# 2.4.9

2013-10-03

Maintenance release 9 for 2.4 version

* Bug #3198: Sometimes, accepting a new version of a Policy Template fails in Rudder 2.3
* Bug #3210: Wrong stringTemplate definition on a Technique result in a confusing error in the Rudder UI
* User story #3364: Technique 'Download a file from a shared folder': Be able to exclude files from a folder copy
* User story #3389: (ex-PT/Technique) Download from a shared folder: Add possibility to exclude a file or files matching a regexp from a folder copy
* User story #3398: Technique 'Manage files and folders': Add local copy action
* User story #3448: Improve perfs for manageFileAndFolder
* User story #3449: Put data in an external file for manageFileAndFolder
* User story #3450: Improve perfs for technique Download file from shared folder
* User story #3459: Improve perfs for technique ServicesManagement
* User story #3460: Read data from external file in services management
* User story #3571: Add local copy action to fileManagement technique
* Bug #3683: Rudder returns "Server cannot be contacted" if a group criteria is based on a wrong regexp
* Bug #3782: Rename a Technique in the git repository lead the Directives associated to be lost and the Rules to be in error
* Bug #3826: curl command for download a file fails
* Bug #3829: Missing/incomplete LDAP group support
* Bug #3871: Remove the comma after the promisers from all Techniques
* Bug #3886: Some chapters are sometimes displayed as simple text with "=== Name of the chapter"
* Bug #3900: Postinstall script of rudder-inventory-endpoint display a warning about fail of rsyslog restart at first install on RHEL/CentOS
* Bug #3904: When saving a group without doing any modifications, we have the dreaded "server cannot be contacted at this time"
* Bug #3906: Migration of eventlogs v1 does not work if eventlogs v2 exists
* Bug #3911: Creating/Modifying a Group to have a criterion of Software>Release Date will display a datepicker but if we change the criterion to another one like Software>Name , the datepicker will remain until the use of Button 'Search'
* Bug #3913: Rsyslog 5.7.1 drops reports when they come to fast
* Bug #3914: The rsyslog configuration deployed at install is invalid
* Architecture #3919: Technique "Package management for RHEL / CentOS / SuSE / RPM systems" v4.1: Backport from Rudder 2.6 to Rudder 2.4
* Bug #3922: Logrotate should use 'delaycompress' option
* Bug #3925: /opt/rudder/etc/uuid.hive is removed if the package rudder-agent is upgrade from 2.4.8, 2.6.4, 2.6.5, 2.7.1 or 2.7.2 on SuSE or RHEL/CentOS
* Bug #3927: Authorized network field are space-sensitive
* User story #3932: Add Advices to separate partitions in server installation section
* User story #3933: Advise to separate partitions in server installation section (integration)
* Architecture #3934: Technique "Package management for RHEL / CentOS / SuSE / RPM systems" v4.1: Add version 4.1 to branch 2.4
* User story #3938: Since #3925 the temporary rudder-agent-uuid cron file must be removed by the System Techniques
* User story #3939: Remove temporary rudder-agent-uuid cron file
* Bug #3941: Install documentation for Red Hat/CentOS ignores GPG signatures!
* Bug #3943: Documentation is missing some level 2 headers
* Bug #3949: Update documentation for LDAP integration
* User story #3950: Technique 'MOTD Configuration': Add an option to append the MoTD at the beginning or the end of the file
* User story #3951:  Add an option to the motdConfiguration Technique to append the motd at the beginning or the end of the file (development)
* Bug #3956: Some titles were hidden or partially hidden
* Bug #3957: Documentation is missing some more level 2 headers
* Bug #3961: Documentation is missing some more level 2 headers
* Bug #3962: missing uuid.hive is not restored on centos
* Bug #3965: Technique 'Package management for RHEL / CentOS / SuSE / RPM systems' v4.1: Reportings are in No Answer state
* Bug #3968: The promises can't be deployed on Rudder 2.4 (typo in promises.st)
* Bug #3980: /etc/init.d/rudder-server-root is no more installed on Debian/Ubuntu (affects Rudder 2.4.8, 2.6.4, 2.6.5, 2.7.1 and 2.7.2 )
* Bug #3981: Package rudder-server-root still install /etc/init.d/logrotate.d/rudder-server-root on Debian/Ubuntu (affects Rudder 2.4.8, 2.6.4, 2.6.5, 2.7.1 and 2.7.2)
* Bug #3982: Technique 'Package management for RHEL / CentOS / SuSE / RPM systems' v4.1: patch_commands have been wrongly backported to 2.4 branch