Quattor 13.9 is out!!

We have just tagged and uploaded to the Yum repositories Quattor 13.9. Special changes include:

New features

• ncm-ncd can now execute hooks before and after running any components. The API is not yet set in stone, and might change in future releases.

Useability improvements

• Quattor commands have been renamed, to be more meaningful:
  • quattor-configure executes configuration modules, aliasing old ncm-ncd.
  • quattor-query queries the profile in a node, aliasing old ncm-query.
  • quattor-installer aliases many aii-shellfe options.
• quattor-configure and quattor-query (and their old names) have now basic Bash autocompletion support. The names of the the installed components and the most common options will be expanded.

Improvements to configuration modules

• network used to conflict with NetworkManager. It is now allowed to disable it up front.
• The add flag for ncm-chkconfig implies restoring the service runlevel to its default values
• authconfig has now partial support for System Security Service Daemon. We implement sasl, sudo and ldap services for now.

Backwards-incompatible changes

• sudo supports now the EXEC, SETENV, LOG_INPUT, LOG_OUTPUT and their NO_* counterparts in the privilege lines. The validation for this field has changed, and you’ll have to add the ‘:’ characters yourself.
• openvpn supports multiple server configurations. Your existing server configurations must be enclosed in an nlist now.

Bugs fixed

• ncm-spma improved its detection of packages that couldn’t be versionlocked.
• Components complying with the coding style document will now show the changes that would happen to a file, even under --noaction.
• metaconfig supports now noaction.
• The installer works reliably again on SL 6.4.

Upgrading

We have created a GitHub repository for simplifying the upgrades of the core configuration modules. Just clone this repository or download the appropriate tag.

If this approach is useful, future releases will provide easy-to-download templates for the Grid modules and the client packages.

Next release

Next release will be Quattor 13.10 and will happen by the end of October.