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Release notes for 1.5.0

API

  • Add API for roles, filters and permissions (#3817)
  • Add support for caching API documentation and checksums for CLI dynamic bindings (#4515)
  • Add missing attributes to host group show response (#3221)
  • Add environment to rundeck output (#4583)
  • Fix resource lookup when name begins with a digit (#3876)
  • Fix searching on organization/location by name (#4486)
  • Fix updating operating system identified by label or description (#4201)
  • Fix API docs requiring minor version for operating systems (#4539)
  • Fix fact searching by host ID (#3001)
  • APIv2:
    • Add child nodes to GET resource calls for relevant associations (#4198)
    • Add locations/organizations to all associated resources (#4349)
    • Add available networks, clusters and volumes API for oVirt and VMware (#4222, #4581)

Authentication and Authorization

  • Allow roles to be assigned to user groups (#812)
  • Add filters on resources to roles to replace restrictive user filters (#1583, #3803)
  • Add support for inherited organizations and locations (#3912)

CLI

  • Add internationalization support to Hammer (#4472, #4473)
  • Change foreman_api dependency to dynamically generated API bindings (#3897)
  • Commands changed from underscores to hyphens for consistency (#4697)
  • Add interfaces in host info output (#4589)
  • Add missing attributes to host group info output (#4588)
  • Allow setting of a host root password (#4587)
  • Add a .d style configuration directory for plugins (#3870)
  • Change configuration file location to /etc/hammer (#4792)
  • Improve formatting of collections in output (#4676)
  • Fix population of OS fields in template info output (#3360)
  • Fix creation and updating of provisioning templates (#4352, #4232)
  • Fix silent failure of Puppet class import (#4130)
  • Fix URL error on Puppet class import (#4517)
  • Fix missing puppetclass-ids parameter on host groups (#4585)
  • Fix error when setting domain parameters (#4572)
  • Fix "unauthorized user" error with association commands (#4361)
  • Fix ability to create unmanaged hosts (#4358)
  • Fix error in CSV output mode with subnet info (#4531)
  • Fix prompting of hammer --interactive (#4378)
  • Improve shell completion with values needing quoting (#4182)
  • Fix alphabetical listing of subcommands (#4112)
  • Make shell history persistent (#3883)
  • Fix proxy listing in subnet info output (#4674, #4558)
  • Fix deletion of hardware models (#4154)

Compute resources and Hosts creation

  • Image provisioning support for oVirt/RHEV and libvirt using finish script (#4015, #4123)
  • Host group attributes now have explicit "Inherit from parent" option (#3939)
  • Datastore list for VMware host creation now shows provisioned space (#4276)
  • oVirt SSL certificates are now stored and verified when connecting (#4555)
  • Add cores per CPU setting to VMware host creation (#3996)
  • Fix issue determining EC2 host IP addresses (#4616)
  • Fix oVirt 3.4.0 compatibility (#4346)

Proxy and Services

  • Store and retrieve DHCP hostname in libvirt/virsh DHCP provider (#4661)
  • Fix trusted_hosts operation under Passenger with DNS lookups (#2259)
  • Fix intermittent sparc_host tests (#4660)

Facts and Importers

  • Fix OS description for SLES when more than one architecture is used (#4664)

Installer and packaging

  • Popular plugins and compute resource packages included in the installer (#3308)
  • Installer packages now built using librarian-puppet (#4030)
  • Plugin directories now created beneath /etc/foreman for settings files (#4197)
  • Add asset compilation feature for plugins (#4226)
  • Remove use of deprecated Puppet current environment calls (#4357)
  • Fix Ruby 1.8 compatibility with rake 10.2.0 (#4828)
  • Remove %pretrans section from Foreman spec to work in kickstart (#4465)

Internationalization

  • Fix string extraction issues in the welcome page text (#2954)

Puppet and Puppet integration

  • Set new host org/location from a fact or fixed default from settings when created by Puppet (#3214)
  • Add links to import individual environments from web UI and rake task (#4423)
  • Fix arrays in smart parameters being reset from YAML/JSON style to Ruby on edit (#4639)

Web Interface

  • Enable extension of menus in top navbar from plugins (#4135)
  • Add "New Host" item to host menu (#3767)
  • Add column sorting to total columns across the UI (#4256)
  • Add search bar to user group list (#3953)
  • Add support for LDAP avatars, i.e. jpegPhoto (#3827)
  • Improve layout of smart class parameter and organization edit pages (#4733)
  • Add link to welcome introduction from the About page (#3163)
  • Fix display of long organization/location context lists (#4138)
  • Add HTML5 IDs to all links and buttons for UI automation (#3751)
  • Fix disabled items in multi-select lists being submitted (#4333)
  • Fix validation of maximum length of user group names (#4290)
  • Fix alerts ignoring close button (#4625)

VM management

  • Link to troubleshooting information from VNC and SPICE console pages (#3307)

Various fixes and features

  • Disable location/org changes when editing domains, subnets etc (#4002)
  • Fix organization search (and others) on PostgreSQL where sorted column not in results (#4443)
  • Fix sysfs-related SELinux AVCs from Passenger (#3465)
  • Add subscription-manager to redhat_register snippet (#3842)
  • Fix roles error during first DB migrations with plugins loaded (#4353)
  • Fix plugin/Rails error in development (#3988)

A full list of changes in 1.5.0 is available via Redmine

Contributors

We'd like to thank the following people who contributed to the Foreman {{page.version}} release:

As well as all users who helped test releases, report bugs and provide feedback on the project.