[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 0.7 RELEASED

[Miroslav Suchý]

Heya Spacewalkers,

Spacewalk 0.7 is finally here!

    http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/0.7/RHEL/5/<arch>/
    http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/0.7/Fedora/11/<arch>/
    http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/0.7/Fedora/12/<arch>/

For the first time we split server and client part. Client repo is:

    http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/0.7-client/RHEL/5/<arch>/
    http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/0.7-client/Fedora/11/<arch>/
    http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/0.7-client/Fedora/12/<arch>/

Make sure to read over the installation again:

    http://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/HowToInstall

If you are upgrading from older release, please checkout:

    http://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/HowToUpgrade

Features & Enhancements

  * new script "spacewalk-report" allows you to create reports with 
output to CSV file
     https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/Features/ScriptBasedReporting

  * pages with erratas have column with links to CVE description, 
erratas can be filtered by its type
 
https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/Features/WebuiErrataAndCvesEnhancements

  * Spacewalk can be installed on Fedora 12

  * Top level package spacewalk do not exists any more. It has been 
split into spacewalk-oracle
     and spacewalk-postgresql, which depends on oracle or postgresql 
library.
     Note: postgresql version is highly experimental.

  * Spacewalk now tracks date and time of package installation

  * Config channels now can handle symlinks.

  * Support for WebUI based KVM guest management & provisioning.

  * New script "monitoring-data-cleanup" allows you to delete old 
monitoring data.

  * New script "NOCpulse-ini" allows you edit NOCpulse.ini configuration 
file.

  * Base client packages are now in Fedora. That means you are now able 
to register Fedora machine to Spacewalk, without setting up additional 
repository.

  * Spacewalk repositories have been split to server and client parts.

  * Client tools now can report diff in selinux context.

  * Satellite-sync improvements.

  * API call system.listPackages now return additional field "installtime".

and of course many bugfixes

Known issues

* PostgreSQL support still does not work. We will need help with moving 
this forward.

* Fedora GPG key not recognized by rhnPackageKey table, packages
   will show up as unknown Provider.

* Documentation search does not work, other search are unaffected.

Community

*  We greatly appreciate the contributions the community has made to
    this release. Thank you very much.

      - Colin Coe
      - David Nutter
      - Joshua Roys
      - Lukáš Ďurfina

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

Installation Help

    http://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/HowToInstall

-- 
Miroslav Suchy
Red Hat Satellite Engineering