Foreman Community Newsletter - April 2016


Foreman 1.11 release is out

Foreman 1.11 was announced on 1st of April, and it’s not April fools. The headline features include Improvements to host and host group parameter editing, Smart proxy status pages enhancements, Smart proxy DHCP provider support, new host bulk actions and new test buttons for LDAP and email notifications. Check the full release notes

Foreman 1.10.3 bugfix release is out

On 31th of March Foreman 1.10.3 has been released with a low severity security fix and a number of bug fixes. For more details check the release notes

Katello 3.0 RC1 release is out

On 22th of March Katello 3.0 RC1 has been released. The highlights features include Foreman Remote Execution Integration, OSTree Content Support, Capsule Status Views, Lazy Sync, Mirror on Sync, Docker V2 Support and many more Check the full release notes

Thanks to everyone who contributed to these releases - code, testing, bug reports, translations, your efforts are very much appreciated!

New and updated plugins since last March’s newsletter

New media and blogs

Community demo on 31th March 2016 With most of our developers were busy fixing bugs for the new releases, there wasn’t much to demo - instead we sat down with Daniel Lobato Garcia and Eric Helms for an informal meet-the-devs chat! Let us know if you’d like to see more of this style of content!

We continued our user case study series, and this time with Alex Balk from Outbrain talking about Discovery & Chef. Thanks Alex!

Our friends at Netways gave a webinar about provisioning with Foreman (DE)

Upcoming events

On 5th of May the user case study will continue, this time we’ll be interviewing Imri Zvik (and guests!) from MyHeritage about their take on using Discovery

Julien Pivotto’s talk at OSDC about automating a R&D lab with Foreman will take place on 28th of April


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