Release 2.8.0

Date: 2017-04-10

Name: “cafe cubano midnightblue camera”

Upgrading from Earlier versions

• See the Upgrading Guide

Notes

Import Changes:

• Java 8 is required.

New Features:

• Jobs Options now have a File input type.
  • Uploaded files are stored temporarily on the server while the execution runs
  • API support
• API Token Roles
  • API Tokens now have associated Roles and Expiration date.
  • Access Control:
    • Authorized users can generate a token with their own roles.
    • Authorized users can specify other access roles.
  • Admins can specify maximum token lifetime.
  • API support
• Job editor autocomplete supports global variables
• Project configuration for displaying Readme/Motd on Projects List or Project Home page
• Project configuration for collapsing/expanding Job groups by default
• Project Archive Export: User can select what to include in the archive
  • API support
  • API supports async export
• New Step Plugin: Refresh nodes. Causes Rundeck to refresh the nodes list for the project, so that subsequent Job Reference steps can use any new nodes.
• File Copy Plugin: Recursive and wildcard file copy
• Job Options: Multivalue options can be selected by default
• Job Options: Remote Option values can specify default selections

Other changes:

• Optional Referer Header verification for CSRF attack prevention
• Plugin properties support Options multivalue type and java annotations

Bugfixes:

• Error calling Job Run API for a scheduled Job

Contributors

• Dan Dunckel (dandunckelman)
• GitHub (web-flow)
• Greg Schueler (gschueler)
• Philippe Muller (pmuller)
• gitpmside (mathieuchateau)
• jtobard

Bug Reporters

• bzlowrance
• dandunckelman
• djalai
• gschueler
• hlerebours
• jtobard
• mathieuchateau
• pkr1234
• pmuller
• rophy

Issues

Milestone 2.8.0

• Project config page: resource model source with CODE rendering field with empty value causes NPE
• Project specific ACLs stored on filesystem are not loaded
• Support global vars in Job editor autocomplete
• Option to hide readme/motd on projects list page
• IllegalArgumentException at job start on storage dirs creation
• Fix typo: s/losf/lsof/
• Revert default startpage setting when clicking on a project
• Enhancement: Flag to not include executions in project archive generation
• fix #921 add project.jobs.gui.groupExpandLevel configuration
• API: Calling the API to run a job when the schedule is enabled trigger an error message
• Expose refresh node cache to plugin
• Readme.md hidden on Main Menu Feature request.
• Packaging: Deb: uninstall “purge” script is not correct
• Add RDECK_CONFIG_FILE environment variable
• Require Java 8
• CopyFile Plugin enhancement
• Api token enhancement
• File input option type for Jobs
• Prevent csrf attacks
• Feature Request: web api should have same ACL as the api token user
• OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM warning: ignoring option MaxPermSize=256m; support was removed in 8.0
• “Default” for multivalue option fetched from remote URL