Michael DeHaan wrote: > It's time to play the music. > It's time to light the lights. > It's time to announce the Cobbler on the mailing list tonight. > > Or something. I felt like some fanfare was required. > > Cobbler 1.4's been a very special and looooong release. The last > stable release, 1.2 came out at the end of August (with update releases > for 1.2 still coming out through October), and the development branch of > Cobbler has been taking off since then. We've kept it going because I > didn't want to stop the energy. It's been huge. Not counting things > applied to the 1.2.X branch, the changelog is almost 70 items long > (http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/cobbler.git?p=cobbler;a=blob_plain;f=CHANGELOG;hb=1aae8e137ddf857e65027f492fbdff9a373fdd13). > > The levels of involvement are at an all time high and the many features > you'll see have been developed by an extremely large amount of people, > which is definitely what I like to see -- Cobbler is definitely > achieving it's aims of being an install tool all administrators and > systems management developers can share, and that theme continues with > this release more than ever. > > So, what's new? > > There's a lot of features, largely described here. > https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/WhatsNewInThirteen. If that's > too much reading, what should you care about and use? > > -- Advanced networking setup. If you're using --hostname before, be > aware --dns-name does what the old hostname does. Your configurations > will be migrated automatically. > -- Integrated power management features so you can manage your power > configurations directly from cobbler, and make reinstallation of power > managed systems incredibly simple. > -- Much improved support for other distribtutions, such as Debian, which > will continue to evolve in future releases. > -- Support for ppc netbooting. Koan will now also do --replace-self on > ppc and s390 > -- Rescue profiles are automatically created during import time, > allowing them to be deployed over the network and used with "cobbler > buildiso" > -- Virtual image cloning, and better options for managing things like > memtest and assigning images to netboot to specific systems, images can > also be edited in the webapp > -- Web application reorganization and many new fields, and a much > improved editor for multiple network interfaces > -- Upgrades to reposync to support multiple retries and to be able to > ignore failures on particular repos > -- Better integration with Puppet and also a new lightweight built-in > configuration management system based on Cobbler templates. > -- Lots of bugfixes and minor improvements that are too numerous to name. > -- Easier registration and key management for Red Hat Satellite Server > and RHN Hosted, for those using those applications > -- ... and a lot of other things > > A huge thanks to everyone that helped with ideas, development, and > testing of the 1.3.X branch and this release. I've said it before, but > I really mean it -- this release could not happen without all of you. > > RPMs have been pushed to Fedora 8, 9, 10 and rawhide, as well as EPEL-4 > and EPEL-5 (testing for now, stable when that rolls over). You can > also find source RPMs and tarballs at > http://people.fedoraproject.org/~mdehaan/files/cobbler/ > > Please report any problems you find as we will continue to do update > releases to this stable branch as we work on the 1.5.X release. > > For those interested in the development branch, it is once again active > and repurposed for 1.5 (remember, we're using the odd=devel, even=stable > numbering scheme) -- I will be looking at merging the backlog of patches > today and Monday, and you'll be hearing more from me shortly about > broader plans and some of the things I'd like to focus on for the future. > > Happy installing! > > --Michael > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler >
Minor change/clarification: Fedora 8 doesn't have very long left for updates (so it wouldn't be able to get many updates to the 1.4 branch), so we're going to leave F8 at 1.2.9. --Michael _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
