Forum: Announcements
Subject: CFEngine Community 3.4.0beta2 released
Author: CFEngine
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?1,27608,27608#msg-27608
Good day.
CFEngine Community 3.4.0beta2 is now available for testing.
New features:
- 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/Enterirpse:
- 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_" 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
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- Support for the following outdated platforms and corresponding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 $PATH).
- Workdir location is properly changed if --prefix or --enable-fhs
options are supplied to configure (Mantis #1195).
- Added check for broken libmysqlclient implementations (Mantis #1217).
- Standard library is updated from COPBL repository.
- cf-know is no longer built in Community releases. The only
functionality useful in Community, namely the reference manual
generation, is provided by new compile-time cf-gendoc tool.
- Filename (for storing filechanges) changed
from file_change.log -> file_changes.log (in /var/cfengine/state)
New format for storing file changes introduced:
N = New file found
C = Content Changed
S = Stats changed
R = File removed
- Acceptance test suite passes on Mac OS X.
- Changed some port numbers to replace old services with imap(s)
Bugfixes:
- Compatibility fixes for AIX, HP-UX, Solaris (Mantis #1185,
Mantis #1177, Mantis #1109).
- Fixed broken socklen_t configure check under OpenBSD (Mantis #1168).
- Fixed hang in cf-promises under OpenBSD (Mantis #1113).
- Fixed endless loop in evaluating "$()" 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)
- See the full list at
https://cfengine.com/dev/projects/core/versions/34 and
https://cfengine.com/bugtracker/changelog_page.php
Downloads:
http://cfengine.com/source-code/download?file=cfengine-3.4.0b2.tar.gz
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