# 2.11.18

2016-01-21

Maintenance release 18 of 2.11 branch

* User story #1216: Tutorial to show users how to create their first configuration rule
* User story #3171: Tutorial on how to create a first rule
* Bug #3478: Package management for RHEL / CentOS / SuSE / RPM systems: The number of reports about ZMD is uncorrect
* Bug #3726: The migration script should be able to handle passwords with non-alpha characters
* Bug #3741: Technique "Name resolution": Regexp to check value of Nameserver does not allow the use of variable
* User story #3818: Add a section to debug/analyze why a Node is not sending any reports
* Bug #3936: IE9 support: Clicking on a node in search results doesn't work
* Bug #3959: Add a valid Technique example in documentation
* User story #4202: Update documentation about TechniqueXML with new elements 
* Bug #4473: Jetty cache files in /tmp directory are removed by the OS tmpwatch cron job, preventing access to the application
* Bug #4717: Document how to solve hughe IO wait problem leading to random "NoAnswer" 
* User story #4730: Explain how to add Technique in docs
* Bug #5375: ncf is missing from Rudder documentation
* Bug #5934: rpmPackageInstallation v6.1 and 7.0 doesn't always report on update SLES
* Bug #6220: Document /var/log/rudder/compliance/non-compliant-reports.log
* Bug #6694: Wrong anchors in Rudder API doc
* Bug #7061: Only one system group is displayed in node details
* Bug #7141: Rudder agent simulates an aptitude full-upgrade during each run
* User story #7220: Document nofiles dependency for syslog/tcp on master and relays
* Architecture #7504: Add test for rudder-techniques to ensure removed deprecated techniques don't come back in an erroneous merge
* Bug #7551: Some titles broken in the documentation
* User story #7576: Change AGPL to GPL in rudder-plugin-external-node-information
* Bug #7619: Unexpected reports on "Log system for reports" component of system techniques
* User story #7620: rudder-agent should trigger a new inventory after upgrade
* Bug #7623: Unexpected reports using "rpmPackageInstallation" technique
* Bug #7624: Technique copyGitFile can send success AND error reports on post-hook execution and lead to unexpected reports
* Bug #7629: rudder-agent does not stop on network error during file copy, which can lead to file deletions when purging is enabled
* Bug #7633: Backport cfengine networking fixes for Rudder 2.11
* Architecture #7634: Make NodeInfo more dependant on Node
* Bug #7644: Permissions of rudder tools are not preserved on relays
* User story #7650: Document AIX support in Rudder manual
* User story #7652: Document the zypper segfault when installing Rudder packages locally
* Bug #7678: Non quiet curl calls on root and relay servers
* Bug #7680: check-rsyslog-version is missing on the nodes
* User story #7691: Backport #7690 to 2.11 to allow newer agent to talk to older server
* Bug #7696: Missing reporting changes after #7644
* Bug #7697: Fix permissions of the rudder tools in the repo
* Bug #7713: The size of one image is not correctly recognized in the doc
* Bug #7714: Broken rudder-techniques RPM package on Linux
* Architecture #7721: Add detect_os to rudder-agent's package source
* Architecture #7722: Remove  rudder-policy-templates from rudder-packages
* Architecture #7723: Remove deprecated package rudder-policy-templates
* User story #7729: Add a section in administration about integration with other tools
* Bug #7739: Invalid reporting on windows for clockconfiguration if Hardware Clock is not set
* Bug #7749: Typo in AGENT RUN SCHEDULE description
* Bug #7754: Filter keeps applied between Rules Tables within Directives page
* Bug #7766: Too long directive name breaks directive serialization
* Bug #7770: If the inventory fails during install, the whole install fails
* Bug #7776: rudder-init overwrite its logs
* Bug #7779: Sort maintained techniques list
* Bug #7782: inventory sent file timestamp not updated in normal run (system techniques)
* Bug #7788: Permissions of rudder tools are not preserved on policy servers - Missing change in initial promises
* Bug #7794: rudder-upgrade edits the wrong ncf.conf file causing transitory invalid promises during upgrades
* User story #7797: Warn when the servers answers an empty string to a (S)OPENDIR
* Bug #7800: Firefox stalls after TLS handshake on self signed certificate with a missing contact email
* Bug #7801: Backport fixes for openldap memory leak in our package
* Bug #7803: Test for non-applying patches on rudder-jetty and rudder-agent-thin is broken
* Bug #7810: initial promises don't create /var/rudder/configuration-repository/ncf/ncf.conf 
* Bug #7812: Fix use links containing emphasized keywords in manual
* Bug #7814: Promise generation never finishes if jetty is restarted mid-generation