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Release notes & changelog

meta-mender sumo-v2018.10

Released 10.03.2018

meta-mender (sumo-v2018.10)

New changes in meta-mender since sumo-v2018.09:

Make sure mtdimg is not truncated, but has its full length.
Add specific patches for u-boot-toradex_2016.11. (MEN-1849)
Fix incorrect Flash bad PEB calculation which led to wrong total image size. (MEN-1849)
Make mkfs.ubifs and ubinize arguments a bit more customizable. The new variables MENDER_FLASH_MINIMUM_IO_UNIT and MENDER_MAXIMUM_LEB_COUNT have been introduced, which maps directly to the corresponding arguments of the two tools.
Fix inability to patch old u-boot variants of MTDPARTS and MTDIDS correctly. (MEN-1849)
Fix confusing warning flood when MENDER_MTDIDS is unset in a UBI build.

meta-mender sumo-v2018.09

Released 09.13.2018

meta-mender (sumo-v2018.09)

New changes in meta-mender since sumo-v2018.08:

Fix regression in QEMU launching after changing image name in 897195ddc3f.
GRUB: Pass kernel arguments from bootargs variable instead of hard-coded. This allows it to be overridden or modified by adding a script snippet which sets the variable. Also log kernel messages to both screen and serial port by default, and have systemd log to serial port (last "console" argument, apparently it cannot log to both).
Introduce support for a standardized boot method on ARM using UEFI and GRUB. The UEFI boot standard is fully supported on ARM in theory, but few board manufacturers implement it in practice. Therefore U-Boot is still utilized, but acts only as a UEFI loader, and hence no U-Boot integration is needed. All boot scripts are then handled by GRUB, which needs no patching. (MEN-1595, MEN-1659)
Auto-select correct MENDER_STORAGE_DEVICE_BASE scheme. This should rarely need to be set by anyone anymore.
Add some debug functionality to GRUB booting process. To use it, enable either or both of debug-log and debug-pause in PACKAGECONFIG for grub-mender-grubenv. The former enables debug logging in GRUB, which can be tweaked further by setting the DEBUG_LOG_CATEGORY variable. The latter pauses the boot process at strategic points during the boot, so that screen output can be captured before it is cleared or scrolls by.
GRUB: Fix error about devicetree command not being found.
Images partitioned with GPT or MS-DOS partition tables are now padded up to the nearest alignment specified in MENDER_PARTITION_ALIGNMENT. Previously the last block might be shorter.
Fix build error when using GRUB and /dev/mmcblk storage device.
Fix build error when using any hard-drive besides sda/hda, such as sdb.
Fix IMAGE_ROOTFS_EXCLUDE_PATH failing when listing a non-existent path.
Fix MENDER_GRUB_STORAGE_DEVICE variable not being respected. (MEN-2048)
Allow disabling auto-generated /etc/fstab
Boot script recipe for demoing OTA updates
mender: Allow overrides for MENDER_STORAGE_TOTAL_SIZE_MB_DEFAULT.
mender-uboot: Use hex for dev/part numbers in U-Boot.
Add mender 1.5.1 recipe.
Add mender 1.6.0 recipe.
Add mender-artifact 2.3.0 recipe.

Mender 1.6.0

Released 09.18.2018

deviceauth (1.6.0)

New changes in deviceauth since 1.5.0:

Device object returned by API exposes new boolean attribute: "decommissioning" signifying devices that are currently going through removal process.

gui (1.6.0)

New changes in gui since 1.6.0b1:

Added 'Copy to clipboard' function to error messages throughout UI
Introduce new tabbed deployment layout
Update node modules
Bugfix: Ensure "already installed" displays correctly in deployment report

New changes in gui since 1.5.0:

Add preauthorize devices section
Cleaned up URL for filtering device list by ID or group: (MEN-1875)
Add a global setting to store and use user-selected device identity attribute throughout UI
Fixup: Add a link to mender docs for enabling wifi in hosted image

integration (1.6.0)

New changes in integration since 1.6.0b1:

Upgrade deviceauth to 1.6.0.
Upgrade gui to 1.6.0.
Upgrade inventory to 1.4.1.
Upgrade mender to 1.6.0.
Upgrade mender-artifact to 2.3.0.
Upgrade mender-cli to 1.0.1.
Upgrade mender-conductor to 1.1.0.
Upgrade mender-conductor-enterprise to 1.1.0.
Upgrade useradm to 1.6.0.

New changes in integration since 1.5.0:

Add mender-cli as a versioned repository under the Mender umbrella.
Upgrade deviceauth to 1.6.0b1.
Upgrade gui to 1.6.0b1.
Upgrade inventory to 1.4.1b1.
Upgrade mender to 1.6.0b1.
Upgrade mender-artifact to 2.3.0b1.
Upgrade mender-cli to 1.0.1b1.
Upgrade mender-conductor to 1.1.0b1.
Upgrade mender-conductor-enterprise to 1.1.0b1.
Upgrade useradm to 1.6.0b1.
demo: suppress warning on newer docker-compose versions
consolidate to single mongodb server instance
Change mongo definitions to map the correct path. /data is being mapped, but /data/db needs to.
test_security.py: Ignore return code of grep.
use common mongodb server instance with tenantadm

mender (1.6.0)

New changes in mender since 1.6.0b1:

Fix active partition detection when using non-native filesystems.
New inventory script for "os" attribute, installed by default. (MEN-2060)
FIX: Enabling compiling ppc64le
Add inventory scripts for rootfs type and bootloader integration. (MEN-2059)

New changes in mender since 1.5.0:

FIXED: HTTP error 401 is not handled by all states (MEN-1854)
ArtifactReboot_Enter scripts are no longer rerun if interrupted by an unexpected reboot. It will be treated as if Mender itself rebooted.
Enable user to force an update-check locally The user can now force an update check by either running mender with the -check-update option, or send a signal [SIGUSR1] to the running mender process. (MEN-1905)
Add automatic check for canary value in U-Boot environment to try to detect if there is a problem in the environment setup of U-Boot and/or the u-boot-fw-utils tools.
Mender client key generator script
log active partition before and after reboot. (MEN-1880)

mender-artifact (2.3.0)

New changes in mender-artifact since 2.3.0b1:

FIX: mender-artifact cp no longer renames the artifact.
FIX: remove leftover tmp files from mender-artifact cp.
FIX: mender-artifact no longer changes the names of the updates in an artifact

New changes in mender-artifact since 2.2.0:

Add boot partition as a modify candidate for artifact cp
Add mtools as a dependency before installing from source, and in travis
Testify/require files added to the vendor directory
Small cleanup of license text. No legal difference, just makes it easier for the tooling.
Install function added
Added uefiimg as an option to the cp and cat commands
modify any file using the mender-artifact tool (MEN-1741)
add testify/require to vendor
modify any file using the mender-artifact tool (MEN-1741)
Mender-artifact can now copy to and read from the data partition (MEN-1953)
run fsck before modifying image. (MEN-1798)

mender-conductor (1.1.0)

New changes in mender-conductor since 1.0.0:

Extend logging with messages from conductor client library to stdout.
Update conductor client library to 1.8.9

meta-mender sumo-v2018.08

Released 08.03.2018

meta-mender (sumo-v2018.08)

New changes in meta-mender since sumo-v2018.07:

Add mender 1.6.0b1 and mender-artifact 2.3.0b1 recipes.
Fixed support for raspberrypi3-64 and aarch64
Fix incorrect license tag for mender-artifact recipe. Little practical difference, since they are all permissive licenses.
mender-uboot: Allow multi-digit partition/device nums.
Fix license checksum sometimes failing in u-boot-fw-utils-mender-auto-provided recipe when U-Boot fork has a slightly different README file.

meta-mender sumo-v2018.07

Released 07.12.2018

meta-mender (sumo-v2018.07)

Warn when mender.conf settings conflict with Bitbake variables.
Make sure that new-style "enp" network devices get DHCP address in demo.
Delete all components from pre-1.3 Mender releases. All pre-1.3 releases are EOL.
Rename IMAGE_BOOTLOADER variables to MENDER_IMAGE_BOOTLOADER.
Fix lockfile error due to using system lock directory.
Licence checksum updated in mender-artifact
mender: Allow for forcing a specific KERNEL_IMAGETYPE.
mender-uboot: Add MENDER_UBOOT_POST_SETUP_COMMANDS config point.
Fix occasional inode corruption issue when re-launching a previously launched and saved QEMU image.
QEMU: Limit client setup steps to run on first boot only.
mender-qemu: increase qemu memory size to 256MiB.
Let colibri-imx7 and vf boards be handled by automatic patching.
Fixed issue with build due to unknown image linux-firmware-raspbian-bcm43430
Fix mender not building if build and host architecture is the same.
meta-mender-orangepi: Fix up u-boot
Fix Linux kernel hanging when loaded via U-Boot/UEFI/GRUB on vexpress-qemu*. (MEN-1657)
Add mender-1.3.1 and mender-artifact-2.1.2 recipes.
Implement IMAGE_ROOTFS_EXCLUDE_PATH support. It works the following way: It contains a space separated list of directories, relative to the rootfs root (no beginning slash), and any directory specified will be omitted from the rootfs. If the directory ends in a slash, only the contents will be omitted, not the directory itself (useful for mount points). One can then set do_image_<imagetype>[respect_exclude_path] = "1" for certain image builders to prevent the exclusion and then add them back as separate partitions there.
Support for MENDER_DATA_PART_DIR has been removed. Use recipe files to add files directly to the /data directory instead.
mender: Create bmap files.
tests: Filter out the data partition as the latest build artifact.
example-state-scripts: Explicitly return 0 from scripts.
uboot_auto_patch: Simplify definition placement at the expense of beauty. The resulting patch is uglier because the definitions go into a cross platform section which is not appropriate for upstream submission. But it does fix the case where unwanted ifdefs were "hiding" the added definitions.
rpi_0_w: Setup Mender required defconfigs
Implement GRUB and x86-64 support. (MEN-1430, MEN-1432, MEN-1433, MEN-1434, MEN-1435, MEN-1436)
Implement qemux86-64 machine target. (MEN-1430, MEN-1432, MEN-1433, MEN-1434, MEN-1435, MEN-1436)
mender: Conditionally add /uboot mount only for SDCards.
Increased the demo mender-retry-polling interval (MEN-1006)
meta-mender-toradex-nxp: Adapt colibri-imx7-mender to U-Boot autopatching
Fix 'depends upon non-existent task' error in U-Boot recipes without auto patching.
Use timedatectl, if available, to determine with time is synchronized.
mender upgraded to 1.4.0.
mender-artifact upgraded to 2.2.0.
mender-qemu: More robust detection of MACHINE setting.
beaglebone: Rename to beaglebone-yocto.
Add mtdimg image type. The mtdimg type is an image type meant to be flashed to the entire Flash device, unlike the ubimg, which should only be flashed to the ubi area of the mtd device. Either one can be used depending on need. vexpress-nor image, used in QEMU, was also changed to take advantage of the new mtdimg image. (MEN-1597)
Add LAYERSERIES_COMPAT settings to all Mender layers.
Replace MENDER_PARTITION_ALIGNMENT_KB with MENDER_PARTITION_ALIGNMENT, which is in bytes.
Rename MENDER_STORAGE_RESERVED_RAW_SPACE to MENDER_RESERVED_SPACE_BOOTLOADER_DATA, to better reflect what it is used for.
Enable wifi in the raspberry-pi demo image by default. (MEN-1804)
mender: Only create vfat boot partition if size is non-zero
meta-mender-toradex-nxp: increase layer priority to 91
Fix creating ubifs image.
tests: Respect user set SSTATE_DIR and DL_DIR variables.
Make sure auto provided fw-utils use virtual/bootloader setting if present.
QEMU: Raise systemd service timeout so that it boots properly on slow hosts.
Fix fstab sometimes not containing boot partition entry.
Fix build error if IMAGE_FSTYPES contains the same entry more than once.
Implement x86 BIOS support together with GRUB. It can be enabled by inheriting the mender-full-bios class, or by enabling the mender-grub and mender-bios features using MENDER_FEATURES_ENABLE. (MEN-1845)
Client container init scripts are modified to accept MAC address for qemu through env var, RANDOM_MAC.
added layer dependency on mender layer
uboot_auto_configure: Fail immediately if a define cannot be added. Better than failing later at runtime, where the problem is much harder to debug.
Warn on unused MENDER_.* variables (MEN-1603)
uboot_auto_patch: Switch kernel address from kernel_addr_r to loadaddr.
Remove unused IMAGE_UENV_TXT_FILE variable.
Add U-Boot auto patching support for Flash based devices. The autopatcher will use UBI as storage medium for both the filesystems and the U-Boot environment. Mender requires a minimum of configuration: the MENDER_MTDIDS needs to be set for the board, and will normally go in the conf/machine/<MACHINE>.conf file for the board in question. See documentation for variables MENDER_MTDIDS, MENDER_IS_IN_MTDID and MENDER_MTDPARTS for more information. (MEN-1597)
Partition alignment (MENDER_PARTITION_ALIGNMENT) on Flash devices using UBI is now aligned to the UBI LEB size, which in general is not a multiple of KiB. (MEN-1597)
Add Mender 1.4.1 recipe.
Clear IMAGE_NAME_SUFFIX for all image types.
Fix "No rule to make target 'envtools'" error in some U-Boot builds.
Pregenerate SSH keys for all QEMU images.
Since the "beaglebone" machine name has changed in upstream to "beaglebone-yocto", add "beaglebone" to the MENDER_DEVICE_TYPES_COMPATIBLE default, so that older devices can upgrade even if they have the old device type.
mender: Copy data partition images to the deploy dir.
mender: Append to fstab rather than replacing it.
Fix failed uboot.env install when mender-uboot feature is disabled.
tests: Also check ARTIFACTIMG_FSTYPE for compatible images.
uboot_auto_patch: Update to support U-Boot v2018.05.
uboot_auto_patch: Add support for new Kconfig based defines.
mender-uboot: Add MENDER_UBOOT_PRE_SETUP_COMMANDS config point.
Add Mender 1.5.0 Beta recipe.
Add mender-1.4.0b1 and mender-artifact-2.2.0b1 recipes.
Add 'dataimg' as an image type. It contains the data partition filesystem which is normally part of the complete partitioned image. To enable it, add dataimg to IMAGE_FSTYPES. (MEN-1879)
mender: Use only the basename to load DTBs.
Add Mender 1.5.0 recipe.
Document SDIMG_ROOTFS_TYPE settings for Raspberry Pi.
Change rootfs size calculation so it takes alignment into account. This should fix a few corner cases, where the filesystems may all fit in terms of bytes, but still would not actually fit because of partition alignment.
Added new state script to wait for time sync to complete.
Drop creation of authtentoken file, which is unneeded now.
Added basic support for orangepi boards
mender: Cleanup IMAGE_FSTYPES.
uboot_auto_configure: Handle tabs in defines correctly.

meta-mender rocko-v2018.07

Released 07.10.2018

meta-mender (rocko-v2018.07)

Clear IMAGE_NAME_SUFFIX for all image types.
Use timedatectl, if available, to determine with time is synchronized.
Change rootfs size calculation so it takes alignment into account. This should fix a few corner cases, where the filesystems may all fit in terms of bytes, but still would not actually fit because of partition alignment. Backported to Morty. MENDER_PARTITION_ALIGNMENT_KB instead of MENDER_PARTITION_ALIGNMENT.
Fix Linux kernel hanging when loaded via U-Boot/UEFI/GRUB on vexpress-qemu*. (MEN-1657)
Fix occasional inode corruption issue when re-launching a previously launched and saved QEMU image.
QEMU: Limit client setup steps to run on first boot only.
tests: Filter out the data partition as the latest build artifact.
Licence checksum updated in mender-artifact
Fixed issue with build due to unknown image linux-firmware-raspbian-bcm43430
tests: Respect user set SSTATE_DIR and DL_DIR variables.
Warn when mender.conf settings conflict with Bitbake variables.
example-state-scripts: Explicitly return 0 from scripts.
Client container init scripts are modified to accept MAC address for qemu through env var, RANDOM_MAC.
tests: Also check ARTIFACTIMG_FSTYPE for compatible images.
meta-mender-core: Clean spaces out of UBOOT_MACHINE.

meta-mender rocko-v2018.06

Released 06.05.2018

meta-mender rocko-v2018.06

Add Mender 1.5.0 recipe.
Add Mender 1.4.1 recipe.
Enable wifi in the raspberry-pi demo image by default. (MEN-1804)

Mender v1.5.0

Released 06.07.2018

integration (1.5.0)

Add mender-cli as a versioned repository under the Mender umbrella.
Upgrade deployments to 1.5.0.
Upgrade deviceadm to 1.4.0.
Upgrade deviceauth to 1.5.0.
Upgrade gui to 1.5.0.
Upgrade inventory to 1.4.0.
Upgrade mender to 1.5.0.
Upgrade mender-api-gateway-docker to 1.5.0.
Add mender-cli 1.0.0.
Add mender-conductor 1.0.0.
Add mender-conductor-enterprise 1.0.0.
Upgrade useradm to 1.5.0.

mender (1.5.0)

FIXED: HTTP error 401 is not handled by all states (MEN-1854)
Mender client key generator script

Mender v1.4.2

Released 06.07.2018

gui (1.4.1)

Fix elusive bug which sometimes caused GUI to restart over and over due to not finding uglifyjs.

integration (1.4.2)

Upgrade gui to 1.4.1.

Mender v1.4.1

Released 06.04.2018

integration (1.4.1)

Switched to using Intel x86_64 hardware accelerated client instead of ARM emulator.
Add --kvm option to demo scripts to run client VM hardware accelerated.
Switch default client container type to qemux86-64.
Upgrade mender to 1.4.1.

mender (1.4.1)

FIXED: Log writes not flushed from memory (MEN-1726)
Regenerate keys on all key errors, not just when keys are missing. (MEN-1823)
Mender client key generator script

meta-mender rocko-v2018.05

Released 05.09.2018

meta-mender rocko-v2018.05

mender: Copy data partition images to the deploy dir.
Fix mender not building if build and host architecture is the same.
Increased the demo mender-retry-polling interval (MEN-1006)
Fix failed uboot.env install when mender-uboot feature is disabled.
Implement GRUB and x86-64 support. (MEN-1430, MEN-1432, MEN-1433, MEN-1434, MEN-1435, MEN-1436)
Implement qemux86-64 machine target. (MEN-1430, MEN-1432, MEN-1433, MEN-1434, MEN-1435, MEN-1436)
Make sure auto provided fw-utils use virtual/bootloader setting if present.
Add Mender 1.5.0 Beta recipe.
mender: Use only the basename to load DTBs.
mender: Conditionally add /uboot mount only for SDCards.
Make sure that new-style "enp" network devices get DHCP address in demo.
mender: Allow for forcing a specific KERNEL_IMAGETYPE.
Remove unused IMAGE_UENV_TXT_FILE variable.

Mender v1.5.0b1

Released 05.15.2018

deployments (1.5.0b1)

display number of devices targeted when listing deployments
possible to upload artifacts to specific tenant via internal API (MEN-1775)
add ability to filter on deployment creation timestamps

deviceauth (1.5.0b1)

trigger device provisioning workflow only if the device is not currently accepted
device count endpoint handles preauthorized devices
moved to globalsign/mgo

gui (1.5.0b1)

Fix bug where recent deployment stats were being called repeatedly on dashboard
Display version in UI
Redesign Devices sections, added Rejected devices tab
Display a dialog after first deployment as part of onboarding
Move main navigation to be left aligned

integration (1.5.0b1)

Switched to using Intel x86_64 hardware accelerated client instead of ARM emulator.
Make the integration version available to the UI (MEN-1767)
mender-conductor container is now based on github.com/mendersoftware/mender-conductor repository.
Add --kvm option to demo scripts to run client VM hardware accelerated.
Introduce optional mender-conductor container based on github.com/mendersoftware/mender-conductor-enterprise, for Enterprise installations.
migrate to setup with mender-conductor-enterprise image
Switch default client container type to qemux86-64.
Upgrade deployments to 1.5.0b1.
Upgrade deviceadm to 1.4.0b1.
Upgrade deviceauth to 1.5.0b1.
Upgrade gui to 1.5.0b1.
Upgrade inventory to 1.4.0b1.
Upgrade mender to 1.5.0b1.
Upgrade mender-api-gateway-docker to 1.5.0b1.
Add mender-conductor 1.0.0b1.
Add mender-conductor-enterprise 1.0.0b1.
Upgrade useradm to 1.5.0b1.
migrate to setup with mender-conductor image

mender (1.5.0b1)

Regenerate keys on all key errors, not just when keys are missing. (MEN-1823)
cli: New client option to show installed artifact name (MEN-1806)
Spontaneous-reboot hardening of the client (MEN-1187)
FIXED: Log writes not flushed from memory (MEN-1726)
Allow multiple digit partition numbers.
log request-id in case of bad API requests (MEN-1738)
Abort upgrade if artifact name is not retrievable from artifact_info (MEN-1824)

mender-api-gateway-docker (1.5.0b1)

Allow cross-origin requests from hostnames listed in ALLOWED_HOSTS
When a client exceeds its rate limit gateway returns 429 (Too Many Requests) instead of 503 (Service Temporarily Unavailable)

useradm (1.5.0b1)

New internal endpoint for deleting authentication tokens.

Mender v1.4.0

Released 03.20.2018

integration (1.4.0)

Upgrade deployments to 1.4.0.
Upgrade deviceadm to 1.3.0.
Upgrade deviceauth to 1.4.0.
Upgrade gui to 1.4.0.
Upgrade inventory to 1.3.0.
Upgrade mender to 1.4.0.
Upgrade mender-api-gateway-docker to 1.4.0.
Upgrade mender-artifact to 2.2.0.
Upgrade useradm to 1.4.0.

mender (1.4.0)

Allow multiple digit partition numbers.

meta-mender rocko-v2018.03

Released 03.19.2018

meta-mender rocko-v2018.03

mender upgraded to 1.4.0.
mender-artifact upgraded to 2.2.0.
Document SDIMG_ROOTFS_TYPE settings for Raspberry Pi.
Fix creating ubifs image.
mender-qemu: increase qemu memory size to 256MiB.
meta-mender-toradex-nxp: increase layer priority to 91

meta-mender rocko-v2018.02

Released 02.02.2018

meta-mender rocko-v2018.02

mender: Append to fstab rather than replacing it.
Add mender-1.4.0b1 and mender-artifact-2.2.0b1 recipes.
Fix 'depends upon non-existent task' error in U-Boot recipes without auto patching.
Add mender-1.3.1 and mender-artifact-2.1.2 recipes.
QEMU: Raise systemd service timeout so that it boots properly on slow hosts.
Added new state script to wait for time sync to complete.
Fix "No rule to make target 'envtools'" error in some U-Boot builds.
Pregenerate SSH keys for all QEMU images.

Mender v1.4.0b1

Released 02.09.2018

deployments (1.4.0b1)

updated aws-go-sdk to v1.12.27
delete artifact from storage if parsing failed

deviceadm (1.3.0b1)

PUT /devices/{id}/status (internal)

gui (1.4.0b1)

Add checkbox option to remain logged in
add progress bar for individual devices updates (MEN-1558)
make it possible to decommission a device that has never sent inventory
add request ID to snackbar
Added deployments in progress to header bar
Add Device notifications to top bar
Fix for showing incorrect device IDs (MEN-1536)

integration (1.4.0b1)

Upgrade Conductor to 1.8.1
replace dynomite with redis
fix http 404 on decommissioning
Update integration version references to 1.4.x.
Upgrade deployments to 1.4.0b1.
Upgrade deviceadm to 1.3.0b1.
Upgrade deviceauth to 1.4.0b1.
Upgrade gui to 1.4.0b1.
Upgrade inventory to 1.3.0b1.
Upgrade mender to 1.4.0b1.
Upgrade mender-api-gateway-docker to 1.4.0b1.
Upgrade mender-artifact to 2.2.0b1.
Upgrade useradm to 1.4.0b1.
replace dynomite with redis

inventory (1.3.0b1)

Get all devices in a group with a single api-call. (MEN-811)

mender (1.4.0b1)

Report update status for scripts and states (MEN-1015)
Print detailed logs about authorization errors. (MEN-1660, MEN-1661)
mender-device-identity: Check if file exists before reading Mender on orangepi fails to run because identity script exit with error like: /usr/share/mender/identity/mender-device-identity cat: can't open '/sys/class/net/bonding_masters/type': Not a directory Add check before reading type to avoid problems.
Remove trailing slash from server URL configuration. (MEN-1620)

mender-artifact (2.2.0b1)

Fix ECDSA failures while signing and verifying artifact. (MEN-1470)
Fix broken header checksum verification. (MEN-1412)
Add modify existing images and artifacts functionality. (MEN-1213)
Artifact version 3 format documentation (MEN-1667)
Mender-Artifact now returns an error code to the os on cli errors (MEN-1328)
mender-artifact now fails with whitespace in the artifact-name (MEN-1355)

mender-api-gateway-docker (1.4.0b1)

reload-when-hosts-changed: silence cmp output
From now on it is possible to set rate limit per IP address for the API using environment variables. There are two variables: RATE_LIMIT_GLOBAL_RATE=limit - number of request per second RATE_LIMIT_GLOBAL_BURST=burst - burst parameter defines how many requests a client can make in excess of the rate specified by the limit. Both parameters, limit and burst, should be numbers.
entrypoint: include mender-gui in monitored DNS names

meta-mender rocko-v2018.01

Released 01.04.2018

meta-mender-core: Allow dtbos in KERNEL_DEVICETREE

meta-mender rocko-v2017.12

Released 12.20.2017

mender-artifact: Fix build failure due to poky golang source directory changes.
Catch up with latest poky U-Boot v2017.05.
Fix build failure after poky switched to checking out Go sources under the full GOPATH.
rpi-u-boot-scr: Switch to boot.cmd.in style recipe.
sato: Set NETWORK_MANAGER to systemd.
Update example-state-scripts to use standard logging.
Add Mender 1.3.0b1 recipe.
Work around bug in libpseudo regarding file owners on data partition.
Add machine configuration for Mender on colibri-imx7
u-boot: update mender_boot_part_name when mender_boot_part changes
Remove meta-mender-beaglebone layer. This layer is not needed anymore for compiling for Beaglebone and should be removed from all build configurations. (MEN-1387)
Add example recipe to show how to deploy files into Mender persistent data partition
mender-artifact: Fix build failure due to poky golang support changes.
meta-mender-raspberrypi: increase layer priority to 10
Fix bug where MENDER_DEVICE_TYPES_COMPATIBLE would only accept one entry.
mender: Adjust patches for U-Boot v2017.09
mender: Use GO environment variable to launch the compiler
Implement heuristic automatic patching of U-Boot. It can be turned on and off by setting MENDER_UBOOT_AUTO_CONFIGURE to 1 and 0, respectively, in a u-boot.bbappend file. It is on by default. If the automatic patching is unsuccessful, there is a special bitbake target that can be used to extract the generated patch and use it as a basis for a manual patch. It can be invoked with bitbake -c save_mender_auto_configured_patch <u-boot-recipe>, where <u-boot-recipe> is either u-boot or the fork of U-Boot that your board uses. (MEN-1387)
Bump mender and mender-artifact to version 1.1.0 and 2.0.0, respectively.
Remove recipes for Mender 1.0.x series.
Add Mender 1.3.0 build recipe.

meta-mender pyro-v2017.12

Released 12.20.2017

Fix bug where MENDER_DEVICE_TYPES_COMPATIBLE would only accept one entry.
Add Mender 1.3.0 build recipe.
u-boot: update mender_boot_part_name when mender_boot_part changes
Update example-state-scripts to use standard logging.
meta-mender-raspberrypi: increase layer priority to 10
sato: Set NETWORK_MANAGER to systemd.
Add machine configuration for Mender on colibri-imx7

Mender v1.3.0

Released 12.21.2017

integration (1.3.0)

Upgrade deployments to 1.3.0.
Upgrade deviceadm to 1.2.0.
Upgrade deviceauth to 1.3.0.
Upgrade gui to 1.3.0.
Upgrade inventory to 1.2.0.
Upgrade mender to 1.3.0.
Upgrade mender-api-gateway-docker to 1.3.0.
Upgrade useradm to 1.3.0.

mender (1.3.0)

Remove trailing slash from server URL configuration. (MEN-1620)

meta-mender pyro-v2017.11

Released 11.14.2017

Add Mender 1.3.0b1 recipe.
Upstream image has grown significantly, increase to 608MB sdimg. The noticeably non-round number is to make sure the calculated rootfs size is divisible by the partition alignment.

Mender v1.3.0b1

Released 11.14.2017

deployments (1.3.0b1)

docs: dump expire parameter from artifact download endpoint
deployments/controller: handle substate field in device status updates
images: make artifact download links valid for 15 minutes only
deployments: descending sort by created time when listing deployments
deployments/controller: status report substate field length limited to 200 characters
Additional MongoDB configuration options: mongo_ssl, mongo_ssl_skipverify, mongo_username, mongo_password
docs/management: return device state and substate in device deployment info
limits: add GET /limits/storage management endpoint
deployments: make artifact download links valid for 1 hour only
Prevent artifacts with invalid checksums from being uploaded to the server. (MEN-1412)
docs/internal: spec for GET /tenants/:id/limits/storage
Additional MongoDB configuration options: mongo_ssl, mongo…
docs: document that expire on /artifacts/{id}/download is silently ignored
POST /api/v1/internal/tenants ep
docs/devices: add optional substate field in status ported

deviceadm (1.2.0b1)

middleware: accommodate changes in request{id,log} middleware and enable request logger update
Additional MongoDB configuration options: mongo_ssl, mongo_ssl_skipverify, mongo_username, mongo_password
Additional MongoDB configuration options: mongo_ssl, mongo…
store/mongo: move single tenant migration to separate func
main: add 'migrate [--tenant=]' command

deviceauth (1.3.0b1)

GET /devices/count?status endpoint
devauth: only one accepted authset When accepting an auth set, reject all other accepted auth sets of a particular device. This way we make sure that only one auth set is accepted at a time. In case when key rotation is used, old key cannot be used to obtain the token. (MEN-1417)
store/mongo: properly setup context for migrations in multi tenant
api/http: support for internal endpoint for setting per-tenant limits Add support for PUT operation on a new internal endpoint /api/internal/v1/devauth/tenant/:id/limits/:name. The endpoint is used for setting per tenant limits.
store/mongo: make UpdateAuthSet() operate on multiple auth sets
store, store/mongo: add collection for keeping 'Limits'
devauth: ignore store.ErrAuthSetNotFound when rejecting auth sets during accept
devauth: set Authorization field in device decommissioning requests
devauth: support for saving per-tenant limits
devauth: log a message when the token is does not have a mender.device claim
docs: include Authorization header in spec of authset status PUT endpoint
Additional MongoDB configuration options: mongo_ssl, mongo_ssl_skipverify, mongo_username, mongo_password
migrate --tenant=... cli
store/mongo: raise store.ErrAuthSetNotFound when no auth sets were updated
model: add Limit wrapper, add predefined limit name - max_device_count
jwt: add mender.device claim, type bool, defaults to false
docs/internal: remove 404 status on PUT /tenant/:id/limits/max-device-count
middleware: repacking of logger and request ID to context is no longer needed
docs: add spec for GET /limits/max_devices
devauth: set and verify mender.device claim Device tokens given out by deviceauth service will now have 'mender.device' claim set to true. Tokens without the claim will fail verification and will be rejected. Device is expected to request a new token.
client/orchestrator: pass 'authorization' parameter in device decommission request

gui (1.3.0b1)

Fix logout issues, only timeout user when inactive
Fix for showing incorrect device IDs (MEN-1536)
Added onboarding helptips that toggle on/off per user
Added API connection error messaging and timeouts to Deployments tab
Added API timeouts and disconnection error retry messages to devices and artifacts tabs
disable decommissioning button while request is in progress
API connection error and retry for deployments on dashboard

integration (1.3.0b1)

compose, template: set mender-inventory command to server --automigrate Ensure that inventory service starts in daemon mode and automatically applies DB migrations.
Fix Missing restart policy for some containers in docker-compose setup. (MEN-1556)
Update conductor to 1.7.7
allow access to https://localhost in test environment
Update conductor to 1.7.7
Upgrade deployments to 1.3.0b1.
Upgrade deviceadm to 1.2.0b1.
Upgrade deviceauth to 1.3.0b1.
Upgrade gui to 1.3.0b1.
Upgrade inventory to 1.2.0b1.
Upgrade mender to 1.3.0b1.
Upgrade mender-api-gateway-docker to 1.3.0b1.
Upgrade useradm to 1.3.0b1.
conductor: include Authorization header in decommissioning workflow

inventory (1.2.0b1)

main: add server [--automigrate] command, drop previous command line flags Command line invocation and parameters are changed. See --help output for details. server subcommand will start the services in 'daemon' mode (sans the forking part). Optional --automigrate argument enables automatic DB migration, otherwise then a migration is needed the service will exit logging an error.
Additional MongoDB configuration options: mongo_ssl, mongo_ssl_skipverify, mongo_username, mongo_password
main: add 'migrate [--tenant=]' command
middleware: accommodate changes in request{id,log} middleware and enable request logger update
dockerfile: update entrypoint to match currently supported command line arguments
Additional MongoDB configuration options: mongo_ssl, mongo…

mender (1.3.0b1)

Mender now logs whatever a state-script outputs to stderr (MEN-1349)
mender-device-identity: only collect MAC from ARPHRD_ETHER types
Fix 'unexpected EOF' error when downloading large updates. (MEN-1511)
Implement ability for client to resume a download from where it left off if the connection is broken. (MEN-1511)
Improve error messages for state scripts errors. Rely on the full error description instead of just the error code.
Fix compile for ARM64.
set return code = 2, when there is nothing to commit
Added retry-later functionality on top of the state-script functionality
Correctly fail state script execution if stderr can not be opened. It would not be impossible to continue execution in this case, but it is bad to lose log output, and not being able to open stderr is a pretty uncommon case that might indicate a more serious issue like resource starvation.

mender-api-gateway-docker (1.3.0b1)

Introduce static content caching for /ui routing.
Make browser side UI caching configurable though CACHE_UI env. Disabled by default.
Include request time in gateway access logs.
nginx: separate HTTP and HTTPS server scopes, redirect all HTTP requests to HTTPS
nginx: align gateway URLs with useradm API
Introduce static content caching for /ui routing.
deployments service routing
gateway dns cache reloading for improved recovery from service restarts (MEN-1227)
Include request time in gateway access logs.

useradm (1.3.0b1)

docs: add undocumented X-Original-URI, X-Original-Method on internal /auth/verify
store/mongo: TenantDataStore uses a store with automigrations enabled
commands: add 'migrate [--tenant=]' command
middleware: accommodate changes in request{id,log} middleware and enable request logger update
jwt: add mender.user claim, bool Add 'mender.user' claim to tokens given out bu useradm. The claim indicates that the token is assigned to a user and a 'sub' claim corresponds to user ID.
store/mongo: With*() helpers return a new instance of store with correct property modified
docs: spec for an endpoint for setting up tenants
commands: propagate new user to tenantadm (MEN-1311)
store/mongo: move migration of single tenant to separate func
api/http: update internal URLs, align them with API URL schema Internal URLs are now available with /api/internal/v1/useradm/ prefix
store: introduce tenant keeper
docs: align internal URLs with API URL scheme
useradm: add mender.user claim to given out tokens Append 'mender.user' claim to all given out tokens. All tokens that do not have this claim will fail verification and be rejected forcing the user to log in again.
set correct header when sending token
useradm: add CreateTenant operation
api/http: add endpoint for creating tenants

Mender v1.2.2

Released 11.14.2017

deployments (1.2.2)

deployments: descending sort by created time when listing deployments

integration (1.2.2)

Upgrade deployments to 1.2.2.
Upgrade gui to 1.2.1.
Upgrade mender-api-gateway-docker to 1.2.1.
Fix Missing restart policy for some containers in docker-compose setup. (MEN-1556)

mender-api-gateway-docker (1.2.1)

nginx: separate HTTP and HTTPS server scopes, redirect all HTTP requests to HTTPS

Mender v1.2.1

Released 10.02.2017

deployments (1.2.1)

Prevent artifacts with invalid checksums from being uploaded to the server. (MEN-1412)

integration (1.2.1)

Upgrade deployments to 1.2.1.
Upgrade mender to 1.2.1.
Upgrade mender-artifact to 2.1.1.

mender (1.2.1)

Improve error messages for state scripts errors. Rely on the full error description instead of just the error code.
Fix checksum not being verified for headers, only payload. (MEN-1412)

mender-artifact (2.1.1)

Fix broken header checksum verification. (MEN-1412)

Mender v1.2.0

Released 09.05.2017

deployments (1.2.0)

Deployment creation process changed. From now on artifacts are assigned to device deployments on update request handling.
Return 422 - Unprocessable Entity on attempt of creating deployment without artifacts
Deployments no longer require inventory to create deployments.
New optional array field: 'artifacts' in deployment object returned by API containing list of artifact ids used by deployment.

deviceauth (1.2.0)

Introduce 'server' subcommand that is also default command. Supports '--automigrate' parameter to enable automatic database version migration on startup.
Increase orchestrater request timeout to 30s

gui (1.2.0)

Bugfix for multiplying GET devices requests
Add ‘create user’ functionality
Change root API url to docker.mender.io
Removed user creation UI incl password strength check (#231)
Added user management edit functionality
Updated node modules
Remove shortened device IDs, now useless due to incremental SHAs
create deployment from single device (MEN-1233)
Allow user to remove artifacts via the GUI
Added self user management

integration (1.2.0)

Move interactive flags for client container to main docker file. Makes it available for debugging on all client containers, not just dev containers.
allow access to https://localhost in test environment

mender (1.2.0)

Refactored all store implementations into /store
Improve error message when manifest field/file cannot be read.
Fixed format check to conform to the expected artifact-file-format (MEN-1289)
installer: improve incompatible image error message
Client will not run state scripts from cmd-line except when forced. (MEN-1235)
Fixed behaviour when no sys-cert is available on the system. (MEN-1151)
Mender now logs whatever a state-script outputs to stderr (MEN-1349)
Fix misleading version being displayed for non-tagged builds. (MEN-1178)
Changed the errormessage to more closely reflect the issue. (MEN-1215)
Removed the DeviceKey option in menderConfig.
Fix - Now throws an error when committing nothing. (MEN-505)
Introduction of state script feature. State scripts can be used to execute scripts at various stages of Mender's execution. See documentation for more information.
Introduce experimental support for writing to UBI volumes
Logs an error when device_type file not found. (MEN-505)
remove no longer referenced client certificate code

mender-api-gateway-docker (1.2.0)

Return additional headers for improved security: X-XSS-Protection, Cache-Control, Pragma. (MEN-1316)
Validate Origin header if present. (MEN-1287)
Add a configurable Host whitelist to gateway configuration, denying requests with unknown Hosts. Configured through ALLOWED_HOSTS env var on gateway startup. (MEN-1262)

mender-artifact (2.1.0)

Sign existing artifacts using mender-artifact CLI (MEN-1220)
Improve error message when private signing key can't be loaded.
Fix misleading version being displayed for non-tagged builds. (MEN-1178)
Mender-Artifact now returns an error code to the os on cli errors (MEN-1328)
mender-artifact now fails with whitespace in the artifact-name (MEN-1355)

useradm (1.2.0)

Improve log messages when opening connection to MongoDB.
Additional MongoDB configuration options: mongo_ssl, mongo_ssl_skipverify, mongo_username, mongo_password
Remove 'initial user' login logic, including 'POST /users/initial' API. Now initial user need to be created by administrator using cli (MEN-1034)
New cli subcommand for creating users: 'useradm create-user. (MEN-1034)
New API for listing users: 'GET https://localhost/api/management/v1/useradm/users' and 'GET https://localhost/api/management/v1/useradm/users/:userid'
New API for creating additional users: 'POST https://localhost/api/management/v1/useradm/users'
New API for editing user email and password: 'PUT https://localhost/api/management/v1/useradm/users/:userid'
New API for removing user: 'DELETE https://localhost/api/management/v1/useradm/users/:userid'

Mender v1.1.0

Released 06.16.2017

gui

Remove shortened device IDs, now useless due to incremental SHAs
Fix for MEN-1233 - create deployment from single device

mender

Fix misleading version being displayed for non-tagged builds. (MEN-1178)

Mender v1.1.0 Beta 1

Released 05.24.2017

deployments

Increase file upload request validity when pushing artifact to remote file storage.
Update artifact handling reflecting changes in mender-artifact.
Support for signed images introduced, but with no signature verification yet. (MEN-1022)
Add device decommissioning support in the deployments service.
Update artifact description when updating artifact data.
images/s3: unmarshal S3 errors when uploading image
Artifact upload error handling fixed.
Update artifact description when updating artifact data. (MEN-1093)
travis: bump required Go version to 1.8

deviceadm

Support for listing device authentication data sets with device ID filter using GET /devices?device_id=

deviceauth

New feature: decommissioning device
devauth: improve logging when rejecting or giving out tokens
Decommission device endpoint implemented (without decommission job submit).
api/management: management API is publicly available, update misleading description
api: add tenant_token as an optional attribute in authentication request

gui

Artifact signed field and improvements (MEN-230)
Bugfix: hide placeholder when past deployments is not empty (MEN-229)
Device blocking & decommissioning (MEN-226)
Implement pagination UI on pending & in progress deployment lists (MEN-222)

integration

Upgrade all server components to 1.1 series
Upgrade client to 1.1
Upgrade mender-artifact to 2.0

inventory

No changes

mender-api-gateway-docker

nginx: log and pass X-MEN-RequestID

mender-artifact

Switch default artifact format version to 2. (MEN-1183)
Add CLI support for signing and verifying images.
Add implementation of RSA and ECDSA signatures.
Fix returning and printing errors form artifact library.
Fix overwriting artifact if new one is invalid.
Add basic signing functionality and rewrite the library.

mender

Add support for using signed mender-artifact library.
Add support for verifying artifact signature. (MEN-1020)

useradm

Added create-user and server commands to useradm. Running useradm server will start useradm service (just like running useradm did), also if no command is passed server is used a default. create-user will add given user to DB. Examples: useradm create-user --username foo@bar.com --password foobarbarbar (creates a user with username foo@bar.com and password foobar...), useradm create-user --username foo@bar.com (same as before, but password is read from terminal). See --help for details.

Mender v1.0.1

Released 04.05.2017

Notable changes

deployments

Update artifact description when updating artifact data. (MEN-1093)
Fix log flag not being set for device deployment after log been uploaded. (MEN-1078)

gui

Bugfix: open correct deployment report dialog from dashboard
Update node modules, add drag+drop artifact, allow edit artifact description
Move user token from local storage to cookie, add react-cookie module (#217)
Update node modules, add drag+drop & cookie functionality (#219)
Replace artifact upload dialog with drag-and-drop
Remove cookie when receiving unauthorized response
Edit artifact description in UI

mender

Fix bug that caused the update not to be retried after failing during previous attempt (#193)

Mender v1.0.0

Released 02.20.2017