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Cockpit Virtual Hackfest Wrapup

by Stef Walter –
category: release
Last week a bunch of us met up in Karlsruhe in Germany to work on virtualmachines support in Cockpit. We had some specialists there who helped usget up to speed with VMs. Tons of pull requests opened, designs put together.Some of the changes are already merged andreleased in Cockpit 144.Marek...

Cockpit Virtual Hackfest

by Stef Walter –
category: release
There’s a Cockpit Hackfest underway in Karlsruhe, Germany. We’re working on thevirtual machine functionality in Cockpit.That means interacting with libvirt. Although libvirt has remoting functionalityit has no API that’s actually remotable and callable from Cockpit javascript code.So Lars and Pavel started working on a DBus wrapper for the API.At the...

Cockpit 143

by Martin Pitt –
category: release
  • “Software Updates” page for package based operating systems
  • Inline VNC consoles
  • Kubernetes RBAC authorization support
  • RPM packages for IBM Z systems

Cockpit 142

by Martin Pitt –
category: release
  • Virtual machines display an interactive console
  • Document how to grant/restrict access via polkit rules
  • Attempt to tear down used partitions when formatting disks

Cockpit 135

by Dominik Perpeet –
category: release
  • Redesigned sidebar navigation
  • Indicator in top bar shows privilege escalation
  • Disks are now shown for virtual machines
  • New developer tool can close active Cockpit pages
  • SSH connections established within the user session

Cockpit 133

by Dominik Perpeet –
category: release
  • Remotely managed machines are now configured in /etc/cockpit/machines.d
  • Packages can register additional bridges
  • Split translations into individual packages

Cockpit 130, 131 and 132

by Dominik Perpeet –
category: release
  • Kernel dump configuration support added
  • MAC addresses for ethernet adapters and bonds can be modified
  • Show session virtual Machines on the machines page
  • SELinux functionality is now available without setroubleshootd

Cockpit 128 and 129

by Dominik Perpeet –
category: release
  • Manage remotes and rebasing in OSTree
  • The subpackage cockpit-dashboard has been split out
  • Issues upgrading Cockpit on Debian and Fedora have been fixed
  • On Atomic, sosreport works again
  • Optionally disable the dependency on libssh

Cockpit 126 and 127

by Stef Walter –
category: release
  • Show security scan information about container images
  • Choose whether password is cached and reused on the login screen
  • The remotectl command can now combine certificate and key files
  • Cockpit respects /etc/shells
  • Allow renaming of active devices in networking interface
  • Rename cockpit-shell to cockpit-system
  • Kerberos authentication now work even if gss-proxy is in use

Cockpit 125

by Stef Walter –
category: release
  • Cockpit is now properly translatable
  • Display OSTree signatures
  • New expandable views for storage partitions
  • Other storage fixes
  • Full testing on RHEL 7.3, Ubuntu 16.04 and Debian 8 Jessie
  • System shutdown can be scheduled by date
  • Properly terminate user sessions on the Accounts page