This release marks some major enhancements and features:

* Reworked provider roles * Schema validation is done using the cerberus json validator, replacing the jsonschema validator * New API layout * Allow external providers * Dynamic Input and Templating * Documentation rework

Bug fixes in this release:

Partial completion of beaker provision results in no inventory file #289 fails on centos6 #405 Create inception-based testing for libvirt functionality enhancement #158

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!

The official release notes are available at https://github.com/CentOS-PaaS-SIG/linchpin/releases/tag/v1.5.0

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

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

Cheers and enjoy!  Clint Savage LinchPin Maintainer Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat twitter: @herlo, github: herlo, IRC: herlo, #linchpin