warewulf/.github/releases/v4.6.0rc1.md

Warewulf v4.6.0rc1 is the first release candidate for the upcoming v4.6.0. Warewulf v4.6.0 is a major release that includes many significant enhancements, fixes, and changes.

• rename "containers" to "images"
• "sprig" functions in overlay templates
• support for yaml and json formatted output
• wwctl upgrade to automatically update nodes.conf and warewulf.conf
• completely re-designed kernel selection support
• nested profiles
• arbitrary node and profile data in new "resources" structure
• moved NFS mount options to resources / fstab overlay
• split overlays by function
• split overlays, site vs distribution
• replaced defaults.conf with settings on default profile
• improved tabular output
• parallel overlay build
• improved networking functionality (static route, vlans, and bonds)
• kernel arguments as a list
• non-zero exit codes on wwctl errors
• fixed argument parsing for wwctl image exec

This release also includes numerous additional bug fixes and other.

Contributors for this release:

• Adam Michel
• Arian
• Benedikt Braunger
• Beni
• Brandon Biggs
• Brian Clemens (CIQ)
• Christian Goll (Suse)
• Daniele Colombo
• David McFarlane
• Dietmar Rieder
• Elmar Pruesse
• John "griznog" Hanks
• Howard Van Der Wal (CIQ)
• Ian Kaufman
• Josh Burks (ASU)
• Jonathon Anderson (CIQ)
• Nicholas Porter
• Shane Nehring (Iowa State University)
• Stephen Simpson (CIQ)
• Timothy Middelkoop (internet2)
• Tobias Poschwatta
• Tobias Ribizel
• "Jason" Xu Yang
• Yong Qin (Nividia)

The full changelog is included below.

Added

• Added Netplan NIC support for Debian/Ubuntu #1463
• Added documentation on ensuring systemctl restart warewulfd is ran when editing nodes.conf or warewulf.conf
• Add the ability to boot nodes with wwid=[interface], which replaces interface with the interface MAC address
• Added https://github.com/Masterminds/sprig functions to templates #1030
• Add multiple output formats (yaml & json) support. #447
• More aliases for many wwctl commands
• Add support to render template using host or $(uname -n) as the value of overlay show --render. #623
• Added command line parameters for credentials of a container registry
• Add flag --build to wwctl container copy. #1378
• Add wwctl clean to remove OCI cache and overlays from deleted nodes
• Add wwctl container import --platform. #1381
• Read environment variables from /etc/default/warewulfd #725
• Add support for VLANs to NetworkManager, wicked, ifcfg, debian.network_interfaces overlays. #1257
• Add support for static routes to NetworkManager, wicked, ifcfg, debian.network_interfaces overlays. #1257
• Add wwctl upgrade <config|nodes>. #230, #517
• Better handling of InfiniBand udev net naming. #1227
• use templating mechanism for power commands. #1004
• Document "known issues."
• Add wwctl <node|profile> <add|set> --kernelversion to specify the desired kernel version or path. #1556
• Add wwctl container kernels to list discovered kernels from containers. #1556
• Add possibility to define a softlink target with an overlay template
• Support defining a symlink with an overlay template. #1303
• New "localtime" overlay to define the system time zone. #1303
• Add support for nested profiles. #1572, #1598
• Adds wwctl container <exec|shell> --build=false to prevent automatically (re)building the container. #1490, #1489
• Added resources as generic, arbitrary YAML data for nodes and profiles. #1568
• New fstab resource configures mounts in fstab overlay, including NFS mounts. #515
• Add Dev Container support #1653
• Add man pages and command reference to userdocs. #1488
• Document building images from scratch with Apptainer. #1485
• Added warewulfd:/overlay-file/{overlay}/{path...}?render={id}

Changed

• Renamed "container" to "image" throughout wwctl and overlay templates. #1385
• Locally defined tr has been dropped, templates updated to use Sprig replace.
• Bump github.com/opencontainers/image-spec to 1.1.0
• Bump google.golang.org/grpc 1.62.1
• Bump google.golang.org/protobuf to 1.33.0
• Bump github.com/containers/image/v5 to 5.30.0
• Bump github.com/docker/docker to 25.0.5+incompatible
• Bump github.com/grpc-ecosystem/grpc-gateway/v2 from 2.18.0 to 2.19.1 #1165
• Bump github.com/spf13/cobra from 1.7.0 to 1.8.0 #1166
• Bump github.com/fatih/color from 1.15.0 to 1.17.0 #1224
• Bump github.com/coreos/ignition/v2 from 2.15.0 to 2.19.0 #1239
• Bump github.com/spf13/cobra from 1.8.0 to 1.8.1 #1481
• Bump google.golang.org/protobuf from 1.34.1 to 1.35.1 #1480
• Bump golang.org/x/term from 0.20.0 to 0.25.0 #1476
• Bump github.com/grpc-ecosystem/grpc-gateway/v2 from 2.19.1 to 2.23.0 #1513
• Bump github.com/containers/image/v5 from 5.30.1 to 5.32.2 #1366
• Bump github.com/fatih/color from 1.17.0 to 1.18.0 #1523
• Disable building containers by default when calling wwctl container copy. #1378
• Split wwinit and generic overlays into discrete functionality. #987
• Updated IgnitionJson to sort filesystems. #1433
• wwctl node set requires mandatory pattern input. #502
• Remove NodeInfo (in-memory-only) data structure, consolidating onto NodeConf. #916
• Replace defaults.conf with settings on the default profile. #917
• Switched from yaml.v2 to yaml.v3 #1462
• Make OCIBlobCache a seperate path and point it to /var/cache #1459
• Updated various shell scripts for POSIX compatibility. #1464
• Update wwctl server to always run in the foreground #508
• Update wwctl server to log to stdout rather than a file #503
• Changed wwctl server to use "INFO" for send and receive logs #725
• Remove a 3-second sleep during iPXE boot. #1500
• Don't package the API in RPM packages by default. #1493
• Update default warewulfd port to match shipped configuration. #1448
• Replace olekukonko/tablewriter with cheynewallace/tabby. #1497, #1498
• replaced deprecated errors.Wrapf with fmr.Errorf. #1534
• Rename udev net naming file to 70-persistent-net.rules. #1227
• Manage warewulfd template data as a pointer. #1548
• Added test for sending grub.cfg.ww. #1548
• Use a sentinel file to determine container readonly state. #1447
• Bump github.com/Masterminds/sprig/v3 from 3.2.3 to 3.3.0 #1553
• Bump github.com/golang/glog from 1.2.0 to 1.2.3 #1527
• Bump github.com/opencontainers/runc from 1.1.12 to 1.1.14
• Repurpose Kernel.Override to specify the path to the desired kernel within the container. #1556
• Merge Kernel.Override into Kernel.Version to specify the desired kernel version or path. #1556
• Provide detected kernel version to overlay templates. #1556
• Bump github.com/containers/storage from 1.53.0 to 1.55.2 #1316, #892
• Process nodes.conf path dynamically from config. #1595, #1596, #1569
• Split overlays into distribution and site overlays. #831
• Added note to booting userdoc for removing machine-id. #1609
• Log cpio errors more prominently. #1615
• Improved syncuser conflict help text. #1614
• Parallelized overlay build. #1018
• Parallelized and optimized overlay build. #1018
• Added note about dnsmasq interface options in Rocky 9.
• Added retries to curl in wwinit dracut module. #1631
• Added ip= argument to dracut ipxe script. #1630
• Updated network interface bonding configuration and documentation. #1482, #1280
• Refactor Kernel arguments as a slice (list) rather than a single string. #1656

Removed

• wwctl node list --fullall has been removed
• wwctl profile list --fullall has been removed
• Remove wwctl server <start,stop,status,restart,reload> #508
• Remove wwctl overlay build --host #1419
• Remove wwctl overlay build --nodes #1419
• Remove wwctl kernel #1556
• Remove wwctl <node|profile> <add|set> --kerneloverride #1556
• Remove wwctl container <build|import> --setdefault #1335
• Remove NFS mount options from warewulf.conf. #515

Fixed

• Update links on contributing page to point to warewulf repo.
• Prevent Networkmanager from trying to optain IP address via DHCP on unused/unmanaged network interfaces.
• Systems with no SMBIOS (Raspberry Pi) will create a UUID from /sys/firmware/devicetree/base/serial-number
• Replace slice in templates with sprig substr. #1093
• Fix an invalid format issue for the GitHub nightly build action. #1258
• Return non-zero exit code on overlay build failure #1393
• Return non-zero exit code on container copy failure #1377
• Return non-zero exit code on container sub-commands #1414
• Fix excessive line spacing issue when listing nodes. #1241
• Return non-zero exit code on node sub-commands #1421
• Fix panic when getting a long container list before building the container. #1391
• Return non-zero exit code on power sub-commands #1439
• Fix issue that pattern matching broken on node set #964
• Fix issue that domain globs not supported during wwctl node delete. #1449
• Fix overlay permissions in /root/ and /root/.ssh/. #1452
• Return non-zero exit code on container sub-commands #1437
• Return non-zero exit code on profile sub-commands #1435
• Fix issue that NetworkManager marks managed interfaces "unmanaged" if they do not have a device specified. #1154
• Return non-zero exit code on overlay sub-commands #1423
• Simplify passing of arguments to commands through wwctl container exec. #253
• Don't update IPMI if password isn't set. #638
• Fix issue that --nettagdel does not work properly. #1503
• Fix test for dhcp static configuration #1536 #1537
• Fix issue that initrd fails at downloading runtime overlay with permission denied error, when warewulf secure option in warewulf.conf is enabled. #806
• Allow iPXE to continue booting without runtime overlay. #806
• Format errors in logs as strings. #1563
• Fix display of profiles during node list. #1496
• Fix internal DelProfile function to correctly operate on profiles rather than nodes. #1622
• Fix parsing of bool command line variables #1627
• Fix newline handling in /etc/issue. #1648