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Spacewalk 2.6 Release Notes

Hello everyone,

We are proudly announcing release of Spacewalk 2.6, a systems management solution.

The download locations are

• http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.6/RHEL/6/
• http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.6/RHEL/7/
• http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.6/Fedora/23/
• http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.6/Fedora/24/

with client repositories under

• http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.6-client/RHEL/5/
• http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.6-client/RHEL/6/
• http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.6-client/RHEL/7/
• http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.6-client/Fedora/23/
• http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.6-client/Fedora/24/

SUSE Linux client packages can be found here

• http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.6/openSUSE_13.2/
• http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.6/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/
• http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.6/openSUSE_Leap_42.2/
• http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.6/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/
• http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.6/SLE_12_SP2/

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 2.6

• Spacewalk now supported on Fedora 24
• Spacewalk supports Fedora 24 clients
• spacewalk-repo-sync improvements:
  • now it can sync channels with several repositories
  • it can update Kickstart Tree in a repository
  • add possibility to sync Debian/Ubuntu apt repositories
• improved Python 2/3 compatibility for all tools
• New API calls:
  • system.listSuggestedReboot
  • actionchain.addErrataUpdate

The up-to-date API documentation can be found at http://www.spacewalkproject.org/documentation/api/2.6/

Contributors

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

• Dario Leidi
• Frantisek Kobzik
• Jakub Jankowski
• Johannes Renner
• Marcelo Moreira de Mello
• Mark Hlawatschek
• Michael Calmer
• Michael Mraka
• Silvio Moioli

see Contributor List for all contributors list

Some statistics

In Spacewalk 2.6, we've seen

* 59 major bugs fixed
* 496 changesets committed
* 740 commits done

Github repo for commits since Spacewalk 2.5

* [Spacewalk 2.5 to 2.6](https://github.com/spacewalkproject/spacewalk/graphs/contributors?from=2016-05-26&to=2016-11-18&type=c)

User community, reporting issues

To reach the user community with questions and ideas, please use mailing list spacewalk-list@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.cgi?product=Spacewalk with more details or full logs.

Thank you for using Spacewalk.