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[Andres Rodriguez <andres.rodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear all,

I am happy to announce that MAAS 2.0 Alpha 3 has now been released. MAAS
2.0.0 is a major new release that introduces new and exciting features. As
such, MAAS 2.0.0 Alpha 3 will be available for testing on:

ppa:maas/next

Please be advised that MAAS 2.0.0 alpha 3 will replace MAAS 2.0.0 alpha 2,
both in the PPA and in the Ubuntu Archives.

For information about the changes, please see below (or for more
information, please refer to: http://maas.ubuntu.com/docs2.0/changelog.html
 )

*Important Announcements*


*Debian Installer Files are no longer installed*
  Following the full drop of support for the Debian Installer (DI) in
  1.9, MAAS no longer downloads the DI related files from simplestreams
  and on upgrade all DI related files will be removed both from the
  region and all rack controllers.

*Major new features*

   -
*Networks WebUI *MAAS 2.0.0 alpha 3 is introducing a few new Web UI
   features that were not available in MAAS 1.9 or MAAS 1.10.


   - Add Fabric and Spaces details page
      - Add Ability to create Fabrics, Spaces, VLANs, Subnets via the WebUI
      as Actions
      - Add ability to delete Fabrics, Spaces, VLANs, Subnets.


   - *WebUI for new storage features*
      - Ability to specify mount options.
      - Ability to create a swap partition (Before MAAS would create a swap
      automatically).

*Minor new features*

   -
*Ability to change a machine’s domain name from the UI *MAAS 2.0.0 alpha 3
   introduces the ability to change a machine’s DNS domain via the WebUI.
   It was previously supported on the API only.

   -
*Rack Controller details page now shows served VLANs *The Rack Controller
   details page now shows what VLANs are being served on this Rack
   Controller, and whether it is the primary or secondary Rack providing
   services for such VLAN.

   -
*Added `maas-rack support-dump` command *For increased support
   observability, users can now dump the contents of several
   commonly-needed data structures by executing `sudo maas-rack
support-dump`. This
   command will dump networking diagnostics, rack configuration, and image
   information. Information can be restricted to a particular category
by using
   the `--networking`, `--config`, or `--images` options.


*Known issues and work arounds*

   -
*Rack Controller tries to constantly reconnect *In some situations, the
   MAAS Rack Controller will try to constantly re-connect to the region
   controller after a restart, causing the Rack Controller to be unavailable
   for a period of time. At the moment, there's no work around other than
   to wait for a few minutes until the Rack Controller has been fully
   connected. See http://launchpad.net/bugs/1559330 for more information.


*Major bugs fixed in this release*

   - LP: #1555393    python3-maas-client API 2.0 seems to no longer use op
   but MAASClient.post requires it and incorectly passes it along
   - LP: #1554566    Fail to commission when Fabric on Machine Interface
   and Rack Interface dont match
   - LP: #1553848    TFTP back-end crashes
   - LP: #1554999    Can't deploy a node (no interfaces on rack controller)


-- 
Andres Rodriguez
Engineering Manager, MAAS
Canonical USA, Inc.