[rhn-users] 5.0.1 Satellite and RHN Proxy released today

[Clifford Perry]

Hi folks,
I am pleased to let you know that Satellite and RHN Proxy 5.0.1 have 
been released today, Wednesday August 29th 2007. This is a small bug-fix 
maintenance release with no new features for the RHN Proxy and Satellite 
code, along with a new rhn-upgrade package and supporting change to the 
rhn-custom-info client side package.

An Errata, of type security, has been released with 5.0.1 that only 
effects 5.0.0 Satellite customers. It is recommended for all 5.0.0 
Satellite customers to review this Errata and schedule an upgrade to 
5.0.1 for the set of packages (rhns-*) that are associated with the 
Errata. You can view this Errata at:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0868.html

The release notes for 5.0.1 are available within the Satellite 5.0.1 
WebUI as well as published (later today) to 
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/satellite/ . I will place a copy of 
these release notes below as well.

There is one note worthy item that did not make the Release Notes - this 
is due to changes happening after release notes were completed.

1) RHN Proxy 5.0.1 has a change to the squid.conf file that is deployed 
onto the RHN Proxy server. This change is not available within RHN 
Hosted currently, if you install new RHN Proxies using RHN Hosted, but 
will be available to RHN Proxy with RHN Hosted customers with the RHN 
5.0.3 Hosted release, which is currently in QA. Any new RHN Proxy 
deployments of RHN Proxy 5.0.1 against a 5.0.1 Satellite will 
automatically have this updated squid.conf file.

Since the squid.conf file is generated and inserted into the RHN Proxy 
configuration channel only once, during the initial install/activation 
process, a customer can when performing a 'up2date -u' upgrade from 
5.0.0 -> 5.0.1 RHN Proxy make the following change to the 
/etc/squid/squid.conf file and add this line to the bottom to have this 
change:

range_offset_limit -1 KB

A restart of the squid service will be needed for this change.

New ISOs
The new ISO's are available for download from the Download tab of the 
Satellite 5.0 channel within RHN - 
https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/software/channel/downloads/Download.do?cid=7254

Satellite Installer - Build 11       447 MB      
93f4131989a22811be81f2664a4a1366
Satellite Installer - Build 11 (Embedded Database)     618 MB     
361f04bc5c5b6b67d85692fa38295524

Release Notes
The following are the major bug fixes and changes released as part of 
Red Hat Network 5.0.1.
* Red Hat Network Satellite 5.0 no longer supports the 'org/<random 
hash>' URL type in kickstart profiles. For example:
      
https://sat.example.com/kickstart/ks/org/1x8ac1dbff1d17c09434225433ab8/view_label/rhel-i386-as-3-u8
If you are utilizing the above URL format, you must convert your 
kickstart profiles to one that does not use the hash string, such as:
      https://sat.example.com/kickstart/ks/view_label/rhel-i386-as-3-u8
* The clear_channel API backend module has been removed. This unused API 
module was removed due to security concerns.
* The rhn_bootstrap_strings.py script now uses the -y option of the yum 
command to automatically assume "yes" to all questions during the 
package update process.
* Channel GPG key URL entry now correctly accepts file, http and https 
protocols.
* Red Hat Network Satellite does not currently support the direct 
provisioning of guests in a virtual system. To configure guest systems, 
click the Virtualization tab of the host's System Details page.
* The following changes to Virtualization entitlements have been made in 
Red Hat Network Satellite 5.0.1:
          o Virtualization and Virtualization Platform entitlements 
cannot be simultaneously selected on the Activation Key and Update screens.
          o Servers with both Virtualization and Virtualization Platform 
entitlements are now deletable
          o Activation keys with conflicting virtualization entitlements 
will result in the server being given whatever virtualization 
entitlement is associated with the first activation key
* Users who upgrade to Red Hat Network Satellite 5.0.1 via the update -u 
command may encounter an issue that prevents rhn-custom-info from 
working correctly. To correct this issue, you must install the 
rhn-custom-info client-side packages, as well as the new 
rhn-satellite-config package. After installing the packages, run the 
following commands:
      cp /etc/sysconfig/rhn-satellite-prep/etc/httpd/conf/rhnweb.conf 
/etc/httpd/conf/rhnweb.conf
      service httpd restart
Customers who use the ISO to perform installations of Red Hat Network 
5.0.1 or upgrade to 5.0 will have the rhnweb.conf file in the correct 
location upon installation.


Regards,
Cliff.


-- 
Clifford Perry
Team Lead, Satellite Sustaining Engineering
Red Hat, Inc. 
http://www.redhat.com/
+1 919 754 4403
RHCE# 803004507210710