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November 20, 2006

Thanks to Sami Haahtinen, bcfg2 is now included in both Debian Etch and Ubuntu Feisty.

November 12, 2006

​Bcfg2-0.8.6.1 released.

• Fix for APT-based clients
• Schema updates
• Fix serious Cfg bug

November 03, 2006

​Bcfg2-0.8.5 released.

• Client Refactor Completed
• Nexenta support
• New bcfg2-admin functions

September 15, 2006

​Bcfg2-0.8.4 released.

• Several init script and cron job bugs have been fixed
• TCheetah is now usable (see TCheetahPlugin?)
• Several new utilities are packaged
  • bcfg2-admin (helps to create new server deployments)
  • bcfg2-query (query clients file based on profile, status, etc)
• StatReports has been renamed to bcfg2-build-reports, for consistency's sake
• Editor and svn tempfile handling has been moved to the file monitoring core.
• Added logcheck configs for the debian packages

September 5, 2006

​Bcfg2-0.8.3 released.

• Extensible variable interpolation in Cfg (substitution of @@[email protected]@, etc)
• Considerably improved Debian support (no longer does anything in dry-run mode; does not call apt-get clean, etc unless explicitly told to)
• Considerably improved Solaris support (better handling of smf legacy services and removal of sysv packages)
• A bug causing web report failures was fixed
• An interactive client mode has been implemented (prompting for which configuration entries can be updated in a client run)
• The debian packaging has been completely redone
• The init script has been rewritten to be lsb compliant
• Cron scripts are now provided, and packaged with debs and rpms
• The Encap packaging has been dramatically improved, and should now work properly on solaris
• Hostbase (an IP management system) has been updated, and its web interface is available in thsi release.
• The bcfg2 client can now autoselect between lxml, elementtree, and the integrated version of elementtree in python2.5. This means that the client can be run using _only_ python2.5 as a prereq!
• Added a new debian package index creation script
• Updated rpmlisting.py (use file name parsing if possible, yielding 50X speedup for properly formatted file repositories)
• Added a new utility to query clients.xml based on client properties (up/down, profile, etc)
• Fixed syslog reconnect code (triggered by syslog restart)
• Fixed syslog compatibility with solaris
• The Redhat toolset now calls rpm -e with --allmatches
• Various schema fixes

July 21, 2006

​Bcfg2-0.8.2 released.

• This release includes several important new features (see the transition guide for details)
• New reporting system
• Better repository generation scripts
• Group visualization tools
• A number of client bugfixes
• redhat i386/x86_64 multiarch support
• svn repository support
• Rules plugin
• Entry verification failure diagnosis

March 1, 2006

​Bcfg2-0.8.1 released.

• New logging infrastructure (making more of bcfg's functions transparent)
• Switched to PyOpenSSL
• Several client operational bugs fixed

January 20, 2006

​Bcfg2-0.8.0 released.

• New repository format
• More powerful classing system
• Many bugfixes

January 16, 2006

​Bcfg2-0.7.4 released.

• This is the final version of bcfg2-0.7.4
• Several critical toolset bugs fixed
• Several reporting bugs fixed

December 07, 2005

Paper presentation at ​LISA 2005.

December 01, 2005

​Bcfg2-0.7.3 released.

• XML-RPC is now the default
• SSS code is gone
• Moved to new event coalescing mechanism for fam/gamin events
• Better error handling when starting with an empty repository
• Reports enhancements: all data needed to understand node configuration states is now included in web reports

November 09, 2005

Bcfg2-0.7.2 released.

• Polished up XML-RPC support and packaging
• Important Redhat client bugfixes.

November 07, 2005

Bcfg2-0.7.1 released.

• Gamin support (needed to run on RHEL)
• Base XML-RPC/HTTPS support
• Extra configuration entries now included in reports
• Add timing information to statistics
• Integrate extra package removal into entry re-verification

November 18, 2005

Paper presentation at ​AUUG2005
Bcfg2: A Pay as you Go Approach to Configuration Complexity

October 05, 2005

Bcfg2-0.7.0 released.

• Switch to fqdns for all host information
• Add more documentation
• Switch to Plugin API

September 02, 2005

Bcfg2-0.6.10 released.

• Solaris client support
• Gentoo client support
• Report system revamp
• Fix Cfg deltas

July 19, 2005

Bcfg2-0.6.9 released.

May 12, 2005

Bcfg2-0.6.8 released.

April 11, 2005

Bcfg2-0.6.7 released.

• Client refactor
• Implement extra service removal in debian toolset

March 29, 2004

Bcfg2-0.6.6 released.

• Documentation updates

February 16, 2005

Bcfg2-0.6.5 released.

• Client metadata assertion

February 01, 2005

Bcfg2-0.6.4 released.

• Added bcfg2debug

January 07, 2005

Bcfg2-0.6.3 released.

• Redhat client support

December 16, 2004

Bcfg2-0.6.1 released.

• Packaging fixes

November 12, 2004

Bcfg2-0.6 released.

• Ready for real use
• Repository validation utility
• init.d service support
• Generator error handling
• Cheetah generator

October 12, 2004

Bcfg2-0.5 released.

• Decent debian client support
• Two-way verification support
• Daemon actually daemonizes
• Client-side bundle support
• Toolset API

October 06, 2004

Bcfg2-0.4 released.

• Core completed
• Code runs without problems on Chiba
• Pkgmgr implemented
• Base implemented

August 31, 2004

Bcfg2-0.3.1 released.

• Basic generators done
• Good enough to test against