The guardian core and cdsutils packages were upgraded today:

• guardian: r1485
• cdsutils: r494

After a couple of small issues were ironed out, the guardian machine was rebooted and all nodes are up and running with the new versions:

Notable fixes/features in the new version:

guardian:

• fix handling of jumps in MANUAL mode: jumps are ignored and treated as if the state had returned True (does not leave state)
• managers: add STATUS and STALLED node channels; Node.done property returns True if state is "DONE"
• import mechanism was fixed so that all code imports are properly registered and committed to the archive
• removed MANAGED button from main overview screen (was determined that it wasn't used and was more confusing than not.  It's still available from the STATES screen.)
• "guardlog -x" will open a standard guardlog xterm window
• NOMINAL states are no longer required to be requestable
• better exception handling for connection errors: NDS connection errors should produce CERROR, which should clear up on their own after the server comes back.

cdsutils:

• ezca, nds, better connection exception handling
• gpstime: add "parse" classmethod that can parse arbitrary time/date specifications
• added gpstime cli that can return local, UTC, and GPS times for arbitrary time/date specification