Please make sure to always read our Upgrading documentation before switching to a new version.
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- FIX: link startup log warning even for non-standard package names (#1633)
- FIX: searching for fields assigned to a template was broken (#1670)
- FIX: changing an argument type from String to DSL didn't work (#1640)
- FIX: incorrect links from template-tree to non-template commands (#1544)
- FEATURE: allow to filter templates by usage (#1339)
- FEATURE: allow to show SQL used for template tables
- FEATURE: allow to defined Service Groups for Set members and for Services assigned to Host Templates (#619)
- FEATURE: it's now possible to choose another target Service Set when cloning a member service (#886)
- FEATURE: new Property Modifier allows to extract specific Array values (#473)
- FEATURE: It's now possible to dump data as fetched by an Import Source (#1626)
- FIX: Director Health Check no longer warns about no Imports/Syncs/Jobs (#1607)
- FIX: rendering of disabled objects containing
*/has been fixed (#1263)
- FEATURE: ship latest PowerShell module (#1632)
- FIX: enforce strict object_name uniqueness on commands (#1496)
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- FIX: Fix compatibility with Icinga v2.6, got broken with v1.5.0 (#1614)
- FIX: No more invalid JSON in some special circumstances (#1314)
- FIX: Hostgroup assignment cache has been fixed (#1574, #1618)
- FIX: missing user/timeperiod constraint. We usually do not touch the schema in minor versions, this has been cherry-picked by accident. However, don't worry - the migration has been tested intensively.
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- FIX: Switched Variable-Override related constant names broke the feature (#1601)
- FIX: Custom Fields attached to a Service Template have not been shown for Apply Rules whose name matched the Template Name (#1602)
- FIX: There was an issue with specific binary checksums on MySQL (#1556)
- You can find issues and feature requests related to this release on our roadmap
- FIX: users with
director/auditpermission had the possibility to inject SQL. Thanks to Boyd Ansems for reporting this.
- FEATURE: Showing the executed SQL query now requires the
showsqlpermission - FEATURE: Grant access to Service Set in a controlled way
- FIX: do not allow a user to create hosts he wouldn't be allowed to see #1451
- FIX: Hostgroup-based restrictions worked fine when applied, bug was buggy in combination with directly assigned or inherited groups (#1464)
- FEATURE: Add 'is false (or not set)' condition for apply rules (#1436)
- FEATURE: support flapping settings for Icinga >= 2.8.0 (#330)
- FEATURE: include all itl packages in Linux Agent sample config (#1450)
- FEATURE: it's now possible to blacklist inherited or applied Services on single hosts (#907)
- FEATURE: timestamped startup log rendering for upcoming Icinga v2.9.0 (#1478)
- FEATURE: allow to switch between multiple Director databases (#1498)
- FEATURE: it's now possible to specify Zones for UserGroups (#1163)
- FEATURE: dependencies are no longer considered experimental
- FEATURE: Admins have now access to JSON download links in many places
- FEATURE: Users equipped with related permissions can toggle "Show SQL" in the GUI
- FEATURE: A Service Set can now be assigned to multiple hosts at once #1281
- FEATURE: Commands can now be filtered by usage (#1480)
- FEATURE: Show usage of Commands over templates and objects (#335)
- FEATURE: Allow horizontal size increase of Import Source DB Query field (#299)
- FEATURE: Small UI improvements like #1308
- FEATURE: Data Lists can be chosen by name in Sync rules (#1048)
- FEATURE: Inspect feature got refactored, also for Services (#264, #689, #1396, #1397)
- FEATURE: The "Modify" hook is now available for Services (#689), regardless of whether they have been directly assigned, inherited or applied
- FEATURE: Config preview links imports, hosts and commands to related objects (#1521)
- FEATURE: German translation has been refreshed (#1599)
- FEATURE: Apply Rule editor shows suggestions for Data-List vars (#1588)
- FIX: Don't suggest Command templates where Commands are required (#1414)
- FIX: Do not allow to delete Commands being used by other objects (#1443)
- FIX: Show 'Inspect' tab only for Endpoints with an ApiUser (#1293)
- FIX: It's now possible to specify TimePeriods for single Users #944
- FIX: Redirect after not modifying a Command Argument failed on some RHEL 7 setups (#1512)
- FIX: click on Service Set titles no longer removes them from their host (#1560)
- FIX: Restoring objects based on compound keys has been fixed (#1597)
- FIX: Linux Agent kickstart script improved and tweaked for Icinga 2.9 (#1596)
- FEATURE: Director Health Check Plugin (#1278)
- FEATURE: Show and trigger Import Sources (#1474)
- FEATURE: Show and trigger Sync Rules ( #1476)
- FIX: Sync is very powerful and allows for actions not available in the GUI. It however allowed to store invalid single Service Objects with no Host. This is now illegal, as it never makes any sense
- FIX: Performance boost for "purge" on older MySQL/MariaDB systems (#1475)
- FEATURE: new Property Modifier for IPs formatted as number in Excel files (#1296)
- FEATURE: new Property Modifier to url-encode values
- FEATURE: new Property Modifier: uppercase the first character of each word
- FEATURE: Kickstart Helper now also imports Event Commands (#1389)
- FEATURE: Preserve _override_servicevars on sync, even when replacing vars (#1307)
- FIX: problems related to users working from different time zones have been fixed (#1270, #1332)
- FEATURE: Html/Attribute now allows boolean properties
- FEATURE: Html/Attribute allows colons in attribute names (required for SVGs)
- FEATURE: Html/Attributes can be prefixed (helps with data-*)
- FEATURE: Html/Img data:-urls are now supported
- FEATURE: ipl has been aligned with the upcoming ipl-html library
- FEATURE: Director now supports multiple Databases, allows to switch between them and to deploy different Config Packages. Other features based on this combined with related documentation will follow.
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- FIX: Pagination used to be broken for some tables (#1273)
- FIX: API calls changing only object relations and no "real" property resulted in no change at all (#1315)
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- FIX: Caching had an influence on context-specific Custom Variable rendering when those variables contained macros (#1257)
- FIX: The fix for #1223 caused a regression and broke Sync for objects without a 'disabled' property (Sets, List members) (#1279)
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- FIX: A Sync Rule with
mergepolicy used to re-enable manually disabled objects, even when no Sync Propertydisabledhas been defined (#1223) - FIX: Fix SQL error on PostgreSQL when inspecting Template-Choice (#1242)
- FIX: Director tries to raise it's memory limit for certain memory-intensive tasks. When granted more (but not infinite) memory however this had the effect that he self-restricted himself to a lower limit (#1222)
- FIX: Assignment filters suggested only Host properties, you have been required to manually type Service property names (#1207)
- FIX: Hostgroups Dashlet has been shown to users with restricted permissions, clicking it used to throw an error (#1237)
- Icinga Director now requires PHP 5.4, support for 5.3 has been dropped
- For best performance we strongly suggest PHP 7
- When using MySQL, please consider slowly moving to at least version 5.5. One of our next versions will introduce official Emoji support 😱😱😱! That's not possible with older MySQL versions. However, 1.4.x still supports 5.1.x
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- Multiple new Dashboards have been introduced, their layout has been optimized
- Dashboards are made aware of newly introduced permissions and try to provide useful hints
- Many little improvements related to mobile devices have been applied to Dashboards, Forms and Tables
- Search has been both improved and simplified. On most tables search spawns multiple columns, visible and invisible ones. Multiple search terms are combined in an intuitive way.
- Pagination (and search) has been added to those tables where it was still missing
- Some form fields referencing related objects are no longer static drop-down selection elements but offer suggestions as you type. This makes forms faster, especially in larger environments
- Navigation has been simplified, redirects after form submissions have been improved, more possibilities to jump to related objects have been added
- Form field description has been moved to the bottom of the screen. Might be easier to overlook this way, but while the former implementation was great for people navigating forms with their Keyboard, it was annoying for Mouse lovers
- Double-Click a Tab to enlarge it to full width
- Action Link bar has been unified, all links should now respect permissions
- All tables showing historic data are now grouped by day
- Property Modifiers, Sync Rules, Import Sources and more objects now offer description fields. This allows you to explain your colleagues all the magic going on behind the scenes
- Service Sets got quite some tweaking and bug fixing
- Groups of all kinds are now able to list their members, even when being applied based on filters
- Command Argument handling has been improved
- It is now possible to configure Dependencies through the Icinga Director
- Cloning Hosts now allows to also optionally clone their Services and Service Sets
- The template resolver has been rewritten, is now easier to test, strict and faster
- Template Tree has been re-written and now also immediately shows whether a template is in use
- When navigating to a Template you'll notice a new usage summary page showing you where and how that specific template is being used. Therefor, many tables are now internally able to filter by inheritance
- While Host- and Service-Templates are powerful building blocks, having to choose from a single long list might become unintuitive as this list starts growing. That's where Template Choices jump in. They allow you to bundle related Templates together and offer your users to choose amongst them in a meaningful way.
- Various related issues have been addressed
- A new virtual "is true / is set" operator is now available
- It is now possible to limit access to Hosts belonging to a a list of Hostgroups. This works also for Hostgroups assigned through Apply Rules.
- Data List entries can be made available based on Roles
- SQL Query and Data List based Data Fields can now both be offered as Array fields, so that you can choose among specific options when filling such
- New overview tables give admins a deep look into used Custom Variables, their distinct values and usage
- Various issues related to Boolean values have been fixed
- Many issues have been addressed. Merge behavior, handling of special fields and data types
- Problems with Import Source deletion on PostgreSQL have been addressed
- New Property Modifiers are available. When importing single Services you might love the "Combine" modifier
- It is now possible to re-arrange execution order of Property Modifiers and Sync Properties
- Preview rendering got some improvements
- "Replace" policy on Custom Vars is now always respected
- Using VMware/vSphere/ESX? There is now a new powerful module providing a dedicated Import Source
- A new Self Service API now allows to completely automate your Icinga Agent roll-out, especially (but not only) for Microsoft Windows
- List views are now officially available. They are very fast and stream the result in a memory-efficient way
- Documentation better explains how to deal with various objects, especially with different types of Services (!!!!!)
- Many base components have been completely replaced and re-written, based on and early prototype of our upcoming Icinga PHP Library (ipl)
- You can find issues and feature requests related to this release on our roadmap
- Slashes in Apply Rules have not been correctly escaped
- Services applied based on Arrays (contains) did not show up in the Hosts Services list, and therefor it was not possible to override their vars
- Some magic has been introduced to detect numbers in apply rules - not perfect yet
- It has not been possible to modify Host Groups without defining an apply rule
- Hostgroups have not been sorted
- It is now legal to have
externalHostGroup objects
- Custom Endpoint objects are now rendered to their parent zone
- (Rendering) issues with the
inoperator have been fixed - You are now allowed to put Notifications into specific Zones
- Selecting multiple hosts at once and deleting them had no effect
- Documentation got some little improvements
- German translation has been refreshed
- Header alignment has been improved
- Escaping issues with the Inspect feature have been addressed
- Kickstart is more robust and now able to deal with renamed Icinga Masters and more
- It is not possible to list and show Service Sets on the CLI
- Synchronizing Data List entries caused problems
- A new Import Modifier has been added to deal with LConf specialities
- Issues with special characters like spaces used in column names shipped by Import Sources have been addressed
- A new Property Modifier allows to filter Arrays based on wildcards or regular expressions
- A new Property Modifier allowing to "Combine multiple properties" has been introduced. It's main purpose is to provide reliable unique keys when importing single service objects.
- A new warning hint informs you in case you created a Sync Rule without related properties
- Synchronization filters failed when built with columns not used in any property mapping
- The audit log now also carries IP address and username
- Fixed erraneous loop detection under certain (rare) conditions
- Various issues with PHP 5.3 have been fixed
- Combination of multiple table filters might have failed (in very rare conditions)
- You can find issues and feature requests related to this release on our roadmap
- Various little issues have been fixed. You can now remove Sets from hosts, even when being empty. Services from Sets assigned to parents or via apply rule are now shown for every single host, and their custom vars can be overridden at a single host level
- Sets assigned to single hosts have been shown, variable overrides have been offered - but rendering did not include the Director-generated template necessary to really put them into place. This has been fixed
- A nasty bug hindered fields inherited from Commands from being shown ad a Service level - works fine right now
- There is now a pagination for Zones
- Multiedit no longer showed custom fields, now it works again as it should
- Disabling a host now also disables rendering of related objects (Endpoint, Zone) for hosts using the Icinga Agent
- Ticket creation through the REST API has been broken, is now fixed
- A data encoding inconsistency slowed down apply rule editing where a lot of host custom vars exists
- Some internal changes have been made to make parts of the code easier to be used by other modules
- You can find issues and feature requests related to this release on our roadmap
- You are now allowed to create sets of services and assign all of them at once with an apply rule
- Sets can be assigned to host templates or directly to single hosts
- When switching to a host view's services tab, you'll now not only see its very own services, but also ones that result from an apply rule
- You can override those services custom field values for every single host
- Same goes for services belonging to Service Sets
- A new "contains" operator gives more possibilities when working with arrays
- Service vars are now also offered in the apply rule form wizard
- Issues with special characters in custom variables have been fixed
- In case mandatory fields should not have been enforced, this should work fine right now
- Fields can now be shown based on filter rules. Example use case: show a
Community Stringfield in caseSNMPv2has been selected, but show five other fields forSNMPv3. This allows one to build powerful little wizard-like forms like shown here
- It is now possible to set Agent and Zone settings on every single host. This means that you no longer need to provide dedicated Templates for Satellite nodes
- The proposed Agent Deployment script has been improved for Windows and Linux
- Infrastructure management got a dedicated dashboard
- Kickstart Wizard helps when working with Satellites. This has formerly been a hidden, now it can be accessed through the Infrastructure dashboard
- Command arguments are now always appended when inheriting a template. This slightly changes the former behavior, but should mostly be what one would expect anyways.
- Testing instructions have been improved
- Running the test suite has been simplified
- While we keep running our own tests on software platforms, tests are now also visible on Travis-CI and triggered for all pull requests
- We worked around a bug in very old PHP 5.3 versions on CentOS 6
- You can now search and filter in the Activity log
- In case you have hundreds of thousands of changes you'll notice that pagination performance improve a lot
- A quick-filter allows you to see just your very own changes with a single click
- More performance tweaking took place. 1.2.0 was already very fast, 1.3.0 should beat it
- Deployment log got better at detecting files and linking them directly from the log output, in case any error occured
- Deploying to Icinga 1.x is completely unsupported. However, it works and a lot of effort has been put into this feature, so it should be mentioned here
- Please note that the Icinga Director has not been designed to deploy legacy 1.x configuration. This is a sponsored feature for a larger migration project and has therefore been built in a very opinionated way. You shouldn't even try to use it. And if so, you're on your own. Nobody will help you when running into trouble
- German translation is now again at 100%
- Issues related to fetching object lists have been fixed
- We now hook into the Cube module, this gives one more possibility to benefit from our multi-edit feature
- Icinga Web 2.4 caused some minor issues for 1.2.0. It works, but an upgrade to Director 1.3.0 is strongly suggested
- You can find issues and feature requests related to this release on our roadmap
- Permissions are now enforced. Please check your role definitions, permission names have changed and are now enforced everywhere
- Configuration preview, Inspect action, Deployment and others can be granted independently
- Director provides a nice activity log. Now it is also possible to additionally log to Syslog or File in case you want to archive all actions elsewhere. Access to the audit log in the Director can be controlled with a new permission
- Now imports also existing notification commands
- Kickstart can be re-triggered on demand at any time
- Config rendering got a huge performance boost. In large environments we managed it to deploy a real-world configuration 5 times as fast as before
- Various improvements have been applied, mostly hidden small features that should make work easier. Better form field descriptions, more possibilities when it goes to syncing special fields like "imports"
- Property modifiers can now generate new modified columns at import time
- New property modifiers are available. There is a pretty flexible DNS lookup, you can cast to Integer or Boolean, JSON decoding and more is offered
- Datalist entries can now be imported and synchronized, this was broken in 1.1
- You can now define assign rules nested as deep as you want, based on all host and/or service properties
- It is now possible to define "assign for" constructs, looping over hashes or dictionaries
- Improved Icinga 2 DSL support in commands, implicit support for skip_key
- More and more developers are contributing code. We therefore simplified the way to launch our unit tests and provided related documentation
- Other objects can be referred as a dropdown or similar in custom variables
- Form error handling got a lot of tweaking, eventual exceptions are caught in various places and presented in a readable way
- The deployment button is now easier to find
- Configuration preview has been improved and allows a full config diff even before deploying the configuration
- Inheritance loops are now shown in a nice way and can be resolved in the GUI
- A new hidden gem is the multiedit functionality. Press SHIFT/CTRL while selecting multiple hosts and modify imports, custom vars and other properties for all of them at once
- Errors or warnings in all historic startup logs now link directly to the related config file at the time being, pointing to the referred line
- The Windows kickstart script got some small improvements and now enables all related ITL commands per default
- You can find a few new commands, with the ability to list or fetch all hosts at once in various ways being the most prominent one
- There are now more additional modules implementing Director Hooks. AWS import for EC2 instances, ELBs and Autoscaling Groups. File import for CSV, JSON, YAML and XML. We heard from various successful Import source implementations in custom projects and would love to see more of those being publicly available!
- You can find issues and feature requests related to this release on our roadmap
- A lot of effort has been put into making config deployment easier for environments with lots of Icinga Agents
- Related bugs have been fixed, the generated configuration should now work fine in distributed environments
- A customized Powershell Script for automatic Windows Agent setup is provided
- It's now possible to work with apply rules in various places
- All components required to deploy notifications are now available. ENV for commands is still missing, however it's pretty easy to work around this
- Job Scheduler and Job Runner have been introduced. Import, Sync, Deploy and run Housekeeping in the background with full control and feedback in the GUI
- There is a new intelligent
purgeoption allowing one to purge only those objects that vanished at involved Import Sources between multiple Import and Sync Runs.
- Booleans, Integers and Arrays are now first-class citizens when dealing with custom variables