Milestone 1.2.3

Facts

• Maintenance release
• Released on 2009-07-22
• Focus on scheduler error handling.

Enhancements since the 1.2.2 release

• [General]
  • Cleaner handling of error code range (#664 and #665)
  • SQL Error 2003 (MySQL Server unreachable) now handled (#679)
  • Cleaner SQL disconnection error messages (#682)

Bugs fixed since the 1.2.2 release

• [Dyngroup]
  • Fixed name encoding issue (non-ascii7 characters were badly handled under Python 2.3) (#673)
• [Inventory server]
  • Additional exception catching in BaseHTTPRequestHandler to prevent DOS attacks (and nmap requests ...) (#668)
• [MMC Interface]
  • Fixed next launch date shown as "undefined" instead of expected "as soon as possible" (#678)
• [Scheduler]
  • Now handle Halt and Inventory in bundle on groups as expected (#692)
  • Periodical loops replanned if MySQL connection is down when they are called (#683)
  • When halt is ignored 'cause not last action of a bundle, Halt state set to "IGNORED" (#687)
  • (start|stop)AllCommands() are now fully threaded, to enhance scheduler response time under heavy load (#688)
  • Reduced the risk to preempt several times a single command (Closes: #689)

SVN tags

• PULSE2_1_2_3 (2009-07-22)