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This release syncs release30 with master. No patches for release30 were needed specifically.

We have +13,585 additions and −6,365 removals. We have merged 45 pull requests.

New:

• For the distro there is now a parameter remote_boot_initrd and remote_boot_kernel ()
• For the profile there is now a parameter filename for DHCP. (https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/pull/2280)
• Signatures for ESXi 6 and 7 (https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/pull/2308)
• The hardlink command is now detected more dynamically and thus more error resistant (https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/pull/2297)
• HTTPBoot will now work in some cases out of the bug. (https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/pull/2295)
• Additional DNS query for a case where the wrong record was queried in the nsupdate system case (https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/pull/2285)

Changes:

• Enabled a lot of tests, removed some and implemented new. (https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/pull/2202)
• Removed not used files from the codebase. (https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/pull/2302)
• Exchanged mkisofs to xorrisofs. (https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/pull/2296)
• Removed duplicate code. (https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/pull/2224)
• Removed unreachable code. (https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/pull/2223)
• Snippet creation and deletion now works again via xmlrpc. (https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/pull/2244)
• Replace createrepo with createrepo_c. (https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/pull/2266)
• Enable Kerberos through having a case sensitive users.conf. (https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/pull/2272)

Bugfixes:

• General various Bugfixes (https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/pull/2331, )
• Makefile usage and commands. (https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/pull/2344, https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/pull/2304)
• Fix the dhcp template. (https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/pull/2314)
• Creation of the management classes and gPXE. (https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/pull/2310)
• Fix the scm_track module. (https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/pull/2275, https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/pull/2279)
• Fix passing the netdevice parameter correctly to the linuxrc. (https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/pull/2263)
• powerstatus from cobbler now works thanks to a wrapper for ipmitool. (https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/pull/2267)
• In case the LDAP is used for auth, it now works with ADs. (https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/pull/2274)
• Fix passthru authentication. (https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/pull/2271)

Other:

• Add Codecov. (https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/pull/2229)
• Documentation updates. (https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/pull/2333, https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/pull/2326, https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/pull/2305, https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/pull/2249, https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/pull/2268)
• Buildprocess:
  • Recreation and cleanup of Grub2. (https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/pull/2278)
  • Fix small errors for openSUSE Leap. (https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/pull/2233)
  • Fix rpmlint errors. (https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/pull/2237)
  • Maximum compatibility for debbuild package creation. (https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/pull/2255, https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/pull/2292, https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/pull/2242, https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/pull/2300)
• Fixes related to our CI Pipeline (https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/pull/2254, https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/pull/2269)
• Internal Code cleanup (https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/pull/2273, https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/pull/2270)

Breaking Changes:

• Hash handling in users.digest file. (https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/pull/2299)