Hello friends of the walks in space, we are happy to announce the release 1.7 of Spacewalk, a systems management solution.
The download locations are * http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.7/RHEL/5/$basearch/ * http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.7/RHEL/6/$basearch/ * http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.7/Fedora/15/x86_64/ * http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.7/Fedora/16/x86_64/ with client repositories under * http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.7-client * http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/1.7/openSUSE_11.4/ * http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/1.7/openSUSE_12.1/ * http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/1.7/openSUSE_Factory/ * http://miroslav.suchy.cz/spacewalk/debian For fresh installations, please use steps from * https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/HowToInstall If you plan to upgrade from older release, the following page can be helpful: * http://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/HowToUpgrade Features & Enhancements in Spacewalk 1.7 * Monitoring is now working on the PostgreSQL database backend, making both database backends feature-comparable * OpenSCAP integration -- for details, see https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/Scap * Fully asynchronous clearing of orphaned monitoring data * Stock rhnpush is able to push debian packages * New spacewalk-clone-by-date tool * Numerous spacecmd enhancements * Improved messages printed when certificate activation fails * Modified API calls: * channel.software.getDetails returns empty strings instead of omitting attributes * configchannel.createOrUpdatePath, createOrUpdateSymlink, getEncodedFileRevision, getFileRevision, getFileRevisions, lookupFileInfo, system.config.createOrUpdatePath, createOrUpdateSymlink, lookupFileInfo, and system.provisioning.snapshot.listSnapshotConfigFiles now return contents_enc64 field which identifies whether contents is Base64-encoded * system.comparePackages and system.comparePackageProfile return package_arch value * system.provisionVirtualGuest default values now match those on the WebUI * New API calls: * configchannel.getEncodedFileRevision * system.scap.scheduleXccdfScan The up-to-date API documentation can be found at * http://spacewalk.redhat.com/documentation/api/ Contributors Our thanks go to the community members who contributed to this release: * Aron Parsons * Jiří Mikulka * Joerg Steffens * Joshua Roys * Michael Calmer * Pierre Casenove * Simon Lukasik * Speagle, Andy * Steven Hardy * https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/ContributorList You can view the history of Spacewalk from its start to 1.7 at * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsx6cGmBtzg Some statistics In Spacewalk 1.7, we've seen * 49 bugs fixed * 1246 changesets committed * 1581 commits done Reporting errors To report issues with Spacewalk, please use mailing list spacewalk-l...@redhat.com to reach the user community. We might ask you to file bugzilla at http://bugzilla.redhat.com/ with more details or full logs. From now on, errors related to PostgreSQL database backend are considered bug defects vs. missing capabilities. Thank you for using Spacewalk. -- Jan Pazdziora Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-devel mailing list Spacewalk-devel@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-devel
