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@pirat89 pirat89 released this 21 Feb 14:36
v0.18.0
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Packaging

  • Requires cpio (#979)
  • Requires python3-gobject-base, NetworkManager-libnm (#969)
  • Bump leapp-repository-dependencies to 9 (#969, #979)

Upgrade handling

Fixes

  • Add leapp RHUI packages to an allowlist to drop confusing reports (#995)
  • Check only mounted XFS partitions (#1027)
  • Detect the kernel-core RPM instead of kernel to prevent an error during post-upgrade phases (#1024)
  • Disable the amazon-id DNF plugin on AWS during the upgrade stage to omit error messages during the upgrade process caused by missing network connection (#990)
  • Do not create new *pyc files when running leapp after the DNF upgrade transaction (#1017)
  • Enable upgrades on s390x when /boot is part of rootfs (#991)
  • Extend the allow list of RHUI clients by azure-sap-apps to omit confusing report (#974)
  • Filter out PES events unrelated for the used upgrade path and handle overlapping events (#1008)
  • Fix scan of ceph volumes on systems without ceph-osd (#1011)
  • Fix scan of ceph volumes when ceph-osd container is not found (#986)
  • Fix systemd symlinks that become incorrect during the IPU (#972)
  • Fix the check of memory (RAM) limits (#984)
  • Fix the upgrade of IBM Z machines configured with ZFCP (#983)
  • Ignore external accounts in /etc/passwd (#958)
  • Inhibit the upgrade when entries in /etc/fstab cause overshadowing during the upgrade (#1009)
  • Prevent leapp failures caused by re-run of leapp in the upgrade initramfs after previous failure, which causes additional confusing error message hiding original bugs (#996)
  • Prevent the upgrade with RHSM when a baseos and an appstream target repositories are not discovered (#1001)
  • RHUI(Azure) handle correctly various SAP images (#1037)
  • Rework the network configuration handling and parse the configuration data properly (#969)
  • Set RHSM release for non-ga and non-beta channels (#1033)
  • Use the "grub" library to find the GRUB device (#989)
  • [IPU 7 -> 8] Detect corrupted grubenv file (#1012)
  • [IPU 7 -> 8] Ensure that rsyncd stays enabled if it is enabled prior the upgrade(#1043)
  • [IPU 7 -> 8] Ensure that satellite metapackages are installed after the upgrade (#994)
  • [IPU 7 -> 8] Ensure the device_cio_free service stays enabled on s390x after the upgrade (#977)
  • [IPU 7 -> 8] Fixed checks for RHEL SAP IPU 7.9 -> 8.6 (#978)
  • [IPU 7 -> 8] Fixed migration of ntp to chrony when the ntp service is masked (#966)
  • [IPU 7 -> 8] Prevent the traceback during migration of sendmail configuration files when the package is not installed (#1041)
  • [IPU 7 -> 8] Satellite: reindex all related databases to fix issues due to new locales in RHEL 8 (#1007, #1018)
  • [IPU 7 -> 8] Use the correct domain name in SSSD reports (#1040)
  • [IPU 8 -> 9] Added checks for RHEL SAP IPU 8.6 -> 9.0 (#978)
  • [IPU 8 -> 9] CheckVDO: Ask user for the confirmation only on failures and undetermined devices (#961)
  • [IPU 8 -> 9] Fix the kernel detection during initramfs creation for new kernel on RHEL 9.2+ (#1048)
  • [IPU 8 -> 9] Fix the upgrade on Azure using RHUI for SAP Apps images (#975)
  • [IPU 8 -> 9] Handle correctly firewalld version 0.8 (#963)

Enhancements

  • Set new upgrade paths (#988): -- RHEL 7.9 -> 8.8, 8.6 (default: 8.8)
    • RHEL 8.6 -> 9.0
    • RHEL 8.8 -> 9.2
  • Check that used leapp data are valid and compatible with the installed leapp-repository (#1003)
  • Detect a proxy configuration in YUM/DNF and adjust an error msg on issues caused by the configuration (#914)
  • Detect and report systemd symlinks that are broken before the upgrade (#972)
  • Drop obsoleted upgrade paths (#1047)
  • Improve remediation instructions for packages in unknown repositories (#1010)
  • Improve the error message to guide users when discovered more space is needed (#956)
  • Introduce --nogpgcheck option to skip checking of RPM signatures (#910)
  • Introduced an option to use an ISO file as a target RHEL version content source (#979)
  • Introduced possibility to specify what systemd services should be enabled/disabled on the upgraded system (#964)
  • Map the target repositories also based on the installed content (#967)
  • Provide common information about systemd services (#959)
  • Register subscribed systems automatically to Red Hat Insights unless --no-insights-register is used (#1000)
  • Remove obsoleted GPG keys provided by RH after the upgrade to prevent errors (#1022)
  • Run upgrade process with checking RPM signatures by default (#910, #993, #1025)
  • Save breadcrumbs results as RHSM facts (#1002)
  • Small improvements in various reports (#1038, #1039, #1032)
  • [IPU 8 -> 9] Detect CIFS also when upgrading from RHEL8 to RHEL9 (#1035)
  • [IPU 8 -> 9] Detect RoCE on IBM Z machines and check the configuration is safe for the upgrade (#1030)
  • [IPU 8 -> 9] Enable upgrades of RHEL 8 for SAP HANA to RHEL 9 on ppc64le (#1042)
  • [IPU 8 -> 9] Improve the handling of blocklisted certificates (#992)

Additional changes interesting for devels

  • Started work on bringing up networking inside the upgrade initramfs - currently available for testing and development purposes when LEAPP_DEVEL_INITRAM_NETWORK is set (#960)
  • Add leapp debug tools to the upgrade initramfs - dracut upgrade module (#997)
  • Enable disabling of DNF plugins in the dnfplugin library (#990)

New Contributors

Full Changelog: v0.17.0...v0.18.0

Contributors

rmetrich, TomasTomecek, and 4 other contributors
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