Foreman 1.11.0-RC1 available for testing

The first release candidate of the upcoming Foreman 1.11 series is now
available for testing, and we invite you to help us get it ready for
release.

Installation quick start:
http://theforeman.org/manuals/1.11/quickstart_guide.html

Upgrade instructions:
http://theforeman.org/manuals/1.11/index.html#3.6Upgrade

Release notes:
http://theforeman.org/manuals/1.11/index.html#Releasenotesfor1.11

There is also a bug day on Monday 29th February, which is a good
chance to help test and triage issues:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/foreman-users/WVLNY3Cq7VA

Changes in this release

··· ======================= Some notable changes in this release are listed below, so we'll be particularly looking out for new issues in these areas:
  1. User interface changed to PatternFly design

  2. Improved layout of host/host group parameter overrides

  3. Ruby on Rails upgraded from version 3.2 to 4.1, under the covers

  4. Smart proxy DHCP module refactored to support plugins with new DHCP
    providers (none yet)

  5. New pages showing smart proxy status information in the Foreman UI

Lots more features can be found listed in the release notes by
category, please have a look through for anything that you might rely
on and give it a test:
http://theforeman.org/manuals/1.11/index.html#Releasenotesfor1.11

Do take note of the upgrade warnings and deprecations in this release
as they affect most OSes in some way:
http://theforeman.org/manuals/1.11/index.html#Upgradewarnings

Downloads

Packages may be found in the 1.11 directories on both deb.foreman.org
and yum.theforeman.org, and tarballs are on downloads.theforeman.org.

The GPG key used for RPMs and tarballs has the following fingerprint:
6681 20FA 0528 3FD2 AF60 FC3A 335F 3A45 3494 A06D
(Foreman :: Security)

Bug reporting

If you come across a bug in your testing, please file it and note the
version of Foreman that you’re using in the report.

Foreman: Foreman
Proxy: Foreman
Installer:
Foreman


Dominic Cleal
dominic@cleal.org