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Dear Rudder community,<br>
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We are very proud to announce that we have just released a new
version: Rudder 4.3.0.<br>
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Major new features include:<br>
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<li><strong>Technique Parameters:</strong> You can now add
parameters to your Techniques created with the Technique editor.
The value of theses parameters will be set in Directives, making
your Techniques much more versatile and expressive and them
access to feature that were only available to classic
Techniques.</li>
<li><strong>Multi version/mode Directives:</strong> You can now
apply Directives with different versions and different policy
mode <em>on the same node</em>. This allow easy migration (to a
new version, from Audit to Enforce) that was previously
impossible.</li>
<li><strong>Authorization system for API accounts:</strong> Choose
between read-only or full access. A plugin will be available
soon in order to allow you more finely grained authorization.</li>
<li><strong>Node properties from inventory:</strong> Nodes
properties can be automatically provided by the inventory data
from the node.</li>
<li><strong>Node lifecycle:</strong> You can define a state for
each Node managed by Rudder (provisioning, pending removal,
disabled etc.). This can be used to build groups and apply
configuration according to the Node current state. Also disabled
Nodes are not counted in compliance reports, so you are not
bothered by offline Nodes when checking compliance.</li>
<li><strong>Group based on Groups</strong>: You can now define
that a Group should contain the Nodes of another Group, making
it easier to manage a complex set of Nodes.</li>
<li><strong>IPv6 support by default:</strong> Rudder is now
completely compatible with IPv6 on the agent side as well as
server side.</li>
<li><strong>Hooks on Techniques:</strong> When you write a
Technique by hand, you can add pre- and post- hooks in it that
will be executed once per Technique, even if you applied it in
several directives.</li>
<li><strong>Use system Perl:</strong> On recent systems,
rudder-agent does not embed Perl anymore, so it uses an up to
date version of Perl more integrated to your system. All the
needed dependencies are either declared (for the common ones) or
still embedded. On a side note, it makes it easier to build a
rudder-agent package (which size goes down from 12MB to 4MB!).</li>
<li><strong>Rudder agent services based on systemd:</strong> On
systemd based os, we switched from SysV init system to systemd,
to make rudder-agent more integrated to your system.</li>
<li><strong>Time all actions made by the agent:</strong> A new
option (-T) added to "rudder agent" command line, to display how
long an action took and find what makes a run slow.</li>
<li><strong>Renaming of all generic methods:</strong> We changed
for a clearer and more logic name scheme in all our generic
methods in the Technique editor. </li>
<li><strong>Simplified logger for Techniques:</strong> We changed
the way we do reporting for Techniques from Technique editor
with a really simpler way, which should be faster and also fix
some reporting issues (ie: when you use variables in your
reports).</li>
<li><strong>Graphs on the dashboard are now clickable</strong>:
You can access the list of nodes in a category by clicking on
parts of the graphs.</li>
<li><strong>Import/Export of techniques in the Technique Editor</strong>:
There is now a button to export or import a technique in the
Technique Editor, allowing sharing techniques easily. Be
careful, this import/export only works between servers running
the same Rudder version.</li>
<li><strong>Plenty of library updates / cleaning / architecture
changes</strong>: Either on web app or in rudder-agent we
upgraded some dependencies, refactored some code, to provide you
a more secure, maintainable and faster Rudder.</li>
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The ChangeLog is available here: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.rudder-project.org/changelog-4.3"
moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.rudder-project.org/changelog-4.3</a><br>
<br>
This version of Rudder is a final release. We have tested it
thoroughly and believe it to be free of any major bugs.<br>
<br>
As always, check out <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.rudder-project.org/site/get-rudder/downloads/">https://www.rudder-project.org/site/get-rudder/downloads/</a>
for download links and <a
href="https://www.rudder-project.org/doc-4.3"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.rudder-project.org/doc-4.3</a>
for installation and upgrade instructions.<br>
<br>
We look forward to your feedback, be it comments on this list,
questions on Twitter (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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>
<br>
Wishing you a pleasant day<br>
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