[Machinery] Announcing Machinery 1.4.0

[Tim Hardeck]

Hi,

the Machinery team is happy to announce the release of Machinery 1.4.0.
Machinery is a systems management toolkit for Linux: 
http://machinery-project.org

This release introduces inspection of Red Hat Linux Enterprise 6 systems.
In combination with the previously introduced inspection support for the 
architectures s390x and ppc64le Machinery is now able to inspect an even 
wider range of systems.

The changes in detail are:

## Version 1.4.0

* Support inspection of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 systems
* Introduce system description format version 3 (see 
https://github.com/SUSE/machinery/wiki/System-Description-Format#version-3)
* Usability improvements of the HTML view (gh#SUSE/machinery#359)
* Speed up `machinery list` command

## Version 1.3.0

* Added support for inspecting System z systems
* Added support for inspecting POWER LE systems
* Added support to run Machinery on System z
* Added support to run Machinery on POWER LE
* Handle system description errors as warnings
* Added `machinery upgrade-format --force` command

The new Machinery version will be available via the „Advanced Systems 
Management“ module on SLES 12.
It is also available for openSUSE via our homepage 
http://machinery-project.org

We are looking forward to your feedback.

Your Machinery team

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