Hello everyone,

We are proudly announcing release of Spacewalk 2.7, a systems management solution.

The download locations are

• http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.7/RHEL/6/
• http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.7/RHEL/7/
• http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.7/Fedora/24/
• http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.7/Fedora/25/
• http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.7/Fedora/26/

with client repositories under

• http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.7-client/RHEL/5/
• http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.7-client/RHEL/6/
• http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.7-client/RHEL/7/
• http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.7-client/Fedora/24/
• http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.7-client/Fedora/25/
• http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.7-client/Fedora/26/

SUSE Linux client packages can be found here

• http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.7/SLE_12_SP2/
• http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.7/SLE_12_SP3/
• http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.7/openSUSE_Leap_42.2/
• http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.7/openSUSE_Leap_42.3/
• http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.7/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/

For fresh installations, please use steps from

• https://github.com/spacewalkproject/spacewalk/wiki/HowToInstall

If you plan to upgrade from older release, search no more -- the following page will guide you:

• https://github.com/spacewalkproject/spacewalk/wiki/HowToUpgrade

• Spacewalk now supported on Fedora 25 and Fedora 26
• Spacewalk supports Fedora 25 and Fedora 26 clients
• Improved Debian/Ubuntu version parsing and matching
• Spacewalk wiki now hosted on GitHub
• Significant improvements to channel synchronization speed
• New utility to monitor what taskomatic daemon is doing - taskotop is part of spacewalk-utils package
• jabberd, which support OSAD, now uses sqlite database for improved reliability
• jpackage libraries/packages replaced with standard ones
• Improved kickstart profile support
• New API calls:
  • channel.listManageableChannels
  • schedule.failSystemAction
• API calls restored for backward compatibility:
  • proxy.createMonitoringScout
  • satellite.isMonitoringEnabled
  • satellite.isMonitoringEnabledBySystemId

The up-to-date API documentation can be found athttp://spacewalkproject.github.io/documentation/api/2.7/

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

• Avi Miller
• Can Bulut Bayburt
• Candace Sheremeta
• Chris Gavin
• Dario Leidi
• Duncan Mac-Vicar P
• Frantisek Kobzik
• Ilya Gorbunov
• Jakub Jankowski
• Kenny Tordeurs
• Laurence Rochfort
• Marc A. Dahlhaus
• Marcelo Moreira de Mello
• Martin Matuska
• Martin Seidl
• Michael Calmer
• Michele Bologna
• Miroslav Suchý
• Pablo Suárez Hernández
• Patrick Hurrelmann
• Shannon Hughes
• Silvio Moioli
• Valérian Beaudoin

seeContributor List for all contributors list

In Spacewalk 2.7, we've seen

* 219 major bugs fixed* 880 changesets committed* 1463 commits done

Github repo for commits since Spacewalk 2.6

• Spacewalk 2.6 to 2.7

To reach the user community with questions and ideas, please usemailing listspacewalk-list@redhat.com. On this list, you can ofcourse also discuss issues you might find when installing or usingSpacewalk, but please do not be surprised if we ask you to file a bugathttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Spacewalk with moredetails or full logs.

Thank you for using Spacewalk.