<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote">This release marks some major enhancements and features:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">* Reworked provider roles</div><div class="gmail_quote">* Schema validation is done using the cerberus json validator, replacing the jsonschema validator<br></div><div class="gmail_quote">* New API layout<br></div><div class="gmail_quote">* Allow external providers<br></div><div class="gmail_quote">* Dynamic Input and Templating<br></div><div class="gmail_quote">* Documentation rework<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Bug fixes in this release:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Partial completion of beaker provision results in no inventory file #289</div><div class="gmail_quote">fails on centos6 #405<br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Create inception-based testing for libvirt functionality enhancement #158</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Many thanks to Bill Peck for creating container-based tests for many of the major distros, and for testing libvirt, duffy, and dummy modules. More to come!<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote">The official release notes are available at <a href="https://github.com/CentOS-PaaS-SIG/linchpin/releases/tag/v1.5.0">https://github.com/CentOS-PaaS-SIG/linchpin/releases/tag/v1.5.0</a></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">This update is available via PyPI: <a href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/linchpin">https://pypi.python.org/pypi/linchpin</a></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">If you discover any errors or regressions, please open a Github issue (<a href="https://github.com/CentOS-PaaS-SIG/linchpin/issues">https://github.com/CentOS-PaaS-SIG/linchpin/issues</a>).</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Cheers and enjoy!</div><div class="gmail_quote"></div><div class="gmail_quote">Clint Savage<br></div><div class="gmail_quote">LinchPin Maintainer</div><div class="gmail_quote">Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat</div><div class="gmail_quote">twitter: @herlo, github: herlo, IRC: herlo, #linchpin</div></div></div></div>