1.3.4

We are happy to announce the release of Bcfg2 1.3.4. It is available for download at:

ftp://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/bcfg

This is primarily a bugfix release.

• New probes.allowed_groups option to restrict group assignments
• Bundler fixes:
  • Fix parsing XML template output with encoding declaration
• bcfg2-lint:
  • Resolve XIncludes when parsing XML for validation
  • New TemplateAbuse plugin to detect templated scripts
  • New ValidateJSON plugin
• bcfg2-crypt fixes:
  • Fix logic
  • Improve debugging/error handling with Properties files
  • Fix exception handling
  • Handle error when encrypting properties with multiple keys
• Add new Augeas client tool driver: http://docs.bcfg2.org/client/tools/augeas.html
• Restored bcfg2-admin client add functionality
• Migration tool fixes
• Schema fixes
• Add Django 1.6 support
• Use ‘public’ default pgsql database schema
• Refresh essential packages during Packages.Refresh
• Allow lxml.etree XML implementation to parse very large documents
• Support ACLs without a specific user/group
• Explicitly close database connections at the end of each client run
• Fix verification of symlinks

Special thanks to the following contributors for this release: Matt Baker, Simon Ruderich, Michael Fenn, Dan Foster, Richard Connon, John Morris.