Release Announcements

1.3.6

We are happy to announce the release of Bcfg2 1.3.6. It is available for download at:

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

This is primarily a bugfix release.

• Fix python 2.4 compatibility
• Fix stale lockfile detection and behavior
• Reporting: fix filter urls
• Fix client protocol option handling
• YUM: Add options to enable and disable Yum plugins
• Packages: add name to sources
• Reporting: better exception handling
• Various interrupt handling fixes
• Fix client decision whitelist/blacklist handling
• Fix database OPTIONS parsing This change requires you to set the options value of the [database section in bcfg2.conf to the literal value which is passed through to the django OPTIONS setting. https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/ref/settings/#std:setting-OPTIONS
• SYSV: change instances of simplename to simplefile Previous configurations can be updated using the migration tool.
• Authentication: Reject passwd auth, if authentication is set to “cert”
• Server/Core: drop privileges even if not running as daemon
• Packages/Yum.py: Fix dependency resolution logic
• Handle filesystem secontexts properly for contextless filesystems

Special thanks to the following contributors for this release: Michael Fenn, Matt Kemp, Alexander Sulfrian, Jonathan Billings, Ross Smith.

1.3.5

We are happy to announce the release of Bcfg2 1.3.5. It is available for download at:

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

This is primarily a bugfix release.

• Properly close db connections
• Improved error messages
• Fix yum upgrade/downgrade
• Enable bcfg2-yum-helper to depsolve for arches incompatible with server
• Spec file fixes
• bcfg2-crypet: Default to only (En|De)crypt vars that need it
• Fix email reporting bug
• Fix debsums parsing
• Fix solaris makefile
• SYSV: Implement downloading and installing SYSV packages from HTTP: http://docs.bcfg2.org/client/tools.html#sysv
• Fix debian bcfg2-server init script

Special thanks to the following contributors for this release: John Morris, Jonathan Billings, Chris Brinker, Tim Laszlo, Matt Kemp, Michael Fenn, Pavel Labushev, Nathan Olla, Alexander Sulfrian.

1.3.4

We are happy to announce the release of Bcfg2 1.3.4. It is available for download at:

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

This is primarily a bugfix release.

• New probes.allowed_groups option to restrict group assignments
• Bundler fixes:
  • Fix parsing XML template output with encoding declaration
• bcfg2-lint:
  • Resolve XIncludes when parsing XML for validation
  • New TemplateAbuse plugin to detect templated scripts
  • New ValidateJSON plugin
• bcfg2-crypt fixes:
  • Fix logic
  • Improve debugging/error handling with Properties files
  • Fix exception handling
  • Handle error when encrypting properties with multiple keys
• Add new Augeas client tool driver: http://docs.bcfg2.org/client/tools/augeas.html
• Restored bcfg2-admin client add functionality
• Migration tool fixes
• Schema fixes
• Add Django 1.6 support
• Use ‘public’ default pgsql database schema
• Refresh essential packages during Packages.Refresh
• Allow lxml.etree XML implementation to parse very large documents
• Support ACLs without a specific user/group
• Explicitly close database connections at the end of each client run
• Fix verification of symlinks

Special thanks to the following contributors for this release: Matt Baker, Simon Ruderich, Michael Fenn, Dan Foster, Richard Connon, John Morris.