m23 Rock 16.3 Linux Software Deployment Tool Supports Signing of Package Sources

The m23 project, an open-source network deployment and management system for Linux-based operating systems, recently announced the release and general availability of m23 Rock 16.3.

m23 Rock 16.3 is now the latest stable build of the project, and comes six months after version 16.2, which added support for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) clients. It appears that there's no support for newer GNU/Linux distributions in m23 Rock 16.3, but there are a bunch of interesting improvements and new features.

For example, it is now possible to sign package sources when attempting to set up local package sources on the m23 server for installation of m23 clients using a fixed set of packages. Best of all, the new functionality also includes a GPG (GNU Privacy Guard) key management solution.

"The m23 interface now provides a dialog for managing your GPG keys and an option to add a signature in the package source architect and the package architect dialogs. The public key of the...