Pulp 2.14.2 Generally Available

Pulp 2.14.2 is now Generally Available in the stable repositories:

• pulp-2-stable
• pulp-stable

This release includes bug fixes for Pulp Platform, RPM Plugin, Puppet Plugin, and the nectar library.

Upgrading

The Pulp 2 stable repositories are included in the pulp repo files:

• Fedora 24 & 25 & 26
• RHEL 7

After enabling the pulp-stable or pulp-2-stable repository, you'll want to follow the standard upgrade path with migrations:

$ sudo systemctl stop httpd pulp_workers pulp_resource_manager pulp_celerybeat pulp_streamer goferd
$ sudo yum upgrade
$ sudo -u apache pulp-manage-db
$ sudo systemctl start httpd pulp_workers pulp_resource_manager pulp_celerybeat pulp_streamer goferd

The pulp_streamer and goferd services should be omitted if those services are not installed.

Issues Addressed

Pulp

Pulp

• 3036 Pulp streamer dumps core on F26
• 2979 Celery workers may deadlock when PULP_MAX_TASKS_PER_CHILD is used

Python Support - 2964 Too easy for user to create empy python repo when syncing from feed

Docker Support - 2847 Skip download of blobs with foreign mediatype.

Nectar - 2960 UnicodeEncodeError in case of a non-ASCII character in comments provided with SSL cert/key/CA

View this list in Redmine.

el6 Support Reminder

As mentioned previously, Pulp no longer supports el6 starting with 2.12.

Pulp users running on RHEL or CentOS 6 are recommended to upgrade their Pulp server to the current major version of that OS, RHEL or CentOS 7.