Rajendra Kadam
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<!-- Add the related story/sub-task/bug number, like Resolves #123, or remove if NA --> **Related issue:** Resolves # Raised by the frontend while building the Edit modal: there was no way to clear a declaration's custom activation. An absent `activation` field meant "keep it" on a labels-only edit but "delete it" when the profile contents were replaced, so clearing wasn't expressible and an ordinary content edit silently dropped the activation. The field is now three-state: | Request | Result | |---|---| | no `activation` key | stored activation left alone | | `activation` as an empty value | removed | | `activation` as a file | replaced | Multipart has no null, so an empty value stands in for one. Note this changes one existing behaviour: replacing a profile's contents without sending an activation used to delete it, and now preserves it. Removal has to be explicit. Anything ambiguous is rejected rather than guessed at, since every ambiguous form would otherwise resolve to deleting the stored activation: | Request | Result | |---|---| | `activation` as a nonempty value | 422 — more likely a malformed upload than a request to delete | | `activation` as a zero-byte file | 422 — a failed upload shouldn't delete anything | | `activation` sent as both a file and a value | 422 — one says replace, the other says remove | The unsupported-profile check also keys on the field being present rather than on it carrying content, so clearing an activation on a Windows, Android or mobileconfig profile is rejected instead of quietly succeeding. On the datastore side, `SetOrUpdateMDMAppleDeclaration` now takes an explicit action (`MDMAppleActivationKeep` / `MDMAppleActivationApply`) instead of inferring intent from the struct. The write is a full replace, so "keep" has to be stated — otherwise preserving the activation would mean reading it back and handing it to the write, which also risked dropping its Fleet variable associations. As a side effect the OS updates cron no longer fires a DELETE for an activation it never had. # Checklist for submitter If some of the following don't apply, delete the relevant line. - [ ] Changes file added for user-visible changes in `changes/`, `orbit/changes/` or `ee/fleetd-chrome/changes`. See [Changes files](https://github.com/fleetdm/fleet/blob/main/docs/Contributing/guides/committing-changes.md#changes-files) for more information. - [x] Input data is properly validated, `SELECT *` is avoided, SQL injection is prevented (using placeholders for values in statements), JS inline code is prevented especially for url redirects, and untrusted data interpolated into shell scripts/commands is validated against shell metacharacters. - [x] If paths of existing endpoints are modified without backwards compatibility, checked the frontend/CLI for any necessary changes ## Testing - [x] Added/updated automated tests - [ ] QA'd all new/changed functionality manually Integration test covers all three states end to end through the multipart decoder, plus service-level tests for preserve and explicit removal. <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit * **New Features** * Apple MDM declaration updates now support preserving, replacing, or explicitly removing activation settings. * Omitted activation fields leave existing settings unchanged, while empty fields remove them. * Apple OS update declarations retain activation settings by default. * **Bug Fixes** * Labels-only updates no longer unintentionally carry forward activation data. * Invalid, empty, or conflicting activation uploads now receive clear validation errors. * Unsupported profile types now reject activation updates. * **Tests** * Added coverage for activation preservation, replacement, removal, and integration scenarios. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai -->
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Open-source platform for IT and security teams with thousands of computers. Designed for APIs, GitOps, webhooks, YAML, and humans.
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Fleet gives you a single system to secure and maintain all your computing devices over the air. You can do MDM, patch stuff, deploy software, and verify anything, all from one place, across every OS your organization uses.
Fleet works directly with data and events from the native operating system, down to the bare metal. Strong diagnostics let you investigate errors on end-user devices and collect accurate audit evidence in minutes.
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Manage your fleet with GitOps, or use the GUI, REST API, webhook events, and the fleetctl command-line tool.
Linux support
First-class support for all major distros. Linux gets the same attention and visibility as macOS and Windows.
Visibility and compliance
Fleet can report on hundreds of attributes across your devices and ships with CIS benchmarks for macOS and Windows and comprehensive operating system, hardware, and software data. Check out the table reference documentation to see what's available.
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Fleet is open source and transparent about what it can and can't see. End users can verify exactly how the agent works and what data their company collects. Fleet collects only the data needed to manage and secure devices, not private activity like keystrokes, emails, or webcams.
Good neighbors
Ready-to-use, enterprise-friendly integrations exist for Snowflake, Splunk, GitHub Actions, Vanta, Elastic Jira, Zendesk, and more. Fleet also works with tools such as Munki, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, CrowdStrike, and SentinelOne.
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Fleet is lightweight and modular. You can use it for MDM without using it for security, and vice versa. You can turn off features you are not using.
Free as in free
The free version of Fleet will always be free. Fleet is independently backed and actively maintained with the help of many amazing contributors.
Longevity
The company behind Fleet is founded (and majority-owned) by true believers in open source. The company's business model is influenced by GitLab (NYSE: GTLB), with great investors, happy customers, and the capacity to become profitable at any time.
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The free version of Fleet is available under the MIT license. The commercial license is also designed to allow contributions to paid features for users whose employment agreements allow them to contribute to open source projects. (See LICENSE.md for details.)
Fleet is built on osquery, nanoMDM, Nudge, and swiftDialog.