September 2020 - ARCHIVED: Uyuni Development

[uyuni-devel] Uyuni 2020.09 is released!
by Julio González Gil 23 Sep '20

23 Sep '20

Hello everyone! We are happy to announce the immediate availability of Uyuni 2020.09 At https://www.uyuni-project.org/pages/stable-version.html you will find all the resources you need to start working with Uyuni 2020.09, including the release notes, documentation, requirements and setup instructions. IMPORTANT: Keep in mind Uyuni 2020.07 changed the base OS to openSUSE Leap 15.2, so a special procedure is needed if you are not upgrading from 2020.07 but from a previous version! Check the release notes and the documentation for all the details This is the list of highlights for this release: * Uyuni Hub XML-RPC API is now supported * Formula for peripheral server management (Technology Preview) * Maintenance windows * Monitoring reverse proxies * Added new type of "Virtual Host Manager": Nutanix AHV * Grafana 7.1.5 * New products enabled Please check the release notes for full details. We will also have Uyuni Community Hours this Friday 25th at 16.00 CEST to present Uyuni 2020.09 [1] Remember that Uyuni will follow a rolling release planning, so the next version will contain bugfixes for this one and any new features. There will be no maintenance of 2020.09 As always, we hope you will enjoy Uyuni 2020.09 and we invite everyone of you to send us your feedback [2] and of course your patches, if you can contribute. Happy hacking! [1] https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/ 19%3Ameeting_ZmZmNzY5MjAtZGI2Mi00MDY1LWJiMTMtYjU3N2U0YmQxMmQz%40thread.v2/0? context=%7B%22Tid%22%3A%22f7a17af6-1c5c-4a36-aa8b- f5be247aa4ba%22%2C%22Oid%22%3A%2283d1ce03-a2c8-4530-8955-02fbc59cb7d6%22%7D Conference ID: 169 720 66# Dial-in numbers: https://dialin.teams.microsoft.com/58c3986f-4c3a-4b77-b4e8-f431171ef66d? id=16972066 [2] https://www.uyuni-project.org/pages/contact.html -- Julio González Gil Release Engineer, SUSE Manager and Uyuni jgonzalez(a)suse.com

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[uyuni-devel] IMPORTANT: master branch tagged (again), update your open PRs if they have SQL scripts
by Julio González Gil 22 Sep '20

22 Sep '20

Hi everyone, I just tagged the master branch in preparation for Uyuni 2020.09. This includes the susemanager-schema that is now 4.2.2. If you have any open PRs with SQL scripts on "susemanager-4.2.0-to- susemanager-4.2.1" or ""susemanager-4.2.1-to- susemanager-4.2.2", please update them ASAP. The folder you to use is susemanager-4.2.2-to-susemanager-4.2.3 (create it if it doesn't exist). Best regards. -- Julio González Gil Release Engineer, SUSE Manager and Uyuni jgonzalez(a)suse.com

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[uyuni-devel] Special update for CVE-2020-8028 (bsc#1175884)
by Julio González Gil 22 Sep '20

22 Sep '20

Dear lists, today we released an unscheduled maintenance update for CVE-2020-8028 (bsc#1175884), which is a security vulnerability of SUSE Manager and Uyuni Servers. The bug has been kept under embargo since it was reported to this day while we prepared a fix and coordinated the release. Only users that have shell access to the Uyuni server can exploit this vulnerability. This is not a common setup, shell access to the server should usually be restricted to the server administrators. In order to install this update please make sure you are on the most recent release (2020.07) and use the following commands on the Uyuni server: zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/Uyuni:/Stable… zypper refresh spacewalk-service stop zypper update spacewalk-java-lib spacewalk-java spacewalk-java-config spacewalk-java-postgresql spacewalk-taskomatic spacewalk-admin spacewalk-setup salt-netapi-client spacewalk-service start After services start again, the Salt API endpoint will be authenticated and encrypted. As the fix changes the way the Salt API endpoint is served, it is expected to break any third-party scripts or software that may rely on it. We will take this occasion to remind you that: - the Salt API endpoint configured by Uyuni at installation time is exclusively for internal Uyuni use and by default not exposed to the network. If your custom software depends on using the Salt API directly, you are relying on something not supported by Uyuni. - it is possible to define additional API endpoints, and secure them in a variety of ways, and those are fine for custom scripts. More information about how to configure those are available at: https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/netapi/all/salt.netapi.rest_tornad… If applying the update is not readily feasible, we recommend to restrict shell access to the Uyuni Server to the minimum set of users who really need it - which is a standard, recommended security practice in any case. More information is available at: - https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-8028 - https://github.com/uyuni-project/uyuni/pull/2613 -- Julio González Gil Release Engineer, SUSE Manager and Uyuni jgonzalez(a)suse.com

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[uyuni-devel] Uyuni Community Hours 25.09.2020
by Pau Garcia 22 Sep '20

22 Sep '20

Hello After a Summer break, we are back with Uyuni Community Hours! Agenda: 1. What's new in Uyuni 2020.09 2. (get in touch with me if you want to present something!) Microsoft Teams meeting: Link to join: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_ZmZmNzY5MjAtZGI2Mi00… Conference ID: 169 720 66# Dial-in numbers: https://dialin.teams.microsoft.com/58c3986f-4c3a-4b77-b4e8-f431171ef66d?id=… Thank you Pau Garcia Quiles SUSE Manager Product Owner & Technical Project Manager Phone: +1 385-666-5608 SUSE Software Solutions Spain

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[uyuni-devel] IMPORTANT: master branch tagged, update your open PRs if they have SQL scripts
by Julio González Gil 18 Sep '20

18 Sep '20

Hi everyone, I just tagged the master branch in preparation for Uyuni 2020.09. This includes the susemanager-schema that is now 4.2.1. If you have any open PRs with SQL scripts on susemanager-4.2.0-to- susemanager-4.2.1, please update them ASAP. The now you need is to use is susemanager-4.2.0-to-susemanager-4.2.1 (create it if it doesn't exist). Best regards. -- Julio González Gil Release Engineer, SUSE Manager and Uyuni jgonzalez(a)suse.com

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