Hello everyone,

We are proudly announcing release of Spacewalk 2.8, a systems management solution.

Spacewalk 2.8 could be installed on

• RHEL 6
• RHEL 7
• Fedora 26
• Fedora 27
• Fedora 28 (tested on Beta)

The download location is

• https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/g/spacewalkproject/spacewalk-2.8/

with client repositories under

• https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/g/spacewalkproject/spacewalk-2.8-client/

SUSE Linux client packages can be found here

• http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.8/

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 installable on Fedora 27 and has been tested on Fedora 28 Beta as well
• Spacewalk supports Fedora 27 and Fedora 28 clients
• All packages and repositories are exclusively in https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/
• https://spacewalkproject.github.io/ has been completely redesigned
• Python 2 packages are no longer needed on systems with Python 3 as default
• Spacewalk server is now capable of syncing and distributing of Fedora modularity (modules.yaml) files.
• PostgreSQL 10 is now supported
• Package dwr updated to version 3.0.2 fixing security vulnerabilities
• It's now possible to manage errata severities via Spacewalk server
• Several bugfixes
• Updated API calls:
  • errata.create/setDetails - add possibility to manage severities
  • system.schedulePackageRemoveByNevra - support removal of packages which are not in database

The up-to-date API documentation can be found at http://spacewalkproject.github.io/documentation/api/2.8/

Unfortunately, for certain domain names jabberd does not start on Fedora 27/28 due to bug in 'libidn-1.34-1' from Fedora repositories. If you run at this issue, please downgrade the package to libidn-1.33-1 until it's fixed in Fedora repositories.

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

• Amit Upadhye
• Andrew Dahms
• Ben Roberts
• Candace
• Candace Sheremeta
• Christian Lanig
• Dario Leidi
• Dario Maiocchi
• Frantisek Kobzik
• Jakub Jankowski
• Johannes Renner
• Kevin Walter
• Laurence Rochfort
• Marcelo Moreira de Mello
• Mattias Giese
• Michael Calmer
• Michele Bologna
• Miroslav Suchý
• Pavel Studenik
• Robert Paschedag
• Silvio Moioli
• Thomas Blanchard
• Thomas Mueller
• angystardust
• bhavesh_bharadiya
• ranmses
• suzuki

see Contributor List for all contributors list

In Spacewalk 2.8, we've seen

* 85 major bugs fixed
* 641 changesets committed
* 1146 commits done

Github repo for commits since Spacewalk 2.7

• Spacewalk 2.7 to 2.8

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.