# Release 0.17.0

[pirat89]

Packaging

• Provide and require leapp-repository-dependencies 7 (Packaging: Update leapp-repository deps for RHEL 8+ #952)
• Provide leapp-command(<CMD>) for each CLI command provided by leapp-repository (Packaging: Provide leapp-command(<cmd>) for each leapp sub-cmd #947)
• Require dracut, kmod, procps-ng on RHEL 8+ (Packaging: Update leapp-repository deps for RHEL 8+ #952)
• Require leapp-framework >= 3.1 (Use library function is_inhibitor to check for failures #905, Changes around root_scanner to accommodate with non-utf8 filenames #927)

Upgrade handling

Fixes

• Do not create the upgrade bootloader entry when the dnf dry-run actor fails (InterimPreparationPhase: change the error policy to FailImmediately #912)
• Do not inhibit in-place upgrades in case LUKS volumes are Ceph OSDs ([inhibitwhenluks] Allow OS upgrade if luks volumes are only Ceph OSDs #735)
• Fix & improve application of custom selinux rules to be less error prone and do not override changes done by RPM scriptlets (selinux: Improve importing customizations #925)
• Fix detection of deprecated devices (and drivers) regarding the PCI address (pciscanner: Fix 2 issues in regards to pci address handling #881)
• Fix detection of deprecated kernel modules (pcidevicesscanner: Also match deprecation data against kernel modules #874)
• Fix the false positive NFS storage detection on NFS servers (CheckNFS actor should respect nfsd filesystem #888)
• Fix the issues on systems with the LANGUAGE environment variable (Fix actor tracebacks for non-default lang #887)
• Fix the root directory scan to deal with non-utf8 filenames (Changes around root_scanner to accommodate with non-utf8 filenames #927)
• Skip comment lines when parsing the GRUB configuration file (Skip comment lines when parsing grub configuration file #883)
• Stop propagating the “debug” and ”enforcing=0” kernel cmdline options into the target kernel cmdline options (Stop debug kernelopt from getting to target #938, Dont propragate enforcing=0 kernel arg to target system #950)
• [IPU 7 -> 8] Fix the upgrade of the Satellite server (call Satellite installer with --disable-system-checks if possible #875, Ensure the right repositories are enabled on Satellite Capsules #878, restrict Satellite upgrades to x86_64 #879 BZ#2087144 - do not enable Ansible repository when upgrading Satellite #890, BZ#2089887 - enable the Satellite module when uprading #899, BZ#2104730 - correct PostgreSQL data ownership after move #916, 934)
• [IPU 7 -> 8] Fix SSSD: Prune old cache files (the format of data is incompatible) (sssd: Fix sssd startup problem due to cache files #922)
• [IPU 8 -> 9] Enable the CRB repository for the upgrade only if enabled on the source system (Move blacklistrepositories to common #942)
• [IPU 8 -> 9] Drop obsoleted actor blocking upgrade on z16 (Drop the checkcpu actor from the el8toel9 repo #892)
• [IPU 8 -> 9] Fix cloud provider detection on AWS (Fix for RHEL 8.6 to 9 upgrades on AWS #920)
• [IPU 8 -> 9] Fix detention of the latest kernel on RHEL 8+ systems (Detect kernel-core|kernel-rt-core on RHEL 8+ #909)
• [IPU 8 -> 9] Fix issues caused by leapp artifacts from previous in-place upgrades (Remove temporary leapp directory in /root #889)
• [IPU 8 -> 9] Fix issues with false positive switch to emergency console during the upgrade (Add "Wants" for root and related filesystem targets #906)
• [IPU 8 -> 9] Fix swap page size on aarch64 (Fix swap page size during el8toel9 upgrade on aarch64 #937, PR#937 Follow up bugfix #948)
• [IPU 8 -> 9] Fix the VDO scanner to skip partitions unrelated to VDO and adjust error messages (Update LsblkEntry (StorageInfo) and fix the vdo scanner #919)

Enhancements

• Add 8.7 & 9.1 Beta & GA product certificates (Add prod certs for 8.7 & 9.1 (Beta + GA) #891)
• Detect /var/lib/leapp being mounted in a non-persistent fashion (Check if /var/lib/leapp is mounted in a persistent fashion #921)
• Detect /var/lib/leapp mounted with the noexec option (storage: check for /var mounted with the noexec option #908)
• Improve the report msg when NFS partitions are discovered providing info about concrete mountpoints (Display the NFS mounts inhibiting upgrade #806)
• Inform about necessary migrations related to bacula-director (Add baculacheck actor #896)
• [IPU 7 -> 8] The default upgrade path for RHEL SAP is 7.9 -> 8.6 (change the default upgrade path for HANA to 8.6 #939)
• [IPU 7 -> 8] Detect and fix missing newline at the end of /etc/default/grub (Detect missing new line in /etc/default/grub and fix it #945)
• [IPU 7 -> 8] Handle upgrades of SAP Apps systems on Azure (RHUI: Add 7to8 upgrade path for SAP Apps on Azure #926)
• [IPU 7 -> 8] Handle upgrades on RHUI Google Cloud (Handle 7 to 8 IPUs on Google Cloud #897, Extend RHUI map to support 8>9 upgrades of RHUI GCP systems #946)
• [IPU 8 -> 9] Support upgrade path RHEL 8.7 -> 9.0 and RHEL SAP 8.6 -> 9.0 (Fix set of supported OS versions for IPU 8 -> 9 #903, Add upgrade path 8.7 -> 9.0 #894)
• [IPU 8 -> 9] Add actors covering removal of NIS components on RHEL 9 (el8toel9: Add nis_check actor #851)
• [IPU 8 -> 9] Add checks for obsolete .NET versions (Add actor that checks for obsolete .NET versions. #867)
• [IPU 8 -> 9] Allow specifying the report schema v1.2.0 (Allow specifying --report-schema 1.2.0 #872)
• [IPU 8 -> 9] Check and handle upgrades with custom crypto policies (Handle custom crypto policies during upgrade #898)
• [IPU 8 -> 9] Check and migrate OpenSSH configuration (Openssh PermitRootLogin update from el8 to el9 #864, Add actor for updating OpenSSH configuration to RHEL9 #860)
• [IPU 8 -> 9] Check and migrate multipath configuration the upgrade (Update multipath actors for el8toel9 #886)
• [IPU 8 -> 9] Check minimum memory requirements (Move checkmemory actor to common #935)
• [IPU 8 -> 9] Enable Base and SAP In-place upgrades on Azure (Handle 8>9 upgrades on Azure of SAP systems using RHUI #943)
• [IPU 8 -> 9] Enable in-place upgrades in Azure RHEL 8 base images using RHUI (Enable 8to9 ipu on azure vanilla #918)
• [IPU 8 -> 9] Handle upgrades of SAP systems on AWS (Enable 8to9 ipu on aws sap #924)
• [IPU 8 -> 9] Inhibit upgrade when NVIDIA driver is detected (el8toel9: Warn about the NVIDIA driver before upgrade #880)
• [IPU 8 -> 9] Migrate blocklisted CAs ([IPU 8 -> 9] Migrate blacklisted CAs (hotfix) #882)
• [IPU 8 -> 9] Migrate the OpenSSL configuration (Migrate OpenSSL configuration to el9 #900)
• [IPU 8 -> 9] Report changes around SCP and SFTP (Openssh sftp #863, Add missing documentation link to the SFTP deprecation #893)

Additional changes interesting for devels

• Extend LsblkEntry model in StorageInfo by kernel name and size of partition in bytes (Update LsblkEntry (StorageInfo) and fix the vdo scanner #919)
• Mass refactoring: Fix imports in actors and libraries to follow project guidelines (Replace use of reporting.(Tags|Flags) by reporting.Groups #932)
• Mass refactoring: Replace use of deprecated reporting.(Tags|Flags) by reporting.Groups (Replace use of reporting.(Tags|Flags) by reporting.Groups #932)
• PESEventScanner actor has been fully refactored (Refactor PESEventScanner #856, Fix upgrade crashing due to attempting to enable non-existing modules #941)
• Use library function is_inhibitor to check for failures (Use library function is_inhibitor to check for failures #905)

Signed-off-by: Petr Stodulka [email protected]

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[pirat89]

Builds are failing as Packit is trying to download the tarball for leapp-repository v0.17.0 from github - which does not exist yet as the tag will be created after we create the release.. regarding that, forcing the merge so builds will be working later.

2022-08-23 15:35:49.163 base_git.py       ERROR  Failed to download source from https://github.com/oamg/leapp-repository/archive/v0.17.0.tar.gz#/leapp-repository-0.17.0.tar.gz: HTTPError('404 Client Error: Not Found for url: https://codeload.github.com/oamg/leapp-repository/tar.gz/v0.17.0#/leapp-repository-0.17.0.tar.gz')