We are happy to announce the release of LinchPin v1.6.2 today! (Happy Day!)

This release has the following enhancements:

* Debug mode #650

* Add ability to provision additional disks for libvirt #639 / #500

* Use workspaces with linchpin fetch #644 / #618 / #619

* Create separate workspaces for each provider / use case #669

* Allow Repos and Packages to be installed (beaker provider) #658 / #651

This release fixes the following bugs:

* Parsing JSON for hook using ansible-playbook extra vars breaks LinchPin v1.5.4 #659 (Fixed by #664)

* linchpin validate fails when using 'type' instead of 'role' #677 (Fixed by #680)

* Passing Openstack credentials only with environment variables fails #682 (Fixed by #683)

This release adds/fixes testing:

* Add inventory_gen unit tests #656

* Remove print statement that caused AWS inventory gen tests to fail #691

The official release notes are available at https://github.com/CentOS-PaaS-SIG/linchpin/releases/tag/v1.6.2

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,

Clint Savage, Release Manager

Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat

twitter: @herlo, github: herlo, IRC: herlo, #linchpin (freenode)

P.S. As part of the improving the release process for LinchPin, releases should be coming out at regular intervals (currently, ~3 weeks). Hopefully, this should help innovation and fix issues much more quickly.