Spacewalk is an open source Linux and Solaris systems management solution. It allows you to:

• Inventory your systems (hardware and software information)
• Install and update software on your systems
• Collect and distribute your custom software packages into manageable groups
• Provision (Kickstart) your systems
• Manage and deploy configuration files to your systems
• Monitor your systems
• Provision virtual guests
• Start/stop/configure virtual guests

Yesterday the Spacewalk team announced the release of version 1.0! This is an exciting milestone. Here’s a summary of some of the things you’ll find in 1.0.

Features & Enhancements

• RHN Client code dropped HAL in favor of python-ugdev
• New script to rename Spacewalk hostname
• RHN Proxy migrated to mod_wsgi
• The Spacewalk java stack uses Tomcat 6 on Fedora 12

Known Issues

• Provider GPG key is sometimes not recognized causing packages to show up as ‘unknown Provider’
• Still no PostgreSQL support. We need HELP to move this forward.

Checkout the OFFICIAL announcement: here.
Congrats to the Spacewalk team for reaching this important milestone.