Katello 3.18 Release Notes

For the full release notes, see the Changelog.

Features

• Pulp 3 updated to 3.7
• Debian content can now be managed with Pulp 3
• System Purpose can now be set in bulk from the Content Hosts list
• Repositories within custom products can now be associated with an OS version for better control over default enablement on Content Hosts (currently Red Hat Enterprise Linux only)
• Content host Traces can now be resolved with Hammer CLI
• hammer host traces resolve –help
• The ability to export content to disconnected environments has been added to support Pulp 3 repos. See the API documentation and these new Hammer commands:
  • hammer content-export full library –help
  • hammer content-export full version –help
  • hammer content-export incremental library –help
  • hammer content-export incremental version –help
  • These commands do not support Pulp 2 repositories

Deprecations

• katello-agent will be removed in a future Katello release. Consider migrating to use the Remote Execution plugin for managing content on your hosts
• Puppet and OSTree repository types will no longer be available in Katello 4.0
• Background download policy will be removed in Katello 4.0
• Pulp 3 will replace Pulp 2 in Katello 4.0
  • MongoDB will be removed in Katello 4.0
  • The Foreman installer MongoDB Storage Engine Migration Hook will be removed for Katello 4.0

Notes

• Katello 3.18 cannot be deployed on EL8 systems.

Bug Fixes

Over 30 bugs fixed in this release! Check out the release tracker.

Contributors

• Adam Růžička
• Amir Fefer
• Bernhard Suttner
• Chris Roberts
• Ian Ballou
• James Jeffers
• Jan Bundesmann
• Jeremy Lenz
• John Mitsch
• Jonathon Turel
• Justin Sherrill
• Leos Stejskal
• Markus Bucher
• Ondrej Prazak
• Ondřej Ezr
• Partha Aji
• Ranjan Kumar
• Samir Jha