ReleaseNotes06

Howdy Spacewalkers,

Spacewalk 0.6 is finally here! In a few hours, Spacewalk 0.6 will be available for installing. With this release, as with previous releases, Spacewalk 0.4 will no longer be available for download.

   http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/0.6/RHEL/5/<arch>/os/
   http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/0.6/Fedora/10/<arch>/os/
   http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/0.6/Fedora/11/<arch>/os/

Make sure to read over the installation again: http://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/HowToInstall#Installation

If you are upgrading from 0.5 to 0.6, please checkout: http://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/HowToUpgrade

Features & Enhancements

• Spacewalk 0.6 is available for Fedora 11!

• support for SHA256 in rpm

• large (2+GB) rpm support (requires rpm 4.6)

• ability to import a yum repo into a channel https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/UploadFedoraContent

• script based reporting: http://bit.ly/NyCrj

• hopefully a better jabberd experience than in Spacewalk 0.5

• KVM support

• and more APIs:

  • errata.delete
  • channel.software.uploadPackage
  • monitoring.*
  • org.list*Entitlements
  • packages.getDetails
  • system.config.scheduleImport

Bugs fixed

• This release fixed approximately 100 bugs -

  http://bit.ly/14ahTW

Known issues

• PostgreSQL support does not work, but the infrastructure has been committed. 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.

  • Gurjeet Singh
  • Joshua Roys
  • Mark Chappell
  • Maxim Burgerhout
  • Muhammad Farrukh
  • Satoru SATOH
  • Tom Lane
  • Vikram Rai

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

Installation Help http://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/HowToInstall#Installation

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jesus m. rodriguez