[Spacewalk-list] Re: [Spacewalk-devel] Spacewalk 0.4 is here!

[Jesus M. Rodriguez]

One more note I forgot to mention, Spacewalk 0.4 requires cobbler >=
1.4 which is in epel-testing.

sincerely,
jesus

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Jesus M. Rodriguez <jesusr at redhat.com> wrote:
> Wassup Spacewalkers,
>
> The Spacewalk team is happy to announce the release of Spacewalk 0.4.
> In a few hours, the repos will be accessible and you can install 0.4
> and try it out.
>
> Please note that with this release, Spacewalk 0.2 will no longer be
> available. If you are still using Spacewalk 0.2, please upgrade to
> Spacewalk 0.4.
>
> Features & Enhancements
>
>  * integration with Cobbler and Koan:
>   https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/
>
>  * introduction of Organization Trusts and Channel sharing, known
>   internally as Multi-Org II: The Sequel.
>
>  * multi-arch enhancement to better work with multi-arch packages
>   on 64-bit systems.
>
>   https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/MultiArchEnhancements
>
>  * a new set of APIs, including the following namespaces:
>
>    channel.access.*
>    channel.org.*
>    package.*
>
>   See https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/ApiAdditions for a
>   complete list of APIs.
>
>  * SELinux support added:
>   https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/Features/SELinux
>
>  * added the ability to search documentation, in Spacewalk we include
>   a search index of the online docs.
>
>  * updated the help page to include api docs and docs search.
>
>  * more perl to java migrations
>
>  * satellite-httpd was removed in favor of using the standard httpd
>
>  * upgrades from 0.3 -> 0.4 available as well:
>   https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/HowToUpgrade
>
> Bugs fixed
>
> * An outstanding 118! total bugs fixed since 0.3 -
>  http://tinyurl.com/7oytud
>
> Known issues
>
> * in order to take full advantage of the multi-arch feature, you'll need:
>  - updated client packages
>  - recreate the stored profiles
>
> * Bad news is that Spacewalk running on Fedora is not yet available. The
>  good news is that we have started building packages to work with
>  Fedora 10. :)
>
> * bz480233 - deleting stored profiles causes ISE
>
> * bz479640 - do not conflict with specspo. Work around is to rpm -e specspo.
>
> Community
>
> *  A special thanks goes out to Colin Coe for his continued contributions
>   to the apis. Also, thanks to Todd Sanders for his Telemetry contribution.
>   https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/spacewalk/wiki/ContributorList
>
> Installation Help
>   https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/spacewalk/wiki/HowToInstall#Installation
>
> --
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