Shinken

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CORE ENHANCEMENTS
* Add : Skonf daemon, as a configuration UI over the discovery lib
* Add : Triggers to the scheduler. This code is launched after each "check"
* Add : issue 349 (from David Guenault) Installation script now has a backup repository for installing MK Multisite.
* Add : option to skip mongo installation. Useful for poller installation that does not need mongo to be installed.
* Add : daemon_enabled option for ini and nagios.cfg files to disable a daemon from running.
* Add : (by Hartmut Goebel and xkilian) huge work to replace old log code by a logging based one, print to logger, adjust levels, messages, typos
* Add : (by Hartmut Goebel) huge code cleaning
* Add : install script available at the install.shinken-monitoring.org address.
* Add : make the daemon and the module names appears on the process line (setproctitle mode)
* Add : receiver can now send directly commands to schedulers. (direct_routing)
* Add : HOSTREALM macro for host/service.
* Add : 'address' directive into generated host by discovery
* Add : (reported by : Mathias Fussenegger) enhance the README, to just put install script way. Put other methods in the packagers and dev files.
* Add : reload option for the init script. Fix 385
* Add : install script: trap signals INT, TERM with a cleanup function
* Add : USR2 signal management for the scheduler to dump objects (checks, notification, event handlers and broks)
* Add : Reorganize Configuration file in sections. More consistent layout. Clarify the role and scope of shinken-specific.cfg.
* Add : Use the new folder "graphite" for graphite templates. Existing templates should be prefixed with .graph, and move to that folder.
* Add : the not list for services generators. So the primary list can be automatically generated, and the user can just maintain the not one.
* Add : (from Lars Hansson) manage Apache2 htpasswd crypt pass.
* Add : Allow running shinken satellites in a NATted environment
* Add : shinken-packs to easily create .zip pack files
* Add : Hostd daemon, for running community.shinken-monitoring.org website
* Add : multi-layers discovery, with rules on runners.
* Add : discoveryrule_order so the admin can manage the template order in a more easy way than with the order in the file
* Add : support for Linux Mint
* Add : nmap discovery speedup, and skonf scan part.
* Add : support to explode_hostgroup directive
* Add : new external command, PROCESS_SERVICE_OUTPUT and host, same than check_result for passive, but with no return code.
* Add : configurable logging level (per daemon)
* Add : shinken-admin can now change logging levels during runtime (Guillaume Bour)
* Add : now passive checks take their timestamp from the external command instead of the received time.
* Add : pre-serialize the configurations in the arbiter before going in daemon, and so kill the previous instance. (startup boost)
* Add : brok time part boost, with less useless objects sent, like contacts, timeperiods or commands. (big startup boost)
* Add : host pack dispatching history is saved in a pickle file, so we will be able to push same objects in the same scheduler
* Add : arbiter -p options for dumping profile
* Add : (thibault cohen) Added hook in Scheduler daemon to permit the use of the Shinken SNMP poller module, SnmpBooster.


CORE FIXES
* Fix : (from raphaeltr) Typo in mysql monitoring pack command arguments
* Fix : Fix minor installation issues on centos/redhat. Mainly on services activation and pnp
* Fix : escalation issue when we restart the scheduler during the escalation process. Should fix 525
* Fix : potential endless loop on bp_rule + parent relation ship, and problem/impact setting. Fix 198
* Fix : bad characters in external commands make logging not happy at all. Fix 498
* Fix : bad start for arbiter with Pyro4 and enable_ssl=1.
* Fix : issue 272 where the shinken user home was forced to be in /home and that make some system not eligible to install.
* Fix : Pyro 4.14 issue, where we remove every where the MSG_WAITALL for all where it was useful only for first Pyro4 version. Fix 345
* Fix : Update format of log message to be less prone to breaking
* Fix : $USERn$ macros aren't published in env anymore
* Fix : Nconf installation : apache was not restarted after dependency installation.
* Fix : (reported by : D.Durieux) remove the self.process link for a killed action, because such object cant be pickle.
* Fix : spare arbiter now take the lead is the master is never start. Fix 231
* Fix : (reported by Sven) the configuration loader was not following symlinks. BEWARE : on python 2.4 and 2.5 it is NOT managed.
* Fix : (reported by : Sven) space in hostgroups problems. Fix 452
* Fix : (reported by : Nicolas DUPEUX) : bad DISABLE_HOST_FRESHNESS_CHECKS and ENABLE_HOST_FRESHNESS_CHECKS code fix 376
* Fix : (reported by : Chettor) 342 comments from downtime and ack where not put in the global list, and so not removed
* Fix : catch a case where service dep got no hostname nor hostgroup_name.
* Fix : issue with retention and notification that make notification not sent.
* Fix : (reported by banderas07, analysed by : Radu Gheorghe) : 401 escalation notification_interval issue
* Fix : disable 'FLAPPINGSTART', 'FLAPPINGSTOP', 'FLAPPINGDISABLED' notifications during downtimes.
* Fix : issue 404 to treat Tracebacks correctly for Pyro3 and Pyro4.
* Fix : Op5 guys changed the name of check_esx3.pl to check_vmware_api.pl so now we host a copy of the plugin to workaround problems
* Fix : (Reported by : Morkxy, fixed by : Lars Hansson) change deprecated md5 by haslib.
* Fix : add a check_type attribute for checks
* Fix : remove illegal char from service_description when duplicated
* Fix : wrong name for mongodb debian packages
* Fix : CHANGE_HOST_CHECK_TIMEPERIOD apply to a host not a service
* Fix : (from : CHAMLEY Stephane) add notifications_enabled to the retention data.
* Fix : (reported by : Nicolas DUPEUX) 244 missing from_q property for regenerator.
* Fix : (reported by : Akiooutori) fix 325 (missing SOCK_REUSE in some pyro versions) .
* Fix : (From : Michael COQUARD) setup.py build with simple user.
* Fix : missing mongo dependency for debian like distro < 6
* Fix : mongodb 10gen repo configuration path was not found on redhat/centos


MODULE ENHANCEMENTS
* Add: (from: xkilian and Thibault Cohen) Graphite broker supports pickle protocol, bulk updates and buffers output when it can't connect to Carbon daemons
* Add: (from: Thibault Cohen and ???) Graphite broker replaces invalid caracters by _ and supports negative values
* Add: (from: xkilian and Thibault Cohen) Graphite broker adds _PRE_GRAPHITE and _POST_GRAPHITE host or service macros to each dot delimited data name
* Add: (from: Claneys Skyne) Graphite broker Create additionnal data points for warning and critical thresholds per data value
* Add: (from Romain Forlot) Graphite broker Compile regex
* Add: (from: bclermont) Graphite broker add graphite_data_source variable between hostname and service name in data to Graphite
* Add : a read_only option to logstore_sqlite
* Add : Finalyse the time filter to avoid loading all the logs database in use_aggressive_sql=0 mode
* Add : Added more hints for the livestatus query metadata resulting in massive speedup for Nagvis, Multisite, Thruk
* Add : Creating new authentification module for OpenLDAP directory service
* Add : Most modules do not raise Warning if the module need (like python-ldap for active directory, etc) but instead raise a real Exception
* Add : Collectd template with trigger sample.
* Add : First working version of Canopsis broker module
* Add : Use usjon optional import to improve LS output performance
* Add : NDO add table prefix as a parameter.
* Add : (Thibault Cohen) Livestatus will now only store STATE messages and no longer any general logs in logstores
* Add : (Nicolas Dupeux) TSCA module documentation updated and files consolidated in modules sections of the code

MODULE FIXES
* Fix : issue 450 (from vaxvms) removed thrift broker, similar to Livestatus, as it is unmaintained.
* Fix : MerlinDB for Ninja UI, removed documentation and marked as deprecated, as it is unmaintained.
* Fix : (from : Frédéric Pégé) make the sqlite db files put in a good default place, in devel mode or init.d mode.
* Fix : the program_start attribute in livestatus status table
* Fix : (reported by : Nicolas Dupeux) remove a useless method in logstore_sqlite, and add a protection against endless loops. Fix 374
* Fix : Livestatus allowed_hosts options does not work
* Fix : Call the right function for !=~ LQL filter (livestatus)
* Fix : do not push back monitoring status in GLPI database when the host configuration does not come from GLPI
* Fix : a bug in livestatus module and add the attribute host.event_handler (needed by Thruk)


UI ENHANCEMENTS
* Add : UI /detail full rewrite. Thanks Andreas!!
* Add : UI new dashboard!
* Add : (from Mael Vincent, julien pilou, Gael Millet, Damien Mathieu and hugo viricel) new /mobile part!
* Add : Enable easy activation of application monitoring performance feature. Use ./install --enableeue to enable eue feature
* Add : WebUI in a /problem page a user can now press the sift key and over the selection tick to select them. It make easier for massive selection
* Add : UI sqlite backend to save common preferences
* Add : the page to save common prefs
* Add : webui, /depgraph, now add a loop and loop_time option, to make the graph root change between important elements.
* Add : sound on new non-acknowledge IT problem (disabled by default)
* Add : UI /detail now dep graph is also print on a tab, so this feature will be more visible.
* Add : UI /problems add the downtime filtering.
* Add : UI /problems filtering by ack state.

UI FIXES
* Fix : (reported by : Vincent Riquer) WebUI do not print 1970 for 0 time, but N/A instead. issue fix 241
* Fix : (reported by : xkilian) WebUI would not display names containing dots.

DEFAULT PACKS
* Add : discovery packs for ibm storage management and beginning of clustering solutions discovery
* Add : cluster discovery for Safekit and HACMP.
* Add : snmp plugins for AIX to monitor VG, inode, HACMP and Safekit
* Add : first 2nd level real discovery script, here for listing windows shares, like shares or printers. It auto-hide the $ ones.
* Add : (Camille Vacquie): AIX service pack
* Add : SNI support to https and https certificate checks
* Add : pack/os/linux - check_linux_network_usage - use last_perfdata to determin bandwidth
* Add : commands for notification by XMPP (Jabber)
* Add : a basic rsync check template in the network/services pack.
* Add : macros for Basic HTTP authentification in the HTTP(S) services templates.
* Fix : The check_mysql_health plugin need a : sign after the thresholds for greater is better metrics.
* Fix : generic corrupted block oracle database check
* Fix : call sudo to execute SMcli into IBM_DS plugins

DOCUMENTATION
* Add : (from xkilian, MathieuMD, Claneys Skyne, H4wkmoon, etc.) Wiki documentation in-depth renewal of Getting Started pages for new users
* Add : Monitoring Pack documentation, modules, installation, FAQ , diagrams, scaling shinken, dev+user resources, etc.
* Add : dummy_broker module example.

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CORE FIXES
* Fix: recovery contacts were lost after a restart
* Fix: allow } in commands if it's not alone in the line
* Fix: (from: Laurent Ollagnier) typo on mysql pack
* Fix: issue 214 (shinken-admin catches backtrace for lost connections)
* Fix: inheritance with +
* Fix: ticket 213 This will manage cases where an active satellite dies and there is no spare. It's useful for pollers where spare is not so interesting.
* Fix: (reported by: H4wkmoon) time change compensation lead to a scheduler crash when objets don't get check perdios or notification periods.
* Fix: manage LARGE output from sub commands (>64k). Only works under Unix for now, because it uses the fcntl module
* Fix: (reported by: Unicow) bug in escalations, there were too many escalations raised
* Fix: (from: Arthur Gautier) fix buildpath
* Fix: (From: Thomas Meson) Various fixes in setup.py and add missing files to build the package

MODULE ENHANCEMENTS
* Add: many GLPI module enhancements, with new properties managed

MODULE FIXES
* Fix: check_esx3 install under ubuntu 32bits edition
* Fix: multisite layout, add custom links
* Fix: workaround problem with official pyro3 under Debian squeeze. Use pyro4 instead of the official one
* FIX: 210 added test of parent target folder. if it does not exist then create it
* Fix: HTML in sendmails
* Fix: a bug in livestatus attribute action_url_expanded.
* Fix: (reported by: Jonathan Gaulupeau) ip_tag was launch too late to access check_command objets.
* Fix: (By: zllak) ndodb_mysql_broker module was not working on python2.5
* Fix: Fix a bug in livestatus Service.contact_groups

UI FIXES
* Fix: Sort alphabeticaly in WebUI

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CORE ENHANCEMENTS
* Add: shinken.sh script and skonf.py with a LOT of features for setup and configuration management.
* Add: better logging for warnings for host, service and npcd configuration
* Add: poller daemon will use all available CPUs by default
* Add: poller daemon can now load standard external modules like namedPipe to get external commands from it
* Add: brok queue watchdog for satellites, activated for Broker by default at 100000 broks to kill/restart the module..
* Add: if the run/var directories are missing, try to create them in the init.d script.
* Add: service templates can now be applied on a host template
* Add: reactionner can run under android
* Add: android SMS module
* Add: imlemented a check for dead queue threads. When detected restarts the thread
* Add: mail python script
* Add: better error text when the pickle load gets an error
* Add: manage connexion timeouts in the broker and Pyro4
* Add: $$ are now interpreted as $ in macro solving
* Add: (reported by: sduchesneau) check_shinken.py now has a timeout. It is set by default at 10s
* Add: business rules now support the NOT operand
* Add: send broks in external modules as a biglist instead of n broks. It's more efficient (X3 perf for this, can be huge time for huge conf)
* Add: templates for monitoring common devices and services are now included
* Add: manage \; to be changed in ; without cutting the rest of the line to be removed as a comment
* Add: (reported by: foobar1111) arbiter only matched hostname, and not fqdn. Now it will try fqdn and then the hostname.
* Add: retention is now enabled by default at installation time (Pickle)
* Add: (From Michael Leinartas) man pages updates
* Add: '+' in discovery rule management, so you can 'add' something, like a template
* Add: using an undefined template in the configuration is no longer a critical error, just a warning.
So the user can just 'tag' hosts first and then create the template
* Add: Sebastien Coavoux conducted a large code review! :)
* Add: xkilian reviewed and corrected many many pages of the wiki documentation and a few english fixes in the distribution :)
* Add: skonf daemon preview. It is not yet meant for production, but is included to get feedback
* Add: mongodb insert capabilities for the discovery
* Add: TIMEPERIOD TRANSITION logs from the Arbiter to get timeperiods transition output
* Add: is_admin property is now available for contacts
* Add: make the nmap discovery do tcp and udp scan
* Add: (Victor Igumnov) installation for Solaris

CORE FIXES
* Fix: use StringIO to read configuration files into a string (much faster with lots of config files)
* Fix: (reported by: lminoza) bug in inheritance if templates give only a + elements, should continue to loop and not stop here.
* Fix: keep multiple spaces in config files. (check_command!"args " were stripped)
* Fix: pyro 4.10 management
* Fix: (reported by: MINOZA, Landy) multi-layer management for service template on host template. So if you apply a service on layer 3 and your host inherit from layer1->layer2
* Fix: (reported by: Thibaut Notteboom) catch ConnectionClosedError on poller/reactionner connections
* Fix: A better safe_print
* Fix: lot of encoding stuff!
* FIX: proxy support and python-setuptools installation on RHEL/CENTOS 6
* Fix: (reproted by: darkweaver87) somethimes we got a malformed external command. If so, bailout and warn in debug mode.
* Fix: when there is a dispatching problem, the arbiter send and send again the same configuration to satellites.
* Fix: crash bug when timezone set in config file
* Fix: make all log pass the utf8 management
* Fix: use auto-generated, absolute path for README (Daniel Widerin)
* Fix: last line of email notification must finish by a \n otherwise it will not be sent (Laurent Ollagnier)
* Fix: (from rootix2) catch case where service do not have imported_from from modules.
* Fix: (reported by: Venelin Petkov) print in hostgroup names was a problem.
* Fix: if a scheduler restarted, we got problem because the arbiter did not resend it the configuration
* Fix: "host_notification_period" and "service_notification_period" defined twice in the contact definition (Fournet Matthieu)
* Fix: (reported by: Httqm) default notification_interval was one minute, 1hour is better.
* Fix: (reported by: sprudhomme) longoutput parsing and perfdata did not follow nagios way.
* Fix: change sourceforgetrac with github in tracebacks.
* Fix: (reported by: lminoza) too many notifications for a contact with multiple notification methods, all where sent when only some would pass filter.
* Fix: (reported by: puisea) kill all sub process action tree on unix
* Fix: flaw on multiple date and multiple timerange
* Fix: if missing alias in objects, put the name if available
* Fix: (reported by: denetariko) manage spaces before and after type name in define line
* Fix: (reported by: Steve Kieu) missing get_name() method for config
* Fix: (reported by: Mihai Efrim) flapping notifications




MODULE ENHANCEMENTS
* Add: rewrite the LiveStatus module, performance boost and simpler. Thanks Gerhard for this huge undertaking!
* Add: two new modules for storing livestatus logs. sqlite and mongodb
* Add: graphite module for the Broker to export performance data to a Graphite time series database.
* Add: module to deal with flat file dependencies
* Add: mongodb module for the arbiter, to load hosts object from it
* Add: mongodb retention module
* Add: the Service-perfdata module now open/close the perfdata file each second. So it's compatible with tools like Centreon that move it
* Add: macros supported in skonf. Lots of bug fixes
* Add: merlindb now inserts host_contactgroups
* Add: NDO Nagios/Shinken mix in database (Sebastien Coavoux)
* Add: port option for the mysql connexion with NDO
* Add: ip_tag module that can change configuration properties based on the host IP address or IP address range.
* Add: simulation mode for the nmap disco wrapper, so we can ask for xml output from users, and then simulate it easily.
* Add: new process for nmap discovery output. There is no longer a big mapping pass. It will output what it can, and it's for the discovery_rule to do this job now,
it's far more a BIG thanks to all folks that send me sample xml output :)
* Add: enhanced capabilities for the mysql import module (OlivierHa)

MODULE FIXES
* Fix: useless and dangerous str in redis module.
* FIX: htpasswd.users file was not correctly updated at installation
* Fix: (reported by: DGuenault) hack_poller_tag_by_macros was not applying poller_tag to commands, only root objects
* Fix: memcache and redis retention modules. They were loading notifications->contacts->commands but this class got slots but no __getstate__
* Fix: (reported by: sprudhomme): long_output in ndo for 1.4b9 version
* Fix: NSCA, a loop when the client initiate the socket closing

UI
* Add: now page rendering can be launched in parallel, and so page can now call 'long' queries without breaking all. But during a long query, we still cannot eat broks.
* Fix: the WebUI now exits when the brok thread encounters a problem
* Add: UI PNP module
* Add: if contact is not is_admin, then the /problems view only shows its related elements (if he is a contact of the elemetn, of an impact or a source problems one).
* Add: add graph time selection in the detail page
* Add: Graphite graph backend
* Add: /mobile part
* Add: External Authentification for WebUI (SSO) (olivierHa)
* Add: tips on the eltgraph view
* Fix: acknowledge typo
* Fix: Change the scale of the impact view divs
* Fix: UI page navigation should not propose page too high if not need
* Add: gesture canvas as smaller and visible
* Add: address to the eltdetail.tpl
* Fix: utf8 names in the UI
* Add: allow_html_output parameter for the WebUI
* Add: generic perfometer manager for the UI
* Fix: search button (Thanx to pydubreucq)
* Add: make all nodes apears in the dep graph, but hidden one in very smalls
* Add: perfometer image hovering with the graph module like PNP
* Add: password iphone like in the login screen
* Add: an orange outline to see where the focus is on input

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CORE ENHANCEMENTS
* Add: WebUI broker module. More info in the UI changelog part.
* Add: (by: Vincent Riquer) no_event_handlers_during_downtimes parameter to choose between nagios and shinken behavior to (not) run event handlers during a downtime.
* Add: added RUN var relocation in shinken default file
* Add: support for serviceextinfo
* Add: support for hostextinfo
* Add: a workdir parameter in the nagios.cfg file for set the arbiter working directory
* Add: modules for modules. Will be useful for the global configuration in the WebUI (it's a module, but will need additonnal modules)
* Add: alternative installation method in contrib
* Add: shinken-admin command that can connect to an arbiter and ask daemons status.
* Add: discovery runners timeout parameter. Set by default at one hour.
* Add: rename criticity into business_impact for hosts and services. Criticity is automatically mapped into business_impact in the configuration reading, and rename min_criticity into min_business_impact for contacts and notifways. And keep a mapping for old conf.
* Add: if set to 0, min_workers will set the pollers/reactionners to use ALL cpus of the server.
* Add: business modulation objects.
* Add: new tests for A,B,Cof: rules and a fix for the default return logic.
* Add: arbiter ask one a check_interval the managed conf for satellites. Makes for smoother decisions.


CORE FIXES
* Fix: BugFix Pyro4 compatibility
* fix: try to fix bad notification output make scehduler crash.
* Fix: (Seb-Solon) catch incomplet service group members
* Fix: bad message for arbiter in HA without host_name value.
* Fix: (reported by: fraggod): inline comment in boolean cause an arbiter crash when lookup conf.
* Fix: (reported by titilambert) bug about linkify and templates, so need to clean search lists after remove templates.
* Fix: (reported by Vincent Riquer ) Pyro got problem in connect() and so need a low socket timeout by default.
* Fix: (reported by: grim) manage flap_detection_enabled and enable_flap_detection
* Fix: when disable active check was done, the pending check was still executed, so the effect was not immediate. Now we change it as a dumym check with curretn value the value of the host/service.
* Fix: external_command.py where the config setting log_external_commands was ignored
* Fix: (reported by: obiouane) missing object value is now reported correctly.
* Fix: (Etienne Obriot) multiple = in macos values
* Fix: a bug in config.py where resource macros containing a "=" were not correctly processed. Thanks Etienne
* Fix: (reported by Seb-Solon) custome macros get problems in notifications.
* Fix: (reported by: Michael Grundmann) a service for a void hostgroup and a host exclusion was reporting a bad conf instead if forgot this service.
* Fix: (Reported by: Dirk Hallanzy) was not launching under XP due to some pid file creation bad mode.
* Fix: (reported by: Vincent Riquer) now a spare broker can be send to sleep again by the arbiter. It will clean its queues and stop modules.
* Fix: arbiter crash with a spare and the new smoothing wat i managed behavior.
* Fix: Change default check/eventhandler/notification timeouts and flap thresholds to make nagios more compatible to shinken.
* fix: Better handling of check timeouts (there was an empty output)
* fix: Log notification and eventhandler timeouts
* Fix: (reported by: Denis GERMAIN) service with no description cause a host problem in linking phase.
* Fix: (reported by: Seb-Solon) manage utf8 in host and service perfdata.
* Fix: protect broker agains module taht ask for full instance init about unknown scheduler.
* Fix: (reported by Markus Elger) add next schedule date in the retention data.
* Fix: (reported by: Olivier Hanesse) bad realm configuration was not detected for satellites.
* Fix: (reported by:Markus Elger) bad host count in realms.
* Fix: (reported by:Markus Elger) bad host reaml conf were not detected.


MODULES ENHANCEMENTS
* Add: module for autotagging poller_tag from a custom macro.
* Add: create the simple-log archive dir automatically if it doesn't exist
* Add: Initial import of the thrift broker with a sample client in python
* Add: Initial import of TSCA, Thrift Service Check Acceptor
* Add: Module arbiter load all configuration from GLPI (plugin monitoring) bywebservice
* Add: a new module to import configuration data (hosts/services) from a MySQL database
* NDO/MySQL:
* Add: current_notification_number in the ndo module.
* Add: last_notification in ndo module.
* Add: last_state_change to the ndo module.
* Add: add the is_flapping data to broks and update teh ndo module so it update the value.
* Add: percent_state_change as check_result brok and in the ndo module.
* LIVESTATUS:
* Add: Derive the archives filenames from the main livestatus db
* Add: Rewrite the livestatus sqlite code. Now there is one database file with logging events for each day.
*!!: If you have a huge livestatus.db it is recommended to stop shinken and run the script contrib/livestatus/splitlivelogs.py
* Add: the livestatus sqlite db will now be opened in do_start() instead of init(). Now only the livestatus process has an open filehandle. (the main broker process had one too)
* Add: Make the livestatus socket world read/writable
* Add: the REUSEADDR flag to livestatus's socket. Thanks Olivier Hanesse
* Add: performance improvement for livestatus queries with Limit:



MODULES FIXES
* Fix: important bugfix in ncpdmod
* Fix: Livestatus path database
* Fix: string comparison for livestatus. None is equivalent to empty string
* Fix: collumn name change in merlin ds.
* Fix: (reported by: Seb-Solon) bad contact group insert in objects in NDO
* Fix: (reported by: seb-solon) bad contact group id in NDO
* Fix: (seb-solon) ndo contacts were not registered with the good id.
* Fix: add the flap_detection_enabled in the ndo status tables too. (I love duplicate data...)
* Fix: the ndo module with is_flapping value for update states.
* Fix: (reported by: Ronny Lindner & Markus Elger) LiveStatus crash in log parsing.
* Fix: (reported by: Ronny Lindner) fix status.dat module with utf8 characters
* Fix: (reported by: Olivier Hanesse) nrpe module did not tag the check_time value for checks, and so pnp and other tools were not happy. BP rules were alike.
* Fix: (reported by Markus Elger) LiveStatus module did not clean previously added elements before recreating them.


UI
* Add: Andreas to main contributors :)
* Add: welcome text and error text in the login page.
* Add: make appears on the dep graph only interesting elements, so near the root or hosts or service in real problems. Far more redable with huge conf.
* Add: default http backend auto, so if a better one (paste, cehrrypy) is founded, use it instead of the simple swsgi.
* Add: less info in the detail page, with a moee button for rarely used infos.
* Add: dock effect for actions buttons on /problems.
* Add: /system page with satellites info in it.
* Add: search form in the problems page, with autocompletion. Search problems and impacts names too.
* Add: new way of handling cookies. Now it's a crypted way, and so stateless. Needto remove all session file thing so.
* Add: in cfg file password for users, or AD or apache passwd file
* Add: AD module that will get user photos from Ldap.
* Add: icon sets: network_service, servers., disk, database
* Add: gesture management for the detail page.
* Add: parallax effect in the top right banner to see huge impacts
* Add: make known bad nodes shown in the dep tree, so the admin don't even have to expand and find the bad thing that cause him a problem. Lasy admin mdoe on :)
* Add: swtich buttons for ths hostdetail page for enable/disable things.
* Add: if you change host topology (new dependency like fror VMotion), the UI is updated too.

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ENHANCEMENTS
* Add: discovery script and rule engine
* Enh: lot of code clean from Gregory Starck, big Thanks :)
* Add: manage several brokers by realm
* Add: LiveStatus Wait commands
* Add: Recevier daemon, for distributed realms in distant LAN
* Add: passive poller for DMZ management
* Add: (David Guenault) a way for people that install shinken lib in non standard place (like /opt) to get it working for python path.
* Add: poller and reactionner modules
* Add: nrpe poller module for tuning nrpe calls without having to 'forks'
* Add: human_timestamp_log option so the log will output time as human readable format.
* Add: make the local log rotate with the logging module, max keep file at 5.
* Add: the crash catching in the log for all daemons
* Add: enable by default local log, should be enable by default, and if the admin want it down, he can.
* Add: (Eric Beaulieu) Windows installation script
* Add: Thte configuration is read as UTF8
* Add: round robin dispatching way between the worker of a module for the satellites.
* Add: set a check_interval to satellites, so we do not try every second to ping them, each a minute is quite enouth.
* Add: sending USR1 do a memory dump of the daemon
* Add: Manage Pyro4.2 and higer.
* Add: manage no notification period for hosts and services
* Add: print the sleep_time as a load average, so will smooth in one minute average, so is a good scheduler load indicator
* Add: force LANG=us and UTF8 in init scripts. No sense admin can set another langage for system and hope for tools to work.
* Add: print the latencies for scheduler in 95percentile way
* Add: when a hook point failed set the module to restart, not to kill, even external ones
* Add: support for multisite's double-requests (extcmd+query) to the livestatus module
* Add: now the nagios.cmd named pipe reading is an external module
* Add: statistics for the livestatus module (multisite needs it)
* Add: retention modules for broker and arbiter
* Add: reationner tag, like poller tag, but for reactionner
* Add: (Denis GERMAIN) check_shinken plugin and interface in the arbiter to get data.
* Add: (Rémi BUISSON) common init script for easy launch
* Add: sendmailhost.pl + sendmailservices.pl in libexec.
* Add: hot poller addition commands
* Add: automatic VMware host-> VM dependencies modules, with VMotion support
* Add: "Unknown phase", so limit useless notifications


FIXES
* Fix:the livestatus module so that multiple external commands in one request are possible. (thruk uses this for mass operations)
* Fix:the livestatus, so that host_name and service_description are shown correctly for downtiems and comments.
* Fix: (reported by: Raynald de Lahondès) for python2.7, if shell launch, do not go in shlex split pass.
* Fix: catch an exception when deregistering Pyro. (When the scheduler was started as the only process and no communication happened
* Fix: Add the path of the current script (ex: bin/shinken-arbiter) and ".." to the list of paths where Python looks for shinken modules.
* Fix: default config had duplicate command name define: check_http
* Fix: clean Command(s) now subclass Item(s) as any "shinken.objects"
* Fix: (reported by: Raynald de Lahondès) if a hostgroup member got no host defined, create a dummy service for no host, so failed.
* Fix: bad UTC hour for scheduler.
* Fix: in a rare case, the picle need to call the __init__ of notification before the __get_state__, but it will call it without args.
* Fix: (reported by: Raynald de Lahondès) bad hostdep definition (link host) was badly detected.
* Fix: utf8 management in the db class.
* Fix: the * member was wrong in service calling hostgroup of this kind.
* Fix: the schedule immediate check now work without having to force it.
* Fix: correct the check launch under python2.7 with utf8 char.
* Fix: (reported by: Denis GERMAIN) set by default retention update inverval to 60 minutes.
* Fix: bad sys.path management for ndo module
* Fix: too much loop in daemons! do_loop_tunr must WAIT a little! To managed in the main_loop part I think.
* Fix: if the scheduler gotthe same conf but got a wait a new one before, it do a zombie scheduler then....
* Fix: (reported by: Hienz Michael) do not close local file in the daemon pass.
* Fix: (Raynald de Lahondès) setup.py for bsd systems.
* Fix: service without host will be just droped, like Nagios.
* Fix: Nagios allow elements without contacts. Do alike.
* Fix: add protection against adding again and again the same actions ifthe scheduler ask it, like for orphaned checks.
* Fix: sys.path management, not far more clear and error proof
* Fix: (reported by: capibaru) add a strip pass before loading cfg files.
* Fix: raise only one log for orphaned instead of xK useless logs.
* Fix: (Venelin Petkov) missing customs on services copy of a based one (multiple hosts, hostgroups, etc)
* Fix: (reported by: Ronny Lindner) manage the not host expressions for services.

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ENHANCEMENTS
*Add: Business rules
*Add: Downtime for contacts
*Add: Escalations based on time, with notification period shorting capabilities
*Add: options allowed_hosts and max_logs_age to the livestatus broker
*Add: some rarely used operators to the livestatus module (!>=)
*Add: SSL connections between daemons with certificates and a CA
*Add: module exception/kill catch in the scheduler.
*Add: use the binary format for the pickle, so it take less space.
*Add: (Hartmut Goebel) use universal open way for conf reading.
*Add: support for unix sockets to the livestatus module
*Add: criticity value for host/services, with problem/impacts max criticity management
*Add: min_criticity definition in cotnact and notificationways.
*Add: pylint and coverage pass in the integration server
*Add: the new column pnpgraph_present to the livestatus module
*Add: now create the pickle retention file with a .tmp, so in case of problem, we do not lost the old one.
*Add: event handlers command can now be send by external commands

FIXES
*Fix: (Laurent Guyon) select with no timeout in NSCA arbiter module.
*Fix: shinken init script: enable use of another "default" shinken file than hardcoded one by env variable.
*Fix: (current_service_groups needs to return an empty list instead of string) in the livestatus module
*Fix: 'setup.py -h install' now also exit
*Fix: () crash for some bad conf, should raise a message instead.
*Fix: missing check for no args in 'shinken' init script
*Fix: a bug in livestatus Servicegroup.members, minor cosmetics, test case for thruk
*Fix: a bug in host.parents livestatus representation to make thruk happy
*Fix: check for /dev/shm access for the satellites.
*Clean: Redesign of the livestatus module
*Fix: testing with multisite and thruk
*Clean: factorized .is_correct() call for all object types & added log to see more clearly wherer the error is.
*Clean: factorization/simplification of code in action.py (and related) for spawning checks processes.+ clean of old deprecated commented code (& "related" too).
*Fix: downtime and comment are now pickle in a dict, not a list.
*Fix: pickle pass for look at tyype, so downtime and comment from 0.4 still ok.
*Fix: acknoledge got too much information in the pickle pass, making the pickle save very very huge. Now fit from 100Mo to..2Mo :)
*Clean: big clean of hasattr->getattr with default value
*Clean: repalce dict for properties with real objects
*Fix: Implement in_check_period/in_notification_period for livestatus to make multisite happy
*Fix: Remove a leftover atribute from timeperiod&daterange
*Fix: Transmit dateranges in timeperiod-full_status-broks
*Fix: Replaced the deprecated StatsGroupBy, implemented Stats: for log entries, making Multisite happy with shinken-livestatus
*Fix: manage the 'null' for inheritance.
*Fix: add timeout to the status_dat module so that the status.dat is written even if no broks are sent.
*Fix: escalations were offset of notif number by -1.
*Fix: Replace Queue with an own implementation of LifoQueue for Python 2.4 (livestatus)
*Fix: Fallback to sqlite 1.x for Python 2.4 (livestatus)
*Fix: bug in the table structure where logging messages are kept (livestatus)
*Fix: problem/impacts should be list, not string.
*Fix: missing customs values in host/service tables in livestatus and Thruk was not happy.
*Fix: is_impact/is_problem got bad format in lviestatus tables.
*Fix: (Kristoffer Moegle) missing check in generic object configuration module.
*Fix: a bug in livestatus. Catch the exception if a peer is not listening for the response
*Fix: support for hosts without check_command (assumed to be always up)
*Fix: hostgroup realm assoc was broken. Now it's tested.
*Fix: (Maximilien Bersoult) fix mysql_db module search path.
*Fix: bug in compensate time when thecore got event handler
*Fix: a bug in the npcd module (spoolfile timestamp extension was float, not int)
*Fix: windows registry paths.
*Fix: problem with Nagios retention that was not happy about host properties type.
*Fix: pickle/nagios retention was loading a retention host/service in the comment.ref link!
*Fix: now only previously notified contacts are send for recovery notifications.
*Fix: bug in NDO module for hostgroups
*Fix: (0.5.1) bugs in LiveStatus module for Service get_full_name call and queries with no space after: