (#4476)

Fixed: Can not delete custom Active techniques category (#4392)

Fixed: Special characters (ie, accents such as éèùô) are replaced by ``?'' in CFEngine promises (#4381)

Fixed: Missing Node Configuration entry in LDAP prevents Rudder from starting (#4348)

Fixed: The default disclaimer message loaded initially into LDAP has an invalid character in it (#4393)

Fixed: When adding a Directive to a Rule from a newly created Directives screen, Change Request popup not displayed (#4383)

Fixed: Rudder max days of archived reports retained cannot be configured from properties (#4401)

Fixed: Sort in group tree is case-sensitive (#4157)

Fixed: Inventory with empty CFEngine agent public key cannot be processed by Rudder raising exceptions (#4518)

Fixed: Bios version from inventory is not correctly displayed into the web interface (#4500)

Fixed: Variables from /etc/profile and /etc/profile.d files are not passed to the inventory environment (#4493)

Fixed: When new inventory is processed, hardware Node information may not be updated (#4440)

Fixed: Process start date are not parsed correctly when parsing inventory file (#4402)

Fixed: Process start date are displayed as ``bad format'' in Rudder web interface (#4400)

Fixed: Rudder considers an inventory as ``failed'' if the endpoint is unavailable (#4491)

Fixed: Promises are not generated when Rudder server starts for the first time (#4532)

Fixed: A freshly installed Rudder server will not apply root server specific policies until promises are regenerated (#4533)

Fixed: Accumulation of cf-agent processes due to locking on CFEngine tcdb lock file (#4494)

Fixed: Template expansion sometimes removes spaces and adds a block in several times (#4487)

Fixed: Sometimes CFEngine get stuck because of locks on !TokyoCabinet (#3928)

Fixed: The rsyslog regexp matching executionTimeStamp is too greedy and could take more characters than it should (#4431)

Fixed: Rsyslog filters reports when too many reports arrive simultaneously (#4281)

Fixed: The allowed network on the relay servers are those of their own policy server (#4380)

Fixed: Remove the unnecessary licenses file creation for CFEngine Enterprise systems in the rudder-init script (#4482)

Fixed: Rudder should not complain if the license file for CFEngine Enterprise is not present (#4481)

Fixed: Optimization on LDAP requests (number of rules, …) from home page (#4495)

Fixed: An unnecesseary promise generation is launched right after making a new archive of the configuration (#4479)

Fixed: Log file about non compliant reports is not managed by logrotate on Red Hat-like Rudder server (#4556)

Fixed: Initial logrotate configuration (from initial-promises) does not include recent fixes (#4551)

Fixed: Wrong permissions slapd.log after logrotate (#4445)

Fixed: System technique complain when a lot of user are defined on the system (#4434)

Fixed: Cf-execd started by cron is missing environment variables, making the agent unable to run correctly (#4198)

Fixed: Command to restart rsyslog is not correct on Fedora (#4156)

Fixed: Commands to check and restart cron daemon on Fedora are not correct (#4155)

Fixed: Initial logrotate configuration (from initial-promises) does not apply delaycompress option (#4554)

Fixed: rudder-inventory-ldap package should `conflict' with other !OpenLDAP packages that install /etc/init.d/slapd (#4508)

Fixed: rudder-jetty package should `conflict' with other jetty packages that install /etc/init.d/jetty (#4496)

Fixed: The rudder-webapp package can’t be installed on SLES due to a syntax error in post-inst (#4484)

Fixed: Add Fedora related dependencies to rudder-agent to allow it to build on this platform (#4154)

Fixed: Unnecessary and confusing properties deprecation messages on new install (#4412)

Fixed: ``/etc/init.d/rudder-server-root status'' returns no pid for postgres on ubuntu (#4283)

Fixed: Create a robots.txt file in /opt/rudder/share/load-page to prevent an apache error log flooding (#3120)

Fixed: Documentation still mentions port 80 for web interface instead of 443 (#4394)

Fixed: Connection releasing of test LDAP server is incorrect, leading to lost of connection (#4464)

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

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)

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)

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)

Fixed: Specify the modules needed by the relay server installation (#4266)

Fixed: Incorrect English grammar (#4206)

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

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

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)

Fixed: Report state is unknown'' on Root server for Inventories'' component in ``Distibute policy'' (#4364)

Fixed: There is no reports for package removal on debian/ubuntu systems (#4144)

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)

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

Fixed: CFEngine refuses to start after upgrade from 2.7.5 to 2.8.1 due to a CFEngine buffer overflow (#4241)

Fixed: Rudder 2.8 reports that it couldn’t update its promises when it could, because it cannot purge directory (#4173)

Fixed: At each agent run, promises are validated and value of $ is invalid (#4158)

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

New Technique added: Partition monitoring (#3984)

Fixed: Excessive logs from ``Store Agent Run Times'' task (#4138)

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

Fixed: Upgrading order for 2.8 is not sufficiently visible (#4168)

Fixed: PostgreSQL migration of `nodes execution' table can take a long time, a warning should be displayed (#4167)

Fixed: RPM postinst command for apache start is missing ``Done'' output (#4141)

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

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

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

Fixed: A node in an invalid time could lead to have `No answer' state on the whole promises (#4148)

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

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: Reporting message that state that curl is missing should be clearer (https://issues.rudder.io/issues/4021 (#4166)

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

Fixed: URL given at the end of rudder-init.sh still use `http' instead of `https' (#4135)

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)

Fixed: Ubuntu oneiric (11.10) packages are not built anymore since Rudder 2.8 (#4122)

Fixed: API for Change Request details returns the wrong action name (#4134)

Fixed: When upgrading 2.4 → 2.8, promises are generated before the migration of CFEngine variable, leading to wrong promises generated (#4130)

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

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

Fixed: The rSyslog rate limiting bug fix is defined but not called in the Techniques (#4127)

Fixed: A typo in root server policy prevents upgrading Rudder server to Rudder 2.8 (#4112)

Fixed: Upgrading a node with invalid promises to Rudder 2.8 fails (#4110)

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

Fixed: Rudder upgrade fails if you accept to replace rudder-web.properties with new default one (#4062)

Fixed: On Rudder install, ``/opt/rudder/etc/rudder-password.conf'' does not exists leading to an error while installing (#4120)

Fixed: Rudder upgrade script is not launched on installation on RPM based systems (#4121)

Fixed: Reload technique library at webapp startup if a flag file exists (#4113)

Fixed: Automatic technique library updater is not launched (#4116)

Fixed: ``Change request'' menu does not appear if it was disabled at startup (#4114)

Fixed: Inventory Technique is not valid: ``isfile'' function does not exist (#4111)

Rudder-agent cron file now use check-rudder-agent script (/opt/rudder/bin/check-rudder-agent) (#3930)

When Rudder does not start due to an error in rudder-users.xml, the webapp will display an usable error log (#4079)

Add Rudder 2.8 logo: The patrol boat (#4096)

Reduce Directive information size (#4103)

Move broken received inventories to a separate directory (#3139)

Android support (#4099)

Suppress an unwanted warning when the Rudder tools have not been uploaded on the agent and an inventory runs. (#3854)

Partition monitoring technique (#3984)

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

Fixed: Using list of path for sending inventories in Rudder 2.8 leads to inconsistent failure (#4094)

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

Fixed: The inventory promises truncate the policy server uuid to 33 characters (#4018)

Fixed: Upgrade instructions from 2.5 to 2.8 (#4081)

Fixed: Change all references to version number to be 2.8 for the 2.8 doc (#4080)

Fixed: When we migrate to 2.8, the time to catch up on all the nodes execution time is very long (#4091)

Fixed: A query about execution date of reports still use old parameters (#4089)

Fixed: Deleted and pending nodes Role is displayed as an error message. (#4086)

Fixed: ``No Machine Inventory'' in the Nodes list but machine inventory details available (#4085)

Fixed: The check of validity of rudder parameters within variable values is too strict (#4063)

Fixed: Properties not updated in the webapp (#4084)

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

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

Fixed: There is a typo in text displayed when there are no modifications to save (#4043)

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)

Fixed: Initial Promises are missing package_patch_command (#4070)

Fixed: Duplicate reports from check of the `configuration-repository' git lock since a wrong merge from 2.4 to 2.6 (#4048)

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

Fixed: Error when upgrading a server where both policy.xml and metadata.xml were existing for the same techniques (#4088)

Fixed: Agent upgrade blocked by /opt/rudder/etc/disable-agent (#4087)

Fixed: Upgrading rudder-agent from 2.6.8 to 2.8beta fails on Debian (#4098)

Add informations about the upgrade process for Rudder 2.8 (#3986)

Improve debug log when a Change Request can’t be merged (#3977)

Display Technique version used for each Directive in the Directives tree (#4007)

When saving a Rule without target groups or directives, display a warning message (#3937)

Manage properties inside the web interface. (#4057)

Enable HTTP/S by default (#3877, (#4006, (#4067, (#4073, (#4074, (#4075, (#4076)

Integration of CFEngine 3.5.* into Rudder (#3869, (#4041, (#4042)

Add `status' option to the rudder-server-root init script (#3610)

All Apache logs should be sent to /var/log/rudder/apache2 (#4010)

`delaycompress' is now applied on every logs in logrotate (#3923)

Upgrade script commits updates of configuration-repository from the repository base directory (#4046)

Manage Change Request through REST API (#3952). See documentation Change Request API documentation here!

Implement Relay Server within Rudder (#4023, (#4017, (#4077) See documentation about relay servers here!

Store agent executions history in a `lightweight' table, to speed up Rudder web interface (#3945)

Display Node’s Role on the Node detail page (#4044)