[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 1.7 released

[Wojtak, Greg (Superfly)]

The OpenSCAP integration looks really keen.  I'm excited to try out the
new version.  Do you know if any of the improvements for OSA through a
Spacewalk proxy made their way into this release?

Thanks!

Greg

On 2012-03-07 4:43 AM, "Jan Pazdziora" <jpazdziora at redhat.com> wrote:

>
>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
>
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