<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><span style="font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">We are happy to announce that LinchPin v1.6.0 has been released. </span> </div><div><br></div><div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:16px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin-top:0px">This release marks some useful enhancements and features:<br><br>* Jenkins releases to pypi #578 / #567<br>* CI tests allow for ignoring, provider, and more #587 / #528 / #576<br>* Beaker enhancement #614<br>  * Introduce support for 'family' and 'tag' fields in bkr topology files #612<br>  * Allow boolean expressions on hostrequire #611<br>* Generate a unique name if one isn't specified. #629 / #575 / 564<br>* Linchpin Container Build in Jenkins #613 / #602 / #304<br>* Replace inventory generation role with python code #601 / #599 / #448 / #624<br>* Rework credentials expansion in tests #632 / #620<br>* Updates to os_server module & additional volumes to os_server topologies #622 / #329 / #544 / #330<br>* Integrate virt-customize to make linchpin work with generic images #610 / #532<br><br>Additional bugs were also fixed along the way:<br><br>* Make linchpin work with Ansible 2.5.x #564 - Fixes #516<br>* Allow absolute path to resources. #624 - Fixes #623<br>* Beaker hostrequires force no longer working #616 - Fixed by #614<br><br>All in all, over 30 Issues and Pull Requests were closed on Github with this release, that's a mighty large release. Future releases will be smaller, and should occur about every 3 weeks. Alpha, beta or full releases should occur each 3 week cycle. Check  <a href="https://pypi.org/project/linchpin/#history">https://pypi.org/project/linchpin/#history</a> for the latest package updates.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:16px;margin-top:0px">The official release notes are available at <a href="https://github.com/CentOS-PaaS-SIG/linchpin/releases/tag/v1.6.0">https://github.com/CentOS-PaaS-SIG/linchpin/releases/tag/v1.6.0</a></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:16px;margin-top:0px">This update is available via PyPI: <a href="https://pypi.org/project/linchpin/">https://pypi.org/project/linchpin/</a><br></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:16px;margin-top:0px">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>).</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:16px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin-top:0px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Cheers,</span><br></p></div><div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_extra"><div><br></div><div>Clint Savage</div><div>Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat<br></div><div>twitter: @herlo, github: herlo, IRC: herlo, #linchpin (freenode)</div></div></div></div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"> </div></div></div></div>