Release Notes for WebYaST 1.2

These release notes cover the following areas:

• General: Information that everybody should read.
• Installation: Additional pertinent information for the Installation.
• Known Issues: Information about known issues of the products.
• Providing Feedback

General

WebYaST is a web-based remote console, providing a set of configuration modules appropriate to enable minimal user control of the application image or appliance "black box" environment.

Installation

WebYaST 1.2 uses a new web server as the back-end technology; lighttpd, which was used in previous releases, has been replaced with nginx. If you upgrade from 1.1 to 1.2, you should remove lighttpd from your appliance depending on whether it is needed for other appliacations which are part of your appliance.

Known Issues

This is a list of issues known in this release.

Failure to start: iconv ... UTF-8/UTF-16 conversions (bnc#636621)

Bug 636621: yastws will fail to start, saying "iconv doesn't seem to support UTF-8/UTF-16 conversions", in a certain package configuration.

• For application image or appliance deployment, remove rubygem-json_pure.rpm and the packages depending on it, they are needed only for development,
• For development, install glibc-locale.rpm.

Providing feedback to our products

Please read the READMEs on the CD.

In case of encountering a bug please report it through your support contact.

Your WebYaST Team

Mon Jul 6 15:27:23 UTC 2015