==New major user-visible features==
* Support for new programmers:
** OpenMoko Neo1973/Neo FreeRunner debug board version 2 or 3, FTDI FT2232-based (r1231)
** Olimex ARM-USB-TINY, ARM-USB-TINY-H, ARM-USB-OCD, and ARM-USB-OCD-H, FTDI FT2232-based (r1331)
** Open Graphics Project development card, OGD1 (r1241)
** Angelbird Wings PCIe SSD/88SX7042 (r1258)
** ITE IT85xx embedded controllers (r1262)
** Intel NIC with parallel flash (r1297)
* Dozens of added flash chips, chipsets, mainboards.
* Improved user interface.
* Reliability fixes for buggy hardware, buggy third party software and corner case spec conformance.
* Improved Dediprog SF100 support.
* Update port of flashrom package to Mac OS X using DirectHW.
* Improved support for protection status printing and chip unlocking.
* Fix and improve libpayload platform support.
* Add support for more than one Super I/O or EC per machine.
* Always read the flash chip before writing, for improved error checking and faster programming.
* Enable write support on NVIDIA MCP6x/MCP7x.
* Added SPI flash emulation capability to the dummy programmer.
==Infrastructural improvements and fixes==
* Shutdown function registration
* Improved error messages
* Correctness fixes
* Various workarounds for broken hardware
* Code cleanups
libvirt is:
+ A toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities of recent
versions of operating systems, see our project goals for details.
+ A long term stable C API
+ A set of bindings for common languages
+ A CIM provider for the DMTF virtualization schema
+ A QMF agent for the AMQP/QPid messaging system
libvirt supports:
+ The KVM/QEMU Linux hypervisor
+ The Xen hypervisor
+ The LXC Linux container system
+ The OpenVZ Linux container system
+ The User Mode Linux paravirtualized kernel
+ The VirtualBox hypervisor
+ The VMware ESX and GSX hypervisors
+ The VMware Workstation and Player hypervisors
+ Virtual networks using bridging, NAT, VEPA and VN-LINK.
+ Storage on IDE/SCSI/USB disks, FibreChannel, LVM, iSCSI, NFS and filesystems
libvirt provides:
+ Remote management using TLS encryption and x509 certificates
+ Remote management authenticating with Kerberos and SASL
+ Local access control using PolicyKit
+ Zero-conf discovery using Avahi multicast-DNS
+ Management of virtual machines, virtual networks and storage
I'm fairly sure that the NetBSD part of the bridging code still needs
some more work, but I'll leave that as an exercise for someone more
versed in it than I am.
Upstream changes highlights:
Many, many bugfixes.
In release 1.1, highlights are
* #76: New-style tasks have been added. With the addition of the task
decorator and the Task class, you can now "opt-in" and explicitly mark task
functions as tasks, and Fabric will ignore the rest. The original behavior (now
referred to as "classic" tasks) will still take effect if no new-style tasks are
found. Major thanks to Travis Swicegood for the original implementation.
* #56: Namespacing is now possible: Fabric will crawl imported module
objects looking for new-style task objects and build a dotted hierarchy (tasks
named e.g. web.deploy or db.migrations.run), allowing for greater organization.
See Namespaces for details. Thanks again to Travis Swicegood.
All:
- The makefile system now by default disables smake Simple Suffix Rules
and the POSIX Suffix Rules in order to speed up inference rule search.
Libschily:
- New functions mkgmtime() mklgmtime() and timegm()
Libfind:
- libfind no longer aborts with a lack of memory but writes an error
message
- libfind now correctly frees memory that has been allocated internaly
from treewalk()
Mkisofs (Maintained/enhanced by J
- Mkisofs now correctly supports El Torito multi boot entries by introducing
a Boot Dection Header before a list of alternate boot entries.
- New option -eltorito-platform allows to set the El Torito platform id
for a boot entry or for a list of boot entries. Supported values for the
parameter are:
- x86 the standard value vor x86 based PCs
- PPC the Power PC platform
- Mac The Apple Mac platform
- efi EFI based boot for PCs
- # an arbitrary numerical value
- New option -modification-date allows to specify a predictable UUID for grub.
The syntax is: YYYY[MM[DD[HH[MM[SS]]]]][.hh][+-GHGM] and is forgiving
enought to accept the pupular POSIX date format created by:
date "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z"
Release date: 2011-05-26 05:28 UTC
Changelog:
- Improved the console handler's stream handling. (Bug 17874)
- Added a 'reopen' configuration parameter to the syslog handler.
(Request 18185)
- The backtrace depth is now configurable via setBacktraceDepth().
(Request 18423)
from the ChangeLog:
Add support for decoding OBEX Action command.
Add support for decoding SMP commands.
Add support for decoding ATT commands.
Add support for missing LE decoding.
ruby-compass pacakge.
The File System State Monitor keeps track of the state of any number
of paths and will fire events when said state changes
(create/update/delete). FSSM supports using FSEvents on MacOS, Inotify
on GNU/Linux, and polling anywhere else.
1.5.9
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4de8b20 Updated CHANGELOG for 1.5.9rc6
cc67a01 Removed inappropriately uncredited Ohai method from ec2 fact
69f98da Add facter test for ticket 7039
f91c120 downcase arp output so that the ec2 arp is matched
a75f0f9 (#7039) Pre-load all facts when requesting a single fact
6b97242 Update CHANGELOG for 1.5.9rc5
acf0bb2 Ensures that ARP facts are returned only on EC2 hosts
76f544b Updated CHANGELOG for 1.5.9rc4
09b9f9b (#6795) Update tests to reflect changed exec
3db1cd0 Updated CHANGELOG for 1.5.9rc3
def3322 (#6795) xendomains: Ignore error output from xm list
f39d487 (#6763) Use Facter::Util::Resolution.exec for arp
3eb9410 arp: Cleanup indendation
50b9b3f Updated CHANGELOG for 1.5.9rc2
2fb8316 Clean up indentation, and alignment in macaddress_spec.rb
3f0a340 (#6716) fix facter issues on OSX with ipv6 in macaddress.rb.
43f82ef Update CHANGELOG for 1.5.9rc1
d62e079 Fixed#2346 - A much cleverer EC2 fact
0411d2e Fixed#2346 - Part 1: Added arp fact for Linux
5b6f4fa Discussion on ec2 facts - #2346
e917e1a Fixed#3087 - Identify VMWare
d0f0f63 (#6327) Memory facts should be available on Mac Darwin
458a22d Incremented release to 1.5.9
4eb64fe Fixed#6719 Typo
ffd80ac (#5011) Adds swap statistics for OSX
1207765 (#6719) Restricts virtualization types for zones
8d71db3 Fixed#6616 - Stubbing in VMware tests on Linux
aa959df Remove Solaris from the list of confined systems. It won't get the original lsb facts, and it's nonsensical too.
2e48e18 Fixed#6695 - Updated id fact for Darwin et al
d718af4Fix#6679 - Added Scientific Linux to operatingsystem fact
dea6f78 Further fix to #5485 - SELinux facts
6d6d8da (#2721) Merged patch from Brane GraAnar
868e7ba (#5485) Made selinux_mode fact work
214da73 Fixed#5485 - Updated selinux_mode fact
ba2601f Fix for #6495 - Updated interface detection
93461d9 Fixed#5950 - Solaris ipaddress incorrect after bonding failure
2e06cdc (#6615) fix missing stub calls in loader specs
3c7841e (#5666) windows support for facter/id.rb
dd5d5bf (#4925) - MS Windows doesn't do man pages
52026ee Fixed#5699 - Added processorcount support for S390x
7dd730d Fixed#5699 - Added virtual support for s390x/Zlinux
d6ce08a Fixed#6611 - Fixed broken HPVM test and rationalised test structure
84fa3c4 (#6525) change semicolons to 'then' in case statement for ruby 1.9.2 compatibility
3e6217d Fixes#6521 and other Ruby 1.9 issues
eb5d6fc Fixed#6525 - Test failures on Ruby 1.9.x
cb25119 (#2270) add testing for the new ipaddress6 feature
ea29483 (#2270) add IPv6 support to facter core.
77eb512 (#2270) Remove DWIM code from ipaddress on Darwin.
f5bf0f5 (#6360) Flush Facter top level cache before every test case.
0d7a2e6 Fix#4755: add support for GNU/kFreeBSD platform where missing.
b88a088 (#5510) Facter should load custom fact definitions in filename order.
7a8be16 Refactor #6044 -- use _spec.rb as the pattern for spec tests.
b39f892 Refactor #6044 -- require spec_helper with a consistent path.
a4fe459 Refactor #6044 -- port testing to rspec2
af9134c (#5086) Try using kstat before falling back to 'who -b' to determine uptime.
cbbfe55 Refactor util/uptime.rb tests to reduce duplication using contexts
f0cc2c0 (#4575) win32 support for manufacturer, productname, & serialnumber
c40fc07 (#1423) Memory facts for Solaris
1985528 (#4754) Change is_virtual logic to not enumerate virtual types
739040f (#4754) Add support for Darwin and Parallels VM to "virtual" fact
9332f8a (#5325) Add tests for SPARC manufacturer and product name
5b561e3 (#5325) Manufacturer and product name on SPARC
9d99079 maint: Fix spec failures caused by having a space in the path to facter's source
89da001 maint: require rubygems so hudson can run the specs
1eef842 Maint: add "Local-branch:" info to mails sent by "rake mail_patches"
f007a9d (#4989) Add xendomains fact
1fa87a9 JSON support. Works in 1.9.1. Warnings in 1.9.2. LoadError on 1.8.7 for some reason
43e203c (#5040) fact virtual should detect hpvm
7cec60a (#5016) is_virtual should be true on solaris zones
f2e66b6 (#5031) Remove redundant puts from RDoc.usage
f4da528 maint: Fix merge error
d62b013 Issue #4889 Fact values should all be strings
07f186d [#4552] Updating --timing to report in milliseconds instead of seconds
1f387a5 [#4552] Apply patch from Dean Wilson
244d2f1 Better fix for Bug 4569: Uptime Fact is incorrect on Windows
11544c1 [#4289] operatingsystemrelease fact for oel, ovs
e6bfdf9 Fix for bug #4569
8c4d0cd (#4558) Fail with message on --help errors
7210429 [#4558] Refactor facter binary using optparse
b5c85de [#4563] Add a --trace option to the binary
ebcb81b [#4558] Refactor facter binary using optparse
b8b7123 (#4567) Remove unnecessary or non-portable redirects
7ecba71 (#4567) Retain detached HEAD state
1125e1e Make sure FreeBSD spec also works on systems that have /proc/cpuinfo.
889e150 Sync rpm spec file from Fedora/EPEL
725dce0 Rename Reductive Labs to Puppet Labs
ff473ef Updated signing rake task
a85f2b0 [#2865] Fix reporting of virtual facts
f67ec05 [#4567] Add ext/facter-diff to compare output of 2 versions
4050acc Removing stupid .DS_Store files :(
016cf03 [#3703] Fix macaddress fact for Darwin
* Security fixes including CVE-2011-1583 CVE-2011-1898
* Enhancements to guest introspection (VM single stepping support for very
fine-grained access control)
* Many stability improvements, such as: PV-on-HVM stability fixes (fixing
some IRQ issues), XSAVE cpu feature support for PV guests (allows safe use of
latest multimedia instructions), RAS fixes for high availability, fixes for
offlining bad pages and changes to libxc, mainly of benefit to libvirt
* Compatibility fixes for newer Linux guests, newer compilers, some old
guest savefiles, newer Python, grub2, some hardware/BIOS bugs.
* Security fixes including CVE-2011-1583 CVE-2011-1898
* Enhancements to guest introspection (VM single stepping support for very fine-grained access control)
* Many stability improvements, such as: PV-on-HVM stability fixes (fixing some IRQ issues), XSAVE cpu feature support for PV guests (allows safe use of latest multimedia instructions), RAS fixes for high availability, fixes for offlining bad pages and changes to libxc, mainly of benefit to libvirt
* Compatibility fixes for newer Linux guests, newer compilers, some old guest savefiles, newer Python, grub2, some hardware/BIOS bugs.
Its signature is changed at libpcap-1.0, not DragonFly specific,
and it should be defined by include of pcap.h, no need to define here.
fixes PR#45035.
Changes since 4.10:
Added failsafe mode (press F1 at startup)
Added support for Intel "Sandy Bridge" CPU
Added support for AMD "fusion" CPU
Added Coreboot "table forward" support
Corrected some memory brands not detected properly
Various bug fixes
