The Foreman team are happy to announce the first release candidate for
Foreman 1.6.0. Some of the highlights in release are:
- Smart Proxy plugin support
- API version 2 announced stable
- external (LDAP/Kerberos) user group support
- RHEL 7 support (CentOS to follow)
More about these features here:
Foreman :: Manual
And full release notes:
Foreman :: Manual
There are a few known issues with RC1 which we'll be addressing in
subsequent release candidates, notably some LDAP authentication
problems. Please see the following link for known issues and upgrade
instructions from Foreman 1.5:
Foreman :: Manual
We appreciate any help testing and stabilising the release, and hope to
have the final release by early September.
Installation
···
============
If you're installing from scratch, see the quick start instructions:
http://theforeman.org/manuals/1.6/index.html#2.Quickstart
Packages may be found in the 1.6 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:
503E FA96 89AA AD57 D693 6514 A91E 2984 667D 1F07
(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
Red Hat Engineering
Great, thanks!
Keep up the good work guys, I can see that you all did a lot of work on it.
Kind regards,
Jorick Astrego
Netbulae
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On 08/15/2014 12:02 PM, Dominic Cleal wrote:
> The Foreman team are happy to announce the first release candidate for
> Foreman 1.6.0. Some of the highlights in release are:
>
> - Smart Proxy plugin support
> - API version 2 announced stable
> - external (LDAP/Kerberos) user group support
> - RHEL 7 support (CentOS to follow)
>
> More about these features here:
> http://theforeman.org/manuals/1.6/index.html#Releasenotesfor1.6
> And full release notes:
> http://theforeman.org/manuals/1.6/index.html#Releasenotesfor1.6.0
>
> There are a few known issues with RC1 which we'll be addressing in
> subsequent release candidates, notably some LDAP authentication
> problems. Please see the following link for known issues and upgrade
> instructions from Foreman 1.5:
>
> http://theforeman.org/manuals/1.6/index.html#3.6Upgrade
>
> We appreciate any help testing and stabilising the release, and hope to
> have the final release by early September.
>
> Installation
> ============
> If you're installing from scratch, see the quick start instructions:
> http://theforeman.org/manuals/1.6/index.html#2.Quickstart
>
> Packages may be found in the 1.6 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:
> 503E FA96 89AA AD57 D693 6514 A91E 2984 667D 1F07
> (http://theforeman.org/security.html#GPGkeys)
>
> 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: 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
>
