Katello 4.16.0 GA is now available

Release Announcements
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Hello Foreman and Katello community,

Katello 4.16.0 has released for general availability!

This version of Katello adds support for image-mode (ostree-based) hosts, allows for flatpak import and mirroring, and drops the requirement for the postgresql-evr extension, among many other changes. Please visit Katello 4.16 Release Notes to view the changes for this release. To see the full list of bugfixes, please view the full CHANGELOG.

Some links to get you started:

If you’ve found any issues in this release please head over to the support area , and open a discussion so we can help. Please tag any Katello-related issues with the “katello" tag.

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A user complains about “As a user, I can expect container repo names to follow the latest standard (#37988, 9c985331)” not being visible as a breaking change.
Should we add this as an upgrade warning even with 4.17 on the horizon? Very likely not all have upgraded yet to be affected.

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Thanks for the note, we will update the upgrade warnings for 4.16.0 to include the change. The warning should include that users can revert to the old naming scheme via the Lifecycle Environment details page.

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Here’s the proposal: Retroactively add 4.16 warning about container naming by ianballou · Pull Request #3928 · theforeman/foreman-documentation · GitHub