Release 1.4.4

Date: 10/26/2012

This release marks the end of the 1.4 development cycle, and includes bug fixes and a few new features.

We are planning to make some changes in the DB schema for the next release (1.5.x) that may not be backwards compatible so have included a feature to export a Rundeck project into an archive file. This will allow us to change the schema yet still allow users to migrate their projects.

Notable Changes:

• bug fixes (scheduled jobs, mail notifications, rd-jobs yaml output, jenkins plugin + parallel jobs)
• Project archive/import - download an archive of Jobs, Executions and History that can be imported into a different project
• Added a second level of sudo password support
• Add a ‘purge’ action to rd-jobs tool to delete jobs
• Better support for Tomcat war deployment
• View all nodes button in Run page
• Cascading option values from remote URLs
• CLI tools can follow execution output from the server (rd-queue, run, dispatch)
• API enhancements:
  • query for executions and history reports
  • retrieve execution output

Issues:

• remote options URL failure allows text field input even if option is restricted (bug)
• project archive/import (enhancement)
• multiple sudo authentication support (enhancement)
• Document syntax of arguments passed to the run command (enhancement, documentation)
• add purge option to rd-jobs tool (enhancement, cli)
• Add query API for executions (enhancement, api)
• CLI tools can’t authenticate to a tomcat war deployment of rundeck (bug)
• Allow history API to query for list of job names (enhancement, api)
• javascript problem: Can’t change nodes when trying to run a saved job (bug, ux)
• Rundeck jobs fail to execute sometimes (bug)
• Rundeck war should not contain servlet api libraries (enhancement)
• deb dependency requires GUI libraries (enhancement, packaging)
• Enable property expansion in framework level default ssh user (enhancement, configuration, ssh)
• Mail notifications are broken in 1.4.3 (bug)
• resource model source URL basic auth support is broken (bug)
• Update wiki/documentation for remote option provider (documentation)
• Parallel/Concurrent jobs fail (bug)
• cli tool rd-jobs format yaml does not generate any content in file for 1.4.3 (bug, cli)
• Scheduled RunDeck jobs no longer work with RunDeck 1.4.3 (bug, scheduler, jobs)
• Allow disabling of hover popups (enhancement)
• Add a button to view all nodes in nodes filter view (enhancement, ux, filters)
• need REST interface to retrieve execution ouput (enhancement, api)
• dispatcher needs option to queue job but also observe log (enhancement)
• Ability to change the default number of lines to display for the TAIL output in the rundeck job execution history (enhancement)
• feature for cascading select list from options provider (enhancement)