[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 1.7 released

[Jan Pazdziora]

Hello friends of the walks in space,

we are happy to announce the release 1.7 of Spacewalk, a systems
management solution.

The download locations are

  * http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.7/RHEL/5/$basearch/
  * http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.7/RHEL/6/$basearch/
  * http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.7/Fedora/15/x86_64/
  * http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.7/Fedora/16/x86_64/

with client repositories under

  * http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.7-client
  * http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/1.7/openSUSE_11.4/
  * http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/1.7/openSUSE_12.1/
  * http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/1.7/openSUSE_Factory/
  * http://miroslav.suchy.cz/spacewalk/debian

For fresh installations, please use steps from

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

If you plan to upgrade from older release, the following page can be
helpful:

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

Features & Enhancements in Spacewalk 1.7

  * Monitoring is now working on the PostgreSQL database backend,
    making both database backends feature-comparable
  * OpenSCAP integration -- for details, see
    https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/Scap
  * Fully asynchronous clearing of orphaned monitoring data
  * Stock rhnpush is able to push debian packages
  * New spacewalk-clone-by-date tool
  * Numerous spacecmd enhancements
  * Improved messages printed when certificate activation fails
  * Modified API calls:
      * channel.software.getDetails returns empty strings instead of
        omitting attributes
      * configchannel.createOrUpdatePath, createOrUpdateSymlink,
        getEncodedFileRevision, getFileRevision, getFileRevisions,
        lookupFileInfo, system.config.createOrUpdatePath,
        createOrUpdateSymlink, lookupFileInfo, and
        system.provisioning.snapshot.listSnapshotConfigFiles now return
        contents_enc64 field which identifies whether contents is
        Base64-encoded
      * system.comparePackages and system.comparePackageProfile return
        package_arch value
      * system.provisionVirtualGuest default values now match those on
        the WebUI
  * New API calls:
      * configchannel.getEncodedFileRevision
      * system.scap.scheduleXccdfScan

The up-to-date API documentation can be found at

  * http://spacewalk.redhat.com/documentation/api/

Contributors

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

  * Aron Parsons
  * Jiří Mikulka
  * Joerg Steffens
  * Joshua Roys
  * Michael Calmer
  * Pierre Casenove
  * Simon Lukasik
  * Speagle, Andy
  * Steven Hardy

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

You can view the history of Spacewalk from its start to 1.7 at

  * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsx6cGmBtzg

Some statistics

In Spacewalk 1.7, we've seen

  * 49 bugs fixed
  * 1246 changesets committed
  * 1581 commits done

Reporting errors

To report issues with Spacewalk, please use mailing list
spacewalk-list at redhat.com to reach the user community. We might ask
you to file bugzilla at http://bugzilla.redhat.com/ with more details
or full logs. From now on, errors related to PostgreSQL database
backend are considered bug defects vs. missing capabilities.

Thank you for using Spacewalk.

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