Foreman Archive

Foreman & Katello Update | Fixes, CVEs, and New Releases

Installer Fix and CVE Updates At the Foreman Release Team Meeting on July 1, 2026, it was reported that the previously malfunctioning foreman-installer-source-release is now working again. The issue was resolved by two pull requests that restored compatibility between Podman and puppetlabs-concat. In the Nightly branch, as well as in the stable branches 3.18 and 3.19, four CVE fixes will also be released on the same day. Candlepin 4.8 and OCI Images In addition, Candlepin version 4.8 has been...

Katello as a package mirror for Icinga

by Dirk Götz

This article is about setting up Katello as a package mirror for Icinga. Specifically, Icinga for Windows, Debian / Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and other derivatives. In consulting, different products from our portfolio come together again and again, and since we naturally also work on open source projects and want to improve them, such a meeting is always the right starting point. This was also the case recently when I spoke to Christian Stein, the main contact person for Icinga for...

Data collection with the Support Collector

by Tobias Redel

Last updated: 22.11.2024 What is the Support Collector and how does it work? The Support Collector offers an easy way to automatically record all important information about a server and the installed software components. A ZIP file is created with just a few commands, which can then be made available to our support team. This file contains comprehensive information about the server and the software components, so that repeated requests for details such as software versions or configurations...