Notables changes

🆕 New features

• Patch management campaigns on Window now have the same hook mechanism as Linux ⭐
• New methods for Windows: ⭐
  • file_block_present
  • file_key_value_present_option
  • rudder_inventory_trigger
• A new rudder agent help command on Windows ⭐
• It is now possible to delete past campaign events ⭐

✨ UX improvements

• rudder agent reset will enable the rudder-cf-execd service
• rudder agent factory-reset will enable the rudder-cf-execd and rudder-cf-serverd services
• There is now an edit button on inherited properties to override them directly
• The policy generation errors are now correctly displayed, over multiple line

🩹 Bug fixes

• Fix an old bug producing Could not open database txn cf_state.lmdb: Invalid argument in the Linux agent's output
• Fix the server inventory hooks which were broken
• No more error message at the first run of a new Windows agent ⭐

⭐ : feature only available with a subscription.

More

More details about the new features and installation/upgrade procedures can be found in the releases notes.

https://docs.rudder.io/changelogs/8.1/main.html#_rudder_8_1_5_2024_07_01

https://docs.rudder.io/changelogs/8.1/main.html#_rudder_8_1_4_2024_06_20

https://docs.rudder.io/changelogs/8.1/main.html#_rudder_8_1_3_2024_06_02

Change logs: https://docs.rudder.io/changelogs/8.1/main.html#_rudder_8_1_2_2024_04_30

Change logs: https://docs.rudder.io/changelogs/8.1/main.html#_rudder_8_1_1_2024_04_25

Change logs: https://docs.rudder.io/changelogs/8.0/main.html#_rudder_8_0_8_2024_04_25

Change logs: https://docs.rudder.io/changelogs/7.3/main.html#_rudder_7_3_14_2024_04_25

Rudder 8.1 new major features includes:

• Rudder score: We now provide a score (from A, the best, to F) for each node within Rudder based on different axis (compliance, patch level, vulnerabilities ...), giving you better insights on your nodes.
• Group Compliance: A new compliance view, allowing you to assess the compliance of all nodes within a group, showing global compliance (all rules) or only rules targeting this group.
• Multi tenants: Restrict the view of some users to only a subset of all your nodes, so they won't have access to your whole it, but only the part that interests them ⭐
• Audit/Enforce on methods: In techniques, allows you to choose whether a method should run in audit or enforce, giving more control on your techniques behavior and empowering them with new use cases
• Select parameters: A new parameter type for your techniques, making it easier for a technique user to choose a valid parameter in a list of pre established values, instead of writing it directly
• User management improvements: OIDC based user provisioning, and extended user information make access to Rudder server easier and more comprehensive to you ⭐
• Lots of technical debt removed, dependency update and other things you won't see but make your Rudder more secure and reliable!

⭐ : feature only available with a subscription.

More details about the new features and installation/upgrade procedures can be found in the releases notes.