Spacewalk 2.4 has been released

[daniel]

We are proudly announcing release of Spacewalk 2.4, a systems management solution.

The download locations are

http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.4/RHEL/6/
http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.4/RHEL/7/
http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.4/Fedora/21/
http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.4/Fedora/22/

with client repositories under

http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.4-client/RHEL/5/
http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.4-client/RHEL/6/
http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.4-client/RHEL/7/
http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.4-client/Fedora/21/
http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.4-client/Fedora/22/

SUSE Linux client packages can be found here

http://download.opensuse.org/repositori ... SUSE_13.1/
http://download.opensuse.org/repositori ... SUSE_13.2/
http://download.opensuse.org/repositori ... umbleweed/
http://download.opensuse.org/repositori ... .4/SLE_12/
http://download.opensuse.org/repositori ... LE_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 2.4

* Spacewalk now supported on Fedora 22
* Spacewalk supports Fedora 22 clients
* New package - dnf-plugin-spacewalk
* Organization-specific configuration moved to Organization Admin menu
* Satellite admins can allow/disallow Organization admins to manage this configuration
* Passwords are not sent to user in clear text anymore
* https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki ... etPassword
* Continued UI polish and improvements, including standardizing on Patternfly
* Plenty of small enhancements and fixes
* Added support for Catalan and Portuguese translations from Zanata project
* Fedora and RHEL/CentOS 7 Cobbler provisioning fixes
* Removed checksum type None for software channels
* Fixed system.listUngroupedSystems API call
* Repository sync page improved to show more details about last sync
* Repository sync option for syncing latest packages only added
* Osa ping API calls added
* Added compliancy indicator icon on Scap results list page
* New API calls:
org.isErrataEmailNotifsForOrg
org.isOrgConfigManagedByOrgAdmin
org.setErrataEmailNotifsForOrg
org.setOrgConfigManagedByOrgAdmin
system.getOsaPing
system.sendOsaPing

The up-to-date API documentation can be found at

http://www.spacewalkproject.org/documentation/api/2.4/

Contributors

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

Amar Huchchanavar
Anastasios Papaioannou
Aron Parsons
Avi Miller
David Holland
David Hrbáč
Duncan Mac-Vicar P
Frantisek Kobzik
Hubert Mantel
Jared Greenwald
Johannes Renner
Kevin Walter
Klaas-
Marcelo Moreira de Mello
Martin Seidl
Matej Kollar
Michael Calmer
Michael Kromer
Michael Mattioli
Michael Mraka
Miroslav Suchý
Patrick Hurrelmann
Paul Wayper
Pavel Studenik
Shannon Hughes
Silvio Moioli
Stephen Herr
Šimon Lukašík
Tasos Papaioannou
Thomas Mueller

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

Some statistics

In Spacewalk 2.4, we've seen

59 bugs fixed
428 changesets committed
705 commits done

Github repo for commits since Spacewalk 2.3

https://github.com/spacewalkproject/spa ... -29&type=c

User community, reporting issues

To reach the user community with questions and ideas, please use mailing list spacewalk-list at 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.c ... =Spacewalk

with more details or full logs.