Hello everyone,
We are proudly announcing release of Spacewalk 2.8, a systems management
solution.
Spacewalk 2.8 could be installed on
* RHEL 6
* RHEL 7
* Fedora 26
* Fedora 27
* Fedora 28 (tested on Beta)
The download location is
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/g/spacewalkproject/spacewalk-2.8/
with client repositories under
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/g/spacewalkproject/spacewalk-2.8-client/
SUSE Linux client packages can be found here
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.8/
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 2.8
* Spacewalk now installable on Fedora 27 and has been tested on
Fedora 28 Beta as well
* Spacewalk supports Fedora 27 and Fedora 28 clients
* All packages and repositories are exclusively in
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/
* spacewalkproject.github.io has been completely redesigned
* Python 2 packages are no longer needed on systems with Python 3
as default
* Spacewalk server is now capable of syncing and distributing of
Fedora modularity (modules.yaml) files.
* PostgreSQL 10 is now supported
* Package dwr updated to version 3.0.2 fixing security vulnerabilities
* It's now possible to manage errata severities via Spacewalk server
* Several bugfixes
Updated API calls:
* errata.create/setDetails - add possibility to manage severities
* system.schedulePackageRemoveByNevra - support removal of
packages which are not in database
Known issues
* Unfortunately, for certain domain names jabberd does not start on
Fedora 27/28 due to issue with
'libidn-1.34-1' from Fedora repositories. If you run at this issue,
please downgrade the package to libidn-1.33-1
until it's fixed in Fedora repositories.
The up-to-date API documentation can be found at
http://spacewalkproject.github.io/documentation/api/2.8/
Contributors
Our thanks go to the community members who contributed to this release:
Amit Upadhye
Andrew Dahms
Ben Roberts
Candace
Candace Sheremeta
Christian Lanig
Dario Leidi
Dario Maiocchi
Frantisek Kobzik
Jakub Jankowski
Johannes Renner
Kevin Walter
Laurence Rochfort
Marcelo Moreira de Mello
Mattias Giese
Michael Calmer
Michele Bologna
Miroslav Suchý
Pavel Studenik
Robert Paschedag
Silvio Moioli
Thomas Blanchard
Thomas Mueller
angystardust
bhavesh_bharadiya
ranmses
suzuki
see https://github.com/spacewalkproject/spacewalk/wiki/ContributorList
for all contributors list
Some statistics
In Spacewalk 2.8, we've seen
* 85 major bugs fixed
* 641 changesets committed
* 1146 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.
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