2 # Release Notes for openSUSE Build Service 1.7 (PRE-RELEASE)
5 Please read the README.SETUP file for initial installation
8 README.UPDATE has informations for updaters.
10 Please note that the new SLP service discovery support is
11 recommended to be used. bs_worker instances will find all
12 OBS server instances in the entire network. You can disable
13 this via syconfig settings:
14 /etc/sysconfig/obs-server
15 /etc/sysconfig/obs-worker
17 The former called "frontend" is now called "api".
18 The former called "webclient" is now called "webui".
23 Needed when a signing key is configured in BSConfig.pm
26 Optionally, detects hanging build hosts
29 Needed to run regular jobs on api instance which creates
33 api and webui requires cronjobs to log the worker status
34 and to generate the load graphes. These are active by default
35 in obs-server rpm package. Otherwise templates for the
36 cronjobs can be found in dist/ directory of git tree.
38 Main new features are:
40 * Rewritten dependency solver in scheduler which gave
41 a significant speed up. It is using the SAT solver via perl-BSSolv
44 * Speedup in webui by using new xml parser
46 * Attribute system to store all kind of information for projects,
47 packages or sub packages as defined by the server admin.
49 * Extended request handling
50 - new request types (delete or change_devel)
51 - new review mechanism
53 * clean product build support (inside of chroot enviroment)
55 * Improved source handling of branched packages (less often
57 branch command is creating full copies now with additional _link
59 * webui is themable now
61 * Build trigger reporting, the reason why a package got triggered
62 to build is stored now and requestable.
64 * Scheduler status reporting for each repository
68 * The Download on Demand feature got not yet re-implemented to support
69 the new scheduler SAT support.
73 * patchinfo aka maintenance handling, this is not complete yet.
75 * source service handler to let server and client side modules
76 prepare sources in the same way.