Release notes for OpenNMS Horizon 19.1.0

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+opennms (19.1.0-1) stable; urgency=medium
+
+  * New stable release.  This release contains a ton of bug fixes and a few new
+    features.
+
+    For details on what has changed, see:
+    http://docs.opennms.org/opennms/releases/19.1.0/releasenotes/releasenotes.html
+
+ -- OpenNMS Release Manager <opennms@opennms.org>  Man, 08 May 2017 10:34:00 -0500
+
 opennms (19.0.1-1) stable; urgency=high
 
   * New stable release.  This release contains a number of important fixes for

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 [[release-19-changelog]]
 === Changelog
 
+[[releasenotes-changelog-19.1.0]]
+==== Release 19.1.0
+
+Release 19.1.0 is the latest stable release of OpenNMS.  It contains a large number of bug fixes and a few new features.
+For a high-level overview of what's changed in OpenNMS 19, see <<whatsnew-19.adoc#releasenotes-19,What's New in OpenNMS 19>>.
+
+The codename for 19.1.0 is _link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopush[Octopush]_.
+
+[releasenotes-changelog-19.1.0]
+==== Release 19.1.0
+
+===== Bug
+
+* HTTPS modules fail because of algorithm constraints (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-6500[NMS-6500])
+* None of the out-of-the-box syslogd regex ueiMatch statements work (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-6539[NMS-6539])
+* CustomSyslogParser fails to parse process name when brackets appear in the message text (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-6730[NMS-6730])
+* Geo-Maps running on a server without internet connection breaks the UI for valid nodes. (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-7148[NMS-7148])
+* scrollbars displayed for RrdDashlet title box (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-7562[NMS-7562])
+* Refresh loop possible in setOffset() -> refresh() ->setOffset() in onmsList code (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-7829[NMS-7829])
+* Delete a service from the WebUI is not working (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-8135[NMS-8135])
+* The Topology Map does not support persisting collapsible search criteria (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-8142[NMS-8142])
+* Renaming a root business services does not work anymore (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-8370[NMS-8370])
+* Simulation mode is ended when clicking on "Set as focal point" (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-8542[NMS-8542])
+* opennms-ackd shouldn't load component-service.xml Spring contexts (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-8610[NMS-8610])
+* Null ospfrouterid in NodeDiscoveryOspf (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-8667[NMS-8667])
+* Monitoring location just integer as longitude and latitude (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-8713[NMS-8713])
+* Deleting monitoring locations does not refresh the view (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-8715[NMS-8715])
+* Incoming syslog/trap flood can overwhelm new handler code (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-8777[NMS-8777])
+* Modify the JMX Connection Factory to allow fully customized URLs. (Issue https://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-8801[NMS-8801])
+* DB installer tries to class-load every file under OPENNMS_HOME as a JAR (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-8860[NMS-8860])
+* NPE in CdpLink.toString() (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-8897[NMS-8897])
+* Near Real-Time Graphing unable to graph Cisco BDI interfaces (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-8908[NMS-8908])
+* Enlinkd fails to discovery Bridge Topology (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-8973[NMS-8973])
+* Monitoring Location parameter not saved using mouse (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9028[NMS-9028])
+* opennms.conf can break the snmp-request command (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9068[NMS-9068])
+* Standalone HTTPS with Jetty doesn't work with certificate alias (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9084[NMS-9084])
+* Collection timing enhancements (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9090[NMS-9090])
+* java.util.Date uses lots of heap space after toString() is called (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9091[NMS-9091])
+* The poller-test command doesn't work due to Spring initialization conflicts (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9095[NMS-9095])
+* The ReST API is not location aware (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9110[NMS-9110])
+* Selection of non-disk RRD strategies (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9120[NMS-9120])
+* It is possible to perform alarms/notifications actions through the Acks ReST end point without permissions (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9140[NMS-9140])
+* Blank Location vs. Default Location (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9146[NMS-9146])
+* Enhanced Linkd NPE: vlanmap is null (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9156[NMS-9156])
+* minion:ping command gives 403 errors  (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9157[NMS-9157])
+* SNMP client code can get stuck in infinite retry loops (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9164[NMS-9164])
+* log entry in uncategorized.log (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9165[NMS-9165])
+* incorrect permissions on opennms.service (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9166[NMS-9166])
+* Monitoring location creation dialog fails to validate required fields (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9167[NMS-9167])
+* Fix the execution of Drools rules when using streaming (CEP, Temporal Reasoning) (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9172[NMS-9172])
+* Drools examples fails to load with exception (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9186[NMS-9186])
+* CustomSyslogParser adds misleading blank process values to events (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9188[NMS-9188])
+* OpenNMS Loses Events if Elasticsearch is down (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9197[NMS-9197])
+* SyslogParser should not assume UTC timestamps (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9201[NMS-9201])
+* ActiveMQ dead letter queue fills up all the available storage (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9203[NMS-9203])
+* New resource types are not available in the Web UI until it is restarted (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9205[NMS-9205])
+* JMS Northbounder ignores first-occurrance-only and sending as object message doesn't work (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9215[NMS-9215])
+* OSPF Router Id not properly updated (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9218[NMS-9218])
+* DNS Adapter on Delete Node does not delete DNS record (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9219[NMS-9219])
+* Problems associated with SNMP4J affects OpenNMS performance (contention issues) (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9223[NMS-9223])
+* OpenNMS False nodeLostService events for Minion-Heartbeat (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9225[NMS-9225])
+* Randomize ES1 cluster names so tests don't join each others' clusters (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9230[NMS-9230])
+* Possible thread leak in SnmpUtils (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9233[NMS-9233])
+* SNMP timeouts generate Unexpected exception warnings (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9234[NMS-9234])
+* DnsResolutionMonitor should not use cache for lookups (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9238[NMS-9238])
+* Pollerd takes too much time scheduling polling when OpenNMS starts (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9247[NMS-9247])
+* Make the location field on the requisition UI to be a "select" instead of an "input" field. (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9248[NMS-9248])
+* Requisition UI breaks when percentage sign is used inside Foreign ID input field (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9269[NMS-9269])
+* Exception in OspfNodeDiscovery (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9272[NMS-9272])
+* NodeTopologyBridge fails on Cisco Switch ME36/ME34/ME35  (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9274[NMS-9274])
+* Make TCP output queue parameters configurable (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9282[NMS-9282])
+* datachoices bundle missing quartz dependency (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9283[NMS-9283])
+* GraphML JAXB classes are missing package-info.java (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9286[NMS-9286])
+* syslogd logs "No hideMessage configured" though it is really not needed (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9289[NMS-9289])
+* XmlHandler doesn't always fail on unmarshaling errors (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9323[NMS-9323])
+
+===== Configuration
+
+* Remove "delete" flag from default downtime model (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9257[NMS-9257])
+
+===== Enhancement
+
+* allow multiple syslogd configuration elements to support multiple syslogd listeners and forwarding-regexp patterns (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-6330[NMS-6330])
+* Update Quartz to current version (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-6584[NMS-6584])
+* Use JAXB in Enlinkd config factory (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-7932[NMS-7932])
+* Simple usability improvement to the provisioning UI (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-8601[NMS-8601])
+* Write Syslog Parser to handle all message types (Cisco, syslog-ng, etc) (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-8725[NMS-8725])
+* Create unit test to profile Syslogd's ConvertToEvent performance (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-8726[NMS-8726])
+* Save syslog hostname in an event parameter (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-8928[NMS-8928])
+* Supply R in our YUM repository (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-8960[NMS-8960])
+* Tooltips for heatmap rectangles (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-8961[NMS-8961])
+* Let the XmlCollector use parameters defined in the service definition in xml-source url (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9072[NMS-9072])
+* VMware collector support for units and value modifier (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9092[NMS-9092])
+* SNMP data collection definitions for Cisco ASA5585-SSP-60 devices (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9094[NMS-9094])
+* Upgrade to Camel 2.14.4 (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9113[NMS-9113])
+* Fix RPC integration tests (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9116[NMS-9116])
+* no iplike for postgresql 9.6 on debian (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9118[NMS-9118])
+* Persist string attributes over the TCP stream (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9126[NMS-9126])
+* Migrate remaining XSDs from Castor to JAXB (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9134[NMS-9134])
+* Cleanup and remove Castor related dependencies (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9135[NMS-9135])
+* Persist Drools working memory to disk when stopping and starting OpenNMS (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9143[NMS-9143])
+* Add JMX instrumentation for the Drools Correlator to understand the the working memory of each rule-set (a.k.a. engine) (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9145[NMS-9145])
+* Elasticsearch alarms integration improvements (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9159[NMS-9159])
+* Expose task queue size for ExecutorService runners. (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9161[NMS-9161])
+* Upgrade snmp4j to 2.5.5 (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9162[NMS-9162])
+* Enhance to MockSnmpAgent to support returning arbitrary SNMP error codes (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9163[NMS-9163])
+* Add Checkstyle to the build (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9174[NMS-9174])
+* interface.jsp could display the list of services for each polling package (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9206[NMS-9206])
+* es-rest: Allow a comma-separated list of Elasticsearch URIs (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9210[NMS-9210])
+* Set domain level for DNS adapter (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9222[NMS-9222])
+* Ops Board Grafana Dashlet (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9224[NMS-9224])
+* Allow for choosing ifDescr over ifName for interface directory name (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9240[NMS-9240])
+* Improve handling of counter wraps/reset when using Newts (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9252[NMS-9252])
+* Upgrade Spring from 4.0 to 4.1 (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9259[NMS-9259])
+* Upgrade Drools to 6.5.0 (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9279[NMS-9279])
+* Redefine the start ordering of the OpenNMS daemons during bootstrap. (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9280[NMS-9280])
+* Placeholder for port number in xml-datacollection-config.xml (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9285[NMS-9285])
+* Upgrade Apache CXF to 3.1.9 (Issue http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9296[NMS-9296])
+
+
 [[releasenotes-changelog-19.0.1]]
 ==== Release 19.0.1
 

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 * *Cassandra JMX Metrics*: The default value for the `friendly-name` attribute on the `JMX-Cassandra` collection service has changed from `cassandra21x` to `cassandra`.
 This changes the path in which the metrics are stored.
 If you have already been collecting these metrics and wish to preserve them, you can ignore this change when merging your configuration.
+* *Camel 2.14 Upgrade*: Camel has been upgraded from `2.14.1` to `2.14.4`. (new in 19.1)
 * *Jetty 9.4 Upgrade*: Jetty has been upgraded from `8.1` to the latest `9.4`.
 If you have a custom `jetty.xml` in your `etc` folder, you will need to migrate your changes.
 Use `etc/examples/jetty.xml` as a starting point.
 * *Drools 6.4.0 Upgrade*: Drools has been upgraded from `6.0.1.Final` to `6.4.0.Final`.
 If you have custom Drools rules, they may need to be revised.
 The compiler used in `6.4.0.Final` is stricter than the compiler in previous versions.
+* *Drools 6.5.0 Upgrade*: In 19.1, Drools has been further upgraded from `6.4.0.Final` to `6.5.0.Final`.
+* *Quartz 2.2 Upgrade*: Quartz has been upgraded from `1.6.5` to `2.2.3`. (new in 19.1)
+* *SNMP4J Upgrade*: SNMP4J has been upgraded from `2.4.3` to `2.5.5`. (new in 19.1)
+* *Spring Upgrade*: Spring has been upgraded from `4.0.7` to `4.1.6`. (new in 19.1)
 * *Separate opennms-webapp-remoting Package*: The webapp that supports the Remote Poller has been separated from the main OpenNMS webapp.
 This will make installations much smaller for users that do not use the Remote Poller.
 If you use the Remote Poller, you will need to install the `opennms-webapp-remoting` package.
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 * *Automatic provisioning of Minions*: Minion devices will be added to the _Minions_ requisition and monitored for connectivity with OpenNMS.
 * *GraphML Topology Provider*: A new Topology Provider is available that reads GraphML formatted graphs and displays them in the the Topology UI.
 * *OpenNMS Elasticsearch ReST Forwarder*: This Elasticsearch forwarder can store events, alarms, and alarm state changes in Elasticsearch for archival or searching. It is compatible with all currently supported versions of Elasticsearch.
+* *Drools Persistence*: Drools working memory will now be persisted to disk upon shutdown of OpenNMS. (new in 19.1)
 * *Unified JAAS Authentication*: The web UI, the Apache Karaf OSGi console, and the built-in ActiveMQ broker all use unified authentication.
 * *Monitoring Location Events*: Events will be sent when Monitoring Locations are added, updated, or deleted.
 * *Exponential propogation*: There is a new exponential propogation function available for Business Services.
 * *External JMS broker*: It is possible to configure OpenNMS to use an external JMS broker if desired.
+* *New Syslog Parser*: A new syslog parser, the `RadixTreeSyslogParser`, has been added, which supports all major syslog message formats, and uses Grok for more performant parsing.  (new in 19.1)
+* *String Persisting over TCP*: The TCP persister can now persist string values. (new in 19.1)
 * *ICMP traffic class and don't-fragment support*: It is possible to configure OpenNMS to set DSCP traffic class and "don't fragment" bits when polling ICMP.
 * *Geographical Maps*: Geographical maps are now included by default in the center of the Web UI front page.
 * *Web UI improvements*: Location information has been added to many places in the UI, and a number of pages have been enhanced including the BSM editor and topology UI.
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 === Dependency Updates
 * Jetty has been upgraded from 8.1.10.v20130312 to 9.4.0.v20161208.
 * The Servlet API has been upgraded from 3.0 to 3.1.
-* Drools has been upgraded from 6.0.1 to 6.4.0.
+* Drools has been upgraded from 6.0.1 to 6.4.0 in 19.0, and then from 6.4.0 to 6.5.0 in 19.1.
 
 === Internal Improvements
 * We replaced all of the GWT components in the web UI with AngularJS components. This reduces the complexity of the UI code and will make it easier for developers with Javascript experience to maintain and contribute to the UI.
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 * The JIRA ticketer has been improved.
 * The default database connection pool has been switched from c3p0 to HikariCP (http://brettwooldridge.github.io/HikariCP/) to increase performance.
 * Our ICMP libraries are now capable of being run by non-root users (although OpenNMS is not yet configured to support this).
+* The startup order of OpenNMS has been improved to make sure that a number of time-sensitive event-consuming daemons are ready immediately after Eventd, and before traps are consumed (new in 19.1)