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Jonathon Anderson 4a246e1b72 Release v4.6.1
- Back-port previous GitHub release notes to `.github/releases/`
- Fix SUSE and Rocky Linux 8 builds

Signed-off-by: Jonathon Anderson <janderson@ciq.com>
2025-04-04 05:12:57 -06:00

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First release candidate of the 4.3.0 branch. From this release on, the main branch will only get bug fixes until the next release. Development will happen in the develop branch. This is also release has also breaking changes for the configuration files, as the format for the network devices in the nodes.conf has changed, Also warewulf.conf has a new way to configure the nfs exports on the master node and separate sections for the ipmi and kernel configs.

Changes

  • Provision interface is not tied to 'eth0' any more. The provision interface must be named 'default' now. The file `nodes.yaml' must be changed accordingly.
  • Creating of '/etc/exports' can now be disabled, so that wwctl configure -a wont overwrite a existing '/etc/exports'.
  • All configurations files for the host (/etc/exports, /etc/dhcpd.conf, /etc/hosts) are now populated from the (OVERLAYDIR/host/etc/{exports|dhcpd|hosts}.ww . Also other configuration files like prometheus.yml.ww or slurm.conf.ww which depend on the cluster nodes can be placed. Also the new templated functions {{ abort }}, {{ IncludeBlock }} abd {{ no_backup }} are allowed now.
  • nodes and profiles can now have multiple system and runtime overlays, as a comma separated list. The overlays of the profile and the nodes are combined.
  • simple ipv6 support is now enabled. In warewulf.conf the option ipaddr6/Ipv6net must be set to enable ipv6. If enabled on of these options is set a node will get a derived ipv6 in the scheme ipv6net:ipaddr4. This address can also be overwritten for every node
  • Multiple files can now created from a single template.ww file with the {{ file FILENAME }} command in the template. The command is expanded to the magic template command {{ /* file FILENAME */}} which is picked up by wwctl and everything which comes after this magic comment will be written to the file FILENAME. This mechanism is leveraged in the configuration files for the network, see ifcfg.xml.ww and ifcgf.ww.
  • Networks can now have arbitrary keys value pairs in the profiles and on the node, so that things like bridges and mtu sizes can be set
  • The yaml format for nodes has now sub-keys for ipmi and kernel, old nodes.conf files have to to be changed accordingly
  • uids and gids of a container now get synced at import time, so that at least users with the same name have the same uid. This is not necessarily needed for warewulf, but services like munge.