Open Build Service version 2.6 released

Another year, another release. It's time for the Open Build Service Version 2.6! This release very much focuses on bug fixing. Since OBS 2.5 there have been over 800 commits by 16 contributors, changing 565 files with 7.000 additions and 4,550 deletions. But don't despair we did not only fix bugs, two large features also made it into this release. We worked on the collaboration features of the OBS, requests now support priority and have a better history and we have added support for building Debian live images.

Read on for more, in depth, information about OBS version 2.6.

Lots of bugfixes to the OBS 2.6 codebase ×

A nice OBS 2.6 request history ×

Build Debian Live Images with OBS 2.6 ×

More Powerful Requests

Requests, which are the way people submit and evaluate changes to each others projects in OBS, now have a priority so all parties involved can signal the weight and urgency they give their changes. This is especially useful for larger projects that handle hundreds of requests or projects that sometimes have very urgent changes, like security updates for distribution maintenance channels. Another feature we have added to requests is a history of it's reviews. It's perfectly understandable now how a request got into the state (accepted, declined, under review) it is in. Additionally the requests history elements now have a finer granularity, which enables us to display them more flexible.

Debian Live Images

Additionally to all the imaging capabilities of KIWI which the OBS supports we now can also build images with Debians live-build. These images contains a Debian system that can boot without modifying any files on the hard drive and also allow installation of Debian from the contents of the image. Special thanks for adding this feature go to Jan Blunck of Brocade.

Smaller features...