Sal 4.1.3

Changes

• Fix broken OS plugin.
• Reduce queryset filtering to once from twice (or maybe thrice) for machine datatable list views.
• Fixes #382 (KeyError for "unknown" management sources).
• Fix plugins which were setting datetime.datetime.now() once, globally being more and more off the longer Sal is up.
• Update Django, DRF, gunicorn, etc.
• Migrate DRF schema generation to current, explicit method.

Sal 4.1.2

Version 4.1.2

Updates since last release

• Fix for #375 language code errors (thanks @nathandarnell)
• All included plugins with client-side scripts have been updated to python3 (#377)
• Added scrollable style to message display (#364).
• Removes an unused template (thanks @natewalck #365 )
• Fix for #224 XSS vulnerability

Version 4

Highlights

• Updates Django to 2.2.10
• Updates Python to Python 3.7.1
• New checkin version 3 endpoint.
  • This new checkin requires new sal-scripts to work with it.
  • The old checkin is deprecated and old sal-scripts will not work.
  • If you have plugins that require a checkin_processor, the structure of the data passed to them has changed, and you'll need to update your code to account for this. See the Wiki regarding checkin processors.
  • Checkin is a lot faster.
  • Ongoing maintenance tasks have been moved to a background task rather than the checkin code.
• Management Sources and Managed Items (allows arbitrary sources of management to add checkin data for display in various places around Sal).
• Messages: Any checkin module can add messages (debug, warning, error, etc) to their results.
  • New Messages dashboard plugin, shows counts of common errors and warnings, with links to machine list views of affected devices.
• More information about installed Apple updates.
• Hot-nasty performance improvements.
• Visibility of Munki optional installs.

New Features

Management Sources and Managed Items

What do I need to do?

• Distribute the new sal-scripts (and any optional checkin-modules desired) to clients.
• Update your Sal instance to version 4.
• Custom plugins:
  • If you still have an "old-style" plugin, you need to update it!
  • If your plugin has a "checkin-processor", you'll need to update it to use the new checkin submission format.

Sal 4.1.0

Version 4

Official release! 🎉

Highlights

• Updates Django to 2.2.10
• Updates Python to Python 3.7.1
• New checkin version 3 endpoint.
  • This new checkin requires new sal-scripts to work with it.
  • The old checkin is deprecated and old sal-scripts will not work.
  • If you have plugins that require a checkin_processor, the structure of the data passed to them has changed, and you'll need to update your code to account for this. See the Wiki regarding checkin processors.
  • Checkin is a lot faster.
  • Ongoing maintenance tasks have been moved to a background task rather than the checkin code.
• Management Sources and Managed Items (allows arbitrary sources of management to add checkin data for display in various places around Sal).
• Messages: Any checkin module can add messages (debug, warning, error, etc) to their results.
  • New Messages dashboard plugin, shows counts of common errors and warnings, with links to machine list views of affected devices.
• More information about installed Apple updates.
• Hot-nasty performance improvements.
• Visibility of Munki optional installs.

What do I need to do?

• Distribute the new sal-scripts (and any optional checkin-modules desired) to clients.
• Update your Sal instance to version 4.
• Custom plugins:
  • If you still have an "old-style" plugin, you need to update it!
  • If your plugin has a "checkin-processor", you'll need to update it to use the new checkin submission format.

Sal 4.0.4

Version 4

Highlights

• Updates Django to 2.1.5
• Updates Python to Python 3.7
• New checkin version 3 endpoint.
  • This new checkin requires new sal-scripts to work with it.
  • The old checkin is deprecated and old sal-scripts will not work.
  • If you have plugins that require a checkin_processor, the structure of the data passed to them has changed, and you'll need to update your code to account for this. See the Wiki regarding checkin processors.
  • Checkin is a lot faster.
  • Ongoing maintenance tasks have been moved to a background task rather than the checkin code.
• Management Sources and Managed Items (allows arbitrary sources of management to add checkin data for display in various places around Sal).
• Messages: Any checkin module can add messages (debug, warning, error, etc) to their results.
  • New Messages dashboard plugin, shows counts of common errors and warnings, with links to machine list views of affected devices.
• More information about installed Apple updates.
• Hot-nasty performance improvements.
• Visibility of Munki optional installs.

New Features

Management Sources and Managed Items

What do I need to do?

• Distribute the new sal-scripts (and any optional checkin-modules desired) to clients.
• Update your Sal instance to version 4.
• Custom plugins:
  • If you still have an "old-style" plugin, you need to update it!
  • If your plugin has a "checkin-processor", you'll need to update it to use the new checkin submission format.

Changes since last release

Fixed

• Fixed plugin code bug for machine detail plugins and plugin settings pages.
• Updated Django version.
• Typo in license URLs (Thanks @octomike)
• Fix URL to machine detail by serial number feature.
• Exception protection c/o @natewalck for hard disk sizes.

Changed

• Code supporting old-school plugins has been removed.
• Adds default port value for memcached (thanks @gavinelder )
• PluginManager refactored to the singleton pattern; this should dramatically reduce plugin code busywork and startup times.
• Numerous python -> database query changes to improve bottlenecks (@sheagcraig @natewalck FTW)
• Standardized access requirements for settings views (Requires GA status).

Sal 4.0.3

Version 4

Highlights

• Updates Django to 2.1.5
• Updates Python to Python 3.7
• New checkin version 3 endpoint.
  • This new checkin requires new sal-scripts to work with it.
  • The old checkin is deprecated and old sal-scripts will not work.
  • If you have plugins that require a checkin_processor, the structure of the data passed to them has changed, and you'll need to update your code to account for this. See the Wiki regarding checkin processors.
  • Checkin is a lot faster.
  • Ongoing maintenance tasks have been moved to a background task rather than the checkin code.
• Management Sources and Managed Items (allows arbitrary sources of management to add checkin data for display in various places around Sal).
• Messages: Any checkin module can add messages (debug, warning, error, etc) to their results.
  • New Messages dashboard plugin, shows counts of common errors and warnings, with links to machine list views of affected devices.
• More information about installed Apple updates.
• Hot-nasty performance improvements.
• Visibility of Munki optional installs.

New Features

Management Sources and Managed Items

What do I need to do?

• Distribute the new sal-scripts (and any optional checkin-modules desired) to clients.
• Update your Sal instance to version 4.
• Custom plugins:
  • If you still have an "old-style" plugin, you need to update it!
  • If your plugin has a "checkin-processor", you'll need to update it to use the new checkin submission format.

Sal 4.0.2

Version 4

Highlights

• Updates Django to 2.1.5
• Updates Python to Python 3.7
• New checkin version 3 endpoint.
  • This new checkin requires new sal-scripts to work with it.
  • The old checkin is deprecated and old sal-scripts will not work.
  • If you have plugins that require a checkin_processor, the structure of the data passed to them has changed, and you'll need to update your code to account for this. See the Wiki regarding checkin processors.
  • Checkin is a lot faster.
  • Ongoing maintenance tasks have been moved to a background task rather than the checkin code.
• Management Sources and Managed Items (allows arbitrary sources of management to add checkin data for display in various places around Sal).
• Messages: Any checkin module can add messages (debug, warning, error, etc) to their results.
  • New Messages dashboard plugin, shows counts of common errors and warnings, with links to machine list views of affected devices.
• More information about installed Apple updates.
• Hot-nasty performance improvements.
• Visibility of Munki optional installs.

New Features

Management Sources and Managed Items

What do I need to do?

• Distribute the new sal-scripts (and any optional checkin-modules desired) to clients.
• Update your Sal instance to version 4.
• Custom plugins:
  • If you still have an "old-style" plugin, you need to update it!
  • If your plugin has a "checkin-processor", you'll need to update it to use the new checkin submission format.

Sal 4.0.0

Version 4

Highlights

• Updates Django to 2.1.5
• Updates Python to Python 3.7
• New checkin version 3 endpoint.
  • This new checkin requires new sal-scripts to work with it.
  • The old checkin is deprecated and old sal-scripts will not work.
  • If you have plugins that require a checkin_processor, the structure of the data passed to them has changed, and you'll need to update your code to account for this. See the Wiki regarding checkin processors.
  • Checkin is a lot faster.
  • Ongoing maintenance tasks have been moved to a background task rather than the checkin code.
• Management Sources and Managed Items (allows arbitrary sources of management to add checkin data for display in various places around Sal).
• Messages: Any checkin module can add messages (debug, warning, error, etc) to their results.
  • New Messages dashboard plugin, shows counts of common errors and warnings, with links to machine list views of affected devices.
• More information about installed Apple updates.
• Hot-nasty performance improvements.
• Visibility of Munki optional installs.

New Features

Management Sources and Managed Items

What do I need to do?

• Distribute the new sal-scripts (and any optional checkin-modules desired) to clients.
• Update your Sal instance to version 4.
• Custom plugins:
  • If you still have an "old-style" plugin, you need to update it!
  • If your plugin has a "checkin-processor", you'll need to update it to use the new checkin submission format.

Sal 3.3.16

Fixed in this release:

• Machines formerly with broken Python are now correctly logged as not broken when they check in again
• Made the default behavior of the DEPLOYED_ON_CHECKIN setting consistent across installation methods. Now the default is False regardless of installation method.

Sal 3.3.15

New in this release:

• Frequency of Search Maintenance can be configured via an environment variable when running in Docker

Fixed in this release:

• Forced garbage collection (thanks to a leak when using sleep a lot in 2.7)

Sal 3.3.14

Fixed in this release:

• Fix failing checkins when StartTime is missing from Munki report (3d8a904)