Release Notes¶

Release notes for 1.1RC2¶

Infrastructure¶

• Fix running tests on 1.8 and 1.9

Puppet¶

• Proxy should return nil values for parameters with a function call

Release notes for 1.1RC1¶

The 1.1 release brings support for BMC/IPMI management and support for importing classes and environments from masters running Puppet 3.

Infrastructure¶

• Added a rackup configuration file
• Set umask properly to prevent world writable files (CVE-2012-5477)
• Create the PID parent directory if it doesn't exist
• Remove dependency on net-ping gem

Puppet¶

• Export arguments of parameterized classes when loading classes
• Add REST interface for facts that are known from the proxy
• Fix class import with Puppet 2.7.19
• Load the puppet binary from the proper location when using 3.0+
• Use /etc/puppet/puppet.conf by default

PuppetCA¶

• Fix certificate exit code assertion with 2.7.19

BMC¶

• Added BMC & IPMI support to the proxy (not yet integrated with Foreman core)

DHCP¶

• Use locking to prevent address allocation race conditions

Other¶

• Test cleanup using the helper

Release notes for 1.0¶

• Added support for Ruby 1.9x

DHCP¶

• now supports ISC dhcp include files.

PuppetCA¶

• add support puppet >= 2.7.18

DNS¶

• added support for IPV6 PTR records

Puppet¶

• Support puppet dynamic environments

e.g. when using $environment in your modulepath are now parsed and reported correctly.

• retrieve puppet environments and classes via the API

Release notes for 0.2¶

This is primarily a bug-fix release but there are some limited changes in functionality.

PuppetCA¶

• An API for Puppet Certificate listing and signing is provided.
• An API for Autosign editing is provided.
• Puppet Certificate revocation is handled properly.

TFTP¶

• A host's tftp server is retrieved from the host's DHCP smart-proxy.
• Added support for different variants of the PXE boot process. This release can support Solaris PXEGrub manipulation.
• Boot file downloading is more robust.

DHCP¶

• Access to the DHCP server via omshell uses the secret key facility.
• Microsoft 64bit detection was fixed.

General¶

• Better support for older ruby versions.
• Debian packaging has been revised.
• rake now supports a target mail_patches that automates developer's patch generation and submission to the foreman-dev group.
• Runs the smart-proxy process under the smart-proxy account and group.
• The smart-proxy API provides a Version call.
• Better error messages throughout.
• Smart-proxy return NOTFOUND errors when a resource is missing. This kind of failure is then handled correctly, in Foreman.