CHANGELOG.md

Date	Issue	Description
2024/09/01		Release 0.29.4
2024/08/09	2187	Parse metric watcher commands as templates
2024/07/30	2186	Support Ubuntu Noble
2024/07/29		Release 0.29.3
2024/07/17		Release 0.29.1
2024/07/17		Release 0.29.0
2024/06/05	2176	Support being called as abt
2024/05/02	2169	Pass federation name to external discovery agent
2024/04/16	2162	Adds a new expression watcher that can react to values store in autonomous agent data
2024/04/12	2160	Allow an individual metric watcher to disable Prometheus integration
2024/04/06	2156	Support storing metric values in autonomous agent data
2024/04/06	2150	Support publishing metrics to Graphite from the metric watcher
2024/04/05	2147	Allow the scout watch command to ignore some autonomous agents
2024/3/16	2142	Create a built-in agent and autonomous agent plugin service to support non CM deployments
2024/03/14	2139	Send alive events every 30 minutes instead of every 1 hour
2024/03/14	2137	Use correct private inboxes for scout watch to support protocol v2 deployments
2024/03/11	2133	Redesign the gossip service discovery for upcoming NATS 2.11 due June 2024
2024/03/09	2131	Ensure the duplicate window aligns with the kv TTL when creating buckets
2024/03/07	2129	Adds skip_trigger_on_reenter to the scheduler watcher to avoid some duplicate triggers
2024/03/07	2127	Support for Debian Bookworm
2024/02/26	2120	Adds choria tool sha256 to compute recursive checksums compatible with archive and plugins
2024/02/25	2118	Miscellaneous fixes and UX improvements for the archive watcher
2024/02/25	2116	Support a disown setting in exec that ensures executed commands run after Choria stops
2024/02/08	2110	All concurrent provisioners by maintaining a provisioner-lock on the agent
2024/02/03		Release 0.28.0
2024/01/04	2104	Allow clients to view the ACLs applied to their connections in various utilities
2024/12/19	2101	Improve shutdown reliability by giving Stream brokers more shutdown grace
2023/12/18	2096	Allow setting SRV domain using the CHORIA_SRV_DOMAIN environment variable >
2023/12/07	2094	Adds additional utilities to maintain autonomous agent plugin manifests under choria machine plugins
2023/12/04		Upgrade to NATS Server 2.10.x and updates the embedded nats command line
2023/09/20	2077	Various improvements to audit logging and expose its settings in choria tool config
2023/09/07	2077	Allow audit log ownership to be set using plugin.rpcaudit.logfile.group and plugin.rpcaudit.logfile.mode
2023/08/25	2079	Disable appbuilder on Windows
2024/05/04	2066	Allow those who embed Choria Server to get notified when it's ready using RegisterReadyCallback()
2023/04/24	2059	Support verifying packed plugin specifications in machine pugins and mms
2023/04/19	2055	Retry calls to streams that can fail in early election setup
2023/04/19	2052	Ensure stream users can access KV and Object stores
2023/04/18	2049	Timeout initial connection attempts while preparing embedded nats CLI connection
2023/04/18	2047	Grant access to governor lifecycle events for clients with the governor permission
2023/04/18	2045	Expose the client governor permission on the jwt cli
2023/04/18	2043	Support using in-process connections for adapter communications
2023/04/18	2041	Only validate ed25519 signed provisioner tokens using the Issuer flow, fall back for rsa signed tokens
2023/04/14	2037	Trim spaces in received kv data in order to determine if it's JSON data or not
2023/04/11	2029	Adds a new plugins watcher that can manage auto agents and external rpc agents
2023/04/10	2026	Support booleans, enums and more in the rpc builder command flags parsing
2023/03/31	2022	Use a native sha256 checker rather than rely on OS provided binary in the archive watcher
2023/03/30	2019	Support runtime reloading and relocation of external agents without restarting the server
2023/03/22		Release 0.27.0
2023/03/21	2010	Record the builtin type as plugin in nagios watcher events
2023/03/14	2001	Support adding headers to Choria Message Submit messages
2023/03/07	1998	Support leader election for tally and label metrics by leader state
2023/03/06	1996	Emit new upgraded events when release upgrading a running server via provisioning
2023/03/03	1994	Record exec watcher events in lifecycle recorder
2023/02/21	1740	Allow protocol v1 provisioners and servers to be provisioned on a v2 broker
2023/02/20	1990	Add context.Context to the provisioner target resolve Configure() method
2023/02/19	1984	Include the number of Lifecycle events published in instance stats, data and rpcutil output
2023/02/17	1987	Export SetBuildBasedOnJWT in default proftarget plugin
2023/02/15	1982	Ensure multiple AAA Login URLs are parsed correctly
2023/02/14	1980	Correctly detect paths to ed25519 public keys that are 64 characters long as paths
2023/02/13	1978	Add the --governor permission to choria jwt server
2023/02/02	1976	Allow choria machine run to be used without a valid Choria install
2023/02/02	1974	Fix validation of Autonomous Agents that use timer watchers
2023/01/26	1972	Create a tool to monitor JWT token health and contents
2023/01/23	1968	Improve handling of governors on slow nodes and during critical failures
2023/01/19	1966	Improve plugin generate ddl UX
2023/01/18	1964	Improve DDL schema validation
2023/01/12	1959	Ensure provisioning tokens have a default non-zero expiry
2023/01/12	1740	Extract the tokens package into github.com/choria-io/tokens
2023/01/10	1952	Improve fact filter parsing to handle functions both left and right of the equation
2022/12/15	1942	Support streaming JSON output on choria req to assist non-golang clients to be built quicker
2022/12/14	1939	Support multi-arch binaries for external agents
2022/12/12		Support direct mode for Choria Key-Value Stores to increase scale and throughput
2022/12/08	1934	Allow the machines watcher spec signer public key to be set in config
2022/12/06		Create a new dedicated backplane docs site https://choria-io.github.io/go-choria
2022/12/01		Remove numerous deprecated configuration settings
2022/12/01	1924	Add a new RPC Authorization plugin that requires and authorize policies found in client JWTs
2022/11/29	1922	Improve handling defaults in output DDLs for generated clients
2022/11/29	1918	Support full Choria version upgrades during provisioning
2022/11/29	1916	Support Choria Provisioner using version to Protocol
2022/11/28	1913	Allow provisioning over non TLS when holding an Org Issuer signed provisioning JWT
2022/11/28	1913	New Client JWT permissions to indicate a client can access the provisioning account in the broker
2022/11/23	1911	Do not terminate servers on authentication error
2022/11/22	1909	Support Hashicorp Vault as storage for the Organization Issuer and the choria jwt command
2022/11/10	1900	Introduce the concept of a Organization Issuer and chain of trust JWT tokens for Server and Client issuers
2022/11/09	1898	Enhance the request signing protocol to include signatures made using the private key
2022/11/06	1863	Choria Message Submit can sign published messages when using Choria Security
2022/11/07	1740	Introduce Choria JWT based security and Protocol version 2
2022/11/07		Release 0.26.2
2022/11/01	1886	Allow additional publish and subscribe subjects to be added to client tokens
2022/10/05	1869	Improve the error handling in choria tool status when the status file does not exist
2022/10/04	1866	Fix inventory groups in inventory files, they now work with all agents
2022/10/03	1740	Support ed25519 keys for signing JWT tokens
2022/10/03	1840	Additional JWT permissions that should be set to allow fleet management access
2022/09/29	1854	Correctly detect empty filters that might have resulted in unexpected replies
2022/09/29	1667	Upgrade to a faster and more modern JSON schema validator
2022/09/28	1740	Adds an experimental choria tool protocol command that can live view Choria traffic
2022/09/28	1845	Avoid some blocking writes in autonomous agent startup, internal efficiency only
2022/09/27	1740	Remove the concept of a cache from the security subsystem and other refactors
2022/09/26	1836	Add the delegation property to client JWTs
2022/09/21	1832	Render all tables using UTF-8, remove old table dependency
2022/09/19	1826	Add the new choria scout validate command that acts as a goss frontend
2022/09/14	1822	Allow RPC clients to supply a goss manifest to execute on the network, from file or KV bucket
2022/09/14	1820	Improve UX of some table layouts
2022/09/13	1818	Allow direct get to be configured for KV
2022/09/08	1815	Restore the ability for provisioners to version update Choria in-place
2022/09/08	1812	Own implementation of the Streams based Governor
2022/08/30	1795	Fix building packages for armel
2022/09/02		Improve performance of the optional machines watchers
2022/09/02	1802	Set up the embedded NATS CLI using the correct inbox prefix
2022/08/31	1798	Allow provisioners to cleanly shutdown a server, thus opting it out of provisioning or being managed
2022/08/27		Speed up leader elections
2022/08/16	1785	Do not read config or setup security framework for election file check
2022/08/08	1782	Improve flag handling for the rpc builder command
2022/08/04	1779	Work around breaking changes in NATS Server
2022/07/15	1768	Improve processing of lifecycle events by implementing Stringer for event types
2022/08/03		Support go1.18 as minimum version, support go 1.19
2022/08/03		Release 0.26.1
2022/08/02	1774	When generating a new ed25519 server seed, remove the invalidated JWT from disk
2022/08/02	1774	Detect JWT and Server seed mismatches, trigger reprovision if possible
2022/08/01		Upgrade appbuilder to v0.3.0
2022/08/01	1722	Allow in-process connections to bypass TLS, use them to configure Choria Streams
2022/07/07	1756	Allow governors to control executions per period
2022/07/07	1755	Add various election based tools for command execution, cron jobs and more, also various management tools
2022/07/10	1760	Add a gossip watcher to publish regular to the Choria Broker, including basic service registration
2022/07/05	1712	Switch to a new help template
2022/06/27	1732	Improved detection of STDIN avoiding some unexpected switches in discovery method and improving running under cron
2022/06/27	1528	Improve reliability of removing self-managed autonomous agents
2022/06/27	1747	Force gzip compression on Jammy debs to improve compatability with other distros and mirroring tools
2022/06/24		End to end nightly installation tests on EL9
2022/06/24	1740	Support signing JWT tokens using ed25519 tokens
2022/06/24	1740	Refactor protocol and security layers to start work on version 2 of the network protocol
2022/06/23		Release 0.26.0
2022/06/21	1735	Support Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
2022/06/21	1735	Debian packages will not have the distro as part of the package name to easy mirroring
2022/06/15	1738	KV autonomous agent watchers will now template parse the names of keys
2022/06/12	1725	Exec autonomous agent watchers can now perform a fast - subject to splay - initial gather
2022/06/12	1726	Remove the deprecated Anonymous TLS server mode
2022/06/12	1722	Prevent client permissions from being set on servers, not triggered in choria, was possible by using the libraries
2022/06/11	1720	Provisioning JWT can have user provided extensions to convey additional non-choria information to provisioner
2022/06/09	1712	Various UX improvements to the help output
2022/06/08	1713	Allow access to the broker system account via unverified TLS given a JWT with the system permission
2022/06/06	1703	Adds kv create and kv update
2022/06/06	1708	Move to fisk CLI package, improve default help output verbosity
2022/06/02	1704	Support EL9
2022/05/26	1697	Support subject mappings witin the Choria Brokers for partitioning
2022/05/10	1665	Introduce a new kind of Application by adopting the appbuilder project and extending it for Choria
2022/05/09	1663	Adds a semver reply filter function
2022/05/28	1659	Use core Go list of supported ciphersuites
2022/05/20	1654	Prevent use of JWT tokens with incorrect caller ID
2022/05/14	1649	Fix typo in generated code
2022/05/12	1647	Expand the inventory registration payload to include version, hash and auto agent information
2022/05/11	1645	Work around breaking change in nats.go related to KV access
2022/05/08	1643	Allow slow TTLs for leader elections
2022/05/06	1640	Improve reliability of clean shutdowns
2022/04/05	1445	Reject agents without a name or too small timeout
2022/04/05	1636	Support skipping system stream management
2022/04/05	1591	Use correct credentials when running choria broker server check jetstream
2022/04/05	1633	Remove the Provisioner agent release_update action
2022/03/31	1630	UX improvements for choria kv
2022/03/30	1628	Use correct credentials when running choria broker server check kv
2022/03/29	1625	When using the embedded nats cli allow a custom Choria configuration to be set
2022/03/22	1619	Adds full end to end integration testing
2022/03/21		Improve logging during initial connection establishment
2022/03/17	1615	Remove obsolete operating system distributions
2022/03/16		Switch to go 1.18
2022/03/10		Redact some passwords when logging
2022/03/01	1608	Improve hostname validation checks in flatfile discovery
2022/02/25		Release 0.25.1
2022/02/25	1604	Fix startup on windows
2022/02/23		Release 0.25.0
2022/02/07	1590	Support checking server JWT token validity
2022/01/18	1405	Add 64 bit ARM packages
2022/01/18	1576	Allow custom builders to set the server service to auto start after install
2022/01/17	1573	Compatibility fix for 32 bit builds
2022/01/17	1571	Improve starting Choria Streams between reboots
2022/01/13	1568	Improve tool provision so debugging custom provisioning targets is more reliable
2022/01/12	1561	Correctly handle missing server configuration files when a custom provisioner is set
2022/01/10	1555	Ensure filters work with async requests in the choria req command
2021/12/17	1526	Support trace logging of the embedded nats CLI
2021/12/16	1549	Expand the jwt command to create other types of JWT and move to choria jwt
2021/12/16	1547	Unify the kv del and kv rm commands
2021/12/07	1543	Remove NATS Streaming Server support
2021/12/07	1541	Improve choria tool governor run when the broker is down
2021/11/29	1522	Specifically use choria broker run to start the broker
2021/11/24	1526	Import the nats CLI tool into Choria under choria broker
2021/11/19	1522	Support enabling connection nonce feature allowing per connection private key validation
2021/11/25	1522	Extend provisioning agent to on board ed25519 seeds and process signed JWTs from the provisioner
2021/11/12	1509	Allow JWT clients to have permissions that can restrict access to Choria Streams related features
2021/11/12	1509	Extract all jwt handling code in all packages into a new tokens package
2021/11/09	1507	Allow non TLS connections from both servers and clients in combination of AAA and Provisioner using JWTs
2021/10/28	1502	Move to NATS official KV implementation, formalize Leader Election in Choria Broker
2021/10/28	1499	Avoid leaving some tempoary directories around in the archive watcher
2021/10/28	1495	Allow succesfull KV operations that do not change data to transition autonomous agents
2021/10/28	1494	Relax identity validation in flatfile discovery to avoid rejecting some valid hostnames as identities
2021/10/27	1491	Add --senders to choria req that shows only those replying identities
2021/10/26	1487	Support for latest Cert Manager APIs
2021/10/25	1482	Support tallying governor events
2021/10/25	1483	Allow custom loggers to be passed to Choria and avoid changing settings of the default logrus logger
2021/10/25	1480	Support tallying wildcard components rather than just a single component
2021/10/15		Add SPDX License Identifier and Copyright to source files
2021/10/15	1475	Support stdout and stderr as logging destinations in addition to discard and a file name
2021/10/14	1472	Show additional mco choria show_config style information in choria tool config
2021/10/14		Change docker base to AlmaLinux
2021/10/12	1241	Refactor DDL resolution, support querying Choria Registry for unknown DDLs
2021/10/07	1462	Adds a new machines watcher to manage Choria Autonomous Agents, not enabled by default
2021/10/06	1459	Adds a new archive watcher to manage tgz files, not enabled by default
2021/10/05	1454	Support asserting provisioning state in the health check plugin
2021/10/05	1455	Ignore machines with -temp name suffix and the tmp directory
2021/09/27	1446	Compatibility fix for latest NATS Server code regarding dynamic limits
2021/09/22	1438	Allow choria scout watch to show only state changes
2021/09/22	1438	Add a CLI API for managing KV buckets
2021/09/20		Release 0.24.0
2021/09/19	1428	Adds a helper to assist in creation of Governors from automation tools
2021/09/17	1426	Do not attempt to also load embedded Autonomous Agents from disk
2021/09/14	1418	Allow provisioning of Action Policies and Open Policy Agent Policies via Choria Provisioner
2021/09/13	1415	Support listing known Governors
2021/09/13	1413	Do not create unconfigured Governors when viewing a non existing Governor
2021/09/13	1411	Add --force / -f to choria governor add
2021/09/09	1407	Create the plugin.choria.machine.store directory if it does not exist
2021/09/06	140	Do not update file mtime on skipped checks in the File watcher
2021/09/06	1401	Add a splay option to the Timer Watcher
2021/09/03	1397	Handle JSON data in data better in Autonomous Agent data layer allowing for nested lookups
2021/09/02	1388	Various refactors of Debian packages to behave more consistently with RedHat startup/restart flows
2021/09/02	1393	Fix logging of embedded NATS Server to Choria logs
2021/09/01	1386	Introduce a faster broadcast discovery timeout using sliding windows, behind a opt-in setting
2021/08/31	1384	Allow Autonomous Agents to be compiled into the server as plugins
2021/08/31	1377	Initial support for performing AAA Server signing requests via Choria Services rather than HTTPS
2021/08/27	1377	Internal refactoring to improve cross/cyclic package import problems
2021/08/24		Release 0.23.0
2021/08/24		Support Debian 11
2021/08/23	1367	Enable the choria_provision agent when provisioning is supported
2021/08/18	1359	Support sorting choria req output by identity using --sort
2021/08/18	1358	Ensure SSL Cache is created if needed during provisioning
2021/08/18	1357	Correctly enter provisioning with a configuration file and without a Puppet installation
2021/08/17	1355	Support receiving private keys from the provisioner, protected using Curve 25519 ECDH shared secrets
2021/08/16	1353	Ensure no responses list and unexpected responses list always prints, capped to 200 nodes
2021/08/11	1344	Fix setting workers and expr filter on generated clients
2021/08/10	1342	Include the Public Key in the CSR reply, add data type hints to the provisioner DDL and update client
2021/08/09	1331	Include the time a RPC Reply was generated in the reply
2021/08/09	1337	Generated clients can accept a Choria Framework, avoiding config loading etc
2021/08/09	1335	Support entering provisioning mode when the supplied server.conf does not exist
2021/08/09	1333	Disable RPC Auth during provisioning mode
2021/08/04	1326	Rename the jetstream adapter to choria_streams
2021/08/03	1324	Allow compiled-in Go agents to access the Submission system
2021/08/03	1321	Improve the broker shutdown process to cleanly shut down Choria Streams
2021/08/03	1319	Use correct Choria reply subjects when interacting with the Streams API
2021/08/02	1316	Extend the RPC Reply structure to include what action produced the data
2021/08/02	1314	Support Asynchronous Request mode in generated Go clients
2021/07/25	1310	Export certificate expiry time in Choria status files, support checking from CLI and Scout
2021/07/19	1291	Support templates in Exec Watcher cmd, env and governor
2021/07/12	1291	Expose kv data to the Autonomous Agent data system
2021/07/12	1291	Add a Choria Key-Value Store accessible using choria kv and a new kv Autonomous Agent Watcher
2021/07/12	1291	Allow Exec Watchers to access node facts
2021/07/12	1291	Add a Autonomous Agent level data store, allow Exec Watchers to gather and store data in a Auto Agent
2021/07/09	1289	Additional Prometheus statistics for Choria Streams
2021/07/05	1276	Support Governors in the Exec Autonomous Agent watcher
2021/07/02	1276	Introduce choria governor for network wide concurrency control
2021/06/30	1277	Support PKCS8 containers
2021/06/23	1273	Introduce Choria Submission to allow messages to be placed into Streams via Choria Server
2021/06/21	1272	Use default client-like resolution to find brokers in the JetStream adapter when no urls are given
2021/06/09	1042	Rate limit fast transitions in autonomous agents
2021/06/09	1264	Allow a random sleep at the start of schedules for the Schedule watcher
2021/06/06	1259	Allow the default client suffix to be set at compile time (eg. rip.mcollective user id)
2021/06/06	1258	Allow the default collective to be set at compile time
2021/06/03	1256	Fail when a client cannot determine its identity
2021/05/11	1250	Improve sorting of choria inventory columns
2021/04/28	1246	Adds a choria login command that supports delegating to choria-login in PATH
2021/04/27	1241	Initial implementation of the choria_registry service agent
2021/04/27	1243	Support Websockets for connectivity from Leafnodes and Choria Server to Choria Broker, also Go clients
2021/04/23	1234	Allow the Choria Server to run in an Services-Only mode
2021/04/23	1238	Improve some core DDLs with better type hints
2021/04/22		Release 0.22.0
2021/04/22	1234	Initial support for Service Agents
2021/04/21	1232	Autonomous Agent transitions now support a human friendly description
2021/04/19	1227	Import the provisioning agent into this code base since it's now always compiled in
2021/04/16	1222	Create choria plugin doc and move tool generate to plugin generate
2021/04/15	1220	Handle filter expressions that are not obviously boolean better
2021/04/13	1216	Improve startup logs when skipping agents in specific providers
2021/04/08	1213	Increase leafnode authentication timeout
2021/04/08	1211	Improve randomness of limited targets
2021/04/07	1207	Support wider duration specification by supporting week, month, year etc
2021/04/05	1204	Enable new Go based action policy by default
2021/04/01	1201	Support the old boolean_summary aggregator and generic output name remapping in summary aggregator
2021/03/30	1195	Default to the choria account for leafnodes
2021/03/30	1197	Improve consistency of time durations in ping output
2021/03/30	1195	Fix ordering of leafnode and acounts setup
2021/03/29	1193	JetStream Adapter can publish to wildcard streams with per identity subjects
2021/03/29	1189	Use correct target for registration messages
2021/03/29		Release 0.21.0
2021/03/26	1189	Add a new registration plugin that sends the running inventory rather than file contents
2021/03/25	1187	Support enabling listening pprof port
2021/03/23	1185	Fix validation for integers in the DDLs
2021/03/23	1183	Fail choria facts when no nodes match supplied filters
2021/03/19	1180	Restore the data plugin report in rpcutil#inventory
2021/03/19	1178	Do not send the filter verbatim in choria req
2021/03/18	1175	Add a client specific TLSConfig(), improve adapters and federation support for legacy certs
2021/03/18	1173	Create a choria account in NATS, move all connections there, enable system account
2021/03/17	1170	Correctly calculate advertise URL
2021/03/10	1165	Improve support for Clustered JetStream
2021/03/10	1161	Add a machine_state data plugin
2021/03/05	1156	Support retrieving a single choria autonomous agent state using choria_util
2021/03/02	1154	Support building ppc64le EL7 and EL8 RPMs
2021/03/02	1152	Improve ping response calculations in federated networks
2021/03/01	1150	Avoid unnecessary warning level logs
2021/02/23		Drop support for Enterprise Linux 6 due to go1.16
2021/02/22	1147	Correctly detect stdin discovery
2021/02/17	1145	Improve stability of choria scout watch
2021/02/03		Release 0.20.2
2021/02/03	1140	Ensure logging doesn't happen at warn level
2021/02/03		Release 0.20.1
2021/02/03	1140	Ensure that only client/server connections use no SAN TLS work around, not brokers
2021/02/03		Release 0.20.0
2021/02/02	1136	Improve progress bars on small screens
2021/02/02		Sort classes tags in discovery command and elsewhere
2021/02/01	1074	Initial support for Data Providers, add choria, scout, config_item providers
2021/01/29	1123	Perform identity-only discovery optimization in broadcast and puppetdb discovery methods
2021/01/29	1121	Add a --silent flag to choria discover to improve script integration
2021/01/28	1060	Support go 1.15 by putting in work around to support Puppet SAN free TLS certificates
2021/01/28		Add a bash completion script in choria completion in addition to current ZSH support
2021/01/24	1113	Adds a new inventory discovery method
2021/01/23	1110	Improve SRV handling when trying to find PuppetDB host
2021/01/23	1098	Improve choria tool config to show config files and active settings
2021/01/22	1102	Ensure we discover rpcutil in the discover command, improves PuppetDB integration
2021/01/20	751	Add project level Choria configuration
2021/01/21	1098	Allow options to be passed to discovery methods using --discovery-option
2021/01/18	1081	Support flatfile discovery from json, yaml, stdin and improve generated clients
2021/01/16	1092	Add the external discovery method
2021/01/18	1072	Performance improvements for expr expression handling
2021/01/14	281	Improve identity handling when running on windows, non root and other situations
2021/01/13	1089	Support request chaining in the req command
2021/01/13		Release 0.19.0
2020/01/12	1086	Create a choria facts command
2020/01/12	1084	Support full GJSON Path Syntax in rpcutil#get_fact, fix a crash on map data in aggregators
2020/01/10	1081	Standardise filter and discovery CLI options
2020/01/10	1074	Support compound filters using expr
2020/01/09	1076	Improve support for HTTPS servers discovered by SRV records by stripping trailing . in names
2021/01/09	1074	Basic support for Data plugin DDLs
2021/01/09	1072	Add expr based client-side filtering of RPC results
2021/01/08	1068	Improve support for the color option and disable it by default on windows
2021/01/07	1064	Calculate choria ping times from the moment before publish and report overhead
2021/01/07	1062	Support parsing nagios format Perfdata as output format for the metric watcher
2020/12/29	1055	Report the certificate fingerprint when doing choria enroll for Puppet CA
2020/12/28	1051	Add choria discover
2020/12/27	1049	Generated clients has a PuppetDB name source
2020/12/27	1049	rpc client will now honor the DefaultDiscoveryMethod setting for all clients
2020/12/27	1049	Add --dm to the choria req command to switch discovery method
2020/12/27	1049	Add a PuppetDB discovery method
2020/12/27	1047	Create generated clients for rpcutil, scout and choria_util in go-choria/client
2020/12/26	1045	Add choria inventory
2020/12/16	1017	Avoid listening and registering with mDNS when Homekit is not used
2020/12/12	1038	Add a choria_status Nagios builtin allowing Choria to health checks from Scout
2020/12/09	1035	Ignore case when matching against configuration management classes
2020/12/09	1035	Ignore case when doing fact matching
2020/12/08	1030	Allow Autonomous Agent Watchers to be plugins, convert all core ones to plugins
2020/12/03		Major code cleanups and and test coverage for the Autonomous Agents
2020/11/29	1009	Perform DNS lookups on every initial reconnect retry
2020/11/28	1007	Add a metrics Autonomous Agent watcher that can fetch and publish metrics
2020/11/27	1006	Use new JetStream features to improve retrieval of event history
2020/11/25		Release 0.18.0
2020/10/21	999	Add a timer watcher that changes state after a time expires
2020/10/21	999	Support creating Apple Homekit buttons in Autonomous Agents
2020/09/28		Release 0.17.0
2020/09/04	989	Add a generic shell completion helper and support ZSH completion
2020/08/25	987	Support NATS Leafnodes to extend the Choria Broker in a TLS free way specifically usable by AAA clients
2020/08/03	982	Scout checks can have annotations that are published in events
2020/08/03	920	Add choria scout maintenance and choria scout resume commands
2020/08/01	920	Add a choria scout trigger command that triggers an immediate check and associated events
2020/08/01	977	Generated clients can now set a progress bar
2020/07/30	975	Prevent int overflow in time fields in some Scout events
2020/07/26	920	Add a --table option to choria req and a new formatter in generated clients
2020/07/26	920	Add a choria scout status command that can show all checks on a node
2020/07/24	968	Improve the history presented in Scout events
2020/07/22	966	Remove the concept of a site wide Gossfile
2020/07/21	964	Allow multiple Gossfiles and multiple Goss checks
2020/07/18		Release 0.16.0
2020/07/18	960	Add a choria scout watch command
2020/07/17	957	Restore the ability for DDLs to declare display formats for aggregate outputs
2020/07/16	948	Support performing goss validation in the nagios autonomous agent
2020/07/15	842	Avoid zombies when Ruby agents exceed their allowed run time
2020/07/09	944	Extract the generic result display logic from choria req into a reusable package
2020/07/09	942	Include a snapshot of recent check states in published check events
2020/07/08	939	Improve using the supplied logger in generated clients
2020/07/08	938	Add helpers to parse complex data in generated clients
2020/07/08	937	Generated clients perform 2 discoveries per request
2020/07/07	935	Release packages for Ubuntu Focal (20.04 LTS)
2020/07/07	932	Fix targeting a specific sub collective in the req command
2020/07/07	928	Add a new scout agent and Golang client
2020/07/03	920	Initial work on a Scout framework towards building a monitoring related distribution
2020/07/01		Release 0.15.0
2020/06/29	913	Support preparing for shutdown by closing connections and emiting shutdown events when embedded
2020/06/26	895	Support NATS JetStream Streaming Server in Choria Broker
2020/06/24	907	Support arm5 and 7 Debian packages
2020/06/20	895	Support Nagios compatible plugins in the new nagios autonomous agent watcher
2020/06/16	893	Server instances embedded in other software can now be shutdown using Shutdown()
2020/06/15	887	Track nodes expired by maintenance in the tally helper
2020/06/13		Improve FQDN resolution when running in a kubernetes pod
2020/06/12	879	Allow the public name of the network broker to be configured
2020/06/12	877	Support cert-manager.io as security provider
2020/06/07	865	Correctly handle provisioning by SRV domain
2020/06/07	863	Allow provisioning brokers to have user/password authentication
2020/05/14	860	Perform backoffs between reconnects to the network broker
2020/04/22	857	Cosmetic improvements to windows packages
2020/04/19		Release 0.14.0
2020/04/16	854	Correctly report insecure builds
2020/04/07	852	Install choria binary in /usr/bin and not /usr/sbin
2020/03/25	846	Various improvements to generated RPC clients
2020/03/24	844	Export facts to external agents
2020/03/22	801	Expose statistics for NATS Leafnodes
2020/03/16	840	Improve formatting of node lists at the end of requests
2020/03/11	687	Support enforcing the use of filters on all RPC requests using plugin.choria.require_client_filter
2020/03/03	834	Add Debian Buster support
2020/02/17	831	Cache transport messages when doing batched requests to improve pkcs11 integration
2020/02/13	827	Ensure agent filter is added when discovering nodes
2020/02/08	817	Add choria tool config to view configuration paramters and current values
2020/02/08	814	Set PATH when calling external agents
2020/02/05	794	Merge go-lifecycle into go-choria
2020/02/05	794	Merge go-protocol, go-security, mcorpc-agent-provider and go-config into go-choria
2020/02/05	794	Merge go-confkey, go-validator, go-puppet, go-network-broker and go-srvcache into go-choria
2020/01/30		Update to CloudEvents 1.0.0
2020/01/23	774	Support logging to Windows Event log
2020/01/23	772	Support running as a Windows service
2020/01/17	769	Add basic Windows pacakges
2020/01/16		Support use selectable SSL Ciphers using plugin.security.cipher_suites and plugin.security.ecc_curves
2020/01/12		Release 0.13.1
2019/12/25	758	Extract RPC reply rendering to the mcorpc package-agent-provider
2019/12/23	754	Extract parts of the filter parsing logic to the protocol package
2019/12/15	746	Support remote request signers such as aaasvc
2019/12/09	743	Support generating Go clients using choria tool generate client
2019/12/05		Release 0.13.0
2019/12/05	737	Add a tech preview JetStream adapter
2019/12/04	731	Switch to CloudEvents v1.0 format for lifecycle events and machine events
2019/12/02	709	Build RHEL 8 packages nightly and on release
2019/12/02	548	Improve startup when embedding the server in other programs
2019/11/29	724	Improve stability on a NATS network with Gateways
2019/11/28	720	Improve the calculations of total request time in the choria req command
2019/11/21	710	Support Synadia NGS as a NATS server for Choria
2019/10/26	705	Add choria tool jwt to create provisioning tokens
2019/10/25	705	Allow a JWT file to configure provisioning behavior and enable provisioning in the FOSS binary
2019/10/14	703	Allow choria req output to be saved to a file
2019/10/01	700	Force convert a DDL from JSON on the CLI without prompts
2019/09/20		Release 0.12.1
2019/09/19		Support Authorization and External Agents via latest MCORPC provider
2019/09/16	681	Allow agents to associate with specific agent providers using the provider field in metadata
2019/09/12	678	Support generating Ruby and JSON DDL files using choria tool generate ddl
2019/09/09		Release 0.12.0
2019/09/09		Broker based on NATS 2.0 via go-network-broker version 1.3.1
2019/09/07	670	Improve the output from choria ping --graph
2019/09/06	664	Add a pkcs11 security provider
2019/09/04	663	Add a choria req tool to eventually replace mco rpc
2019/08/09	652	Write init scripts to the correct location on RHEL
2019/07/24	642	Show dependencies compiled into the binary in choria buildinfo
2019/07/15	632	Decrease memory use in adapters by lowering the work queue length
2019/06/27	621	Choria Provisioner is now a proper plugin
2019/06/27	623	Support agents.ShouldActivate() checks when loading agents
2019/06/26	617	Support NATS 2.0 credentials and user/password
2019/06/26	617	Fix choria ping
2019/06/12		Release 0.11.1
2019/04/20		Support email SANs in client certificates via go-security 0.4.2
2019/06/11	609	Verify that only known transitions and states are mentioned in the machine specification
2019/06/11	607	Ensure the machine directory is in the PATH
2019/05/30	605	Fix environment handling for exec watchers
2019/05/29	602	Ensure machines are runable on the CLI
2019/05/29	599	Support run-once exec watchers by setting interval=0
2019/05/29	597	Do not manage Autonomous Agents in provisioning mode
2019/05/28	591	Add a scheduler watcher for Autonomous Agents
2019/05/27		Release 0.11.0
2019/05/23		Log discovery requests in a similar manner to RPC requests via mcorpc-agent-provider 0.4.0
2019/05/23		Fix puppet provider support for SecurityAlwaysOverwriteCache via go-security 0.4.0
2019/05/23		Improve excessive logging when privilged certificates are used via go-security 0.4.0
2019/05/23		Only write certificates on change if SecurityAlwaysOverwriteCache is set via go-security 0.4.0
2019/05/22	554	Retry SRV lookups on reconnect attempts
2019/05/27	563	Support Choria Autonomous Agents
2019/03/21	557	Force puppet environment to production to avoid failures about missing environment directories
2019/03/19	557	Improve error messages logged when invoking puppet to retrieve setting values fail
2019/03/15	555	Add a basic utility to assist with creating deep monitoring choria tool status
2019/03/04		Release 0.10.1
2019/02/25		Resolve broker instability on large networks via go-network-broker#19
2019/01/23		Release 0.10.0
2019/01/17		Various fixes to privileged security certificate handling via go-security release 0.3.0
2019/01/17		Allow limiting clients to sets of IPs via go-network-broker#12
2019/01/09	534	Ensure the server status file is world readable
2019/01/07	532	Force exit even when worker routines are not done after soft_shutdown_timeout, default 2 seconds
2019/01/05	530	Further fixes to avoid concurrent hash access panics for golang client code
2019/01/03	524	Include the server version when creating life cycle events
2018/12/27	521	Improve alive event spread by sleeping for up to a hour for initial publish
2018/12/27	519	Expose security.Validate to users of the go framework
2018/12/27		Release 0.9.0
2018/12/26		Fix reboot splay time when doing self updates via provisioning-agent#67
2018/12/26		Increase choria_util agent timeout to facilitate slow facter runs via mcorpc-agent-provider#36
2018/12/26	515	Cache facter lookups
2018/12/21	510	Publish new alive life cycle events every hour
2018/12/19		support ~/.choriarc and /etc/choria/client.conf for client configs
2018/12/19		Report protocol security and connector TLS in choria_util#info via mcorpc-agent-provider#33
2018/12/19	501	Allow default configuration values to be mutated at startup using a plugin
2018/12/07	495	Allow server status to be written during provision mode
2018/11/30		Release 0.8.0
2018/11/28	489	Avoid a panic that affected clients written in Go when closing connections to the broker
2018/11/23		Improve backward compatibility when handling slashes in regex for allowed certs (go-security#22)
2018/11/23	485	Fail gracefully in the ping app when the configuration is not present
2018/11/20	483	Resolve a client subscription leak by unsubscribing on context cancellation
2018/11/15		When provisioning is compiled in - support self updating using go-updater (provisioning-agent#53)
2018/11/14	476	Allow the SSL cache to always be written via plugin.security.always_overwrite_cache
2018/11/02	473	Support running Choria Server in a namespace on Enterprise Linux via a COMMAND_PREFIX in the init script
2018/10/24	467	Support writing server status regularly
2018/10/27	470	Switch to github.com/gofrs/uuid for UUID generation
2018/10/18		Release 0.7.0
2018/10/02	462	Allow custom packages to supply their own sysv init start order
2018/09/18	458	Update network broker to 1.1.0 which includes gnatsd 1.3.0
2018/09/17	456	Provisioner Target plugins now have a context in their calls so they can do internal retries
2018/09/15	447	Create a single plugin interface that supports many types of plugin
2018/09/11	444	Set ulimits for the broker appropriately for 50 000 connections
2018/09/02	430	Allow agents to publish lifecycle events
2018/08/31	428	Add a CLI tool to view provisioning broker decisions - tool provisioner
2018/08/29	426	Correctly compiled servers will enter provisioning mode when the configuration file is missing entirely
2018/08/27		Release 0.6.0
2018/08/26		Update provisioning agent dependency, allows restart when not in provisioning mode if a token is set
2018/08/26	422	publish a shutdown lifecycle event on clean shutdowns
2018/08/25	419	Add tool event, tool sub and tool pub commands to the CLI
2018/08/24	416	Publish a startup lifecycle event on startup
2018/08/22	411	Expose the version to Prometheus as choria_build_info
2018/08/22	412	Attempt to find the FQDN via DNS lookups before calling Puppet when the hostname is incomplete
2018/08/16	408	Add a plugin to assist with resolving the provisioning mode target brokers
2018/08/10	402	Ensure provisioning mode is active only for the server and not client invocations
2018/08/09		Release 0.5.1
2018/08/09	403	Ensure insecure provisioning mode works on non puppet nodes
2018/08/03	398	Support an auth token during provisioning
2018/08/02	394	Support a fact source during provisioning mode
2018/08/02	394	Fix registration handling when in provisioning mode
2018/07/31	390	Avoid leaking metrics in long running clients that make many new client instances
2018/07/20		Release 0.5.0
2018/07/13	382	Improve mcollective compatibility by supporting shallow merges of multiple fact files
2018/07/12	379	Increase the NATS Stream Adapter work channel size to function on large networks
2018/07/12	377	When adapting Choria messages to NATS Streams include the Choria RequestID
2018/07/12	375	Ensure all loggers are configured with the correct level and format
2018/07/11		Disable full JSON schema validation by default due to performance concerns (go-protocol#23)
2018/07/11		Update gnatsd to 1.2.0 to improve stability at >30k nodes when clustered (go-network-broker#6)
2018/07/11	373	Support Ubuntu 18.04
2018/07/11	361	When embedding the Choria Server initial startup errors can now be detected and handled
2018/07/11	362	When embedding the Choria Server one can now prevent certain agents from loading
2018/07/11	366	Consult /etc/choria/client.cfg and ~/.choria in addition to mcollective locations
2018/07/03	359	Resolve a go routine leak when using the connector in a long running client
2018/06/26	353	Handle connection errors in NATS Streaming brokers in the Adapters, require NATS Streaming >= 0.10.0
2018/06/18	346	Add a high performance, filtering capable basic network validation CLI choria ping
2018/06/15	343	Resolve the merging of identity & certname concepts that erroneously happened during the security refacor
2018/06/14	341	Ensure non root users - like clients - get a username based certname not FQDN one
2018/06/07	336	Fix the setting that allows disabling broker order randomization
2018/06/06	333	Randomize broker connections by default
2018/06/06	331	Add a short grace period to clock checks to allow for real world realities wrt synced clocks
2018/05/31		Release 0.4.0
2018/05/29	320	Make the enroll process more robust in the face of interruptions
2018/05/23	308	Fix running choria buildinfo
2018/05/23	309	Create go-security package with the Choria security providers for reuse in other eco system projects
2018/05/22	306	Fix registration feature when running in insecure mode
2018/05/18	302	Include a hint when the source data for registration changed
2018/05/16		Release 0.3.0
2018/05/08	287	Create the concept of a Security Provider and create providers for Puppet and File, add choria enroll
2018/05/03	284	On systemd based distributions ensure that upgrading choria with Puppet is more reliable
2018/04/25	271	Log rotation for choria-*.log which covers audit, ruby and more
2018/04/25	267	Ensure that the ruby shim based agents have access to the correct request time
2018/04/24		Release 0.2.0
2018/04/23	243	Create a compatibility framework for MCollective Agents written in Ruby
2018/04/23	252	Avoid logrotate errors when the package was installed but choria never ran
2018/04/09	240	When facter is available use it to determine the FQDN to improve default behavior on debian like systems
2018/04/09	236	Allow nats://host:port and host:port to be used when referencing brokers
2018/04/09	235	Detect empty initial server list when starting federation brokers
2018/03/29	229	Surface more NATS internal debug logs as notice and error
2018/03/29	228	Increase TLS timeouts to 2 seconds to improve functioning over latency and heavily loaded servers
2018/03/26	199	Do not use HTTP to fetch internal NATS stats
2018/03/26	220	Update gnats and go-nats to latest versions
2018/03/26	222	Allow the network broker write deadline to be configured
2018/03/23	218	Avoid rotating empty log files and ensure the newest log is the one being written too
2018/03/21		Release 0.1.0
2018/03/08	208	Improve compatibility with MCollective Choria by not base64 encoding payloads
2018/03/08	207	Ensure the filter is valid when creating direct_request messages
2018/03/07	204	Support writing a thread dump to the OS temp dir on receiving SIGQUIT
2018/03/07	202	Do not rely purely on PATH to find puppet, look in some standard paths as well
2018/03/06		Release 0.0.11
2018/03/06	198	Reuse http.Transport used to fetch gnatsd statistics to avoid a leak on recent go+gnatsd combination
2018/03/05		Release 0.0.10
2018/03/05	194	Revert gnatsd to 1.0.4, upgrade Golang to 1.10
2018/03/05		Release 0.0.9
2018/03/05	190	Downgrade to Go 1.9.2 to avoid run away go routines
2018/03/05		Release 0.0.8
2018/03/05	187	Create a schema for the NATS Stream Adapter and publish it in the messages
2018/03/05	174	Report the mtime of the file in the file content registration plugin, support compressing the data
2018/03/02	183	Update Go to 1.10
2018/03/01	180	Show the Go version used to compile the binary in buildinfo
2018/03/01	173	Record and expose the total number of messages received by the server
2018/03/01	176	Intercept various gnatsd debug log messages and elevate them to notice and error
2018/03/01	175	Update embedded gnatsd to 1.0.6
2018/02/19	171	Show embedded gnatsd version in buildinfo
2018/02/19		Release 0.0.7
2018/02/19	165	Discard NATS messages when the work buffer is full in the NATS Streaming adapter
2018/02/19	166	Remove unwanted debug output
2018/02/16	167	Clarify the Choria flavor reported by choria_util#info
2018/02/01	163	Avoid large data storms after a reconnect cycle by limiting the publish buffer
2018/02/01	151	Add xenial and stretch packages
2018/01/22	152	Support automagic validation of structs received over the network, support shellsafe for now
2018/01/20	150	Release 0.0.6
2018/01/20	58	A mostly compatible rpcutil agent was added
2018/01/20	148	The TTL of incoming request messages are checked
2018/01/20	146	Stats about the server and message life cycle are recorded
2018/01/19	133	A timeout context is supplied to actions when they get executed
2018/01/16	134	Use new packaging infrastructure and move building to a circleci pipeline
2018/01/12	131	Additional agents can now be added into the binary at compile time
2018/01/12	125	All files in additional dot config dirs are now parsed
2018/01/12	128	Add additional fields related to the RPC request to mcorpc.Request
2018/01/10	120	The concept of a provisioning mode was added along with a agent to assist automated provisioning
2018/01/09	60	Auditing was added for mcorpc agents
2018/01/09	69	The protocol package has been moved to choria-io/go-protocol
2018/01/08	118	Create a helper to parse mcorpc requests into a standard structure
2018/01/05	114	Ensure the logfile name matches the package name
2018/01/06		Release 0.0.5
2018/01/05	110	Correctly detect startup failures in the el6 init script
2018/01/04	111	Treat the defaults file as config in the el6 rpm
2017/12/25	108	Improve logrotation - avoid appending to a rotated file
2017/12/21	106	Make the max connections a build parameter and default it to 50 000
2017/12/20	101	Add a random backoff to initial connection in adapters and the connector
2017/12/20	102	Expose connector details to prometheus
2017/12/13		Release 0.0.4
2017/12/14	97	Stats about the internals of the protocol are exposed
2017/12/14	80	When doing SRV lookups employ a cache to speed things up
2017/12/14	92	When shutting down daemons on rhel6 wait for them to exit and then KILL them after 5 seconds
2017/12/14	91	Avoid race condition while determining if the network broker started
2017/12/14	90	Emit build info on /choria/
2017/12/13		Release 0.0.3
2017/12/12	81	Export metrics /choria/prometheus when enabled
2017/12/10	73	Federation brokers now correctly subscribe to the configured names
2017/12/10	71	Fix TLS network cluster
2017/12/10		Release 0.0.2
2017/12/10	67	Distribute sample broker.conf and server.conf
2017/12/10	65	When running as root do not call puppet apply 100s of times
2017/12/10	64	Ensure the broker exits on interrupt when the NATS based broker is running
2017/12/09	59	Add a compatible choria_util agent
2017/12/09	57	Create basic MCollective SimpleRPC compatible agents written in Go and compiled in
2017/12/08	53	Adds the buildinfo subcommand
2017/12/08	52	Improve cross compile compatibility by using os.Getuid() instead of user.Current()
2017/12/08		Release 0.0.1