[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 2.1

[Matej Kollar]

Hello everyone,

We are proudly announcing the release 2.1 of Spacewalk, a systems management solution.

The download locations are

    ​http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.1/RHEL/5/
    ​http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.1/RHEL/6/
    ​http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.1/Fedora/19/
    ​http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.1/Fedora/20/ 

with client repositories under

    ​http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.1-client/RHEL/5/
    ​http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.1-client/RHEL/6/
    ​http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.1-client/Fedora/19/
    ​http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.1-client/Fedora/20/ 

SUSE Linux client packages can be found here

    ​http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.1/openSUSE_12.3/
    ​http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.1/openSUSE_13.1/
    ​http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.1/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 2.1

    Spacewalk runs on Fedora 20, support for Fedora 18 has been dropped
    New UI look and feel (big thanks to SUSE upstream contributors)
        Twitter Bootstrap 3.0 integration.
        Responsive design works on desktops, tablets and phones.
        New date-picker will make scheduling events joyful.
        Password strength meter. 
    Support for using SSL for connections to external/managed PostgreSQL
        ​https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/HowToPostgreSQLoverSSL 
    SCAP improvements
        Added tailoring support to the Spacewalk (OpenSCAP enabled) client
        Enabled easy comparison between various SCAP scans 
    Identity management (IPA) integration
        ​https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/SpacewalkAndIPA 
    Plenty of small enhancements and fixes
    This is the last release of Spacewalk for RHEL5.
    New API calls:
        channel.software.listErrataNeedingSync()
        channel.software.syncErrata()
        channel.software.updateRepoLabel()
        kickstart.profile.orderScripts()
        kickstart.profile.software.setSoftwareList()
        org.getPolicyForScapFileUpload()
        org.getPolicyForScapResultDeletion()
        org.setPolicyForScapFileUpload()
        org.setPolicyForScapResultDeletion()
        system.scap.deleteXccdfScan() 

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:

    Aron Parsons
    Avi Miller
    Bo Maryniuk
    Christopher Duryee
    Cynthia Sanchez
    David Juran
    Dimitar Yordanov
    Duncan Mac-Vicar P
    Flavio Castelli
    Gregor Gruener
    Jan Pazdziora
    Jiri Mikulka
    Johannes Renner
    Mark Huth
    Maximilian Meister
    Michael Calmer
    Miroslav Suchý
    Paresh Mutha
    Paul Robert Marino
    Peter Gervase
    Shannon Hughes
    Silvio Moioli
    Simon Lukasik
    Tasos Papaioannou 

​https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/ContributorList
Some statistics

In Spacewalk 2.1, we've seen

    201 bugs fixed
    1715 changesets committed
    2357 commits done 

User community, reporting issues

To reach the user community with questions and ideas, please use mailing list spacewalk-list@…. 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.

(Release notes also available at https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/ReleaseNotes21)