This release is a lot about bug fixes and smaller improvements.

Important: This will be the very last release to contain the already deprecated Django Web Interface.

We have 184 changed files, 8391 insertions and 3362 deletions. We have merged 45 pull requests.

Milestone: https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/milestone/9

Diff to last release: https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/compare/v3.2.0...v3.2.1

New:

• Signatures: Add ESXi 7.0 U1 #2525 #2526 #2442
• Signatures: Add AlmaLinux to supported distros #2536
• Signatures: Add generic openSUSE Leap 15 #2508
• Settings: Use .yaml as a file extension #2531
• Settings: Validate what settings we have in the YAML-File #2533 #2419 #2530
• Modules: We now support automatic Windows installations #2466
• Docs: Terraform provider now included #2166 #2528

Changes:

• Web Frontend: Show VMware as a breed #2449
• Logging check fails with SELinux #2440 #2441
• Typing: Convert docstring types to typing types #2564
• ESXi Support: Now partly supported #2541
• ipmitool now is upstream supported by fence_agents via ipmilanplus #2542
• cobbler version remove the b prefix #2543
• We are now using inst.ks instead of ks #2534
• Use the python-file bindings instead of a subprocess call #2482 #2480
• Web Interface: Make new user management more obvious #2484

Bugfixes:

• Remove redundant .json suffix: #2451 #2376 #2545 #2529
• PAM Authentication failures are fixed now: #2400 #2444
• Templating: Fix Cheetah macros #2570 #2509 #2403
• Templating: Fix regex replacements #2513
• Templating: Add http_port to all snippets we are aware of #2058
• API: Have the legacy fields kickstart and ks_meta present at all times. #2311 #2568
• Replicate: revert_strip_none prior adding an object on replicate #2548 #2505
• Replicate: Fix paths during replication #2516
• Web interface: Fix snippet path #2520
• Web interface: Prevent duplicate pathing of snippets #2485
• Fix script path from Cobbler #2479 #2478
• Settings: Add missing rsync flags option #2467 #2468
• Startup: Cobbler starts with sub-profiles now #2259 #2450
• Web: Permissions for /var/lib/cobbler/web.ss #2439 #2452
• Power management: Follow the fence_agent return codes #1491
• cobbler check: Fix dnsmasq check #2155

Other:

• CI: We changed to GitHub Actions from Travis #2514
• CI: Add Test-PyPi release for every commit on master #2533 #2553 #2565
• CI: Configure linters #2422 #2506
• CI: Replace Fedora 31 with Fedora 33 for building packages #2463
• Tests: Add more coverage #2554 #2550 #2546
• Cleanup unused import #2551
• Docs: Improvements at various places #2547 #2481 #2473 #1801 #2228
• Removed unused multi-language support #2532
• Un-categorized improvements #2524 #2464
• Packaging: CentOS builds because of a virtual provides for a dependency #2340
• Items: Streamline template_types type in all items #2262
• Docker: Add ldap to the image per default #2335

Breaking Changes:

• Possibly the settings file is not correctly migrated and needs to be manually adjusted.
• Rename settings to settings.yaml
• Add all keys which are missing. List will be available in /var/log/cobbler/cobbler.log.
• We dropped support for CentOS 7 since no full Python 3 stack is available #2515

Announcement:

• We will try to fade out Cheetah3 over time. Release 4.0.0 will contain only Jinja2 templates. We will aide and help with the transition and try to make it as smooth as possible
• We will remove the internal implementation of the TFTP daemon with 3.3.0. If you use it, please use one from your system vendor in the future.