[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 2.6 Released!

[Gennadii Altukhov]

Hello everyone, 

We are proudly announcing a release of Spacewalk 2.6, a systems management solution. 

The download locations are 

    * http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.6/RHEL/6/ 
    * http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.6/RHEL/7/ 
    * http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.6/Fedora/23/ 
    * http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.6/Fedora/24/ 

with client repositories under 

    * http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.6-client/RHEL/5/ 
    * http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.6-client/RHEL/6/ 
    * http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.6-client/RHEL/7/ 
    * http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.6-client/Fedora/23/ 
    * http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.6-client/Fedora/24/ 


SUSE Linux client packages can be found here 

    * http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.6/openSUSE_13.2/ 
    * http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.6/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/ 
    * http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.6/openSUSE_Leap_42.2/ 
    * http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.6/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/ 
    * http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.6/SLE_12_SP2/ 



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 2.6 


    * Spacewalk now supported on Fedora 24 
    * Spacewalk supports Fedora 24 clients 
    * spacewalk-repo-sync improvements: 
        * now it can sync channels with several repositories 
        * it can update Kickstart Tree in a repository 
        * add possibility to sync Debian/Ubuntu? apt repositories 
    * improved Python 2/3 compatibility for all tools 
    * New API calls: 
        * system.listSuggestedReboot 
        * actionchain.addErrataUpdate 


The up-to-date API documentation can be found at http://www.spacewalkproject.org/documentation/api/2.6/ Contributors 


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

    * Dario Leidi 
    * Frantisek Kobzik 
    * Jakub Jankowski 
    * Johannes Renner 
    * Marcelo Moreira de Mello 
    * Mark Hlawatschek 
    * Michael Calmer 
    * Michael Mraka 
    * Silvio Moioli 



see https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/ContributorList for all contributors list Some statistics 


In Spacewalk 2.6, we've seen 

    * 59 major bugs fixed 
    * 496 changesets committed 
    * 740 commits done 

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.