[Spacewalk-announce-list] Spacewalk 2.5 released!

[Tomáš Kašpárek <tkasparek redhat com>]

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/21/
• ​http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.5/Fedora/22/

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/21/
• ​http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.5-client/Fedora/22/

SUSE Linux client packages can be found here

• ​http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.5/openSUSE_13.1/
• ​http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.5/openSUSE_13.2/
• ​http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.5/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/
• ​http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.5/SLE_12/
• ​http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.5/SLE_11_SP4/

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

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.