Cockpit 177
Cockpit is the modern Linux admin interface. We release regularly. Here are the release notes from version 177.
Storage: Support LUKS v2
Cockpit’s Storage page can now create, lock, unlock, resize, and otherwise configure encrypted devices using the LUKS v2 format. This includes support for LUKS v2 based Network Bound Disk Encryption (NBDE) through Clevis and Tang.
This new version of LUKS offers more flexible unlocking policies, stronger cryptography, and better compatibility with future changes.
Support centrally-managed SSH known hosts
FreeIPA centrally manages the list and fingerprints
of known SSH hosts. Cockpit now queries FreeIPA when to avoid fingerprint
verification prompts of already-known hosts. This new flow now matches the
behavior of the ssh command line client.
SSSD version 1.16.3 or 2.0 is required for improved remote host verification. When using earlier versions of SSSD, Cockpit will still not consider centrally-managed known hosts.
Drop support for Internet Explorer
Opening Cockpit in Microsoft Internet Explorer now shows the “Unsupported Browser” page.
Feature detection is used to determine if a browser is supported. Cockpit now requires additional web technologies introduced in all modern browsers between 2012 - 2015.
When using Windows, please use Edge, the direct successor to Internet Explorer, or any other modern browser to use Cockpit.
Specific minimum versions of Firefox, Chrome, Edge, Safari, and Opera are listed on the running page of the Cockpit website. Any browser with modern web support released in the past several years should work well with Cockpit.
Try it out
Cockpit 177 is available now: