Change logs for Rudder 3.2

Rudder 3.2 has reached End of Life the 10th February 2016.

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 3.2:

  • Relay your promises via CFEngine mission portal

  • Support CFEngine enterprise as agent for Rudder

  • Support CFEngine 3.7

  • Support FreeBSD as nodes

  • Add an option to globally disable reporting

  • techniques created via `technique editor' are now only distributed to Nodes applying it

  • You can select compliance API detail level

  • Automatic directive naming

  • Improvements on promises generation time

  • New options to rudder agent CLI

  • Group Not applicable'' and Success'' reports in green status in compliance bar

  • Add CFEngine classes for each group of a node

  • New technique to read variables from a JSON file

Installing, upgrading and testing

Documentation:

The Download Links are available here: https://www.rudder-project.org/site/get-rudder/downloads/.

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 7, Debian 8, RHEL/CentOS 6, RHEL/CentOS 7(64 bits), SLES 11, Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 14.04

  • Rudder agent: all of the above plus Debian 5, Debian 6, RHEL/CentOS 3, RHEL/CentOS 5, RHEL/CentOS 7 (32 bits), Fedora 18, SLES 10, SLES 12, Ubuntu 10.04, Ubuntu 12.10

  • Rudder agent (non-free): Windows Server 2008-2012, AIX 5-6-7

The agent on RHEL/CentOS 3 had build issues that have now been resolved. It will be available again in Rudder 3.2.4.

Rudder 3.2.11 (2017-02-20)

Changes

Web - Nodes & inventories

  • API endpoint to get information about queue status of uploaded inventories (#9976)

Web - UI & UX

  • Add an option to not display rule status/recent changes in directives screen (#10157)

  • Node breakdown - show actual numbers (#7422)

Documentation

  • Add link to the new FAQ in the manual (#10181)

  • Add qa-test for line breaks (#9893)

Bug fixes

Web - UI & UX

  • Fixed: Included ``time ended'' in Status dropdown (#10133)

  • Fixed: In group page, remove reference to CFEngine in generated classes (#9885)

  • Fixed: Shared files input does not appear on in directives form (#9804)

  • Fixed: Change request link is too small (#6142)

Web - Config management

  • Fixed: Deadlock with simultaneous generation and new reports (#10168)

  • Fixed: Incomplete logging in expected reports computation (#10143)

Performance and scalability

  • Fixed: Compliance on all reports is always computed, even when not necessary (#9869)

Architecture - Internal libs

  • Fixed: Test create directories in /tmp that are not cleaned nor unique (#10029)

Documentation

  • Fixed: Broken link in CFEngine doc (#10151)

  • Fixed: expected reports, component keys (#8633)

  • Fixed: Missing ``default ='' word in node properties expansion documention (#9800)

Miscellaneous

  • Fixed: Typo in root of policy libray tree name (#9884)

Web - Compliance & node report

  • Fixed: If node is sending unexpected report, we get an invalid text (#9930)

  • Fixed: When we receive reports from node with old reports, caches are not used for compliance computation (#9835)

Packaging

  • Fixed: rudder-techniques depends on perl(XML::TreePP) (#9845)

  • Fixed: Missing selinux-policy-devel in rudder-server-relay dependencies (#10090)

  • Fixed: Do not build SELinux policy on old OSes (#10089)

  • Fixed: SELinux target directory does not exist (#10056)

  • Fixed: Add SELinux config to relay package (#9913)

  • Fixed: ncf-api-virtualenv build depends on selinux (#9851)

Initial promises & sys tech

  • Fixed: Impossible to collect reports in mission portal since #9216 (#10209)

  • Fixed: Error parsing inventory (#9841)

Web - Nodes & inventories

  • Fixed: Inventories with fields containing only spaces/tabs/… may fail to be parsed due to invalid sanitization of entry (#10220)

  • Fixed: FileNotFoundException when looking for deleted history file (#10115)

Agent

  • Fixed: Logs from 4.1 agent are not sent to the server (#9776)

Architecture - Dependencies

  • Fixed: warning: Class javax.annotation.Nonnull not found - continuing with a stub. (#10146)

  • Fixed: Use correct repository definition in pom.xml (#10120)

Web - Maintenance

  • Fixed: If the Rudder Web Interface is interrupted during the second step of reports archiving, then it won’t never succeed in archiving again (#10171)

Server components

  • Fixed: Rudder’s LDAP server configuration does not allow to query the monitor DB (#9818)

Techniques

  • Fixed: The service management technique does not disable boot services (#9872)

  • Fixed: copyGitFile reports an error when destination is a symbolic link (#9500)

  • Fixed: Job is not run for Technique JobScheduler in Rudder (#9822)

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 bug fix release in the 3.2 series and therefore all installations of 3.2 should be upgraded when possible. An end-of-life date has been scheduled for this release (10th February 2017), See our FAQ for details, on the website. As such, it is recommended to upgrade all pre-4.0 (current latest version) installations to 4.0 as soon as possible to enjoy the latest features and improvements of a more mature and stable version.

Rudder 3.2.10 (2016-12-12)

Changes

Web - Nodes & inventories

  • On agent, check inventory before sending it to Rudder server (#8127)

System integration

  • Rudder error pages should not change transport (#9637)

Architecture - Internal libs

  • Add basic infrastructure to test REST API (#9201)

Documentation

  • Move techniques reference doc to the manual (#9586)

  • Make rudder-doc gitignore more complete (#9570)

  • Build final doc for releases in rc status (#9564)

  • Use $releasever in upgrade section for RHEL (#9439)

  • Update documentation to have version independent repo (#9422)

  • Use release info to get ncf version to use in doc (#9393)

Bug fixes

Web - Config management

  • Fixed: Node properties update doesn’t invalidate node configuration hash (#9402)

Web - UI & UX

  • Fixed: Degraded style of text areas in directive forms (#9703)

  • Fixed: Missing top of eventLog datetime picker on small screen (#9267)

  • Fixed: If an event logs contains long lines it is not displayed properly (#5963)

Web - Nodes & inventories

  • Fixed: No server inventory in web interface if /etc/hosts is not correctly configured (#9744)

Agent

  • Fixed: Improve error messages in ``rudder agent update'' (#9726)

  • Fixed: Fusioninventory is not tracked by check-rudder-health (#9622)

  • Fixed: Typo in rudder agent run failure message (#9618)

  • Fixed: Virtual machine detected as physical (#9496)

  • Fixed: Some QEMU systems are wrongly detected as physical system (#9335)

  • Fixed: Agent capabilities should be per agent, and not per node (#9359)

Techniques

  • Fixed: Allow to only install a specific version in apt and rpm techniques. (#9761)

  • Fixed: Wrong warn log report in ssh techniques on sles >= 11 (#9317)

API

  • Fixed: API allows to create duplicate UUIDs at group creation (#9742)

  • Fixed: Creating an empty group with no search criteria messes up GUI (#9741)

  • Fixed: Setting nodeProperty over API does fail on bad key order (#9326)

  • Fixed: Rudder API timeouts when passing wrong parameters (#7134)

Documentation

  • Fixed: Bad plugin installation info on doc (#9721)

  • Fixed: Bad file indicated in Java memory config chapter (#9628)

  • Fixed: Manual is broken because of some new syntax in ncf doc (#9621)

  • Fixed: Wiki documentation broken URL (#9608)

  • Fixed: Mention port 80 in manual (#9567)

  • Fixed: API Documentation: Delete node shows example of accept node (#9368)

  • Fixed: Cleanup node properties documentation (#9253)

  • Fixed: Rudder API doc is invalid for getting the list of pending nodes (#7973)

Packaging

  • Fixed: On Ubuntu 16.04, openjdk 9 is installed by default, and not recognized as a compatible version (#9613)

  • Fixed: fusion agent fail to build on ubuntu 16 (#9556)

  • Fixed: ncf initialization seems to be repaired conctinuously (#9464)

Initial promises & sys tech

  • Fixed: Script that validate inventory is not correctly called on Windows (#9764)

  • Fixed: Error on inventory of policy servers: Error when parsing an entry, that agent will be ignored. ← could not parse policy server id (tag POLICY_SERVER_UUID) from specific inventory (#9327)

  • Fixed: Explain in the reports of system techniques that we do not need to manage the cron service on AIX (#9235)

  • Fixed: Multiple errors ``The postgresql process was not running and has been restarted'' (#9182)

  • Fixed: No reports when agent cannot update its promises (#9751)

  • Fixed: The locks are removed every 10 minutes by check-rudder-agent when there is no promise update (#9626)

  • Fixed: Error message when restarting rudder-agent during relay install (#9216)

  • Fixed: No answer with common / update (#8155)

System integration

  • Fixed: rudder-upgrade should use the database name from the webapp configuration (#9749)

  • Fixed: Add a warning comment for password change in rudder-web.properties (#9685)

  • Fixed: Compressing the ldap backup hangs if would require to overwrite it (#9630)

  • Fixed: Firefox stalls after TLS handshake on self signed certificate (#9566)

  • Fixed: The API alive check may hang forever (#9561)

  • Fixed: Missing logger information for quicksearch in logback.xml (#9406)

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:

  • Alexandre Anriot

  • Alexander Brunhirl

  • Florian Heigl

  • Janos Mattyasovszky

  • Dmitry Svyatogorov

This is a bug fix release in the 3.2 series and therefore all installations of 3.2 should be upgraded when possible. An end-of-life date has been scheduled for this release (10th February 2017), See our FAQ for details, on the website. As such, it is recommended to upgrade all pre-4.0 (current latest version) installations to 4.0 as soon as possible to enjoy the latest features and improvements of a more mature and stable version.

Rudder 3.2.9 (2016-10-12)

Changes

Agent

  • Send inventory signature before inventory (#9196)

Initial promises & sys tech

  • Add ncf standard abort class to rudder abort classes (#9228)

Bug fixes

Web - UI & UX

  • Fixed: Technique ``Enforce a file content'' breaks carriage returns (#9243)

Web - Nodes & inventories

  • Fixed: Virtual machine detection does not recognize HyperV machines (#9262)

Web - Config management

  • Fixed: Rule & directive order is not taken into account for nodeConfig cache invalidation (#9320)

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:

  • Alexandre Anriot

This is a bug fix release in the 3.2 series and therefore all installations of 3.2 should be upgraded when possible. The current ``esr'' release is 3.1.*. When we release a new version of Rudder, it needs to be thoroughly tested, and we consider the release enterprise-ready for deployment only after it has been proven to run in production reliably for several months.

Rudder 3.2.8 (2016-10-05)

Changes

Web - Config management

  • Allow the use of node properties info in Directive parameters (#9057)

  • Allow to look for past reports and event logs using a date selector, so they are not limited last 1000 entries (#8886)

Web - UI & UX

  • Make the quicksearch bar in menu able to also search rule, group, directive, etc (#8563)

  • Allow to use JS script in text/textarea (#9090)

API

  • Add item names in compliance API (#9083)

Documentation

  • Document separate database configuration in Rudder (#8908)

Techniques

  • Add a technique using new package promises (#9125)

ncf - Generic methods

  • Handle Rudder’s capabilities file in ncf tests (#9124)

  • Add a bundle to copy local modules into workdir/modules (#9094)

  • Add jinja2 templating support to ncf (#9022)

  • Add generic methods using new package promises (#8952)

Agent

  • Use rudder commands directly inside other rudder commands (#8925)

  • Support jinja2 as templating engine (#9021)

Packaging

  • Add a capabilities files in rudder agent package (#9108)

Initial promises & sys tech

  • Add a call to ncf init and a reporting component for it (#9101)

Architecture - Internal libs

  • Add a qa-test to techniques repo (#8975)

Bug fixes

Web - Compliance & node report

  • Fixed: When there is missing and received reports, we don’t see the received one (#9141)

Web - Config management

  • Fixed: JS scripting engine is broken with IBM JDK 7 (and 8) (#8936)

  • Fixed: `ip' fields in techniques/directives does not support ipv6 (#8628)

  • Fixed: If a technique ncf has a $, generation fails (#9184)

API

  • Fixed: Rudder Directive Rest API does not parse json parameters correctly (#8957)

Web - UI & UX

  • Fixed: Webapp: sorting by recent changes doesn’t work (#8867)

  • Fixed: Typo in error message when ldap is empty (#8899)

  • Fixed: Script evaluation is not limited to password fields anymore (#9190)

  • Fixed: Cannot change twice the setting for node properties and quicksearch (#9185)

  • Fixed: quicksearch returns system rules/directives/groups (#9183)

  • Fixed: Typo in doc for new scripts evaluation and node properties (#9180)

Builder - UI/UX

  • Fixed: Uneeded scrollbar when using ncf builder in an iframe (#9164)

  • Fixed: Cannot save new generic method with some contraints (#8981)

  • Fixed: We need to save twice after cloning a technique (#8896)

Web - Nodes & inventories

  • Fixed: AIX inventory tries to report on cpuid.arc (#9145)

  • Fixed: Inventory ``toInt'' error when parsing report with VIRTUALMEMORY = 2297795780 (#9077)

  • Fixed: Some KVM virtual machines considered as physical nodes (#9049)

  • Fixed: Inventory is not parsed if OPERATINGSYSTEM/NAME is missing (#8993)

  • Fixed: Virtual machines considered as physical nodes (#8953)

Techniques

  • Fixed: Techniques use $ for paths of ressources files (ex: properties), which prevent their validation by the Web Interface during policies generation (#9113)

  • Fixed: Typo in `Package version match' in ``Package management for RHEL / CentOS / SuSE / RPM systems'' technique (#8954)

  • Fixed: crontab frequency does not support reserved string @reboot (#8825)

  • Fixed: Zypper repo management ``Delete all other repositories than those managed by Rudder'' is broken (#8824)

ncf - Generic methods

  • Fixed: Do not save backups for expected reports files (#9139)

  • Fixed: Package check installed does not produce reports (#9132)

  • Fixed: Check/Verify package generic methods are actually installing packages (#8972)

  • Fixed: missing rudder_expected_reports.csv.res when starting the agent for the first time after an update (#8871)

  • Fixed: file_ensure_lines_present_in_ini_section.cf test fails with CFEngine 3.9 (#8638)

  • Fixed: Missing reporting in ``Service ensure running with service path'' when the service is not running (#8270)

  • The test framework should be able to use list-compatible-input to only test compatible generic methods (#8657)

  • Fixed: We are not removing reporting files on master branch (#9189)

  • Fixed: Specified action bodies override the dry-run policy (#8956)

Agent

  • Fixed: rudder agent version doesn’t work on old rpm versions (#9142)

  • Fixed: rudder agent fails on aix (#9138)

  • Fixed: Kept classes are not defined when editing fields in a file in warn only mode (#9082)

  • Fixed: Forbid agent reinit on the root server (#9076)

  • Fixed: Agent sometimes fail to apply package actions because of global lock (#8926)

  • Fixed: The agent fails writing fields in lines longer than 4k (#8794)

  • Fixed: JSON output in cf-promises is limited to 2048 chars for strings (#8260)

  • Fixed: cfengine stops processing a promise on symlinks (#7060)

  • Fixed: Rudder agent ignores virtual network interfaces (#6124)

  • Fixed: The PowerShell list-compatible-inputs version should be executed with Bypass ExecutionPolicy (#9193)

  • Fixed: Rudder bash completion does not handle correctly commands containing dashes (#9174)

Documentation

  • Fixed: Wrong display of Rudder versions in the doc (#8937)

  • Fixed: Code blocks in the doc overflow the page width (#8917)

  • Fixed: Improve documentation on directive API on update and creation (#8913)

  • Fixed: The search bar sometimes hides the page title in webhelp doc (#8897)

  • Fixed: Normalize prompt/command display in the doc (#8849)

  • Fixed: Give more precise requirements for JVM to manage AIX sha256/512 passwords (#8804)

ncf - Documentation

  • Small improvement for ncf website (#9068)

  • Remove TODO file from ncf repo (#9014)

  • Drop CFEngine 3.5 support (#8946)

Packaging

  • Fixed: Embedded openssl command doesn’t work on aix (#9143)

  • Fixed: Builds are failing with ``stack overflow error'' in typer (#9123)

  • Fixed: rudder-server-relay Makefile misses WGET def (#9023)

  • Fixed: [rudder-packages] invalid spec files for SLES12 SP1 (#9001)

  • Fixed: Update 3.0→3.1 on SLES commits and rebuilds vanilla system techniques (#8980)

  • Fixed: Fail while building perl modules on Ubuntu 16.04 for Rudder 3.1/3.2 (#8979)

  • Fixed: The file rsyslog.d/rudder.conf might not be embedded in rudder-reports (db on a separate server) (#8876)

  • Fixed: We need a run with the initial promises before being able to update the promises (#8850)

Initial promises & sys tech

  • Fixed: ncf compatibility cache not updated after Rudder upgrade (#9156)

  • Fixed: Typo in common technique reports (#9035)

  • Fixed: missing rudder_expected_reports.csv.res when starting the agent for the first time after an update - technique changes (#8909)

  • Fixed: outputs folder is cleaned at each run (#8750)

  • Fixed: Don’t report error when the copy of the license file for CFEngine Enterprise fails (#8521)

Builder - API

  • Fixed: rudderification breaks when a parameter contains `&' (#9096)

  • Fixed: When the conditions contain spaces, they are kept and the generated file is invalid (#8763)

  • Fixed: The Category list is cut on small screen (#8762)

  • Add conditions on features in ncf code loading (#9105)

  • Fixed: ncf API needs to know about agent_requirements (#9175)

System integration

  • Fixed: JS Script, Node Properties expansion and Quicksearch should be disabled on migration (#9157)

  • Fixed: The ``rudder'' init script tries to stop slapd before jetty (#9091)

Architecture - Internal libs

  • Fixed: Control.bestEffort duplicate the last failure (#9118)

  • Fixed: wget doesn’t always work (#8991)

Release notes

Miscellaneous

Policies

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

  • Alexandre Anriot

  • Florian Heigl

  • Jérémy Hocdé

  • Janos Mattyasovszky

This is a bug fix release in the 3.2 series and therefore all installations of 3.2 should be upgraded when possible. The current ``esr'' release is 3.1.*. When we release a new version of Rudder, it needs to be thoroughly tested, and we consider the release enterprise-ready for deployment only after it has been proven to run in production reliably for several months.

Rudder 3.2.7 (2016-10-05)

Rudder 3.2.7 was not published because we found several bugs after build.

Rudder 3.2.6 (2016-08-30)

Changes

System integration

  • Update JGit to version > 4.0 to support pre-commit hook on configuration repository (#8889)

  • Allow to customize reports database name and user to ease a separate database (#8873)

Web - Technique editor

  • Add `Windows Server 2012 R2' as OS condition (#8071)

Documentation

  • Generate a custom index page for the manual (#8488)

  • Document logger parameters (#8851)

Techniques

  • Download technique-files from Rudder website (#8853)

  • Add bundles to manage dry run of generic methods (#8652)

Packaging

  • Use dmidecode instead of pmtools on OpenSuSE 11 (#8821)

Bug fixes

Web - Config management

  • Fixed: Unable to save/edit a directive via rudder web ui when technique use an optionnal SELECT field (#8874)

  • Fixed: Typo in cf-clerk logs (#8823)

  • Fixed: When there is an error in a directive form, the target rule is unchecked (#8696)

  • Fixed: Node properties are not being synchronized on the node itself until promises are created/modified (#8840)

  • Fixed: Inconsistent hashing algorithms used in passwords generated in the script engine (#8801)

Web - UI & UX

  • Fixed: The new password field hides the Save Directive button (#8800)

  • Fixed: Typos in the node’s compliance explanation text (#8787)

  • Fixed: Cannot see rule details when you have read_only role (#8878)

  • Fixed: When no editing rights are given to Groups, you drag an drop them between categories (#8863)

  • Fixed: ``Update techniques now'' button on the techniques screen is too small (#8616)

  • Fixed: Errors in 3.2 directive not displaying correctly (#8872)

Web - Technique editor

  • Fixed: Cannot access Technique Editor with role technique_all (#8492)

Web - Maintenance

  • Fixed: Typo in in log line when no master admin account is defined (#8885)

API

  • Fixed: Two different API methods return the same action name ``listDirectives'' (#8688)

Agent

  • Fixed: rudder agent run tells to give -i for errors, even if you did give -i (#8861)

  • Fixed: Failing CFEngine unit test on recent OSes (#8860)

  • Fixed: Backport patch to fix connection cache (#8875)

Documentation

  • Fixed: Document migration from manually installed relays (#6226)

  • Fixed: Safe setup of the Rudder repo in the manual (#8864)

Techniques

  • Fixed: Reporting generated for rudder techniques has broken reporting promises ( log with 2 params ) (#8826)

  • Fixed: Broken syntax in fstabConfiguration 4.0 (#8870)

  • Fixed: Misleading comment in rudder cron (#8816)

  • Fixed: ncf template methods do not empty file before editing it (#8843)

Initial promises & sys tech

  • Fixed: Typo in system techniques reports (#8841)

Packaging

  • Fixed: Do not depend on pam-devel on AIX (#8893)

  • Fixed: Missing BuildRequires for rudder-agent : pam-devel (#8822)

Architecture - Internal libs

  • Fixed: Some Javascript engine fails when accessing system values (#8857)

  • Fixed: JS engine tests broken due to security exeception when using jdk 1.8 (#8856)

  • Fixed: broken tests on 3.2, missing properties.json in generated promises (#8869)

  • Fixed: Move dry-run tests to staging until we have a solution (#8887)

Architecture - Refactoring

  • Fixed: Compilation warning about unsound assumption could lead to hard to understand errors (#8797)

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:

  • Alexandre Anriot

  • Florian Heigl

  • Kevin Kok

  • Avit Sidis

  • Dmitry Svyatogorov

This is a bug fix release in the 3.2 series and therefore all installations of 3.2 should be upgraded when possible. The current ``esr'' release is 3.1.*. When we release a new version of Rudder, it needs to be thoroughly tested, and we consider the release enterprise-ready for deployment only after it has been proven to run in production reliably for several months.

Rudder 3.2.5 (2016-07-29)

Changes

Web - UI & UX

  • Improve experience of password field in Directives (#8753)

  • Technical logs are sorted by date, oldest date first (#8728)

Web - Config management

  • Allows generation-time javascript eval in directive parameters (#8629, see (documentation for details)

  • Allow Node properties to be used in directives and ncf techniques (#6733, see (documentation for details)

Agent

  • Create a `rudder agent run –force' option (#8729)

  • Support CFEngine enterprise agents on `rudder server debug' (#8555)

  • `rudder agent inventory' should not run the techniques (#8757)

Architecture - Dependencies

  • Update to lift 2.6.3 / scala 2.11.8 (security) (#8640)

  • Utility to get all objects from a sealed trait (#8614)

Initial promises & sys tech

  • Disable inventories using a file (#8741)

Techniques

  • Create a technique that manages key/values in a file (#8631)

API

  • Add an technique API endpoint to display directives based on a technique (#8534)

  • API: add an option to just run a ``pre-check'' on directive modifications to change technique version (#7961)

Documentation

  • Use release-info to generate the manual header at creation (#8450)

  • Add documentation on new techniques and check directive API (#8639)

Packaging

  • Update openssl to openssl-1.0.2h (#8329)

Bug fixes

Web - UI & UX

  • Fixed: The API token creation popup is not centered (#8592)

  • Fixed: Recent changes graph can overflow the page width (#8437)

  • Fixed: Missing an information line in rule details to explain that the graph is clickable (#8432)

  • Fixed: When the compliance is very small the status bar twice as big (#7658)

Web - Nodes & inventories

  • Fixed: Inventory messes up Last logged in user date when last user was a reboot (#8239)

Web - Config management

  • Fixed: Correct error message when SHA512 algorithm is not available (#8770)

  • Fixed: UserManagement need to have hashed password for both Linux and AIX (#8593)

Web - Compliance & node report

  • Fixed: Refresh button on recent changes graph on Rule details does not refresh data (#8630)

  • Fixed: When updating runs, hooks should really be async (#8424)

  • Fixed: When a node send reports with an unknow configID, no expected reports are showned (#8409)

Agent

  • Fixed: `rudder agent run' should allow multiple -D (#8758)

  • Fixed: Having a report-separator in the report message causes the report not show up in ``rudder agent run'' output (#8635)

Server components

  • Fixed: Upgrade from 2.11 to 3.1 on sles does not preserve the rudder-jetty java parameters (#8172)

Initial promises & sys tech

  • Fixed: Use the list-compatible-input equivalent on Windows system (#8553)

  • Fixed: Update promises on Windows complains about setting ownership to ``root'' (#8532)

  • Fixed: fusionAgent.cf for ARM (#7203)

Techniques

  • Fixed: Add a test for checkGenericFileContent 7.0 (#8673)

  • Fixed: Add a technique check to make sure &endif& are followed by an empty line (#8646)

  • Fixed: technique-files cannot find with a pattern on the whole technique name (#8736)

  • Fixed: lines after &endif& in techniques (#8647)

  • Fixed: technique-metadata-sample.xml has invalid content (#8615)

  • Fixed: UserManagement 6.0 fails to add user if the user’s default group already exists (#8599)

  • Fixed: Reporting for usermanagement in case of Policy to apply to this account ``check only'' is missing the Password component report (#8585)

  • Fixed: userManagement technique doesn’t do anything on Windows on version 5 and 6 (#8566)

  • Fixed: checkGenericFile missing report when given non absolute path (#8405)

  • Fixed: Broken technique tests (#8786)

  • Fixed: Check-techniques.sh checks for cfengine_community class in comments (#8751)

  • Fixed: Fix metadata syntax of generic enforce file content test (#8738)

  • Fixed: Technique userManagement, home directory is not taken into account (#8466)

  • Fixed: Collection of reports by cf-hub is not working anymore (#8540)

API

  • Fixed: Inconsistent directive API parameters at creation (#8687)

  • Fixed: NoSuchElementException when querying change request API (#8686)

  • Fixed: The select parameter in the nodes API is not correctly documented (#7131)

Documentation

  • Fixed: Add a test for dead links on the doc (#8548)

  • Fixed: Documentation makefile fails to update git repos (git pull before changing branch) (#8788)

  • Fixed: Display link errors in doc build (#8727)

  • Fixed: SLES Documentation has bad package name (#8624)

  • Fixed: Left menu is sometimes broken when there is an anchor in the link (#8569)

  • Fixed: Fix doc after ncf lib changes (same as #8522) (#8524)

  • Fixed: Broken formatting of man command sections in the doc (#8732)

  • Fixed: Broken link in the doc (#8726)

  • Fixed: Correct example to use a query when listing accepted nodes via API (#8594)

Packaging

  • Fixed: Do not package technique tests (#8679)

  • Fixed: There is a non standard test in os detection (#8760)

  • Fixed: Packages should remove their temporary files (#8744)

  • Fixed: Update openssl to 1.0.1t on 2.11 branch (#8658)

  • Fixed: rudder-apache-common.conf is not updated on upgrade with RPM packages (#8641)

  • Fixed: Do not only build-depend on virtual packages (#8565)

  • Fixed: The event count during the last day in rudder-metrics-reporting can be very slow (#8583)

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

  • Florian Heigl

  • Francois Bayart

This is a bug fix release in the 3.2 series and therefore all installations of 3.2 should be upgraded when possible. The current ``esr'' release is 3.1.*. When we release a new version of Rudder, it needs to be thoroughly tested, and we consider the release enterprise-ready for deployment only after it has been proven to run in production reliably for several months.

Rudder 3.2.4 (2016-06-08)

Changes

Documentation

  • Add tests for doc syntax (#8443)

Bug fixes

Web - Compliance & node report

  • Fixed: Parallel traversal of new promises directories causes some nodes promises to not be updated (#8427)

  • Fixed: Not possible to switch details for time period on rule recent changes on Chromium (#8408)

  • Fixed: When a node send reports with a wrong config_id it is never marked as unresponsive (#8118)

Web - Nodes & inventories

  • Fixed: Change in group may be overwritten by dynamic group update (#8453)

Web - Config management

  • Fixed: Many WARN messages after upgrade about JSON deserialisation error (#8288)

Techniques

  • Fixed: Invalidation of previous package state and of package status cache does not work on rpmPackageInstallation 5.0 5.1 6.0 6.1 7.0 (#8421)

  • Fixed: rpmPackageInstallation 7.0 uses the wrong version number for it’s data file (#8419)

  • Fixed: Missing reports in file and zypper techniques due to a syntax error in reporting (#8403)

Initial promises & sys tech

  • Fixed: On Centos6.6, rsyslog is always restarted (#8451)

  • Fixed: failsafe sometimes produce rudder reports (#8422)

  • Fixed: Reference to &TRACKINGKEY& in initial promises (#8415)

  • Fixed: Remove unused variable in cf-serverd (#8392)

  • Fixed: The component ``Check Technique library reloading file'' is sometime a log and sometime a result (#8380)

  • Fixed: Launching twice in a row a disabled agent make the agent runs (#7100)

  • Fixed: The uuid in the promises and the uuid in /opt/rudder/etc/uuid.hive may be out of sync, and chaos and sadness follows (#7091)

  • Fixed: If using Rudder Server 3.1 and a node with agent 3.2, protocol used is TLS (#8458)

Documentation

  • Fixed: Unclear message in the upgrade doc (#8440)

  • Fixed: The SLES upgrade section has a broken title syntax (#8439)

Packaging

  • Fixed: stty does not handle no-tty input (#8426)

  • Fixed: When updating a Rudder install, changes_executionTimeStamp_idx index is not created (#8423)

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

  • Daniel Stan

This is a bug fix release in the 3.2 series and therefore all installations of 3.2 should be upgraded when possible. The current ``esr'' release is 3.1.*. When we release a new version of Rudder, it needs to be thoroughly tested, and we consider the release enterprise-ready for deployment only after it has been proven to run in production reliably for several months.

Rudder 3.2.3 (2016-06-01, Not announced)

That version was not announced due to several bugs: #8423, #8427, #8430

Changes

Web - Nodes & inventories

  • Make page node details/search node less confusing (#7642)

Web - UI & UX

  • Augment default number of lines displayed in tables and add more options (#8107)

Initial promises & sys tech

  • Add support to cfengine bootstrap in server (#7902)

Documentation

  • Create an installation section in the documentation (#8233)

  • Homogenize OS names in the doc (#8224)

  • How to: Ensure a line is present in a file (and only one time!) (#8169)

  • Integrate ncf generic methods reference into the doc (#7844)

  • Add ``Troubleshooting'' section (#7711)

  • Move man pages into the reference section (#8332)

  • Move Relay doc to the install section (#7889)

  • Document easier way to reload techniques after upgrade (#8291)

  • Show deprecation in generic methods documentation (#8220)

Bug fixes

Web - UI & UX

  • Fixed: Typo in directive migration message ``an other'' (#8289)

  • Fixed: Broken links in the ``Support Desk'' box of the home page (#8110)

  • Fixed: Some messages in the Settings page end with a comma (#8044)

  • Fixed: Show seconds in Execution date at Technical Logs of Node Details (#7981)

  • Fixed: Prevent red color usage in inventory graphs (#8262)

  • Fixed: Change audit message is not checked in the ``Clone Directive'' popup (#8213)

  • Fixed: Priority field in Directive form does not show it has a tooltip and has wrong description (#8201)

  • Fixed: Fix display issues on IE11 (#8136)

  • Fixed: Add a left margin to the Rudder search box (#7825)

  • Fixed: Node name field empty in the `Rules to be applied' popup (#8211)

  • Fixed: On setting page, some error messages don’t display (#7144)

Web - Compliance & node report

  • Fixed: ``All the last execution reports for this server are ok'' displayed when no report received (#8400)

  • Fixed: Misleading message on node compliance detail when run’s configID is unknown (#8399)

  • Fixed: repaired'' are counted as required attention'' on node compliance details (#8396)

  • Fixed: Compliance is not correctly computed if we receive run agent right after generation (#8051)

  • Fixed: OOM in Rudder when there are too many repaired reports (#7735)

Web - Config management

  • Fixed: Node configuration cache is invalidated too often (#8246)

  • Fixed: Directive detail don’t show the OS compatibility version (#7042)

  • Fixed: Promises are not regenerated after changing group name, preventing usage of classes (#8221)

API

  • Fixed: Better document Node Api: include detail always returns ``default'' (#8192)

  • Fixed: API call to get the list of node is REALLY slow with latest version (#7972)

Agent

  • Fixed: rudder agent update doesn’t always update policy (#8346)

  • Fixed: ``rudder agent enable -s'' doesn’t return an error code if it can’t start the agent (#8317)

  • Fixed: rudder server reload- don’t work due to missing exec perms (#8290)

Techniques

  • Fixed: permissions technique tries to set a group even when we do not ask for it (#8198)

  • Fixed: It is not possible to use quotes in generic variable definition values (#8188)

  • Fixed: Clear package caches when repairing a package repository (#8121)

  • Fixed: The start at boot does not work in the openssh technique on systemd OSes (#8108)

  • Fixed: Double reporting for group creation (#8100)

  • Fixed: Avoid waiting on lock when calling yum (#6487)

  • Fixed: applications/aptPackageManagerSettings/3.1 missing from list of maintained techniques (#8395)

  • Fixed: Document usage of line replacement in Enforce a file content technique (#8162)

System integration

  • Fixed: Rudder jetty init script broken on CentOS 7 (#8369)

  • Fixed: rudder-slapd may break on upgrade when restarting on openVZ (#8210)

  • Fixed: check-rudder-agent complains about not existing policy-server.dat backup file (#8202)

  • Fixed: ACL Posix on Git repos (#8065)

  • Fixed: Disable ldap logging on non existing indexes (#7667)

  • Fixed: Messages can be dropped on the node, resulting in Unknown reports on the Web Interface (#6421)

  • Fixed: promises can become invalid if copies fail rendering the agent unusable (#5650)

  • Fixed: rudder-jetty initialisation should not support Java 6 (#7348)

  • Fixed: rudder init script fails with ``/etc/init.d/rudder: line 109: printf \033[1;32m—8<—\033[0;39m\n: command not found'' (#8296)

  • Fixed: rudder init script reports wrong status if run as non-root (#8295)

Server components

  • Fixed: Apache config does not get cleaned up after removal of rudder-webapp (#8232)

  • Fixed: rudder-apache gets added multiple times to apache config (#8231)

Packaging

  • Fixed: Spurious message ``grep: /etc/sysconfig/apache2: No such file or directory'' in RPM install for rudder-webapp (#8371)

  • Fixed: ncf package asks about replacing dist config file during upgrade (#8286)

  • Fixed: When we install rudder-agent after having removing it, the uuid is not restored on RPM-based systems (#6468)

  • Fixed: Makefile missing in rudder-server-relay package (#8370)

  • Fixed: Several systemd warnings in install on RHEL/CentOS 7 (#7530)

  • Fixed: Rudder 3.2 doesn’t build on RHEL3 (#8222)

Initial promises & sys tech

  • Fixed: Can’t stat file `/opt/rudder/bin/cf-hub' on `localhost' in files.copy_from promise (#8397)

  • Fixed: check-techniques script doesn’t properly exit non-zero on errors (#8386)

  • Fixed: Error in cf-serverd for allowing remote access to cf-agent binary (#8374)

  • Fixed: logrotate promise for CFEngine Enterprise agents (#8340)

  • Fixed: Invalid path for rudder_ncf in Windows (#8338)

  • Fixed: Duplicate lines in body classes success in update.cf in initial promises (#8309)

  • Fixed: Use variables for path to cf-agent in system Techniques to work on Windows (#8307)

  • Fixed: Disable Repeated message reduction or reports may be lost on the relay (#8264)

  • Fixed: Error message about setgid on ncf.conf (#8181)

  • Fixed: Missing reporting in ``check postgresql process'' on rudder-db role (#8178)

  • Fixed: Crontab promise with the Windows agent (#8161)

  • Fixed: Rudder agent connect at each runs to its policy server to get its server uuid (#7638)

  • Fixed: Extra carriage return in policy_server.dat inventory failure (#7328)

  • Fixed: In case of error in logrotate check, there is no report (#8382)

  • Fixed: Error on windows: agent tries to check if /usr/bin/env supports the -0 option (#8336)

  • Fixed: Using Rudder server 3.x + rudder agent 2.11.x, a node doesn’t properly detect its change of relay server (#8045)

  • Fixed: cf-promises can hang for about 30 seconds looking up default server name ``rudder'' (#7621)

  • Fixed: Missing variable ``$'' in initial promises (#8308)

Architecture - Internal libs

  • Fixed: Examples in ldap-inventory are not real life examples (#8236)

Documentation

  • Fixed: Documentation wrongly states default report TTL is 30 days (#8297)

  • Fixed: Documentation no longer clearly tells user to upgrade Techniques (#8294)

  • Fixed: Invalid documentation on how to use rudder global parameters in Technique editor (#8278)

  • Fixed: Make clearer what the goal of Scala-ldap is in readme (#8275)

  • Fixed: rudder doc can be misleading on the repo to use for Centos/RHEL (#7976)

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:

  • Alexandre Anriot

  • Jean Cardona

  • Janos Mattyasovszky

  • David Svejda

This is a bug fix release in the 3.2 series and therefore all installations of 3.2 should be upgraded when possible. The current ``esr'' release is 3.1.*. When we release a new version of Rudder, it needs to be thoroughly tested, and we consider the release enterprise-ready for deployment only after it has been proven to run in production reliably for several months.

Rudder 3.2.2 (2016-04-18)

Changes

Web - Nodes & inventories

  • Exit sending inventory to rudder-webapp if the queue is full (#7291)

Agent

  • Add -c to general options of rudder command (#8139)

  • Add calls to local API in rudder server commands - backport to 3.1 (#7952)

Documentation

  • Explain the SLES 12 case in the zypper segfault section (#8097)

Bug fixes

Web - UI & UX

  • Fixed: Impossible to Delete/disable techniques, no popup displayed (#8072)

  • Fixed: API account table broken when empty (#8144)

  • Fixed: Double arrow in Pending Nodes list (#8078)

Web - Maintenance

  • Fixed: web interface login: able to log in with valid ldap account but no matching rudder-users.xml entry (#8085)

Techniques

  • Fixed: Missing reporting in UserManagement 6.0 when creating a user (#8079)

Performance and scalability

  • Fixed: Java OOM during Java’s log migration (#7524)

Windows agent

  • Fixed: On Windows, a file c:\Program is created (#8149)

  • Fixed: Environement variable fail to load on windows (#8146)

Packaging

  • Fixed: Error in rudder-server-relay post install script on debian (#8117)

Server components

  • Fixed: Broken rudder-server-roles.conf prevent reporting in distributed setup (#8177)

  • Fixed: node-to-relay fails to reload policy when proxy is set (#8054)

  • Fixed: Compress ldif backups (#6714)][#7900]])

Initial promises & sys tech

  • Fixed: node config id is not defined any more on windows and android (#8145)

  • Fixed: Do not backup modified promise files and encrypt ncf/local transfer (#8159)

Architecture - Internal libs

  • Fixed: java.util.regex.PatternSyntaxException: Unexpected internal error near index 1 on windows (#7935)

Architecture - Refactoring

  • Remove trailing space in code file that make merge conflicts (#8126)

  • Fixed: Typo in tests (#8116)

  • Fixed: Bad logs for event log migration since #8085 (#8124)

Documentation

  • Fixed: API documentation for compliance needs JSON prettified (#7900)

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:

  • Alexandre Anriot

  • Florian Heigl

  • Janos Mattyasovszky

This is a bug fix release in the 3.2 series and therefore all installations of 3.2 should be upgraded when possible. The current ``esr'' release is 3.1.*. When we release a new version of Rudder, it needs to be thoroughly tested, and we consider the release enterprise-ready for deployment only after it has been proven to run in production reliably for several months.

Rudder 3.2.1 (2016-03-24)

Changes

Packaging

  • Put a makefile inside each directory of rudder-packages (#7718)

Web - Nodes & inventories

  • The Motherboard UUID doesn’t appear on the inventory on a Node (#3749)

Documentation

  • Mark 3.1 as ESR in the doc header (#8059)

  • Import doc from foswiki about parametrized variable in the doc (#7836)

  • Reorganize the introduction (#7818)

Techniques

  • Add an option for MOTD Technique to display MOTD before login (#7983)

  • New Technique to import a GPG Key into RPM (#6756)

Bug fixes

API

  • Fixed: Changing Directive version via API does not set default values, and return wrong parameters (#7979)

Web - UI & UX

  • Fixed: Typo in webapp message when policy generation failed (#8094)

  • Fixed: Tooltip on Rule categories may display after selecting Rule (#8086)

  • Fixed: Typo in webapp warn message ``sendind'' (#7990)

  • Fixed: Legend for node breakdown is not readable (#7969)

  • Fixed: Sorting is broken in tables after sorting by compliance (#7653)

  • Fixed: Typo in webapp logs (#8041)

Web - Nodes & inventories

  • Fixed: Missing error message in node acceptation when there is a problem with getting authorized networks (#8016)

  • Fixed: Debian Jessie, on VMWare, are wrongly considered as ``Physical'' machine (#7204)

  • Fixed: Rudder doesn’t store and display the IPV6 of the nodes (#7136)

  • Fixed: Order of button on ``accept nodes in rudder'' is the exact opposite of the rest of the webapp (#6722)

  • Fixed: Allow to make a group with only 32bits or 64bits nodes (#2543)

  • Fixed: When several agents are installed, hostname is doubled on that node inventories (#7880)

Documentation

  • Fixed: Broken link in the manual (#7817)

  • Fixed: Document that when we reduce the run interval of nodes, ``no data'' may be wrongly reported (#6231)

  • Fixed: Missing change for 3.2 in manual (#7823)

Packaging

  • Fixed: rudder-upgrade takes too long (#7987)

  • Fixed: Backup and restore policy_server.dat like we do with uuid.hive file (#7901)

  • Fixed: Rudder agent tries sending an inventory during update (#7881)

  • Fixed: rudder-upgrade does not make some check on remote sql in case of distributed setup (#7849)

  • Fixed: Rudder init script kill all agent on Open VZ (or similar system) (#4499)

  • Fixed: Default vhost is not disabled on rudder-relay (#7846)

  • Fixed: Wrong documentation path (#8042)

Initial promises & sys tech

  • Fixed: gzip can stop rudder agent when compressing log files (#7985)

  • Fixed: System technique cannot compress inventories (#7930)

  • Fixed: Unexpected reports on ``Check jetty process'' component of system techniques (#7821)

  • Fixed: Rudder inventory don’t produce error report (#7785)

  • Fixed: date of report may be invalid on windows (#7741)

  • Fixed: Reporting in server-components missing when restarting some services (ie jetty) (#7813)

  • Fixed: Classes with groups names are not visible in the mission portal (#7939)

  • Fixed: Add dmidecode call for FreeBSD systems (initial promises) (#7706)

System integration

  • Fixed: rudder-init broken on SLES (#7991)

  • Fixed: Missing useful logger in logger file (#7910)

  • Fixed: Errors with apache on ubuntu 12.04 (#6763)

Server components

  • Fixed: Rudder password are not properly protected (#8096)

  • Fixed: Allow disable of git-autocommit of system policy on Update (#7222)

  • Fixed: Node not included in dynamic group due to openldap bug with modrdn not showing node children (#6780)

Techniques

  • Fixed: When we manage twice a same package in rpm package management, we don’t get the second report (#8034)

  • Fixed: Incomplete reporting in service management (#8032)

  • Fixed: Script check-techniques.sh fails on first error (#8012)

  • Fixed: The script check-techniques.sh checks old techniques when the parent directory contains a version number (#8010)

  • Fixed: Fix invalid metadata.xml statement in clockSettings 3.1 (#8009)

  • Fixed: Wrong reporting in servicesManagement 3.0 (#7975)

  • Fixed: Download a file from shared folder'' technique doesn’t have an explicit default value for Compare method'' (was mtime, now digest) (#7962)

  • Fixed: Missing Timezones from clockConfiguration (#7489)

  • Fixed: Missing ``don’t change'' password hash type in userManagement (#6493)

  • Fixed: Support for more Debian / Ubuntu repository components (#8073)

  • Fixed: Technique jobScheduler v2.0 doesn’t schedule (#8068)

Performance and scalability

  • Fixed: Queries on expected reports are really slow with more than 2000 nodes (#8057)

Agent

  • Fixed: Put rudder agent output before the awk call (#7942)

  • Fixed: The display of truncated lines in rudder agent output (sometimes?) adds two spaces after | instead of one (#7941)

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:

  • Alexandre Anriot

  • Dennis Cabooter

  • David Durieux

  • Janos Mattyasovszky

This is a bug fix release in the 3.2 series and therefore all installations of 3.2 should be upgraded when possible. The current ``esr'' release is 3.1.*. When we release a new version of Rudder, it needs to be thoroughly tested, and we consider the release enterprise-ready for deployment only after it has been proven to run in production reliably for several months.

Rudder 3.2.0 (2016-01-22)

Changes

Web - UI & UX

  • Add last promise generation date in generation policy menu entry (#7661)

  • Clicking on recent changes graph should show detail graph in rule details (#7640)

  • Add an option to disable display changes graphes if they are slow (#7618)

  • Add new logo for Rudder 3.2: Caravel (#7819)

Agent

  • rudder-agent should trigger a new inventory after upgrade (#7620)

  • rudder agent run should explain when agent is disabled. (#7792)

  • Warn when the agent run was interrupted (#7790)

  • Make the output of rudder agent readable by a human (#7698)

  • Provide a command to monitor connection errors on the agent (#7666)

Techniques

  • Add test for rudder-techniques to ensure removed deprecated techniques don’t come back in an erroneous merge (#7504)

Documentation

  • Document the zypper segfault when installing Rudder packages locally (#7652)

  • Document AIX support in Rudder manual (#7650)

  • Document nofiles dependency for syslog/tcp on master and relays (#7220)

Architecture - Refactoring

  • Remove deprecated package rudder-policy-templates (#7723)

  • Make NodeInfo more dependant on Node (#7634)

  • Change AGPL to GPL in rudder-plugin-external-node-information (#7576)

Web - Maintenance

  • Units of measurement cleanup in logs (millisec –> ms) (#7533)

Bug fixes

Web - Config management

  • Fixed: Promise generation never finishes if jetty is restarted mid-generation (#7814)

  • Fixed: Too long directive name breaks directive serialization (#7766)

  • Fixed: Error on promise generation after accepting a node (#7689)

Web - UI & UX

  • Fixed: Filter keeps applied between Rules Tables within Directives page (#7754)

  • Fixed: Typo in AGENT RUN SCHEDULE description (#7749)

  • Fixed: Blue colour in Nodes by overall compliance'' chart is confusingly the same as No report'' blue (#7757)

  • Fixed: The directive tree filter should not be reset when we click on a directive (#7656)

  • Fixed: Remove one pixel `border' in Rudder menu (#7641)

  • Fixed: No auto scroll since rudder 3.0 (#7617)

  • Fixed: Open external links of the webapp in another tab (#6628)

  • Fixed: Compliance bar in nodes list should trigger node display (#7639)

Web - Compliance & node report

  • Fixed: When several directives value have a CFEngine var, we get ``unexpected'' due to bad regex matching (#7758)

  • Fixed: Compliance take into account expired run (#7743)

  • Fixed: Not accepted node reports trigger compliance processing (#7625)

Web - Nodes & inventories

  • Fixed: Only one system group is displayed in node details (#7061)

Web - Maintenance

  • Fixed: Jetty cache files in /tmp directory are removed by the OS tmpwatch cron job, preventing access to the application (#4473)

Agent

  • Fixed: rudder-agent does not stop on network error during file copy, which can lead to file deletions when purging is enabled (#7629)

  • Fixed: rudder CLI commands should print their expected options with -h / –help (#7742)

  • Fixed: Add a ``quiet'' option to rudder agent run to only display errors (#7608)

  • Fixed: Random wrong or partial copy of promises from node to server (#7793)

Techniques

  • Fixed: Invalid reporting on windows for clockconfiguration if Hardware Clock is not set (#7739)

  • Fixed: Technique copyGitFile can send success AND error reports on post-hook execution and lead to unexpected reports (#7624)

  • Fixed: Unexpected reports using ``rpmPackageInstallation'' technique (#7623)

  • Fixed: Technique ``Name resolution'': Regexp to check value of Nameserver does not allow the use of variable (#3741)

  • Fixed: Package management for RHEL / CentOS / SuSE / RPM systems: The number of reports about ZMD is uncorrect (#3478)

  • Fixed: syslog-ng’s loghost regex does not match with set line (#7635)

  • Fixed: The ``Ignore file or directory if it does not exist'' parameter in filesPermission is ignored (#7607)

Documentation

  • Fixed: Fix use links containing emphasized keywords in manual (#7812)

  • Fixed: The size of one image is not correctly recognized in the doc (#7713)

  • Fixed: Some titles broken in the documentation (#7551)

  • Fixed: Wrong anchors in Rudder API doc (#6694)

  • Fixed: Document the use of port 5310 for rudder server debug (#7712)

  • Fixed: Update documentation to use rudder-server-relay package instead of manual configuration (#7266)

System integration

  • Fixed: Firefox stalls after TLS handshake on self signed certificate with a missing contact email (#7800)

Packaging

  • Fixed: Test for non-applying patches on rudder-jetty and rudder-agent-thin is broken (#7803)

  • Fixed: Backport fixes for openldap memory leak in our package (#7801)

  • Fixed: rudder-upgrade edits the wrong ncf.conf file causing transitory invalid promises during upgrades (#7794)

  • Fixed: rudder-init overwrite its logs (#7776)

  • Fixed: rudder-server-relay rpm package should require rudder-agent (#7593)

  • Fixed: rudder-agent not set to start on boot on RHEL 5 and older (#7737)

  • Fixed: rudder-techniques 3.2.* package should depend on ncf >= 1.0 (#7795)

  • Fixed: All the files in /opt/rudder/share/tools should not be executable (#7679)

Initial promises & sys tech

  • Fixed: initial promises don’t create /var/rudder/configuration-repository/ncf/ncf.conf (#7810)

  • Fixed: inventory sent file timestamp not updated in normal run (system techniques) (#7782)

  • Fixed: Fix permissions of the rudder tools in the repo (#7697)

  • Fixed: check-rsyslog-version is missing on the nodes (#7680)

  • Fixed: Non quiet curl calls on root and relay servers (#7678)

  • Fixed: Permissions of rudder tools are not preserved on relays (#7644)

  • Fixed: Unexpected reports on ``Log system for reports'' component of system techniques (#7619)

  • Fixed: Rudder agent simulates an aptitude full-upgrade during each run (#7141)

  • Fixed: Error in environment-variables.cf on Centos 5 (#7761)

  • Fixed: Missing reporting for jetty and slapd on relay (#7645)

  • Fixed: Rudder agent does not detect when promise copy failed (#7796)

Architecture - Refactoring

  • Fixed: Change AGPL to GPL in rudder-plugin-itop (#7577)

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

  • Enrico Bigaignon

  • Florian Heigl

  • Janos Mattyasovszky

  • Alex Tkachenko

This version of Rudder is a final release. We have tested it thoroughly and believe it to be free of any major bugs. This version is now the latest version of Rudder. Latest `esr' is still 2.11, but 3.1 should be promoted as `esr' soon

Rudder 3.2.0~rc2 (2015-12-28)

Changes

Initial promises & sys tech

  • Force classic protocol on CFEngine 3.7 (#7690)

Web - UI & UX

  • Put ``Not applicable'' report in green status in compliance bar (#7636)

  • Remove popup when creating Directives (#7613)

Initial promises & sys tech

  • Remove unused tracking variable in distributePolicy (#7580)

  • Add cfengine classes for each group of a node (#7424)

Documentation

  • Update documentation for 3.2 (#7648)

Web - Compliance & node report

  • Keep 4 days of reports by default on new install (#7612)

Techniques

  • Technique to read variables from a JSON file (#7637)

Bug fixes

Packaging

  • Fixed: Syntax error in rudder-agent init script (#7675)

Architecture - Refactoring

  • Fixed: Test are failing when generating promises (#7610)

  • Fixed: Change default output level from trace to warn in tests (#7609)

Release notes

Version 3.2.0~rc1 has not been released since it did not pass our quality tests.

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

  • David Durieux

  • Olivier Mauras

This software is in release candidate'' status and contains multiple bug fixes since the beta (3.2.0~beta1). If no major bugs are found, a final'' release of 3.2.0 will be released next week.

Rudder 3.2.0~beta1 (2015-12-07)

Changes

Server components

  • Relay promises to nodes using cfengine mission portal (#7340)

Agent

  • rudder agent should activate ncf’s verbose output with -I switch (#7535)

  • Support CFEngine enterprise as agent (#7409)

  • Upgrade CFEngine to 3.7.0 (#7148)

  • Add new rudder agent options to have a no-color mode and to run a specific bundle (#7052)

  • Add -v and -d to all rudder commands calling cfengine (#6844)

  • Make CFEngine binaries usable by everyone (mode 755) (#6082)

Web - Compliance & node report

  • Add an option to disable reporting globally (#7361)

Web - Nodes & inventories

  • Add support for FreeBSD inventories (#7309)

Web - Config management

  • Add a  tag in metadata.xml to allow simple file copy into techniques (#7402)

  • Authorize both path relative to technique and to config-repos in technique metadata.xml descriptor (#7376)

  • Automatic directive naming (#6244)

Web - UI & UX

  • Display failed cf-promises to make it easier to re-run while debugging (#7407)

  • Rudder 3.2 logo (#7405)

  • Correct, clarify and simplify descriptive texts (#7123)

API

  • Allow user to select level of compliance details in API response (#7414)

System integration

  • Put ncf/ncf_hash_file in .gitignore (#7167)

Packaging

  • Update ncf.conf to use use new logger_rudder producing unique reporting (#7444)

  • Update lmdb to last version available (#7369)

Initial promises & sys tech

  • Don’t copy files of local/50_techniques on the nodes (#7432)

  • Avoid copying unnecessary tools (*.exe *.msi *.bat *.rpm *.vbs *.dll on Linux Debian for example) (#7142)

  • Make the bundlesequence be defined in a dedicated bundle (#7114)

  • Check the monotony of promises generation time on copy to nodes (#5580)

Architecture - Dependencies

  • Switch to Scala 2.11.x and lift 2.6.2 (#6903)

  • Update pom version to 3.2.0~alpha1 on master rudder (#6849)

Performance and scalability

  • Add a helper method for parallel sequence traversal in commons (#7320)

Architecture - Refactoring

  • Cleanup 3.2 after reverting solaris changes (#7351)

  • Refactor & clean up promise writing part (#7310)

  • Move eventlog and authz project into rudder (#7145)

  • Merge cf-clerk into Rudder (#6948)

  • Update Rudder authentication to allows plugins (#6912)

Techniques

  • Remove all deprecated techniques from new 3.2 installation (#7425)

Bug fixes

Initial promises & sys tech

  • Fixed: Promise copy is not convergent: if the copy is interupted, it will never recover (3.2 branch) (#7472)

Techniques

  • Fixed: The rudder_var path on Solaris is incorrect (#7240)

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

  • Dennis Cabooter

  • Florian Heigl

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!