Version 4

Highlights

• Updates Django to 2.1.5
• Updates Python to Python 3.7
• New checkin version 3 endpoint.
  • This new checkin requires new sal-scripts to work with it.
  • The old checkin is deprecated and old sal-scripts will not work.
  • If you have plugins that require a checkin_processor, the structure of the data passed to them has changed, and you'll need to update your code to account for this. See the Wiki regarding checkin processors.
  • Checkin is a lot faster.
  • Ongoing maintenance tasks have been moved to a background task rather than the checkin code.
• Management Sources and Managed Items (allows arbitrary sources of management to add checkin data for display in various places around Sal).
• Messages: Any checkin module can add messages (debug, warning, error, etc) to their results.
  • New Messages dashboard plugin, shows counts of common errors and warnings, with links to machine list views of affected devices.
• More information about installed Apple updates.
• Hot-nasty performance improvements.
• Visibility of Munki optional installs.

New Features

Management Sources and Managed Items

What do I need to do?

• Distribute the new sal-scripts (and any optional checkin-modules desired) to clients.
• Update your Sal instance to version 4.
• Custom plugins:
  • If you still have an "old-style" plugin, you need to update it!
  • If your plugin has a "checkin-processor", you'll need to update it to use the new checkin submission format.