H-Sphere VPS 1.5-1

Release Notes

Major Innovations

• H-Sphere VPS is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) license
• Implemented x86_64 platform support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3/4, CentOS 3/4, White Box Enterprise Linux 3/4, Fedora Core 3

New Features and Improvements:

• Perl POD structured documentation added for all scripts and some modules
• H-Sphere VPS scripts man pages are generated and installed into host
• Implemented Virtual Private Server (per context) capabilities management
• Implemented Virtual Private Server (per context) flags management
• Added separate 'hsphere-scripts' package for H-Sphere Control Panel related scripts
• Added post install scriplets to update and configure the host automatically after 'hsphere-vps' package installation
• Improved package description in hsphere-vps.spec (H-Sphere VPS package RPM .spec file)
• Hardware platform is shown in host system info.
• Added new options like [--help], [--?], [--man] to print H-Sphere VPS scripts usage message or manual page

Updates:

• CP+ 3.1.1
• Trustix Secure Linux release 2.2 (Sunchild) templates packages and distributive locations list
• All supported operating system templates and distributive locations list
• Generated x86_64 templates and distributive locations list
• Disabled configuration of VPS's /etc/resolv.conf file during update

Bugfixes:

• for TRUSTIX22:
  - Disabled RPM-GPG-KEY key import
  - removed --nosignature option while check TRUSTIX RPMs for corrupted
  - services configuration on default runlevels added
  - ssh is configured with PermitRootLogin option to enable root login to the VPS
• Fixed bug that took place when determining new virtual context during virtual server migration
• All additional templates (not base) installed under freevps shield to prevent various packages scriplet execution on host system
• Added /sysfs mountpoint into VPS's /etc/fstab configuration file for operating systems based on kernel 2.6
• Disabled posting creation requests for VPS that is scheduled for removal to prevent collisions with VPS creation/removal.