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Spacewalk 2.5 Release Notes

Hello everyone,

We are proudly announcing release of Spacewalk 2.5, a systems management solution.

The download locations are

• http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.5/RHEL/6/
• http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.5/RHEL/7/
• http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.5/Fedora/22/
• http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.5/Fedora/23/

with client repositories under

• http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.5-client/RHEL/5/
• http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.5-client/RHEL/6/
• http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.5-client/RHEL/7/
• http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.5-client/Fedora/22/
• http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.5-client/Fedora/23/

SUSE Linux client packages can be found here

• http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.5/openSUSE_13.2/
• http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.5/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/
• http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.5/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/
• http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.5/SLE_12_SP1/

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 2.5

• Spacewalk now supported on Fedora 23
• Spacewalk supports Fedora 23 clients
• System entitlements and Software Channels entitlements were removed
• Improved first organization creation
• OSAD now works in failover mode via proxy
• Plenty of small enhancements and fixes
  • 'Select All' button now correctly selects only filtered systems/packages/errata etc.
  • RDO Openstack guests are now correctly recognized as virtual guests
  • And many, many more ...
• New API calls:
  • packages.listSourcePackages
  • packages.removeSourcePackage
  • system.scheduleLabelScriptRun
  • system.schedulePackageInstallByNevra
  • system.schedulePackageRemoveByNevra

The up-to-date API documentation can be found at http://www.spacewalkproject.org/documentation/api/2.5/

Contributors

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

• Anastasios Papaioannou
• Aron Parsons
• Avi Miller
• Bernhard Lichtinger
• Dario Leidi
• Duncan Mac-Vicar P
• Frantisek Kobzik
• Johannes Renner
• Kevin Walter
• Klaas Demter
• Mark Huth
• Matei Albu
• Matej Kollar
• Matthias Thubauville
• Michael Brookhuis
• Michael Calmer
• Michael Mraka
• Michele Bologna
• Shannon Hughes
• Silvio Moioli
• Thomas Wouters

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

Some statistics

In Spacewalk 2.5, we've seen

* 75 bugs fixed
* 1071 changesets committed
* 1408 commits done

Github repo for commits since Spacewalk 2.4

* [Spacewalk 2.4 to 2.5](https://github.com/spacewalkproject/spacewalk/graphs/contributors?from=2015-09-29&to=2016-05-26&type=c)

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.