[Spacewalk-list] [jesusr at transam.devel.redhat.com: Announcing Spacewalk 0.5]

[Jesus Rodriguez]

Some folks aren't on announce list so sending out here as well.

jesus

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Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:01:33 -0400
From: Jesus Rodriguez <jesusr at transam.devel.redhat.com>
To: spacewalk-announce-list at redhat.com
Subject: Announcing Spacewalk 0.5
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

Hola Spacewalkers,

The Spacewalk team is happy to announce another release of Spacewalk.
In a few hours, Spacewalk 0.5 will be available for install. As with
previous releases, 0.3 will no longer be available.

NOTE: upgrades are not yet available for 0.5. We hope to have these
instructions ready later this week.

Also note, that the URL for the repo has changed. The OLD url was:

   http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/0.4/rhel/5Server/<arch>
   http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/0.4/fedora/9/<arch>

The NEW url is:

   http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/0.5/RHEL/5/<arch>/os/
   http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/0.5/Fedora/10/<arch>/os/

Make sure to read over the installation again:

   http://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/HowToInstall#Installation

Features & Enhancements

 * Spacewalk 0.5 is now installable[1] on Fedora 10!!

 * repomd generation refactored to be a Taskomatic process

 * you can edit your pre/post kickstart scripts in our new scripts
   editor:

      http://tinyurl.com/editarea-ks-scripts

 * as well as edit cobbler snippets with the same editor:

      http://tinyurl.com/editarea-cobbler-snippets

 * more API work mostly in the channel.software namespace
   with bug fixes in other areas.

      https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/ApiAdditions

Bugs fixed

* This release fixed 91 bugs - 
  http://tinyurl.com/dmszqj

Known issues

* NO UPGRADES AVAILABLE YET

* jabberd 2.2 fails on el5 installs. if you want to use osa-dispatcher
  on el5, you need to do the following:

  * uninstall jabberd 2.2
  * install jabberd 2.0
  * use 2.0 configs
  * restart both jabberd and osa-dispatcher

Community

*  A special thanks goes out to Colin Coe for adding the ability to edit
   kickstart scripts and cobbler snippets in the UI, and to James Bowes
   for his patches to tito the spacewalk build tool
   (http://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/Tito).

   http://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/ContributorList

Installation Help

   http://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/HowToInstall#Installation

[1] it works on Fedora too :D

-- 
jesus m. rodriguez        | jesusr at redhat.com
sr. software engineer     | irc: zeus
rhn satellite & spacewalk | 919.754.4413 (w)
rhce # 805008586930012    | 919.623.0080 (c)
+-------------------------------------------+
|  "Those who cannot learn from history     |
|   are doomed to repeat it."               |
|                       -- George Santayana |
+-------------------------------------------+

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