Hello world,

we are happy to announce the release 1.5 of Spacewalk, a systemsmanagement solution.

The download locations are

• http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.5/RHEL/5/$basearch/
• http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.5/RHEL/6/$basearch/
• http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.5/Fedora/14/x86_64/
• http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.5/Fedora/15/x86_64/

with client repositories under

• http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.5-client
• http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/1.5/openSUSE_11.4/
• http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/1.5/openSUSE_Factory/
• http://miroslav.suchy.cz/spacewalk/debian (based on Spacewalk 1.4 code)

If you want to do fresh installation, use steps from

• https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/HowToInstall

If you plan to upgrade from older release, the following pagecan be useful:

• http://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/HowToUpgrade

• It is possible to edit schedule of taskomatic jobs via WebUI
• AutoYaST Support
• Fine-grained search (ability to disable fuzzy search)
• The satellite-sync downloads rpm files in four concurrent threads
• Spacewalk 1.5 can be installed on Fedora 15
• Modified API calls:
  • errata.listPackages returns file attribute
  • user.getDetails returns use_pam attribute
• New API calls:
  • channel.software.setUserManagable
  • channel.software.isUserManagable
  • channel.listVendorChannels is now equivalent and preferred to channel.listRedHatChannels
  • errata.cloneAsOriginal

Our thanks go to the community members who contributed to this release:

• Andreas Rogge
• Aron Parsons
• Ionuț Arțăriși
• Jan Brázdil
• Johannes Renner
• Jonathan Hoser
• Julian Einwag
• Marcelo Moreira de Mello
• Mario Schugowski
• Matteo Sessa
• Michael Calmer
• Paresh Mutha
• Šimon Lukašík
• Uwe Gansert
• Ville Salmela

https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/ContributorList

In Spacewalk 1.5, we've seen

* 81  bugs solved * 624 changesets committed * 904 commits done

Thank you for using Spacewalk! Keep the patches flowing!