[Puppet Users] Re: [foreman-users] New Foreman Release

Josh Baird
Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:51:15 -0000

Nice, any screenshots of the new UI?!

Josh

On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Ohad Levy <ohadlevy@gmail.com>
wrote:
> So, its been a long time, and finally we got a new foreman release :)
>
> Download - http://theforeman.org/foreman-latest.tar.bz2
> RPMS http://yum.theforeman.org
> DEB - http://deb.theforeman.org
>
> Some of this version highlights:
>
> * New UI that doesn''t SUCK.
> * host groups can now be nested
> * hostgroups can now act as a as templates, including VM attributes etc.
> * Introducing Smart Variables
> * Most of Foreman_configuration has been moved into the UI itself,
> this does not require a restart every time you change something, only
> core settings remain in the settings file.
> * audit log now capture class assignments
> * Solaris (sparc and intel) provisioning support
> * OpenSUSE provisioning support
> * BMC NIC management
> * Introducing Foreman CLI
> * Many API improvements
> * added rundeck integration
> * dhcp subnets can now be imported via the proxy
>
> Smart Proxy version
> In order to use provisioning support with this version of Foreman, you
> are required to* update your proxy* to the latest 0.3 release.
>
> Ruby 1.87 support
> Foreman 0.4 would be the last major version supporting Ruby older then
1.87.
> This has to be done since the upstream rails community no longer
> supports older versions, which means that critical security patches
> are no longer available if we keep supporting that.
>
> if required, we would release 0.4.x maintenance releases, but since
> ruby 1.87+ is available on most distribution these days, you are
> encouraged to upgrade.
>
> All in all, this version has around 180 features/bugs fixed, so its
> our largest so far - full details at [1]
>
> Full release notes [2]
>
> We''ve also added another means of communications (besides IRC and
> mailing lists, Google+ page [3])
>
> I would like to thank anyone who contributed to the project, I''m
> having lots of fun :-)
>
> Ohad
>
> [1] - http://theforeman.org/versions/show/13
> [2] - http://theforeman.org/projects/foreman/wiki/ReleaseNotes
> [3] - https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/102496134326414788199
>
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