Coda File System

OpenISR 0.10.1 released

From: Benjamin Gilbert <bgilbert_at_cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:46:21 -0500
I am pleased to announce the release of version 0.10.1 of the OpenISR 
system.  This release includes the following changes:

- Support VirtualBox 4.0.4 and above
- Support KVM on RHEL 6
- Allow showing image cache state in dirtometer
- Fix "isr_admin adduser" on newer Ubuntu systems
- Other changes; see changelog below

Pocket ISR has correspondingly been updated to version 0.10.1-1.  The 
new release includes the following changes:

- Update OpenISR client to version 0.10.1
- Update VirtualBox to 4.0.4


UPGRADE NOTES
-------------

If you install OpenISR from source, note that this release adds a 
dependency on the PyYAML Python module.


SUPPORTED LINUX DISTRIBUTIONS
-----------------------------

As of this release, we are producing binary packages (both 32-bit and 
64-bit) for the following Linux distributions:

- Debian Lenny (5.0)
- Debian Squeeze (6.0)
- Ubuntu Hardy (8.04)
- Ubuntu Karmic (9.10)
- Ubuntu Lucid (10.04)
- Ubuntu Maverick (10.10)
- Fedora 13
- Fedora 14
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

If your Linux distribution is not listed above but is sufficiently 
recent to meet the system requirements (see the README for details), you 
should still be able to build from source.


Release 0.10.1 of the OpenISR system is available for download at:

http://isr.cmu.edu/download/

--Benjamin Gilbert


CHANGELOG
---------

------ Client changes

- dirtometer: Allow showing image cache state in bitmap (press M to
   enable)
- dirtometer: Add scroll bar to chunk bitmap
- dirtometer: Show parcel name in the dirtometer window
- dirtometer: Add window icon
- dirtometer: Ignore saved window position if it is offscreen
- dirtometer: Save settings on ctrl-C
- Autocomplete only checked-out parcels for "isr clean" unless -f given
- Various other improvements

------ VMM driver changes

- kvm: Fix RightCtrl-F with Metacity
- kvm: Work with KVM version shipped with RHEL 6
- kvm: Automatically bind parcel.iso to the VM if present
- virtualbox: Support VirtualBox >= 4.0.4
- virtualbox: Enable USB 1.1 for parcels created with VirtualBox 4
- virtualbox: Always default to "Save the machine state" in Close VM
   dialog
- virtualbox: Automatically bind parcel.iso to the VM if present
- virtualbox: Allow configuring new parcels for 64-bit guests (requires
   VT)
- virtualbox: Allow configuring new parcels to avoid First Run dialog
- virtualbox: Fix error message if VirtualBox is too old to run a parcel

------ isr_admin changes

- adduser: Fix failure on newer Ubuntu systems
Received on 2011-02-24 17:46:31