News

May 2012

16 May, 2012: Candlepin 0.6.3 Released

Features & Enhancements

  • buldable on fedora 17
  • performance improvements for background jobs
  • ability to upgrade the databse using liquibase

December 2011

8 December 2011: Candlepin 0.5.5 / Subscription Manager 0.98.7 Released

Features & Enhancements

subscription-manager

  • added support for host registration and guest association when host can not register itself
  • virt-who work to handle ESX guests
  • subscription-manager available in fedora

candlepin

  • build modified to use the tito hotness instead of bunch of disjoint bash scripts
  • disable manifest rules import
  • added support for host registration and guest association when host can not register itself

thumbslug

  • added appropriate init scripts to run as a service
  • uses Candlepin CRL
  • thumbslug talks to akamai
  • created puppet module for katello

November 2011

17 November 2011: Candlepin 0.4.27 / Subscription Manager 0.98.3 Released

Features & Enhancements

subscription-manager / python-rhsm

  • GUI redesign for compactness.
  • Firstboot fixes.
  • Add a script to perform offline migrations from installation numbers to certificates.
  • Certificate stacking fixes.

candlepin

  • Improved support for import/export of unlimited virt bonus pools.
  • Fix duplicate pools created by concurrent refresh pools operations.
  • Delete expired subscriptions on refresh pools.
  • Return public/private key pair for upstream certificate.
  • Added new API call for getting current compliance status.
  • Deny manifest consumers access to derived pools.

August 2011

26 August 2011: Candlepin 0.4.11 released

Candlepin 0.4.11 has been released. You can get the bits at http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/candlepin/candlepin

Make sure you read over the Setup Guide, which is located at https://fedorahosted.org/candlepin/wiki/Setup

For more information on Candlepin, please visit http://candlepinproject.org/

Features & Enhancements

client

  • group subscriptions based on stacking attribute in the following screens: subscriptions page, compliance assistant, view available subscriptions
  • the cli and gui now denote the state of the subscription: Subscribed, Partially Subscribed, Expired or Not Subscribed.
  • Nag messages now denote the 'Partially Subscribed' state.
  • registration with multiple activation keys now supported
  • list --available now shows if a subscription is multi-entitle capable
  • GUI shows an asterisk to denote a subscription is multi-entitle capable
  • config command added to cli enabling editing of the configuration values
  • client tries to optionally heal the system to keep it properly subscribed.

server

  • the list of consumer's installed product IDs are now stored
  • the candlepin job status stable now stores the consumer uuid for async bind.
  • configuration added to disable batch jobs on a particular node
  • Moved the translations to fedora.zanata.org

July 2011

13 July 2011: Candlepin 0.4.5 released

Candlepin 0.4.5 has been released today. The release contains enhancements around stacking subscriptions, improved integration with Katello, and improvements in how thumbslud can access content. Candlepin is available from: http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/candlepin/candlepin/

You can find setup instructions on the Candlepin wiki page.

June 2011

06 June 2011: Candlepin Website Launched

The Candlepin website was pushed live today. Bringing together the Candlepin, Headpin, Thumbslug, and Subscription Manager tooling under one umbrella.