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Spacewalk 1.4 Release Notes

Hello world,

Spacewalk 1.4 is now available for download from

• http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.4/RHEL/5/$basearch/
• http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.4/RHEL/6/$basearch/
• http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.4/Fedora/13/$basearch/
• http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.4/Fedora/14/$basearch/

depending on your operating system, with client repositories under

• http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.4-client/Fedora/13
• http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.4-client/Fedora/14
• http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.4-client/RHEL/5
• http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.4-client/RHEL/6
• http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/1.4/openSUSE_11.4/
• http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/1.4/openSUSE_Factory/
• http://miroslav.suchy.cz/spacewalk/debian

Check the installation steps at

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

or if you will upgrade from older release, consult

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

Features & Enhancements in Spacewalk 1.4

    * client packages for Debian
    * client packages for OpenSuse
    * support for [IDN](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name) (but RHN Tools part)
             - you can now have Spacewalk server and clients, whose
              hostnames contains non latin domain name.
    * issues in PostgreSQL backend, reported by user, were fixed. [PostgreSQL status](PostgreSQL)
    * system history reports were added in spacewalk-reports
    * spacewalk-repo-sync now automatically create errata from updateinfo

Spacewalk 1.4 contains support for apt-get plug-in. An apt-get plug-in client package is available at

• http://miroslav.suchy.cz/spacewalk/debian/ Feel free to try it and report any issues. This repo contains apt with spacewalk patches.

For more information check: https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/RegisteringClients#Debian

Community contributors

We thank the community members who contributed to this release:

• Aron Parsons
• Dale Bewley
• Jerome Fenal
• Johannes Renner
• John van Zantvoort
• Luc de Louw
• Marcelo Moreira de Mello
• mareklaane
• Michael Calmer
• Paresh Mutha
• Šimon Lukašík
• Trent Johnson
• Uwe Gansert
• ypoyarko

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

Bug fixes and commits

In Spacewalk 1.4 there were:

* 68  bugs solved 
* 634 changesets committed 
* 899 commits done 

Enjoy using Spacewalk!