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Archives for: March 2009

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)
Posted by dugan
10:52 PM
rAPA 2.2.9 released

rAPA 2.2.9 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 some exception handling in callBackend (RAA-1448)
  • 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)
March 2, 2009
Posted by dugan
11:07 PM
rAPA 3.1.1 released

3.1.1 is a maintenance release.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed some exception handling in callBackend (RAA-1448)
  • Fixed the agent restart text to comply with new naming scheme, and fixed place where the agent was called the "agent service service". (RAA-1550)
  • Changed "Appliance User Guide" to "User Guide" in help. (RAA-1669)
  • rapa-console now runs properly on SLES platform (RAA-1675)
  • Fixed getBackupMetadata ISE on invalid backupId (RAA-1677)
  • rapa-console now handles standard mingetty variables in /etc/issue. (RAA-1678)
  • Fixed overlapping page elements in User Management plugin (RAA-1683)
  • The LANG environment variable is now set within the text-mode rapa-console program if it has not been set on the system first. The default value is en_US.utf8 unless another value has been set in the /etc/sysconfig/i18n configuration file. (RAA-1684)
  • Updated updatetroves plugin docs to match 3.x UI (RAA-1689)
  • New javascript is now downloaded upon an update from The Agent 3.0.3 to a later version. (RAA-1690)
  • An error is now reported if creating the backup tarfile fails. (RAA-1692)

New Features

  • An email notification is now sent when a rollback is applied. (RAA-1434)
  • The backup plugin can now take an AES-encrypted backup, using a key given via XML-RPC (RAA-1509)
  • You can now set owner, group, and mode for backups by calling backup.Backup.setConfigItems({'owner': ..., 'group': ..., 'mode': ...}) via XML-RPC. (RAA-1585)
  • The new plugins.rpcLogBlacklist setting can be used the hide the parameters of specific XML-RPC functions (RAA-1600)
  • You can now add an appliance homepage icon/link to the control panel in the header. (RAA-1676)
  • Added 'reboot' setting in the backup plugin configuration, which can be used to prevent the system from rebooting after a restore (RAA-1679)