Juju devel 2.0-beta8 is released

[Curtis Hovey-Canonical]

# Juju 2.0-beta8

A new development release of Juju, juju 2.0-beta8, is now available.
This release replaces version 2.0-beta7.


## Getting Juju

Juju 2.0-beta8 is available for Yakkety and backported to earlier
series in the following PPA:

    https://launchpad.net/~juju/+archive/devel

Windows, Centos, and OS X users will find installers at:

    https://launchpad.net/juju-core/+milestone/2.0-beta8

Upgrading 1.x environments to 2.0-beta8 is not yet supported. Once 2.x is
proven we will provide an upgrade path from 1.25


## The complete release notes available on the Web

The release notes for Juju 2.0 beta7 are very long. They are too large
to post to a list. You can find them at

    https://jujucharms.com/docs/devel/temp-release-notes


## What's New in Beta8

* List-controllers now lists cloud type and region
* New command to remove clouds.
  Usage: juju remove-cloud <cloud name>
* MAAS and LXD machines and hostnames now use short names
* clouds.yaml now supports config options
* Controller model name changed from "admin" to "controller"


## Resolved issues

  * Destroying the current model should clear the current-model
    Lp 1505504

  * "invalid entity name or password" error with valid credentials.
    Lp 1514874

  * Lxd containers fail to upgrade because the bridge config changes
    to a different ip address
    Lp 1569361

  * List-controllers and list-models doesn't list cloud type
    Lp 1572741

  * Juju2 usability: many options have to be specified for every
    bootstrap
    Lp 1576750

  * Cached local charms should be deleted when their service is
    removed
    Lp 1580418

  * Cannot restore-backup of controller model
    Lp 1585851

  * Provider/lxd: instance names are overly long
    Lp 1586880

  * There is no command for removing clouds
    Lp 1586891

  * Juju does not extract system ssh fingerprints
    Lp 892552

  * {image,tools}-metadata-url not usable w/ ec2 provider
    Lp 1287949

  * Containers registered with maas use wrong name
    Lp 1513165

  * Workers restart endlessly
    Lp 1522544

  * Juju deploy ignores model default-series
    Lp 1540900

  * Failure when deploying on lxd models and model name contains space
    characters
    Lp 1568944

  * Container networking lxd 'invalid parent device'
    Lp 1571053

  * Kill-controller is stuck, lots of "lease manager stopped" errors
    Lp 1573136

  * "juju kill-controller" removes controllers.yaml entry even if
    destroying fails
    Lp 1576120

  * Resource-get hangs when trying to deploy a charm with resource
    from the store
    Lp 1577415

  * Rename 'admin' model to 'controller'
    Lp 1581885

  * List-models first column should be renamed to model
    Lp 1581886

  * Juju-upgrade-mondo typo
    Lp 1582620

  * Help text for juju remove-machine needs improving
    Lp 1568122

  * Help text for juju add-model needs improving
    Lp 1568854

  * Current controller not cleared on destroy
    Lp 1576528

  * Juju switch to non-existent controller gives wrong error
    Lp 1577609

  * Juju 2 help commands for constraints or  placement return error
    unknown command
    Lp 1580946


Finally

We encourage everyone to subscribe the mailing list at
juju at lists.ubuntu.com, or join us on #juju on freenode.


-- 
Curtis Hovey
Canonical Cloud Development and Operations
http://launchpad.net/~sinzui