RHBA-2018:1066 - 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, packagekit, and storaged packages have been upgraded to upstream version 160, 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)

• New package "cockpit-machines", which provides a "Machines" page for managing libvirt virtual machines
• Add NFS client support to the Storage page
• Configure data deduplication with VDO devices on Storage page
• Add checkboxes for common Storage encryption and mount options
• Adjust cockpit-storaged dependencies to storaged → udisks2 rename

(BZ#1525418)

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 Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
• Red Hat Virtualization 4 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Virtualization for IBM Power LE 4 for RHEL 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power 9 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM System z (Structure A) 7 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 1510667 - Installation of cockpit-storaged from Extras fails dependencies
• BZ - 1526135 - Rebase Cockpit in RHEL Extras 7.5
• BZ - 1548988 - Disable VDO async option

CVEs

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References

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