Since last 2.5.2 release, many bug fixes and enhancements have been accumulated, such as:
For the core:
when reloading, options set on commandline are kept
completly empty defines (nothing after the equal sign) in config files is now supported and this fix an issue where windows portable version was trying to write to a log file by default
For the Inventory task:
some fixes has been included for unix systems and win32:
we fixed Batteries support and added an information to report capacity usage
we added some new Acer monitor serial support
on linux, the support for Snap packages in softwares has been fixed when a package with a long summary is installed
on debian linux, we fixed the support of packages with no size set
on win32, Surface Go 2 are no more reported as Hyper-V
on linux, disk encryption detection has been enhanced
on linux, Qemu Kvm virtualization inventory has been enhanced
dmidecode parsing result has been cleaned a little
on linux, virtual overlayfs related to docker are now filtered out
on linux, ASM storage inventory has been enhanced
manufacturer reporting is now better
we now support parsing few manufacturer PartNumbers which can enhance inventory for memories and controllers
thanks to a great work from Vadim Pisarev (aka po1vo):
smartctl could be used to enhanced storage support on linux
memory model is now included in inventory
controller model and serial are also supported
memory and controller inventory can also be enhanced using IPMI
Storage inventory has been enhanced
we have Micron PartNumber memory support
pci & usb included databases has been updated
For the NetDiscovery/NetInventory tasks:
the following enhancement has been included:
a better Ricoh and Zebra printers support with better hostname detection
Oki printers support has been enhanced with model detection
support for few Siemens and MultiTech industrial modules
LinuxAppliance support has been extended to support Ubiquiti UniFi AP
Hwg support has been added thanks to Bertrand Keller
HP switches support has been enhanced
few more devices are fully detected with the updated sysobject.ids
For ESX task:
we now verify a user and password has been provided before attemting to connect to ESX server
For tools:
fusioninventory-injector has been enhanced to avoid a fatal error while submitting a empty or wrong file and while using –xml-ua option
fusioninventory-injector also now check and report an error if the server is answering the XML is not valid