[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 1.3 released
Tomas Lestach
tlestach at redhat.com
Fri Feb 4 15:41:46 UTC 2011
Hello world,
Spacewalk 1.3 is now available for download from
http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.3/RHEL/5/$basearch/
http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.3/RHEL/6/$basearch/
http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.3/Fedora/13/$basearch/
http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.3/Fedora/14/$basearch/
depending on your operating system, with client repositories under
http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.3-client/
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 1.3:
* Spacewalk can now be installed and run on RHEL 6
* Server side support for apt-get
* Spacewalk on PostgreSQL can be upgraded from older versions
* Spacewalk on Oracle now uses Oracle InstantClient version 11g
* Spacewalk Proxy works with Spacewalk on PostgreSQL
* tnsnames.ora file no longer needed
* New API calls:
* system.getUuid
* system.search.uuid
* errata.publishAccordingToParents
* Extended API calls:
* system.listPackages by id
* channel.software.getDetails,
channel.software.listChildren,
kickstart.listKickstartableChannels,
system.listSubscribedChildChannels,
system.getSubscribedBaseChannel by last_modified
Some notes about apt-get plug-in:
Spacewalk 1.3 contains server support for apt-get plug-in.
An experimental 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 plug-in package will be enhanced during the Spacewalk 1.4 cycle.
For more information check:
https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/RegisteringClients#Debian
Some notes about the PostgreSQL support:
PostgreSQL support is limited similar to Spacewalk 1.2.
https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/PostgreSQL
Community contributors:
We thank the community members who contributed to this release:
* Ani Peter
* Aron Parsons
* Colin Coe
* Luc de Louw
* Johannes Renner
* John van Zantvoort
* Marcelo Moreira de Mello
* Paresh Mutha
* Simon Lukasik
https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/ContributorList
Bug fixes and commits:
In Spacewalk 1.3 there were:
* 123 bugs solved
* 964 changesets committed
* 1275 commits done
Enjoy using Spacewalk!
Yours,
Tomas Lestach
RHN Satellite Engineering, Red Hat
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