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Spacewalk 1.6 Release Notes

Hello world,

we are happy to announce the release 1.6 of Spacewalk, platform for management of Linux systems.

The download locations are

• http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.6/RHEL/5/$basearch/
• http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.6/RHEL/6/$basearch/
• http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.6/Fedora/15/x86_64/
• http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.6/Fedora/16/x86_64/

with client repositories under

• http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.6-client
• http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/1.6/openSUSE_11.4/
• http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/1.6/openSUSE_Factory/
• http://miroslav.suchy.cz/spacewalk/debian

If you want to do fresh installation, use steps from

• https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/HowToInstall

If you plan to upgrade from older release, the following page can be useful:

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

Features & Enhancements in Spacewalk 1.6

• IPv6 support: management and provisioning capabilities
• Support for Fedora 16 (server and client)
• Kickstarting via Spacewalk Proxy with a CNAME
• spacewalk-repo-sync supports --include and --exclude options
• New API calls:
  • channel.software.getRepoSyncCronExpression
  • channel.software.listChannelRepos
  • channel.software.setDetails
  • channel.software.syncRepo
  • configchannel.deleteFileRevisions
  • configchannel.getFileRevision
  • configchannel.getFileRevisions
  • kickstart.disableProfile
  • kickstart.isProfileDisabled
  • kickstart.keys.update
  • system.custominfo.updateKey
  • system.deleteGuestProfiles
  • system.deleteTagFromSnapshot
  • system.getScriptActionDetails
  • system.provisioning.snapshot.addTagToSnapshot
  • system.tagLatestSnapshot
• OSAD improvements
• Security fixes for following CVEs:
  • CVE-2011-1594
  • CVE-2011-2919
  • CVE-2011-2920
  • CVE-2011-2927
  • CVE-2011-3344
• rhn-virtualization supports RHEV 3 hosts
• spacewalk-reports supports --where- option to filter records
• spacecmd enhancements and bugfixes
• Preliminary support for cobbler 2.2

Contributors

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

• Andy Speagle
• Aron Parsons
• Christian Berendt
• Colin Coe
• David Nutter
• Ionuț Arțăriși
• Johannes Renner
• Jonathan Hoser
• Joshua Roys
• Luca Villa
• Marcelo Moreira de Mello
• Martin Osvald
• Michael Calmer
• Pierre Casenove
• Satoru SATOH
• Steve Hardy
• Sven Mueller
• Tasos Papaioannou
• Uwe Gansert

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

Some statistics

In Spacewalk 1.6, we've seen

* 177  bugs solved 
* 1025 changesets committed 
* 1515 commits done 

Thank you for using Spacewalk! Keep the patches flowing!