[release-notes] Add the Systems Administrators beats
Ben Cotton
bcotton at fedoraproject.org
Sun Oct 28 17:06:01 UTC 2012
commit f847d1a90608aa46d7fe022145313a7a7cece73e
Author: Ben Cotton <bcotton at fedoraproject.org>
Date: Sun Oct 28 13:05:41 2012 -0400
Add the Systems Administrators beats
en-US/Boot.xml | 14 ++++++++++
en-US/Cloud.xml | 17 ++++++++++++
en-US/Database_Servers.xml | 4 +--
en-US/File_Servers.xml | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
en-US/File_Systems.xml | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++---
en-US/Release_Notes.ent | 6 ++--
en-US/Release_Notes.xml | 13 ++++++---
en-US/Samba.xml | 13 +++++++++
en-US/Security.xml | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
en-US/System_Daemons.xml | 8 +++++
en-US/Virtualization.xml | 62 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
en-US/Web_Servers.xml | 20 ++++++++++++++
en-US/Xorg.xml | 5 +++
13 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/en-US/Boot.xml b/en-US/Boot.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e010a16
--- /dev/null
+++ b/en-US/Boot.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook EBNF Module V1.1CR1//EN"
+"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/mathml/1.1CR1/dbmathml.dtd">
+<?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.informatik.fh-wiesbaden.de/~werntges/home_t/proj/dbkcss102/wysiwygdocbook1.02/driver.css" type="text/css"?>
+
+<section>
+
+ <title>Boot</title>
+ <section>
+ <title>Offline System Updates </title>
+ <package>PackageKit</package> and <package>systemd</package> join forces to provide a stable offline environment for applying critical system updates. By booting into a special target, these updates can be applied without causing conflicts in a running system.
+ </section>
+</section>
+
diff --git a/en-US/Cloud.xml b/en-US/Cloud.xml
index c5e974b..f8ea803 100644
--- a/en-US/Cloud.xml
+++ b/en-US/Cloud.xml
@@ -9,6 +9,23 @@
<title>Cloud</title>
<section>
+ <title>Eucalpytus </title>
+ <para>
+ <pacakage>eucalyptus</package> allows the creation of private Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds that are compatible with Amazon Web Services.</para>
+ </section><section>
+ <title>OpenShift Origin </title>
+ <para>OpenShift Origin brings Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) support to Fedora 18. </para>
+ </section><section>
+ <title>OpenStack </title>
+ <para>Fedora 18 includes the latest version of the OpenStack IaaS cloud service, codenamed "Folsom". </para>
+ <section>
+ <title>Heat </title>
+ <para> Heat was added to provide an AWS CloudFormation API for OpenStack. Heat provides a standardized method for OpenStack users to launch multiple applications in an OpenStack cloud from a template file describing the cloud application. Administrators are encouraged to read the project's <ulink url="https://github.com/heat-api/heat/blob/master/docs/GettingStarted.rst#readme"> getting started guide</ulink> or the browse their <ulink url="https://github.com/heat-api/heat/wiki"> wiki</ulink>. </para>
+ </section>
+ </section><section>
+ <title>OwnCloud </title>
+ <para>
+ <package>owncloud</package> provides a server and client to synchronize files across multiple devices, including mobile. This allows users to run their own file synchronization service.</para>
</section>
</section>
diff --git a/en-US/Database_Servers.xml b/en-US/Database_Servers.xml
index 962daa0..a7a7afd 100644
--- a/en-US/Database_Servers.xml
+++ b/en-US/Database_Servers.xml
@@ -8,8 +8,6 @@
<title>Database Servers</title>
- <section>
-
- </section>
+ <para> Riak, a scalable and reliable noSQL data store written in Erlang, is available in Fedora 18.</para>
</section>
diff --git a/en-US/File_Servers.xml b/en-US/File_Servers.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fbe8415
--- /dev/null
+++ b/en-US/File_Servers.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook EBNF Module V1.1CR1//EN"
+"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/mathml/1.1CR1/dbmathml.dtd">
+<?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.informatik.fh-wiesbaden.de/~werntges/home_t/proj/dbkcss102/wysiwygdocbook1.02/driver.css" type="text/css"?>
+
+
+<section>
+
+ <title>File Servers</title>
+ <section>
+ <title>vsftpd </title>
+ <para> Fedora 18 includes the newest <package>vsftpd</package> release, version 3.0, which includes the following changes: </para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>A new highly restrictive seccomp filter sandbox. </para>
+ </listitem><listitem>
+ <para>A fix for passive mode connections under high loads. </para>
+ </listitem><listitem>
+ <para>A few timeout fixes, particularly with SSL. </para>
+ </listitem><listitem>
+ <para>Make listen mode the default. </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist><section>
+ <title>NFSometer </title>
+ <para> NFSometer is a performance measurement framework for running workloads and reporting results across NFS protocol versions, NFS options and Linux NFS client implementations. More detailed information can be found at <ulink url="http://wiki.linux-nfs.org/wiki/index.php/NFSometer">http://wiki.linux-nfs.org/wiki/index.php/NFSometer</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </section><section>
+ <title>StorageManagement </title>
+ <para> Fedora 18 provides a number of libraries enabling users to programmatically manage their storage, namely <package>libstoragemgmt</package> and <package>targetd</package>. Documentation is included in the packaged manpages and READMEs.</para>
+ </section>
+ </section><section>
+ <sectioninfo>
+ <title>ssm: System Storage Manager </title>
+ </sectioninfo><para> Fedora 18 includes <package>ssm</package>, a tool to ease common storage management tasks by providing a unified command line experience. <command>man ssm</command> describes the new functionality provided by the utility.</para>
+ </section>
+</section>
+
diff --git a/en-US/File_Systems.xml b/en-US/File_Systems.xml
index cce0be8..876c112 100644
--- a/en-US/File_Systems.xml
+++ b/en-US/File_Systems.xml
@@ -6,11 +6,38 @@
<section>
- <title>File Systems</title>
+<title>File Systems</title>
- <section>
-
- </section>
+<section>
+ <title>FedFS </title>
+ <para>Fedora 18 adds <package>FedFS</package>, a mechanism to provide a coherent namespace across multiple file servers.</para><para>The code provided in this package is a technology preview. The intent is to provide a full and supported Linux FedFS client and server implementation based on this code. Programming and user interfaces may change significantly for the next few releases. </para>
+ <para>The components in this package are used for managing file system referrals in order to create a global network file system namespace. Installable components include: </para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para> An automounter program map to manage the FedFS domain namespace on FedFS-enabled clients. </para>
+ </listitem><listitem>
+ <para> A mount command to mount parts of a FedFS domain namespace. </para>
+ </listitem><listitem>
+ <para> A plug-in library that allows programs outside of FedFS to resolve junctions on local file systems. </para>
+ </listitem><listitem>
+ <para> An ONC RPC service daemon that runs on file servers enabling the management by remote FedFS ADMIN clients of FedFS junctions. </para>
+ </listitem><listitem>
+ <para> A tool called <command>nfsref</command> to manage local junctions without requiring fedfsd. </para>
+ </listitem><listitem>
+ <para> A set of command-line clients that can access fedfsd instances on remote file servers. </para>
+ </listitem><listitem>
+ <para> A set of command-line clients that can manage FedFS entries on an LDAP server acting as a FedFS NSDB. </para>
+ </listitem><listitem>
+ <para> A tool to manage NSDB connection parameters on the local host. </para>
+ </listitem><listitem>
+ <para> An LDIF format schema to enable an LDAP server to support FedFS objects. </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist><para>For more information refer to the <ulink url="http://wiki.linux-nfs.org/wiki/index.php/FedFsUtilsProject"> FedFS project page</ulink> and the <ulink url="http://wiki.linux-nfs.org/wiki/index.php/FedFsUtilsDocs"> FedFS Documentation page</ulink>. </para>
+ </section><section>
+ <title>/tmp on tmpfs </title>
+ <para>By default, <filename>/tmp</filename> on Fedora 18 will be on a tempfs. Storage of large temporary files should be done in <filename>/var/tmp</filename>. This will reduce the I/O generated on disks, increase SSD lifetime, save power, and improve performance of the programlisting <filename>/tmp</filename> filesystem.</para>
+
+</section>
</section>
diff --git a/en-US/Release_Notes.ent b/en-US/Release_Notes.ent
index d828cba..0c39370 100644
--- a/en-US/Release_Notes.ent
+++ b/en-US/Release_Notes.ent
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
<!ENTITY BOOKID "release-notes">
<!ENTITY YEAR "2012">
<!ENTITY HOLDER "Fedora Project Contributors">
-<!ENTITY PRODVER "17">
-<!ENTITY PREVVER "16">
-<!ENTITY KERNEL "3.3.4">
+<!ENTITY PRODVER "18">
+<!ENTITY PREVVER "17">
+<!ENTITY KERNEL "3.6.0">
diff --git a/en-US/Release_Notes.xml b/en-US/Release_Notes.xml
index 0429c68..2a76844 100644
--- a/en-US/Release_Notes.xml
+++ b/en-US/Release_Notes.xml
@@ -33,11 +33,9 @@
<xi:include href="Installation.xml"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
</xi:include>
-<!--
<xi:include href="Boot.xml"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
</xi:include>
--->
<xi:include href="Security.xml"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
</xi:include>
@@ -52,11 +50,9 @@
<xi:include href="Virtualization.xml"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
</xi:include>
-<!--
<xi:include href="Web_Servers.xml"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
</xi:include>
--->
<xi:include href="Cloud.xml"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
</xi:include>
@@ -66,9 +62,18 @@
<xi:include href="RelNotesDirChange.xml"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
</xi:include>
+ <xi:include href="File_Servers.xml"
+ xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
+ </xi:include>
+ <xi:include href="Samba.xml"
+ xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
+ </xi:include>
<xi:include href="System_Daemons.xml"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
</xi:include>
+ <xi:include href="Server_Configuration_Tools.xml"
+ xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
+ </xi:include>
<xi:include href="Xorg.xml"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
</xi:include>
diff --git a/en-US/Samba.xml b/en-US/Samba.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b50a607
--- /dev/null
+++ b/en-US/Samba.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook EBNF Module V1.1CR1//EN"
+"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/mathml/1.1CR1/dbmathml.dtd">
+<?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.informatik.fh-wiesbaden.de/~werntges/home_t/proj/dbkcss102/wysiwygdocbook1.02/driver.css" type="text/css"?>
+
+
+
+<section>
+
+ <title>Samba</title>
+ <para>Fedora 18 includes Samba4, which provides improved cross-platform file server support. The release supports the new SMB2.2 and SMB3 protocols and includes an LSA Service Daemon for FreeIPA trust relationship support. Administrators leaning on python will be pleased with Samba's new scripting interface, which allows Python programs access to Samba's internals. </para>
+</section>
+
diff --git a/en-US/Security.xml b/en-US/Security.xml
index 21fae07..b87c620 100644
--- a/en-US/Security.xml
+++ b/en-US/Security.xml
@@ -6,10 +6,53 @@
<section>
<title>Security</title>
+ <section>
+
+ <title>Active Directory made easy </title>
+ <para> Fedora can be used on an Active Directory domain (or other kerberos realms, such as IPA) out of the box. It should be easy to configure domain logins on a Fedora machine, and then it should be intuitive and uneventful to login with those credentials. </para>
+ <para>These improvements will also increase reliability and ease usage for any Kerberos realm, not just active directory. Improvement has been made in much of the login and authentication stack, which now includes <package>realmd</package> and <package>adcli</package>. </para>
+ <para>The GNOME <guilabel>User Accounts</guilabel> Settings GUI features support for enterprise logins. </para>
+ <para> With Fedora 18 it is possible to create a trust relationship between an IPA and an Active Directory domain which would allow users from one domain to access resource of the other domain. The FreeIPA project has documented the feature at <ulink url="http://freeipa.org/page/IPAv3_testing_AD_trust">http://freeipa.org/page/IPAv3_testing_AD_trust.</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </section><section>
+
+ <title>Secure Boot </title>
+ <para>UEFI Secure Boot will be supported in Fedora 18. This will allow Fedora to boot on systems that have Secure Boot enabled. Tools are available for administrators to create custom certificates to sign local changes to GRUB or the kernel. </para>
+ </section><section>
+
+ <title>rngd </title>
+ <para>Random number generation is improved by enabling <package>rngd</package> by default. </para>
+ </section><section>
+
+ <title>Secure Containers </title>
+ <para>Using SELinux and <package>virt-sandbox</package>, services can be run in secure sandboxes, even as root. The <package>virt-sandbox-service</package> package will create mount points and a libvirt container. </para>
+ </section><section>
+
+ <title>SELinux boolean renaming </title>
+ <para>In order to clarify the purpose of SELinux booleans, all settings that begin with <literal>allow</literal> will be renamed to reflect their domain. Existing policy booleans will continue to be supported. </para>
+ </section><section>
+
+ <title>SELinux Systemd Access Control </title>
+ <para>Support has been added to <package>systemd</package> to check unit files against SELinux settings before allowing a process to start or stop the service.</para>
+ </section><section>
+
+ <title>System calls restricted </title>
+ <para>The <package>libseccomp</package> library is now available, which provides applications with an easy way to reduce the potential damage of exploits by leveraging kernel syscall filters. Virtual machines benefit from this as QEMU/KVM now uses libseccomp. </para>
+ </section><section>
+
+ <title>usermode </title>
+ <para>
+ <package>usermode</package>, a wrapper to provide superuser privileges to unprivileged users, is being phased out in favor of <package>polkit</package>.</para>
+ </section><section>
+
+ <title>Kerberos credentials moved and improved </title>
+ <para> Fedora 18 changes the standard location of Kerberos credential caches to <filename>/run/user/$UID</filename> in order to increase security and simplify locating the caches for NFSv4. Fedora's Kerberos support will now allow users to maintain credentials for multiple identities and for the GSSAPI client code to automatically select credentials based on the target service and hostname. </para>
+ </section><section>
+
+ <title>halt, poweroff, reboot Configuration Moved </title>
+ <para> The ability to use <literal>halt(8)</literal>, <literal>poweroff(8)</literal> and <literal>reboot(8)</literal> commands by unprivileged users is now controlled using <package>polkit</package>. See the actions in <filename>/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.login1.policy</filename>. The PAM configuration files in <filename>/etc/pam.d/{halt,poweroff,reboot}</filename> are no longer used and their content, if any, is ignored. </para>
+ </section>
- <section>
-
- </section>
</section>
diff --git a/en-US/System_Daemons.xml b/en-US/System_Daemons.xml
index 1864a4e..3bd2b10 100644
--- a/en-US/System_Daemons.xml
+++ b/en-US/System_Daemons.xml
@@ -11,6 +11,14 @@
<section>
+ <title>rngd </title>
+ <para>Random number generation is improved by enabling <package>rngd</package> by default. </para>
+ </section><section>
+ <title>SysV to systemd </title>
+ <para>Additional SystemV init scripts are migrated to <package>systemd</package> unit files to improve readability and boot times. </para>
+ </section><section>
+ <title>Expanding the admin toolkit with procps-ng </title>
+ <para> Fedora 18 brings the migration of legacy <package>procps</package> tools to <package>procps-ng</package>. This provides better maintainability, expanded functionality, and better compatibility with scripts run on other distributions. Users should consult the documentation in <filename>/usr/share/doc/procps-*</filename> for more information. </para>
</section>
</section>
diff --git a/en-US/Virtualization.xml b/en-US/Virtualization.xml
index 4ef4cb1..f111e0c 100644
--- a/en-US/Virtualization.xml
+++ b/en-US/Virtualization.xml
@@ -6,9 +6,63 @@
<section>
<title>Virtualization</title>
+ <section>
+
+ <title>Live Snapshotting of Virtual Machines </title>
+ <para>The virtualization stack in Fedora has provided the ability to take "snapshots" of a virtual machine for many releases. These functions have however always required that the virtual machine be paused or stopped while the storage snapshot was created. Recent updates included in Fedora 17 allowed for <package>qemu</package> and <package>libvirt</package> to create snapshots of a virtual machine without requiring any downtime. </para><para>Live snapshot creation now works even for virtual machines using disk images stored in RAW format. In these cases <package>libvirt</package> creates snapshots using external QCOW2 files - transparently switching the virtual machine to run on the new external image(s) once created.</para>
+ </section><section>
+
+ <title>KVM supports hibernating and suspending guests </title>
+ <para> Suspend and hibernate now works from within KVM virtual machines. These can also be invoked on virtual machines from the host using <command>virsh</command>. </para>
+ </section><section>
+
+ <title>Manage Virtualized Environments with oVirt 3.1 </title>
+ <para>Fedora 17 included the packages required to support a minimal installation of the oVirt virtualization management platform. This initial offering has been significantly expanded in Fedora 18. In addition to the existing functionality, it is now possible to use a Fedora installation as a fully fledged oVirt "Engine" - providing a graphical management console for your virtualized environments. </para>
+ <para>Project homepage: <ulink url="http://ovirt.org.">http://ovirt.org.</ulink>
+ </para><section>
+
+ <title>oVirt Engine Installation </title>
+ <para>The oVirt Engine provides a browser accessible management console for creating, provisioning, and using virtual machines. It also provides facilities for managing the networking and storage needs of the virtualized environment. For users who want to experience the management console but do not have a spare machine to act as a virtualization host an 'all in one' plugin is provided. The 'all in one' plugin allows a system to act as both the oVirt Engine and as a virtualization host. </para>
+ <para>To install the oVirt Engine: </para>
+ <para>
+ <orderedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para> Log in to the Fedora system on which you wish to host oVirt Engine as the <literal>root</literal> user.</para>
+ </listitem><listitem>
+ <para> Install the <package>ovirt-engine</package> package with <command>yum install ovirt-engine</command>.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para> Run the <command>engine-setup</command> script and follow the prompts to complete installation of oVirt Engine.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para> Once the Engine has been installed successfully the script will provide instructions for accessing the web Administration Portal. </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </orderedlist>
+ </section><section>
+
+ <title>Virtualization Host Installation </title>
+ <para>For each system you wish to use as a virtualization host: </para>
+ <orderedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para> Install Fedora 18. A minimal installation is sufficient. Ensure that you set password for the <literal>root</literal> user and that SSH is enabled.</para>
+ </listitem><listitem>
+ <para> Log in to your oVirt Engine installation using your web browser. </para>
+ </listitem><listitem>
+ <para> Select <guilabel>Add</guilabel> from the <guilabel>Hosts</guilabel> tab.</para>
+ </listitem><listitem>
+ <para> Enter a name for the Fedora host. </para>
+ </listitem><listitem>
+ <para> Provide the hostname or IP address and root password for the Fedora host </para>
+ </listitem><listitem>
+ <para> Click <guibutton>OK</guibutton>.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </orderedlist><para>There will be a short delay as your host downloads and installs required packages. Your Fedora host will then be added to the environment.</para>
+ </section><section>
+
+ <title>Additional Information </title>
+ <para>A Quick Start Guide for oVirt 3.1 is available at <ulink url="http://wiki.ovirt.org/wiki/Quick_Start_Guide.">http://wiki.ovirt.org/wiki/Quick_Start_Guide.</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
- <section>
-
- </section>
</section>
-
diff --git a/en-US/Web_Servers.xml b/en-US/Web_Servers.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..355b851
--- /dev/null
+++ b/en-US/Web_Servers.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook EBNF Module V1.1CR1//EN"
+"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/mathml/1.1CR1/dbmathml.dtd">
+<?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.informatik.fh-wiesbaden.de/~werntges/home_t/proj/dbkcss102/wysiwygdocbook1.02/driver.css" type="text/css"?>
+
+<section>
+
+ <title>Web Servers</title>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>httpd</title>
+ <para>The Apache <package>httpd</package> package has been upgraded to version 2.4.3-1, which contains numerous security and peformance fixes.</para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>lighttpd</title>
+ <para>The <package>lighttpd</package> package has been upgraded to version 1.4.32-2.</para>
+ </section>
+</section>
+
diff --git a/en-US/Xorg.xml b/en-US/Xorg.xml
index e64aaab..d5652ea 100644
--- a/en-US/Xorg.xml
+++ b/en-US/Xorg.xml
@@ -8,6 +8,11 @@
<title>Xorg</title>
<section>
+<title>Server Kernel Mode Setting (KMS) Drivers </title>
+ <para>Many servers ship with only basic GPU hardware. Despite the basic nature of such hardware a fully fledged X.org driver has historically still been required to manage it. Fedora 18 introduces Kernel Mode Setting (KMS) drivers which provide enhanced support for the GPUs commonly found in servers. Users of these GPUs are now able to utilize the additional features provided by KMS drivers, including enhanced graphics in virtual consoles. Chipsets supported by these new KMS drivers include <emphasis>AST</emphasis> and <emphasis>MGA</emphasis>-based <emphasis>ServerEngines</emphasis>.</para>
+ </section><section>
+ <title>GPU Hot Plug Support </title>
+ <para>The X.org server has been rewritten to support 'hot' plugging and unplugging of GPUs. Specifically, this allows Fedora to provide better support for USB connected graphics devices exposed by many modern systems and laptop docking stations. The user is no longer required to restart the X.org server for such devices to be recognised. </para>
</section>
</section>
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