[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 1.5 released

[Jan Pazdziora]

Hello world,

we are happy to announce the release 1.5 of Spacewalk, a systems
management solution.

The download locations are

    * http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.5/RHEL/5/$basearch/
    * http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.5/RHEL/6/$basearch/
    * http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.5/Fedora/14/x86_64/
    * http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.5/Fedora/15/x86_64/ 

with client repositories under

    * http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.5-client
    * http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/1.5/openSUSE_11.4/
    * http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/1.5/openSUSE_Factory/
    * http://miroslav.suchy.cz/spacewalk/debian (based on Spacewalk 1.4 code)

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 1.5

    * It is possible to edit schedule of taskomatic jobs via WebUI
    * AutoYaST Support
    * Fine-grained search (ability to disable fuzzy search)
    * The satellite-sync downloads rpm files in four concurrent threads
    * Spacewalk 1.5 can be installed on Fedora 15
    * Modified API calls:
          * errata.listPackages returns file attribute
          * user.getDetails returns use_pam attribute 
    * New API calls:
          * channel.software.setUserManagable
          * channel.software.isUserManagable
          * channel.listVendorChannels is now equivalent and preferred
            to channel.listRedHatChannels
          * errata.cloneAsOriginal 

Contributors

Our thanks go to the community members who contributed to this release:

    * Andreas Rogge
    * Aron Parsons
    * Ionuț Arțăriși
    * Jan Brázdil
    * Johannes Renner
    * Jonathan Hoser
    * Julian Einwag
    * Marcelo Moreira de Mello
    * Mario Schugowski
    * Matteo Sessa
    * Michael Calmer
    * Paresh Mutha
    * Šimon Lukašík
    * Uwe Gansert
    * Ville Salmela 

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

Some statistics

In Spacewalk 1.5, we've seen

    * 81 bugs solved
    * 624 changesets committed
    * 904 commits done 

Thank you for using Spacewalk! Keep the patches flowing!

-- 
Jan Pazdziora
Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat