Change logs for Rudder 8.3== Rudder 8.3.0.alpha1 (2025-01-23)

Embed augeas everywhere (#26668)

Documentation to manage plugins should mention the new plugins page (#26606)

Implement file editions in augeas module (#26619)

Add a new generic method for the augeas module (#26430)

License error in plugins should link to settings at licence tab (#26633)

Initial page after Rudder installation should be the license tab at welcome step (#26688)

Renaming tab and parameter for licence info in setup page (#26620)

Make tabs accessible by URL (#26590)

Make tabs accessible by URL (#26590)

Make tabs accessible by URL (#26590)

Name the old event logs page "change logs" (#26579)

Improve the About page interface (#26536)

Expose techniqueArchiver in RudderConfig and Mock objects (#26644)

Add a function to clean a type of score for a node (#26596)

JVM platform limit requires splitting services in RudderConfig (#26416)

Add a hook during policy generation (#26595)

Node criteria for instance ID search should be named "root server instance ID" (#26524)

Port condition_from methods to log v4+ (#25936)

API documentation for API account rest API (#26503)

CSV export of server list (simple) (#467)

Fixed: Remove reporting plugin in 8.3 (#26697)

Fixed: Apply the patch for augeas preview (#26693)

Fixed: Rudder agent 8.3 beta2 nightly breaks on Alma 9 (#26547)

Fixed: Can’t install Rudder 8.3 Beta 2 on SLES 15 SP4 (#26592)

Fixed: Confusing warning header on the plugin webpage (#26671)

Fixed: Error in documentation /api/changeRequests response data (#26675)

Fixed: Ubuntu 22.04 agent cannot be accepted on the server (#26625)

Fixed: Error when trying to add a node property when “Change audit logs” are mandatory (#26483)

Fixed: Character in method name reports an error while agent run (#26558)

Fixed: Missing api account account creation diff element (#26515)

Fixed: Missing api account account creation diff element (#26515)

Fixed: rudderc generate invalid method call when using methods that are not compatible with Linux (#26512)

Fixed: Adapt doc for 8.3 (#26627)

Fixed: Fix links in docs homepage (#26601)

Fixed: Rudder package install-file command is no longer relevant in documentation (#26482)

Fixed: When the menu is collapsed, category titles have a transparent background. (#26680)

Fixed: Global properties are unfolded in weird way (#26639)

Fixed: Some settings buttons are grey (#26587)

Fixed: SearchNodes page in Rudder : Error 404 (#26544)

Fixed: License information not displayed on “About” page (#26584)

Fixed: Missing API account UI info/actions for token (#26538)

Fixed: Missing Score pie charts on dashboard (#26599)

Fixed: Menu color leads to unclarity of meaning (#26532)

Fixed: Change validation and global settings navigation menu got merged (#26514)

Fixed: Error message in plugin page is not visible at all (#26575)

Fixed: Links in plugins page should redirect to the local doc (#26565)

Fixed: Naming inconsistencies for archive/snapshot page (#26531)

Fixed: The refresh button from the nodes webpage change the list of nodes in the other tab (#26264)

Fixed: The "Edit columns" button in the nodes webpage is displayed three times (#26260)

Fixed: Global properties generated by security benchmarks are displayed on Global Properties GUI (#26487)

Fixed: Unused justinmimbs/date Elm dependency (#26694)

Fixed: Inventory trigger method broken on Linux (#26684)

Fixed: Fix several typos (#26660)

Fixed: user_secondary_groups reporting can conflict with itself when used in foreach loop (#26497)

Fixed: Fix the Service-Disabled method on Windows (#26520)

Fixed: Sharefile to node method doesn’t work in audit mode (#26418)

Fixed: Changing the system group category hierarchy breaks Rudder (#26429)

Fixed: Score are not cleaned correctly at startup (#26504)

Fixed: Compliance repeated when using the new “foreach” loops (#26652)

Fixed: No compliance on dashboard in Rudder 8.3 (#26545)

Fixed: Stackoverflow in NodeStatusReports event computing (#26464)

Fixed: User with "compliance" perm get error on group, directive pages (#26602)

Fixed: Timeout on directive save (#26348)

Fixed: Missing Windows 11 OS Name (#26557)

Fixed: Errors in callback 'trigger-score-update' in the logs when a node is deleted (#26458)

Fixed: Windows Server 2025 not present in technique editor conditions (#26628)

Fixed: The powershell linter does not lint the userManagement technique in version 10 (#26722)

Fixed: UserManagement technique never report about the password (#26552)

Fixed: Standard Rudder technique “SSH server (OpenSSH)” breaks SSH server if Match blocks exists in sshd_config (#26499)

Fixed: Broken reporting when using userManagement technique with multiple usesr and secondary group (#26510)

Fixed: Dubius vertical alignement in generic method (#26630)

Fixed: Rudder 8.3 Beta 2 : Result conditions duplicated in technique editor (#26560)

Fixed: Broken policies test in 8.2 (#26618)

Fixed: Fix the rudderc tests in 8.3 (#26589)

Fixed: Add a technique test case on unsupported methods (#26556)

Fixed: Re-canonify the expression before evualting them for in windows techniques (#26540)

Fixed: CurrentUser.queryContext is null when used in a ZIO for (#26605)

Fixed: rudder package update never test nor use the crendentials (#26493)

Fixed: Rejected inventory with dummy-node-id when version missing version section in SOFTWARE/RUDDER (#26465)

Fixed: prettify parameter is ignored in API calls (#26535)

Fixed: rudder agent update is really slow (#26384)

Clean rudder package calls (#26423)

Cleanup server package for 8.3 (#26331)

Upgrade to CFEngine 3.24.1 (#26321)

Embed pcre2 on Slackware 14 (#26311)

Disable augeas build on Slackware (#26304)

We should not be able to install package on wrong OS (#26090)

Integrate the methods tests to the CI (#26485)

Publish step for CI runs the tests when they already have previously run (#26411)

Make rudder jenkins task work with ns-remap (#26370)

Make rudder-techniques jenkins task work with ns-remap (#26368)

Add docker based tests in rudder-agent (#26379)

Changes for scala 3 migration - branch 8.3 (#26455)

Rework api authorization models (#24872)

Port RestApiAccount api endpoint to zio-json (#26335)

Allow to choose api account ID on creation (#26292)

Allow skipping the postinst (#26451)

Update to Rust 1.85.0 and Rust 2024 edition (#26421)

Some more changes needed for scala 3 migrations (#26328)

Add foreach on blocks (#26278)

Prettify About page (#26338)

Improve license errors handling in webapp (#26243)

Pop up validation for restoring archive (#26265)

There is no "refresh" on the compliance in directive page and group page (#26062)

Make it possible to edit the values of items in a foreach (#26213)

Make it possible to edit the values of items in a foreach (#26213)

Implement checks in augeas (#26238)

Write a new test framework for the Rudder methods (#26340)

Ignore policies tests scripts in shellcheck (#26403)

Migrate logback.xml to new fixed logfile (#26303)

Update zio and zio-json to take benefits of perf improvements (#26297)

Add policy type in rudderc (#26270)

Allow to enable/disable technique from the directive tree screen (#26161)

Fixed: Fix typos in ruddder-packages (#26409)

Fixed: Builds fail to cleanup (#26308)

Fixed: Agent fails to build on old systems (#26306)

Fixed: rudder server package writes in different log files …​ (#26137)

Fixed: Upmerge of 8.1.11 into 8.3 has spotless issue (#26247)

Fixed: Typos in docs (#26410)

Fixed: Fixup rudder-doc test task (#26369)

Fixed: Change path to webapp log file in doc (#26312)

Fixed: Add 8.3 api doc and 8.2 api deprecation (#26481)

Fixed: Create a doc for Rust agent support (#26323)

Fixed: Bad "OnSuccess" delay in log (#26479)

Fixed: Inconsistent compliance computation between Directive compliance per Node and Node compliance (directive compliance page is probably wrong) (#26330)

Fixed: Policy backup and plugins pages should not be available as read-only admin (#26447)

Fixed: Keep line breaks in reports (#26417)

Fixed: Adding a property column to nodes list causes lines to double height thus screen shows 2 times less nodes (#26354)

Fixed: Hooks documentation link redirects to non-existing page (#26399)

Fixed: Compliance : Directive displayed as Enforce when running in Audit mode (#26232)

Fixed: Fix display problems related to menu changes in 8.3 (#26359)

Fixed: Fix display problems related to menu changes in 8.3 (#26359)

Fixed: Fix display problems related to menu changes in 8.3 (#26359)

Fixed: When several plugins are using the same menu, only the last one is displayed (#26322)

Fixed: The "Save" button disappears from the group webpage if the group name is too long (#26261)

Fixed: Technique can be created with technique ID starting with a forbidden character (#26249)

Fixed: Directive will not be displayed when clicking on a technique then on directive in tree (#26206)

Fixed: Persistent tooltips on rules page (#25586)

Fixed: Sometimes the error output sent to the server only contain only empty lines (#26441)

Fixed: Pretty print the json in the show cmd output (#26437)

Fixed: Patch management campaigns on CentOS 7 end in error (#26194)

Fixed: rudder-pkg reports a success when installing a plugin even if the postinst plugin script was in error (#26428)

Fixed: “rudder package upgrade” alone does not upgrade any plugin (#26175)

Fixed: rudder-package should create the license folder when not already there (#26317)

Fixed: Authorize global parameter names that are not alpha numeric only (#25962)

Fixed: Resolved properties conflicts still appear as errors in status (#26325)

Fixed: Cache is not shared anymode (#26414)

Fixed: Test for hooks is failing in Docker CI (#26406)

Fixed: Test for instance ID is failing on Docker CI (#26396)

Fixed: Add a NVD API key to the Jenkins-security jobs (#26385)

Fixed: Roles parsing for custom plugin role may fail in tests (#26342)

Fixed: Get campaign is creating an empty file when campaign does not exist (#26337)

Fixed: The relayd reports parser can break on multiline fields in logs (#26290)

Fixed: rudder agent modified may not detect some dates (#26476)

Fixed: InstanceId check must be in early bootstrap checks (#26286)

Fixed: Error at rudder start after an upgrade (#26200)

Fixed: Update the openssl crate (#26305)

Fixed: Undefined variables can lead to unwanted policy overrides (#26138)

Fixed: UTF-8 chars are HTML escaped when used in policy variables (#26151)

Fixed: Unable to download technique resources (#26159)

Fixed: Fix more typos in system techniques (#26408)

Fixed: Fix some typos in system techniques (#26407)

Fixed: ssh key distribution reports The user <username> does not have a defined home dir when username has a dash in it (#26351)

Fixed: Reporting on user management technique is broken when multiple users are defined in a directive (#26255)

Fixed: Fix the abort_default acceptance test (#26372)

Build the augeas module (#26183)

Add nettle as a rudder-package dependency (#26084)

Use ncf from the rudder repo (#26080)

Update compiled dependencies for Rudder 8.3 (#25931)

Remove rudder-synchronize and rudder-api-client dependency (#25890)

Update to CFEngine 3.24.0 LTS (#25791)

Update to Rust 1.84.0 (#26186)

Create an instance id on each root server (#25841)

Allow LGPL license in crates (#26086)

Test cleanup after ncf merge into Rudder (#26076)

Update to Rust 1.83.0 (#25975)

Update Rust dependencies (#25843)

Add a command to help splitting virtualhosts (#25144)

Instance ID should be added as a variable for nodes (#26135)

Add the 8.2 version of the techniques doc (#26187)

Update documentation for new rpm key in 8.3 (#26006)

Add a user interface for managing method/block loops in the techniques editor (#26153)

Create a new ‘About’ page for easy access to technical information (#26059)

Change rudder 8.3 main menu (#26055)

Make fold-out menu css accessible everywhere in Rudder (#26028)

Remove rudder.css file (#25898)

Implement augeas module (#26089)

Allow to install plugins from user interface (#26144)

Update api doc tooling (#26188)

Improve SVG image handling in the repo (#25225)

Add windows 2025 data info in Rudder server (#26173)

Add description/doc field to node settable by API (#25984)

Update front-end dependencies (#26042)

Have a stable webapp log file (#26039)

Make API authentication pluggable (#26167)

Remove unused and duplicate rest extractor lift-json methods (#25960)

Add and Remove/deprecate API for Rudder 8.3 (#25945)

Migrate compliance status from lift-json to zio-json (#26046)

Migrate from lift-json to zio-json in LDAPEntityMapper (#25887)

Migrate Environment variable from lift-json to zio-json (#25886)

Migrate CustomProperties form lift-json to zio-json (#25885)

Migrate SecurityToken ldap json serialisation to ZIO (#25884)

Clean-up support for rsa key for inventory signature (#25780)

Migrate CmdbQuery to zio-json (#25894)

Remove all occurrence of cfengine enterprise (#25779)

Add instance ID in group search criteria (#26136)

Remove AIX password hash support (#25836)

Handle the plugin metadata for license requirement (#26149)

Use sequoia in rudder-package (#26082)

Create the augeas module (#25942)

Make compilation resolved loops over Blocks/Methods in techniques possible (#25970)

Deny iframes in Rudder (#26068)

Remove support for clear-text API tokens (#25902)

Add rsync configuration datastructure to relayd (#24997)

Deprecated audit methods that have a non audit only alternative (#25939)

Add Windows support to the generic method file_report_content_tail (#25588)

Deprecated audit methods that have a non audit only alternative (#25939)

Upgrade to ZIO 2.1.12 (#24968)

Remove the zmd management technique (#26140)

Remove the metrics technique (#25920)

Hide na reports by default (#25910)

Fixed: Broken agent build on RHEL8 (#26209)

Fixed: Use the fallback system-updates on Ubuntu 16.04 and Debian 9 (#25655)

Fixed: Missing dependency on gpgv on RPM systems (#25494)

Fixed: raugeas does not build on arm (#26227)

Fixed: Allow unicode license (#25872)

Fixed: Don’t configure a broken Rudder account by default (#25868)

Fixed: Update Rust for typos check (#25790)

Fixed: Pass an argument to CFEngine custom promise type binaries (#25145)

Fixed: Troubleshooting ESET software modifying certificates by replacing issuers (#26234)

Fixed: Fix the logo in the README (#25755)

Fixed: Add tests and clean-up JsDataLine structures (#26070)

Fixed: Remove NodeInfoService and other related proxy service (#25781)

Fixed: Fix API yaml tests on groups and remove restriction to event log (#26078)

Fixed: Node search page looks empty (#26058)

Fixed: Refuse inventory too far from "now" (#25996)

Fixed: Broken policies test (#25998)

Fixed: Create a global method call counter to help provide more unicity (#25776)

Fixed: We have no 8.3 build for now (#25346)

Fixed: Migrate info api to zio-json (#25969)

Fixed: Add a new type constraint to the variable_dict generic method (#25924)

Fixed: Broken jinja2 templating on Ubuntu 24.04 (#25324)

Fixed: Update Scala dependencies (#25758)