A new release for Bcfg2 1.2.0pre3 is now available. The following highlights some of the major changes from the last prerelease:
- POSIX: Add recursive permissions (Ticket #871)
- Probes: make Bcfg2 automatically handle JSON, XML, and YAML output
- Tons of Validate plugin fixes
- Make -q turn off package verification in YUMng
- YUM: Make YUMng the preferred client tool on RPM systems
- Frame: Fix ‘important’ entry installation in decision mode
- bcfg2-reports (Show total numbers of entries, show modified entries, accept and create non-ASCII diffs, and fix –badentry and –extraentry)
- Options: Set default encoding to UTF-8
- Proxy: Catch traceback when name resolution fails
- Deprecate Base in favor of Bundler
- Only listen on specified interface by default
- added -t option to set client timeout
- POSIX: Clarify normalization error
- allow setting whitelist/blacklist mode in bcfg2.conf
- Cfg
- Fix the output encoding of Genshi templates
- Fix bcfg2-admin pull behavior for genshi templates (#1010)
- Fix PluginExecutionError
- bcfg2: Convert specification from Unicode to UTF-8 (Resolves ticket #1009)
- Added FileProbes plugin
- log more useful error message if python-ldap is not installed
- DBStats: Stop duplicating data in reports_reason
- NagiosGen rewrite
- Client/Tools: Get rid of popen2 (in favor of subprocess)
- SvcTool: Add interactive_only mode
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