Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of ReleaseAnnouncement/1.3.0pre1

Timestamp:

08/31/12 13:20:14 (11 years ago)

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ReleaseAnnouncement/1.3.0pre1

@@ -37 +37 @@
   * DB2 support for reports
   * Encryption support
-    * Ability to store encrypted Cfg/TGenshi/TCheetah files
-    * Properties element encryption
+    * Ability to store encrypted Cfg/TGenshi/TCheetah files (http://docs.bcfg2.org/dev/server/plugins/generators/cfg.html#encrypted-files)
+    * Properties element encryption (http://docs.bcfg2.org/dev/server/plugins/connectors/properties.html#encrypted-properties-data)
     * bcfg2-crypt utility for encrypting Properties and Cfg files
   * New bcfg2-test tool for building all client configurations and verifying that they contain no failures. (Raul Cuza/Calen Pennington)
@@ -44 +44 @@
     * SVN postcommit log message script
     * template render benchmarking script
-  * Support for on-the-fly or on-demand Cfg file syntax checking
+  * Support for on-the-fly or on-demand Cfg file syntax checking (http://docs.bcfg2.org/dev/server/plugins/generators/cfg.html#content-validation)
   * Much improved Genshi error handling
-  * New Properties convenience method, XMLMatch(), and automatch attribute allow you to write structured Properties files and then automatically access only data apropos to a client in templates rendered for that client
+  * New Properties convenience method, XMLMatch(), and automatch attribute allow you to write structured Properties files and then automatically access only data apropos to a client in templates rendered for that client (http://docs.bcfg2.org/dev/server/plugins/connectors/properties.html#automatch)
   * Implemented "service removal" (via status attribute #1075)
   * Improvements to bcfg2-admin interface
   * OpenCSW client tool
-  * Support for Puppet External Node Classifiers (http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/external_nodes.html)
-  * SELinux support
+  * Support for Puppet External Node Classifiers (http://docs.bcfg2.org/dev/server/plugins/connectors/puppetenc.html)
+  * SELinux support (http://docs.bcfg2.org/dev/server/selinux.html)
   * IPV6 support
-  * New, optional, higher-performance !CherryPy 3.2-based server core
+  * New, optional, higher-performance !CherryPy 3.2-based server core (http://docs.bcfg2.org/dev/server/backends.html)
   * Ability to query by bundle name in bcfg2-admin query
   * Metadata enhancements
-    * Client tags in groups.xml
-    * nested Group tags in groups.xml
-    * negated groups in groups.xml
-    * database-backed plugin for storage
-  * Ability to store probe data in database instead of probed.xml
-  * Support for ACLs (on filesystems that support them)
-  * New !TemplateHelper plugin allows storing and versioning Python snippets used in templates along with the rest of your Bcfg2 specification
-  * Added lots of unit tests
+    * Client tags, nested Group tags, and negated Group and Client tags in groups.xml (http://docs.bcfg2.org/dev/server/plugins/grouping/metadata.html#metadata-groups-xml)
+    * Database-backed plugin for storage (http://docs.bcfg2.org/dev/server/plugins/grouping/metadata.html#clients-database)
+  * Ability to store probe data in database instead of probed.xml (http://docs.bcfg2.org/dev/server/plugins/probes/index.html#data-storage)
+  * Support for ACLs (on filesystems that support them) (http://docs.bcfg2.org/dev/server/plugins/generators/rules.htmlacls)
+  * New !TemplateHelper plugin allows storing and versioning Python snippets used in templates along with the rest of your Bcfg2 specification (http://docs.bcfg2.org/dev/server/plugins/connectors/templatehelper.html)
+  * Added lots of unit tests and started using http://travis-ci.org for Continuous Integration testing
   * Improvements to XInclude handling (includes-of-includes, relative include fixes, XInclude support in more files)
   * Fixed and made configurable XML-RPC retries
+
+As usual, a monstrously huge shout-out to our many contributors; for 1.3.0 we received contributes from many people, including:
+
+  * Arto Jantunen
+  * Brent Bloxam
+  * Calen Pennington
+  * Calvin Cheng
+  * Christopher 'm4z' Holm
+  * Dan Foster
+  * !DongInn Kim
+  * Fabian Affolter
+  * Jack Neely
+  * Jake Davis
+  * Jeroen Dekkers
+  * John 'Skip' Reddy
+  * Jonathan Billings
+  * Luke Cyca
+  * Matt Kemp
+  * Raul Cuza
+  * Tim Laszlo
+  * Torsten Rehn