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July 2, 2009
Posted by agrimm
9:52 PM
rPath Platform Agent 3.1.3 released

rPA 3.1.3 is a maintenance release.

Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed a bug in readSchedule, which could cause the UpdateTroves plugin to become unusable if the schedule for automatic update checks was changed or disabled. (RAA-900)
  • If allow_json is unspecified on a function without a template, the log message noting this now only appears in the DEBUG loglevel. (RAA-1555)
  • The logged in user's name in the upper right corner of the page now links to the Change Password plugin rather than User Management, as User Management could be disabled or inaccessible to the user (RAA-1602)
  • Pressing F12 in the Reboot and Shutdown confirmation screens in rapa-console no longer confirms the action. (RAA-1624)
  • When the backup archive creation process fails, more specific errors are now sent back to the user. (RAA-1708)
  • Calls to XML-RPC functions will now advance the Wizard when appropriate. (RAA-1710)
  • getBackupMetadata now unmounts the backup location before returning. (RAA-1711)
  • Network locations are no longer bind mounted when a mount already exists. Among other benefits, this prevents the backup plugin from improperly validating incorrect user credentials for a backup location (RAA-1712)
  • raadb is no longer created as world-readable. (RAA-1714)
  • rapa-console no longer raises errors when network interfaces are not yet configured. (RAA-1715)
  • When a DatabaseLocked error occurs, the "lock journal" is now logged, showing a stack trace to the point where the lock is being held. (RAA-1717)
  • Fixed a bug which could cause backups to fail if a temporary file was removed after being added to the backup file list. (RAA-1718)
  • Several possible exceptions in plugins which use "callBackend" are now handled more gracefully. (RAA-1719)
  • Fixed a bug which could cause the raa-service to die due to an unhandled exception in the listener thread. (RAA-1721)
  • The backup encryption feature relies on PyCrypto which may provide a faulty SHA-256 implementation; this feature now uses a module provided by Conary which consistently matches the previous behavior even on platforms with a correct SHA-256 implementation. (RAA-1723)
New Features:
  • A new authorization predicate called LocalhostOK has been added, which allows a process on localhost to make a call without authenticating, while still requiring authenticate for remote calls (RAA-1701)
May 27, 2009
Posted by agrimm
7:42 PM
rAPA 2.2.12 released

rAPA 2.2.12 is a maintenance release.

Bug Fixes:
  • Log files will now re-open automatically if the current file is moved, allowing for compatibility with a wider range of log rotators. (RAA-1193)
May 7, 2009
Posted by agrimm
10:50 PM
rAPA 2.2.11 released

rAPA 2.2.11 is a maintenance release.

  • Fixed a bug in readSchedule, which could cause the UpdateTroves plugin to become unusable if the schedule for automatic update checks was changed or disabled. (RAA-900)
  • Encrypted backups now have encryption info stored in their backup properties in the raa database (RAA-1705)
  • When the backup archive creation process fails, more specific errors are now sent back to the user. (RAA-1708)
  • Calls to XML-RPC functions will now advance the Wizard when appropriate. (RAA-1710)
  • getBackupMetadata now unmounts the backup location before returning. (RAA-1711)
  • Network locations are no longer bind mounted when a mount already exists. Among other benefits, this prevents the backup plugin from improperly validating incorrect user credentials for a backup location (RAA-1712)
  • the SetTimeZone plugin now accepts either commas or spaces as separators in the ntp server list. (RAA-1713)
  • raadb is no longer created as world-readable. (RAA-1714)
  • Fixed a bug which could cause backups to fail if a temporary file was removed after being added to the backup file list. (RAA-1718)
  • Several possible exceptions in plugins which use "callBackend" are now handled more gracefully. (RAA-1719)
  • Fixed a bug which could cause the raa-service to die due to an unhandled exception in the listener thread. (RAA-1721)
  • The backup encryption feature relies on PyCrypto which may provide a faulty SHA-256 implementation; this feature now uses a module provided by Conary which consistently matches the previous behavior even on platforms with a correct SHA-256 implementation. (RAA-1723)
  • the backup properties in the raa database now store the correct top-level group information for each backup. (RAA-1728)
April 22, 2009
Posted by dugan
2:52 PM
rAPA 2.2.10 released

rAPA 2.2.10 is a maintenance release.

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed a bug in the Backup plugin which caused an exception when the test mount of a newly configured backup location failed. (RAA-1703)
March 12, 2009
Posted by dugan
10:52 PM
rAPA 3.1.2 released.

Conary 3.1.2 is a maintenance release.

Configuration Change:
  • Changed the default 'pieURL' setting to use HTTP rather than HTTPS, which should improve performance and work around some problems with m2crypto. (RAA-1697)
Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed a bug the Appliance Logs plugin which allowed invalid control characters to be sent in XML responses. (RAA-1628)
  • Fixed a bug in the raa-lighttpd init script's reload() function, where it would kill other lighttpd instances on the system that are not associated with rAA. (RAA-1691)
  • An error is now reported if creating the backup tarfile fails. (RAA-1692)
  • Fixed a bug in the authentication code which prevented non-ascii characters from being used in passwords. (RAA-1694)
  • Fixed a bug in the backup plugin which caused a traceback when getBackupMetadata was called on a file which had been removed from the backup location. (RAA-1698)
  • Fixed a bug in the rollbacks plugin where it was calling the wrong function to log an update script log message. (RAA-1699)