Change logs for Rudder 4.1

Rudder 4.1 is currently a maintained `ESR' (Extended Support Release) of Rudder.

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 4.1:

  • Organize Rules and Directives by setting key=value tags (using UI or REST API)

  • Add or remove Node properties directly in the web interface

  • Share files between Nodes (via new generic methods)

  • Trigger agent runs on Nodes via relay servers without modifying your network configuration

  • Many Techniques renamed to be more explicit and now displayed in alphabetical order to make finding them easier

  • Customize Rudder behavior with the new hook system based on server-side actions

  • Improved user experience, overall improvement of web performance (web resources are cached), many minor UI tweaks (page titles, forms, buttons, filters, …)

  • Switched to a new graph rendering library, fixing all performance issues with Firefox

  • Agent package now embeds OpenSSL on unmaintained Debian/Ubuntu distributions (Debian 5, Debian 6, Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 12.10) as well as unmaintained RHEL/SLES distributions.

  • New plugin packaging system for easier plugin management

  • New plugin `data sources': Automatically import Node properties from external REST APIs

Installing, upgrading and testing

We also recommend using the Rudder Vagrant config if you want a quick and easy way to get an installation for testing.

IMPORTANT: Rudder 4.1 requires Java RE (version 8 at least)

Operating systems supported

This version provides packages for these operating systems:

  • Rudder server and Rudder relay: Debian 7, Debian 8, Debian 9, RHEL/CentOS 6, RHEL/CentOS 7 (64 bits), SLES 11, SLES 12, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04

  • Rudder agent: all of the above plus Debian 5, Debian 6, RHEL/CentOS 3, RHEL/CentOS 5, CentOS 7 (32 bits), Fedora 18, SLES 10, SLES 12, Ubuntu 10.04, Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 18.04

  • Rudder agent (binary packages available from Normation): Windows Server 2008-2012, AIX 5-6-7

Note: As of Rudder 4.1, the rudder-agent-thin and rudder-server-relay packages are no longer available in Debian 5, Debian 6, Ubuntu 10.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Fedora 18, RHEL/CentOS 3 and RHEL/CentOS 5

Rudder 4.1.24 (2019-07-08)

Changes

Architecture - Internal libs

  • Using move into non existing branch failed but delete the source (#3591)

Bug fixes

Security

  • Fixed: Arbitrary command execution in rudder relay API due to missing parameter sanitization (#14974)

Web - UI & UX

  • Fixed: Loading animation on 404 page is broken (#15105)

Techniques

  • Fixed: Use umask defined in /etc/login.defs in Technique "SSH authorized keys" for creating missing home dir (#14916)

Generic methods

  • Fixed: Style test fails because it parses .pyc files (#15061)

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:

This is a bug fix release in the 4.1 series and therefore all installations of 4.1.x should be upgraded when possible. When we release a new version of Rudder it has been thoroughly tested, and we consider the release enterprise-ready for deployment.

Rudder 4.1.23 (2019-05-21)

Changes

Bug fixes

Web - Config management

  • Fixed: "Dynamic group update time-outed (waited for 10 secondes to finish)" (#14918)

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:

This is a bug fix release in the 4.1 series and therefore all installations of 4.1.x should be upgraded when possible. When we release a new version of Rudder it has been thoroughly tested, and we consider the release enterprise-ready for deployment.

Rudder 4.1.22 (2019-05-14)

Changes

Bug fixes

Packaging

  • Fixed: ncf-api-virtualenv does not have a group created (#11126)

  • Fixed: Debian 8 packages fail to build (#14754)

Performance and scalability

  • Fixed: Correct disk usage in rudder configuration file (#14844)

  • Fixed: Default archive retention is too large, which cause very large disk usage (#14834)

Web - Config management

  • Fixed: Accepting a change request on dynamic group, make the group empty leads an invalid policy generation (#14758)

  • Fixed: When restoring archive (full or groups) dynamic groups are created empty (#4480)

Web - Maintenance

  • Fixed: Invalid comparison of String and Option[String] in HistorizationService (#14770)

Techniques

  • Fixed: Technique "SSH authorized keys" creates home directory with perms root:root when it does not exists yet (#14732)

Agent

  • Fixed: Rudder agent check cannot restore saved uuid on AIX (#14763)

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 4.1 series and therefore all installations of 4.1.x should be upgraded when possible. When we release a new version of Rudder it has been thoroughly tested, and we consider the release enterprise-ready for deployment.

Rudder 4.1.21 (2019-04-15)

Changes

Bug fixes

Packaging

  • Fixed: When installing rudder-agent, there’s a long wait of run interval/2, so up to several hours (#14644)

  • Fixed: During installation of the agent, when staring "rudder agent" service, there is numerous error about missing '/opt/rudder/etc/uuid.hive' file (#14616)

  • Fixed: Debian 8 backports repository does not exist anymore, breaking our builds (#14608)

  • Fixed: Error message when installing rudder-agent on rpm based systems due to missing directory '/var/rudder/inventories' (#14348)

System integration

  • Fixed: Only one Node below a Rudder server can be run through remote run API (#14391)

Documentation

  • Fixed: uuid.hive is not present afet an install or an upgradie ofrudder agent to latest 4.1.x, 4.3.x and 5.0.x on rpm system purges the uuid.hive (#14264)

Web - Nodes & inventories

  • Fixed: Error about failed move of machine inventory doesn’t give sufficient context information (#14522)

Performance and scalability

  • Fixed: If a rule targets too many groups, policy generation fails (#14392)

  • Fixed: Cron job checking rudder agent health, is ran every 5 minutes exactly, causing resource usage spike (#14258)

Generic methods - Package Management

  • Fixed: Broken yum usage with old package promises on CentOS (#14546)

Web - Technique editor

  • Fixed: Reporting fails on NCF when service start/stop is guarded by a class (#14404)

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 4.1 series and therefore all installations of 4.1.x should be upgraded when possible. When we release a new version of Rudder it has been thoroughly tested, and we consider the release enterprise-ready for deployment.

Rudder 4.1.20 (2019-02-28)

Changes

Bug fixes

System integration

  • Fixed: Patch cf-serverd to change loglevel on agent refusal (#8529)

Packaging

  • Fixed: "/var/rudder/inventories: no such dir" error message on first run (#14257)

Documentation

  • Fixed: Root of webapp docs changed (#14284)

Architecture - Dependencies

  • Fixed: Compilation fails with Java 11 (#14290)

Web - Nodes & inventories

  • Fixed: Mandatory fields for new inventories are not correctly checked (#13962)

Techniques

  • Fixed: unexpected reports in zypper repo management technique (#14347)

System techniques

  • Fixed: Technique uses /root as an hardcoded value for the home of user root (#6412)

Generic methods - File Management

  • Fixed: File lines absent generic method doesn’t report anything when the file doesn’t exist (#14246)

Generic methods

  • Fixed: ncf 4.1 is not compatible anymore with agent 3.1 (#14293)

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:

This is a bug fix release in the 4.1 series and therefore all installations of 4.1.x should be upgraded when possible. When we release a new version of Rudder it has been thoroughly tested, and we consider the release enterprise-ready for deployment.

Rudder 4.1.19 (2019-01-30)

Changes

Web - Maintenance

  • Update links in Rudder interface to use rudder.io (#14205)

Technique editor - UI/UX

  • Manage caching of technique editor resources (css/js) with Rudder version (#14194)

Bug fixes

Packaging

  • Fixed: "rudder-init" script does not allow the "auto" option (#14134)

  • Fixed: Force http 1.1 when downloading curl as packaging source (#14059)

Web - Compliance & node report

  • Fixed: we can inject html & javascript in Rudder tables (#14221)

Performance and scalability

  • Fixed: Index nodeid_idx is not used and consumes a lot of disk space for nothing (#14149)

Web - Config management

  • Fixed: When hooks are exiting with an error we can have stackoverflow error if there are many of them (#10973)

  • Fixed: When refreshing a rule details, the current tab is not memorized (#4904)

Techniques

  • Fixed: Technique "file content from remote template" does not work on the Rudder server when using remote file (#14211)

  • Fixed: "File content from remote template" technique ads tabs in the output file (#14188)

System techniques

  • Fixed: improve error message when the node cannot get the uuid from the server (#14176)

Generic methods

  • Fixed: Avoid checking for exit_on_lock option on newer yum (#14235)

  • Fixed: Enable 4h cache on available upgrades list in old package bodies (#14225)

  • Fixed: file_from_string_mustache GM unwanted behaviour when the mustache template use non-printable elements (#14215)

Documentation

  • Fixed: Jinja templating iteration example in the doc is invalid (#14179)

Generic methods - File Management

  • Fixed: Jinja templating method does not correctly clean up temporary files in audit mode (#13666)

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:

This is a bug fix release in the 4.1 series and therefore all installations of 4.1.x should be upgraded when possible. When we release a new version of Rudder it has been thoroughly tested, and we consider the release enterprise-ready for deployment.

Rudder 4.1.18 (2019-01-10)

Changes

Techniques

Bug fixes

Packaging

Miscellaneous

Documentation

Web - Config management

Web - UI & UX

Generic methods

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:

This is a bug fix release in the 4.1 series and therefore all installations of 4.1.x should be upgraded when possible. When we release a new version of Rudder it has been thoroughly tested, and we consider the release enterprise-ready for deployment.

Rudder 4.1.17 (2018-11-26)

Changes

Bug fixes

Agent

  • Fixed: Upgrade CFEngine to 3.10.5 (#13851)

  • Fixed: ``rudder-keys change-key'' does not check for key file existence (#12496)

  • Fixed: When ``policy-server.dat'' is missing, generated inventory is not legit (#11715)

  • Fixed: /var/log/rudder/agent-check/check.log should contains only error level messages (#12230)

  • Fixed: rudder remote run error, and unable to pass -i option (#11318)

  • Fixed: Command ``rudder remote run -a'' does not warn about missing token (#11417)

  • Fixed: Command ``rudder agent reset'' sets incorrect permission in /var/rudder/cfengine-community/inputs (#12410)

  • Fixed: ``rudder agent info'' returns invalid report mode for not yet accepted nodes (#12992)

Packaging

  • Fixed: On rudder-webapp upgrade, ncf.conf file is not committed (#13679)

System integration

  • Fixed: ``rudder-pkg enable-all'' command fails when a plugin has no jar (#13785)

Web - Config management

  • Fixed: The password field allows storing a password without any selected hash (#12198)

  • Fixed: Add full path to shared-folder in description of ``Download file from shared folder'' Technique (#13530)

Web - UI & UX

  • Fixed: Quotes in reports are displayed as " in the web interface (#13349)

  • Fixed: Upgrade loading wheel with a new look (#8622)

  • Fixed: On Dashboard, when we have 100% of something, the pie is including a confusing white line (#12233)

  • Fixed: Remove static ids in Password section (#13457)

Web - Nodes & inventories

  • Fixed: When a node is deleted, its generated promises are not removed (#4709)

  • Fixed: Inventory keeps its key certified when node is deleted (#9149)

  • Fixed: Missing gateway, network in network interface details (#13804)

  • Fixed: Network group criteria not working (#13772)

  • Fixed: The error message for bad inventory signature is unclear (#9192)

  • Fixed: Network, mask and gateway not correctly parsed from inventory (#13803)

API

  • Fixed: Remove old ``machyne type'' api Rest typo since it should not be called anymore (#13795)

  • Fixed: Tags in rules are ignored in POST API (#13374)

Techniques

  • Fixed: Option description for ``File download (Rudder server)'' technique is misleading (#13887)

  • Fixed: Technique Cron job v3.0'' does not use the user'' setting with predefined scheduled (#8004)

  • Fixed: Broken reporting when copying a directory from the Rudder server without specifying the trailing / in the destination (#13290)

  • Fixed: Details of usage of technique ``Variable from command output (string)'' is not clear (#12058)

  • Fixed: Technique ``cron job'' refuses task user name if it contains hyphen (#12960)

Generic methods - File Management

  • Fixed: Generic Method ``permission dirs'' incorrect reporting when target path is a file (#10689)

  • Fixed: File key-value present'' Generic Method and Manage keys-values in file'' Technique does not support | as separator (#13562)

Generic methods

  • Fixed: Generic method ``File_remove'' can delete empty directories (#12857)

  • Fixed: Scheduler classes have incomplete labels (#8008)

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:

  • vlycop Doo

  • Florian Heigl

  • Janos Mattyasovszky

  • Romain Quinaud

This is a bug fix release in the 4.1 series and therefore all installations of 4.1.x should be upgraded when possible. When we release a new version of Rudder it has been thoroughly tested, and we consider the release enterprise-ready for deployment.

Rudder 4.1.16 (2018-11-06)

Changes

Documentation

  • Document zypper pattern usage in the ``Package state'' generic method documentation (#13725)

Bug fixes

Generic methods

  • Fixed: Generic method ``Sharedfile to node'' always return repaired status (#13753)

  • Fixed: Unit tests for generic method ``File from a Jinja2 template'' fail on Ubuntu12 on Rudder 4.1 (#13747)

  • Fixed: Time lib may not work when the first non-loopback interface has no ip address (#13744)

  • Fixed: Remove comment about classes_generic_two being deprecated (#13286)

  • Fixed: Style test nbsp_is_not_allowed.sh always fails, missing 4.1 version of 13637 (#13722)

  • Fixed: Add more tests for the schedule lib in ncf (#13668)

  • Fixed: Zypper patterns tests should not be executed on non sles os (#13638)

Generic methods - File Management

  • Fixed: Generic Method ``File copy from remote source'' does not report when copying a directory (#13634)

Documentation

  • Fixed: Broken doc build (#13734)

Agent

  • Fixed: Redhat Openstack Nova compute QEMU virtual machines are seen as physical (#10265)

  • Fixed: Mustache templating in audit mode always considers destination compliant once it exists (#13664)

Packaging

  • Fixed: Fusioninventory error about unitialized value $FQDN (#13739)

  • Fixed: Rudder syslog port is reset after upgrade on Ubuntu (< 14) Servers (#12714)

Performance and scalability

  • Fixed: LDAP IO error on generation with a lot of nodes (#13256)

Techniques

  • Fixed: Sharing files with ``root'' does not work (#10605)

  • Fixed: Add a bigger warning about full path in ``Download a file'' technique (#13646)

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:

  • Ilan COSTA

  • Jérémy HOCDÉ

  • Janos Mattyasovszky

This is a bug fix release in the 4.1 series and therefore all installations of 4.1.x should be upgraded when possible. When we release a new version of Rudder it has been thoroughly tested, and we consider the release enterprise-ready for deployment.

Rudder 4.1.15 (2018-10-19)

Changes

Packaging

  • Upgrade openssl (#13316)

  • Add sles 15 support to rudder-packages (#13295)

  • Download sources from repository.rudder.io instead of www.normation.com (#13172)

Generic methods - Package Management

  • Add a package provider for zypper patterns (#12164)

Bug fixes

Generic methods

  • Fixed: Allow to report on same reporting parameters (#13632)

  • Fixed: still some typos in package tests (#13591)

  • Fixed: some ncf test are failing on SLES because they are trying to deal with packages that are not available (#13573)

  • Fixed: Some old tests are failing on centos (#13535)

  • Fixed: Tests on variable_string and variable_string_default GM are failing (#13523)

  • Fixed: Some tests are failing on ubuntu distros (#13514)

  • Fixed: Some ncf tests are too old and fails on many distributions (#13249)

  • Fixed: file_check_special tests are failing on debian (#13243)

Generic methods - Package Management

  • Fixed: old packages generic methods are failing on old debian (#13305)

Documentation

  • Fixed: rudder-doc embedeed doesn’t work anymore (#13659)

  • Fixed: Document Amazon Linux compatibility (#13624)

  • Fixed: Bad explanation for generic variable overide priority cause people making the opposite of what is needed (#13615)

Agent

  • Fixed: rudder server command states that ``Warning: Long arguments are not supported, you probably tried to use one!'' - but it does support it (#13505)

Packaging

  • Fixed: Debian package cannot build in 4.1 because of docs.rudder.io (#13594)

  • Fixed: Use new man page URL after doc URL redirect (#13537)

  • Fixed: rudder-agent 4.1 install hangs on Debian 7 (#13525)

  • Fixed: Doc download in webapp package does not work anymore (#13499)

  • Fixed: parallel build on rpmbuild hides build error (#13300)

  • Fixed: Purge of rudder-webapp should not fail (#13210)

  • Fixed: Fix bdb download link from repository.rudder.io (#13198)

  • Fixed: rudder server upgrade-techniques –autoupdate-technique-library fails when run during Rudder upgrade (#13458)

  • Fixed: cebtos7 install_package_existent should be skipped (#13596)

  • Fixed: Makefile fails if a symbolink link /usr/bin/ncf already exists (#13277)

Generic methods - Service Management

  • Fixed: Service test do not use any service to test on suse (#13278)

Security

  • Fixed: Bad mime type for our js files: application/js (#13334)

  • Fixed: file enforce content log file content which can have private info (#13608)

Performance and scalability

  • Fixed: Hikari pool autocomit configuration is incorrect, which can impact performance (#13582)

  • Fixed: Policy generation fails definitively when postgresql is shut down during policy generation (#13517)

  • Fixed: On error on nodecompliance SQL, logs are huge (#13427)

Techniques

  • Fixed: Package management technique fails to check if a package is absent in the ``latest'' version (#12939)

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:

This is a bug fix release in the 4.1 series and therefore all installations of 4.1.x should be upgraded when possible. When we release a new version of Rudder it has been thoroughly tested, and we consider the release enterprise-ready for deployment.

Rudder 4.1.14 (2018-08-08)

Changes

Web - UI & UX

  • Remove the ``Update policy'' button (#12668)

Bug fixes

Packaging

  • Fixed: echo -n doewn’t work on aix (#13005)

Architecture - Internal libs

  • Fixed: nuProcess 1.2.0 crashes on JDK 10 (#12832)

Web - Config management

  • Fixed: ``SocketException(message=`Socket closed''' error at the end of generation with 500 nodes (#10646)

Agent

  • Fixed: Broken -g option in rudder remote run (#13017)

Web - UI & UX

  • Fixed: Strange behavior of the generation status icon background (#12816)

  • Fixed: Display Rudder Machine ID color scheme is surprising (#12923)

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:

This is a bug fix release in the 4.1 series and therefore all installations of 4.1.x should be upgraded when possible. When we release a new version of Rudder it has been thoroughly tested, and we consider the release enterprise-ready for deployment.

Rudder 4.1.13 (2018-07-18)

Changes

Generic methods

  • Add the possibility to customize filters and tests for jinja2 templating (#12761)

  • Add the possibility to customize filters and tests for jinja2 templating (#12761)

  • Add support for BSD-style init scripts services (rc.d) (slackware) (#12593)

Generic methods - Package Management

  • Synchronize the `slackpkg' cfengine package module shipped with ncf with the official one (#12811)

  • Synchronize package modules from masterfiles (#10907)

  • Backport options for yum package provider (#12127)

  • Add a package module for cfengine supporting slackware (#12684)

Documentation

  • Document plugin node-external-reports (#12864)

  • Add binary dependency to rpkg format documentation (#12810)

  • Change the documentation to tell the user to use the gpg key from the root path (#12802)

Agent

  • Add a command line option to run the agent in full compliance mode (#12681)

Packaging

  • Accept external options to rpmbuild calls (#12973)

System techniques

  • Make the agent resend the inventory if sending failed (#7490)

Techniques

  • Add testing on sshKeyDistribution (#12822)

Bug fixes

API

  • Fixed: Tags in directives are ignored in POST API (#12355)

  • Fixed: Archive API always tells ``group'' even for other objects (#12705)

Web - UI & UX

  • Fixed: The red cross in case of generation problem is not visible enough (#11889)

  • Fixed: loading page and 404 page does not use correct style when redirected by apache (#12736)

  • Fixed: GUI problem with long strings in reporting (#12283)

  • Fixed: Buttons don’t follow a straight design (more) (#12662)

Generic methods

  • Fixed: Wrong bundle name passed in 12154 (#12921)

  • Fixed: Create a generic method to define environment variable (#12154)

Web - Config management

  • Fixed: When we add a section in the directive editor, it clears the content of the previous section (#12916)

Generic methods - Package Management

  • Fixed: Force using epoch when installing a package with zypper (#12799)

  • Fixed: zypper module arch and version specification for zypper commands is not correct (#12798)

Web - Technique editor

  • Fixed: Broken technique editor if a technique is in the browser cache, but has been removed from the FS (#12970)

Web - Nodes & inventories

  • Fixed: In inventory, ``motherboardid'' is not the mother board id but the machine id (#12893)

  • Fixed: It’s difficult to know if the node property added is valid json (#12360)

  • Fixed: Slackware is not known by Rudder (#12707)

Documentation

  • Fixed: Invalid ordering of elements in node external reports plugin (#12901)

  • Fixed: Missing support of Ubuntu 18.04 agent in documentation (#12854)

  • Fixed: Documentation should use full path to rudder-pkg for command examples (#12771)

Technique editor - API

  • Fixed: Technique Editor may ignores some error when authenticating, leading to unauthorized access (#12720)

  • Fixed: Technique Editor may ignores some error when authenticating, leading to unauthorized access (#12720)

Web - Compliance & node report

  • Fixed: During an upgrade of Rudder, if a new generic method appears in ncf, that is also on local method, all is broken (#12930)

  • Fixed: Some reports are duplicated between agent and postgres leading to ``unexpected'' compliance (#12719)

Packaging

  • Fixed: Broken windows plugin install in 4.3 (#12922)

  • Fixed: Rudder-agent provides rudder-agent without a version (#7777)

  • Fixed: Error in Plugin section for Node external reports (#12898)

  • Fixed: Warn during inventory if sending through http not https (#11284)

Generic methods - Service Management

  • Fixed: fail to restart certain services on Ubuntu because of incomplete detection of systemd/upstart (#12887)

System integration

  • Fixed: apache overwrites error response from Rudder (#12747)

  • Fixed: Generation gets stuck when cf-serverd is not running (#12604)

Plugins

  • Fixed: rudder-pkg must disable plugin during major version Rudder update (#12331)

  • Fixed: rudder-pkg should fail installation is a dependency is missing (#12749)

System techniques

  • Fixed: System Techniques must not be added by reload technique, only updated, else they are duplicated (#12765)

  • Fixed: cron is always restarted since #12615 (#12886)

  • Fixed: When a technique reports several time the exact same text, there is only one report generated (#6343)

  • Fixed: Detection of minicurl and https is done in conflicting ways (#12155)

  • Fixed: Rudder agent needs 2 updates to work properly (#12793)

Performance and scalability

  • Fixed: Method copyResourceFile is quite inefficient (#12702)

  • Fixed: Unused formatter in policy generation spend a bit of time in policy generation (#12735)

  • Fixed: Moving policies to their final position (last step of policies writing) could be improved (#12730)

  • Fixed: We are missing a lot of timing measurement in policy generation (#12725)

Techniques

  • Fixed: Technique userManagement does not change shell (#6395)

  • Fixed: Missing support for ubuntu 18_04 in technique aptPackageManagerSettings (#12884)

  • Fixed: Clean up the tests for sshKeyDistribution (#12863)

  • Fixed: Load modules from local ncf in Rudder policies (#12774)

  • Fixed: Process management: stopped sends multiple reports. (#11683)

  • Fixed: SSH Configuration Technique on AIX does not reload correctly sshd service when there’s been a change (#12745)

  • Fixed: Misleading error message in Services technique when range of number of process could not be repaired (#12713)

  • Fixed: Add zypper_pattern provider in package technique (#12700)

  • Fixed: Typo in generic method File content (#12507)

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:

  • Ilan COSTA

  • Janos Mattyasovszky

  • Dmitry Svyatogorov

  • Florian Heigl

This is a bug fix release in the 4.1 series and therefore all installations of 4.1.x should be upgraded when possible. When we release a new version of Rudder it has been thoroughly tested, and we consider the release enterprise-ready for deployment.

Rudder 4.1.12 (2018-05-29)

Changes

Packaging

  • Add agent support for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS ``Bionic Beaver'' (#12683)

  • Use pylint to verify python code in ncf (#12639)

Miscellaneous

  • Add tests for sshKeyDistribution technique (#12455)

Web - Compliance & node report

  • Overridden directives are not listed in reports information (#7616)

Agent

  • Upgrade to CFEngine 3.10.4 LTS (#12576)

System techniques

  • Add a way to override report mode in system techniques (#12680)

  • rudder-lib.st in the ``common'' system technique does not identify crond as running when the ps is /usr/sbin/crond -l notice (#12615)

Performance and scalability

  • Explore alternative format for compliance table (#12621)

Techniques

  • Add an entry for the slackware package module in the packageManagement technique metadata (#12687)

  • Make the `common' system technique identify crond on a slackware agent (#12610)

  • New rudder technique : SNMP configuration to monitor the rudder agent health (#12501)

Bug fixes

Web - UI & UX

  • Fixed: Compliance bar appears partially white in some graphes (#12643)

  • Fixed: Directive tree filter is very slow (#12650)

  • Fixed: Delete directive confirmation popup should display the action to confirm (#12552)

  • Fixed: Add space between filter and Event logs table (#12515)

  • Fixed: CSS of txt/json inputs is broken (#12514)

  • Fixed: Add margin between selects and button groups in Archives page (#12513)

  • Fixed: Buttons don’t follow a straight design (#12512)

Technique editor - UI/UX

  • Fixed: Broken css when technique name is long (#12545)

  • Fixed: The filter field in the technique editor should not be monospace (#12081)

Web - Config management

  • Fixed: ``Safelly'' typo in logs (#12635)

Web - Maintenance

  • Fixed: Java 9 / Java 10 compatibility: security exception for JS VM (#12548)

  • Fixed: Java 9 / Java 10 compatibility: javax/xml/bind removed (#12557)

Web - Technique editor

  • Fixed: Always get ``Technique diverges'' pop-up when coming back to technique editor (#12207)

Architecture - Internal libs

  • Fixed: Missing ipv6 constraint regex test (#12666)

Documentation

  • Fixed: Restricted java security policy breaks Rudder (class configured for Cipher(provider: BC)cannot be found) (#12606)

  • Fixed: Typo being → being in rudder manual (#12506)

  • Fixed: Fix various typos in ncf doc (#12570)

Miscellaneous

  • Fixed: wrong import in ssh-key-distribution tests (#12511)

Web - Compliance & node report

  • Fixed: $\{const.dollar} in generic method parameter leads to missing report (#12616)

Packaging

  • Fixed: .pyc file are not cleand up during postinst (#12634)

  • Fixed: Fix flask version during build (#12541)

  • Fixed: rudder-pkg python3 issue (#12504)

  • Fixed: ncf script traceback error (#12633)

API

  • Fixed: NumberFormatException in NodeAPI 8 (runResponse) (#12556)

Agent

  • Fixed: jobScheduler does not work when the first non-loopback interface has no ip address (#12262)

System techniques

  • Fixed: Access rules on Rudder servers/relays prevent in most case the server from downloading/connecting on itself (#12521)

Performance and scalability

  • Fixed: Rule tree filter is a bit slow (#12690)

Techniques

  • Fixed: Enforce checkbox tooltip in groupmanagement technique is misleading (#12670)

  • Fixed: Missing report if two mountounts with the same target (#12647)

  • Fixed: Missing report when we cannot change home directory in users technique (#12555)

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 4.1 series and therefore all installations of 4.1.x should be upgraded when possible. When we release a new version of Rudder it has been thoroughly tested, and we consider the release enterprise-ready for deployment.

Rudder 4.1.11 (2018-04-19)

Changes

Packaging

  • Oracle jdk url has changed but not in ppa (#12479)

Relay server or API

  • Make Groups and Rules API accessible for internal use (#12419)

Miscellaneous

  • Update the techniques tests (#12346)

Bug fixes

Generic methods

  • Fixed: Job cheduler methods with mode are broken (#12378)

  • Fixed: Missing report for ``Shared file to node'' (#12377)

Web - Config management

  • Fixed: Cannot generate policies when there is a loop in policy server hierharchy (stackoverflow) (#12359)

  • Fixed: Typo in agent build error ``reource''" (#12314)

Technique editor - Techniques

  • Fixed: Technique editor returning an error when saving (#12464)

Plugin - API ACL

  • Fixed: API failing on root node (#12229)

Generic methods - File Management

  • Fixed: Jinja2 templating: Shows error in output even when successful (#12379)

  • Fixed: We cannot use file_enforce_content with a list and enforce=true (#12147)

Documentation

  • Fixed: Remove references to foswiki in the doc (#12363)

  • Fixed: Missing configuration instructions at the end of node install documentation (#11927)

  • Fixed: Remove doc of class_prefix variable (#12176)

  • Fixed: condition_from_expression documentation does not clearly state how to use it (#12157)

Miscellaneous

  • Fixed: broken reporting for ssh key distribution technique (#12444)

  • Fixed: wrong xenstore-read path on (at least) ubuntu (#12376)

  • Fixed: Wrong regex in FileTemplate technique (#12263)

Agent

  • Fixed: if we have syntax error in policies on the Rudder server, rudder agent check says that all is fine (#12220)

  • Fixed: agent-health should not require reverse resolution (#12218)

Packaging

  • Fixed: rudder-jetty should depend on headless jre on centos7 (#12328)

  • Fixed: Remove invalid comment in rudder-agent spec file (#12312)

  • Fixed: rudder-init fails when rudder-server-roles.conf does not exist (#12247)

Web - Nodes & inventories

  • Fixed: LDAP query checker must succeed when criteria is empty (#12343)

Plugins

  • Fixed: rudder-pkg does not allow to install/update/remove several plugin at once (#12330)

Security

  • Fixed: Failed generation with ``Could not initialize class javax.crypto.JceSecurity'' (#12448)

  • Fixed: Bad session counting block user login after three session created (#12367)

Server components

  • Fixed: Agent components should not try to load failsafe.cf when policies are broken (#12243)

  • Fixed: sysconfig/apache2 modifications get removed (#11153)

Techniques

  • Fixed: Time settings directive configuration not accessible to non-root users (#12303)

  • Fixed: Unsupported key types are silently ignored in ssh key management technique (#8618)

  • Fixed: Missing report for component ``Post-modification hook'' when cleaning files (#12297)

  • Fixed: Missing report in Group Management (#12214)

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:

  • Ilan COSTA

  • Janos Mattyasovszky

  • Florian Heigl

  • Rob Pomeroy

This is a bug fix release in the 4.1 series and therefore all installations of 4.1.x should be upgraded when possible. When we release a new version of Rudder it has been thoroughly tested, and we consider the release enterprise-ready for deployment.

Rudder 4.1.10 (2018-02-23)

Breaking Changes

  • Fixed: Incorrect detection and storage of architecture 32/64 bits (#11918)

Changes

Technique editor - UI/UX

  • Change max field length from 2k to 16k (#11859)

Web - UI & UX

  • add margin to the magnifying glass icon in the Nodes table (#11849)

Generic methods

  • file_copy_with_check (#11610)

  • Add a method to unset all the classes of a prefix (#11903)

  • Implement a push / pop mechanism for audit mode (#11732)

Web - Nodes & inventories

  • Add more information about the inventory in the inventory process reporting (#10084)

Documentation

  • Remove bibliography from the doc (#7733)

  • Document scheduler generic method (#6946)

Technique editor - API

  • Use a fixed size font in the technique editor parameters (#11895)

Agent

  • Backport complete variable table performance patch (#12130)

  • Update CFEngine to 3.10.3 (#12090)

  • Add a ``rudder agent history'' command (#12053)

Packaging

  • Upgrade openssl to 1.0.2n (#11967)

  • Create a rudder server upgrade-techniques commands (#11059)

Initial promises & sys tech

  • Implement disable-flag for policy server policy copy for nodes (#11631)

  • Create a global variable for ``shared-files'' path (#6324)

Architecture - Refactoring

  • Remove ListTag workaround when JGit version > 1.2 (#2278)

Techniques

  • Add post-hook to the manage key-value file techniques (#12124)

Bug fixes

Web - UI & UX

  • Fixed: Update / Delete buttons on group Category modification should be separated (#11782)

  • Fixed: Javascript error on every pages, preventing usage of file explorer (#11991)

  • Fixed: Directives tree is not filtered after saving changes (#11670)

  • Fixed: Input text for repository in apt repository management is too small (#11841)

  • Fixed: Agent policy mode'' should be Node policy mode'' (#11837)

Generic methods

  • Fixed: command_execution_result does not report anything (#12087)

  • Fixed: yum is run at each cf-promises, having a massive perf cost, on redhat-like system (#11937)

  • Fixed: Add a comment about quotes in file_ensure_key_value parameters documentation (#11896)

  • Fixed: Wrong result class in file_enforce_content (#11880)

  • Fixed: Abort bundle does not work in dry-run mode (#11867)

  • Fixed: ``Shared file to node'' method does not send file to node if file to send was created during run (#11869)

Web - Nodes & inventories

  • Fixed: No Machine Inventory in nodes list while the details are complete (#12041)

  • Fixed: When a network interface is deleted from a node, it is not removed on the Rudder server (#12026)

Technique editor - Techniques

  • Fixed: rudder_reporting file is invalid on nodes if it contains `&&' in one of its parameter (#11870)

Generic methods - Package Management

  • Fixed: Zypper hangs on dialogs / issues due to open tty (#6291)

Web - Technique editor

  • Fixed: Broken variable expression when using node properties in the technique editor (#10304)

Documentation

  • Fixed: Please, legitimate ``Priority'' usage in multi-instance directives (#11963)

  • Fixed: Missing documentation about InputTCPMaxSessions and when to change its value in rsyslog (#8613)

  • Fixed: Merge Migration'' and Server migration'' subsections in the doc (#11062)

  • Fixed: Restore backup documentation is not correct (#11177)

  • Fixed: Redirect FAQ to faq.rudder-project.org (#11905)

Technique editor - API

  • Fixed: Result class containing \{} are not properly canonized (#11600)

Agent

  • Fixed: Autocompletion for rudder commands doesn’t work on RHEL and SLES (#11885)

  • Fixed: The agent moves obstructions regardless of policy mode (#11866)

  • Fixed: Agent script argument parsing failure when using non-default locale (#12131)

  • Fixed: rudder remote run cuts down IP of remote host (#11418)

  • Fixed: With ``rudder agent run'', nothing is logged in /var/rudder/cfengine-community/outputs/ (#10801)

  • Fixed: When rudder agent disable fails it prints a success message (#11936)

  • Fixed: Agent process detection is wrong in rudder agent check on AIX (#11921)

Packaging

  • Fixed: rudder-webapp upgrade doesn’t commit updates to ncf hooks (#6758)

  • Fixed: rudder-inventory-ldap package provides openldap libraries (#3377)

  • Fixed: typo in rudder-server relay package install output (#12064)

  • Fixed: Upgrade Java version used when building webapp on old debian versions, since oracle jvm links has changed (#11981)

  • Fixed: Rudder root on SLES12 shows LDAP error during installation (#10454)

Initial promises & sys tech

  • Fixed: If we a have generic method command_execution with parameter /bin/true, we get an error on reporting for syslog restart on non-aix nor solaris system (#12139)

  • Fixed: Rudder server installation fails if apache cannot resolve server hostname (#11983)

  • Fixed: Use rudder agent check in aix crontab (#11920)

  • Fixed: Inventory from a node on Xen dom0 is missing UUID and is invalid (#11902)

  • Fixed: remote execution is cut at 30 secondes (#11416)

API

  • Fixed: Api does not fail on bad JSON (#5931)

Web - Compliance & node report

  • Fixed: Compliance keeps on loading while expected reports are not available for a node or a rule (#7281)

  • Fixed: Runaway quotation mark at Node report (#11834)

Architecture - Dependencies

  • Fixed: ERROR: canceling statement due to user request (#11973)

  • Fixed: Update to monix 2.3.3: critical bug corrected (#12024)

Techniques

  • Fixed: Typo in templating technique (#12126)

  • Fixed: Typo in tooltip of File content (from remote template) for path of file (#12123)

  • Fixed: The technique file copy from shared folder reports file source instead of file destination (#6564)

  • Fixed: Group management technique silently changes the group gid (#11863)

  • Fixed: sharedfile_to_node reports repaired even if it fails (#11836)

Server components

  • Fixed: There is a /var/cfengine/inputs on a Rudder server (#8625)

  • Fixed: Clarify support for SLES12 SP2 as Root Server (#11854)

  • Fixed: rudder server refusing nodes after an error in check-rudder-agent (#11309)

System integration

  • Fixed: Stopping slapd fails if pid file is empty (#10498)

  • Fixed: service rudder-* outputs on stderror (#6429)

  • Fixed: Cannot run rudder server reload-techniques on RedHat 6.6 (#11907)

  • Fixed: Configuration file of Rudder mention that we may change ``LDAP DIT configuration'', which is wrong (#10664)

  • Fixed: send-clean.sh blocks on inventory parsing error (#10019)

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:

  • Michael Gliwinski

  • Dennis Cabooter

  • Avit Sidis

  • Dmitry Svyatogorov

  • Janos Mattyasovszky

  • The Ranger

  • Jean Cardona

  • Alexandre BRIANCEAU

  • Alexander Brunhirl

  • Florian Heigl

This is a bug fix release in the 4.1 series and therefore all installations of 4.1.x should be upgraded when possible. When we release a new version of Rudder it has been thoroughly tested, and we consider the release enterprise-ready for deployment.

Rudder 4.1.9 (2017-12-12)

Changes

Packaging

  • Upgrade openssl to 1.0.2m (#11734)

  • Change rudder-techniques ncf depdency to a correct version (#11692)

Web - UI & UX

  • Change how Directive priority is displayed (#11725)

  • On Nodes table, put the link to node details on node’s name instead of on magnifying glass icon (#11643)

Architecture - Refactoring

  • Clean-up unused imports in rudder (#11685)

  • Make allocated memory for build configurable (#11688)

Architecture - Dependencies

  • sealerate should be scoped ``provided'' (#11781)

Agent

  • Create a command to display system classes (#11049)

Bug fixes

Web - UI & UX

  • Fixed: Remove limit to have at least 3 characters in all entities names (Rules/Directives/categories …) (#11801)

  • Fixed: CentOS is written ``Centos'' in the OS graph on the dashboard (#11652)

  • Fixed: Some icons in the interface look pixelized on hidpi screens (#11237)

  • Fixed: Fix some CSS issues in Rule’s compliance tables (#11679)

Web - Config management

  • Fixed: Missing node id in log message on generaction error (#11819)

Web - Nodes & inventories

  • Fixed: Node (hostname,policyserver,…) modification should trigger promises regeneration (#1411)

  • Fixed: Impossible to search or build groups based on JSON values in node properties (#10599)

Documentation

  • Fixed: Missing doc on syslog daemon (#11768)

  • Fixed: Archive REST section outdated for download ZIP archive (#11650)

  • Fixed: Document how to merge properties, and not simply merge them (#11730)

  • Fixed: fetch git branch before checkout when building rudder-doc (#11697)

  • Fixed: Use new ncf branches in rudder-doc (#11693)

  • Fixed: ``Quick installation'' section on the Rudder doc (#11668)

Agent

  • Fixed: cf-* coredumps if policy_server.dat contains empty lines (#11724)

  • Fixed: Agent segfaults when merging non-container data variables (#11620)

  • Fixed: On update error, the help message is not valid anymore (#11803)

  • Fixed: force option in rudder agent factory-reset does not work (#11769)

  • Fixed: Impossible to run in house CFEngine and Rudder agent side by side (#11719)

Packaging

  • Fixed: Rudder installation fails on SLES12 (#11727)

Initial promises & sys tech

  • Fixed: Unexpected report for Send inventories to CMDB after #11257 (#11648)

  • Fixed: rudder service and thus cf-execd is never restarted / ensure running (#11303)

System integration

  • Fixed: rudder-init fails to report memory errors from jetty start (#8165)

  • Fixed: When we have a /var full, Rudder LDAP or Postgres can be corrupted (#11125)

  • Fixed: Fusioninventory task Deploy is missing a dependency to File-Copy-Recursive (#11701)

  • Fixed: rudder-pkg should not preserve owner when extracting plugin (#11423)

  • Fixed: Duration of logrotate for /var/log/rudder/ is too long making /var/log too big (#10912)

  • Fixed: Allowed network 0.0.0.0/0 is not currently supported by Apache (#11226)

Policies

  • Fixed: Generic method file_ensure_key_value_present_in_ini_section.cf has leaky classes, resulting in invalid results (#11792)

  • Fixed: Boken 4.1 ncf with 3.1 agents (#11779)

  • Fixed: file_from_string_mustache inserts only ${content} (#11744)

  • Fixed: eval usage is not compatible with CFEngine < 3.9 (#11729)

Architecture - Dependencies

  • Fixed: Lift-webkit has a dependency toward rhino (which conflicts with JS param eval) (#11777)

  • Fixed: Update minor version of java dependency library (#11764)

Web - Maintenance

  • Fixed: Null pointer exception when restoring group archive. (#11805)

Architecture - Refactoring

  • Fixed: There’s an UTF-8''s in place of UTF-8'' in a method parameter (#11785)

  • Fixed: Remove an ``unchecked because eliminated by erasure'' (#11784)

Techniques

  • Fixed: The time synchronization technique doesn’t work on AIX (#6964)

  • Fixed: Time Management Settings cannot set the timezone to UTC (#6998)

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 4.1 series and therefore all installations of 4.1.x should be upgraded when possible. When we release a new version of Rudder it has been thoroughly tested, and we consider the release enterprise-ready for deployment.

Rudder 4.1.8 (2017-10-26)

Changes

Initial promises & sys tech

  • Do not send inventory if a forwarder/uploader daemon exists (#11257)

Documentation

  • Document debian 9 support for 4.1 (#11382)

  • Better explain configuration drift reporting (#11338)

Miscellaneous

  • Refactor policy generation tests (#11397)

Agent

  • Node properties local override (#11618)

  • Add a rudder agent diff command (#11099)

Techniques

  • UserManagement technique does not allow to change the gid of an existing user (#11596)

  • Add a new syntax for rudder parameters (#11405)

Bug fixes

Web - UI & UX

  • Fixed: Screen estate in compliance graph (#10761)

  • Fixed: Global parameters UI now showing Edit/Delete button on long lines (#11585)

  • Fixed: Update Directive popup is broken on firefox 38.6.1esr (#11584)

  • Fixed: Cannot select version of directive to create if technique desciption contains curly braces (#11393)

Web - Nodes & inventories

  • Fixed: Groups are not reloaded after restoring from archive (#11244)

Web - Config management

  • Fixed: Parameter name requires at least 3 characters (#11588)

  • Fixed: There is no way to remove a Directive based on a Technique that no longer exists (#5203)

Documentation

  • Fixed: Manually restoring permissions for NCF after archive import is broken (#11414)

  • Fixed: Dead link in doc (#11579)

  • Fixed: Missing documentation on Directive ordering (#11289)

  • Fixed: Wrong formatting in doc to build agent (#11274)

Agent

  • Fixed: Xen domU detection issues with pvops kernels. (#10787)

  • Fixed: Inventory uploaded multiple times after reinit (#11580)

Packaging

  • Fixed: Error at installation of Rudder 4.1 on centos 6 (#11628)

  • Fixed: Build on Deb7 and ubuntu14.04 fails because jdk8u144 is unavalaible (#11626)

  • Fixed: We should not try to edit /etc/cron.d/rudder-agent on AIX (#11595)

  • Fixed: Warning about zip dependency is at top of installation of plugin (#11398)

  • Fixed: Plugin postint are not run after a rudder upgrade (#11430)

  • Fixed: rudder-techniques requires a recent ncf version (#11411)

  • Fixed: Cannot save plugin status during initial install (#11395)

  • Fixed: When ugrading Rudder, the Windows plugins is not enabled anymore (#11385)

  • Fixed: PORT in /etc/default/rudder-slapd is ignored (#11331)

Initial promises & sys tech

  • Fixed: Tidy expected reports does have a too big TTL (#11591)

  • Fixed: Error message on classical windows agent when getting environement variable (#11435)

API

  • Fixed: Archives API list returns date with wrong format (#11408)

Techniques

  • Fixed: Allow variable as directive parameters in regexp validated inputs (#11449)

  • Fixed: generic_variable_definition inserts spaces in multi lined values (#11613)

  • Fixed: group management technique doesn’t ensure optional user is in group (#8739)

  • Fixed: Incomplete description of the behaviour of technique copyGitFile, that may result in broken permissions of whole folder (#11422)

  • Fixed: File content (key/value format) technique allows white space before separator but not after it (#11087)

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

  • Hamlyn Mootoo

This is a bug fix release in the 4.1 series and therefore all installations of 4.1.x should be upgraded when possible. When we release a new version of Rudder it has been thoroughly tested, and we consider the release enterprise-ready for deployment.

Rudder 4.1.7 (2017-09-07)

Changes

Packaging

  • Add Debian 9 support (CI/internal changes and #11262)

Web - UI & UX

  • Fold automatically Group categories if there are too many of them (#11323)

Miscellaneous

  • New technique to centralize creation Variable (#11148)

  • New technique to read variables from a JSON file (#11149)

Agent

  • Upgrade openssl to 1.0.2l (#11279)

Bug fixes

Web - UI & UX

  • Fixed: Node key display differences (#10852)

  • Fixed: The description of the group tree mentions drag and drop which does not work (#11287)

Web - Nodes & inventories

  • Fixed: Inventory endpoint info api is reporting saturated off by one (#11330)

Documentation

  • Fixed: Missing doc about latest hooks in the manual (#11305)

Miscellaneous

  • Fixed: ``compliance'' user role is broken (#11185)

Web - Compliance & node report

  • Fixed: Missing agent reports after Rudder server restart (#11037)

  • Fixed: ``no report'' explanation is not correct in node details (#11270)

Packaging

  • Fixed: Pre/post upgrade scripts do not correctly save and restore plugins status with rudder-plugin (#11278)

  • Fixed: Remove rudder.8.gz from rudder-packages preventing build of man pages (#11258)

  • Fixed: Configuration of database password fails after install (#11253)

Initial promises & sys tech

  • Fixed: When running ``rudder agent inventory'', all other reports are missing on the server (#11285)

Agent

  • Fixed: Upgrade agent to CFEngine 3.10.2 (#11288)

  • Fixed: Do not display components summary in non-full-compliance modes (#11324)

  • Fixed: `rudder agent info' should report compliance mode (full-compliance / changes-only / reports-disabled) (#10649)

  • Fixed: When in changes only mode, with no heartbeat, `rudder agent run' outputs `error: Rudder agent was interrupted during execution by a fatal error.' (#9807)

Web - Maintenance

  • Fixed: Node compliances table is never archived (#11314)

Techniques

  • Fixed: Technique ``Package sources and settings (APT)'' does not support stretch (#11336)

  • Fixed: sudo management isn’t update-safe (#9347)

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:

  • Ilan Costa

  • Florian Heigl

  • Janos Mattyasovszky

  • Dmitry Svyatogorov

This is a bug fix release in the 4.1 ESR series and therefore all installations of 4.1.x should be upgraded when possible. When we release a new version of Rudder it has been thoroughly tested, and we consider the release enterprise-ready for deployment.

Rudder 4.1.6 (2017-08-14)

Changes

Architecture - Internal libs

  • Upgrade to Scala 2.12.3 to improve compilation time (#11192)

Documentation

  • Update screenshot for interface usage page (#11143)

  • Adapt run schedule documentation and add screenshots (#11139)

  • Add diagram and screenshots in documentation (#11137)

  • Compliance logfile parsing regex (#11107)

  • Warn on risk of updating file format (#11155)

Techniques

  • Create a file template technique (#9078)

System integration

  • Add node-post-acceptance hook (#11218)

Bug fixes

Web - UI & UX

  • Fixed: If a Rule is enabled but applies no Directive, it is displayed as Disabled (#11123)

  • Fixed: Wrong sort on compliance in tables (#11229)

  • Fixed: Disabled Rules status is invisible (#11205)

  • Fixed: In Directive details, tags input is broken on Iceweasel (#11118)

  • Fixed: Wrong XML identation in event log (#10951)

  • Fixed: Add a margin between the filters and the table in Technical logs tab (#11083)

  • Fixed: Repaired does not appear as yellow anymore (#11028)

Web - Nodes & inventories

  • Fixed: Impossible to delete a node when policy server has been deleted (#11231)

  • Fixed: When we manage a Windows 2016, we don’t have the proper Windows version displayed (#11172)

Web - Config management

  • Fixed: Typo in generation error (#11232)

  • Fixed: Typo in unauthorized acces message (#11182)

  • Fixed: Cannot add a directive with a " in its name in Rule (#10754)

Documentation

  • Fixed: Put warnings (about dependencies for example) before install/upgrade instructions (#11162)

  • Fixed: Typo in rudder-setup usage in documentation (#11136)

  • Fixed: Wrong doc for restore of Rudder ldap on 4.1 (#11127)

  • Fixed: Style broken in documention: upgrade_from_rudder_3_1_3_2_or_4_0 (#11002)

Web - Compliance & node report

  • Fixed: Reporting on old technique fails in audit mode (#11152)

  • Fixed: /var/log/webapp/compliance/non-compliant-reports does not contain non-compliant (audit) report (#11223)

Packaging

  • Fixed: Backup of apache vhost by rudder-server-relay created in bad directory (#10860)

  • Fixed: if plugin is broken, we cannot upgrade it (#11064)

  • Fixed: When installing Rudder-Webapp, postinst script runs rudder-upgrade before initializing the git, and it can fail (#10990)

  • Fixed: Do not show instructions for rudder-node-to-relay on root setup (#10859)

Initial promises & sys tech

  • Fixed: Check permissions on /var/rudder files, particularly modified-files (#11110)

  • Fixed: Wrong stderr / stdout redirection of logs from rudder agent check in 4.1 (#11044)

System integration

  • Fixed: Non normalize hooks env var names for node info (#11213)

  • Fixed: Bad semantic for system error on hooks (#11010)

Agent

  • Fixed: rudder agent factory-reset bugs (#10766)

  • Fixed: rudder agent update -q bad exit code (#11047)

Security

  • Fixed: JSESSION cookie should be ``secure'' (#11159)

Techniques

  • Fixed: Aix group technique (#11235)

  • Fixed: Package management'' technique missing allow untrusted'' switch (#10241)

  • Fixed: Directive: Services Management doesn’t support AIX (#8752)

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:

  • Ilan Costa

  • Florian Heigl

  • Maxime Longuet

  • Janos Mattyasovszky

  • David Svejda

  • Dmitry Svyatogorov

This is a bug fix release in the 4.1 ESR series and therefore all installations of 4.1.x should be upgraded when possible. When we release a new version of Rudder it has been thoroughly tested, and we consider the release enterprise-ready for deployment.

Rudder 4.1.5 (2017-06-22)

Bug fixes

Initial promises & sys tech

  • Fixed: Broken rsyslog configuration in 4.1 (#10982)

Miscellaneous

  • Fixed: No logs when (r)?syslog(-ng)? is restarted in 4.1 (#10987)

Release notes

Note: Rudder 4.1.4 was released but quickly withdrawn because of #10982.

This is a bug fix release in the 4.1 ESR series and therefore all installations of 4.1.x should be upgraded when possible. When we release a new version of Rudder it has been thoroughly tested, and we consider the release enterprise-ready for deployment.

Rudder 4.1.4 (2017-06-21)

Changes

Packaging

  • Log check-rudder-agent cron job output (#8438)

Architecture - Internal libs

  • Match non exaustive on workflow step: log on error (#10938)

  • Bad comparison in unique variable (#10825)

Documentation

  • Use a bigger favicon for Rudder documentation (#10894)

  • Document the usage of the ansible plugin (#10854)

Agent

  • Create a rudder agent command to format old logs (#10708)

Bug fixes

Web - UI & UX

  • Fixed: Broken display on directive screen on 3.1.20 (#10923)

  • Fixed: Time since last generation is limited to hours (#9302)

  • Fixed: Node search input field are tiny and a nightmare to use (#10659)

  • Fixed: Directives tree overflows the page (#10735)

Documentation

  • Fixed: Agent build documentation in GitHub README is out of date (#10762)

  • Fixed: Document renaming of /opt/rudder/etc/ssl/rudder-webapp.crt in 4.1 (#10833)

  • Fixed: Missing doc about required agent version for audit mode (#10811)

Web - Config management

  • Fixed: When hooks in policy-generation-node-ready or policy-generation-node-finished fails, there is no error in the generation (#10908)

Agent

  • Fixed: check-rudder-agent doesn’t purge the lmdb file when run via cron (#10771)

  • Fixed: If component value starts with # , report is not outputted by rudder agent output (#10601)

  • Fixed: rudder agent start fails on sles12 (#10810)

Initial promises & sys tech

  • Fixed: If syslog service is stopped, it is not restarted automatically by rudder-agent, so agent doesn’t report anything (#8168)

Techniques

  • Fixed: The rpmPackageInstallation technique tries to install package-* instead of package when no version is specified (#9283)

  • Fixed: Improve generated inventory checks when inventory is missing (#10711)

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:

  • Florian Heigl

  • Janos Mattyasovszky

This is a bug fix release in the 4.1 ESR series and therefore all installations of 4.1.x should be upgraded when possible. When we release a new version of Rudder it has been thoroughly tested, and we consider the release enterprise-ready for deployment.

Rudder 4.1.3 (2017-05-23)

Changes

Documentation

  • Update FAQ links in the doc (#10760)

Bug fixes

Web - UI & UX

  • Fixed: When folding directive tree filter, the directive tree stays at its initial size (#10705)

Initial promises & sys tech

  • Fixed: During install, inventory generated into bad file path: /var/rudder/${inventory_path} (#10774)

Release notes

This is a bug fix release in the 4.1 series and therefore all installations of 4.1 should be upgraded when possible. The current ``esr'' release is 3.1.*. When we release a new version of Rudder, it has been thoroughly tested, and we consider the release enterprise-ready for deployment

Rudder 4.1.2 (2017-05-22)

Changes

Architecture - Internal libs

  • Add a test on agent version parsing (#10726)

Documentation

  • Update server requirement with load test data (#10698)

  • Missing paragraph about rudder-setup installation (#10691)

  • Add an example of using a condition in the Technique creation tutorial (#10694)

  • Add Technique editor documentation (#10685)

  • Complete documentation introduction (#10681)

  • Translate the technical architecture part of introduction (#10684)

  • Document fully and partially supported OS (#10679)

  • Document more precisely the generation process (#10671)

  • Add a ``general presentation'' chapter in documentation (#10673)

  • Add relay content for requirements section (#10674)

  • Improve policy mode documentation (#10667)

  • Extend node property documentation for templates (#10614)

Techniques

  • Improve readability of system techniques reports (#10632)

System integration

  • Create a hook for pre and post node deletion event (#10568)

Bug fixes

Web - UI & UX

  • Fixed: Fix details in Technique editor doc (#10699)

  • Fixed: Cannot generate promises when invalid character in a group name (double quote here) (#10745)

  • Fixed: We have no way to know that a Technique is disabled (#10660)

  • Fixed: Directive is still marked unused after using it (#9805)

  • Fixed: Logout hover background is too wide (#10529)

  • Fixed: Cannot go back to the previous page on node details (#10515)

  • Fixed: New'' buttons should be renamed Add'' (#10630)

  • Fixed: On some resolution, top bar is on two line and we can’t see the whole directive tree (#10552)

  • Fixed: Mono Font text in directive form are not correctly displayed in Chrome (#9780)

  • Fixed: Selects in Archives page are not wide enough (#10615)

Web - Nodes & inventories

  • Fixed: In Rudder 4.1 dashboard, Nova agent are ``unknown'' (#10727)

Performance and scalability

  • Fixed: Unnecessary call to inventory code to check its version during policy validation (#10641)

Web - Config management

  • Fixed: Tooltips don’t disapear on safari (#6145)

Documentation

  • Fixed: Document correctly memory usage (#10744)

  • Fixed: Broken links in doc (#10730)

  • Fixed: Missing information in Technique editor doc (#10710)

  • Fixed: Improve doc index and header menu (#10701)

  • Fixed: Documentation build broken (#10700)

  • Fixed: Make a nice agent output screenshot for the intro (#10693)

  • Fixed: Missing link toward technique editor in intro ``extensibility'' (#10696)

  • Fixed: Add a diagram about different roles (#10695)

  • Fixed: Move Technique editor doc in 4.1 (#10697)

  • Fixed: Bad links, typo, images in french in intro chapter (#10690)

  • Fixed: Use ``-'' in place of "_" in named reference in doc (#10688)

  • Fixed: Broken doc build (#10687)

  • Fixed: Create a ``Rudder extension and third party integration'' chapter (#10675)

  • Fixed: Broken doc build (#10680)

  • Fixed: Supported Windows platforms are Windows Server 2008 and after (#10656)

  • Fixed: Doc: Regenerate now'' button has been renamed Update policies'' (#10633)

  • Fixed: Backup restoration requires disabling the agent (#10639)

  • Fixed: Rudder installation docs are misleading as to running rudder-init (#10624)

  • Fixed: Plugin installation doc is not up-to-date for rpkg package (#10555)

  • Fixed: Node property documentation has error (#10613)

Miscellaneous

  • Fixed: If cf-serverd is not up, hook 50-reload-policy-file-server is in error and breaks policy generation (#10493)

  • Fixed: Docs: Reference to ``TODO'' that doesn’t exist (#10622)

  • Fixed: escaping ${SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND} in GUI - sshKeyDistribution/3.0 (#10715)

Web - Compliance & node report

  • Fixed: In reports list, if the directive contains < >, then the part in < > doesn’t appear in the reports (#5718)

  • Fixed: When no reports has been received from a node for new policy, message contains unexpanded variable (#10636)

Packaging

  • Fixed: Installation fails due to broken nss/nss-softokn detection on CentOS6 (#10734)

  • Fixed: PostgreSQL could not connect to server when installing Rudder 4.1 nightlies on Centos6 (#10704)

  • Fixed: Broken agent build on Debian/ubuntu (#10729)

  • Fixed: Man pages provided in rudder-agent package are out-of-date (#10432)

  • Fixed: rudder-init doesn’t use fully qualified path for executing cf-agent (#10607)

  • Fixed: rudder-pkg error on debian8: missing depency to xz-utils (#10628)

  • Fixed: When fetching webapp WARs, a repository maven is created in user home (#10618)

Initial promises & sys tech

  • Fixed: Invalid generation of inventory at install (#10752)

  • Fixed: Agent inventory generation invalid if hostname is not defined (#9829)

System integration

  • Fixed: Script rudder-init cannot reinit ldap database (#10608)

  • Fixed: java.lang.InternalError when calling the internal API on Redhat because of invalid version of nss (#9905)

  • Fixed: Infinite ``rudder is loading'' page if rudder-init didn’t run (#10567)

  • Fixed: If an error happen during boostrap, the webapp starts but is in a zombie state and the error page is not displayed (#1974)

  • Fixed: rudder server debug fails on SLES 11 (#7892)

Agent

  • Fixed: If component value starts with # , report is not outputted by rudder agent output (#10601)

  • Fixed: Thell the user a node needs to be removed from the server when running a factory-reset (#10640)

Web - Maintenance

  • Fixed: Adding an authorized network when ``common-root'' directive is missing seems to work, but actually fails (#8017)

  • Fixed: There is small display glitch in change request display (#6257)

Server components

  • Fixed: Inventory endpoint accepts inventory even if ldap or postgresql connectivity failed (#10485)

Techniques

  • Fixed: Technique tests do not pass on initial promises (#10725)

  • Fixed: Unclear field description in MOTD technique (#10655)

  • Fixed: Technique files contains UTF-8 chars (especially spaces) (#7622)

  • Fixed: ``Variable (String)'' Directive in the Directive library does not use textarea (#10585)

  • Fixed: When agent run interval is not 5 minutes, lock database is always purged (#10634)

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

  • Romuald Bouvard

  • Jean Cardona

  • Ilan Costa

  • Christophe Crier

  • Tristan Gallet

  • Florian Heigl

  • Janos Mattyasovszky

  • Ferenc Ulrich

  • Kiran V

  • Rémi Verchère

  • Josh Watt

This is a bug fix release in the 4.1 series and therefore all installations of 4.1 should be upgraded when possible. The current ``esr'' release is 3.1.*. When we release a new version of Rudder, it has been thoroughly tested, and we consider the release enterprise-ready for deployment

Rudder 4.1.1 (2017-04-19)

Changes

Techniques

  • Add tests for manageKeyValueFile (#10473)

Bug fixes

Web - UI & UX

  • Fixed: Different icons for magnifier in pending nodes page (#10524)

  • Fixed: A magnifier icon appears in the filter fild after displaying directives that would be applied in pending nodes page (#10525)

  • Fixed: Buttons left-right padding is inconsistent (#10528)

  • Fixed: Reset to default'' action in Change Audit Logs'' doesn’t reset to install version (#9391)

  • Fixed: Directive column of pending nodes table is not wide enough. (#10513)

Web - Nodes & inventories

  • Fixed: Adding a json node property by UI make it a string (#10569)

  • Fixed: Regex search on node properties is broken: returns all nodes with a property when no using invalid value (#10570)

  • Fixed: Rudder fails to accept inventories with user account different only in their case (#10545)

Web - Config management

  • Fixed: On centos7, generation fails because of hook policy-generation-node-ready/10-cf-promise-check (#10532)

  • Fixed: Cannot add node property when audit message is mandatory (#10578)

  • Fixed: Missing ``user techniques'' in the technique editor when exporting / importing archive (#9448)

Documentation

  • Fixed: Broken links in 4.1 doc (#10593)

  • Fixed: Rudder documentation and release note don’t mention the dependency to Java 1.8 for Rudder 4.1 (#10548)

Agent

  • Fixed: Policy loading is slow due to innefficient variable manipulation (#10576)

  • Fixed: On upgrade from 3.1 to 4.1, policy could not be generated any more (#10559)

Packaging

  • Fixed: rudder-pkg is missing in rudder package (#10556)

API

  • Fixed: Wrong error message on directive API (#10554)

  • Fixed: Cannot insert a directive via the API in Rudder 4.1 (#10547)

Web - Compliance & node report

  • Fixed: Compliance bar graph doesn’t show small compliance numbers (#10392)

System integration

  • Fixed: Log contains debug info ** got string: \{''start:''2017-03-09 00:00:00,''end,''2017-03-11 00:00:00``}'' (#10553)

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:

  • Ilan Costa

  • Florian Heigl

  • Janos Mattyasovszky

  • Hamlyn Mootoo

  • Dmitry Svyatogorov

  • Rémi Verchère

This is a bug fix release in the 4.1 series and therefore all installations of 4.1 should be upgraded when possible. The current ``esr'' release is 3.1.*. When we release a new version of Rudder, it has been thoroughly tested, and we consider the release enterprise-ready for deployment

Rudder 4.1.0 (2017-03-30)

Changes

Packaging

  • rpm packages should depend on java headless (#10468)

Web - UI & UX

  • Add icon for directives which can be migrated to an upper technique version (#10421)

  • Add icon for directives which use deprecated technique (#10420)

  • Find a way to display ``deprecated'' techniques which still contain directives in the directives tree (#10229)

  • Fix some details in Directives page (#10384)

  • Group Type order should be switched (#10330)

Documentation

  • Document how to build an agent (#10333)

  • Change page split level and reorganize sections (#10350)

Performance and scalability

  • Add caching information to static JS/CSS resources (#4519)

Miscellaneous

  • Add a convention for ``.disabled'' hooks to not be executed (#10412)

Bug fixes

Web - UI & UX

  • Fixed: New category'' button hides Categories'' title on small screens (#10510)

  • Fixed: Some tooltips can’t overflow their container (#10509)

  • Fixed: A running Policy generation is not displayed on the Status dropdown (#10451)

  • Fixed: Directive page not displaying with ``None.get'' in logs (#10501)

  • Fixed: When activating change requests, the CR zone doesn’t appear in the main bar (#10499)

  • Fixed: GUI breaks completely with IE 11 (#10452)

  • Fixed: padding-down instead of padding-bottom in rudder.css (#10465)

  • Fixed: Weird appearance of accet new nodes popup (#10458)

  • Fixed: Display issue on ``Accept new Nodes'' page (#9165)

  • Fixed: Dropdown lists in directive forms are not wide enough and hide the contents of options (#10361)

  • Fixed: In the rule table, Recent changes column change size during page loading (#10340)

  • Fixed: On the Rule details, if I click on ``Clone'', then cancel action, I get switched to Settings tab (#10345)

  • Fixed: Directive from a whole deprecated technique are not displayed (#10422)

  • Fixed: ``Create with latest version'' button text is cut off in new directive page (#10358)

  • Fixed: Cannot use slashes in quick search (#10407)

  • Fixed: Quick search text has gone a hard to read gray (#10400)

  • Fixed: Checkboxes in Administration menu are not locked for users with missing permissions (#9328)

  • Fixed: Bad Rudder logo in src/main/webapp/images (#10386)

  • Fixed: Rudder (svg) logo aren’t displayed with chrome (#10387)

  • Fixed: Tooltips are broken in Rule tables (#10389)

  • Fixed: Directive ``Migrate'' button is stuck to the version dropdown list (#10360)

  • Fixed: ``Delete #1'' button in directive form’s text is not centered (#10359)

  • Fixed: Save button shown even no permission to change it (#9819)

  • Fixed: If there is an error in the Parameter edition/creation popup, its shape change (#10248)

  • Fixed: Inconsistent capitalization of titles in the menu (#9545)

  • Fixed: Inconsistent message style in settings page (#9426)

  • Fixed: Wrong action named in API accounts table (#10203)

Documentation

  • Fixed: Inconsistent section order (#10413)

  • Fixed: Remove doc for the old quicksearch bar that has been removed (#10401)

Web - Technique editor

  • Fixed: Cannot open technique editor on SLES12 (#10511)

Web - Nodes & inventories

  • Fixed: On Group page, we can click on ``Save'' on arrival on the page, and it prevent any further saving of the Group (#10376)

  • Fixed: No error message in group creation popup if no name is set (#10328)

Web - Config management

  • Fixed: No generation triggered at the end of installation (#10448)

  • Fixed: When upgrading to 4.1, rudder.community.checkpromises.command=/bin/true option is lost (#10379)

  • Fixed: Dataource can not override an existing property (#10520)

  • Fixed: Policy validation fails (#10446)

Miscellaneous

  • Fixed: Validation hooks should execute cf-promises by exec (#10449)

Web - Compliance & node report

  • Fixed: Several core features don’t work anymore with more than 1000 nodes (#10456)

Packaging

  • Fixed: slapd migration for 4.1 is not done on Ubuntu 16.04 (#10517)

  • Fixed: Rudder 4.1 fails to install Ubuntu/Debian because of rudder-slapd service restart (#10506)

  • Fixed: Error when upgrading from Rudder 3.1 to Rudder 4.1 on Debian 8 (#10440)

  • Fixed: On SLES12, missing package rsyslog-module-pgsql (#10497)

  • Fixed: Use the same initial database password everywhere to avoid breaking database connection before rudder-init (#10484)

  • Fixed: Relay-Api does not handle different Apache versions (#10455)

  • Fixed: Error on hooks on fresh install on Centos7 (#10436)

  • Fixed: LDAP error at upgrade - Cannot allocate memory (#10424)

  • Fixed: On Centos 7.3, upgrading from 4.0 to 4.1 fail due to SELinux problem (#10372)

  • Fixed: Upgrading from 4.0 to 4.1 failed on Centos7.3, and purged LDAP directory (#10373)

  • Fixed: Don’t display warning about configuring policy server on root server (#8976)

Initial promises & sys tech

  • Fixed: Inventory is not resent in case of error - and agent don’t report the error (#10088)

  • Fixed: A 4.1 agent cannot fetch its promises from a 3.1 server (#10049)

  • Fixed: Ignore changes generated by creation/deletion of ncf expected reports file (#10355)

System integration

  • Fixed: Error in migration (ldap backup not found because ending by .gz) (#10521)

  • Fixed: Apache not started on a fresh centos7 install (selinux problem) (#10426)

  • Fixed: On freshly installed centos7, ldap connections fail with ``bad auth'' (#10427)

  • Fixed: rudder-upgrade fails if run twice (#10466)

  • Fixed: rudder-slapd force-stop doesn’t exist on sles 12 (#10464)

  • Fixed: rudder-reports doesn’t start postgresql on postinstall on sles 12 (#10460)

  • Fixed: Unable to setup metadata virtual space list (#10444)

  • Fixed: /var/log/rudder/ldap/slapd.log is full of not indexed message (#10429)

  • Fixed: Hook failed with fork: retry: No child processes (#10457)

  • Fixed: After running rudder-init, no connectivity to postgresql (#10486)

Relay server or API

  • Fixed: Error in the cron job prevents purging expired files shared between nodes (#10417)

Architecture - Dependencies

  • Fixed: Update monix (critical bug fix) (#10393)

Performance and scalability

  • Fixed: If I click on ``Regenerate all policies'', it clears the cache of changes, and slows down a lot the web interface (#10383)

  • Fixed: Enable gzip compression on text resources (#10365)

Server components

  • Fixed: slapd is not always restarted after installation of rudder-inventory-ldap (#10467)

  • Fixed: In debug verbosity, logs are overflowed by logs about com.zaxxer.hikari.pool (#10471)

Techniques

  • Fixed: Variable * techniques description refers to CFEngine technical vocabulary (#10363)

  • Fixed: ``Download files from the shared folder'' behaving badly? (#10312)

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 4.1 series and therefore all installations of 4.1 should be upgraded when possible. The current ``esr'' release is 3.1.*. When we release a new version of Rudder, it has been thoroughly tested, and we consider the release enterprise-ready for deployment

Rudder 4.1.0.rc1 (2017-03-07)

Changes

Web - UI & UX

  • Adjust providers display in the node properties tab (#10320)

  • Display provider of node properties if defined (#10302)

  • Change graph lib to more efficient one (#8171)

  • Adjust the height box height’s css property instead of max-height (#10252)

  • Add autocomplete on rule/directive tags (#10192)

  • The Technique version'' select and Migrate'' button should be aligned (#9938)

  • Reorder and hide deprecated Techniques in Directive tree (#10228)

  • UI to define node properties (#10169)

  • Reorganize Directives page interface (#10080)

Documentation

  • Document usage of file sharing between nodes (#10278)

  • Add guideline for technique naming (#10222)

  • Use the lato font in the manual (#9945)

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

Agent

  • Create a cfengine_rudder class (#9384)

  • Improve usage of ncf logging in rudder command (#9280)

Packaging

  • Registered Plugins should be kept at upgrade (#10251)

  • Stop jetty before upgrading the webapp (#9820)

  • Embed openssl on old debian systems (#10303)

  • Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.2k (#10246)

  • Upgrade fusion agent to 2.3.19 (#9763)

  • Redirect http to https in relay api (#10073)

Initial promises & sys tech

  • Remove unused body yum_remi (#10349)

System integration

  • Add a package manager for plugins (#10254)

Techniques

  • More consistent naming of techniques (#10214)

Bug fixes

Web - UI & UX

  • Fixed: Compliance display when hoverving over the compliance bar is too precise (#9323)

  • Fixed: Compliance/Recent change column should not be present by default in directive screen (#10339)

  • Fixed: Compliance bar isn’t display the same way in `List nodes' and `Rules' pages (#10321)

  • Fixed: Display of shared files popup is broken (#10329)

  • Fixed: Inconsistent titles style in Rule settings (#10325)

  • Fixed: Disabled label disappear passing the mouse over the policy mode label (#10323)

  • Fixed: Cannot change schedule on Node (#10318)

  • Fixed: Clone group popup is broken (#10307)

  • Fixed: Lost space at the bottom of the group page (#10281)

  • Fixed: When clicking refresh in rules, grid header height change (#10262)

  • Fixed: When trying to create a new API account that has the same name as an existing acocunt, nothing happen (#10250)

  • Fixed: Setting title are barelly outstanding (#10261)

  • Fixed: Button are not correctly aligned compared to tables in 4.1 (#10257)

  • Fixed: Rules form fields are too wide (#10202)

  • Fixed: Vertically center the filter line in the event logs page (#10219)

  • Fixed: Inconsistent titles style in the Settings page (#10217)

  • Fixed: Parameters description won’t show up in 4.1 (#10197)

  • Fixed: Broken display in Rule popup creation (#10182)

  • Fixed: If we set a short description for a Rule, it won’t show up anymore in the rule list (#10196)

Web - Config management

  • Fixed: Remove ``rights'' in node property (#10301)

  • Fixed: When we filter directive by tags, and update a directive, the tree is refreshed without taking into account the filter (#10271)

  • Fixed: When we add/remove/update a tag to a Directive/Rule, we get an empty event log (#10275)

  • Fixed: Tag filter creation greyed out after creating a tag filter (#10272)

  • Fixed: ``Migrate'' button is displayed for deprecated techniques even if all version are deprecated (#9859)

Techniques

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

  • Fixed: Deprecate openVPN technique (#6707)

Web - Nodes & inventories

  • Fixed: Include Timezone in Node Info (#7092)

  • Fixed: Improve management of rights and other metadata of node properties (#10235)

  • Fixed: Cannot choose between Group or category when creating a Group (#10249)

  • Fixed: Users with ``node_all'' security role can not change Agent Policy Mode (#9936)

  • Fixed: Can not see details of pending node (#10174)

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

Documentation

  • Fixed: Doc about copying ncf technique to /var/rudder/ncf/local is false (#10269)

  • Fixed: Broken formatting of plugin packaging doc (#10297)

  • Fixed: Merge error - Link check disappeared in 4.0 (#10206)

Miscellaneous

  • Fixed: Error when putting uuid.hive in inventory-updates (#10070)

  • Fixed: Clean tags data model (#9934)

  • Fixed: Promise validation errors (cf-promises) are unreadable (#10175)

Agent

  • Fixed: Scary message about OpenSSL on SLES when running rudder agent update (#10066)

  • Fixed: Some QEMU virtual machines are seen as physical (#9616)

  • Fixed: If rudder server component is stopped on Rudder root server, it is never restarted (#10258)

Packaging

  • Fixed: make clean in rudder agent package doesn’t remove build-cfengine-stamp (#10334)

  • Fixed: Accept TTL with spaces in relay API (#10296)

  • Fixed: Error downloading perl modules with https (#10264)

  • Fixed: Missing prefix in asynchronous output in remote run (#10190)

  • Fixed: Impossible to share file due to wrong permissions for /var/rudder/shared-files (#10184)

  • Fixed: version is not properly set in web interface (#10107)

Initial promises & sys tech

  • Fixed: Transient update error on ncf/local (#10028)

  • Fixed: Error in relay promises when there are no shared files (#9881)

  • Fixed: Propagate promises error when no nodes behind a relay (#7671)

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

API

  • Fixed: API compatibility feature switch must be removed in 4.1 (#10322)

  • Fixed: Log an error when Rest API fails (#10295)

  • Fixed: Missing timezone information in API ``node details'' (#10280)

  • Fixed: Fix behavior of directive API and make api more consistent (#10225)

Relay server or API

  • Fixed: Allow dots in file_id in shared-files api (#10338)

  • Fixed: Remote-run exec for root fail with ``rudder agent was interrupted'' (#10185)

Web - Compliance & node report

  • Fixed: Recent changes aren’t display sometimes on Rules list (#10194)

Web - Maintenance

  • Fixed: There is no error logged when an error occurs when updating information of Node in Node cache (#10290)

  • 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)

Plugin - datasources

  • Fixed: EventLog at promise generation for datasources change, even if nothing changed (#10198)

System integration

  • Fixed: Log for failed login attempt is not (correctly) reported (#10259)

  • Fixed: Clean-up and add build information in META-INF (#10253)

Release notes

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

  • Dennis Cabooter

  • Janos Mattyasovszky

  • Hamlyn Mootoo

  • Dmitry Svyatogorov

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!

Rudder 4.1.0.beta3 (2017-02-14)

Changes

Web - UI & UX

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

  • Node breakdown - show actual numbers (#7422)

Documentation

  • Document the relay API (#9997)

Initial promises & sys tech

  • Use rudder agent run as cfruncommand (#10081)

Architecture - Dependencies

  • Switch to Scala 2.12 / Lift 3.0 (#10127)

Architecture - Refactoring

  • Scala actors are deprecated in scala 2.11 and removed in 2.12: update inventory-endpoint (#10119)

Techniques

  • Deprecate old techniques versions (#10159)

Bug fixes

Web - UI & UX

  • Fixed: Status dropdown’s display is broken (#10177)

  • Fixed: Display of new ``Display compliance and recent changes columns on rule summary'' setting is broken (#10173)

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

  • Fixed: On Group creation, the tooltip on the ``Save'' button doesn’t appear when it is disabled (#10116)

  • Fixed: Broken text fields in directive form (#10164)

Web - Config management

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

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

  • Fixed: Renable WriteSystemTechniquesTest (#10150)

Documentation

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

Packaging

  • Fixed: the shared-files directory is owned by root (#10178)

  • Fixed: openjdk8 cannot be installed if there is a backport in the building os (#10163)

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

  • Fixed: Missing entry in rudder-web.properties after update to 4.1.0.b2 (#10132)

  • Fixed: rudder-relay has bad ``sed'' line (#10131)

Initial promises & sys tech

  • Fixed: Download Shared from node and to nodes fail because /var/rudder/share-files is non existent (on centos) (#10085)

API

  • Fixed: Allow relay-api to make asynchronous remote run call with output (#10114)

Architecture - Dependencies

  • Fixed: Test broken with ``FileNotFoundException /ldap/bootstrap.ldif'' (#10147)

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

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

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

Server components

  • Fixed: pass ttl through url parameters in sharedfiles api (#10138)

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 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!

Rudder 4.1.0~beta2 (2017-02-02)

Changes

Web - UI & UX

  • Reorganize Rules page interface (#9960)

Web - Config management

  • Remove all datasource code from Rudder main and add needed hooks (#10050)

Agent

  • Extend rudder-sign to add new information (#9996)

  • Warn the user if rudder agent is not run as root (#9684)

Packaging

  • Permit skipping scala build within packages (#10055)

  • use suse_version instead of sles_version during build (#9919)

  • Automatically set year in Rudder interface at build time (#9891)

API

  • Deprecate API v5, v6 and v7, and remove API v2,3,4 (#9836)

  • Remote run API should use relay API (#9714)

Architecture - Dependencies

  • Requires Java8 (jdk8) for Rudder 4.1 (#9917)

Bug fixes

Packaging

  • Fixed: Wrong ncf version dependency in 4.1 (#10091)

  • Fixed: On CentOS relay API uses /etc/httpd/logs/wsgi.18610.0.1.sock (#10072)

  • Fixed: The user trying to open nodes list in relay-api is not rudder (#10068)

  • Fixed: Wrong permission for /etc/sudoers.d/rudder-relay file on Sles (#10065)

  • Fixed: Remove rudder-apache-common.conf in postinstall (#10041)

  • Fixed: Not having set %{real_name} does operate on /bin (#10003)

  • Fixed: Allow to restrict edits on sudoers during install (#10001)

Web - Config management

  • Fixed: When I save a Directive, after cliking ``save'', it’s not possible to scroll anymore in the Directive tree (#10010)

Server components

  • Fixed: the relay api shoud read nodeslist on each call (#10111)

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 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!

Rudder 4.1.0~beta1 (2017-01-17)

Changes

Web - Config management

  • Add tags in Directive/Rules (#9733)

  • Import node properties from external data sources (#9698)

API

  • Add a Relay API: share files between nodes, launch run on remote run behind relay (#9707)

Server components

  • Implement notifications for different server-side actions and events (hooks) (#8353)

Web - UI & UX

  • Improve Json display in the Nodes properties tab (#9984)

Packaging

  • ncf-api-venv user should not have access to a shell (#9993)

  • Build slapd with lmdb (#9839)

  • Upgrade CFEngine in Rudder agent to 3.10 (#9737)

System integration

  • Do not create a temporary cron a postinstall (#9860)

Architecture - Refactoring

  • Store node compliance in database (#9645)

Architecture - Internal libs

  • Change pom version on master to 4.1 (#9686)

Documentation

  • Prepare manual for 4.1 (#9887)

  • Change doc title for 4.1 (#9753)

Bug fixes

Web - UI & UX

  • Fixed: Put in bold rule form’s required fields label (#9949)

  • Fixed: Nothing happens when trying to save a Directive (#9948)

  • Fixed: Put in bold ``Technique version'' label (#9935)

Packaging

  • Fixed: build-caching doesn’t work (#9921)

  • Fixed: virtualenv doesn’t work in the build environment (#9824)

Initial promises & sys tech

  • Fixed: FusionInventory –scan-homedirs should not be on by default (#7421)

Documentation

  • Fixed: We should disable link tests for the manual on master (#9803)

Web - Config management

  • Fixed: Rule details text can be misleading (#6143)

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:

  • Florial Heigl

  • Janos Mattyasovszky

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!