We are happy to announce that LinchPin v1.5.3 has been released. This release has the following updates:

This release marks some useful enhancements and features:

- Add support for passing instance_tags for aws driver. (#541 https://github.com/CentOS-PaaS-SIG/linchpin/pull/541) - Add name in topology for bkr_server, os_server, aws_ec2 resources, include in distilled data (#550 https://github.com/CentOS-PaaS-SIG/linchpin/pull/550) - Add auto_ip option to os_server resources (#552 https://github.com/CentOS-PaaS-SIG/linchpin/pull/552) - Add security_group as a list to aws_ec2 resources (#557 https://github.com/CentOS-PaaS-SIG/linchpin/pull/557)

Additional bugs were also fixed along the way:

- linchpin up AWS target fails when using CREDS_PATH (#497 https://github.com/CentOS-PaaS-SIG/linchpin/issues/497) - use match instead of equalto for rhel7/centos7 (#537 https://github.com/CentOS-PaaS-SIG/linchpin/pull/537) - Fix TypeError when missing template-data (#539 https://github.com/CentOS-PaaS-SIG/linchpin/pull/539) - Fixup reporting issues, other minor fixes (#565 https://github.com/CentOS-PaaS-SIG/linchpin/pull/565) - removed errant if/else which was providing incorrect return code output to the user - Add no_log in a few places which would display sensitive data - Moved the code for distilling data into a distill_data method

Documentation was updated as well:

- Updated credentials format for all providers (514) - Documented the Context Distiller (#523 https://github.com/CentOS-PaaS-SIG/linchpin/issues/523) - Documented what is required for each provider topology (#487 https://github.com/CentOS-PaaS-SIG/linchpin/issues/487)

The official release notes are available at https://github.com/CentOS-PaaS -SIG/linchpin/releases/tag/v1.5.3

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 LinchPin Maintainer Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat twitter: @herlo, github: herlo, IRC: herlo, #linchpin (freenode)