Dear list,

Last week we released Beaker 0.9.0. This release features a new lab controller daemon, beaker-provision, to replace Cobbler. It brings better performance, stability, and memory efficiency, especially in large labs.

For most sites upgrading should be as simple as disabling cobblerd and enabling beaker-provision, along with the usual upgrade steps. However if you are relying on any Cobbler features directly, please read this migration document as additional action may be required:

http://beaker-project.org/cobbler-migration.html

If you are using Cobbler to manage non-Beaker systems then you can continue to do so as before; the new beaker-provision daemon can co-exist with cobblerd.

Beaker 0.9.0 also includes a number of other minor bug fixes. Refer to the release archive for full details:

http://beaker-project.org/releases/

As you may have noticed, to coincide with this release Beaker has a brand new, fully revamped web site located at

http://beaker-project.org/

We hope that this new web site will make it easier to find Beaker documentation and to keep up to date on the latest releases. Feedback and contributions to the new web site are very welcome (preferably in the form of patches). The source for the web site is available in git:

http://git.beaker-project.org/cgit/beaker-project.org/

In the near future we will phase out Beaker's existing web resources at Fedora Hosted and fedorapeople.org in favour of this new web site.