| | 1 | We are happy to announce the release of Bcfg2 1.3.3. It is available for download at: |
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| | 3 | ftp://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/bcfg |
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| | 5 | This release fixes a great number of bugs in 1.3.2, but it also comes with many fun and exciting new features. Please read the release notes thoroughly. |
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| | 7 | The following user-facing change is included: |
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| | 9 | * The `when` attribute of Action tags is now honored even with timing set to "pre" or "both". |
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| | 11 | The following is a non-exhaustive list of new features and bug fixes: |
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| | 13 | * New AWSTags plugin sets groups and supplies data from AWS tag data: http://docs.bcfg2.org/server/plugins/connectors/awstags.html |
| | 14 | * Completely rewritten (and deduplicated) spec file for building RPMs |
| | 15 | * Completely rewritten `bcfg2-crypt`, which adds some features to allow decrypting Cfg files and encrypting/decrypting Properties files without specifying passphrases on the command line. |
| | 16 | * Multiprocessing core now actually works |
| | 17 | * Handle high-latency reporting database connections better |
| | 18 | * Timeout incomplete XML-RPC calls correctly and avoid stray threads. |
| | 19 | * Ensure that XIncluded Bundler and Properties files are monitored for changes |
| | 20 | * SSH key generation generation fixes: |
| | 21 | * More complete way to specify `authorized_keys` options |
| | 22 | * Fixed setting category specificity for `authorized_keys` |
| | 23 | * Properly generate public keys from private keys |
| | 24 | * Connector plugins can now create new groups and set options on them |
| | 25 | * Properly remove ACLs from managed files |
| | 26 | * POSIX improvements to help running as non-root (e.g., `bcfg2-info builddir`) |
| | 27 | * Fixes to `clients.xml` writing: |
| | 28 | * Reread `clients.xml` on every write. This could reduce performance if clients.xml is frequently updated, but also resolves a race condition where a new client may fail to declare its version or assert its profile. |
| | 29 | * Reduce number of `clients.xml` writes due to gratuitous profile assertions. |
| | 30 | * Chkconfig bugs fixed |
| | 31 | * List all services correctly |
| | 32 | * Let `chkconfig` assign default runlevels according to the init script |
| | 33 | * Fixed return value from `bcfg2-test` |
| | 34 | * Use `fam_blocking` option in all commands that start a server (`bcfg2-info`, `bcfg2-test`, etc.) |
| | 35 | * Reduce noise from encryption failures with `decrypt=lax` |
| | 36 | * POSIXUsers driver works better with older usermod |
| | 37 | * `bcfg2-yum-helper` improvements: |
| | 38 | * Much much better (and far less error-prone) yum caching |
| | 39 | * Added timeout to fix hanging yum problem |
| | 40 | * `bcfg2-info` fixes: |
| | 41 | * Fixed `automatch` behavior |
| | 42 | * Added `expirecache` command to expire metadata cache |
| | 43 | * Fixed inconsistent initial metadata group ordering and searching, which could result in inconsistent category suppression |
| | 44 | * SELinux properly looks up the default context in all cases |
| | 45 | * Several performance improvements, particularly on startup |
| | 46 | * Better packages caching |
| | 47 | * Various logging improvements |
| | 48 | * Various error handling improvements |
| | 49 | * Various !Debian/Ubuntu build fixes |
| | 50 | * Various `bcfg2-admin` viz fixes and improvements |
| | 51 | * Various UTF-8/unicode fixes |
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| | 53 | Special thanks to all of our contributors for 1.3.3: Alexander Sulfrian, Arto Jantunen, Duncan Hutty, Igor Widlinski, Jason Kincl, John Morris, Jonathan Billings, Michael Fenn, Stéphane Graber, and Tim Laszlo |
