[Maas-devel] MAAS 1.7.0 release candidate available

[Julian Edwards]

A release candidate for 1.7.0 is now available in the testing PPA 
(ppa:maas-maintainers/testing).

Changes since the previous beta:

 - Use HTTP_PROXY to download images if configured (LP: #1384464)
 - Return 503 response for PowerActionAlreadyInProgress and add a
   'Retry-after' Header. (LP: #1384001)
 - Stop ImportResourcesService from crashing when an import fails
   (LP: #1386722)
 - Convert TFTP request paths that contain backslashes to forward
   slashes. (LP: #1387191)
 - Do not try to delete synced boot images if not new ones are present
   to handle a weird race. (LP: #1387133)
 - Fix storage unit shown on the node edit page (LP: #1387431)
 - Use CompressedAmpList in UpdateLeases to now parse
   ~3500 leases (LP: #1387515, LP: #1387515)
 - Updated XPath expression for discovering storage capacity from new
   lshw changes. (LP: #1387380)
 - Add sub status field on API.
 - Generate DNS mappings for the Dynamic IP range. Hostname generation
   is limited to /16. (LP: #1382190)
 - Use configured HTTP Proxy to download boot images (LP: #1384464)

Anticipated release notes are available at
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maas-maintainers/maas/1.7/view/head:/docs/changelog.rst

Please read the announcements if you are upgrading from 1.5 or 1.6.