[cacti-announce] 1.2.0 Beta 4 Available

[Tony R. <tr...@ca...>]

### Cacti Open Beta 4

Cacti 1.2 Beta is here and been in development for little more than a year!

We have been focused on enhancing Cacti and fixing a lot of issues all 
over the last year.  While we did not get all the enhancements we wanted 
into 1.2, only somewhere around 150+ enhancements and fixes, we believe 
it is time to release it into the wild.

As always we want to thank the people that use Cacti, participate on the 
Forums, submit issues and pull requests! We encourage people to get 
involved and help make Cacti better!  This beta would not be possible 
without the efforts of the community members who have activity helped in 
testing, reporting issues and submitting fixes!

Thank You!

If you are interested in participating in the 1.2 Beta please visit the 
Community Forums Beta Section [1] for more information.

#### Cacti 1.2.0 Beta Enhancements

- Extensive update to the installation process making new installations 
and upgrading easier.  Also includes a new command line upgrade script 
for those who want to use command line only.

- Additional data collection debugging.

- System notification to let you know when things are going wrong in Cacti.

- User interface enhancement, not limited to but including, updated 
dialog boxes and form controls.

- Database connection now supports SSL configuration.

- Data input method whitelisting to mitigate potential malicious activities.

- Graph trees can now be bookmarked once again!  YAH!

- Enhanced remote polling capabilities primarily around performance and 
offline functionality.

#### Cacti 1.2.0 Beta 2 Updates

- Enhancement to sync remote pollers when device, graph or data source 
update occur.

- Changes to data query reindexing to increase speed of the operation.

- Update to SNMP data query to use ifName before ifDescr for the index 
value.

#### Cacti 1.2.0 Beta 3 Updates

- Various bug fixes

- Update to JavaScript library jstree.js to 3.3.7

- Various enhancement to UI performance.

#### Cacti 1.2.0 Beta 4 Updates

- Manual refresh needed after zooming a graph

- Viewing graphs may not work in certain configurations

- Invalid SQL when updating boost on demand cache

**NOTE:** Do not forget to run the database upgrade utility if you are 
applying Beta 4 to previous Beta or a clone of the develop branch. From 
the Cacti directory run `php cli/upgrade_database.php --forcever=1.1.38` 
to run the database upgrade.

#### Download the Beta

https://www.cacti.net/downloads/beta/cacti-1.2.0-beta4.tar.gz
https://www.cacti.net/downloads/beta/cacti-1.2.0-beta4.zip
https://www.cacti.net/downloads/beta/cacti-spine-1.2.0-beta4.tar.gz

### Translations

We need some help with translations!  If you willing and able to help 
please consider helping out.  Check out the contributing to translations 
section [2].

### Documentation

Going forward there are considerable efforts being made to make sure we 
have an easy and effective way to create, managed and distribute 
documentation. In the 1.2 Beta you may notice that documentation has now 
been included and is accessible directly from the user interface making 
it more visible than it has ever previously been. If you are interested 
in helping make the documentation excellent then please do not hesitate 
to get involved and contribute on the Cacti Documentation repository [3].

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[1] https://forums.cacti.net/viewforum.php?f=27

[2] 
https://github.com/Cacti/documentation/blob/develop/Contributing-Translations.md

[3] https://github.com/Cacti/documentation