Cockpit 145 released

[Martin Pitt]

http://cockpit-project.org/blog/cockpit-142.html

Cockpit is the modern Linux admin interface. We release regularly. Here
are the release notes from version 144 and 145.

Terminal size
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The Terminal now uses the full window size and dynamically resizes with it.
Previously its size was fixed to 80x24 characters.

Screenshot: http://cockpit-project.org/blog/images/terminal-full-window.png

Change: https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/pull/4633

Machines page reactiveness
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The Machines page now listens to libvirt events instead of reading the entire
state of all virtual machines every ten seconds. This makes the page much more
reactive to state changes and reduces the number of calls to `virsh`.

Change: https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/pull/7141

Delete VM functionality
-----------------------

A "Delete" button/dialog was added to the Machines page. If the VM is still
running, it will be force-stopped first. The dialog also offers you the choice
to remove the VM's disk images as well.

Screenshot: http://cockpit-project.org/blog/images/machines-delete.png

Change: https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/pull/7113

Retire external Machines provider API
-------------------------------------

Cockpit 132 introduced an external API for the Machines page that allowed third
party plugins to dynamically add/manage virtual machines from providers other
than libvirt. This was found to be not supportable in the long run and thus was
discontinued.

Change: https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/pull/7128

ABRT integration
----------------

On Fedora 26 the Logs Page now shows Problem reports from the ABRT crash
reporting tool. They appear as new message class "Problem" in the journal view,
and their details can be visited when clicking on them.

Thanks to Matej Marusak for this feature!

Screenshots:

http://cockpit-project.org/blog/images/logs-abrt-list.png
http://cockpit-project.org/blog/images/logs-abrt-details.png

Change: https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/pull/6189

Always recommend restarting after applying Software Updates
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Most supported operating systems in Cockpit don't provide a reliable
detection of whether they require restarting the machine after applying updates
for them to fully take effect. This particularly affects updates to the kernel,
but also restarting services. For now, Cockpit will always recommend to
restart the machine after applying updates:

Screenshot: http://cockpit-project.org/blog/images/updates-restart.png

Change:  https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/pull/7101

Cancelling Software Updates
---------------------------

The Software Updates page now has a Cancel button that is enabled while it is
still safe to abort a running update, i.e. while the updates are still being
downloaded.

Change: https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/pull/7026

Get it
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You can get Cockpit here:

http://cockpit-project.org/running.html

Cockpit 145 is available in Fedora 26:

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/cockpit-145-1.fc26

Or download the tarball here:

https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/releases/tag/145

Take care,

Martin Pitt