We are happy to announce version 11 of osbuild, again one of our regular biweekly releases. Most of our efforts were again spent on general cleanups and minor documentation improvements. No big reworks or feature announcements this time.

Below you can find the official change log, compiled By Christian Kellner. Everyone is encouraged to upgrade!

CHANGES WITH 11:

• Drop support for legacy input: passing in non-manifest style pipelines is now not supported anymore.

• Support for specifying an UUID for partitions when using the GPT partition layout was added to the org.osbuild.qemu assembler.

• Fix a crash in the case the assembler failed, which was caused by cleanup up the object while the object was still being written to.

• Delay the cleanup of the build tree to after the error checking since in the error case there is nothing to clean up and trying to do so will lead to crash.

• objectstore.Object now directly cleans its working tree up, in contrast to relying on the implicit cleanup of TemporaryDirectory. One advantage of this is that the custom cleanup code can handle immutable directories, which Python 3 fails to clean up.

• Drop custom os-release creation from the RHEL 8.2 runner. The issue that made this neccessary got fixed upstream.

• Ensure the build tree is always being built even if there are no stages specified.

• spec file: Do no generate dependencies for the internal files and add NEWS.md to the documentation section.

• The Fedora 30 based aarch64 example was fixed and now builds again.

Contributions from: Christian Kellner, David Rheinsberg, Lars Karlitski, Major Hayden, Martin Sehnoutka, Ondřej Budai

– Berlin, 2020-04-01