Cobbler v3.1.2 Release Notes

Release Date: 2020-05-27 // about 3 years ago
  • ๐Ÿš€ This release syncs release30 with master. No patches for release30 were needed specifically.

    ๐Ÿ”€ We have +13,585 additions and โˆ’6,365 removals. We have merged 45 pull requests.

    ๐Ÿ†• New :

    • For the distro there is now a parameter remote_boot_initrd and remote_boot_kernel ()
    • For the profile there is now a parameter filename for DHCP. (#2280)
    • Signatures for ESXi 6 and 7 (#2308)
    • The hardlink command is now detected more dynamically and thus more error resistant (#2297)
    • HTTPBoot will now work in some cases out of the bug. (#2295)
    • โž• Additional DNS query for a case where the wrong record was queried in the nsupdate system case (#2285)

    ๐Ÿ”„ Changes :

    • ๐Ÿšš Enabled a lot of tests, removed some and implemented new. (#2202)
    • โœ‚ Removed not used files from the codebase. (#2302)
    • Exchanged mkisofs to xorrisofs. (#2296)
    • โœ‚ Removed duplicate code. (#2224)
    • โœ‚ Removed unreachable code. (#2223)
    • Snippet creation and deletion now works again via xmlrpc. (#2244)
    • Replace createrepo with createrepo_c. (#2266)
    • Enable Kerberos through having a case sensitive users.conf. (#2272)

    ๐Ÿ›  Bugfixes :

    • ๐Ÿ›  General various Bugfixes (#2331, )
    • Makefile usage and commands. (#2344, #2304)
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix the dhcp template. (#2314)
    • Creation of the management classes and gPXE. (#2310)
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix the scm_track module. (#2275, #2279)
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix passing the netdevice parameter correctly to the linuxrc. (#2263)
    • powerstatus from cobbler now works thanks to a wrapper for ipmitool. (#2267)
    • In case the LDAP is used for auth, it now works with ADs. (#2274)
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix passthru authentication. (#2271)

    Other :

    ๐Ÿ’ฅ Breaking Changes :

    • Hash handling in users.digest file. (#2299)
    • โšก๏ธ When using a DEB or RPM we no longer replace the configs. So config updates need to be done by yourself.