Hi folks, it's time for another release. This is a bugfix
release to
continue the 1.6.X stable release branch.
It contains fixes for import, machine auto-discovery with koan, and (my
favorite) the mysterious unicode bug! There's also a lot of small fixes
that affect DHCP management, including a fix to ensure we close our file
descriptors properly, which should help with the annoying "cobbler sync
with dhcp management on results in dhcpd taking cobbler's port"
problem. Also a fun one to get sorted out :)
Changes to Cobbler:
- (BUGF) import with datestamp=0 when .discinfo is not found, do not crash
- (BUGF) various fixes to "cobbler report" when using non-standard formats
- (BUGF) rename with same name does not delete
- (BUGF) Fix for traceback when generating DHCP config and the
bonding_master interface does not exist.
- (BUGF) remove trailing newline from tokens
- (BUGF) fix unicode handling of some fields under EL4
- (BUGF) fix webui search error (fixed better on devel)
- (BUGF) fix duplicate power reference
- (BUGF) fix error message that makes it appear dnsmasq had a problem
restarting, when it did not
- (BUGF) workaround for blank ifnames
- (BUGF) spec now requires python-urlgrabber
- (BUGF) change settings default from 'ksdevice=eth0' to 'bootif'
- (BUGF) keep DHCP restart quiet
- (BUGF) better hostname setting with DHCP management on
- (BUGF) fix bug in repo breed auto-detection code
- (BUGF) close file descriptors by using subprocess, not os.system
- (BUGF) make cobbler package Arch for now, require syslinux where it
makes sense only. To be changed in later release to download it from
intertubes.
Changes to Koan:
- (BUGF) Workaround for autodiscovery code bug with rhpl as used when
--profile or --system is not set, or when using cobbler-register feature
Source RPMS and tarballs can be found at:
http://mdehaan.fedorapeople.org/files/cobbler/
The Fedora/EPEL build system has a temporary outage, so these should be
submitted for official builds (and availablility through yum) either
later today, this weekend, or Monday.
As usual, thanks for everyone who helped test or contributed fixes for
this release! If anyone has any problems, let us know, there will be
time for one or two more
1.6.X updates before we have 1.8 ready, I'm sure. (And all fixes we
make for 1.6.X get applied towards 1.8).
1.8 continues at full speed, with lots of great work lately on the Web
interface (moving to Django -- huge thanks to James Cammarata for a ton
of work there), new deployment features, and so on. If you're
interested in following development, I highly recommend joining
https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler-devel.
Thank you and happy installing!
--Michael
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Builds are now on their way from the builders to EPEL-testing and Fedora
yum repos.
Turns out I had some certificate issues on my end.
Cobbler will be numbered 1.6.3-2, though it's exactly the same as
1.6.3-1 just with a bumped spec file version to keep the build system happy.
Koan is 1.6.3-1.
--Michael