Hi Folks,
Here are the release notes for Qube! 5.2
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#Qube 5.2 Release Notes
@RELEASE: 5.2-0
@SUMMARY:
This release includes Qube! 5.2-0
@PLATFORMS:
Fedora Core 2.0 x86
Fedora Core 3.0 x86
Fedora Core 5.0 x86,x64
Redhat Linux 9.0 Win32
Redhat Enterprise Linux 3.0 x86
Redhat Enterprise Linux 4.0 x86,x64
Suse Linux 9.2 x86
Suse Linux 9.3 x86
Suse Linux 10.0 x86
Suse Linux 10.1 x64
Apple OSX 10.4 Universal
Windows 2003/XP/2000 x86,x64
@FEATURE qbmodify Added --momithosts and --momitgroups options
@FEATURE: Added C:\Program Files (x86) to the jobtype lib path
@FEATURE: Adjusted inline qb python docs to would work with epydoc pdf generation.
@FEATURE: Improved supervisor performance using more streamlined dispatch technique.
@FEATURE: Added modify ability to complete/done jobs for administrators
@FEATURE: Added license check to be a daily event rather than weekly.
@FEATURE: Added ability to clear the ban on a host based on macaddress
@FEATURE: Added ability to remove a host based on macaddress
@FEATURE: Added suspended to list of jobs queried for with --active flag
@FEATURE: Added additional option --forcereport to the qbadmin command to kick a worker into reporting back to the supervisor
@FEATURE: Added table repair option to upgrade_supervisor to deal with mysql crashes. It won't completely fix the problem, but will help a little bit.
@BUGFIX: Changing OSX to use network protocol rather than local port to compensate for OSX Server installation of mysql.
@BUGFIX: Modified mysql installation to use non standard port 3300 to prevent conflict with existing mysql installations.
@BUGFIX: Supervisor will not immediatly shutdown if it sees a duplicate host online. It will wait 2 minutes before shutting down.
@BUGFIX: Added supervisor_restrict_timeout to allow the administrators to tweak how long a job is restricted from starting on a host it was rejected from. Default: 10 seconds
@BUGFIX: Addressed issues with "grid" feature.
@BUGFIX: Fixed issue with linux worker incorrectly cleaning up jobs
@BUGFIX: Added fix for reclaiming agenda items if they are recovered from a job which has been interrupted.
@BUGFIX: Fixed locking mechanism to correctly preempt or interrupt the job's on a machine.
@BUGFIX: Added fix for kill work and block work, correctly marks work returned back to the supervisor.
@BUGFIX: Adding double-quotes "" around the entire cmd.exe "<command>" to address an odd Microsoft documented behavior with multiple double quotes.
@BUGFIX: Fixed no feedback for qblock and qbunlock.
@BUGFIX: Fixed issue where authentication dialogs come up for both start and exit of non-admin accounts. (OSX)
@BUGFIX: Fixed problem where a host_list job is ignored if the optimize flag is turned on.
@BUGFIX: Added detection for existence of perl and python in the path before executing the job.
@BUGFIX: Modified parser to be ok with \r characters as end of lines to deal with OSX non standard text file format
@BUGFIX: Fixed issue with 4gb detection for windows. (Win32,Win64)
@BUGFIX: Fixed permissions error for qbworkerdelete and qbworkerundelete
@BUGFIX: Added flag validity check to prevent qbsub from accepting invalid flags
@BUGFIX: Added Tcp Timeout to deal with 4 minute delay of the socket shutdown on windows.
@BUGFIX: Added xinetd requirement to rpm's
@BUGFIX: Modified perl wrapper generator to correctly escape \ characters when loading the execute lib
@BUGFIX: qbsub fixed issue with --flags expand feature