Thanks to all 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/1.16/quickstart_guide.html
Upgrade instructions:
https://theforeman.org/manuals/1.16/index.html#3.6Upgrade
Release notes:
https://theforeman.org/manuals/1.16/index.html#Releasenotesfor1.16
Changes in this release
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=======================This release contains many varied changes, including:
- Thin host API
- OpenStack v3
- Puppet 5 support
- VMWare SCSI controllers with per-disk configuration
- Plugin role locking
- Netgroups LDAP authentication
Notice many users encountered a problem in 1.16.0 RC2 adding ActiveDirectory authentication sources. This is now fixed and they work fine as always.
Many other noticeable improvements can be found on the website release notes, https://theforeman.org/manuals/1.16/index.html#Releasenotesfor1.16 A full list of all issues fixed in the Foreman project is available in our issue tracker
http://projects.theforeman.org/projects/foreman/issues?query_id=129
Two security issues have also been fixed in this release:
- CVE-2017-7535: Stored XSS in the manage organizations page - CVE-2017-15100: Stored XSS in fact name or value
Lastly, do take note of the upgrade warnings and deprecations in this release (right now empty, it will be updated with anything we find): https://theforeman.org/manuals/1.16/index.html#Upgradewarnings
Downloads
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Packages may be found in the 1.16 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: 41EE 8815 A84C ACA4 A583 5055 9C21 BCB2 8977 40E9
(https://theforeman.org/security.html#GPGkeys)
Bug reporting
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If you come across a bug, please file it and note the
version of Foreman that you're using in the report.
Foreman: http://projects.theforeman.org/projects/foreman/issues/new Proxy: http://projects.theforeman.org/projects/smart-proxy/issues/new Installer:
http://projects.theforeman.org/projects/puppet-foreman/issues/new
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