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<font face="Ubuntu">Hi, community !<br>
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We are very proud to announce the availability of a new version of
Rudder: 2.8.0~beta1.<br>
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<font face="Ubuntu">Major new features include:<br>
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<li>Configuration for change messages and change requests
(validation workflow) can now be done inside the web interface
(Administration -> Settings).</li>
<li>Relay servers are now fully operational, and a simple process
has been put into place to make a regular node into a relay for
promises, reports and inventories. See <a
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.rudder-project.org/rudder-doc-2.8/rudder-doc.html#relay-servers">http://www.rudder-project.org/rudder-doc-2.8/rudder-doc.html#relay-servers</a>.<br>
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<li>HTTP/S is now enabled and configured by default (using a
self-signed certificate).</li>
<li>Change Requests (validation workflow) can now be managed
through REST API. See <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.rudder-project.org/rudder-api-doc/#api-Change_Requests">http://www.rudder-project.org/rudder-api-doc/#api-Change_Requests</a>.</li>
<li>Significant performance improvements (up to 30% speed
increase) on displaying pages with reports in the web interface
("Rules" and "Node details" pages).<br>
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<li>The rudder-agent now uses CFEngine 3.5.</li>
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The full ChangeLog is available here: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.rudder-project.org/foswiki/bin/view/System/Documentation:ChangeLog28">http://www.rudder-project.org/foswiki/bin/view/System/Documentation:ChangeLog28</a>.<br>
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Upgrading instructions can be consulted on: <a
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href="http://www.rudder-project.org/rudder-doc-2.8/rudder-doc.html#_upgrade_rudder">http://www.rudder-project.org/rudder-doc-2.8/rudder-doc.html#_upgrade_rudder</a>.<br>
You can upgrade to Rudder 2.8 from 2.4, 2.6, or 2.7. Our packaging
process will take all your parameters and configuration into
account so that you can upgrade with ease.<br>
Note that before upgrading to 2.8, your server has to be at least
in version </font><font face="Ubuntu"><font face="Ubuntu">2.4.11,
2.6.8 or 2.7.5 (see <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.rudder-project.org/rudder-doc-2.8/rudder-doc.html#_upgrading_from_rudder_2_4_2_6_or_2_7">this
paragraph</a> for more details).</font> <br>
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</font><font face="Ubuntu"><font face="Ubuntu">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.<br>
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! </font><br>
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As always, check out <a
href="https://www.rudder-project.org/site/get-rudder/downloads/">https://www.rudder-project.org/site/get-rudder/downloads/</a>
for download links.<br>
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We are impatient to hear your feedback, be it comments on this
list, questions on Twitter (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://twitter.com/RudderProject">@RudderProject</a>) or
on IRC (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=rudder">#rudder</a>
on Freenode) , bug reports or feature requests (or of course
GitHub pull requests).<br>
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Have a good day!</font>
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