3.9.2-57
Merged 19th April 2020
Released 25th April 2020
We are now starting to move back to our older, hopefully more robust model of releasing first into our testing channel updates and then into stable if no ‘worries’ were reported. But during our transition as part of the ‘Built on openSUSE’ endeavour we only have an openSUSE based testing channel. But as we move closer to achieving feature parity with our current stable updates channel, which is based on CentOS, we can hopefully soon designate a release to go into the ‘Built on openSUSE’ stable channel updates. There after we can embark on tackling our mounting technical debt in the testing channel.
That aside this release is relatively minor on the production code side and involves no db migrations and has been running without report for a few days now in the testing channel as referenced above. And is the first release for over a year to involve a sole committer, me in this case.
- remark out all currently failing unit tests. Fixes #2137 @phillxnet
- improve password handling during config restore. Fixes #2151 @phillxnet
The first change was fairly substantial but is intended to improve our tooling with regard to establishing our long sought feature parity across our CentOS and openSUSE bases. The second is, as stated, an overall improvement with regard to how we treat passwords during a configuration restore. These then both contribute to our current main mission of being able to offer a more modern, upstream supported btrfs platform. I look forward to finally being able to release a Stable counterpart in our future home via our ‘Built on openSUSE’ effort.
Further I would like to point out that although we have only a single committer on this release, there has been much work behind and on the scenes by many forum members and the venerable @Flox (forum moderation/support and alpha testing our pending new installer). Thanks also to @Hooverdan for their sterling effort with support on the forum. And to all those intrepid folks contributing to the testing effort within our openSUSE only testing channel updates: special mention in this case to @shocker who is currently engaged in a monster effort re a very large raid5/6 Leap 15.1/15.2beta / Tumbleweed adventure.
Finally a special thanks to all Stable channel subscribers without which this whole endeavour would be unsustainable. We aim to have, soon, a shiny new installer which represents the last part of at least the software side of this rather large puzzle. More on this soon.
N.B.
If you have a Stable channel updates subscription and do not see this update available please check your subscription status and relevant Appliance ID via our recently available ‘self service’ Appman facility: https://appman.rockstor.com/
If all looks well and you are still not offered this update then please PM me on the forum with your current Appliance ID and original order number and I will look to what the problem may be. There is a known issue for a small subset of our subscribers which I can only sort if contacted.