Release Notes

Key Features

• Added Operating Systems as managed systems:
  • Alma Linux 8
  • Amazon Linux 2
  • Debian 11 (“Bullseye”)
  • Rocky Linux 8
  • SLES 15 SP3
• ACD
  • Import and export Application Definitions
  • Edit Ansible group variables in orcharhino management UI of any type
• Salt minions can now be automatically registered during host installation
• Ansible runs can now be triggered using dry-run option as host parameter
• Host password: Indication by which entity a password for a host has been set when creating a new host
• Override puppet_interval using a host parameter to run Puppet in different intervals for different hosts/host groups
• Merge Ansible/Puppet/Salt variables of type json and yaml
• Added katello-host-tools and katello-host-tools-tracerfor Debian/Ubuntu to notify orcharhino if hosts need reboot after package installation
• Update Foreman Ansible Modules to 2.1.0
• New Kickstart files for Oracle Linux 7 for easy installation as orcharhino host operating system
• Documentation
  • New Deploying an Internal Application Guide
  • New Administering orcharhino Guide
  • Reworked Managing Ubuntu Hosts guide with focus on offline installations
  • New recomended Salt Minion authentication procedure using Salt Grains
  • Reworked OpenSCAP Guide with focus on uploading SCAP content to orcharhino
  • Clarified bootstrap.py requirements split by operating system
  • Extended Remote Execution Features with focus on changing associated templates
  • New installation instructions for VMware and Proxmox compute resource plugins
  • Reworked orcharhino installation guide

Bug Fixes

• ACD: Application Definition Export does not contain playbook id
• ACD: Resource Type does not have a user friendly name
• AutoYaST orcharhino default template fails validation on SLES 15 SP3
• AutoYaST orcharhino default template fails validation on SLES 15 SP3 with static IP
• Bootstrap.py does not add sub-certificates as trusted certificate
• Parameter @host.salt_master is not available in safe mode rendering
• Proxy configuration is not set for Puppet
• Running salt.highstate via Schedule Remote Job fails
• SLES Bootdisk doesn’t support HTTP Proxy without DHCP
• Snapshot Manager ignores ‘include RAM’
• Suse_SCC-Account without name shows meaningless Error
• Terminal output for remote execution cut off after 10 lines
• downloading packages including ‘+’ characters from AmazonLinux2 repositories fails
• filtered task list shows wrong number of pages
• redhat repository sync gets stuck

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