Hello everyone, It's time for us to release Cobbler 1.6.1 and the accompanying koan 1.6.1.
Release notes are here: https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/WhatsNewInOneSix This release contains a number of important things, as mentioned above, the most important being some EXTREMELY awesome performance speedups that I believe take Cobbler into a whole new level of enterprise worthiness. We also have a new S390 PXE simulator feature that I think is unlike anything (free) out there, and allows you to treat mainframes like physical systems. This is very cool. There are also a fair amount of bugfixes as well, which are always good to have. Please pound on things as much as possible. I've already built these in the build system and they should be available on mirrors shortly. If any problems come up, we'll fix them in a 1.6.1 release. If you have any questions, need any clarifications, or have any comments, please share them on this list. Development continues on the development branch of git, #cobbler-devel on irc.freenode.net, and https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler-devel I know I've said "I couldn't have done this without you" many times before, though this time I don't need to say it -- it's "We couldn't do this without Us". As shown on github, Cobbler is now a project where most of the changes happen outside of me (and in many cases, outside of Red Hat). This is tremendous, and thanks everyone for contributing -- not just coding -- but everyone, whether you have an interesting idea, a snippet, helped test this release, helped share cobbler at conferences, and so on. Please continue to share things with your friends and colleagues and we'll continue to absorb everyone's good ideas and code as we go along. (Also, adding yourself to https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/WhoUsesCobbler if you haven't done so already can't hurt! It's free press for your organization and Cobbler alike) The future of 1.8 looks very bright -- new network objects, increased cross-distribution support, and better support for virtual images are all on the line. We'll also probably see some new API ways of talking to Cobbler (AMQP+QMF) and so on. Look for more RFEs for Trac to get spun in as well as we continue moving forward. And as always, I expect to be suprised with a lot of new things I didn't predict were coming as well -- you all do an outstanding job of that. Thank you all for a great release. (If in fact we ended up screwing this release up horribly, just the same, let us know... we'll get you fixed up ASAP.) If you don't want to wait, source RPMs and tarballs are available here: http://people.fedoraproject.org/~mdehaan/files/cobbler/ --Michael _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
