• BZ#719629
  In a Satellite update installation, the install.pl script did not keep the proxy settings in /etc/rhn/rhn.conf. This was resolved in the Satellite upgrade installation by including instructions to create an answer file containing the correct proxy settings and using the answer file in the Satellite upgrade.
• BZ#769908
  Authentication tokens were not being handled correctly in a multi-tiered RHN Proxy Server configuration. The code which regenerates the authentication token depended on the X-RHN-Proxy-Auth-Error header in the html reply for every method. This has been fixed and auth information is now being correctly passed between RHN Proxy Servers in a multi-tiered configuration.
• BZ#695257
  Only errata containing the latest upgradeable package were being offered for system update which, in a situation where the package has an older security erratum and a newer non-critical erratum, only the non-critical one was offered to a system to upgrade. This fix now offers all errata to a system for upgrade. All security errata will be visible to a system.
• BZ#807875
  Previously, the java heapdump directory for taskomatic and rhn-search defaulted to /usr/sbin which caused the directory to fill up quickly. The java heapdump directory now defaults to /var/crash.
• BZ#630953
  Duplicate entries in the Satellite database, specifically the rhnCPU table caused internal server errors. A fix to ensure all rows are unique before the unique index is created has been implemented. No duplicate entries should appear in the Satellite database.
• BZ#674071
  When running numerous monitoring probes with large tables, RHN probes result in a deadlock error message (ORA-00060).
• BZ#828795
  When deleting a child channel, related rows in the database were not automatically being deleted along with the child channel. Deleting the child channel would result in an unhandled exception error. Rules were added into the oracle database at the time of table creation which would correctly delete the related rows that matched the channel to be deleted. Database data with associated channels should now be cleaned up correctly.
• BZ#705154
  The sorting directions in the Satellite web interface's drop-down lists were displaying incorrectly causing confusion in the "Managing Channels" interface. The fix updated the perl channel-select-dropdowns to use the same hierarchical sorting as java pages. The sorting directions should now reflect uniformly.
• BZ#695276
  When a client system is registered to a Satellite Server via an RHN Proxy server, koan attempts to download the kickstart file directly from the Satellite server because of Cobbler redirection. This results in a URLError. Cobbler will now replace the hostname of the server with the hostname of the first proxy in the chain if koan is requesting anything from the cobbler API.
• BZ#742905
  When a request in one thread breaks in a multi-threaded task, satellite-sync locks up on the download. The thread throwing the traceback will now release the lock so other threads will continue the download.

• Monitoring with SELinux in enforcing mode continues to be offered as a technical preview for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 installations of RHN Satellite and RHN Proxy.

New APIs

• channel

  • listVendorChannels
    Lists all the vendor software channels that the user's organization is entitled to.

• channel.software

  • removeErrata
    Removes a given list of errata from the given channel.
  • mergeErrata
    Merges all errata from one channel into another based upon a given start/end date.
  • removeRepo
    Removes a repository.
  • updateRepoURL
    Updates repository source URL.
  • updateRepoLabel
    Updates repository label.
  • updateRepo
    Updates a ContentSource repository.
  • getRepoDetails
    Returns details of the given repository.

• configchannel

  • getEncodedFileRevision
    Get revision of the specified configuration file.
  • lookupFileInfo
    Given a list of paths and a channel, it returns details about the latest revisions of the paths.

• system.scap

  • listXccdfScans
    Returns a list of finished OpenSCAP scans for a given system.
  • getXccdfScanDetails
    Gets details of a selected OpenSCAP XCCDF scan.
  • getXccdfScanRuleResults
    Returns a full list of RuleResults for given OpenSCAP XCCDF scan.
  • scheduleXccdfScan
    Schedule OpenSCAP scan.

• system

  • provisionVirtualGuest
    Provisions a guest on the specified host. This API method schedules the guest for creation and will begin the provisioning process when the host checks in. Or, if OSAD is enabled, it will begin immediately. This method defaults to mac_address=random, memory=512MB, vcpu=1, and storage=3GB.
  • getSystemCurrencyMultipliers
    Obtains the System Currency score multipliers.
  • getSystemCurrencyScores
    Obtains the System Currency score multipliers.
  • getUuid
    Obtains the UUID from the given system ID.

• kickstart.profile

  • getCfgPreservation
    Obtains the ks.cfg preservation option for a kickstart profile.
  • setCfgPreservation
    Sets the ks.cfg preservation option for a kickstart profile.

• satellite

  • isMonitoringEnabled
    This API method will return "True" if monitoring is enabled on the satellite.
  • isMonitoringEnabledBySystemId
    This API method will return "True" if monitoring is enabled on the satellite.

• schedule

  • archiveActions
    Archives all actions in the given list.

• system.search

  • uuid
    Lists the systems which match this UUID.

Modified APIs (interface changes only)

• channel.software.clone
  Preferred gpg parameters are: gpg_key_url, gpg_key_id, gpg_key_fp. (The old gpg_url, gpg_id, and gpg_fingerprint are kept for compatibility reasons.)
• configchannel.createOrUpdatePath, system.config.createOrUpdatePath
  Now accepts the 'binary' attribute to support binary uploads.
• errata.getDetails
  Now returns an 'errataFrom' attribute.
• errata.setDetails, errata.create
  Now takes the 'errataFrom' attribute. It also takes the 'url' attribute within the bug structure.
• packages.listChangelog
  Now returns changelog string instead of an array of maps representing the changelog.
• system.listSubscribedChildChannels, system.getSubscribedBaseChannel, kickstart.listKickstartableChannels, channel.software.getDetails, channel.software.listChildren, channel.software.associateRepo, channel.software.disassociateRepo
  Now returns a list of contentSources structure instead of yumrepo_source_url and yumrepo_label
• configchannel.getFileRevisions, configchannel.getFileRevision, configchannel.getEncodedFileRevision, configchannel.createOrUpdatePath, configchannel.lookupFileInfo, system.config.lookupFileInfo, system.config.createOrUpdatePath
  Now returns the 'contents_enc64' attribute.
• channel.software.listErrata, system.getRelevantErrata, system.getRelevantErrataByType
  Now returns the 'issue_date' and 'update_date' attributes.
• system.getNetworkDevices
  Now returns a list of IPv6 address structures.
• system.comparePackages, system.comparePackageProfile
  Now returns the 'package_arch' attribute.
• system.getScriptResults, system.getScriptActionDetails
  Now returns the 'output_enc64' attribute.
• system.listPackages
  Now returns the 'id' attribute.
• system.getNetwork
  Now returns the 'ip6' attribute

APIs Recently Deprecated

• channel.listRedHatChannels
  Replaced by channel.listVendorChannels

APIs Recently Removed

• None

API Bugs

• BZ#698940
  The activationkey.addChildChannels API call checks for parent channel presence in the activation key before it added a child channel. If it failed to detect it, an exception resulted. In the latest version, activationkey.addChildChannels will now allow a child channel to be created with an activation key that has no base channel set.
• BZ#726114
  Satellite should be ignoring the parameters macro-start-delimiter and macro-end-delimiter to create a directory. Instead, this causes a traceback fault. This fix in configchannel.createOrUpdatePath ignores the macro delimiters if it is working with a directory.
• BZ#735381
  Previously, turning on auto_errata_update via the system.setDetails API did not schedule events correctly. This fix will allow the scheduling of errata update when auto_errata_update is enabled via the system.setDetails API.
• BZ#736661
  When calling system.config.createOrUpdatePath with the same content for multiple system, it causes an exception and leaves inconsistent config files that cannot be deleted using the Satellite graphical interface. This fix prevents system.config.createOrUpdatePath from causing a deadlock and will not cause exceptions.
• BZ#741477
  The API system.getDmi() method did not return any data when the "System" field in the RHNSERVERDMI table is null. The null dmi.getBios() API call which caused the issue has been fixed and system.getDmi() now returns values when RHNSERVERDMI has blank rows.
• BZ#743434
  The API system.getDmi() method did not return data when the "BIOS_VERSION" field in the RHNSERVERDMI table is null. The null dmi.getBios() API call which caused the issue has been fixed and system.getDmi() now returns values when RHNSERVERDMI has blank rows.
• BZ#760352
  System Currency only generated a web interface report. An API call has been added to System Currency to allow System Currency to generate an API report.
• BZ#773113
  Previously, the ks.cfg file could only be preserved via a check box in the web interface. A new XMLRPC API method was added to allow changes in the kickstart preserve ks.cfg option to work via the API.
• BZ#784288
  system.getScriptResults returned malformed XML. This fix prevents the system.getScriptResults API from sending XML invalid characters.
• BZ#804706
  The API documentation for deployAllSystems() did not show the date parameter when it called the deployAllSystems() method. The API documentation for deployAllSystems() has been fixed to include the date parameter.
• BZ#811875
  Configuration channels could not be queried as the content of channel_label when querying system.config.listFiles is not the label but the channel name instead. This is fixed in this release. system.config.listFiles now returns the channel label and not the channel name.
• BZ#814642
  The API documentation for errata.listPackages was incomplete and did not give a full accounting of the actual return of the API. The documentation has been updated to add file and checkstum_type.
• BZ#814838
  activationkey.listActivationKeys() returned all activation keys when called, instead of those that should only be visible for the user. This has been fixed to only show custom activation keys.
• BZ#816320
  listMyChannels does not return the correct provider_name for customer-created channels, and also lists Red Hat channels if they have custom child channels. In this version, only channels owned by the user's organization are returned by the API, and the provider_name now matches the organization name.
• BZ#816349
  The channel.listSharedChannels API previously listed channels not just from the current organization but from other organizations as well. This has been fixed. The Shared Channels page and API now only returns channels from the current org.
• BZ#816356
  Previously, the channel.listRedHatChannels API output included custom channels. This has been fixed and only Red Hat channels are now included in the channel.listRedHatChannels API output.
• BZ#818447
  Verbose logging of caller_ip details in the rhn_web_api.log file is now enabled.
• BZ#801463
  Issues with binary file handling prevented API binary file uploads. How configchannel.createOrUpdatePath handles binary files have been corrected and now accepts 'binary' attributes. In addition, configchannel.lookupFileInfo now returns base64 encoded content for binary files. API binary file uploads are now possible.