[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 1.4 released

[Miroslav Suchý]

Hello world,

Spacewalk 1.4 is now available for download from

 http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.4/RHEL/5/$basearch/
 http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.4/RHEL/6/$basearch/
 http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.4/Fedora/13/$basearch/
 http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.4/Fedora/14/$basearch/
Note: Fedora packages for server are released only for x86_64 architecture.

depending on your operating system, with client repositories under:
 http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.4-client/Fedora/13
 http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.4-client/Fedora/14
 http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.4-client/RHEL/5
 http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.4-client/RHEL/6
 http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/1.4/openSUSE_11.4/
 http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/1.4/openSUSE_Factory/
 http://miroslav.suchy.cz/spacewalk/debian

Check the installation steps at

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

or if you will upgrade from older release, consult

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


Features & Enhancements in Spacewalk 1.4:

 * client packages for Debian
 * client packages for OpenSuse
 * support for IDN [1] (but RHN Tools part)
 	- you can now have Spacewalk server and clients, whose
          hostnames contains non latin domain name.
 * issues in PostgreSQL backend, reported by users, were fixed.
   For PostgreSQL status see [2]
 * system history reports were added in spacewalk-reports
 * spacewalk-repo-sync now automatically create errata from updateinfo

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name
[2] https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/PostgreSQL


Spacewalk 1.4 contains support for apt-get plug-in.
An apt-get plug-in client package is available at
http://miroslav.suchy.cz/spacewalk/debian/
Feel free to try it and report any issues.
This repo contains apt with spacewalk patches.

For more information check:
https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/RegisteringClients#Debian


Community contributors:

We thank the community members who contributed to this release:

 * Aron Parsons
 * Dale Bewley
 * Jerome Fenal
 * Johannes Renner
 * John van Zantvoort
 * Luc de Louw
 * Marcelo Moreira de Mello
 * mareklaane
 * Michael Calmer
 * Paresh Mutha
 * Šimon Lukašík
 * Trent Johnson
 * Uwe Gansert
 * ypoyarko

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


Bug fixes and commits:

In Spacewalk 1.4 there were:

    * 68  bugs solved
    * 634 changesets committed
    * 899 commits done


Enjoy using Spacewalk!
-- 
Miroslav Suchy
Red Hat Satellite Engineering