Hello all,
Foreman 1.3 RC2 has been released.
Key features:
- Foreman CLI
- Bare metal migration
- Installer auto-registers smart-proxy
- Compute resources and VNC/Spice
- LDAP filtering
- Host IP updating
- New foreman-rake command
- Plugins as RPM packages
- API v2 improvements
Full release notes:
http://theforeman.org/manuals/1.3/index.html#Releasenotesfor1.3
==== Packages ====
Package repos are available here:
http://yum.theforeman.org/rc/el6/x86_64/
http://yum.theforeman.org/rc/f18/x86_64/
http://yum.theforeman.org/rc/f19/x86_64/
http://deb.theforeman.org/ ("rc" component)
Quickstart instructions are here:
http://theforeman.org/manuals/1.3/index.html#2.Quickstart
Tarballs available here:
http://projects.theforeman.org/projects/foreman/files
==== Installation ====
There is a new installer for Foreman 1.3. Please for the RC1 release, provide
additional options to properly setup "rc" repositories:
foreman-installer --foreman-repo rc --foreman-proxy-repo rc -v
When using Puppet, set "repo" class parameters both in Foreman and ForemanProxy
classes.
The instructions above are still needed for RC2.
==== Known issues ====
** Proxy registration happens before Apache is started **
You may encounter failure during proxy registration (Foreman_smartproxy puppet
class). In that case, please re-run the installer and the error should
disappear.
http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/3083
==== Reporting issues ====
Please report issues found in Foreman 1.3 in redmine and set "Target
Version" to 1.3 on new bugs.
Foreman: Foreman
Proxy: Foreman
Installer: Foreman
Existing bug reports are listed here:
http://projects.theforeman.org/projects/foreman/issues?query_id=24
The new foreman-debug script can be used to collect and provide information
about your setup, and the result attached to bug reports.
Many thanks for testing our release!
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-- Later,Lukas “lzap” Zapletal
irc: lzap #theforeman