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
least minimal comments to all patches and tidy up some (but by no
means all) pkglint.
I have no idea if this works. It spews warnings about "packed", which
lead me to suspect it may not run correctly, but I don't have the
facilities to test it. It does, however, now build ok on LP64 and if
someone can test it may be reasonable to remove the restriction on that.
- use the correct way to get the size of a disk device or partition (from
haad@NetBSD.org)
- if given a block device, use the character device instead (the block device
is already in use by the backend driver).
With this I could succeffully boot a HVMPV FreeBSD kernel using a phy:
virtual disk.
bup is a program that backs things up. bup has a few advantages
over other backup software:
It uses a rolling checksum algorithm (similar to rsync) to split
large files into chunks. The most useful result of this is you can
backup huge virtual machine (VM) disk images, databases, and XML
files incrementally, even though they're typically all in one huge
file, and not use tons of disk space for multiple versions.
It uses the packfile format from git (the open source version
control system), so you can access the stored data even if you
don't like bup's user interface.
Unlike git, it writes packfiles directly (instead of having a
separate garbage collection / repacking stage) so it's fast even
with gratuitously huge amounts of data. bup's improved index formats
also allow you to track far more filenames than git (millions) and
keep track of far more objects (hundreds or thousands of gigabytes).
Data is "automagically" shared between incremental backups without
having to know which backup is based on which other one - even if
the backups are made from two different computers that don't even
know about each other. You just tell bup to back stuff up, and it
saves only the minimum amount of data needed.
You can back up directly to a remote bup server, without needing
tons of temporary disk space on the computer being backed up. And
if your backup is interrupted halfway through, the next run will
pick up where you left off. And it's easy to set up a bup server:
just install bup on any machine where you have ssh access.
Bup can use "par2" redundancy to recover corrupted backups even if
your disk has undetected bad sectors.
Even when a backup is incremental, you don't have to worry about
restoring the full backup, then each of the incrementals in turn;
an incremental backup acts as if it's a full backup, it just takes
less disk space.
You can mount your bup repository as a FUSE filesystem and access
the content that way, and even export it over Samba.
Upstream changes:
## 2.6.0 / May 3 2011
A rather large release, feature-version bump because of the new
multiple-gateways feature as implemented by Ryan Duryea (way to go!)
Please also note from this release that if you use Git submodules, the
Git-version requirement for the new implementation is now >= 1.5.6, from
previously un-documented. (1.5.6 is new-enough that I think this is
acceptable)
* Upgrade Net::SSH-gateway dependency to 1.1 (fixes a thread-deadlocking bug on
MRI 1.9)
* Respect "dry-run" on transfer methods (Florian Frank)
* Add support for multiple gateways: (Ryan Duryea)
set :gateway, {
'gate1.example.com' => 'server1.example.com',
[ 'gate2.example.com', 'gate3.example.com' ] =>
[ 'server5.example.com', 'server6.example.com' ]
}
* Properly support nested Git submodules, moves Git requirement to >= 1.5.6 [if
you rely upon submodules] (Ken Miller)
* Fetch tags into the remote cache, allows deploying a tag when using Git, with
the remote_cache strategy (Florian Frank)
* Various fixes to path handling bugs in the copt strategy. (Philippe Rathé)
ocsinventory-agent creates inventory data. This agent is the
successor of the former linux_agent which was released with OCS
1.01 and prior. It also replaces the Solaris/AIX/BSD unofficial
agents. The detailed list of supported Operating System is available
in the OCS Inventory Wiki.
Based on PR#44884 by YAMAMOTO Takeshi.
Additionaly, some improvements by me.
Active Management Technology (AMT) tools
descriptions from man pages:
amttool - remotely control Intel AMT managed machines.
amtterm - Intel AMT serial-over-lan (sol) client.
from amt-howto(7):
What is AMT and why I should care?
AMT stands for "Active Management Technology". It provides some remote
management facilities. They are handled by the hardware and firmware,
thus they work independant from the operation system. Means: It works
before Linux bootet up to the point where it activated the network
interface. It works even when your most recent test kernel deadlocked
the machine. Which makes it quite useful for development machines ...
Intel AMT is part of the vPro Platform. Recent intel-chipset based
business machines should have it. My fairly new Intel SDV machine has
it too.
It uses -nostdinc and tries to use #include <stdarg.h> through
a local copy of stdarg.h, which can't work.
Fixed this by putting the relevant builtin stdarg definitions for
NetBSD in the local copy.
NetBSD installation ISO.
Further information can be found here:
http://genericzero.wordpress.com/2009/08/01/install-netbsd-from-a-usb-memory-stick-the-easy-way/
memory stick the easy way
I got tired of having to jump through hoops to install NetBSD on my
Eee PC, so I wrote a simple script to take a NetBSD release ISO and
convert it to an image that can be written to a USB memory stick.
To use the script, simply feed it an ISO and tell it where to write
the resulting image:
$ sh mkmemstick.sh i386cd-5.0.1.iso i386memstick-5.0.1.img
The resulting image can be written to a memory stick using dd(1):
$ dd if=i386memstick-5.0.1.img of=/dev/sd0d
Please note that this script depends on the sysutils/cdrtools package
for extracting the contents of the release ISO.
Hopefully this will be integrated with the build process so these
images are available for those who cannot prepare an image due to lack
of access to a NetBSD machine.
New in Version 0.2 (released 2011-04-15):
* Bug fixes:
+ extract-account:
- account extraction left temp files if authorized_keys had
the uchg flag set
- if the user didn't actually exist, a bogus tarball would be
created anyway
+ install-account:
- the home directory was assumed to be /home/${USER}, which
meant that root's files weren't installed properly
- If the user already existed, the order of entries in the
passwd database wasn't preserved. This caused problems with
root accounts because getpwuid(0) started returning the
passwd entry for the 'toor' user (breaking "are you root?"
tests in various scripts).
+ sudo-add:
- if sudo-add couldn't find the sudoers file or couldn't read
it, it didn't remove existing entries when adding or
removing a user (adding duplicate entries if adding a user
that was already there, and silently failing when removing a
user)
- if sudo-add could find and read the sudoers file:
* it would remove the wrong existing entry if the username
of the user being added/removed started with the same
characters as another user higher in the sudoers file
(e.g., adding or removing foo would remove user foobar if
foobar was higher in the sudoers file)
* 'sudo-add -r' would only remove the first instance of a
user from sudoers (a particular problem given the above
bug)
- sudo-add wasn't preserving order if the user was already in
sudoers (order can be significant in sudoers)
* Less verbose output.
Libfind:
- New flag WALK_STRIPLDOT to strip leading "./" like star does
Cdrecord:
- cdrecord now warns about the correct max. CD-Text size
for a single language that is permitted by the standard.
Mkisofs (Maintained/enhanced by Jörg Schilling since 1997, originated by Eric Youngdale):
- Fixed several typos in the mkisofs man page and in mkisofs
Upstream changes:
Bugfixes
* #301: Fixed a bug in local?s behavior when capture=False and output.stdout
(or .stderr) was also False. Thanks to Chris Rose for the catch.
* #310: Update edge case in put where using the mode kwarg alongside
use_sudo=True runs a hidden sudo command. The mode kwarg needs to be octal but
was being interpolated in the sudo call as a string/integer. Thanks to Adam
Ernst for the catch and suggested fix.
* #311: append was supposed to have its partial kwarg's default flipped from
True to False. However, only the documentation was altered. This has been fixed.
Thanks to Adam Ernst for bringing it to our attention.
* #312: Tweak internal I/O related loops to prevent high CPU usage and poor
screen-printing behavior on some systems. Thanks to Kirill Pinchuk for the
initial patch.
* #320: Some users reported problems with dropped input, particularly while
entering sudo passwords. This was fixed via the same change as for #312.
Documentation
* Added a missing entry for env.path in the usage documentation.
Upstream changes:
## 2.5.21 / April 6 2011
* Fixed to follow best-practice guidelines from Bundler (Ben Langfeld)
* No longer force a gemset for Capistrano development. (Ben Langfeld)
## 2.5.20 / March 16 2011
* `deploy:migrations` will now always operate on the latest_release, not
current_release (Mike Vincent)
* Adds a check for the presence of `rsync` when using the copy strategy with
`rsync`. (Chris Griego)
* Do not try to look up the `:release_path` on servers which are defined
`:no_release` (Chris Griego)
* Tiny patch to the `CVS` SCM code to be Ruby 1.9 compatible (Martin Carpenter)
* Changed the default `Git` submodule behaviour to use `--recursive`
Lighthouse Issue #176. (Lee Hambley)
* `:public_children` can now be `set()`, the default is unchanged, thanks
(Chris Griego)
* Fixing the load path in the default `Capfile` to search vendored/unpacked
Gems. Lighthouse Issue #174 (Mari Carmen/Rafael García)
* Adds a `maintenance_basename` variable (default value is `maintenance`) to
allow you to set the maintenance page name (Celestino Gomes)
* Spelling fixes in inline-documentation (Tom Copeland)
* Make `zip` and `tar` handle symlinks the same way (zip follows symlinks by
default, tar needs the option `-h`) (Ross Cooperman)
on a single physical machine. The xentools41 package contains the
tools to create, destroy and control the virtual machines.
This package contains the tools for Xen 4.1.x
Release notes:
The Xen team is pleased to announce the release of Xen 4.1.
The result of nearly 12 months of development, new features include:
* A re-architected and improved XL toolstack replacing XM/XEND
* Prototype credit2 scheduler designed for latency-sensitive workloads and
very large systems.
* CPU Pools for advanced partitioning.
* Support for large systems (>255 processors)
* Support for x86 Advanced Vector eXtension (AVX).
* New Memory Access API enabling integration of 3rd party security
solutions into Xen virtualized environments.
* Many IOMMU fixes (both Intel VT-d IOMMU and AMD IOMMU).
* Many toolstack and buildsystem fixes for Linux and NetBSD hosts.
* Thirdparty libs: libvirt driver for libxl has been merged to upstream
libvirt.
* HVM guest PXE boot enhancements, replacing gPXE with iPXE.
* Even better stability through our new automated regression tests.
Detailed release notes, including a more extensive feature list:
http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/Xen4.1
To download tarballs:
http://xen.org/products/xen_source.html
Or the Mercurial source repository (tag 'RELEASE-4.1.0'):
http://xenbits.xen.org/xen-unstable.hg
And the announcement on the Xen blog:
http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2011/03/25/xen-4-1-releases/
Thanks to the many people who have contributed to this release!
Regards,
The Xen Team
guests operating systems on a single machine. Guest OSes (also called "domains"
)
require a modified kernel which supports Xen hypercalls in replacement
to access to the physical hardware. At boot, the xen kernel is loaded
along with the guest kernel for the first domain (called domain0).
domain0 has privileges to access the physical hardware (PCI
and ISA devices), administrate other domains and provide virtual
devices (disks and network) to other domains.
This package contains the Xen4 kernel itself.
Release notes:
The Xen team is pleased to announce the release of Xen 4.1.
The result of nearly 12 months of development, new features include:
* A re-architected and improved XL toolstack replacing XM/XEND
* Prototype credit2 scheduler designed for latency-sensitive workloads and
very large systems.
* CPU Pools for advanced partitioning.
* Support for large systems (>255 processors)
* Support for x86 Advanced Vector eXtension (AVX).
* New Memory Access API enabling integration of 3rd party security
solutions into Xen virtualized environments.
* Many IOMMU fixes (both Intel VT-d IOMMU and AMD IOMMU).
* Many toolstack and buildsystem fixes for Linux and NetBSD hosts.
* Thirdparty libs: libvirt driver for libxl has been merged to upstream
libvirt.
* HVM guest PXE boot enhancements, replacing gPXE with iPXE.
* Even better stability through our new automated regression tests.
Detailed release notes, including a more extensive feature list:
http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/Xen4.1
To download tarballs:
http://xen.org/products/xen_source.html
Or the Mercurial source repository (tag 'RELEASE-4.1.0'):
http://xenbits.xen.org/xen-unstable.hg
And the announcement on the Xen blog:
http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2011/03/25/xen-4-1-releases/
Thanks to the many people who have contributed to this release!
Regards,
The Xen Team
