[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 2.7 Released!

[Eric Herget]

Hello everyone,

We are proudly announcing the release of Spacewalk 2.7, a systems 
management solution.

The download locations are

   * http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.7/RHEL/6/
   * http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.7/RHEL/7/
   * http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.7/Fedora/24/
   * http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.7/Fedora/25/
   * http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.7/Fedora/26/

with client repositories under

   * http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.7-client/RHEL/5/
   * http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.7-client/RHEL/6/
   * http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.7-client/RHEL/7/
   * http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.7-client/Fedora/24/
   * http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.7-client/Fedora/25/
   * http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.7-client/Fedora/26/

SUSE Linux client packages can be found here

   * 
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.7/SLE_12_SP2/
   * 
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.7/SLE_12_SP3/
   * 
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.7/openSUSE_Leap_42.2/
   * 
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.7/openSUSE_Leap_42.3/
   * 
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.7/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/


For fresh installations, please use steps from

   * https://github.com/spacewalkproject/spacewalk/wiki/HowToInstall

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

   * https://github.com/spacewalkproject/spacewalk/wiki/HowToUpgrade


Features & Enhancements in Spacewalk 2.7

   * Spacewalk now supported on Fedora 25 and Fedora 26
   * Spacewalk supports Fedora 25 and Fedora 26 clients
   * Improved Debian/Ubuntu version parsing and matching
   * Spacewalk wiki now hosted on GitHub
   * Significant improvements to channel synchronization speed
   * New utility to monitor what taskomatic daemon is doing - taskotop 
is part of spacewalk-utils package
   * jabberd, which support OSAD, now uses sqlite database for improved 
reliability
   * jpackage libraries/packages replaced with standard ones
   * Improved kickstart profile support
   * New API calls:
     * channel.listManageableChannels
     * schedule.failSystemAction
   * API calls restored for backward compatibility:
     * proxy.createMonitoringScout
     * satellite.isMonitoringEnabled
     * satellite.isMonitoringEnabledBySystemId
The up-to-date API documentation can be found at
http://spacewalkproject.github.io/documentation/api/2.7/

Contributors

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

   * Avi Miller
   * Can Bulut Bayburt
   * Candace Sheremeta
   * Chris Gavin
   * Dario Leidi
   * Duncan Mac-Vicar P
   * Frantisek Kobzik
   * Ilya Gorbunov
   * Jakub Jankowski
   * Kenny Tordeurs
   * Laurence Rochfort
   * Marc A. Dahlhaus
   * Marcelo Moreira de Mello
   * Martin Matuska
   * Martin Seidl
   * Michael Calmer
   * Michele Bologna
   * Miroslav Suchý
   * Pablo Suárez Hernández
   * Patrick Hurrelmann
   * Shannon Hughes
   * Silvio Moioli
   * Valérian Beaudoin

see https://github.com/spacewalkproject/spacewalk/wiki/ContributorList
for all contributors list


Some statistics

In Spacewalk 2.7, we've seen

   * 219 major bugs fixed
   * 880 changesets committed
   * 1463 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.