Dear opsi user,
today we release opsi Service Release 4.0.5 for testing.
Although opsi 4.0.5 is released as a service release, it contains many new features and and extensions that would have make it worth a major release. But because there are no significant changes in the data structure, we have decided to release it as opsi 4.0.5.
So we got around the additional work of changing the repositories, for the benefit of mighty feature extensions.
So for the administrators the update from 4.0.4 to 4.0.5 is kept simple.
An extended overview with details and changelogs of all new features is to be found in the Releasenotes Manual.
http://download.uib.de/opsi4.0/testing/ ... tes-en.pdf
In short the new features are:
New opsi extensions
With opsi 4.0.5 several new opsi extensions are available. The new extensions are co-funding projects and currently with costs.
• opsi Linux support:
With opsi 4.0.5 the installation of Linux clients is supported.
Windows and Linux clients can be administrated from a single management interface. For details see the regarding chapter of the release notes.
• opsi UEFI (Netboot) support:
more and more clients are equipped with an UEFI BIOS, which requires fundamental changes of the netboot and operating system installation. With the opsi UEFI netboot support can UEFI devices be integrated into opsi and the advantages of UEFI can be used. For details see the regarding chapter of the release notes.
• opsi extension opsi-local-image (for training classroms of the public administration):
This extension provides a quick restore for training classrooms clients to restore them to a well defined initial state during a break. The concept of this feature is based on an image backup of the packet based initial installation on a second local partition, from which it can be restored in short time. For details see the regarding chapter of the release notes.
Further new opsi features, that are available at no costs with the opsi kernel:
• Images with opsi clonezilla:
allows to save and restore images of clients on a network drive.
• opsi-setup-detector (automated generating of new opsi packets):
in response to many requests the opsi-setup-detector is a tool for automated opsi install script generation. It analyses the install files and creates a suitable opsiscript for installation. For details see the regarding chapter of the release notes.
• opsi-configed:
the opsi configuration editor is released with many new features and improvements. It comes with enhanced performance through improved data access and extended query and filter requests for identifying failed installations and for handling many depot servers.
Server defaults can be set in the opsi configuration editor.
For details see the regarding chapter of the release notes.
Attention! Known Bug: At the moment (in this testing release) it is not possible to use the opsi configuration editor as a browser applet.
Please use the local installation with web start.
With opsi 4.0.5 the following distributions (exclusively) are supported as opsi server:
1. part-delivery
– Ubuntu: 10.04 (Lucid), 12.04 (Precise)
– Debian: 6.0 (Squeeze), 7.0 (Wheezy)
– openSUSE 12.3, 13.1
– RHEL 6
– CentOS 6.5
These distributions are contained in the first part-delivery for opsi 4.0.5 testing.
Coming soon there will be a second part-delivery for opsi 4.0.5 testing with the additional distributions:
2. part-delivery
– Ubuntu: 14.04 (Trusty)
– UCS 3.0, 3.1, 3.2
– SLES 11SP1, 11SP3
– Fedora 20
• new opsi bootimage:
with opsi 4.0.5 comes a new opsi bootimage based on Ubuntu
Precise / Kernel 3.1.15 with support for recent hardware (like tablets), UEFI support and Linux hard disc encryption.
• Windows netboot products:
– driver integration per byAudit also according to vendor and model of the
Motherboard
– as applicable UEFI/GPT compatibility
– new property setup_after_install for process automation.
• opsi-winst / opsi-script:
– logging to c:\opsi.org\log\opsi-script.log
– new constants and string functions
• opsi-client-agent:
fixes für Windows 8.x (Loginblocker)
Discontinuation: opsi products:
With opsi v 4.0.5 the opsi products
• ntfs-write-image
• ntfs-restore-image
are not supported anymore.
Discontinuation of python 2.5 support:
python version 2.5 is not supplied with updates anymore. So opsi requires python 2.6 or python 2.7.
With kind regards,
Birgit Hubal