Good day.
During July and August we have accumulated a lot of new code in master branch,
so in order not to have very short-living 3.4.0 followed by 3.5.0 with all the
new exciting features we have re-started 3.4.0 alpha cycle with alpha 2.
New features:
- 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.
- packages_default_arch_command hook in packages promises, to
specify default architecture of the packages on the system.
- 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.
- Moved from Nova/Enterirpse:
- POSIX ACL support,
- "outputs" promise type,
- remote syslog support.
- Changed some port numbers to replace old services with imap(s)
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- Support for the following outdated platforms and corresponding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 $PATH).
- Workdir location is properly changed if --prefix or --enable-fhs
options are supplied to configure (Mantis #1195).
- Added check for broken libmysqlclient implementations (Mantis #1217).
- Standard library is updated from COPBL repository.
- cf-know is no longer built in Community releases. The only
functionality useful in Community, namely the reference manual
generation, is provided by new compile-time cf-gendoc tool.
- Filename (for storing filechanges) changed
from file_change.log -> file_changes.log (in /var/cfengine/state)
New format for storing file changes introduced:
[timestamp,filename,<N/C/S/R>,Message]
N = New file found
C = Content Changed
S = Stats changed
R = File removed
Bugfixes:
- Compatibility fixes for AIX, HP-UX, Solaris (Mantis #1185, Mantis #1177,
Mantis #1109).
- Fixed broken socklen_t configure check under OpenBSD (Mantis #1168).
- Fixed hang in cf-promises under OpenBSD (Mantis #1113).
- Fixed endless loop in evaluating "$()" 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)
Downloads:
http://cfengine.com/source-code/download?file=cfengine-3.4.0a2.tar.gz
Checksums:
MD5 70008ddeaa06dff2a58be50eedd46183
SHA1 dbcb47d4abc05f427924c8cd7098e0aaf1f34335
--
Mikhail Gusarov
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