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    <font face="Ubuntu"><font face="Ubuntu">Dear Rudder community,<br>
        <br>
        We are very proud to announce that we have just released a new
        version: Rudder 2.8.0 "Patrol boat".<br>
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    <font face="Ubuntu"><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
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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"
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          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>
      <li>Android system is now supported in all Techniques</li>
      <li>Directive details display has been improved, so you can focus
        on configuration settings<br>
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        The ChangeLog is available here: <a
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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>
        <br>
      </font></font><font face="Ubuntu"><font face="Ubuntu">This version
        of Rudder is a final release. We have tested it thoroughly and
        believe it to be free of any major bugs.<span
          class="WYSIWYG_HIDDENWHITESPACE" style="{encoded:'n'}"
          data-mce-style="{encoded: 'n'};"></span> However, this branch
        is not marked "stable", since it still has to be proven reliable
        on production systems over a period of several months. The
        current "stable" release is 2.6.*.</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 look forward to your feedback, be it comments on this list,
      questions on Twitter (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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        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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      Wishing you a pleasant day </font>
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