Release 1.5.2

Date: 2013-05-06

Note: the 1.5.2 release fixes a packaging issue with rpm/debian installations. 1.5.1 release notes follow.

Notable Changes:

• Bug fixes
• Job Notification Plugins
  • Jobs can now trigger notification plugins in addition to the built-in email and webhook
  • plugins can be developed in Java or with a new Groovy DSL
  • See the Notification Plugin Development Chapter.
  • Example code at dtolabs/rundeck/examples
• Notification ‘onstart’ trigger
  • Jobs can now cause a notification trigger when started via the ‘onstart’ trigger
• Notifications can now use the email address of the user who executed a job, as ${job.user.email}. (You can set an email for your account in the Profile page.)

Contributors:

• Alex Honor
• Charles Duffy
• Greg Schueler
• John Burbridge
• Jonathan Li
• Kim Ho

Issues:

• Add static ordering to job options instead of always sorted by name
• Add job notification plugins
• Big number as option default causes exception on load job from xml
• Job XML parse fails if “false” value in an command step
• Local error handling command lost on export / import
• error handler has exception when attempting to handle No Matched Nodes failure for a job reference
• Multi-value options not pre-populated when doing a “run again”
• API: add “asUser” feature for running/killing jobs and executions
• init script doesn’t work on CentOS (one-line fix provided)
• job group changes before authorization check in 1.5
• Many ACL policy files can slow down the Project drop down menu
• Unable to generate an api-token on rundeck 1.5
• Cannot send notification email using 1.5
• Long description for Option causes Job import failure in 1.5 for jobs exported from 1.4
• 1.5: GUI regression: Success rate % in job popup always shows 0%
• 1.5: GUI regression: Job execution follow page: progress meter stuck
• Invalid XML char in log output breaks CLI output follow mode.
• 1.5: html and ajax errors about “Timeout trying to lock table”
• sudo responder hangs
• CLIUtils.generateArgline does not quote IFS characters other than space
• documentation: upgrade guide “admin” aclpolicy doesn’t allow all permissions
• Add Job Notification/webhook on job start
• projects folder under version control - .svn folder treated as project
• incorrect aclpolicy yaml structure can cause NPE
• Options are not passed correctly to programs
• Allow Email Address substitution in notification recipients list