Milestone 1.2.5

Facts

• Maintenance release
• Not yet released
• Focus on :
  • timeout hunt : make XMLRPC call time to be XMLRPC call number independant

New Features

• [General]
  • New script to make a deeper analysis of commands (command_evolution_from_coh_table.py
• [Scheduler]
  • New conf options :
    • preempt_start_size (=50),
    • preempt_start_delay (= 1),
    • dbpooltimeout (=30, same as SQLAlchemy default value) : sets the number of seconds to wait before giving up on getting a connection from the pool.
  • XMLRPC buffering to reduce timeout cases : XMLRPC calls are make by groups of <preempt_start_size> every <preempt_start_delay> (#776)
• [GLPI]
  • support glpi 0.78 database (#859)

Enhancements

• [MSC]
  • New flag for the MSC database purge script : --force, to delete commands regardless their states (#833)
• [Scheduler]
  • Periodic health method now returns data about the current database connections pool
  • Now warns if a broken debian python-mysqldb is detected
• [Inventory]
  • Add a default and an empty keyword to the entity provisioning system (#751)
  • Check field length before injecting (#806)
  • Better inventory server starting as a daemon (#807 #809)

Bugs fixed

• [MSC]
  • now QA can contain a = in their command (#787)
  • in the log view, coh only goes in history when all the command go in history (#791)
  • correct a problem with mirrors affectation in the target table when creating bundles (#797)
• [Scheduler]
  • Fixed RHEL "status" command (#782)
• [Dyngroup]
  • Better hanling of non-ascii7 caracters (esp. accents) in search fields
  • Show the correct message when creating a group from an import (#790)
• [GLPI]
  • don't link with glpi_licenses in 0.72 (#766)
  • don't limit on installed software for version to get the same informations as for just softname
  • don't show the closing ) when not necessary (#768)
  • correct a version detection problem for 0.78 (#832)
  • there was a problem in glpi072, the list of entities to filter on was growing indefinitely (#783)
• [Inventory]
  • correct IOError usage in the displaying of error message (#808)
  • sometimes Memory.Frequency can be kind of big (#805)
• [VM demo]
  • correct a problem on user association to entity (#785)

SVN branch

• PULSE2_1_2_5