[ANNOUNCE] CFEngine Community 3.4.0 is released

[Maciej Patucha]

Good day.

CFEngine Community 3.4.0 is now available for download.

New features:

- Added rpmvercmp utility to compare versions of RPM packages for

accurate sorting of RPM packages for packages promises.

- Implement network timeout on server side to avoid keeping stale

connections for hours.

- XML editing capabilities. See the documentation for edit_xml

body. Note the new dependency: libxml2.

- Implement inheritance of local classes by bundles called using

"usebundle". By default classes are not inherited. See the

examples/unit_inherit.cf for an example.

- Moved from Nova/Enterprise:

- POSIX ACL support,

- "outputs" promise type,

- remote syslog support.

- packages_default_arch_command hook in packages promises, to

specify default architecture of the packages on the system.

- packages_version_less_command / packages_version_equal_command hooks

in packages promises, to specify external command for native package

manager versions comparison

- Running in Solaris zone is now detected and classes "zone" and

"zone_<name>" are created in this case.

- VirtualBox support added to guest_environment promises.

- guest_environment promises are supported under OS X.

- The "depends_on" attribute is now active, for the partal ordering

of promises. If a promise depends on another (referred by handle)

it will only be considered if the depends_on list is either kept

or repaired already.

** WARNING: When upgrading, make sure that any existing use

of depends_on does not make some promises being

unintentionally ignored. This can happen if you are

currently refering to non-existant or never-run handles

in depends_on attributes.

- methods return values, initial implementation

- New format for cf-key -s, includes timestamp of last connection

- cf-promises --parse-tree option to parse policy file and dump it

in JSON format

- Namespaces support for bundles and bodies. See the

examples/unit_namespace*.cf for the usage.

- Default arguments for bundles. See the examples/unit_defaults.cf

- Metadata promise type. See the examples/unit_meta.cf

New semantics:

- Methods promises now return the status of promises

kept within them. If any promise was not kept, the method is not

kept, else if any promise is repaired, the method was repaired

else it was kept.

- Remote variable access in namespaces by $(namespace:bundle.variable)

Changed functionality:

- cf-execd -F switch no longer implies 'run once'. New -O/--once

option is added to achieve this behaviour. This makes cf-execd

easier to run from systemd, launchd and other supervision

systems.

Misc:

- Support for the following outdated platforms and corresponding

classes has been removed. De facto those platforms were

unsupported for a long time, as CFEngine codebase uses C99

language features unavailable on old platforms:

- SunOS 3.x (sun3)

- SunOS 4.x (sun4)

- Ultrix (ultrix)

- DEC OSF/1 AXP (osf)

- Digital UNIX (digital)

- Sony NEWS (newsos)

- 4.3BSD (bsd4_3)

- IRIX (irix, irix4, irix64)

- IBM Academic Operating System (aos)

- BSD/OS / BSDi / BSD/386 (bsdos)

- NeXTSTEP (nextstep)

- GNU Hurd (gnu)

- NEC UX/4800 (ux4800)

- (Old news) Since 3.3.0 the layout of CFEngine Community packages

has changed slightly.

cf-* binaries have been moved to /var/cfengine/bin, due to the

following reasons:

- cf-* binaries are linked to libraries installed to

/var/cfengine/lib, so placing binaries in /usr/local/sbin does not

increase reliability of the CFEngine,

- keeping whole CFEngine under single prefix (/var/cfengine)

makes packaging simpler,

- it matches the layout of CFEngine Enterprise packages.

Please adjust your policies (the recommended ways to deal with

the move are either to adjust $PATH to include /var/cfengine or to

create symlinks in /usr/local/sbin in case you are relying on

binaries to be available in $PATH).

- Workdir location is properly changed if --prefix or --enable-fhs

options are supplied to configure (Mantis #1195).

- Added check for broken libmysqlclient implementations (Mantis #1217).

- Standard library is updated from COPBL repository.

- cf-know is no longer built in Community releases. The only

functionality useful in Community, namely the reference manual

generation, is provided by new compile-time cf-gendoc tool.

- Filename (for storing filechanges) changed

  from file_change.log -> file_changes.log (in /var/cfengine/state)

  New format for storing file changes introduced:

  [timestamp,filename,<N/C/S/R>,Message]

  N = New file found

  C = Content Changed

  S = Stats changed

  R = File removed

- Acceptance test suite passes on Mac OS X.

- Changed some port numbers to replace old services with imap(s)

- archlinux hard class on Arch Linux.

- Detect BSD Make and automatically switch to GNU Make during build.

Bugfixes:

- cfruncommand for cf-execd is an arbitrary shell command now (Mantis #1268).

- Fixed broken "daily" splayclasses (Mantis #1307).

- Allow filenames up to 4096 bytes in network transfers (Redmine #1199).

- Fix stale state preserved during cf-serverd reload (Redmine #1487).

- Free disk space calculation is fixed (Mantis #1120).

- Numerous portability bugfixes (especially OpenBSD, Solaris, AIX-related).

- Compatibility fixes for AIX, HP-UX, Solaris (Mantis #1185, Mantis #1177, Mantis #1109).

- Fixed broken socklen_t configure check under OpenBSD (Mantis #1168).

- Fixed hang in cf-promises under OpenBSD (Mantis #1113).

- Fixed endless loop in evaluating "$()" construct (Mantis #1023).

- Fixed check for old PCRE versions (Mantis #1262).

- Fixed insertion of multi-line blocks at the start of file (Mantis #809).

- Fixed numerous memory leaks.

- Fixes for metadata that were not resolvable

- Fixes for namespaces that would not support metadata and variable expansion

- Point-to-point network interfaces are detected and reported by CFEngine (Mantis #1246)

- Partial non-GNU userspace support in acceptance testsuite (Mantis #1255)

Full list of issues fixed is available on

https://cfengine.com/bugtracker/changelog_page.php (old bug tracker)

and https://cfengine.com/dev/projects/core/versions/34 (new bug tracker)

Downloads:

http://cfengine.com/source-code/download?file=https://cfengine.com/source-code/download?file=cfengine-3.4.0.tar.gz

Checksums:

MD5 256965aebe3edfb89f744a8190c595ca
SHA1 17212f6ea2911c50590063193ab33af18719f740

[Mike Svoboda]

Congrats to the Cfengine team for another awesome release.  Keep up the great work!

Cheers!

Mike

From: Maciej Patucha <maciej....@cfengine.com>
Date: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 9:15 AM
To: "help-c...@googlegroups.com" <help-c...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: [help-cfengine] [ANNOUNCE] CFEngine Community 3.4.0 is released

Good day.

CFEngine Community 3.4.0 is now available for download.

Newfeatures:

-Added rpmvercmp utility to compare versions of RPM packagesfor

accuratesorting of RPM packages for packages promises.

-Implement network timeout on server side to avoid keepingstale

connectionsfor hours.

-XML editing capabilities. See the documentation for edit_xml

body.Note the new dependency: libxml2.

-Implement inheritance of localclasses by bundles called using

"usebundle".By default classes are not inherited. See the

examples/unit_inherit.cffor an example.

-Moved from Nova/Enterprise:

-POSIX ACL support,

-"outputs" promise type,

-remote syslog support.

-packages_default_arch_command hook in packages promises, to

specifydefault architecture of the packages on the system.

-packages_version_less_command / packages_version_equal_commandhooks

inpackages promises, to specifyexternal command for native package

managerversions comparison

-Running in Solaris zone is now detected and classes"zone" and

"zone_<name>"are created in this case.

-VirtualBox support added to guest_environment promises.

-guest_environment promises are supportedunder OS X.

-The "depends_on" attribute isnow active, for thepartal ordering

ofpromises. If a promisedepends on another (referredby handle)

itwill only be considered if the depends_on list iseither kept

orrepaired already.

**WARNING: When upgrading, make sure that any existinguse

ofdepends_on does not make some promises being

unintentionallyignored. This can happenif you are

currentlyrefering to non-existantor never-run handles

independs_on attributes.

-methods return values, initial implementation

-New format for cf-key-s, includes timestampof last connection

-cf-promises --parse-treeoption to parse policy file and dump it

inJSON format

-Namespaces support for bundlesand bodies. See the

examples/unit_namespace*.cffor the usage.

-Default arguments for bundles.See the examples/unit_defaults.cf

-Metadata promise type. See the examples/unit_meta.cf

Newsemantics:

-Methods promises now return the status of promises

keptwithin them. If anypromise was not kept,the method is not

kept,else if any promise isrepaired, the method wasrepaired

elseit was kept.

-Remote variable access in namespaces by $(namespace:bundle.variable)

Changedfunctionality:

-cf-execd -F switch no longer implies 'run once'.New -O/--once

optionis added to achieve thisbehaviour. This makes cf-execd

easierto run from systemd,launchd and other supervision

systems.

Misc:

-Support for the following outdated platforms and corresponding

classeshas been removed. Defacto those platforms were

unsupportedfor a long time,as CFEngine codebase uses C99

languagefeatures unavailable on old platforms:

-SunOS 3.x (sun3)

-SunOS 4.x (sun4)

-Ultrix (ultrix)

-DEC OSF/1 AXP (osf)

-Digital UNIX (digital)

-Sony NEWS (newsos)

-4.3BSD (bsd4_3)

-IRIX (irix, irix4,irix64)

-IBM Academic Operating System(aos)

-BSD/OS / BSDi / BSD/386(bsdos)

-NeXTSTEP (nextstep)

-GNU Hurd (gnu)

-NEC UX/4800 (ux4800)

-(Old news) Since3.3.0 the layout of CFEngineCommunity packages

haschanged slightly.

cf-*binaries have been moved to /var/cfengine/bin,due to the

followingreasons:

-cf-* binaries are linkedto libraries installed to

/var/cfengine/lib, so placing binaries in /usr/local/sbindoes not

increasereliability of the CFEngine,

-keeping whole CFEngine under single prefix (/var/cfengine)

makespackaging simpler,

-it matches the layout ofCFEngine Enterprise packages.

Pleaseadjust your policies (therecommended ways to deal with

themove are either to adjust$PATH to include /var/cfengineor to

createsymlinks in /usr/local/sbinin case you are relyingon

binariesto be available in $PATH).

-Workdir location is properly changed if --prefix or--enable-fhs

optionsare supplied to configure (Mantis #1195).

-Added check for broken libmysqlclient implementations (Mantis#1217).

-Standard library is updated from COPBL repository.

-cf-know is no longer built in Community releases.The only

functionalityuseful in Community, namelythe reference manual

generation,is provided by new compile-timecf-gendoc tool.

-Filename (for storing filechanges)changed

  from file_change.log ->file_changes.log (in/var/cfengine/state)

  New format for storing filechanges introduced:

  [timestamp,filename,<N/C/S/R>,Message]

  N = New file found

  C = Content Changed

  S = Stats changed

  R = File removed

-Acceptance test suite passes on Mac OS X.

-Changed some port numbers to replace old services withimap(s)

-archlinux hard class on Arch Linux.

-Detect BSD Make and automaticallyswitch to GNU Make duringbuild.

Bugfixes:

-cfruncommand for cf-execdis an arbitrary shell commandnow (Mantis #1268).

-Fixed broken "daily" splayclasses(Mantis #1307).

-Allow filenames up to 4096bytes in network transfers (Redmine #1199).

-Fix stale state preserved during cf-serverd reload(Redmine #1487).

-Free disk space calculation is fixed (Mantis #1120).

-Numerous portability bugfixes (especiallyOpenBSD, Solaris, AIX-related).

-Compatibility fixes for AIX,HP-UX, Solaris (Mantis #1185, Mantis #1177, Mantis #1109).

-Fixed broken socklen_t configurecheck under OpenBSD (Mantis#1168).

-Fixed hang in cf-promisesunder OpenBSD (Mantis #1113).

-Fixed endless loop in evaluating"$()" construct (Mantis #1023).

-Fixed check for old PCREversions (Mantis #1262).

-Fixed insertion of multi-lineblocks at the start offile (Mantis #809).

-Fixed numerous memory leaks.

-Fixes for metadata that were not resolvable

-Fixes for namespaces that would not support metadata andvariable expansion

-Point-to-point network interfaces are detected and reported by CFEngine (Mantis#1246)

-Partial non-GNU userspacesupport in acceptance testsuite(Mantis #1255)

Full list of issues fixed is available on
https://cfengine.com/bugtracker/changelog_page.php (old bug tracker)
and https://cfengine.com/dev/projects/core/versions/34 (new bug tracker)

Downloads:

http://cfengine.com/source-code/download?file=https://cfengine.com/source-code/download?file=cfengine-3.4.0.tar.gz

Checksums:

MD5 256965aebe3edfb89f744a8190c595ca
SHA1 17212f6ea2911c50590063193ab33af18719f740

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[neilhwatson]

Is Core 3.4.0 the base for Enterprise 3.0?

[Diego Zamboni]

Is Core 3.4.0 the base for Enterprise 3.0?

Yes.

--Diego