[xen-tools-discuss] xen-tools 4.3 Release Candidate 1 released

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

I just tagged and pushed the xen-tools release candidate 4.3rc1, and
uploaded it to the website[1] as well as to Debian Unstable[2]. Upload
to my xen-tools PPA[3] for Ubuntu will follow soon.

  [1] http://xen-tools.org/software/xen-tools/releases.html
  [2] http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xen-tools.html
      http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xen-tools/news/20120608T135132Z.html
  [3] https://launchpad.net/~xtaran/+archive/xen-tools (Should appear
      there within the next day or so.)

New features:

  * Proxy-Support for APT based distributions (Option --apt_proxy; by
    Alex Tomlins <alex.tomlins at unboxedconsulting.com>,
    http://bugs.debian.org/610457)
  * Optionally executing role scripts after config file creation
    (Option --finalrole; by Pieter Barrezeele <macbar at fab4.be>) 
  * Optionally skip formatting (Option --dontformat; by Pieter
    Barrezeele <macbar at fab4.be>)
  * Support for rinse 2.0
  * Support /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ (http://bugs.debian.org/650300;
    xt-guess-suite-and-mirror exits with non-zero if no proper mirror
    could be extracted from /etc/apt/sources.list or
    /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list. Thanks Phil Frost!)
  * Also disable initctl in the chroot, not only start-stop-daemon
    (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xen/+bugs/997063; Thanks
    xstasi!)

Other major changes:

  * Massive code deduplication in hooks directory (see
    https://www.ohloh.net/p/xen-tools/analyses/latest and after the
    end of the week likely also at
    https://github.com/xtaran/xen-tools/graphs/code-frequency)

Newly supported distribution releases:

  * Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric
    (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xen/+bugs/848654)
  * Ubuntu 12.04 Precise LTS
  * Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal (preliminary)
  * CentOS 6 (by Johan Schurer; pygrub support still incomplete;
    http://bugs.debian.org/578399)

Bugs fixed:

  * Correctly checks and documents valid values for disk_device.
    (http://bugs.debian.org/621499)
  * Workaround for missing unit parsing in xen-create-nfs
    (http://bugs.debian.org/648814)
  * Fixes wildcard vs regexp in memory configuration parsing.
  * Fix misbehaviour if --ip option is passed multiple times
    (http://bugs.debian.org/652110; Thanks Brian Bennett and Alexander
    Mette!)
  * Only attempts to generate the ssh host keys if not already present
    (http://bugs.debian.org/607236; Thanks Vagrant Cascadian!)
  * Always write down root partition as first physical device,
    otherwise pygrub fails (http://bugs.debian.org/609673)
  * No more expect at least one option to mkfs.* calls. Fixes btrfs
    creation. (http://bugs.debian.org/609982)
  * Fixes call to non-existent function logPrint
    (http://bugs.debian.org/673335)
  * Use release blacklist for libc6-xen instead of whitelist in
    hooks/debian.d/20-setup-apt
  * Enforces umask 022 in 50-setup-hostname* (http://bugs.debian.org/619630)

Download:

  Source Code:

  http://xen-tools.org/software/xen-tools/xen-tools-4.3rc1.tar.gz
  MD5:  ec6add5d7c463e7233516fb56bdc4c4b
  SHA1: f15eb3c373c400921b026ccbd14e202b56ad0429

  Debian/Ubuntu Package:

  http://xen-tools.org/software/xen-tools/xen-tools_4.3~rc1-1_all.deb
  MD5:  d5c03775b4562d6d40f3246df1dde4d8
  SHA1: ec4a6228717f028966ef42c76642fb4686ce721b

I'm happy about any feedback, especially bug reports (either on the
mailing lists or in the Debian Bug Tracking System) as I plan to
release and upload 4.3 "final" next week.

		Have fun, Axel
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