Foreman 1.8.0 (final) has been released, with lots of new networking and
installer features, plus with Debian 8 (Jessie) support.
Many thanks to all the people who have tested our release candidates,
investigated and filed bugs. It made a big difference to the quality of
the final release.
Thanks also to the 119 individual contributors during the Foreman 1.8
development cycle, it's great to see this increasing each time.
Skip to the bottom of the e-mail for upgrade instructions.
Headline features
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================= Building on Foreman 1.7's increased support for specifying complex network interface configurations, Foreman 1.8 adds a new, simpler UI for managing interfaces when creating or editing hosts.This also combines the previously separate network configuration for the
Foreman host and the network configuration under the Virtual Machine tab
into one single list of interfaces that’s used for both.
has some new videos showing the new networking UI features.
Hosts can now also have separate provisioning and primary networks,
which will help in more complex environments, plus different subnets can
be set to static or DHCP boot modes. (Help still needed to set up
additional interfaces under preseed:
https://github.com/theforeman/community-templates/issues/173)
Some performance enhancements are in this release, including Turbolinks
to improve the speed of the web UI (look for the thin blue progress bar
when changing pages), a number of database query efficiency improvements
and a new cache for Puppet class imports speeds the process up immensely.
A full list of the changes in Foreman 1.8 is in our release notes:
http://theforeman.org/manuals/1.8/index.html#Releasenotesfor1.8
Upgrading or installing
When upgrading, follow these instructions and please take note of any
known issues, we’ll update the manual if they arise.
http://theforeman.org/manuals/1.8/index.html#3.6Upgrade
If you’re installing a new test instance, follow the quickstart:
http://theforeman.org/manuals/1.8/index.html#2.Quickstart
If you also want to upgrade to Debian 8 (Jessie), ensure you upgrade
your current installation to 1.8 before attempting the dist-upgrade.
See
http://projects.theforeman.org/projects/foreman/wiki/Debian_jessie_notes
for more info.
Packages may be found in the 1.8 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:
64E3 7B1F A6C0 2416 6B53 5495 28F5 A69D 225C 9B71
(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
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Dominic Cleal
Red Hat Engineering