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 our project page.
Features & Enhancements
client
- group subscriptions based on stacking attribute in the following screens:
- subscriptions page
- compliance assistant
- view available subscription page
- 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 --availablenow 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
Bugs fixed
| 729780 | non-existent secure objects throw a 404 instead of a 403. |
| 708058 | Server 500 error thrown when user auto-subscribes and has no entitlements |
| 728622 | Inconsistent enable config entries |
| 728624 | Activation keys are successfully being created with invalid chars |
| 728636 | Duplicate activation key error is hard to decipher |
| 729125 | Adding pools to an activation key should fail when quantity totalQuantity for a multi-entitlement pool |
| 729070 | Adding pools to an activation key should be blocked when specifying a quantity>1 for a non-multi-entitlement pool |
| 728721 | NullPointerException thrown when registering with an activation key bound to a pool that requires_consumer_type person. |
| 729066 | remove logging statement to avoid filling up logs. |
So I’m curious outside of the RH/RHN use case have you guys seen any adoption of candlepin for other purposes?
Not really. It’s still pretty early and honestly not sure how interesting this is for folks.