Kwatee 2.3.0 - released December 3, 2014

• New: experimental user interface
• New: JSON RESTful API
• New: python api
• New: java api
• Enhancement: Re-introduced "Duplicate Environment" feature (only SNAPSHOT deployment is copied).
• Enhancement: kwateee metadata files are no longer installed together with installed artifact; instead they are centrally located in kwatee_root_dir.
• Enhancement: action can return exit codes to indicate success/failure instead of special kwatee markers.
• Enhancement: kwatee variables can be declared in package files with a default value, e.g., ${myvar=some default value}
• Enhancement: recompiled linux agents for wider libc compatibility
• Removed: obsolete kwatee ant plugin (can use python commands instead)
• Minor UI improvement with variable names length
• Bug fix: ignore integrity check on overlay incorrectly saved as ignore variables in server overlays
• Bug fix: removed incorrect error message after uploading overlays in Chrome

Kwatee 2.2.1 - released July 14, 2014

• Fixed regression with linux_64 agent
• EC2 regression fixes

Kwatee 2.2.0 - released June 1, 2014

• Start/Stop/Status/Check operations on server or artifact always mapped to deploy
• Upgrade from 2.1.18 hangs
• New: H2 embedded db. This is now the default configuration defined in kwatee.properties
• New: command-line deployer. Enables deployment to multiple servers within a datacenter with a command line application and a deployment archive.
• New: ZooKeeper server pool add-on, courtesy of ... (separate download)
• Enhancement: user interface improvements
• Enhancement: encrypt server passwords and private keys
• Enhancement: added REST operation to update snapshot variables
• Enhancement: added REST operation to retrieve list of environments & releases
• Enhancement: added REST operation to retrieve list of artifacts & versions
• Enhancement: improved interface for 3rd party server pool implementations
• Enhancement: server passwords are encrypted in db
• Enhancement: support password-protected private keys, including password prompt
• Enhancement: configurable file extensions black list for kwatee variable scanning
• Enhancement: highlighting of kwatee variables when browsing archive files
• Enhancement: kwatee variable pattern can be customized to scan variables within archive files/overlays. Default remains '%{varName}'
• Enhancement: inline default values for kwatee variables (e.g. %{myvar=test})
• Enhancement: improved compatibility with latest zip formats
• Enhancement: native win64 platform support resolves issues with some powershell scripts when running in 32bit mode
• Info: renamed the 'package' concept to 'artifact'
• Info: renamed the 'deployment' concept to 'release'
• Info: renamed the 'SKETCH' deployment to 'snapshot' release
• Bug Fix: prompt for password on deploy
• Bug Fix: delete overlays when uploading archive now works

Kwatee 2.1.18 - released April 18, 2014

• Bug Fix: windows offline installer deployment actions are now correctly executed
• Bug Fix: removed legacy limitation on deployable number of servers per release
• Bug Fix: empty directories in archives are now supported

Kwatee 2.1.17 - released March 10, 2014

• Bug Fix: "The agent for this platform is not installed" error with solaris_sparc servers

Kwatee 2.1.16 - released December 9, 2013

• Bug Fix: newly created Amazon EC2 pool generates a 500 error
• Bug Fix: issue with zip files containing a single entry which showed as empty
• Bug Fix: system variable override not working properly

Kwatee 2.1.15 - released November 25, 2013

• Bug Fix: error in mysql db upgrade script (apologies)

Kwatee 2.1.14 - released November 24, 2013

• Enhancement: increased max variable name length from 40 to 200 and allow names to contain dots ('.')
• Bug Fix: off-line deployment actions not executed. NOTE: must regenerate offline installers
• Bug Fix: cannot upload overlay at root level of package
• Bug Fix: pre-setup script not executed unless Post-setup script defined
• Bug Fix: some kwatee variables had incorrect values after deployment freeze

Kwatee 2.1.13 - released July 22, 2013

• Bug Fix: environment variable server/package qualifiers lost in import
• Bug Fix: environment bundle import fails in "upload" mode
• Enhancement: no longer perform automatic integrity checks before stop operation

Kwatee 2.1.12 - released May 9, 2013

• Bug Fix: major issue with zip archives that could not be uploaded is resolved
• Bug Fix: cosmetic issue with overlays showing at root of archives is resolved
• Enhancement: kwateelib and therefore update.py can now update archives even when kwatee is not running on localhost. IMPORTANT NOTE: use latest kwateelib task in your deployment automation

Kwatee 2.1.11 - released December 2, 2012

• Bug Fix: archive updating via ant failed when kwatee url was not on localhost. IMPORTANT NOTE: use latest ant task in your build.xml
• Bug Fix: archive updating via maven failed when kwatee url was not on localhost. IMPORTANT NOTE: install new maven plugin and refer to version 1.0.2 in your pom.xml file
• Bug Fix: REST API for updating package archive now requires POST instead of PUT

Kwatee 2.1.10 - released October 12, 2012

• Bug Fix: archive updating via maven task failed with "Bad Parameter" in some conditions
• Bug Fix: login always fails after first login error with unknown user (servlet restart needed)
• Enhancement: add support for selecting region in EC2 server pools

Kwatee 2.1.9 - released September 7, 2012

• Bug Fix: added long file name support in kwagent
• Bug Fix: proper result codes are returned in RESTful API in case of errors

Kwatee 2.1.8 - released July 10, 2012

• Bug Fix: manual server instances port number was disregarded (always used port=0)
• Bug Fix: added long file name support for tar archives
• Enhancement: kwatee.war may now be used with Jetty server

Kwatee 2.1.7 - released May 23, 2012

• Enhancement: clean up REST interface and related python/ant/maven support (see documentation)
• New: add REST/python/ant/maven support for create/delete version and freeze/delete deployment (see documentation)
• Enhancement: "Internal Error" messages are now replaced by more explicit descriptions

Kwatee 2.1.6 - released May 9, 2012

• Major Fix: files above a certain size incorrectly generated check integrity error. IMPORTANT NOTE: existing archives must be re-imported
• Bug Fix: Browse/Customize archive caused an internal error in some conditions
• Bug Fix: Deployment write errors (i.e. no more space) cause files to be partially deployed without reporting errors
• Bug Fix: full deployments sometimes silently failed

Kwatee 2.1.5 - released May 7, 2012

• Major Fix: severe issues when hosting kwatee on windows. Paths were not properly normalized and caused problems during deployment
• New: import/export database schema
• Enhancement: solaris sparc server support
• Enhancement: changed kwatee.properties structure. IMPORTANT NOTE: if you customized kwatee.properties in an earlier version you must re-apply your changes in the new format.
• Enhancement: improve stack trace details for troubleshooting
• Fix: problem on windows (not cygwin) when deploying on drive other than C:
• Fix: minor fix when using cygwin

Kwatee 2.1.4 - released April 4, 2012

• New: offline installers can be generated automatically (python, ant, maven)
• New: removed audit log GUI and moved activity logs to logs/kwatee_audit.log
• Enhancement: kwatee logs moved to logs/kwatee.log
• fix: PHP tutorial updated to rename obsolete kwatee_pool_instance variable

Kwatee 2.1.3 - released March 24, 2012

• Fix: regression bug: 'ignoreVariables' flag does not work

Kwatee 2.1.2 - released March 22, 2012

• Fix: Server Pool creation generates 500 Internal error

Kwatee 2.1.1 - released March 14, 2012

• New: kwatee plugin for native integration with maven
• Fix: kwatee ant task generated spurious error during update even though everything worked fine

Kwatee 2.1.0 - released February 20, 2012

This release includes some new features and bug fixes. It requires a database schema upgrade

• New: Free for personal AND commercial internal use without software restrictions
• New: Version variables display
• New: Version variables default values
• Enhancement: show all missing version variables in an action, not just the first one
• Enhancement: improved deployment variable presentation
• Fix: environment duplication fails with internal error

Kwatee 2.0.2 - released February 9, 2012

• New: import/export of environments
• Enhancement: overlays of frozen deployments are browsable
• Enhancement: hide empty servers in frozen deployments
• Fix: user creation fails

Kwatee 2.0.1 - released January 31, 2012

• New: strip common root folder from imported archive (when applicable)
• New: archive browser provides a shortcut to all special files (templatized, overlay or with options)
• New: added Bzip2 archive decoding support
• Enhancement: improved speed of page loading
• Fix: duplicate version failed to duplicate archive file options
• Fix: multi-line editor would sometimes remain open when clicking OK
• Fix: ignore integrity special flag not properly taken into account
• Fix: xml descriptor format error in some circumstances incorrectly flagged integrity check errors
• Fix: last character on each line truncated in multi-line telnet scripts

Kwatee 2.0.0 - released January 17, 2012

This is a major release. Unfortunately, due to major changes, it is not possible to upgrade from previous versions.

• New: major user interface revamping
• New: server pools to deploy load-balanced web applications
• New: dynamically defined Amazon EC2 server pools
• New: agent for AIX servers
• New: python helper scripts for command-line operations
• New: option to enforce sequential server deployments
• New: pre-deploy/post-deploy and pre-undeploy/post-undeploy version actions.
• New: pre-setup/post-setup and pre-cleanup/post-cleanup deployment actions
• New: multi-line actions
• New: versions without archives (only action execution)
• New: experimental support for telnet/ftp deployments (mainly for windows servers)
• New: support paraphrase for ssh private key login
• Enhancement: off-line installation
• Enhancement: improved REST interface
• Enhancement: removed dependency on third-party library for python automation
• Enhancement: improved ant automation
• Enhancement: server-wide status in deployment operations
• Enhancement: overall stability and consistency improvements

KwateeSDCM 1.3.1 - released October 9, 2011

• Fixed an important bug which caused new installation to require an upgrade script which did not exist.
• Added remove (uninstall) environment option to rest interface and ant task.

KwateeSDCM 1.3.0 - released September 23, 2011

• Added ant task for integrating deployment phases in java applications/web apps (addons directory).
• Modified REST service parameters to improve start/stop/deploy granularity (package/server level).
• Included pyton sdcmlib for automation in package (addons directory).
• Fixed issue that caused an internal error when opening packages containing a version that had no uploaded archive.
• Fixed import of non-compressed archive files.

KwateeSDCM 1.2.0 - released July 21, 2011

• Added native support for deployment on 64 bits linux servers.
• Improved agent plug-in mechanism to easily add new agents without requiring schema update.
• Miscellaneous minor bug fixes.

KwateeSDCM 1.1.1 - released June 27, 2011

• Community License no longer requires registration and key.

KwateeSDCM 1.1.0 - released June 23, 2011

This is a major release that requires a database upgrade and hence is not backwards compatible with older versions of KwateeSDCM.war.

• Fixed compatibility issue with Tomcat 6+.
• Further simplified setup process. Web application is now fully self-contained.
• Added built-in version info support (see Documentation).
• Added support for non-compressed local directory.
• Prevent version used in a frozen deployment from being edited (must duplicate & edit)

KwateeSDCM 1.0.1 - released June 13, 2011

• Prevent version used in a frozen deployment from being edited (must duplicate & edit)

KwateeSDCM 1.0.0 - released June 8, 2011

This is a major release that requires a database upgrade and hence is not backwards compatible with older versions of KwateeSDCM.war.

• Many improvement in the layout of the application and the user interface
• Simplified installation - GUI for database schema creation/upgrade
• Resolved incompatibility with Internet Explorer
• Enhancement - packages within deployments can be manually ordered to control install-time dependencies.
• Enhancement - REST API now has server and package granularity for deploy/start/stop
• Enhancement - additional parameters introduced in applicationContext.xml for advanced configuration.
• Bug fix - update system properties no longer generates internal error
• Bug fix - duplicate environment no longer generates internal error
• Bug fix - duplicate version now duplicates the archive as well

KwateeSDCM 0.9.4 - released May 05, 2011

• Deployment: fixed bug introduced in 0.9.3 that caused templatized files not to be installed in some cases
• Environments: Minor deployment reports enhancements
• Environments: improved display of undefined variables in Deployment Variables Dialog
• Configuration: added configurable properties in applicationContext.xml
• Repository: fixed bug that prevented import of zip/war archives with undefined file lengths in zip headers (e.g. war apps generated by eclipse)
• sdcmagent: minor bug fix to avoid to redundantly re-create empty directories during package updates

KwateeSDCM 0.9.3 - released April 22, 2011

• REST API: status method modified, environment/deployment/ref are now implicit (see blog.kwatee.net)
• REST API: introduction of cancel operation (see blog.kwatee.net)
• Repository: accelerated display of Customize dialog for large archives
• Repository: fixed issue that prevented to import some large archives
• Environments: fixed compatibility that caused some archive to fail to expand during installation

KwateeSDCM 0.9.2 - released April 17, 2011

• New REST API
• Repository: enhancement - optional archive update from local file system (no http upload)

KwateeSDCM 0.9.1 - released March 19, 2011

Initial public release