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authorStef Walter <stefw@redhat.com>2016-02-12 20:44:22 +0100
committerStef Walter <stefw@redhat.com>2016-02-12 20:44:22 +0100
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+Title: Cockpit 0.95 Released
+Date: 2016-02-12 20:32
+Tags: cockpit, linux, technical
+Slug: cockpit-0.95
+Category: Cockpit
+Summary: Cockpit releases every week. Here's highlights from 0.90 through 0.95
+
+Cockpit releases every week. Here are the highlights from 0.90 through 0.95.
+
+
+Set CPU performance profile via tuned
+-------------------------------------
+
+Cockpit can now talk to tuned and set the CPU performance profile of the
+system. Thanks to Ryan Barry for doing the initial prototype, and
+Jaroslav Škarvada for fixing up tuned to include profile descriptions.
+
+<iframe width="640" height="480" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/u1ba4aQkueA?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
+
+
+iSCSI initiator support
+-----------------------
+
+The iSCSI support that Marius worked on with the storaged folks has
+finally landed in a Cockpit release. It was waiting on fixes in some
+dependencies. Have a look:
+
+<iframe width="640" height="480" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/N1Lw2OVLDoo?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
+
+
+Support for WebSocket client in cockpit-bridge
+----------------------------------------------
+
+In order to better talk to services like Kubernetes or the Atomic Docker
+Registry we've added WebSocket support to the cockpit-bridge. It can now
+connect to local WebSockets on the system.
+
+But here's an example of what you can do with that: The demo below shows
+GTK+ 3 apps running inside of Cockpit. GTK+ 3 supports HTML5 as a
+display mode, and Cockpit can wrap that in authentication and a real
+Linux login session:
+
+<iframe width="640" height="480" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6ZbTYj3xzzg?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
+
+
+Debian Source Packages
+----------------------
+
+As a step towards working getting Cockpit into Debian we now create
+Debian source packages during our continuous delivery process. These end
+up here for now:
+
+<pre>
+deb-src https://fedorapeople.org/groups/cockpit/debian-unstable ./
+</pre>
+
+
+Content Security Policy
+-----------------------
+
+Because the Cockpit javascript code has as much access to the system as
+the logged in user, Cockpit needs to make sure that attackers cannot
+sneak in javascript code into the browser session.
+
+Obviously we do this by escaping HTML output carefully and other best
+practices. But in addition to that we've started to deploy Content
+Security Policy.
+
+If you're unfamiliar with [Content Security Policy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_Security_Policy)
+ it's a bit like SELinux for a browser session. It tells the browser we explicitly don't
+want to execute any code, styling or other resources that get loaded
+from Cockpit itself.
+
+We haven't turned on the strict policy for all of Cockpit yet, and we're
+doing it component by component.
+
+
+Fix cockpit-ws start while reading from /dev/urandom
+----------------------------------------------------
+
+Previously when there were interruptions during reading from
+/dev/urandom while starting cockpit-ws, then initialization would fail.
+This has now been fixed.
+
+
+OAuth login support
+-------------------
+
+Cockpit now has OAuth login support. It doesn't exactly work out of the
+box for logging into a local Linux system, but it can be used to create
+custom dashboards or containers based on Cockpit components that use
+OAuth to authenticate.
+
+See [the documentation](https://rawgit.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/master/doc/authentication.md)
+for more info.
+
+
+Running RHEL QE Tests
+---------------------
+
+When you open a Cockpit pull request, take a look at the test suites
+that are run against it.
+
+This week we finished work to run the Cockpit RHEL QE tests upstream git
+pull request. Rather than catching issues on the backend of things,
+we'll be ahead of the game.
+
+
+Vagrant without NFS
+-------------------
+
+Cockpit's Vagrantfile used to use NFS to keep the git checkout in sync
+with the image. This caused many folks to have a hard time using Vagrant
+to hack on Cockpit, so the NFS stuff is now dropped. You can still bring
+up the vagrant VM as before:
+
+ $ sudo vagrant up
+
+And then access Cockpit on https://localhost:9090
+
+However if you make changes to the stuff in the git repo, you need to
+run an extra vagrant command before the running VM will pick it up:
+
+ $ sudo vagrant rsync
+
+See [HACKING.md in the git](https://rawgit.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/master/HACKING.md)
+repo for more details.
+
+
+### Try it out
+
+Cockpit 0.95 is available now:
+
+ * [Source Tarball](https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/releases/tag/0.95)
+ * [Fedora 23 and Fedora Rawhide](https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/cockpit-0.95-1.fc23)
+ * [COPR for Fedora 22, CentOS and RHEL](https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/g/cockpit/cockpit-preview/)
+