I am happy to announce that after a year since the last release, Cobbler 2.4.0-1 is now officially available! The build process has been started for Fedora/EPEL, so the packages should be available in the -testing repos within a day or two, and in the stable branches following that (EPEL takes longer).

Some highlights of the release:

Major Features:

• Dynamic Settings (Sorry we don’t have 2.4.0 docs anymore)
• Distro Signatures (Sorry we don’t have 2.4.0 docs anymore)
• Vastly improved support for Ubuntu, OpenSUSE and VMware ESXi (5.0 and 5.1)
• Added in new templated scripting support (needs documentation)
• New web interface improvements (tabs, etc.)
• Added apt-specific fields for repositories to make mirroring them easier
• Support for parameterized classes and defines in puppet using management classes

Minor Features:

• Added the bonded_bridge_slave interface type:
• Improved template error reporting
• Variables in fields are now evaluated through the templating engine
• Added openvz as a virtualization type for koan
• Added –virt-pxe-boot option for koan to force PXE booting of new systems
• Added a per-interface gateway option, for systems that support it
• Added support for new puppet command syntax
• Exposed replication rsync options

Major Bugfixes:

• –available-as no longer copies all files.
• Improved gPXE/iPXE support, including FreeBSD
• Deleting objects now respects the –recursive option again

Minor Bugfixes:

• Too many to list

Thanks to everyone who made this release possible!