[xen-tools-discuss] xen-tools 4.6 released

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

I've just uploaded the tar-ball[0] and debian package of xen-tools 4.6
to the xen-tools.org website[1] as well to Debian Unstable[2]. I've
also pushed the according tags to the git repositories[3]. (Since
Gitorious is dead, xen-tools is now using Gitlab and Github instead.)

  [0] http://xen-tools.org/software/xen-tools/xen-tools-4.6.tar.gz
  [1] http://xen-tools.org/software/xen-tools/releases.html
  [2] http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xen-tools.html
      https://tracker.debian.org/news/699200
      https://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xen-tools/news/20150720T163856Z.html
  [3] https://github.com/xen-tools/xen-tools
      https://gitlab.com/xen-tools/xen-tools
      
Tags and the tar balls and .deb files on [1] are digitally signed by
my 4096-bits GPG key 612616B5 with finger print 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99
5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5. (Previous releases were signed with my
older 1024-bits GPG key 05030ede. The new key is also signed with my
old key.)

Checksums for the tar ball at [0]:

  MD5:    232389701902b799a43ac8de6bf66c11
  SHA1:   624c342cfc33f0f25f48235baddc45c13ac530e4
  SHA256: 7b478bf0fd3da6f091a543dcac260cac
  	  ea8f3de2f758c61b91f099acab0d2bc6
  SHA512: 3604ad884cb99547ac3a806fda441056
   	  95d7414a3a84400816634283f2117f54
 	  fcfb5f2dab40aa51f83cf92a0495984f
 	  bda50090ca76ea3bb56088aa74629b58

Changes from 4.5 to 4.6:

New Features and Major Changes

  * Drop all occurrences of apt's --force-yes parameter. It only
    forces the installation of untrusted packages and that's unwanted.
    (Closes Debian bug report #776487)
  * Support passing commandline options with --debootstrap-cmd.
  * Use MD5 as default hash method again, to be able to properly set
    passwords in older releases. Does not affect passwords changed
    later inside the DomU.
  * Split off hardcoded release code names list and default mirrors in
    xen-create-image into separate configuration file which are parsed
    before the default settings or command-line options are set.
  * Report all SSH fingerprints of the created DomU, not only RSA
    ones.
  * Support VLANs with Open vSwitch (GH-2). Thanks to Félix Barbeira
    for the patch.

New Options

  * --keyring (xen-create-image, xt-install-image)
  * --vlan (xen-create-image)

Distribution Releases Changes

  * Debian 9 Stretch (preliminary support)
  * Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf (preliminary support; not yet suported
    by debootstrap, see Debian bug report #787117)
  * Ubuntu 12.04 Lucid Lynx is now EoL.
  * Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn is now EoL.

Improvements

  * Make test suite support as-installed-testing.
  * Multiple release workflow improvements (target release in
    Makefile).
  * Supports unstable, oldstable and oldoldstable as distribution
    names, too. (oldoldstable is not yet supported by debootstrap, see
    Debian feature request #792734 in debootstrap.)

Bug Fixes

  * Fix usage of nonexistent variable in removeDebianPackage (Closes
    Debian bug report #774936) Thanks Lukas Schwaighofer!
  * Allows # within configuration file comments. (Closes Debian bug
    report #783060; thanks Jean-Michel Nirgal Vourgère for the bug
    report and patch!)
  * Use -o APT::Install-Recommends=false instead of
    --no-install-recommends for backwards compatibility with older APT
    versions which don't know either (but accept any Foo=Bar parameter
    to -o). Allows one to install earlier Debian releases (e.g. Etch)
    with the default configuration again.
  * Pass --yes to lvcreate only if LVM version is 2.02.99 or higher.
    Fixes regression introduced with 4.5 by the fix for Debian bug
    report #754517.

Other Changes

  * Change all occurrences of http.debian.net to httpredir.debian.org.
  * Installs bash completion into /usr/share/bash-completion/ (fixes
    lintian warning package-install-into-obsolete-dir)
  * Testsuite: Optimize and clean up modules.sh.
  * Split up test suite in functionality/compatibility tests (t) and
    author/release tests (xt).
  * New example script helpful for release testing.

Feel free to report any issues in this release either to
xen-tools-dev at xen-tools.org, at
https://github.com/xen-tools/xen-tools/issues or (in case of using the
Debian package) via the Debian Bug Tracking System, e.g. with
"reportbug xen-tools". I'm especially keen to know about any
regressions compared to the previous stable release (4.5).

		Kind regards, Axel
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