Hello everyone, It is not Released! It Escapes! Cobbler 2.0 is here!
Cobbler 2.0 represents a great amount of work by numerous individuals here to make a Cobbler that is not only 0.4 points better than the previous version, but also much more ready to handle an increasingly larger development community. It is the Cobbler release that is most different than other cobbler releases, but also (as always) allows an upgrade from previous versions. A tremendous thanks to all who made it possible, for I could not do it without you. What can you look forward to? 2.0 brings an all (now seperate, optional, and much shinier and more usable) new cobbler-web RPM, a blinding fast XMLRPC-backed replacement for the command line (even for insanely large configurations you'll never wait for it to crank through your cobbler configuration), and overhauled/smarter multi-server replication feature, and a new core that makes it infinitely easier for new contributors to go in and add things to Cobbler. For programmers, you can now do everything over XMLRPC that you previously needed the Python API to do -- thanks to a new background task engine, everything is now remoteable. (Look forward to upgrades to this task engine in future releases, though API compatibility will remain intact!). While Cobbler-Web is one feature everyday users will quickly take note of, much of this release is geared towards making it easier to integrate cobbler with other applications and make it easier to work on Cobbler for everyone in the cobbler community. And it's out now: http://people.fedoraproject.org/~mdehaan/files/cobbler/testing/ This will all be pushed to the Fedora and EPEL mirrors shortly. For those using EPEL (for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5, and derived distributions), you should note that EPEL now has a much better concept of a "testing" repo that works like Fedora's does now. Rather than having content be promoted automatically based on time, we can choose when to move things to stable. As a result, when Cobbler 2.0 is available via the mirrors, we'll initially have it in the "testing" repos for both Fedora and EPEL. Based on user feedback, we can decide when we're ready to move it to the main repo and upgrade everyone. The more feedback we get, the sooner we can make that decision, so please help pound on it. As with previous releases, we'll presumably have several dot releases for fixes and minor improvements as we consider what goes into the next version. You can take a note of what's new (and also some upgrade instructions you might want to read over) on the Wiki: https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/WhatsNewInTwoOh Please share any comments you have here, and happy Cobbler'ing! Once again, a huge thanks to everyone who contributed ideas, testing, code, and/or feedback to this release. You are much appreciated! --Michael _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
