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Hello Machinists,<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
<br>
Here is the full change log since our last release.<br>
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## Version 1.18.0 - Tue Mar 01 13:51:39 CET 2016 - <a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:thardeck@suse.de"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:thardeck@suse.de">thardeck@suse.de</a></a><br>
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* Make the machinery-helper exclusive to improve inspection
performance significantly<br>
on all supported architectures.<br>
Following this change Go is required for installing the gem for
now.<br>
* Fix treatment of the rpm `(replaced)` flag
(gh#SUSE/machinery#1897)<br>
* Fix repository recognition on older Debian systems<br>
* Inspection of unmanaged-files is now also using the faster
machinery-helper<br>
when a remote user is used<br>
* Show all available information for unmanaged files in HTML view
(gh#SUSE/machinery#1905)<br>
* Move the machinery documentation from man page to HTML format<br>
* Implement "--extract-metadata" option for the unmanaged-files
inspection to<br>
retrieve the file meta (e.g. owner, group, size) data without
extracting the<br>
files.<br>
* Fixed counting of files in unmanaged directories (empty
directories now report zero files<br>
as one would expect)<br>
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Best Regards,<br>
The Machinery Team<br>
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[1]:<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://machinery-project.org">http://machinery-project.org</a><br>
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