This release marks some useful enhancements and features:

* Jenkins releases to pypi #578 / #567
* CI tests allow for ignoring, provider, and more #587 / #528 / #576
* Beaker enhancement #614
  * Introduce support for 'family' and 'tag' fields in bkr topology files #612
  * Allow boolean expressions on hostrequire #611
* Generate a unique name if one isn't specified. #629 / #575 / 564
* Linchpin Container Build in Jenkins #613 / #602 / #304
* Replace inventory generation role with python code #601 / #599 / #448 / #624
* Rework credentials expansion in tests #632 / #620
* Updates to os_server module & additional volumes to os_server topologies #622 / #329 / #544 / #330
* Integrate virt-customize to make linchpin work with generic images #610 / #532

Additional bugs were also fixed along the way:

* Make linchpin work with Ansible 2.5.x #564 - Fixes #516
* Allow absolute path to resources. #624 - Fixes #623
* Beaker hostrequires force no longer working #616 - Fixed by #614

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  https://pypi.org/project/linchpin/#history for the latest package updates.

The official release notes are available at https://github.com/CentOS-PaaS-SIG/linchpin/releases/tag/v1.6.0

This update is available via PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/linchpin/

If you discover any errors or regressions, please open a Github issue (https://github.com/CentOS-PaaS-SIG/linchpin/issues).

Cheers,