Foreman 1.14.0 released

Foreman 1.14.0 is now available, the latest major release containing new
support for automatic IPv6 addressing, LDAP and template enhancements,
and a new email delivery configuration UI.

Thanks to the 92 contributors to this release, who helped write, fix and
translate it, and to the testers who've helped during the release
candidate phase.

Installation quick start:
https://theforeman.org/manuals/1.14/quickstart_guide.html

Upgrade instructions:
https://theforeman.org/manuals/1.14/index.html#3.6Upgrade

Release notes:
https://theforeman.org/manuals/1.14/index.html#Releasenotesfor1.14

Headline features

··· ================= Support for automatic IPv6 addressing for hosts on compute resource is new in this release, allowing Foreman to assign addresses via EUI-64 for virtual machines and for compute providers with native IPv6 support (DigitalOcean, Rackspace).

It’s easier to edit and manage templates with a new help section in the
template editor, and a new export feature.

Lots more features can be found listed in the release notes:
https://theforeman.org/manuals/1.14/index.html#Releasenotesfor1.14

Two lower priority security issues have also been fixed in this release:

  • CVE-2016-7077: information disclosure from association lists shown
    without authorization
  • CVE-2016-8634: organizations/locations wizard may run stored XSS in name

Lastly, do take note of the upgrade warnings and deprecations in this
release:
https://theforeman.org/manuals/1.14/index.html#Upgradewarnings

Downloads

Packages may be found in the 1.14 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:
AF74 2A91 BF76 6333 E9FF 5EAA BFE5 1511 F06D 8950
(Foreman :: Security)

Bug reporting

If you come across a bug, 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