In what looks to be the last of the release candidates, 1.2.0-RC3 has
landed with another round of bug fixes. Notable fixes are on the host
and host group forms, VMware compute resources and the addition of
Fedora 18 packages.
Thanks for the help testing the release so far.
Key features:
- Discovery plugin support
- BMC and IPMI support
- Internationalization (French 99%, German 92%, Spanish 51%)
- SPICE HTML5 support
- SELinux targeted support
- PostgreSQL by default
- Puppet runs via MCollective
- Experimental APIv2 with Puppet class support
- Security fixes
Full release notes:
http://theforeman.org/manuals/1.2/index.html#Releasenotesfor1.2
New fixes since RC2, excluding fixes for regressions:
==== Packages ====
Quickstart instructions are here:
http://theforeman.org/manuals/1.2/index.html#2.Quickstart
Upgrade instructions specifically for EL6 are here, which needs a couple
of Passenger config changes (scroll down a bit):
http://theforeman.org/manuals/1.2/index.html#3.3.1RPMPackages
Package repos are available here:
http://yum.theforeman.org/rc/ (now GPG signed)
http://deb.theforeman.org/ ("rc" component)
Puppet modules for foreman-installer also available here:
http://forge.puppetlabs.com/theforeman
Tarballs available here:
http://projects.theforeman.org/projects/foreman/files
==== Known issues ====
-
Translations contain | symbols
Bug #2691: Translations contain pipe symbols - Foreman -
Fact import fails for hosts with no minor OS version number
Bug #2690: undefined method `gsub!' for nil:NilClass on fact import - Foreman -
VMware "stringify_keys" error
Bug #2680: Unable to provisioning host using UI - vSphere 4.1.0 - Foreman
(please update the ticket if you see this too) -
Importing installer modules after run causes permissions error
Bug #2689: Importing installer modules after an installer run causes a permissions conflict - Installer - Foreman -
Error after upgrade: ArgumentError (dump format error (user class))
Workaround: clear your browser cookies
All other bugs still targeted for Foreman 1.2:
http://projects.theforeman.org/projects/foreman/issues?query_id=23
==== Reporting issues ====
Please report issues found in Foreman 1.2 in redmine and set "Target
Version" to 1.2 on new bugs.
Foreman: Foreman
Proxy: Foreman
SELinux: Foreman
Existing bug reports are listed here:
http://projects.theforeman.org/projects/foreman/issues?query_id=23
The new foreman-debug script can be used to collect and provide
information about your setup, and the result attached to bug reports:
/usr/share/foreman/script/foreman-debug