[Spacewalk-devel] Spacewalk 2.5 released!

[Tomáš Kašpárek]

Hello everyone,

We are proudly announcing release of Spacewalk 2.5, a systems management 
solution.

The download locations are

 * ​http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.5/RHEL/6/
 * ​http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.5/RHEL/7/
 * ​http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.5/Fedora/21/
 * ​http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.5/Fedora/22/

with client repositories under

 * ​http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.5-client/RHEL/5/
 * ​http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.5-client/RHEL/6/
 * ​http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.5-client/RHEL/7/
 * ​http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.5-client/Fedora/21/
 * ​http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.5-client/Fedora/22/

SUSE Linux client packages can be found here

 * 
​http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.5/openSUSE_13.1/

 * 
​http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.5/openSUSE_13.2/

 * 
​http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.5/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/

 * 
​http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.5/SLE_12/

 * 
​http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.5/SLE_11_SP4/


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 2.5

 * Spacewalk now supported on Fedora 23
 * Spacewalk supports Fedora 23 clients
 * System entitlements and Software Channels entitlements were removed
 * Improved first organization creation
 * OSAD now works in failover mode via proxy
 * Plenty of small enhancements and fixes
     o 'Select All' button now correctly selects only filtered
       systems/packages/errata etc.
     o RDO Openstack guests are now correctly recognized as virtual guests
     o And many, many more ...
 * New API calls:
     o packages.listSourcePackages
     o packages.removeSourcePackage
     o system.scheduleLabelScriptRun
     o system.schedulePackageInstallByNevra
     o system.schedulePackageRemoveByNevra

The up-to-date API documentation can be found at 
http://www.spacewalkproject.org/documentation/api/2.5/

Contributors

Our thanks go to the community members who contributed to this release:

 * Anastasios Papaioannou
 * Aron Parsons
 * Avi Miller
 * Bernhard Lichtinger
 * Dario Leidi
 * Duncan Mac-Vicar P
 * Frantisek Kobzik
 * Johannes Renner
 * Kevin Walter
 * Klaas Demter
 * Mark Huth
 * Matei Albu
 * Matej Kollar
 * Matthias Thubauville
 * Michael Brookhuis
 * Michael Calmer
 * Michael Mraka
 * Michele Bologna
 * Shannon Hughes
 * Silvio Moioli
 * Thomas Wouters

​https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/ContributorList

Some statistics

In Spacewalk 2.5, we've seen

 * 75 bugs fixed
 * 1071 changesets committed
 * 1408 commits done

Github repo for commits since Spacewalk 2.4

 * ​Spacewalk 2.4 to 2.5
   
<https://github.com/spacewalkproject/spacewalk/graphs/contributors?from=2015-09-29&to=2016-05-26&type=c>


User community, reporting issues

To reach the user community with questions and ideas, please use mailing 
list ​spacewalk-l...@redhat.com <mailto: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 a bug at 
​https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Spacewalk with more 
details or full logs.

Thank you for using Spacewalk.
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