Foreman celebrated its 6 year anniversary
The first commit was on July 13, 2009. To celebrate, we got some new T-shirts.
Foreman 1.9 RC3 is out, 1.9.0 and 1.8.3 expected soon
Several blocker bugs found in the 2 previous release candidates have
delayed the release of 1.9.0, which is expected to be out around August
17th. Read
the announcement
or the release
notes
for more details.
Foreman 1.8.3, a bug fix release, will also be released at approximately
the same time.
We appreciate your help testing the release candidates and reporting
bugs!
Katello 2.3 RC2 is ready for testing
Katello 2.3 is planned to be released in alignment with Foreman 1.9.
Check out
the announcement,
or the release
notes
for a full list of updates.
Please help us with testing this RC so the final release will be as
stable as possible!
Hammer 0.3 released
This release adds a notification for deprecated options and several bug fixes, and is compatible with Foreman 1.9.
New and updated plugins this month
- New smart_proxy_dns_route53 1.0.0 released July 10. This smart proxy plugin allows foreman to manage records in Amazon’s Route53 service.
- foreman_discovery 3.0.0 released July 28, with 4.0.0 planned for release soon.
- foreman-tasks 0.7.2 released July 31.
- foreman_chef 0.1.6 released July 15.
- foreman-xen 0.1.2 released July 31.
- foreman_hooks 0.3.8 released July 30.
- foreman-docker 1.4.0 released July 23.
- foreman_templates 2.0.0 released July 6.
New media and blogs
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This month’s community demo was held Thursday, August 6th.
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Daniel gave a talk about Foreman at PuppetNYC.
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Shlomi blogged about running OpenLDAP in a container for testing foreman LDAP functionality.
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Arnold Bechtoldt wrote a blog post about using Foreman to deploy Windows Server on vSphere.
Upcoming events
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Julius Bloch will be giving a lecture about Foreman at FrOSCon (in German) on August 23rd.
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Devops Days Tel Aviv will be at October 7-8, call for papers is open until September 1st.
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The dates for FOSDEM and Config Management Camp have been announced, block your calendars January 30 - February 2 , 2016 and look out for Foreman-related talks and workshops.
You can follow us on Twitter: @ForemanProject. If you tweet about foreman, please use the hashtag #theforeman so we can see it!
We also have a Facebook group which you can join for updates & discussion.