[ANN] juju-core 1.9.4 has been released

[Clint Byrum]

Excerpts from Kapil Thangavelu's message of 2012-12-17 12:18:52 -0800:
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Clint Byrum <clint at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 
> > Excerpts from David Cheney's message of 2012-12-15 16:52:21 -0800:
> > > juju-core 1.9.4
> > > ===============
> > >
> > > A new experimental release of Juju, juju-core 1.9.4, is now available
> > > for testing. This is an early release of the Go port of Juju and should
> > > be considered experimental.
> > >
> > > Getting Juju
> > > ------------
> > >
> > > juju-core 1.9.4 is available from the Gophers PPA
> > >
> > > https://code.launchpad.net/~gophers/+archive/go
> > >
> > > New and Notable
> > > ---------------
> > >
> > > This release includes several improvements
> > >
> > > * juju-core now respects the default-series configuration key to control
> > > the release series of the target environment.
> > > * juju-core now supports all EC2 regions. Please raise a bug on the
> > > juju-core project if you experience an issue using juju-core with the
> > > EC2 provider.
> > >
> > > Known bugs and limitations
> > > --------------------------
> > >
> > > As this is an early release of Juju in Go there are a number of features
> > > which are still to be implemented. A non exhaustive list of known issues
> > > is as follows.
> > >
> > > * EC2 is the only supported provider.
> > > * Raring series environments are not supported.
> > > Most types of relations are supported, but they are not displayed in
> > > juju status. #1073966
> > > * The ssl-hostname-verification configuration key is not valid in an
> > > environments.yaml configuration. The EC2 provider does perform ssl host
> > > verification by virtue of only talking to https endpoints. As a
> > > temporary measure, please remove this key from your environments.yaml.
> > > #1074025
> >
> > FYI, the point of this key is not to turn it on. It should ALWAYS
> > default to on, and was only defaulted to off for one release to not
> > break backward compatibility.
> >
> > The point is to be able to turn it off for private cloud/testing/etc.
> >
> 
> also "The EC2 provider does perform ssl host
> > verification by virtue of only talking to https endpoints"... talking ssl
> doesn't verify a cert by virtue of using ssl.

Actually the go net/http library used in goamz does actually always
verify certs.. it errors on expired certs, self signed, and wrong names.

In fact, I was having a hard time figuring out how to turn that off
before losing interest.