orcharhino 6.8.0

Highlights

Changelog Features

• Added support for VMware hardware versions 20 (ESXi 8.0) and 21 (ESXi 8.0 U2).
• Updated the VMware GuestOS mappings to reflect current Enterprise Linux systems.
• For Red Hat Enterprise Linux, to ensure compliance you can utilize the rh-cloud and virt-who plugins for subscription tracking.
• Enabled MQTT port for Pull Provider communication in firewalld configurations on orcharhino Server and orcharhino Proxies.
• Implemented bookmark functionality on the „Repositories“ tab within the „Content View“ page in the orcharhino management UI.
• Extended or_smart_proxy_content ansible role to support Simple Content Access.
• Extended examples added to the usage-output of the pulp_api.sh script.
• Enabled orcharhino offline installations without OCC access by introducing a “–skip-packages-update” flag to orcharhino-installer.sh.
• Debian public GPG key location moved to “/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/” directory, replacing the deprecated “apt-key add” method.
• Integrated search examples into the orcharhino management UI. For a detailed guide, visit https://docs.orcharhino.com/or/docs/sources/guides/administering_orcharhino.html#Query_Values_admin.
• Enhanced API documentation for operatingsystem/:id/bootfiles endpoint.
• For Debian, improved katello_apt_repo_signing role to retain the signing keys by default, even after changing the hostname.
• orcharhino 6.8 switched to Redis as the default cache type. This improves performance and avoids issues like file locking and cache misses.
• Added a new report template for „New Host – Installed Products“ which works for organizations using SCA. It includes information on installed products and system purpose fields without subscription consumption data.
• Implemented incremental content exports with a syncable format. This feature is exclusively available for RPM repositories.
• Enabling hosts to register with multiple Content Views and environments using subscription-manager version 1.29.28 or later in EL8.
• Enhanced the „Host – Applied Errata“ report template to include support for Erratum release date.
• Implemented Content View Publish recommendations in orcharhino, signaling whether a publish is unnecessary due to changes in repositories and filters.
  • Introduced new UI icons to signify if publishing a new version is required for updates.
• Content View Versions with applied filters now feature a new flag in the UI. Additionally, filters applied to previous Content View Versions are accessible via the API and Hammer CLI.
• Added Alternate Content Sources bulk refresh option. Now „hammer alternate-content-source refresh“ command includes the „–all“ flag.

Changelog Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug that prevented „Organization admins“ to select from all available job listings.
• Fixed a bug that prevented Salt from being installed in some circumstances.
• Resolved an apt issue on Ubuntu causing unintended removal of Linux kernel packages during orcharhino client installation due to missing dependencies.
• Resolved a problem with VSphere host failing to detach ISO during bootdisk-based deployment.
• Resolved an issue where packages of module stream repositories from different Enterprise Linux Distributions (e.g., RHEL and Oracle) were missing when they were synchronized at the same time.
• The katello:delete_orphaned_content rake task now successfully handles orphaned content referenced by non-orphaned content, preventing failures.
• Repository synchronization for Debian content no longer triggers warnings about „python3-apt“ not being installed.
• Repository links now correctly redirect from the SUSE Subscriptions page to the corresponding Katello repository page.
• Corrected the date selection in the orcharhino management UI for the errata filter.
• Visibility of the Content Packages Tab is no longer dependent on predefined OS descriptions; now accessible independently.
• Proxmox users can now successfully create hosts using the API or Hammer CLI.
• Fixed a bug that prevented image-based deployments on Proxmox via cloud-init.
• Corrected installation procedure for the pull provider service during host provisioning on Debian/Ubuntu systems.
• Increased download timeout during orcharhino installations to accommodate slower internet connections.
• orcharhino OVA now ships with an updated AlmaLinux 8 version, addressing issues arising from the recent GPG key change (https://almalinux.org/blog/2023-12-20-almalinux-8-key-update).
• orcharhino OVA’s configuration profiles now meet the minimal requirements specified for orcharhino-installer’s tuning profiles.
• Python content synchronization is now supported when the orcharhino Server is behind an HTTP proxy.
• Corrected misnamed ansible roles used for automating orcharhino, resolving UI error messages.
• Cloned hostgroups now correctly retain the content source and lifecycle environment settings.
• Moved the orcharhino subscription key file to the subscription key directory at a later stage, enabling easier re-run of the installer in case of previous failures.
• You can now utilize the SSH User specified in the advanced field of job invocation as the ‚ansible_user‘.
• Transitioned to utilizing the „dnf needs-restarting“ command to determine tracer information on EL8/EL9 hosts.

Deprecations

• You can no longer create Content Views with “Import Only” enabled.
• You can no longer use Puppet 6 to configure hosts.
• The katello-agent has been removed and is no longer available via web UI, API, or CLI.
• Simple Content Access will be the only subscription management available in a future orcharhino release.

Changelog Documentation

• Added documentation for subscriptions for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Simple Content Access (SCA) on orcharhino 6.8. For more information, see https://docs.orcharhino.com/or/docs/sources/guides/red_hat_enterprise_linux/rhel_subscriptions_and_sca.html.
• Added documentation on how to use custom snippets during host registration. For more information, see https://docs.orcharhino.com/or/docs/sources/guides/almalinux/managing_hosts/registering_hosts.html#
  Customizing_the_Registration_Templates_managing-hosts.
• Added documentation on how to connect orcharhino with external DHCP, DNS, and TFTP services. For more information, see https://docs.orcharhino.com/or/docs/sources/guides/configuring_external_services.html.
• orcharhino documentation now contains a procedure to install oVirt plug-in on orcharhino Server. For more information, see https://docs.orcharhino.com/or/docs/sources/guides/debian/provisioning_hosts/ovirt.html#installing-the-oVirt-plug-in_rhv-provisioning.
• Added documentation on how to setup Route53 DNS on orcharhino Proxies. For more information, see https://docs.orcharhino.com/or/docs/sources/installation_and_maintenance/installing_orcharhino_proxy.html#
  configuring_dns_route53_orcharhino-proxy.
• Added documentation on how to enable BMC on orcharhino Server and orcharhino Proxies to control the power state of bare-metal hosts. For more information, see https://docs.orcharhino.com/or/docs/sources/guides/almalinux/managing_hosts/adding_network_interfaces.html#
  Adding_a_Baseboard_Management_Controller_Interface_managing-hosts.
• Documented orcharhino Server upgrades in disconnected environments. For more information, see https://docs.orcharhino.com/or/docs/sources/installation_and_maintenance/upgrading_orcharhino_server_offline.html.
• Updated documentation to display the repository name for content required by orcharhino Proxies in accordance with the name provided by OCC.
• Added a hint to documentation to either set Content Source, a Lifecycle Environment, and a Content View or leave all three fields empty if host receive content from orcharhino Server.