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[dist] improve 2.7 ReleaseNotes
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adrianschroeter committed Apr 12, 2016
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Features
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* support tracking of github issues
* instantiate package api call for projects building service packs
* running source service during build time
* Add support to use docker as virtualization engine
* Added support for simple image creation
* Incremental storage of sources from upstream SCM systems
- cpio archives are stored incremental and offered the to the build job
as directory.
- The default git handling has been changed to use obs_scm service which
produces the right format.
* Reworked download on demand support
- supports changing repositories now
- webui has support to add remote repositories
* Support tracking of github issues
* Instantiate package api call for projects building service packs
* Source services can be used during build time
- they get executed before the packaging tool (eg. rpm-build) gets started
* Support to use docker as virtualization engine
* Support for simple image creation
* New option to avoid usage of defined repositories when branching a package
via the OBS:BranchSkipRepositories attribute
* reworked download on demand support
* New hardware architectures are supported: k1om, aarch64_ilp32
* Many improvements in the maintenance support features
* Groups can have an email adress for notifications and contact

Changes on purpose:
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* OBS 2.7 will be the last release supporting SLES 11 as OS for the server installation.
* Users are allowed to add themself in their home project, even when they got removed.
Admins should use the user state and set them to "locked" when they do want to block them.
Admins can set the user state to "locked" when they do want to block them.
* request "addrevision" option is using unexpanded revision when "updatelink" option is used
* package search for bug issues in attributes is done via own attribute_issue xpath attribute.
the search api used to match source and attribute issues via same xpath attribute before

Incompatible changes:
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* "download" elements have been moved to "repository" elements and got a new syntax in project xml.

Notes for systems using systemd:
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# rcobssrcserver status

You will only get the systemd status here.
You will only get the systemd status here and not the service status.

Also stopping services may not kill all processes, which leads to abstract errors
when trying to restart them. We heard also about trashed MySQL databases when using
systemd.
Also stopping services may not terminate all processes, which leads to abstract errors
when trying to restart them.

To avoid these problems you need switch directory to avoid the systemd mapper:
To avoid these problems you need switch directory to by-pass systemd:

# cd /etc/init.d
# ./obssrcserver status|stop|start
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