Service Release opsi 4.0.3 stable

[d.oertel]

Dear opsi users,

we declare opsi version 4.0.3 as stable.

== Overview of the new features

The opsi Service Release 4.0.3 comes with a whole bunch of new features and improvements. Here comes a survey:

* Open Source release of the opsi extension: Dynamic Depot Selection
* opsi extension: Install-on-shutdown
* opsi feature: Silent-Install
* Adaption for Windows 8 Support
* Italian and Danish Localization
* Support for the following distributions:
** UCS 3.1
** Ubuntu 12.10

The installation guide is to be found in the opsi-getting-started manual.

* Discontinuation at end of March 2013 for the support for:
** CentOs 5
** RedHat 5
** OpenSuse 11.3 / 11.4

* opsi-client-agent
** Extensively revised version
** Open Source release of the opsi extension: Dynamic Depot Selection
** opsi extension: Install-on-shutdown
** opsi feature: Silent-Install
** Improved customizing
** Adaption for Windows 8 Support
** Revised session handling: better identification of user accounts
** Improvements for the WAN-Support
** Several fixes

* opsi server components
** Improvements of the DHCP-Backend
** New HostControlSafe-Backend
** Generating the webservice SSL certificate via opsi-setup

* Windows Netboot products
** Windows 8 / Server 2012 support
** Improvement of the byAudit procedure
** Configurable WinPE partition size
** New property data_partition_create: shall a data partition be created, if there is disk space available (true/false; default: true)
** UEFI support
** Support for Softwareraid 1: new property useRaid1 handles 2 existing disks the same way

* opsi-winst:
A lot of new features, which are described in detail further down.

* Announcing the change of the license type GPLv3 to AGPLv3:
With the opsi 4.0.3 Release we will switch to AGPLv3.
This change of the license type affects only those companies, that distribute opsi as part of a Closed Source product.
Anybody in need of a license to sell opsi as part of a Closed Source solution may contact us.

For further details please refer to the opsi-v403-releasenotes and the revised opsi manuals.

=== We declare as experimental

The netboot-product: 'opsi-clonezilla'.
It integrates the 'clonezilla' functions into a opsi netboot-product and enables the automatic mount of a share 'opsi_images' from the opsi-server, that can be used as source/target für the image operation.
The share 'opsi_images' must be created manually.
At the moment, this product is for administrators who have kowledge in the use of clonezilla.

The netboot-product 'ubuntu'.
This product enables the installation of 32 bit Ubuntu 12.04 with a statical inventory.
The desktop (none/Gnome/Unity/KDE) may be chosen by a property.
Furthermore the opsi-server packages can be installed with this.

With kind regards,
detlef oertel

=== Changelogs:
There were only some small fixes since the 4.0.3 testing release.
For the complete changelogs see:
http://download.uib.de/opsi4.0/doc/opsi ... tes-en.pdf
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