RHBA-2017:2961 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated cockpit packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras.

Description

Cockpit is a server administration interface that makes it easy to administer GNU/Linux servers through a web browser.

The cockpit dashboard, docker, pcp, and storaged packages have been upgraded to upstream version 151, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. Most notable changes are:

• New package "cockpit-packagekit", which provides a "Software Updates" page for installing package updates. (BZ#1479836)
• Fix tooltip on "Edit Server" button on Dashboard. (BZ#1449887)

(BZ#1493978)

Users of cockpit are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs and add these enhancements.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Virtualization 4 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power 9 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1449887 - The buttons hint display as different style in cockpit dashboard server list.
• BZ - 1479836 - Include new cockpit-packagekit subpackage into RHEL 7 Extras
• BZ - 1493978 - Rebase Cockpit in RHEL Extras 7.4.2

CVEs

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References

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