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Spacewalk 2.1 Release Notes

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@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.