[Machinery] New release: Machinery 1.18.0

[Mauro Morales]

Hello Machinists,

I'm happy to announce release 1.18.0 which includes a bunch of new 
features and bug fixes. Our main focus on this release was to make 
Machinery perform faster on our supported architectures besides x86_64. 
If you were using the `--remote-user` option you will also notice a 
faster inspection.

A feature worth mentioning is the ability to inspect the meta-data out 
of a system without having to extract the files. You can make use of it 
by passing the `--extract-metadata` flag to the `inspect` command. This 
can be very useful if you want to save some disk space while keeping 
more detail into your system descriptions or if you want to get an idea 
of how big a system is before extracting it's files.

Get the new release from the Machinery home page [1] via one-click 
install or for example by running `zypper up machinery`, if you already 
have a previous version installed. As always we are looking forward to 
your feedback.

Here is the full change log since our last release.

## Version 1.18.0 - Tue Mar 01 13:51:39 CET 2016 - thardeck at suse.de

* Make the machinery-helper exclusive to improve inspection performance 
significantly
   on all supported architectures.
   Following this change Go is required for installing the gem for now.
* Fix treatment of the rpm `(replaced)` flag (gh#SUSE/machinery#1897)
* Fix repository recognition on older Debian systems
* Inspection of unmanaged-files is now also using the faster 
machinery-helper
   when a remote user is used
* Show all available information for unmanaged files in HTML view 
(gh#SUSE/machinery#1905)
* Move the machinery documentation from man page to HTML format
* Implement "--extract-metadata" option for the unmanaged-files 
inspection to
   retrieve the file meta (e.g. owner, group, size) data without 
extracting the
   files.
* Fixed counting of files in unmanaged directories (empty directories 
now report zero files
   as one would expect)

Best Regards,
The Machinery Team

[1]:http://machinery-project.org

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