Viya35-ark-1.0 - November 19, 2019

• Summary:
  This release of SAS Viya ARK is coincidental to the release of SAS Viya 3.5.
• Issues addressed:
  • DEPENB-1174 - Upgrade Tasks added a playbook to move audit records from SAS Viya 3.3 CAS host to SAS 3.4 Operations host.
  • DEPENB-1531 - Pre-Installation playbook should check if the short hostname is pingable.
  • DEPENB-1578 - Pre-Installation playbook should only update kernel semaphores if they are larger than the current values.
  • DEPENB-1600 - Pre-Installation playbook README updated to reference provided inventory file.
  • DEPENB-1649 - Pre-Installation playbook needs to check for presence of bash shell.
  • DEPENB-1666 - Pre-Installation playbook should check FQDN for hostname length check.
  • DEPENB-1748 - Add hotfix reporting to SAS Viya Deployment Report.
  • DEPENB-1836 - Multi-Machine Services Utilities should display the URLs with https instead of http.
  • DEPENB-1982 - Upgrade Tasks added a playbook to delete mmLibs caslib.
  • DEPENB-2027 - Warn Customers of non-supported Java version
  • DEPENB-2036 - Upgrade Tasks fixed format of default user paths.
  • DEPENB-2054 - Support Ansible 2.9
  • DEPENB-2105 - Pre-Installation playbook needs to support SELinux in "enforced" mode
  • DEPENB-2108 - Upgrade Tasks failed searching for NODE_TYPE which is no longer in vars.yml
  • DEPENB-2110 - LDAP Validator update sitedefault_sample_ad.ym to be consistent with sitedefault_sample_openldap.yml
  • DEPENB-2113 - Remove jq installation from Viya ARK pre-install playbook
  • DEPENB-2120 - Multi-Machine Services Utilities support for postgress 11
  • DEPENB-2137 - viya-upgrade needs to be updated for Viya 3.5 references
  • DEPENB-2171 - Pre-Installation playbook should check for Ansible patch version
  • DEPENB-2182 - merge-playbook fails to handle dir path
  • DEPENB-2183 - Erroneous failure reported for Visual Investigator 3.3 -> 3.5 UIP
  • DEPENB-2189 - Utility sds_micro_service_pg_connection_test.sh script should no longer be used. README update
  • DEPENB-2192 - Clarify message in pre-upgrade summary for skipping mmlibs step on SUSE
  • DEPENB-2115 - LDAP Validator not reflected in Index of Tools in Viya ARK root README.
  • DEPENB-2200 - Need to check for required curl and nss versions in repo
  • DEPENBDAT-627 - Ansible 2.9 support for viya-upgrade related playbook.
• Ansible Support: Ansible 2.7.2 - Ansible 2.9

Viya34-ark-1.7 - August 22, 2019

• Summary:
  Introducing playbooks to automate tasks required prior to and after performing a SAS Viya upgrade. Add support for Ansible 2.8.
• Issues addressed:
  • DEPENB-1813 - Ansible 2.8 support in pre-install playbook.
  • DEPENB-1687 - Create pre-upgrade and post-upgrade controller playbooks.
  • DEPENB-1857 - Inventory file hostgroup names now use underscores rather than hyphens (Ansible 2.8).
  • DEPENB-1619 - Provide playbook to assist merging deployment files.
• Ansible Support: Ansible 2.5 - Ansible 2.8

Viya34-ark-1.6 - August 13, 2019

• Summary:
  Temporary workaround for issues related to updating systemd to latest (currently version 219-67)
• Issues addressed:
  • DEPENB-2009 - Do not update systemd on RHEL7 with pre-install playbook.
• Ansible Support: Ansible 2.5 - Ansible 2.7

Viya34-ark-1.5 - July 11, 2019

• Summary:
  Enhancements around sudo checks & storage checks. Updates to host group naming. Documentation changes and Fixes.
• Issues addressed:
  • DEPENB-962 - Sudo user checks
  • DEPENB-1173 - Storage checks for /opt & /var/cache
  • DEPENB-1667 - cgconfig service enable set to yes.
  • DEPENB-1827 - Future Ansible version enhancent
  • DEPENB-1828 - Main README bad releases link removed. Access 'releases' link on github repo landing page.
  • DEPENB-1857 - Host group name references with hyphens changed to underscores. Future Ansible version compliance.
• Ansible Support: Ansible 2.5 - Ansible 2.7

Viya34-ark-1.4 - June 5, 2019

• Summary:
  Changes to supported Ansible versions. Documentation changes.
• Issues addressed:
  • DEPENB-1810 - Ansible 2.4 no longer supported.
  • DEPENB-1708 - SUPPORT.md documentation added.
  • DEPENB-1822 - SAS Viya Deployment Assistant for Windows reference added to README.md
• Ansible Support: Ansible 2.5 - Ansible 2.7

Viya34-ark-1.3 - May 6, 2019

• Summary:
  Bug fixes.
• Issues addressed:
  • DEPENB-1716 - Fix jq installation issues on remote hosts
• Ansible Support: Ansible 2.4 - Ansible 2.7

Viya34-ark-1.2 - May 1, 2019

• Summary:
  LDAP validator tool. VI pre-install playbook support. Documentation updates. Bug fixes.
• Issues addressed:
  • DEPENB-1686 - Unclear the master branch of Viya-ARK is associated with SAS Viya 3.4
  • DEPENB-876 - LDAP validator
  • DEPENB-1689 - Fix for no report when error hit gathering data.
  • DEPENB-1635 - Incorporate VI specific prereqs
  • DEPENB-1713 - Deployment Report: memory uninitialized if service down.
• Ansible Support: Ansible 2.4 - Ansible 2.7

Viya34-ark-1.1 - April 18, 2019

• Summary:
  Adding descriptions of numbering scheme and changelog. Legacy branches replicated to this repo. Bug fixes.
• Issues addressed:
  • DEPENB-1270 - Addition of the files VERSIONS and CHANGELOG
  • DEPENB-1633 - README updates. Replicated viya-3.2 & viya-3.3 legacy branches to this repo.
  • DEPENB-1566 - Add package update available notifications to deployment report
  • DEPENB-1637 - Pre-install playbook local check rejected LOCALE en_US.
  • DEPENB-1664 - Deployment report playbook filename change and not creating report as root user.

Fix for LOCALE check failure in check mode (--check)

Merge branch 'LOCALE_fix' into 'master'

adding check_mode to the locale check. fixing title too.

See merge request sassoftware/viya-ark!21

Establish version Viya34-ark-1.0

• DEPENB-1367 - Convert fail tasks to assert tasks for better user experience (https://github.com/sassoftware/virk/issues/57)