Bcfg2 1.3.5

Release notes available at http://docs.bcfg2.org/releases/index.html#releases-1-3-5

Bcfg2 1.3.2

We are happy to announce the release of Bcfg2 1.3.2. It is available for download at:

ftp://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/bcfg

This release fixes a great number of bugs in 1.3.1, but it also comes with many fun and exciting new features. Please read the release notes thoroughly -- there are lots of good bits in here!

The following are user-facing changes:

• In order to run an Action in a shell and use shell features (like && chaining, pipes, etc.), you must now specify shell="true" in the Action tag: http://docs.bcfg2.org/server/plugins/generators/rules.html#action-tag
• The RMI calls to set debugging on the FAM driver have changed from set_fam_debug and toggle_fam_debug to <driver>.set_debug and <driver>.toggle_debug (e.g., Inotify.toggle_debug)

The following is a non-exhaustive list of new features and bug fixes:

• New bootstatus attribute in Service tags allows the specification of a boot-time status separately from the current status attribute. This allows for more fine-grained control over, e.g., services that are really just boot scripts: http://docs.bcfg2.org/server/plugins/generators/rules.html#service-tag
• New multiprocessing server core and bcfg2-test
• VCS Path entries using SVN can now take revision='latest'
• VCS Path entries using Git can now take a refname as the revision. Other improvements as well.
• New GroupLogic plugin lets you write arbitrary Genshi to generate group memberships: http://docs.bcfg2.org/server/plugins/connectors/grouplogic.html
• Added support for wildcard XInclude: http://docs.bcfg2.org/server/plugins/grouping/metadata.html#wildcard-xinclude
• Svn plugin: New options to specify username and password, trust SSL certificates
• Added feature to set default authentication type globally
• Greatly improved the code for executing external commands during client runs
• Packages plugin exposes get_config() function to get configs for other hosts, useful for generating configs for other applications (e.g., mock)
• Added option to force server to block until all FAM events are processed
• Lots of improvements to bcfg2-profile-templates.py tool
• POSIXGroup tags now support better <MemberOf group="foo"/> syntax
• New tool to facilitate migrating from Probes XML backend to database backend
• New config option to set arbitrary database options
• bcfg2-yum-helper: Handle and log errors better; produce fewer errors; avoid database locking bug that could result in hung helpers
• Various debugging improvements
• Various IPv6 fixes
• Various fixes for bcfg2-info: better help messages, better packageresolve, option parsing fixes, fixed bcfg2-info config
• bcfg2-lint improvements, fixes, and new tests
• Cleaned up spec file, Debian and Solaris builds
• Fixed handling of Ctrl-C in severl places
• Fixed schemas that required more attributes than necessary when using the Defaults plugin
• Fixed .cat and .diff behavior with host-specific base files
• Fixed Portage version verification
• Fixed return values from init scripts
• Fixed calculation of average times in bcfg2-admin perf
• Lots of code cleanup
• Many other bug fixes

Special thanks to all of our contributors for 1.3.1: Alexander Sulfrian, Dan Foster, !DongInn Kim, Duncan Hutty, Jake Davis, Jason Kincl, Jon Norman, Luke Cyca, Michael Fenn, Phil Miller, and Tim Laszlo

v1.3.0rc2

tagged 1.3.0rc2 release

v1.3.0rc1

tagged v1.3.0rc1 release

v1.3.0pre2

tagged 1.3.0pre2 release

v1.3.0pre1

tagged 1.3.0pre1 release