Date: 2013-04-22

Baserock 7 is released

The Baserock team, and Codethink Limited are proud to announce the release of version 7 of the Baserock system.

What is new in this version?

This release is a bug-fix release. No major new features have been developed for this release.

What has changed since the previous release?

We have fixed or clarified a number of error messages in Morph, fixed bugs in deployment, made deployment be able to set the RAM size of a virtual machine it creates, and made deployment able to install ssh keys (host and authorised keys) on the deployed system. We have improved deployment to be able to tftp boot a kernel and mount the root filesystem with NFS.

We have updated the CoverageTestRunner, cliapp, and some other chunks to their current upstream versions.

How do I get started?

You can find a quick start guide on the Baserock wiki and also a short guide on developing with Baserock which follows on from the quick start and shows you how to get to the point of proving you can build Baserock within Baserock.

From that point on, your imagination is the limit. You can follow some of that development in the Git repositories we publish.

How do I get in contact?

The Baserock project has an IRC channel and mailing list for developers to gather and discuss anything associated with Baserock. It is strongly recommended that you use the IRC and lists to contact the team for anything associated with the public development of Baserock. We also have a mailing list for announcements which will be notified of any new releases or big developments in Baserock.

Should you manage to find a bug in Baserock, we'd like to hear from you. You can find our bug reporting guidelines on the Baserock wiki and we will do our best to help.

We hope you enjoy experimenting with Baserock and look forward to hearing about any cool things you do with our work.