| 1 | '''This version has not been released yet. This is the announcement for RC2. This is Sol's email to bcfg2-dev mailing list.''' |
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| 5 | A new release for bcfg2 1.2.0rc2 is now available at: |
| 6 | |
| 7 | ftp://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/bcfg |
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| 9 | |
| 10 | The following highlights some of the major changes from the first |
| 11 | release candidate: |
| 12 | |
| 13 | * SSHbase - Add a number of features |
| 14 | |
| 15 | * Support for group-specific host keys |
| 16 | * Support for fully static host- and group-specific ssh_known_hosts |
| 17 | * (Support for totally generic host keys and ssh_known_hosts, too, |
| 18 | but that's pretty useless.) |
| 19 | * Support for info.xml, info, and :info files; only info.xml is likely |
| 20 | to be useful, with the <Path> directive |
| 21 | * ECDSA key support from ticket #1063 |
| 22 | |
| 23 | * Packages |
| 24 | |
| 25 | * Improve error handling of Packages plugin (from Mike McCallister) |
| 26 | * The following is from Chris St. Pierre: |
| 27 | * Added support for yum libraries (if available and configured). |
| 28 | This can dramatically reduce memory usage, and fixed several bugs: |
| 29 | * #1014 (Package plugin can't resolve dependencies for rpms with |
| 30 | Require: tags for full paths that aren't Provided explicitly) |
| 31 | * #991 (Dependency Resolution difference between Package and yum) |
| 32 | * #996 (Packages high memory usage) |
| 33 | * Added support for Yum package groups when using yum libraries |
| 34 | (#1039) |
| 35 | * Fixed #911 (bcfg2 output for wrong package version with Packages |
| 36 | is misleading) |
| 37 | * YUMng turns down the Yum debug level itself depending on the |
| 38 | debug/verbosity level requested by bcfg2 so you don't have to reduce |
| 39 | the Yum debug level on a global basis |
| 40 | * Added support for Pulp repositories, including registering Pulp |
| 41 | consumers and binding to repositories |
| 42 | * Added ability to disable magic OS groups |
| 43 | |
| 44 | * improve error logging during LDAP query processing (from Torsten Rehn) |
| 45 | * Cfg: Add support for .cheetah files (from Joe Digilio) |
| 46 | * Initial support for the APK management in Alpine Linux (from Fabian |
| 47 | Affolter on behalf of Cameron Banta) |
| 48 | * made all XMLFileBacked plugins (e.g., GroupPatterns) support XInclude |
| 49 | (from Chris St. Pierre) |
| 50 | * added Defaults plugin (from Chris St. Pierre) |
| 51 | * made templated bundles understand <Group> and <Client> tags (from |
| 52 | Chris St. Pierre) |
| 53 | * Reports: Make database_port setting optional (from Holger Weiß) |
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| 55 | In addition to those mentioned above, we also received contributions |
| 56 | from anatoly techtonik and Calen Pennington. Thanks to everyone who |
| 57 | contributed. |
| 58 | |
| 59 | There are Ubuntu packages built and available in the testing PPA. |
| 60 | |
| 61 | We are in need of some more testing before we tag the final release. |
| 62 | Please test and report any bugs here or on IRC, Trac, or Github. |
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| 66 | Sol |