Hello everyone,

We are proudly announcing release of Spacewalk 2.4, a systems management solution.

The download locations are

• http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.4/RHEL/6/
• http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.4/RHEL/7/
• http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.4/Fedora/21/
• http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.4/Fedora/22/

with client repositories under

• http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.4-client/RHEL/5/
• http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.4-client/RHEL/6/
• http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.4-client/RHEL/7/
• http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.4-client/Fedora/21/
• http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.4-client/Fedora/22/

SUSE Linux client packages can be found here

• http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.4/openSUSE_13.1/
• http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.4/openSUSE_13.2/
• http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.4/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/
• http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.4/SLE_12/
• http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.4/SLE_11_SP4/

For fresh installations, please use steps from

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

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

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

• Spacewalk now supported on Fedora 22
• Spacewalk supports Fedora 22 clients
  • New package - dnf-plugin-spacewalk
• Organization-specific configuration moved to Organization Admin menu
  • Satellite admins can allow/disallow Organization admins to manage this configuration
• Passwords are not sent to user in clear text anymore
  • https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/Features/ResetPassword
• Continued UI polish and improvements, including standardizing on Patternfly
• Plenty of small enhancements and fixes
  • Added support for Catalan and Portuguese translations from Zanata project
  • Fedora and RHEL/CentOS 7 Cobbler provisioning fixes
  • Removed checksum type None for software channels
  • Fixed system.listUngroupedSystems API call
  • Repository sync page improved to show more details about last sync
  • Repository sync option for syncing latest packages only added
  • Osa ping API calls added
  • Added compliancy indicator icon on Scap results list page
• New API calls:
  • org.isErrataEmailNotifsForOrg
  • org.isOrgConfigManagedByOrgAdmin
  • org.setErrataEmailNotifsForOrg
  • org.setOrgConfigManagedByOrgAdmin
  • system.getOsaPing
  • system.sendOsaPing

The up-to-date API documentation can be found at http://www.spacewalkproject.org/documentation/api/2.4/

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

• Amar Huchchanavar
• Anastasios Papaioannou
• Aron Parsons
• Avi Miller
• David Holland
• David Hrbáč
• Duncan Mac-Vicar P
• Frantisek Kobzik
• Hubert Mantel
• Jared Greenwald
• Johannes Renner
• Kevin Walter
• Klaas-
• Marcelo Moreira de Mello
• Martin Seidl
• Matej Kollar
• Michael Calmer
• Michael Kromer
• Michael Mattioli
• Michael Mraka
• Miroslav Suchý
• Patrick Hurrelmann
• Paul Wayper
• Pavel Studenik
• Shannon Hughes
• Silvio Moioli
• Stephen Herr
• Šimon Lukašík
• Tasos Papaioannou
• Thomas Mueller

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

In Spacewalk 2.4, we've seen

* 59 bugs fixed
* 428 changesets committed
* 705 commits done

Github repo for commits since Spacewalk 2.3

* [Spacewalk 2.3 to 2.4](https://github.com/spacewalkproject/spacewalk/graphs/contributors?from=2015-03-27&to=2015-09-29&type=c)

To reach the user community with questions and ideas, please use mailing list spacewalk-list@redhat.com. On this list, you can of course also discuss issues you might find when installing or using Spacewalk, but please do not be surprised if we ask you to file a bug at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Spacewalk with more details or full logs.

Thank you for using Spacewalk.