• Summary:
  Enhancements and fixes related to Upgrade, Multi-Machine Services Utilities, Deployment Report, Pre-Installation playbooks and documentation.
• Issues addressed:
  • General
    • VIYAARK-87 - Validation of Python3 support across the applicable tools.
    • VIYAARK-63 - Improve speed of playbook when skipping hyphenated hostname [sas-all] fix
    • VIYAARK-29 - Validation of Linux on Power hosting environment across the tools. (See main README for info on Linux on Power support in SAS Viya 3.5)
  • SAS Viya Upgrade Tasks Playbooks
    • VIYAARK-44 - Archive Obsolete Folders playbook: Addresses the large number of outdated service directories in the logs location for upgrade customers
    • VIYAARK-65 - Improve merge playbook inventory and INVOCATION_VARIABLES when new hostgroups exist
    • VIYAARK-60 - Improve handling of return codes from actions of Pre-Upgrade playbook
    • VIYAARK-42 - Pre-Upgrade playbook disk space check needs to handle no /opt/sas path without failure
  • SAS Multi-Machine Service Utilties
    • VIYAARK-55 - viya-services-stop.yml message output typo
    • VIYAARK-40 - Honor svc-ignore entries
    • VIYAARK-62 - Provide a reliable startup script for distributed Viya with automatic Consul cleanup
  • SAS Viya Deployment Report
    • VIYAARK-38 - Improve Hotfix deployment report to only show applicable hotfixes per release
    • VIYAARK-86 - deployment-report playbook fails when remote host is using Python 3.x
    • VIYAARK-49 - jQuery XSS vulnerability - moving from v3.3.1 to v3.4.1
    • VIYAARK-88 - Error thrown when run against an incomplete deployment
  • SAS Viya Pre-Installation Playbook
    • VIYAARK-27 - Correct package selection in Linux on Power hosting environment.
    • VIYAARK-14 - Suppress RHEL package version check for Linux on Power RHEL hosting environment.
    • VIYAARK-9 - Playbook tasks using Linux shell command incorrect recap showing Changed > 0 after multiple re-runs of playbook.
• Ansible Support: Ansible 2.7.2 - Ansible 2.9