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Spacewalk 1.1 Release Notes

Hello everyone,

Spacewalk 1.1 has been released!

Server:

• http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.1/RHEL/5//
• http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.1/Fedora/12//
• http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.1/Fedora/13//

Client:

• http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.1-client/RHEL/5//
• http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.1-client/Fedora/12//
• http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.1-client/Fedora/13//

For new installations, consult:

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

For upgrades, consult:

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

Features and enhancements

• First Spacewalk release built in a publicly available build system.

• Spacewalk 1.1 runs on Fedora 13

• Introduction of spacecmd, a command line interface to Spacewalk.

• Support for synchronization of comps files.

• support for staging content - ability to have all updates pulled off Spacewalk onto registered systems prior to the start of maintenance window

• support for eliminating orphaned (duplicate) profiles.

• new API calls:

• channel.software.getChannelLastBuildById

• configchannel.listSubscribedSystems

• kickstart.profile.downloadRenderedKickstart

• org.setSoftwareFlexEntitlements

• schedule.rescheduleActions

• system.convertToFlexEntitlement

• system.deletePackageProfile

• system.deleteSystem

• system.listDuplicatesByHostname

• system.listDuplicatesByIp

• system.listDuplicatesByMac

• system.listEligibleFlexGuests

• system.listFlexGuests

• system.listLatestAvailablePackage

• system.listPackageProfiles

• systemgroup.scheduleApplyErrataToActive

• localization updates

Known issues

• Wrong tomcat6 directory permissions on Fedora 13

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=574593

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=586364

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=605335

• workaround: {{{ chmod g+w /var/log/tomcat6 /etc/tomcat6/Catalina/localhost /var/cache/tomcat6 /var/cache/tomcat6/temp /var/cache/tomcat6/work }}}

• cobbler - related SELinux denials on Fedora 12 and Fedora 13:

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620503

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621095

• solution: install updated selinux-policy-targeted as noted in the above bugs

• Deprecation warning during osa-dispatcher start on Fedora 12 and Fedora 13:

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621204

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621206

• Documentation search does not work, other searches are unaffected

Contributors

Thank you goes out to the following people who contributed to Spacewalk 1.1 release:

• Aron Parsons
• Colin Coe
• James Hogarth
• Joshua Roys
• Lukas Durfina
• Maxim Burgerhout
• Paul Morgan
• Satoru SATOH

Regards -- Milan Zazrivec