[bluechi-dev] Release announcement - Eclipse BlueChi v0.9.0

[Michael Engel <mengel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I am happy to announce that we recently released Eclipse BlueChi v0.9.0 on GitHub, Fedora, EPEL and as Debian package in its own PPA 🎉

Some highlights:

Breaking Changes:

   - Refined SELinux policy and set it to enforced by default (see GitHub issue 883)

New Features:

  - Debian packages for BlueChi can now be build and are published in its own PPA

  - New package: bluechi-is-online (see GitHub issue 962)

       CLI tool to check the connection state of BlueChi components (see the readthedocs page for more details)

  - A heartbeat as well as a threshold can now be configured for both, agent and controller (see GitHub issues 857 and 652)

  - The D-Bus API of BlueChi has been extended by monotonic timestamp properties (#952), GetUnitFileState (#934), KillUnit (#938), ResetFailed and ResetFailedUnit (#932), ListUnitFiles (#889), GetDefaultTarget and SetDefaultTarget (#944)

  - bluechictl provides now help for each individual command (see GitHub PR #941)

Bug Fixes: 

  - The register API call from agent to controller is now asynchronous so it doesn't block the SwitchController API call anymore (see GitHub issues 950 and 966)

  - The order of emitting the signals for disconnect and controller address changed no SwitchController has been fixed (see GitHub PR #968)

  - bluechictl updates now the Peer-IP of the node on dis-/connect (see GitHub PR #960)

  - Determining the Peer-IP address has been fixed (see GitHub PR #905)

A complete list of changes in v0.9.0 is available on the GitHub Release for v0.9.0.

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Michael Engel

Senior Software Engineer

Red Hat