[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 2.2 has been released

Wed Jul 16 19:50:17 UTC 2014

Hello everyone,

We are proudly announcing release of Spacewalk 2.2, a systems management 
solution.

The download locations are

    http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.2/RHEL/5
    http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.2/RHEL/6
    http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.2/Fedora/19
    http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.2/Fedora/20

with client repositories under

    http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.2-client/RHEL/5
    http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.2-client/RHEL/6
    http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.2-client/RHEL/7
    http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.2-client/Fedora/19
    http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.2-client/Fedora/20

SUSE Linux client packages can be found here

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.2/SLE_11_SP3 
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.2/openSUSE_12.3
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.2/openSUSE_13.1
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.2/openSUSE_Factory

For fresh installations, please use steps from

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

If you plan to upgrade from older release, search no more -- the following 
page will guide you:

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

Features & Enhancements in Spacewalk 2.2

* Spacewalk supports RHEL 7 / CentOS 7 clients
* Read-only API user
  * support for user able to retrieve data via API without the rights to
    make changes (e.g. for auditing purposes)
* Action chaining
  * support for defining chain of actions executed on clients
  * http://wiki.novell.com/index.php/SUSE_Manager/ActionChaining
  * http://turing.suse.de/%7Esmoioli/Action%20Chaining%20screencast.webm
* Remote power management
  * https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/power-management 
* Support for FIPS 140-2
  * Ability to run on a FIPS enabled operating system (client and server)
  * https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/Spacewalk-FIPS 
* Spacewalk Proxy content pre-caching
  * https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/proxy-precache 
* Further enhancements to the Spacewalk 2.1 Identity management (IPA)
  integration
  * https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/SpacewalkAndIPA
  * mark roles that were assigned automatically and should thus be removed
    if not found upon subsequent logins
  * creating default system groups when creating new users external groups
    to system groups mapping (newly created users may be created as
    administrators of selected system groups - according to their external
    group membership and configured mapping)
* Plenty of small enhancements and fixes
* New API calls:
    actionchain.addConfigurationDeployment
    actionchain.addPackageInstall
    actionchain.addPackageRemoval
    actionchain.addPackageUpgrade
    actionchain.addPackageVerify
    actionchain.addScriptRun
    actionchain.addSystemReboot
    actionchain.createChain
    actionchain.deleteChain
    actionchain.listChainActions
    actionchain.listChains
    actionchain.removeAction
    actionchain.renameChain
    actionchain.scheduleChain
    channel.software.syncRepo
    kickstart.profile.software.getSoftwareDetails
    kickstart.profile.software.setSoftwareDetails
    systemgroup.listSystemsMinimal
    system.listSystemEvents
    system.provisioning.snapshot.rollbackToSnapshot
    system.provisioning.snapshot.rollbackToTag
    system.scheduleCertificateUpdate
    system.schedulePackageInstall
    user.external.createExternalGroupToRoleMap
    user.external.createExternalGroupToSystemGroupMap
    user.external.deleteExternalGroupToRoleMap
    user.external.deleteExternalGroupToSystemGroupMap
    user.external.getDefaultOrg
    user.external.getExternalGroupToRoleMap
    user.external.getExternalGroupToSystemGroupMap
    user.external.getKeepTemporaryRoles
    user.external.getUseOrgUnit
    user.external.listExternalGroupToRoleMaps
    user.external.listExternalGroupToSystemGroupMaps
    user.external.setDefaultOrg
    user.external.setExternalGroupRoles
    user.external.setExternalGroupSystemGroups
    user.external.setKeepTemporaryRoles
    user.external.setUseOrgUnit
    user.getCreateDefaultSystemGroup
    user.setCreateDefaultSystemGroup
    user.setReadOnly 

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

    http://www.spacewalkproject.org/documentation/api

Contributors

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

    Avi Miller
    Bo Maryniuk
    Carsten Menzel
    Colin Coe
    Daniel Igel
    Dimitar Yordanov
    Duncan Mac-Vicar
    Flavio Castelli
    Gregor Gruener
    Hubert Mantel
    Jan Pazdziora
    Jeremy Davis
    Jiri Mikulka
    Johannes Renner
    Kumudini Shirsale
    Lukas Pramuk
    Marcelo Moreira de Mello
    Martin Seidl
    Michael Calmer
    Michele Baldessari
    Miroslav Suchý
    Neha Rawat
    Pierre Casenove
    Ron van der Wees
    Shannon Hughes
    Silvio Moioli
    Tasos Papaioannou
    Tobias D. Oestreicher 

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

Some statistics

In Spacewalk 2.2, we've seen

    99 bugs fixed
    1308 changesets committed
    1760 commits done 

Github repo for commits since Spacewalk 2.1

    https://github.com/spacewalkproject/spacewalk/graphs/contributors?from=2014-03-04&to=2014-07-16&type=c

Spacewalk 2.2 on RHEL 5 (CentOS 5) and RHEL 7 (CentOS 7)

Due to missing package dependencies in EPEL 7 beta, we were not able to 
deliver Spacewalk 2.2 on RHEL 7 (CentOS 7). Spacewalk 2.2 therefore still 
supports running on RHEL 5 and CentOS 5 as a base operating system. Support 
for RHEL 7 and CentOS 7 should be available in next Spacewalk release, at 
which point support for RHEL 5 and CentOS 5 will be dropped. Note that RHEL 7 
/ CentOS 7 clients are supported with Spacewalk 2.2, just not running 
Spacewalk itself on those operating systems.

Solaris and Monitoring Support - Deprecation Notice

The Spacewalk team is looking in future releases to drop support for Solaris 
clients and the Monitoring component of Spacewalk. They continue to be 
supported in their current state for the Spacewalk 2.2 release. Anyone 
currently using either of the capabilities may wish to consider alternatives 
for their needs.

User community, reporting issues

To reach the user community with questions and ideas, please use mailing list 
spacewalk-list at redhat.com. On this list, you can of course also discuss 
issues you might find when installing or using Spacewalk, but please do not be 
surprised if we ask you to file a bug at

    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Spacewalk

with more details or full logs.

Thank you for using Spacewalk. 