Foreman 3.19 is the first release to ship Foreman and Katello as a containerized setup, deployable using foremanctl. Traditional foreman-installer-based installations remain fully supported.
Important: There is currently no migration path from existing foreman-installer-based deployments to the containerized foremanctl-based setup. If you want to try the containerized deployment, it must be a fresh installation on a dedicated system.
The containerized deployment currently supports Enterprise Linux 9 (x86_64) only. Container images are published at quay.io/foreman/foreman. For details, see the containerized installation guide.
Other highlights in this release include:
- Standardized recurring tasks via systemd timers replacing ad-hoc cron jobs (note: existing cron schedules are not preserved during upgrade)
- Agama installer support for SLES16 provisioning
- All Hosts page improvements for easier host collection and system purpose management
- UI modernization with Models page migrated to React and continued PatternFly 5 updates
For more information, see:
Packages may be found in the 3.19 directories on both deb.theforeman.org and yum.theforeman.org, and tarballs are on downloads.theforeman.org.
The GPG key used for signing RPMs and tarballs has the following fingerprint:
9E0B13B8AF9E5CFCC1306EFE481C109CB4CA6B3F
The GPG key used for signing DEBs has the following fingerprint:
5B7C3E5A735BCB4D615829DC0BDDA991FD7AAC8A.