[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 2.2 has been released

Thu Jul 17 01:46:39 UTC 2014

Thank you!

On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Milan Zázrivec <mzazrivec at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
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