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[Mark Shuttleworth <mark@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Congrats all, this is looking and feeling first class!

Mark

On 22/06/15 19:14, Andres Rodriguez wrote:
> I'm happy to announce that MAAS 1.8.0 has been released. Full release notes
> are available at:
>
> http://maas.ubuntu.com/docs1.8/changelog.html#id1
>
> MAAS 1.8 Introduces the following features:
>
> *Major new features:*
>
>    - *WebUI Re-Design*
>
> The new MAAS Web-UI has been fully re-designed and includes the following
> new features:
>
>
>    - Live Updating for Node Details and Node Listing Page
>    - Improved Bulk Actions
>    - Live Searching
>    - Better Filtering
>    - Node & Storage Tag Management
>    - Add Chassis
>
>
>    - *Support for Devices*
>
> MAAS now supports the concept of Devices. This allows administrators track
> and manage external devices to MAAS and provide IP / DNS for these devices
> on the network.
>
>
>    - *Storage Discovery*
>
> MAAS now discovers all storage attached to a machine.
>
>
>    - *Twisted Daemons*
>
> MAAS Region Controller has moved away from using apache and now runs under
> a Twisted daemon. MAAS Region Controller is now controlled by
> *maas-regiond * daemon.
>
>
>    - *DB Isolation*
>
> MAAS DB Isolation has been increased to provide improved robustness on
> distributed environments.
>
>
>    - *VMWare Support*
>
> MAAS now supports the management of VM's under VMWare products (vCenter,
> ESX, VMWare work station).
>
>
>    - *Add Chassis*
>
> New Add Chassis functionality has been added to MAAS to be able to add all
> machines within a chassis or within a Hypervisor (KVM/VMWare).
>
>
> *Minor notable changes*
>
>    - *RPC Communication & Ports*
>
> Internal communication between the MAAS Region controller and the MAAS
> Cluster controller is now limited to ports between 5250 and 5259.
> Administrators need to ensure these ports are opened in their firewalls.
>
>
>    - *Discovered virtual machine names are imported into MAAS*
>
> MAAS will now keep the Virtual Machine names as per defined as the domain
> in their hypervisor.
>
>
>    - *Virtual machine boot order is now set automatically*
>
> Virtual Machines are now told to PXE boot by default to ensure proper MAAS
> control.
>
>
>    - *Systemd support*
>
> MAAS has gained support for systemd, allowing its daemons run under systemd.
>
>
> *Known problems & Work Arounds*
>
>    - *Disk space not reclaimed when MAAS boot images are superseded.*
>
> Whenever new boot images are synced to MAAS, new large objects in the DB
> are created for them, which might replace older version of the same image.
> The standard postgresql autovacuum does not remove these large objects that
> are no longer used. Therefore, a new command has been introduced to
> appropriately vaccum these objects:
>
> maas-region-admin db_vacuum_lobjects.
>
>
> For more information please see:
>
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/1459876
>
>
>    - *MAAS logs to maas.log.1 instead of maas.log*
>
> In one
>  situation it has been seen that maas.log is empty, and rsyslog
>  was sending logs to maas.log.1 instead. This has been identified
> as an issue in rsyslog rather than maas. More information can be found on:
>
>   https://launchpad.net/bugs/1460678
>
> The full list of bugs fixed for this milestone is available at:
>
> https://launchpad.net/maas/+milestone/1.8.0
>
>
> *Testing*
> MAAS 1.8.0 will be available for testing for the next 24 hours at:
>
> *ppa:maas-maintainers/testing*
>
>
> *NOTICE:*
> *After the 24 hr period, MAAS 1.8.0 Final Release will replace MAAS 1.7.5
> in:*
>
> *ppa:maas-maintainers/stable*
>
>
>

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