Nwu

This version is a great leap towards 0.2.0. Only
SQLite is officially supported for persistence, to
ease installation and development, but MySQL and
PostgreSQL usage should still be possible. Thanks
to improvements in the deb package, installing
nwu-server is as simple as running "dpkg -i".
After the administrator answers a few debconf
questions, Nwu will be ready for use. Many bugs
were also fixed.

In this version, many were bugs fixed, including a memory leak and a database connections leak. The Debian package now follows the new Python policy. Local root is notified by email if a task operation fails.

nwu-server now has a working daemon mode. The Debian packaging is much better. The documentation has been improved. The GTK interface uses XML-RPC instead of directly talking to the SQL backend. This release is ready for widespread testing.

This release uses XML-RPC instead of SOAP. The logging system is now
using syslog, and nwu-server is daemonizing itself. There is a prototype
PyGTK interface which is very basic. The admin can now list the group
of machines with outdated packages in a "group". Minor bugs have been
fixed, especially in the Debian packaging.

This release is intended as a prototype only and
should not be used in production environments. It
still lacks documentation. It already implements
the abilities to install packages in the remote
nodes, to list pending updates in the nodes, to
roll security upgrades to nodes, and to update the
remote nodes' package cache.