[Spacewalk-list] [Spacewalk-devel] Spacewalk 1.6 has been released

Eric Lake elake at lexmark.com
Thu Dec 22 16:22:22 UTC 2011


The release notes link on
https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/ReleaseNotes for Spacewalk 1.6
point to the 1.5 release notes.

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Milan Zazrivec <mzazrivec at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hello world,
>
> we are happy to announce the release 1.6 of Spacewalk, platform for management
> of Linux systems.
>
> The download locations are
>
>    http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.6/RHEL/5/$basearch/
>    http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.6/RHEL/6/$basearch/
>    http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.6/Fedora/15/x86_64/
>    http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.6/Fedora/16/x86_64/
>
> with client repositories under
>
>     http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.6-client
>     http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/1.6/openSUSE_11.4/
>     http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/1.6/openSUSE_Factory/
>     http://miroslav.suchy.cz/spacewalk/debian
>
> If you want to do fresh installation, use steps from
>
>     https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/HowToInstall
>
> If you plan to upgrade from older release, the following page can be useful:
>
>     http://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/HowToUpgrade
>
> Features & Enhancements in Spacewalk 1.6
>
> * IPv6 support: management and provisioning capabilities
> * Support for Fedora 16 (server and client)
> * Kickstarting via Spacewalk Proxy with a CNAME
> * spacewalk-repo-sync supports --include and --exclude options
> * New API calls:
>        channel.software.getRepoSyncCronExpression
>        channel.software.listChannelRepos
>        channel.software.setDetails
>        channel.software.syncRepo
>        configchannel.deleteFileRevisions
>        configchannel.getFileRevision
>        configchannel.getFileRevisions
>        kickstart.disableProfile
>        kickstart.isProfileDisabled
>        kickstart.keys.update
>        system.custominfo.updateKey
>        system.deleteGuestProfiles
>        system.deleteTagFromSnapshot
>        system.getScriptActionDetails
>        system.provisioning.snapshot.addTagToSnapshot
>        system.tagLatestSnapshot
> * OSAD improvements
> * Security fixes for following CVEs:
>        CVE-2011-1594
>        CVE-2011-2919
>        CVE-2011-2920
>        CVE-2011-2927
>        CVE-2011-3344
> * rhn-virtualization supports RHEV 3 hosts
> * spacewalk-reports supports --where-<column-id> option to filter records
> * spacecmd enhancements and bugfixes
> * Preliminary support for cobbler 2.2
>
> Contributors
>
> Our thanks go to the community members who contributed to this release:
>
>    Andy Speagle
>    Aron Parsons
>    Christian Berendt
>    Colin Coe
>    David Nutter
>    Ionuț Arțăriși
>    Johannes Renner
>    Jonathan Hoser
>    Joshua Roys
>    Luca Villa
>    Marcelo Moreira de Mello
>    Martin Osvald
>    Michael Calmer
>    Pierre Casenove
>    Satoru SATOH
>    Steve Hardy
>    Sven Mueller
>    Tasos Papaioannou
>    Uwe Gansert
>
>  https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/ContributorList
>
> Some statistics
>
> In Spacewalk 1.6, we've seen
>
>    177 bugs solved
>    1025 changesets committed
>    1515 commits done
>
> Thank you for using Spacewalk! Keep the patches flowing!
>
> Regards
> -Milan Zázrivec
>
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Thanks,

Eric Lake
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