April 2020 Releases

It’s been quite some time since we’ve had releases and there’s been a huge list of small improvements.

Thanks to those who contributed to these releases: David Gardner, Mark Frost, Romain Tartière, Yury Bushmelev, @rjd1, Tim Meusel, Alexander Hermes, Vincent Janelle

Choria Server

Many small changes and improvements with quite big internal code refactors. Previously we had many different Golang packages compiled into Choria Server now we have a mono repo.

A major addition is that you can now view all configuration settings and their values on the CLI, read our blog post for more details.

We have done major work on Windows support - it can run as a service, write logs to Windows event log and we have initial packages.

Links: Changes, Release

Enhancements

Support use selectable SSL Ciphers using plugin.security.cipher_suites and plugin.security.ecc_curves
Add basic Windows packages
Support running as a Windows service
Support logging to Windows Event log
Update to CloudEvents 1.0.0
Merge go-confkey, go-validator, go-puppet, go-network-broker go-protocol, go-security, mcorpc-agent-provider, go-config, go-lifecycle and go-srvcache into go-choria
Set PATH when calling external agents
Add choria tool config to view configuration paramters and current values
Cache transport messages when doing batched requests to improve pkcs11 integration
Add Debian Buster support
Support enforcing the use of filters on all RPC requests using plugin.choria.require_client_filter
Expose statistics for NATS Leafnodes
Export facts to external agents
Various improvements to generated RPC clients
Install choria binary in /usr/bin and not /usr/sbin
Correctly report insecure builds