It's nice to see a release candidate approach - hopefully it will result in a high quality release without the need for a "p1"!
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 2:39 AM, Mark Burgess <mark.burg...@iu.hio.no> wrote: > > Release candidate cfengine-3.1.0 beta 1 is now available from > > http://www.cfengine.org/pages/source_code > > MD5 862bc71846106d5dfb2367d73c21d5de > SHA1 38199b1562ec0ba533700e8c34c5faf0e53664a2 > > This is expected to be the final release, subject to only minor > modifications. > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This version will contain major changes to the handling of client public > keys, and a number of bug fixes. > Keys are now stored using a unique hash, removing the need for storage > by hostname or IP address. > Keys should be converted automatically on execution. > > Some Key Changes include > > New package policy addupdate - installs package if not there and > updates it otherwise. > > New special function readstringarrayidx, similar to readstringarray, > but uses integer indices. Very useful if first row elements are > not good identifiers (e.g. contains spaces, non-unique, etc.). > > Change two log formats to use time() instead of date() > - filechanges > - total compliance > > Change in storage of public keys. Cfengine now hashes the public > key and uses this > as the keyname. > > The old dynamic addresses lists are deprecated. > Caching of dns and key information for greater server speed. > Change in last-seen format reflects the public key usage. > > Change from using md5 to sha256 as default digest where possible. > > Commands not returning 0 in commands-promises are flagged > as repair_failed. > Could this also be an option where acceptable return codes are specified as a list, and anything not in that list is repair_failed? > > Redesign of the knowledge map infrastructure. > > Allow disable to set 000 permissions > > Allow special value "cf_null" in lists, which is a blank to be > skipped over. Allowed initialization of NULL lists. > > Regular expression anchoring respected properly during pattern > replacement > > These server features are now deprecated: > > http://www.cfengine.org/manuals/cf3-reference.html#hostnamekeys-in-server > > > http://www.cfengine.org/manuals/cf3-reference.html#dynamicaddresses-in-server > > > -- > Mark Burgess > > ------------------------------------------------- > Professor of Network and System Administration > Oslo University College, Norway > > Personal Web: http://www.iu.hio.no/~mark > Office Telf : +47 22453272 > ------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > Help-cfengine mailing list > Help-cfengine@cfengine.org > https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine >
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