[Smartfrog-users] Announcing new development-release of SmartFrog: SmartFrog 3.12.040

[Steve Loughran]

I've stuck up a new release of SmartFrog, version 3.12.040; the change 
log is attached.

The reason this is considered an unstable release is that I've been 
playing with the RPM distributions. As well as the RPMs themselves, we 
release a .tar.gz file that contains everything needed to create your 
own set of RPMs -with all the JARs signed.
This allows anyone to create a set of secure SmartFrog RPMs, without 
needing to rebuild everything from scratch.

I'm still stabilising the process; this release requires the 
smartfrog-private-keys RPM to be installed or SmartFrog will not run. I 
want to tweak it so that
 * You don't need this RPM to run SmartFrog
 * This RPM will explicitly contain in only those host certificates 
that are explicitly listed.

This private-keys RPM will become the RPM that contains all secrets 
needed for a secure installation to trust other hosts or users. It will 
need to be managed carefully and not published on public sites, as that 
would allow someone untrusted to gain access to a cluster. In this 
development release, there is a private-keys RPM, but it contains only 
the contents of the directory /opt/smartfrog/private that are actually 
required to run SmartFrog:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=87384&package_id=176308&release_id=608325

Anyone who is trying to create/install secure RPMs should play with this 
file, and get in touch with me if what I'm putting together doesn't work 
for them.

-steve
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Title: SmartFrog 3.12.040



SmartFrog 3.12.040


  This is a new release of SmartFrog, the Java-based, LPGL-licensed distributed
  deployment framework developed by HP Laboratories. SmartFrog enables
  applications to be deployed across multiple machines, configuring different
  aspects of the system so that they are all consistently configured, and managing
  the life-cycle of the application as a whole. The project's home page is
  http://smartfrog.org/



  The release artifacts are available at
  
    http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=87384&package_id=176308



  This release is 3.12.040; built from revision 6740

  of the SVN repository. This release has an extended language
  with the ability to tag attributes, and includes the following items:



   Core smartfrog daemon, including services to manage files, start and stop
    Java and native programs.
  
   Example components and applications.
  
   Ant support: ant tasks to deploy and terminate applications from a build.
  
   Ant components: the ability to execute ant tasks in a deployment.
  
   Anubis: a partition aware tuple-space that can be used to implement fault
    tolerant systems.
  
   Database: components to issue database commands, and deploy HSLDB and MySQL.
  
   JMX: the ability to configure and manage JMX components, and to manage
    SmartFrog components over JMX.
  
   Logging: integration with Apache commons-logging and Log4J
  
   Networking: email, FTP, SSH, DNS support.
  
   Quartz: scheduled operations using Quartz libraries.
  
   Scripting: support for BSF-hosted scripting languages
  
   Testing: Distributed JUnit and component testing with SFUnit.
  
  
    Velocity: generation/transformation of text files during deployment
  
  
   WWW: deployment of WAR and EAR files to application servers. deploy-by-copy
    is provided for all application servers that support, and a tomcat-specific
    component can communicate with Apache Tomcat. The Jetty component can
    configure and deploy individual servlets, eliminating much of the need for WAR
    files themselves.
  
   XML: XML support with XOM.
  
   XMPP: Presence and messaging over Jabber.
  


Packaging


  This release is available as:


  
    RPM files inside a .tar.gz file.
  
  
    A JAR installer.
  
  
    A .tar.gz file containing everything needed to create a private set of RPM files
    containing JAR files signed by a private Certification Authority.
  
  
    The original smartfrog distribution as .zip and .tar.gz (deprecated)
  



  The RPM installation is for RPM-based Linux systems. It comprises the following RPMs:



  
    smartfrog
    The core SmartFrog distribution.
  
  
    smartfrog-daemon
    The shell scripts to add the smartfrog distribution to the
      path, and to run the daemon on start-up.
    
  
  
    smartfrog-javadoc
    javadocs for the project
  
  
    smartfrog-ant
    Ant task and build file execution
  
  
    smartfrog-anubis
    Distributed partition-aware tuple space
  
  
    smartfrog-csvfiles
    CSV file support
  
  
    smartfrog-database
    Database access
  
  
    smartfrog-jmx
    JMX integration though MX4J
  
  
    smartfrog-junit
    Junit 3.8.2 test execution
  
  
    smartfrog-logging
    Logging through Log4J and commons-logging
  
  
    smartfrog-networking
    SSH, SCP, FTP and email
  
  
    smartfrog-quartz
    Scheduled operations
  
  
    smartfrog-scripting
    Scripted components
  
  
    smartfrog-www
    Web support: Deployment and liveness pages
  
  
    smartfrog-xml
    XML Support
  
  
    smartfrog-xmpp
    XMPP/Jabber communications
  
  
    smartfrog-xunit
    Distributed testing and reporting
  


  All the JAR files are also published to a repository that is compatible with
  Apache Maven and Ivy. Add
  http://smartfrog.sourceforge.net/repository
  to your repository list to pull SmartFrog artifacts into your Ivy- or Maven- based build.



  There are also SmartFrog components to retrieve artifacts from such a repository
  (the Library components under /org/smartfrog/services/os/java/library.sf ),
  which can be used for dynamic download of SmartFrog and other artifacts.


Security warning


  Unless SmartFrog is configured with security, a running daemon
  will listen on its configured port for incoming deployment requests, and deploy
  the applications with the rights of the user running the daemon. When the
  smartfrog-daemon RPM is installed, that means that a process running as root
  will be listening on an open port for incoming deployment requests.
  Do not deploy SmartFrog this way on any untrusted
  network, not without turning security on.


  There is a special distribution .tar.gz file that can be used to generate
  a private set of secure RPM files.


Building SmartFrog


  SmartFrog requires Java 1.5 and Ant 1.7 to build. 




  The distribution does not include a source tree adequate to build the entire
  system. Please follow the instructions at
  http://sourceforge.net/svn/?group_id=87384
  
  and check out smartfrog/trunk/core from our repository.




  This release was built with revision 6740
 of the repository, which
  is available under the SVN branch
  https://smartfrog.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/smartfrog/tags/release3.12.040



  We strongly encourage anyone interested in building or extending smartfrog to
  get involved in the smartfrog developer mailing list, which can be found from
  the sourceforge project page
  
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartfrog/



Reporting Bugs


  Please file all bug reports at http://jira.smartfrog.org/



  The SmartFrog Team



Changes since last release

Release Notes - SmartFrog - Version 3.12.040

        Bug


[SFOS-516] -         some tests raise a non-serializable exception in the server, when it tries to publish the events

[SFOS-841] -         Remove commons-logging.properties from the source tree where it is found

[SFOS-860] -         Get automated releases working again by adding support for SourceForge's new file upload process

[SFOS-862] -         sfDaemon not coming up under Ubuntu

[SFOS-865] -         Setting the default port from Ant tasks doesn't appear to work

[SFOS-870] -         Ant starttests have been commented out for some time

[SFOS-887] -         IDE is complaining about SFSystem

[SFOS-888] -         A Network test is commented out

[SFOS-889] -         TestCompoundsTest.testFailureWrongMessageNested() is failing and commented out

[SFOS-894] -         Properties Test is failing on Hudson and (sometimes) Steve's desktop

[SFOS-898] -         setSfDefaultProperties has the wrong line endings if a release is made from windows

[SFOS-902] -         emailer tests are failing

[SFOS-903] -         clean up email code and tests



        Improvement


[SFOS-843] -         propagate exception received in a lifecycle event to the AssertionFailed error in Junit, hence better stack trace output

[SFOS-863] -         add more env variable diagnostics to sfDiag

[SFOS-874] -         change FileExists.ATTR_MAXSIZE to FileExists.ATTR_MAX_SIZE

[SFOS-877] -         move JavaPackage tests to TestCompound

[SFOS-895] -         fix spelling error in method names in org.smartfrog.services.shellscript.Cmd



        New Feature


[SFOS-811] -         Create Velocity component -using sfInstaller as a template

[SFOS-833] -         Add IsPropertyTrue condition to test for a property being set and == "true"

[SFOS-836] -         add method to FileSystem to convert a vector of paths or FileIntf interfaces into a vector of absolute paths

[SFOS-857] -         add ability to specify a diagnostics message when LoadClass fails to load a class

[SFOS-873] -         Add diagnostics attribute to SF tasks, so that we can dump internal state

[SFOS-897] -         add a new Executable interface, like Runnable but with the ability to throw Exceptions



        Task


[SFOS-670] -         Add new sfinterface submit API to support secure deployment

[SFOS-827] -         Upgrade IVY to 2.0 Beta 2

[SFOS-882] -         Release SmartFrog 3.12.040

[SFOS-885] -         Walk through all the test cases, looking for commented out tests that arent logged

[SFOS-896] -         test component to check ability to obtain key and initialise MACData objects







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