Spacewalk 1.6 Released

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:

• 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-<column-id> 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!

Regards
-Milan Zázrivec