0.24.0

Enhancements

• Adds a helper to assist in creation of Governors from automation tools
• Allow provisioning of Action Policies and Open Policy Agent Policies via Choria Provisioner
• Support listing known Governors
• Add --force / -f to choria governor add
• Add a splay option to the Timer Watcher
• Various refactors of Debian packages to behave more consistently with RedHat startup/restart flows
• Introduce a faster broadcast discovery timeout using sliding windows, behind a opt-in setting
• Allow Autonomous Agents to be compiled into the server as plugins
• Initial support for performing AAA Server signing requests via Choria Services rather than HTTPS
• Internal refactoring to improve cross/cyclic package import problems

Bug Fixes

• Do not attempt to also load embedded Autonomous Agents from disk
• Do not create unconfigured Governors when viewing a non existing Governor
• Create the plugin.choria.machine.store directory if it does not exist
• Do not update file mtime on skipped checks in the File watcher
• Handle JSON data in data better in Autonomous Agent data layer allowing for nested lookups
• Fix logging of embedded NATS Server to Choria logs

0.23.0

Enhancements

• Improve DDL data types for core DDL files
• Allow the Choria Server to run in an Services-Only mode
• Support Websockets for connectivity from Leafnodes and Choria Server to Choria Broker, also Go clients
• Initial implementation of the choria_registry service agent
• Adds a choria login command that supports delegating to choria-login in PATH
• Improve sorting of choria inventory columns
• Fail when a client cannot determine its identity
• Allow the default collective to be set at compile time
• Allow the default client suffix to be set at compile time (eg. rip.mcollective user id)
• Allow a random sleep at the start of schedules for the Schedule watcher
• Rate limit fast transitions in autonomous agents
• Use default client-like resolution to find brokers in the JetStream adapter when no urls are given
• Introduce Choria Submission to allow messages to be placed into Streams via Choria Server
• Support PKCS8 containers
• Introduce Choria Governor for network wide concurrency control
• Support Governors in the Exec Autonomous Agent watcher
• Additional Prometheus statistics for Choria Streams
• Add a Autonomous Agent level data store, allow Exec Watchers to gather and store data in a Auto Agent
• Allow Exec Watchers to access node facts
• Add a Choria Key-Value Store accessible using choria kv and a new kv Autonomous Agent Watcher
• Expose kv data to the Autonomous Agent data system
• Support templates in Exec Watcher cmd, env and governor
• Export certificate expiry time in Choria status files, support checking from CLI and Scout
• Support Asynchronous Request mode in generated Go clients
• Extend the RPC Reply structure to include what action produced the data
• Use correct Choria reply subjects when interacting with the Streams API
• Improve the broker shutdown process to cleanly shut down Choria Streams
• Allow compiled-in Go agents to access the Submission system
• Rename the jetstream adapter to choria_streams
• Disable RPC Auth during provisioning mode
• Support entering provisioning mode when the supplied server.conf does not exist
• Generated clients can accept a Choria Framework, avoiding config loading etc
• Include the time a RPC Reply was generated in the reply
• Include the Public Key in the CSR reply, add data type hints to the provisioner DDL and update client
• Support receiving private keys from the provisioner, protected using Curve 25519 ECDH shared secrets
• Correctly enter provisioning with a configuration file and without a Puppet installation
• Ensure SSL Cache is created if needed during provisioning
• Support sorting choria req output by identity using --sort
• Enable the choria_provision agent when provisioning is supported
• Support Debian 11

Bug Fixes

• Fix setting workers and expr filter on generated clients
• Ensure no responses list and unexpected responses list always prints, capped to 200 nodes

v0.22.0

Enhancements

• JetStream Adapter can publish to wildcard streams with per identity subjects
• Default to the choria account for leafnodes
• Support the old boolean_summary aggregator and generic output name remapping in summary aggregator
• Enable new Go based action policy by default
• Support wider duration specification by supporting week, month, year etc
• Create choria plugin doc and move tool generate to plugin generate
• Import the provisioning agent into this code base since it's now always compiled in
• Autonomous Agent transitions now support a human friendly description
• Initial support for Service Agents

Bug Fixes

• Use correct target for registration messages
• Fix ordering of leafnode and acounts setup
• Improve consistency of time durations in ping output
• Increase leafnode authentication timeout
• Improve startup logs when skipping agents in specific providers
• Handle filter expressions that are not obviously boolean better

0.21.0

Enhancements

• Add a new registration plugin that sends the running inventory rather than file contents
• Support enabling listening pprof port
• Restore the data plugin report in rpcutil#inventory
• Create a choria account in NATS, move all connections there, enable system account
• Add a machine_state data plugin
• Support retrieving a single choria autonomous agent state using choria_util#machine_state
• Support building ppc64le EL7 and EL8 RPMs
• Drop support for Enterprise Linux 6 due to go1.16

Bug Fixes

• Fix validation for integers in the DDLs
• Fail choria facts when no nodes match supplied filters
• Do not send the filter verbatim in choria req
• Add a client specific TLSConfig(), improve adapters and federation support for legacy certs
• Correctly calculate advertise URL
• Improve support for Clustered JetStream
• Improve ping response calculations in federated networks
• Avoid unnecessary warning level logs
• Correctly detect stdin discovery
• Improve stability of choria scout watch

0.20.2

Bug Fixes

• Avoid logging at warning about SAN security - the default level for clients.

0.20.1

Bug Fixes

• Disable legacy SAN free validation in the broker

0.20.0

Enhancements

• Sort classes tags in discovery command and elsewhere
• Initial support for Data Providers, add choria, scout, config_item providers
• Perform identity-only discovery optimization in broadcast and puppetdb discovery methods
• Add a --silent flag to choria discover to improve script integration
• Support go 1.15 by putting in work around to support Puppet SAN free TLS certificates
• Add a bash completion script in choria completion in addition to current ZSH support
• Adds a new inventory discovery method
• Improve SRV handling when trying to find PuppetDB host
• Improve choria tool config to show config files and active settings
• Add project level Choria configuration
• Allow options to be passed to discovery methods using --do
• Support flatfile discovery from json, yaml, stdin and improve generated clients. Restore the --nodes flag
• Add the external discovery method
• Support request chaining in the req command
• Restore the rpcutil#get_config_item and rpcutil#get_data actions

Bug Fixes

• Improve progress bars on small screens
• Ensure we discover rpcutil in the discover command, improves PuppetDB integration
• Performance improvements for expr expression handling
• Improve identity handling when running on windows, non root and other situations

v0.19.0

Enhancements

• Create a choria facts command
• Support full GJSON Path Syntax in rpcutil#get_fact, fix a crash on map data in aggregators
• Standardise filter and discovery CLI options
• Support compound filters using expr
• Basic support for Data plugin DDLs
• Add expr based client-side filtering of RPC results
• Calculate choria ping times from the moment before publish and report overhead
• Support parsing nagios format Perfdata as output format for the metric watcher
• Report the certificate fingerprint when doing choria enroll for Puppet CA
• Add choria discover
• Generated clients has a PuppetDB name source
• rpc client will now honor the DefaultDiscoveryMethod setting for all clients
• Add --dm to the choria req command to switch discovery method
• Add a PuppetDB discovery method
• Create generated clients for rpcutil, scout and choria_util in go-choria/client
• Add choria inventory
• Add a choria_status Nagios builtin allowing Choria to health checks from Scout
• Ignore case when matching against configuration management classes
• Ignore case when doing fact matching
• Allow Autonomous Agent Watchers to be plugins, convert all core ones to plugins
• Major code cleanups and and test coverage for the Autonomous Agents
• Perform DNS lookups on every initial reconnect retry
• Add a metrics Autonomous Agent watcher that can fetch and publish metrics
• Use new JetStream features to improve retrieval of event history

Bug Fixes

• Improve support for HTTPS servers discovered by SRV records by stripping trailing . in names
• Improve support for the color option and disable it by default on windows
• Avoid listening and registering with mDNS when Homekit is not used

0.18.0

Enhancements

• Add a homekit autonomous agent watcher (#999)
• Add a timer autonomous agent watcher (#999)

0.17.0

Enhancements

• Add a generic shell completion helper and support ZSH completion (#989)
• Support NATS Leafnodes to extend the Choria Broker in a TLS free way specifically usable by AAA clients (#987)
• Scout checks can have annotations that are published in events (#982)
• Add choria scout maintenance and choria scout resume commands (#920)
• Add a choria scout trigger command that triggers an immediate check and associated events (#920)
• Generated clients can now set a progress bar (#977)
• Prevent int overflow in time fields in some Scout events (#975)
• Add a --table option to choria req and a new formatter in generated clients (#920)
• Add a choria scout status command that can show all checks on a node (#920)
• Improve the history presented in Scout events (#968)
• Remove the concept of a site wide Gossfile (#966)
• Allow multiple Gossfiles and multiple Goss checks (#964)