Saturday, March 7, 2015

Oz 0.13.0 release

I'm pleased to announce release 0.13.0 of Oz. Oz is a program for doing automated installation of guest operating systems with limited input from the user. Release 0.13.0 is a bugfix and feature release for Oz. Some of the highlights between Oz 0.12.0 and 0.13.0 are:
  • For Fedora, if the user specifies a version, but that isn't supported yet, try the last supported version (in this case), as that will often work.
  • Fix a regression where we forgot to force the qcow2 image type
  • Allow installs that use more than one installation device
  • Add support for RHEL 6.5
  • Rename OEL-6 to OL-6
  • Add support for Ubuntu 14.04
  • Add Windows 8.1 support
  • Add CentOS-7 support
  • Add the ability to specify kernel parameters in the TDL
  • Make sure to remove dhcp leases from guests after the install
  • Fix support for FreeBSD
  • Add in support for TDL "precommands"; these are commands that are run *before* package installation
  • Fix up file locking
  • Add support for RHEL 5.11
  • Remove Ubuntu ssh keys at the end of installation
  • Add support for Ubuntu 14.10
  • Add support for XInclude, for merging various TDLs together
  • Add Fedora 21 support
  • Add support for ppc64 and ppc64le
A tarball and zipfile of this release is available on the Github releases page: https://github.com/clalancette/oz/releases. Packages for Fedora-20, Fedora-21, Fedora-22, EPEL-6, and EPEL-7 have been built in Koji and will eventually make their way to stable. Instructions on how to get and use Oz are available at http://github.com/clalancette/oz/wiki. If you have questions or comments about Oz, please feel free to contact me at clalancette at gmail.com, or open up an issue on the github page: http://github.com/clalancette/oz/issues. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release through bug reports, patches, and suggestions for improvement.