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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 2.9.0 RC1.<br>
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    Major new features include:<br>
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      <li>NCF framework is now included in Rudder (<a
          href="https://github.com/Normation/ncf">https://github.com/Normation/ncf</a>)</li>
      <li>Rule can now be organized by category, allowing you to order
        them</li>
      <li>You can choose to apply a Directive to Rules directly from the
        Directive interface</li>
      <li>Every table of Rudder web interface will now remember how many
        entries to display</li>
      <li>You can configure parts of the CFEngine server behavior
        directly from Rudder web interface </li>
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    The ChangeLog is available here: <a
href="http://www.rudder-project.org/foswiki/bin/view/System/Documentation:ChangeLog29">http://www.rudder-project.org/foswiki/bin/view/System/Documentation:ChangeLog29</a><br>
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        This software is in "release candidate" status and is the first
        release candidate of the 2.9 branch (2.9.0~rc1). If no major
        bugs are found, a "final" release of 2.9.0 will be released next
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    As always, check out
    <a 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.<br>
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    We look forward to your feedback, be it comments on this list,
    questions on Twitter (<a href="http://www.twitter.com/RudderProject">@RudderProject</a>)
    or on IRC (#rudder on Freenode) , bug reports or feature requests
    (or of course <a href="http://www.github.com/Normation">GitHub</a>
    pull requests).<br>
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    Wishing you a pleasant day<br>
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                <span class="sig">Matthieu CERDA</span></b><br>
              <span class="sig"><i>System / Network Engineer</i></span><br>
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