cockpit-devel August 2024

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Attention plugin authors: test framework change CDP → Webdriver BiDi
by Martin Pitt 13 Aug '24

13 Aug '24

Hello all, three months ago, Firefox announced [1] that they are dropping support for the Chrome Devtools Protocol, the browser automation protocol that we have used in Cockpit's test API for many years. This finally happened in Firefox 129 [2], which just recently made it into Fedora 40. The new thing to use is "Webdriver BiDi" [3], which is finally a standardized protocol that has all of Chromium/Firefox/Safari/Webkit behind it. I recently ported Cockpit's test API to that [4] and I'm now in the process of updating our auxiliary projects like cockpit-{podman,machines,ostree} to it. There had to be a few API changes, but for the most part this should be painless -- e.g. starter-kit [5] or c-podman [6] were outright trivial (the "glob" change is unrelated), and for e.g. c-machines [7] it only requires a little API adjustment. You will automatically get this if you update to the latest cockpit pkg/lib and test/common API. You can then drop the chrome-remote-protocol NPM dependency. If you run into any trouble, please don't hesitate to ping me -- chances are very high that I've run into a similar problem already. Best is to @martinpitt me in GitHub for having appropriate context, but you can also ask me on Matrix or reply here. This is relatively urgent if you test on Firefox -- the next time we refresh our cockpit/tasks container (which runs our CI), it will pick up Firefox 129. Of course projects can pin the tasks container (.cockpit-ci/container), but not all of them do. Thanks, Martin [1] https://fxdx.dev/deprecating-cdp-support-in-firefox-embracing-the-future-wi… [2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/129 [3] https://w3c.github.io/webdriver-bidi/ [4] https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/pull/20832 [5] https://github.com/cockpit-project/starter-kit/pull/949 [6] https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit-podman/pull/1819 [7] https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit-machines/pull/1761

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Cockpit 322, cockpit-files 5
by Marius Vollmer 12 Aug '24

12 Aug '24

Hi! Cockpit is the modern Linux admin interface. We release regularly. Here are the release notes from Cockpit version 322 and cockpit-files 5: https://cockpit-project.org/blog/cockpit-322.html Summary: - Shell: Deprecate host switching - Files: Permissions column in details view

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