[augeas-devel] ANNOUNCE: Augeas 0.5.2

[David Lutterkort]

I am pleased to announce the release of Augeas 0.5.2; if I were into
codenames this would be the 'Let them eat apples' release.

This release contains a schema change for /etc/inittab (see below), and
changes to make Augeas work on MAC OS/X, thanks to Anders Bjoerklund.

There are also a number of bugfixes, most importantly a fix for a bug
that lead to Augeas trying to save all files unnecessarily - for the
most part that did no harm, since it would eventually notice that the
file hadn't change and leave the original in place; if the original
resided in a directory that is not writable though, this bug would make
aug_save fail.

Detailed news:
  - Make Augeas work on Mac OS/X (bug #66) (Anders Bjoerklund)
  - reduce symbols exported from libfa with linker script
  - add --echo option to augtool
  - require Automake 1.11 (Jim Meyering)
  - avoid spurious save attempts for freshly read files
  - Lens changes/additions
    * Inittab: schema change: use 'id' field as name of subtree for a line,
      instead of a generated number. Map comments as '#comment' (Matt Palmer)
    * Logrotate: make owner/group in create statement optional, allow
      filenames to be indented
    * Ntp: allow additional options for server etc. (bug #72)
    * Shellvars: allow backticks as quote characters (bug #74)
    * Yum: also read files in /etc/yum/pluginconf.d (Marc Fournier)

Tarball:          http://augeas.net/download/augeas-0.5.2.tar.gz
GPG signature[1]: http://augeas.net/download/augeas-0.5.2.tar.gz.sig

RPM's for Fedora and EPEL are making their way through the build systems
and will be available shortly from the usual repos.

David

[1] To verify the signature, first download both the .sig file and the
corresponding tarball. Then, run a command like this:

  gpg --verify augeas-0.5.2.tar.gz.sig

If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
then run this command to import it:

  gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys FC6E8A22

and rerun the `gpg --verify' command.