Change logs for Rudder 2.9

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)

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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: Latest API prefix is not correct (#4800)

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

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

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

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: Rule category tree should have the same size than standard rule grid (10 entries) (#4396)

Fixed: Node compliance detail popup expands outside of the popup (#4382)

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

Fixed: When opening Change request details page, a useless log is added in webapp log (#4463)

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: List of allowed network is not filled on Rudder 2.9 (#4485)

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 unnecessary promise generation is launched right after making a new archive of the configuration (#4479)

Fixed: The csv file for ncf reporting is generated for every template on every node (#4539)

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: Missing body in update.cf in system techniques to copy files from ncf (#4555)

Fixed: Rudder should enforce permissions when copying files from /usr/share/ncf to avoid permission error (#4384)

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: Update Fedora dependencies on rudder-agent (#4502)

Fixed: RPM build error on missing file ``rudder-root-rename'' (#4421)

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)

Explain how to upgrade to Rudder 2.9 from Rudder 2.8 (#4339)

Add a demo rule in Rudder new installation (#4332)

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: Importing old archive is not working (fileformat < 5) (#4351)

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

Fixed: When there are errors in Directive parameters, wrong tab (Informations) is displayed (#4372)

Fixed: Parameters tab is too small in Directive edit form and should fit the browser size (#4362)

Fixed: Directive cannot be saved on Chrome (#4361)

Fixed: When a group is deleted, its edit form is still displayed (#4366)

Fixed: Incorrect English grammar (#4206)

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

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: 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: Upgrade to 2.9.0 fails when upgrading from 2.8/2.7 due to a missing script (#4310)

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

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

Fixed: Wrong version in 2.9 documentation (#4312)

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

Fixed: Rule modification event logs are not correctly migrated to new format (#4324)

Fixed: Rudder webapp hangs on xml migration if upgrading from 2.6/2.4 (#4309)

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

Fixed: In Directive tree, if a Directive name is too long it overlaps other elements from the tree (#4313)

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

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

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

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)

CFEngine binaries in /var/rudder are now part of the PATH (#4306)

Allow copy of files from Rudder server using ncf (#4296)

Reduce default maximum days of reports retained (#4152)

Add Rudder 2.9 logo: Liberty ship (#4304)

Complete Rule category feature: archive, diff in event log and optimizations (#4305)

Fixed: Wrong link in ncf specfile, making ncf not usable on rpm based systems (#4284)

Fixed: When a Technique is updated, Directives based on that Technique are not updated (#4289)

Fixed: Inner categories not correctly displayed in popup (#4285)

Fixed: ncf promises may not be correctly updated leading to faulty update promises on policy server (#4288)

Disabled Rules should be clearly distinguished in the web interface (#4272)

Fixed: Remove useless JavaScript initialisation variable (#4275)

Fixed: Selected Rule category is lost when a Rule is modified (#4274)

Fixed: On the Target Rules part of the Directive screen, ``partial application'' checkbox is not displayed (#4271)

Fixed: When saving a Rule, an error popup appears (#4269)

Don’t display categories with no Groups or Techniques without Directives in Rule parameters (#4224)

Make visible if a Directive is not in use by any Rule (#4208)

Add tabs to the Directive paremeters, add a tab to assign the Directive to multiple Rules (#4180)

Add category of Rules and simplify Rules list (#4176)

Configure node-server communication security options from administration web interface (#3889)

Remember number of entries used on each table (#3632)

Package ncf framework in Rudder (#4213, (#4221, (#4199)