opsi 4.0 Release Candidate

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opsi 4.0 Release Candidate

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Dear opsi users,

we are now releasing opsi 4.0 as Release Candidate.

1. Release Candidate
2. Documentation and Upgrade instructions
3. What's new

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1. Release Candidate
The development goals are achieved and the internal tests are finished with success.
What is missed until the final release:
  • The localizations for other languages than English and German
  • The English translation of the opsi 4.0 Manual
opsi 4.0 is a major release. This means that a lot of things have been changed and a upgrade should therefore done with care.
A productive use of this release candidate is possible. But we recommend to wait until the the final release, especially if you have no support contract.


Since the opsi 4.0 beta test the repositories have changed. Please switch to the new Repositories which are described in the documentation

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2. Documentation and Upgrade instructions
Here are the opsi 4.0 ducumentation:
http://download.uib.de/opsi4.0/doc/opsi ... ual-en.pdf
http://download.uib.de/opsi4.0/doc/opsi ... v40-en.pdf
The english opsi 4.0 manual isn't finished yet......

For any questions and comments, there is a special english and german forum::
viewforum.php?f=13

A preconfigured opsi4.0 VM you will find at:
http://download.uib.de/opsi4.0/opsi4.0-servervm.zip

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3. What's new in this Release
  • A complete redesigned server library
    • complete new data structures for the backends
    • The mysql backend now supports also configuration data and therefore may used as central opsi backend.
    • This results in massive performance enhancements especially for large installations (500 to some thousand clients).
    • This is a co-funding project (2.000 €)
    • Unicode support in all parts
    • Official support for Python 2.6 based distributions
    • New database oriented (CRUD) web service methods
    • Very detailed configuration of the backends
    • Very detailed configuration of the backend data access rights
    • Product priorities to control the product installation sequence
  • Revised opsiconfd
    • Enhanced stability
    • graphical statistic interface
  • New and revised opsi-utils
    • General configuration tool opsi-setup for:
      • setting correct file access rights
      • register depot servers
      • initialize and update of any backend
      • configuration of SAMBA and DHCP configuration files
    • Revised tool opsi-newprod
    • Revised tool opsi-makeproductfile
    • New tool opsi-product-updater to download and install opsi products from repositories and to synchronize depot servers.
    • Revised tool opsi-package-manager
      • Reduced network traffic using the rsync protocol for distributing opsi products to depot servers.
      • Enhanced and more clearly information in multi depot environments
  • Enhanced opsi client agent (preloginloader is be replaced by opsi-clientagent)
    • Supports more than one config server for use in
    • high availability architectures and for load balancing.
    • This is a part of a co-funding project (2.000 €)
    • Possibility to send messages to the client (Popups)
    • opsi-winst:
      • Strong performance improvements
      • New commands to support 64 bit architectures
      • New constants %ProgramFiles32Dir%, %ProgramFiles64Dir%, %ProgramFilesSysNativeDir%
      • New parameters /32Bit, /64Bit and /Sysnative for Files and Registry sections
      • Architecture dependent variants of FileExists and GetRegistryStringValue
      • A lot of new and enhanced commands: (GetMSVersionMap, GetFileInfoMap, GetLocaleInfoMap, showBitmap, getListContaining, addtolist, addListToList, takeFirstStringContaining, base64EncodeStr, base64DecodeStr, DecStrToHexStr, HexStrToDecStr)
      • New constants %installingProdName% %installingProdVersion%
      • Logging according opsi standard
      • Enhanced interactive GUI
      • Adapted to opsi 4 method calls
  • Enhanced software inventory
    • Complete revised data structure
    • 64 bit support
    • Partly also recover license keys
  • New netboot products for OS installation
    • create_driver_links now also can detect windows own drivers at Win7/Vista
    • Enhanced driver integration
    • Revised installation scripts
  • Enhanced management interface
    • Possibility of hierarchical client groups and group/client display in a treeview
    • This is a co-funding project (500 €)
    • Graphical redesign
    • Very detailed product state display
    • Display of product priorities and installation sequence
    • Administration of additional client data like inventory number and ip-address
  • Opsi is now licensed under the General Public License v3
regards

the opsi team
opsi support - uib gmbh

For productive opsi installations we recommend support contracts.
http://www.uib.de
http://www.opsi.org
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