1.7.  anaconda

a write-protected SD card could cause an installation failure even when the mount point was de-selected in the Disk Druid. (BZ#471883)

Anaconda occasionally attempted to delete nonexistent snapshots, which caused installation to fail. (BZ#433824)

if a boot file was retrieved via DHCP, Anaconda now saves it so that it can later be used to construct the default Kickstart file if the user boots with "ks" as a boot parameter. (BZ#448006)

driver disk locations can now be specified using the "dd=[URL]" option, where [URL] is an FTP, HTTP or NFS location. (BZ#454478)

the bootloader can now be located in the MBR on a software RAID1 boot partition. (BZ#475973)

Anaconda now installs multipath packages so that multipath devices work as expected following first reboot. (BZ#466614)

Anaconda prompted for the time zone even when the time zone was correctly specified in the Kickstart file. (BZ#481617)

on Itanium systems, the time stamps of installed files and directories were in the future. (BZ#485200)

the iSCSI Boot Firmware Table (iBFT) now works with Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP) and reverse-CHAP setups. (BZ#497438)

Anaconda now correctly sets the umask on device nodes. (BZ#383531)

following a manual installation during which IPv6 was configured, the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-[interface] file (such as ifcfg-eth0) did not contain those IPv6 network details. (BZ#445394)

Anaconda now correctly handles LAN channel station (LCS) devices. (BZ#471101)

when using autostep mode with a Kickstart configuration file, Anaconda incorrectly prompted for a root password even when the root password was designated as encrypted. (BZ#471122)

empty repositories caused installation to fail. (BZ#476182)

large numbers of tape drives in the Kickstart file are now handled correctly. (BZ#476186)

hyphenated MAC address formats in the Kickstart file (e.g. "ksdevice=00-11-22-33-44-55") are now allowed. (BZ#480309)

an unexpected exception during Logical Unit Number (LUN) selection caused installation to fail. (BZ#475271)

when installing on a low-memory system or virtual machine over HTTP or FTP, a non-present "lspci" binary caused installation to fail. (BZ#476476)

Anaconda now correctly adds the user to the default group, and groups specified by "--groups", when performing a Kickstart installation. (BZ#454418)

the "cmdline" option, which specifies a non-Ncurses installation, is now honored in the Kickstart file. (BZ#456325)

Kickstart file download from an anonymous FTP site is now possible. (BZ#477536)

default configuration values are now suggested during System z installation. (BZ#475350)

hardware device descriptions have been enhanced to reflect expanded hardware support. (BZ#498511)

the Mellanox ConnectX mt26448 10Gb/E driver is now supported. (BZ#514971)

the mpt2sas driver is now supported. (BZ#475671)

the Emulex Tiger Shark converged network adatper is now supported. (BZ#496875)

the Marvell RAID bus controller MV64460/64461/64462 and Emulex OneConnect 10GbE NIC devices are now supported. (BZ#493179)

the IGB Virtual Function driver is now supported. (BZ#502875)

installation on RAID10 devices is now supported. (BZ#467996)

non-fatal errors and conditions are now ignored when installing from a Kickstart file. (BZ#455465)

stale LVM metadata can now be removed with the "--clearpart" option. (BZ#462615)

to aid in identifying the network card, an option to blink its LED for 5 minutes is now present. (BZ#473747)

IPv6 address validation on S/390 installations has been improved. (BZ#460579)