Icinga Director v1.8.0

Fixed issues

• You can find issues and feature requests related to this release on our
  roadmap

User Interface

• FIX: It's now possible to set Endpoint ports > 32767 on PostgreSQL (#928)
• FIX: Group list is no longer prefixed with a comma (#2133)
• FIX: Change wording, avoid black/whitelist (#2134, #2135)
• FIX: Inherited values in sets (arrays) are now shown (#1310)
• FIX: Column layout broke with Web 2.8, has been fixed (#2065)
• FIX: filter suggestion gave wrong values for DataList fields (#1918)
• FIX: clone-related scheduled downtime links have been fixes (#1894)
• FEATURE: Data Fields can now be grouped into categories (#1969)
• FEATURE: Inspect is now available for Packages, Stages and Files (#1995)
• FEATURE: Allow to disable the Director frontend / UI (#2007)
• FEATURE: Endpoints table now shows the object type (e.g. external) (#2050)
• FEATURE: make sure that form label and fields stay close together (#2136)
• FEATURE: show more content, reduce padding (expect on mobile) (#2140)
• FEATURE: location details for non-Director services on "Modify" (#1531)
• FEATURE: Service Set table can now also be searched for Services (#1873)
• FEATURE: Apply-Rule-based Service Sets now show related Hosts (#2081)
• FEATURE: Notification Apply Rules as a DirectorObject DataField (#2199)
• FEATURE: Hint and Error styling has been unified and improved
• FEATURE: Form field rendering for sets now deals with invalid values
• FEATURE: Better descriptions for time-based and other fields (#1897, #1264)
• FEATURE: Daemon tab now gets red instead of yellow when not running (#2238)

Translations

• FEATURE: Italian translation is now available (#2080)
• FEATURE: German translation has been refreshed (#2240)

CLI

• FEATURE: Deployment Status and related utilities (#2189)

Import and Sync

• FEATURE: allow defining update-only Sync Rules (#2059)
• FEATURE: New Property Modifier: ListToObject (#2062)
• FEATURE: Property Modifier: convert binary UUID to HEX presentation (#2138)
• FEATURE: Property Modifier: get Host by Address (#2210)
• FEATURE: Property Modifier: skip duplicates (#2215)
• FEATURE: Property Modifier: trim strings (#1660)
• FEATURE: Property Modifier: negate boolean (#2227)
• FEATURE: Property Modifier Reject/Select: improve usability (#2228)
• FEATURE: Property Modifier: clone rows for every entry of an Array (#2192)
• FEATURE: Property Modifier: unique array values (#2229)
• FEATURE: Property Modifier: allow to rename columns (#2242)
• FEATURE: Import Sources now allows downloading previewed data as JSON (#2096)
• FEATURE: REST API Import now allows custom headers (#2132)
• FEATURE: REST API Import can now extract nested properties (#2132)
• FEATURE: REST API Form remembers passwords without exposing them (#2070)
• FEATURE: UTF8 validation for failed imports gives better error message (#2143)
• FEATURE: ArrayByElementPosition now allows filtering by key name (#1721)
• FEATURE: Use your Director Objects as an Import Source (#2198)
• FEATURE: Property modifiers are now granted access the current Property Name (#2241)
• FIX: Import Source preview now catches all errors
• FIX: Import Source download sends eventual errors as a valid JSON result
• FIX: LDAP Import is now able to paginate limited results (#2019)

Configuration Baskets

• FIX: Restoring Import Sources creating Modifiers now works (#2053)
• FEATURE: Support Baskets from Icinca for Windows (#2223)
• FEATURE: It's now possible to use Notification Templates in Baskets
• FEATURE: Snapshot status/diff layout has been improved (#2225)

Authentication and Permissions

• FIX: Users restricted to Hostgroups can now use related Templates (#2020, #2101)
• FEATURE: Optionally, restricted users can be allowed to set Groups (#2252)

Kickstart

• FEATURE: Friendlier message if object to be removed is still in use (#2206)
• FEATURE: Kickstart now removes obsolete External Commands (#985)

Icinga Configuration

• FIX: Correctly render Service Dependencies with Array-style parent hosts (#2088)
• FIX: times.begin and times.end are now rendered separately (#2193)
• REMOVED: magic-apply-for (a hidden deprecated feature) has been removed (#1851)

Icinga Agent handling

• FIX: Linux Agent installer now fails when unable to retrieve a certificate
• FEATURE: Linux Agent installer now supports Alpine Linux (#2216)
• FEATURE: Icinga for Windows support (#2147)

REST API

• FEATURE: Self Service API ignores empty/missing properties (e.g. no address)
• FEATURE: Search is now also available for the REST API (#1889)
• FEATURE: Deployment Status is now available (#2187)
• FEATURE: UTF-8 characters and slashes are no longer escaped (#2243)

Self Service API

• FIX: error handling has been fixed (#1728)

Database Support

• FIX: Added UTF8 to valid PostgreSQL encodings (used to be UTF-8)

Background Daemon

• FIX: Daemon Logger used to not override the given log level (#2139)
• FEATURE: Daemon: prepare for future reactphp promise versions (#2137)
• FEATURE: Daemon now logs that it is going to reload itself
• FEATURE: Now collects the Deployment status from Icinga (#2045, #1988)

Documentation

• FEATURE: We now also mention optional/indirect requirements (#2054, #2220)

Internals

• FEATURE: Property Modifiers are now able to clone rows (#2060)
• FEATURE: URL encoding for the Core API has been unified
• FEATURE: PHP 8.0 has been released and is officially supported (#2233)
• REMOVED: dipl has been dropped, we're using ipl/incubator since v1.7 (#2209)
• FIX: typo in DeploymentHook::onSuccessfulDump() has been fixed (#2069)
• FIX: forms now support dbResourceName (#2064)