Fog v1.5.8 Release Notes
Release Date: 2020-02-20 // about 4 years ago-
🚀 https://news.fogproject.org/fog-1-5-8-officially-released/
🐛 BUG Fixes:
- 👉 Use URL encoded parameter for password in CURL calls (587a25f, 79f94bd)
- 🖐 Handle VLAN network interface names like eth0@if56 properly when enumerating interfaces (a2fc95e)
- 🛠 Fix LDAP port in plugin code (97b57ac, 403d1d1)
- Repair installer to work on all current Ubuntu versions (28debc9, 9233067, 4d61492, 79388ae)
- Rearange compile parameters as iPXE fails on SSL with CERT/TRUST not being last (e424b04)
- 🔄 Change type of alternative subject name information as modern browsers check those strictly (7fdb3f6)
- 👉 Use SSLCACertificateFile instead as SSLCertificateChainFile which is obsolete since Apache 2.4.8 (6f7d462)
- 👉 Make sure we wait until an interface with our known IP is up #268 (69b4c44)
- Only ask for PHP/apache reinstall if PHP 5 was found installed (70078be)
- 🏗 Repair building of iPXE binaries for HTTPS setups (296877d, 831d8ea)
- 🛠 Fix typo in snapin class (6314aa4 thanks to Quazz)
- 🔧 Repair version query in FOG configuration web view (8c69efc, fcfe759)
- 🛠 Fix storage group failure on task finish updating (3c28f7b)
- Prevent from setting a MAC address that is in use by another host (88e10d8)
- 🛠 Fix issue with double pipes in ad password field (9e70bc2)
- 🛠 Fix download of snapins from wrong FOG server in location setups (d0162c8)
- Prevent from adding group associations with zero host or group ID (cf01c7e, c0d8509)
- 🛠 Fix interface selection on systems where more than one NICs are up (ca3c2fa)
- 🛠 Fix API call to editing host object, #329 (54beb9b)
- Prevent from migrating to MariaDB on Ubuntu installs to not cause trouble (29af4df)
- Do not reset the image size on client value on client checkin (9ff8776)
- 🛠 Fix reports to work without groups and add search field (dde4d9d, b1f21c3, 7a6dc13)
- ⚡️ Correct package list update for Debian 10 buster upgrades (3f3b237)
👌 Improvements:
- ⚡️ Update README with current information on downloading and installing FOG (0922112)
- ➕ Add username substitution to email field for deployment notification (7f80368)
- Re-try querying size and hash information via HTTPS (0fd7913, 2e55ba9)
- 👉 Make sure we don't ask for HTTPS again if parameter is given (ac08798)
- 👌 Improve check on fogproject account existing (8af5b3e)
- ➕ Add separate download for ARM platform binary archive and compilation of iPXE (d67a620, 30c4200, 6b1b260, 91fc00a)
- ✂ Remove old pxelinux stuff and ltsp config so people don't use it anymore (50e2995)
- 🔄 Change default image definitions to Windows 10 and Zstd compression (45ec9fa)
- ➕ Add Ubuntu 20.xx support - tested on daily build currently PHP 7.3 (91f7cb0)
- ➕ Add installer question on enabling HTTPS (755cbc4)
- Switch to auto colors for bandwith graph (0ffd39f)
- Present storage node settings to the user more clearly (4226527)
- 👌 Improve database security by using less privileged account and force users to set a DB root password #355 (490cb3b, cc71a32)
- ➕ Add check for proper root environemnt within the installer (3c2d492)
- ➕ Add kernel parameter to disable problematic power saving for NVMe drives (e67ce75)
- ✂ Remove feature to add a changed primary MAC as additional MAC (8c820e2)
- ⚡️ Update installer to work on Ubuntu 19.xx (ab61ce0)
- Hide/mask AD password from users eyes, #337 (72b0de0)
- 👌 Improve firewall check to make it work for CentOS 8 as well (a039fd4)
- ⚡️ Update installer to work on CentOS 8 (3e125db, 5ff4c8b)
- ➕ Add sanity checking in the remote file hash and size response (933d7c3, bee5419 thanks to @mjrider)
- ✅ Only test the availability of the remote nodes once (b511e16 thanks to @mjrider)
- ➕ Add hints on image type setting including a link to the wiki article (2c17837)
- ➕ Add check for snapin file upload size to print appropriate warning to the user (1f4ad45)
- Re-add code for ARM based bootloaders (PR #327, thanks to parkerberb-nfv)
- ➕ Add iPXE AXGE native binary for ASIX AX88179 USB 3.0 (156001f)
- ✅ Ensure we download the latest hashsum to check the binaries against (9235729)
- ➕ Added possibilty to queue multicast task when the is not any slot free on the storage node (PR #310, bdbaf33 thanks to @fernando Gietz)
FOG Operating System (FOS):
🐛 BUG Fixes:
- 👯 Repair issues with partclone.imager that were introduced with version 0.3.12 (7faf4b6, 8b60ec0)
- ⚡️ Update awk cmd lines to no longer escape unncessarily (6f2f46a, 80e959a, 5f0e7b5 thanks to @Quazz)
- Get NVMe device names right (e0202be, 276b22d)
- 🛠 Fix swap fs creation if capture and deploy use different disk technologies - SATA/SSD vs. NVMe vs. mmcblk (07fee1a)
- 👉 Make reize way more unreliable by adding flock to sfdisk calls (fd3daf2 also backported to 1.5.7)
👌 Improvements:
- ⚡️ Update Linux Kernel (4.19.90) and Buildroot (2019.04.8)
- ⚡️ Update various packages: Partclone (0.3.13), Zstd (1.4.4), Testdisk & Photorec (7.1) - many thanks to @Quazz
- ➕ Add NVME cli utility (a6b7d24 thanks to @Quazz)
- ➕ Add error output when an error happens on partition layout restore (0e893c1)
- 👌 Improve algorithm to match destinations in multi disk setups (4439247)
- 👍 Allow for higher CPU core numbers and add Intel idle driver to fix #31 (fe58b6a)
- 🛠 Prevent from adding partitions to fixed list twice and sort the list
- ➕ Add support for APFS filesystem (e151e67, 6c01ce6)
- ➕ Add rsyncable options when calling partclone (3cc47ca)