[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 2.5 released!

[Tomáš Kašpárek]

Hello everyone,

We are proudly announcing release of Spacewalk 2.5, a systems management 
solution.

The download locations are

  * ​http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.5/RHEL/6/
  * ​http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.5/RHEL/7/
  * ​http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.5/Fedora/21/
  * ​http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.5/Fedora/22/

with client repositories under

  * ​http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.5-client/RHEL/5/
  * ​http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.5-client/RHEL/6/
  * ​http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.5-client/RHEL/7/
  * ​http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.5-client/Fedora/21/
  * ​http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.5-client/Fedora/22/

SUSE Linux client packages can be found here

  * ​http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.5/openSUSE_13.1/

  * ​http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.5/openSUSE_13.2/

  * ​http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.5/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/

  * ​http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.5/SLE_12/

  * ​http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.5/SLE_11_SP4/


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 2.5

  * Spacewalk now supported on Fedora 23
  * Spacewalk supports Fedora 23 clients
  * System entitlements and Software Channels entitlements were removed
  * Improved first organization creation
  * OSAD now works in failover mode via proxy
  * Plenty of small enhancements and fixes
      o 'Select All' button now correctly selects only filtered
        systems/packages/errata etc.
      o RDO Openstack guests are now correctly recognized as virtual guests
      o And many, many more ...
  * New API calls:
      o packages.listSourcePackages
      o packages.removeSourcePackage
      o system.scheduleLabelScriptRun
      o system.schedulePackageInstallByNevra
      o system.schedulePackageRemoveByNevra

The up-to-date API documentation can be found at 
http://www.spacewalkproject.org/documentation/api/2.5/

Contributors

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

  * Anastasios Papaioannou
  * Aron Parsons
  * Avi Miller
  * Bernhard Lichtinger
  * Dario Leidi
  * Duncan Mac-Vicar P
  * Frantisek Kobzik
  * Johannes Renner
  * Kevin Walter
  * Klaas Demter
  * Mark Huth
  * Matei Albu
  * Matej Kollar
  * Matthias Thubauville
  * Michael Brookhuis
  * Michael Calmer
  * Michael Mraka
  * Michele Bologna
  * Shannon Hughes
  * Silvio Moioli
  * Thomas Wouters

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

Some statistics

In Spacewalk 2.5, we've seen

  * 75 bugs fixed
  * 1071 changesets committed
  * 1408 commits done

Github repo for commits since Spacewalk 2.4

  * ​Spacewalk 2.4 to 2.5
    <https://github.com/spacewalkproject/spacewalk/graphs/contributors?from=2015-09-29&to=2016-05-26&type=c>


User community, reporting issues

To reach the user community with questions and ideas, please use mailing 
list ​spacewalk-list at redhat.com <mailto: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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