v1.2.4

📢 Release Notes - v1.2.4

🗓 Date: December 10, 2025

🐛 Bug Fixes

Ubuntu Autoinstall Improvements

• Fixed installation hangs caused by unattended-upgrades running during autoinstall
• Added DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive for Ubuntu 22.04 to prevent kexec-tools prompts
• Automatically recreate apt sources with all repositories enabled (updates, security, backports) after installation
• Changed to generic archive.ubuntu.com mirror URLs for global accessibility
• Disabled automatic updates during installation for predictable, clean installs

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Full Changelog: v1.2.3...v1.2.4

v1.2.3

📢 Release Notes - v1.2.3

🗓 Date: December 10, 2025

🐛 Bug Fixes

Golden Image Pattern Matching Fix

This release fixes a critical bug in golden image file detection that prevented reimage/install operations from finding existing golden images.

Changes

• Fixed golden image pattern matching in kvm-reimage-golden.sh and kvm-install-golden.sh
• Changed pattern from {distro}-golden-image.*-{version}.qcow2 to {distro}-golden-image-{version}.*.qcow2
• Now correctly matches actual filename format: almalinux-golden-image-previous.lab.local.qcow2

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Full Changelog: v1.2.2...v1.2.3

v1.2.2

📢 Release Notes - v1.2.2

🗓 Date: December 10, 2025

🐛 Bug Fixes

VERSION_TYPE Flag Preservation

This release fixes critical bugs in version flag handling introduced in v1.2.0.

Changes

• Fixed normalize-os-distro.sh to preserve VERSION_TYPE passed via -v flag instead of unconditionally overwriting to "latest"
• Fixed "Available golden images" list to display version suffixes (e.g., almalinux (latest), almalinux (previous))
• Fixed validation checks to properly detect when --version is specified without --distro
• Fixed duplicate detection logic for --version flag in argument parser
• Changed VERSION_TYPE initialization from "latest" to empty string in all VM management scripts

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Full Changelog: v1.2.1...v1.2.2

v1.2.1

📢 Release Notes - v1.2.1

🗓 Date: December 10, 2025

🐛 Bug Fixes

Menu System Improvements

This release fixes UX and functionality issues in the v1.2.0 version support feature.

Changes

• Fixed ksmanager.sh to source distro-versions.conf for version number display
• Fixed version numbers now appearing correctly in distro selection menus (e.g., "AlmaLinux 10", "Ubuntu 24.04")
• Fixed menu alignment issues with status indicators using fixed-width columns
• Fixed version selection to appear before distro selection for better UX
• Fixed kvm-build-golden-image.sh default behavior: --distro flag now defaults to latest without showing version menu
• Changed quit option from numbered to 'q' for consistency across all menus
• Refactored menu generation using arrays for better maintainability

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Full Changelog: v1.2.0...v1.2.1

v1.2.0

📢 Release Notes - v1.2.0

🗓 Date: December 10, 2025

🔄 What's Changed

Version Support for Distribution Management

This release adds support for managing both latest and previous major versions of all supported Linux distributions, enabling side-by-side deployment and testing.

Supported Distributions:

• AlmaLinux: 10 (latest) / 9 (previous)
• Rocky Linux: 10 (latest) / 9 (previous)
• OracleLinux: 10 (latest) / 9 (previous)
• CentOS Stream: 10 (latest) / 9 (previous)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL): 10 (latest) / 9 (previous)
• Ubuntu Server LTS: 24.04 (latest) / 22.04 (previous)
• openSUSE Leap: 15.6 (latest) / 15.5 (previous)

Changes

• New distro-versions.conf configuration file for centralized version mappings
• All scripts now accept --version latest|previous parameter
• Auto-detection of version from hostname patterns (-latest- or -previous-)
• Version-specific kickstart templates and iPXE configurations
• Golden images now include version suffix: {distro}-golden-image-{version}.{domain}.qcow2
• Fixed hardcoded version references in templates

Breaking Changes

• iPXE templates renamed to include version suffix (-latest / -previous)
• Golden image naming format changed from distro-golden-image.domain.qcow2 to distro-golden-image-{version}.domain.qcow2

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Full Changelog: v1.1.0...v1.2.0

v1.1.0

📢 Release Notes - v1.1.0

🗓 Date: December 10, 2025

🔄 What's Changed

Removed Fedora Support

Fedora distribution support has been removed from the project as it is not maintainable. This streamlines the project to focus on enterprise-grade and long-term supported distributions.

Supported Distributions:

• AlmaLinux
• Rocky Linux
• OracleLinux
• CentOS Stream
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
• Ubuntu Server LTS
• openSUSE Leap

Changes

• Removed Fedora from all VM management scripts (install-golden, install-pxe, reimage-golden, reimage-pxe, build-golden-image)
• Removed Fedora from OS distribution validation and normalization
• Removed Fedora from ksmanager.sh (interactive menu, auto-detection, CLI flags)
• Removed Fedora from prepare-distro-for-ksmanager.sh (download and cleanup operations)
• Deleted fedora-latest-ks.cfg kickstart template
• Updated all help texts and error messages

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Full Changelog: v1.0.0...v1.1.0

v1.0.0

📢 Release Notes - v1.0.0

🗓 Date: December 9, 2025

🎉 Initial Release

This is the first stable release of server-hub, a comprehensive toolkit for QEMU/KVM-based lab infrastructure automation and virtual machine management. It provides a sandboxed lab environment with a central infrastructure VM hosting all lab services.

✨ What's Included

• Centralized VM management through qlabvmctl command with bash completion
• Complete VM lifecycle management (build-golden-image, install-golden, install-pxe, reimage-golden, reimage-pxe, start, stop, restart, reboot, shutdown, remove, list, console, resize)
• Advanced disk management (disk-add, disk-attach, disk-detach, disk-delete)
• Network interface management (nic-add, nic-remove) with MAC uniqueness validation
• Lab-wide operations (qlabstart, qlabhealth, qlabdnsbinder)
• Support for multiple Linux distributions (RHEL-based, Ubuntu LTS, openSUSE Leap)

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Full Changelog: https://github.com/Muthukumar-Subramaniam/server-hub/commits/v1.0.0