Important security updates
Foreman
1.6.1, 1.6.2 and 1.5.4 have been released to fix an important security
issues affecting the core and the smart proxy (foreman-proxy) identified
as CVE-2014-3590, CVE-2014-3653 and CVE-2014-3691. For more
security-related information visit our Security
Page.
Katello
2.0 released
The Katello team announced the official release of Katello 2.0 on October 6. This release had been a long time coming and brings with it many new features including a change to Katello architecture and deployment as a Foreman plugin. Katello was designed to bring distributed content management alongside the configuration and provisioning management that Foreman provides. More information can be found in the Release Notes.
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Foreman Live CD
People responsible for the foreman-staypuft plugin which aims for OpenStack installations using Foreman developed nice Live CD/appliance which allows users to run Foreman from memory (what we call “stateless” mode). We have taken this work and published it in foreman-live git repository, integrated build process in our Jenkins and started with nightly builds of the live cd. It is currently in alpha stage and expect rough edges, but In the upcoming months we will work on improving the Live CD.
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New Foreman discovery image
We redesigned how we build foreman discovery image and we are going to release new version 2.0 which will be smaller, faster, more debugging options and with the same features as 0.6 release. It will work with Foreman 1.6 and 1.7. To check the image out, see our pre1 build which was announced this month.
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FOSDEM 2015 is approaching
The FOSDEM and ConfigManagementCamp 2015 Call for Proposals is open until December 1 and we welcome all proposals related to Foreman. As usual, FOSDEM will take place at ULB Campus Solbosch on Saturday 31 January and Sunday 1 February 2015 followed by ConfigManagementCamp on Moday 2 and Tuesday 3 at Gent, Belgium.
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Dropping Ruby 1.8.7 support for core
Foreman supports Ruby 1.8.7 from the day one, but since we expect Ruby 2.2 during Christmas and we plan to upgrade to Rails 4.0, it’s the time to drop support of Ruby 1.8.7 for Foreman core (not Smart Proxy, hammer or the Installer). We started with turning off unit and integration tests against Ruby 1.8.7 and removing various related workarounds across our code base. Also we have started to run our tests against Ruby 2.1.
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New plugins this month
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foreman-cloudstack adds CloudStack compute resource
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foreman-abrt integrates Automated Bug Reporting Tool from Fedora and Red Hat compatible hosts
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foreman-custom-banner adds user-defined colored top banner
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foreman-graphite sends performance metrics to Graphite.
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foreman-hammer-ssh hammer SSH plugin, execute SSH commands across multiple foreman managed hosts.
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Featured media
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Sprint 29 demo
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Sprint 30 demo
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ABRT plugin deep dive
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All the clips are published on our media pages.
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What to expect in November
Next month, Foreman core team will be working on various features like mentioned Live CD, better Docker integration, adding http(s) proxy support to foreman-proxy, UEFI support, improving discovery, foreman-tasks plugin availability, katello and bastion split and bug fixing.
Of course, we will be delivering the most anticipated artifact Foreman 1.7.0 beginning December. Expect bunch of Release Candidates during November. More info in our schedule wiki page.