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Spacewalk 1.9 Release Notes

Hello everyone,

your wait is now over as we are announcing the release 1.9 of Spacewalk, a systems management solution.

The download locations are

• http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/1.9/RHEL/5/i386/
• http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/1.9/RHEL/5/x86_64/
• http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/1.9/RHEL/6/i386/
• http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/1.9/RHEL/6/x86_64/
• http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/1.9/Fedora/17/x86_64/
• http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/1.9/Fedora/18/x86_64/

with client repositories under

• http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/1.9-client
• http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/1.9/openSUSE_12.2/
• http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/1.9/openSUSE_12.3/
• http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/1.9/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 1.9

• Spacewalk runs on Fedora 18
• ABRT enhancements/improvements to make more functional
  • https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/HowToUseCrashReporting
• SCAP improvements
  • Support for XCCDF 1.2
  • Allow --cpe command-line argument to oscap
• WebUI Login extended for expired Spacewalk Certificates, from 7 days to 30 days driven
• WebUI Enhancements
  • Display Activation key used to register, on system profile page
  • Highlightning of hovered row in tables
  • CSS rules for printing of WebUI pages
  • Link associated errata to package from package overview page
  • Added CVS download/report of Software Channel Entitlements
• Bug 877451 - yum-like per-repo configuration for spacewalk-repo-sync
• rhnmd works with Fedora systemd Service for startup
• Move to newer tomcat for Fedora based Spacewalk
• Bug 878216 - make rhncfg diff output configurable
• Updates to spacewalk-repo-sync:
  • Syncing over SSL and IPv6 works correctly
  • Sync Kickstart Trees (Distributions)
• New features related to Kickstarting systems:
  • Allow the selection of a primary network interface from hardware profile
  • Allow Kickstart Profile to automatically update to newest applicable Distribution
• New reports added to spacewalk-reports:
  • custom-info
  • inactive-systems
  • inventory (modified)
  • packages-updates-all
  • packages-updates-newest
  • system-currency
  • system-groups
  • system-groups-keys
  • system-groups-systems
  • system-groups-users
  • system-packages-installed
• Modified API calls:
  • channel.software.clone
  • org.delete
  • kickstart.profile.setAdvancedOptions
  • errata.setDetails
  • errata.findByCve
• New API calls:
  • Everything under system.crash, including:
    • system.crash.deleteCrash
    • system.crash.getCrashFile
    • system.crash.getCrashFileUrl
    • system.crash.getLastReportDate
    • system.crash.getTotalCrashCount
    • system.crash.getUniqueCrashCount
    • system.crash.listSystemCrashFiles
    • system.crash.listSystemCrashes
  • kickstart.importFile (variant)
  • kickstart.createProfile (variant)
  • kickstart.createProfileWithCustomUrl (variant)
  • kickstart.importRawFile (variant)
  • kickstart.profile.getUpdateType
  • kickstart.profile.setUpdateType
  • system.deleteSystem (variant)
  • system.listAllInstallablePackages
  • system.setPrimaryInterface
  • org.getCrashFileSizeLimit
  • org.setCrashFileSizeLimit

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
• David Juran
• Duncan Mac-Vicar
• Joerg Steffens
• Johannes Renner
• Jose Simonelli
• Marcelo Moreira de Mello
• Mark Huth
• Michael Calmer
• Neha Rawat
• Nigel Jones
• Paresh Mutha
• Pierre Casenove
• Zailo Leite

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

Some statistics

In Spacewalk 1.9, we've seen

* 86  bugs fixed 
* 676 changesets committed 
* 1055 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.