LaMachine

• Added Labirinto portal (https://github.com/proycon/labirinto), adds a web-based portal of available software to LaMachine (provided you included webserver support)
• Added nodejs-core
• Integrated FLAT #49
• Stick to django 2.0 if user is on python 3.4 (2.1 does not support 3.4)
• Fixed nginx webservertype issue #86
• Various metadata fixes and enhancements
• Added option for including extra metadata of tools not in LaMachine
• Split nextflow into separate role rather than as part of PICCL
• linking uctodata on macOS is now obsolete (fbkarsdorp/homebrew-lamachine#9)
• git stash fixes
• force english utf-8 locale for lamachine-update (prevents "ascii codec can not decode" errors on some systems)

• Various improvements to metadata registry
• Better webservice integration, various fixes
  • alpino & tscan (#47)
  • PICCL (#75)
  • Nginx local compilation fixes (#83)
  • Webserver start/stop script fixes (also when no systemd present)
• also force reinstallation of python packages when force=1
• Propagate force parameter to homebrew
• Miscellaneous fixes (#82)
• First functional version of kaldi integration (#32)

• Introduction of new software metadata scheme, using codemeta (#74)
• Fix for extra activation scripts
• Fix for alpino (#61)
• Extra checks for conflicts with anaconda
• Do not download spacy data if it already exists
• Add (locally compiled) nginx in local env variant
• Various other fixes

• Bootstrap refactoring; use proper host names in host configuration files, no lamachine- prefix needed.
• Cleanup after bootstrap (#64)
• LaMachine can now be bootstrapped by an internal or external controller
• Added the remote flavour
• Various fixes for webservices
• Fixed PICCL (v0.5)
• Added services configuration option to explicitly constrain desired services (defaults to: [ all ])
• Added --targetdir and --services flags to bootstrap (#73)
• lamachine-update now allows a --noninteractive flag
• Initial add of software by CLTL, VU Amsterdam (#70)
• Introduced unix_group and web_group configuration options for explicit group ownership
• Added instructions about security to the README
• Expand icu 61 workaround to all platforms #69
• uwsgi fixes for CentOS 7
• Fixes for Linux Mint (hopefully, to be confirmed)

First LaMachine v2 release

Implements phases 2 and most of 3 of the original plan (https://github.com/proycon/LaMachine/blob/master/lamachine_v2_plan.md).

This release implements (https://github.com/proycon/LaMachine/milestone/1):

• Provide a single point-of-entry bootstrap script #40
• Change base distribution (debian 9) and test other distributions #41
• Rewrite entire provisioning infrastructure through Ansible #42
• Integrate full LanguageMachines C++ software stack #43
• Integrate Python based software (Radboud) #44
• Integrate Python bindings (Radboud) #45
• Integrate Nextflow and PICCL #46
• Integrate FLAT #49 [not completely finalized]
• Write contributor guidelines #55
• Make a new LaMachine website (and updated README) #52
  • The new website is at https//proycon.github.io/LaMachine
• Set up a rich test infrastructure #54
• Set up webserver and integrate CLAM webservices #48
• Include simple analytics #50
• Include gecco + valkuil enhancement #53 [valkuil: not completely finalized]
• Integrate Alpino and T-scan enhancement #47 [tscan: not completely finalized]