Spacewalk 1.7 Release Notes

Hello friends of the walks in space,

we are happy to announce the release 1.7 of Spacewalk, a systems management solution.

The download locations are

• http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.7/RHEL/5/$basearch/
• http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.7/RHEL/6/$basearch/
• http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.7/Fedora/15/x86_64/
• http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.7/Fedora/16/x86_64/

with client repositories under

• http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.7-client
• http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/1.7/openSUSE_11.4/
• http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/1.7/openSUSE_12.1/
• http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/1.7/openSUSE_Factory/
• http://miroslav.suchy.cz/spacewalk/debian

For fresh installations, please use steps from

• https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/HowToInstall

If you plan to upgrade from older release, the following page can be helpful:

• http://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/HowToUpgrade

Features & Enhancements in Spacewalk 1.7

• Monitoring is now working on the PostgreSQL database backend, making both database backends feature-comparable
• OpenSCAP integration
• Fully asynchronous clearing of orphaned monitoring data
• Stock rhnpush is able to push debian packages
• New spacewalk-clone-by-date tool
• Numerous spacecmd enhancements
• Improved messages printed when certificate activation fails
• Modified API calls:
  • channel.software.getDetails returns empty strings instead of omitting attributes
  • configchannel.createOrUpdatePath, createOrUpdateSymlink, getEncodedFileRevision, getFileRevision, getFileRevisions, lookupFileInfo, system.config.createOrUpdatePath, createOrUpdateSymlink, lookupFileInfo, and system.provisioning.snapshot.listSnapshotConfigFiles now return contents_enc64 field which identifies whether contents is Base64-encoded
  • system.comparePackages and system.comparePackageProfile return package_arch value
  • system.provisionVirtualGuest default values now match those on the WebUI
• New API calls:
  • configchannel.getEncodedFileRevision
  • system.scap.scheduleXccdfScan

The up-to-date API documentation can be found at http://spacewalk.redhat.com/documentation/api/

Contributors

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

• Aron Parsons
• Jiří Mikulka
• Joerg Steffens
• Joshua Roys
• Michael Calmer
• Pierre Casenove
• Simon Lukasik
• Speagle, Andy
• Steven Hardy

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

You can view the history of Spacewalk from its start to 1.7 at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsx6cGmBtzg

Some statistics

In Spacewalk 1.7, we've seen

* 49  bugs fixed 
* 1246 changesets committed 
* 1581 commits done 

Reporting errors

To report issues with Spacewalk, please use mailing list [email protected] to reach the user community. We might ask you to file bugzilla at http://bugzilla.redhat.com/ with more details or full logs. From now on, errors related to PostgreSQL database backend are considered bug defects vs. missing capabilities.

Thank you for using Spacewalk.