[Fusioninventory-devel] FusionInventory::Agent 2.1 aka: Windows support: Call for tester

[Gonéri Le Bouder]

Hi all,

The agent 2.1 is mostly done, this release with feature Windows support,
import HP-UX fixes and all lot of fixes and improvement.


We would be glade if you can report problem before the final release.


How to get the 2.1.x branch:
  Zip: http://github.com/fusinv/fusioninventory-agent/zipball/2.1.x
  Tarball: http://github.com/fusinv/fusioninventory-agent/tarball/2.1.x
  With Git: git clone https://github.com/fusinv/fusioninventory-agent.git &&
cd fusioninventory-agent && git checkout 2.1.x
  Windows Installer:
http://forge.fusioninventory.org/projects/fusioninventory-packaging-win-agent/files


People involved in the 2.1 release in chronological order: myself, Guillaume
Bas, Emengao, David Durieux, Guillaume Rousse Aurelien Bondis, Alex Mauer,
Amir Pakdel and Benoit Machiavello.

The changelog entry:
       * Add Windows support for 2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/Seven
       * Windows: Add new values for SOFTWARES key
       * Add Windows service
       * disable --color for Windows for now
       * Collect Solaris process informations (Emengao)
       * VirtualMachine: Add Vserver.pm
       * VirtualMachine: Check is the status is correct
       * detect Slackware packages (David DURIEUX)
       * Libvirt.pm switch SUBSYSTEM and VMTYPE values.VMTYPE is "libvirt"
         now
       * add test scripts in t/
       * Better error handling if it's not possible to create basevardir
       * Inventory: reduce the number of debug messages
       * Add DRIVES/SYSTEMDRIVE to know if it's the system partition
       * Inventory.pm, fix: addStorages is deprecred, not addStorage
       * Inventory.pm, addSection() is now deprecated and a warning is
         printed everytime the function is called
       * Linux/PC/CPU: set CPU name and detect CORE/THREAD
       * Stores environement variables
       * Bios, add ENCLOSURESERIAL BASEBOARDSERIAL and BIOSSERIAL keys
       * Identify USB devices (Windows, Linux)
       * --realm was two time in --help
       * Fix Syslog backend, cf: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/571655
         (Guillaume ROUSSE)
       * Cups.pm: gets all installed printers and their drivers names
        (Aurelien Bondis)
       * ocsinventory-ng is not more the default server hostname, you've to
         set it yourself in agent.cfg
       * Inputs.pm: adds Inputs support for Linux clients (Aurelien Bondis)
       * Turns off interactive mode of GNU fdisk (Aurelien Bondis)
       * Add a few new PNP monitor IDs (Alex Mauer)
       * Makefile.PL: Define Perl 5.8 as the minimal version.
       * RPC: Add http://hostname:62354/status to get the current status of
         the agent
       * Add --rpc-trust-localhost
       * RPC: serve a basic page to present the agent
       * --html-dir parameter
       * Linux/Domains. Use Sys::Hostname to get the domain
       * Exit if no --server or --target is defined
       * Inventory: If two modules with the same name are found, only load
         the first
       * Linux/Storages: detect floppy and block devices (Amir PAKDEL)
       * HP-UX numerous improvement (Amir PAKDEL)
       * Add NETWORKS/SPEED (in MB/s) (Amir PAKDEL)
       * HP-UX/Drives: Swapped "Type" and "File System" (Amir PAKDEL)
       * Inventory: POD doc for NETWORKS part
       * add --no-printer parameter
       * BSD: don't use uname to get the OSName, but $^O aka $SNAME
       * BSD: chomp() the number of CPU
       * HP RAID disk detection is now in Generic directory and so, can be
         used by Windows and probably HP-UX.

-- 
    Gonéri Le Bouder
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