Hello everyone,
your wait is now over as we are announcing the release 1.8 of
Spacewalk, a systems management solution.
The download locations are
* http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/1.8/RHEL/5/$basearch/
* http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/1.8/RHEL/6/$basearch/
* http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/1.8/Fedora/16/x86_64/
* http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/1.8/Fedora/17/x86_64/
with client repositories under
* http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/1.8-client
*
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/1.8/openSUSE_12.1/
*
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/1.8/openSUSE_12.2/
*
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/1.8/openSUSE_Factory/
For fresh installations, please use steps from
* https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/HowToInstall
If you plan to upgrade from older release, search no more -- the
following page will guide you:
* http://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/HowToUpgrade
Features Enhancements in Spacewalk 1.8
* Spacewalk runs on Fedora 17
* Spacewalk can be run on the same machine as Oracle XE 11g
* OpenSCAP functionality extended
* osa-dispatcher is now systemd service in Fedora
* Server-side support for registering ARM clients
* Integration with SUSE Studio
* Basic ABRT notification
* Distribution-channel mapping can be customized per organization
* Systems requiring reboot view
* Extra packages view
* spacewalk-repo-sync now downloads comps information, enabling
yum group operations
* WebUI and usability improvements
* PostgreSQL improvements
* Cobbler 2.0 now packaged in Spacewalk repos
* Archived actions now can be deleted
* Modified API calls:
* configchannel.createOrUpdatePath now accepts also binary
attribute and has fixed handling of binary files
* configchannel.lookupFileInfo and system.getScriptResults
now returns base64 encoded content for binary files
* system.scap.scheduleXccdfScan can be scheduled for multiple
servers and with timestamp to fire the scan
* system.provisionVirtualGuest accepts MAC address parameter
* New API calls:
* channel.software.addRepoFilter, .setRepoFilters,
.clearRepoFilters, .removeRepoFilter, .listRepoFilters
* errata.cloneAsOriginalAsync, errata.cloneAsync
* kickstart.profile.getCfgPreservation,
kickstart.profile.setCfgPreservation
* schedule.deleteActions
* system.scap.listXccdfScans, system.scap.getXccdfScanDetails,
system.scap.getXccdfScanRuleResults
* system.listSystemsWithExtraPackages, system.listExtraPackages,
system.listActiveSystemsDetails
* distchannel.listMapsForOrg, distchannel.setMapForOrg
* We parted with API call:
* distchannel.setDefaultMap
The up-to-date API documentation can be found at
http://www.spacewalkproject.org/documentation/api/
Contributors
Our thanks go to the community members who contributed to this release:
Aron Parsons
Duncan Mac-Vicar
Gael Chamoulaud
Joerg Steffens
Johannes Renner
Jonathan Hoser
Joshua Roys
Michael Calmer
Nigel Jones
Paresh Mutha
Pierre Casenove
Richard Marko
Stefan Meyer
Steven Hardy
Tasos Papaioannou
Uwe Gansert
William van de Velde
https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/ContributorList
Some statistics
In Spacewalk 1.8, we've seen
258 bugs fixed
1799 changesets committed
2506 commits done
User community, reporting issues
To reach the user community with questions and ideas, please use mailing
list spacewalk-l...@redhat.com. On this list, you can of course also
discuss issues you might find when installing or using Spacewalk, but
please do not be surprised if we ask you to file bug at
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Spacewalk with more
details or full logs.
Thank you for using Spacewalk.
Happy birthday, Mirek, Michael, and Stephen.
--
Jan Pazdziora
Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat
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