[announce] firmware-tools 2.1 release

[Michael_E_Brown at Dell.com]

I am running the release process scripts now for firmware-tools 2.1, firmware-addon-dell 2.1 and dell-dup 1.1. They should be in the repositories by the morning.

The focus of this release is a major internal API improvment: the bootstrap list and the system inventory list were formerly separate internal lists that were separately generated, and yet they mostly contained the exact same data. In version 2.1, these lists were merged so that everything is much more consistent. Also, the way plugins add data to these lists was updated to be more in-line with the rest of the plugin api.

 - inventory is now added in 'inventory_hook()'.

 - bootstrap is now generated using the system-inventory.

 - new command-line options: "--show-unknown": This will show all devices that firmware-tools knows about even if we dont have a way to get the firmware version. In practice this currently shows 'lspci' data. In the future this will also have usb/scsi and other data. The inventory_firmware_gui utility has also grown a "show_unknown" button to do the same.

 - Fixes the old 'No handlers could be found for logger "trace.firmwaretools"' on all platforms except RHEL4. This message is not fixable in an easy way on RHEL4, unfortunately.

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Michael