Archive for May, 2008

Offline June 4th 18:00 UTC – 19:00 UTC

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

We’re releasing a new version of Landscape on June 4th. While we roll-out the code to Landscape’s servers, we’ll have to take the service offline.

Goes offline: 18.00 June 4th 2008 UTC
Expected back online: 19.00 June 4th 2008 UTC

Keep an eye on this blog after the release to find out what’s new!

We’re sorry for the downtime you’ll experience during the roll-out.

New release

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Right on schedule, here is a new Landscape release!

This time we have smaller changes to the server, and a security update for the client.

Noteworthy changes on the server:

  • better script execution support: if the client is too old to support this feature (you need at least 1.0.6), the server will complain and give a better error message;
  • updated “how to register” documentation regarding the new Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (”Hardy”) release

And now the client, which is at version 1.0.7-landscape1:

  • bumped the API to v3.1 so the server can correctly identify clients older than 1.0.6 as having no script execution support;
  • security fix: when switching users, the code failed to set the groups accordingly, which left the target process running with group “root” (gid=0). This affected the client daemons that run as “landscape” and also script execution. So, for example, if a script was scheduled to be run as user “nobody”, the group was still left as “root”. Now the groups are initialized correctly.

Thanks to all, and keep those feedbacks coming!