Kraken Release 0.645
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The 0.645 release contains several new features and improvements and some fixes. The most noteworthy changes are:
- added background steps
- added support for Rocky Linux
- replaced Celery with RQ for background tasks
- upgraded Angular and PrimeNG to 12
Quick Start guide shows how to install Kraken CI.
The list of changes
The complete list of changes looks as follows.
Features & improvements:
- added more details about RQ jobs on the diagnostics page
- added changing name of branch in a repo
- when run is being started then stage schema is refreshed from repo
- added button for checking email and AWS settings
- converted timestamps columns to be with timezone in Postgresql schema
- converted all char(n) columns in db to text
- added doing db backup during deployment
Fixes:
- fixed deleting dangling agents with no AWS instance
- added db rollback in watchdog in case of exception
- improved checking agents vm to destroy
- pytest tool: added check if collecting tests failed
- fixed counting available agents
- added detecting jobs with no agent and spawning them
- improved creating system records
- improved checking args to agent
- improved pulling git repo in git tool
More details about background steps can be found in the documentation.