We're pleased to announce the availability of Puppet Dashboard 1.0.4! This is a maintenance release, it fixes a number of bugs, improves the user interface, significantly boosts performance and includes better RPM and DEB packages. The source code of 1.0.4 is identical to 1.0.4rc2.
Please upgrade to this stable release and let us know about any issues on the mailing list (http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users/), or in the ticket tracker with an "Affected Version" of 1.0.4 (http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/dashboard/). If you're interested in what we're hoping to work on next, please see our roadmap (http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/dashboard/roadmap/). We would also appreciate it if you watched and commented on those tickets that are important to you. INSTALLING AND UPGRADING: New installation and upgrading instructions are available in the included README, which you can also read online at: http://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet-dashboard/blob/v1.0.4/README.markdown IMPORTANT: This release involves database migrations. Please see the README.markdown for instructions on applying them. USING RPM AND DEB PACKAGES: Install an the software using packages, which will put the files into your "/usr/share/puppet-dashboard" directory: Install the RPM package for CentOS or RHEL 5.5 by running: sudo sh -c "rpm -Uvh http://yum.puppetlabs.com/base/puppetlabs-repo-3.0-2.noarch.rpm; \ rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm; \ yum install puppet-dashboard" Or install the DEB package for Ubuntu 10.04: 1. Put the following in your "/etc/apt/sources.list.d/puppet-labs.list" file: deb http://apt.puppetlabs.com/ubuntu lucid main deb-src http://apt.puppetlabs.com/ubuntu lucid main 2. Run the command: sudo sh -c "wget -q -O - http://yum.puppetlabs.com/RPM-GPG-KEY-puppetlabs | sudo apt-key add - && \ apt-get update && apt-get install puppet-dashboard" USING THE SOURCE: You can download the release candidate from: http://puppetlabs.com/downloads/dashboard/puppet-dashboard-1.0.4.tgz Or check it out using git: git clone git://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet-dashboard.git && \ cd puppet-dashboard && \ git checkout v1.0.4 RELEASE NOTES: v1.0.4 ------ * MIGRATION: Fixed truncation of long reports and deleted these invalid records. Please reimport your reports (see README) after migrating to readd these deleted reports. * MIGRATION: Fixed slow database queries and improved table indexes to speed up the home page, reports listing page, site-wide sidebar, nodes counts, and selection of nodes over time. * MIGRATION: Fixed orphaned records left behind when classes or groups were deleted, and removed these orphans from the database. * MIGRATION: Fixed duplicate membership records by removing them and preventing new ones from being added, e.g. a node belongs to the same class or group multiple times. * Fixed user interface for specifying classes and groups to work with standards-compliant browsers, autocomplete on keystroke rather than submitting, etc. * Fixed default node search, it was incorrectly using the "ever failed" node query rather than the "all" nodes query. * Fixed .rpm and .deb packages to include all required files, declare all dependencies, set correct permissions and include working startup scripts. * Fixed run-failure chart to correctly count the reports by day. * Fixed run-time chart to correctly display its unit-of-measure labels as seconds, not milliseconds. * Fixed report display and sorting to use the time the report was created by a client, rather than the time it was imported. * Fixed class validations to accept valid Puppet class names, including those with correctly-placed dashes, double-colons and numbers. * Fixed cycle exception caused when a node belonged to two or more groups that inherited a single, common group. * Fixed parameter inheritance so that a node belonging to a group can see the parameters it inherited from its groups' ancestors. * Fixed parameter collision to display errors if the same parameter was defined differently by groups at the same level of inheritance (e.g. both parents). * Fixed views to display all dates and times in the same timezone and format. * Fixed class edit form to use new-style form that can display error messages. * Fixed node to recalculate its latest report if the current report record was deleted. * Fixed external node classifier so Puppet can classify unknown nodes using its local file-based classification, rather than halting with errors. * Fixed node, class, and group listing pages to describe the current search and non-matches correctly. * Fixed views to generate all internal links relative to RAILS_ROOT enabling the site to be served from sub-URIs (Ex: example.com/dashboard/). * Fixed documentation for adding the EPEL repository on CentOS and RHEL hosts. * Fixed documentation to use sh-compatible commands and explain that this is the expected shell for commands. * Fixed exceptions on the node's create and edit forms if the user submitted the form with a blank name. * Fixed release notes styling to properly indent bullet points. * Improved node classification to display useful error messages when there's a problem. * Improved page headings to display the type of resource shown, e.g. "Node: mynodename.net" * Improved graph legends to more prominently show their intervals. * Added task to optimize the database tables which can be run using `rake RAILS_ENV=production db:raw:optimize`. * Added documentation describing how to upgrade to a new Puppet Dashboard release. * Added documentation describing how to set the Puppet Dashboard's filesystem ownership and permissions. * Added documentation describing how to prune old reports and fixed the script for pruning these to use the time the report was created rather than imported. * Added documentation describing some simple ways to improve the application's performance, see README. * Added documentation describing how to locate error logs to help debug and report problems. -- Puppet Labs - http://www.puppetlabs.com C: 503-734-8571 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. 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