[Hawkular-dev] Hawkular Inventory 0.18.0.Final Released

[Lukas Krejci]

Hi all,

I'm glad to announce the release of Hawkular Inventory 0.18.0.Final.

This release brings big improvements in inventory sync along with a couple of 
other bugfixes and improvements. Namely:

* Sync now detects changes in all entity data including general-purpose 
properties
* Sync no longer requires the root entity to exist prior to its contents and 
sub-tree being synced
* It is possible to sync only certain entity types, leaving the rest of a 
synced subtree as-is.
* /hawkular/inventory/entity/.../treeHash REST endpoint works correctly
* Bus integration no longer leaves lingering JMS connections behind
* Metric type now contains a "metricDataType" property that will replace the 
confusingly named "type" in a future release. The values of the new property 
are lower-cased which is in line with what Hawkular Metrics use. The original 
property is still in the JSON payload but clients are urged to start using the 
new, consistently named, property.
* It is newly possible to filter (and sort) on "metricDataType", 
"identityHash", "contentHash" and "syncHash" properties.

Thanks go out to Jiri Kremser and John Mazzitelli for the big help with 
reviewing and designing the changes that went to this release.

-- 
Lukas Krejci