Foreman 1.11.0-RC2 available for testing

Today the second release candidate for Foreman 1.11 is released, with
plenty of bug fixes for issues in RC1. In particular fixes for
non-admin users, smart proxy SSL authentication and configuration status
errors are included in 1.11.0-RC2.

The next two weeks of testing RC2 will result in releasing either 1.11.0
or a further RC. See the links below for how to get involved today by
installing or upgrading Foreman:

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

Thanks to everybody who's helped out so far with tickets and bug fixes.

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

Hammer CLI 0.6.1 has been added to the release candidate repos in a
small update today.

This includes fixes for Foreman 1.11.0 compatibility - see
Foreman :: Manual for
more details.

Foreman remains on RC2, with .0 or RC3 to follow in around one week
(Foreman 111 Schedule - Foreman).

··· On 11/03/16 13:01, Dominic Cleal wrote: > Today the second release candidate for Foreman 1.11 is released, with > plenty of bug fixes for issues in RC1. In particular fixes for > non-admin users, smart proxy SSL authentication and configuration status > errors are included in 1.11.0-RC2.


Dominic Cleal
dominic@cleal.org