http://cockpit-project.org/blog/cockpit-118.html
Cockpit is the modern Linux admin interface There's usually a release
every week, but this time around we were delinquent and it's been
nearly a month.
You'll notice that we've dropped the 0.x from the beginning of the
version numbers. This underscores the fact that Cockpit is stable.
We've been regularly releasing functionally stable releases for most of
the last year.
And over the last few months we've worked hard on identifying stable
javascript APIs and protocols for various Cockpit components to consume.
We'll be itemizing these stability guarantees in the documentation shortly.
Timer jobs in systemd
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Harish did great work during Google Summer of Code to add support for
systemd timers. Timers let users schedule tasks similar to cron jobs.
Timers are now listed, and dialogs for defining jobs and their recurring
patterns are now included in Cockpit.
Blog post:
https://medium.com/@harishanand95/gsoc-creating-timers-in-cockpit-f4034c7...
Screenshot:
http://cockpit-project.org/blog/images/cockpit-timers.png
Change:
https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/pull/4645
Two factor authentication on login screen
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Peter pulled off a major change to have full PAM conversations supported
on the Cockpit login screen. This means you can use two factor
authentication dongles or Yubikeys in your login workflow in Cockpit.
In addition, for the next release Stef worked on allowing the user to
change expired passwords while logging in, similar to how they would
on the console.
Demo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXsOt6zgBs4
Change:
https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/pull/4827
Use Webpack to build the Cockpit interface
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Most of Cockpit is written in javascript and runs in the browser. This
code is now built with Webpack. It's bundled into single page
application bundles per Cockpit component. Among other things, this
makes hacking on Cockpit much easier.
Documentation:
https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/blob/master/HACKING.md
Make Docker resource limits work on Debian
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The container resource usage graphs and resource limit dialogs now
work properly on Debian. Stef adapted the code to account for the
different CGroup layout than Docker uses on Debian.
In addition the SSH key listing code now works on Debian.
Change:
https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/pull/4845
Configure Cockpit URLs with an HTTP prefix
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The HTTP URLs that Cockpit uses can now have a (mostly) arbitrary prefix
in their path. This is useful in scenarios where Cockpit is proxied by
another application or management console. Use the UrlRoot option
in cockpit.conf
Documentation:
http://cockpit-project.org/guide/latest/cockpit.conf.5.html
Change:
https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/pull/4937
Components can require a minimum Cockpit version
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Cockpit is built from various components that are independently
installable and composable. Various components provide network
configuration, or storage, or container functionality.
These components can now indicate which part of the base javascript and
base cockpit-bridge they require in order to function. This is
configured in the package manifest
Documentation:
http://cockpit-project.org/guide/latest/packages.html#package-manifest
Change:
https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/pull/4964
Get it
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You can get Cockpit here:
http://cockpit-project.org/running.html
Cockpit 118 is available in Fedora 25:
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/cockpit-118-1.fc25
Or download the tarball here:
https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/releases/tag/118
Take care,
Stef