Archipel Beta 2 Changelog

# Changelog - Archipel Beta 2

## XMPP:
    NEW: support for managing XMPP accounts
    NEW: support for nested groups
    NEW: support for putting entities in several groups
    NEW: support for roster pushes
    NEW: support for shared roster groups
    NEW: use the Cappuccino runloop in strophejs

## Agent:
    FIX: avoid virtual machine name collision
    FIX: better startup error catching
    FIX: cloning
    FIX: logged information improved
    FIX: no more usage of os.system
    FIX: remove the old perform_action_on_auth system. use hooks
    NEW: add module loading policy configuration
    NEW: Archipel Core is now totally externalized
    NEW: avatars are not sometimes reset when agent is restarted
    NEW: enable usage of easy_install developer installation
    NEW: full rewrite of the plugin loading system
    NEW: Libvirt: preliminary support for libvirt authentication
    NEW: Libvirt: preliminary support for VMWare (bugged due to libvirt)
    NEW: Libvirt: preliminary support for Xen (bugged due to libvirt)
    NEW: multi Archipel account setting support
    NEW: packaged using python eggs
    NEW: runarchipel -v displays all the versions of plugins

## Client:
    FIX: complete responder chains
    FIX: loading module drastically improved (sequential loading)
    NEW: add classes that handles localization
    NEW: add visual feedback on modules to tell when needed data have been fetched
    NEW: configuration of GUI is now stored in the user's XMPP private storage
    NEW: localization of the logging window (as example)
    NEW: Module API: support for avoiding hiding modules (not saved stuff or something)
    NEW: Module API: support for FullScreenMode
    NEW: Module API: support for tooltips in toolbar modules
    NEW: modules starts to load in paralels with XMPP connection (divide by 3 the waiting time)
    NEW: usage of tooltips on all controls
    NEW: tabs in iTunesTabView are now scrollable if needed

## VNC:
    FIX: vnc events are pushed from the agents
    NEW: external VNC window autoresize itself according to the remote display
    NEW: external VNC window has now a toolbar with controls
    NEW: external VNC window support zooming
    NEW: support for DE keymap
    NEW: support for fullscreen of VNC view (needs really recent webkit version)

## Chat:
    NEW: greatly improve vocabulary of entities (almost all actions can be done using chat)
    NEW: rewrite the TNMessageBoard to use sexy bubbles and usage of variable row height CPTableView
    NEW: support for external chat window

## Controls:
    NEW: add visual feedback when live adjusting memory
    NEW: allow to destroy a virtual machine from the controls module

## Definition:
    FIX: when adding a new drive or nic, open the editor panel
    NEW: add preferences for every type of informations in the definition
    NEW: handle hypervisor with no capabilities
    NEW: improve drive type detection
    NEW: rewrite of the capabilities handling
    NEW: rewrite of the GUI
    NEW: support for drive cache mode

## Drives:
    FIX: converting drives updates the definition if they are attached
    FIX: path to qemu-img is now configurable
    NEW: support for non sparse drives in qcow2 format

## VMCast:
    FIX: tons of small bugs
    NEW: use progress bar to display download status

## Health:
    FIX: color chars in log are stripped
    FIX: more accurate memory usage informations
    FIX: never ask stats in parallel
    FIX: partitions with size < 1GB are now display in MB or KB
    FIX: stop asking stats if entity goes offline
    FIX: use minimal value as stats fetching interval
    NEW: display all partitions and their usage instead of just the total
    NEW: drastically improve performances
    NEW: support for network usage statistics

## Cloud:
    NEW: support for computing platform to generate score to decide to hanle a platform request or not (need ejabberd patch https://support.process-one.net/browse/EJAB-1347)
    NEW: support for platform request (need ejabberd patch https://support.process-one.net/browse/EJAB-1347)

## Permissions:
    NEW: display all servers users in a nice outline view
    NEW: drop SQLObject, use SQLAlchemy
    NEW: rewrite the GUI

## Geolocalization
    FIX: pass in manual mode automatically if unable to connect to ip location service

## Migration:
    FIX: use the ipaddr/hostname instead of resource for sending libvirt_uri

## Networking:
    NEW: isolated mode
    NEW: forward the real list of hypervisors NICs

## Snapshot:
    NEW: it is now possible to use snapshoting features on a shutdowned virtual machine

## Groups:
    NEW: GroupManagement module displays VMs of itself and all of its sub group hierarchy
    NEW: Support for grouped live migration