[katello-devel] Katello 1.2 Released

[Eric Helms]

= Katello 1.2 Release Notes =

We are happy to announce the release 1.2 of Katello, a systems 
management solution.

Katello is here to help you take control of your software and your 
systems in an easy-to-use and scalable manner. Offering a modern web 
user interface and API, Katello can pull content from remote 
repositories into isolated environments, make subscriptions management 
easier and provide provisioning at scale.

The download locations are

   * http://fedorapeople.org/groups/katello/releases/yum/1.2/RHEL
   * http://fedorapeople.org/groups/katello/releases/yum/1.2/Fedora

with client repositories under:

   * http://fedorapeople.org/groups/katello/releases/yum/1.2-client/RHEL
   * http://fedorapeople.org/groups/katello/releases/yum/1.2-client/Fedora

For fresh installations, please use steps from

   * https://fedorahosted.org/katello/wiki/Install

To upgrade your installation, please follow steps from

   * https://fedorahosted.org/katello/wiki/Upgrade

== Features & Enhancements in Katello 1.2 ==

  * Architectures, Config Templates and Domains support added to API and CLI
  * Subnets and Domains can now be created and managed within the UI
  * More robust custom info and defaults
  * Use of bundler.d for production installations
  * CLI bash completion file updates
  * Fedora 17 support

Notable bug fixes:

  * 876896, 876911, 878355, 878750, 874502, 874510 - Fixed 
panel-name/new-link overlap
  * 877947 - clear-es - added index clean up after import and after 
delete manifest
  * 878693 - [RFE] Selecting multiple systems does not give me any action
  * 875609 - hypervisor - allow hypervisors to successfully register and 
list in katello
  * 874280 - terminology changes for consistency across subman, 
candlepin, etc
  * 845620 - [RFE] Improve messaging around results of setting the yStream
  * 853445 - correctly determine the affected repos after deletion
  * 864936 - products - labelize name on create entry
  * 873302 - Environments do not populate when adding a new user without 
full
   admin
  * 871086 - Changes to respond with template validation errors as bad 
requests instead of internal server errors.
  * 750660 - System packages list doesn't allow you to search for a 
package installed on the system
  * 869380 - confirm-delete - add confirmation message before deleting 
manifest
  * 865472 - system groups - fix auto-complete on add of systems to groups
  * 862997 - On content search page, during repository comparison, 
clicking the show more button will now properly load more data for 
packages and errata.
  * 806383 - [RFE] As the SE administrator I want to see all active and 
scheduled sync tasks for all organizations in one place
  * 847002 - Fixes rendering issue in IE9 for nested content search results.
  * 847002 - Fix for IE9 Changeset Environment Selector


API Enhancements and Changes:

* 866359 - API: /consumers/{id}/entitlements returns incorrect data and 
Content-Type header
* 866995: Fix the status API so that it is exposed correctly for rhsm.
* 871086 - Changes to respond with template validation errors as bad 
requests instead of internal server errors.
* 874280 - terminology changes for consistency across subman, candlepin, etc
* Added API documentation for architectures
* Added API documentation for config_templates
* Added API documentation for domains
* Default custom info for systems by org
* Ensure that the name and label is unique across all all orgs
* Foreman domains added to CLI client
* Foreman's Config Templates added to CLI client.
* Subnets API added


== Contributors ==

* Adam Price
* Adam Saleh
* Brad Buckingham
* Bryan Kearney
* David Davis
* Dmitri Dolguikh
* Eric D Helms
* Gerhard Stoeckel
* Ivan Necas
* Jakub Hadvig
* Jason E. Rist
* Jeff Weiss
* Jordan OMara
* Justin Sherrill
* Lukás( Zapletal
* Martin Bac(ovský
* Mike !McCune
* Miroslav Suchý
* Og B. Maciel
* Partha Aji
* Pavel Pokorný
* Petr Chalupa
* Tomas Strachota
* Tom !McKay

https://fedorahosted.org/katello/wiki/ContributorList

== Some statistics ==

In Katello 1.2, we've seen

     * 68 bugs fixed
     * 714 changesets committed
     * 725 commits done

== Known Issues ==

=== No Fedora 17 SELinux Support ===

The Fedora 17 1.2 installation does not support SELinux, please set the 
following:

{{{
$ service iptables stop
$ setenforce 0
}}}

== Reporting errors ==

To report issues with Katello, please use mailing list 
[https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/katello 
katello at lists.fedorahosted.org] to reach the user community. We might 
ask you to file bugzilla at 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Katello with more 
details or full logs.

Thank you for using Katello.
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