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Release of osbuild-composer 15

Today, we released osbuild-composer 15 with several very exciting features. Most notably, Composer has now support for building RHEL For Edge and also for building images for ppc64le and s390x architectures. Also, a lot of very nice fixes are included in this release.

Below you can find the official change log. Everyone is encouraged to upgrade!

  • Support for building RHEL for Edge is now available.

  • Composer has now support for building QCOW2 and tar images for ppc64le and s390x architectures.

  • Tar images for RHEL have returned. The Image Builder team found out that they are used as a way to install RHEL for Satellite.

  • Blueprints containing packages with a wildcard version no longer causes the built image to have both x86_64 and i686 versions of one package installed.

  • GPG check is now disabled by default. If you have a custom repository in /etc/osbuild-composer/repositories, just set gpg_check to true to enable the check. Note that all the pre-defined repositories have GPG check enabled.

  • Composer now supports a cancellation of jobs. This can be done by calling /compose/cancel route of Weldr API.

  • osbuild-composer previously crashed when osbuild didn’t return the right machine-readable output (e.g. because of a disk being out of space). This is now fixed.

  • Because of the GPG check change and RHEL for Edge support, composer now requires osbuild 17 or higher.

  • osbuild-composer previously required the python package to be installed on RHEL. Now, it uses the always-installed platform-python.

  • The buildroot for RHEL 8 didn’t have selinux labels before. This is now fixed.

  • When Composer crashed, it left temporary directories in /var/cache. The temporary directories are now moved to /var/tmp, which is managed by systemd with PrivateTmp set to true, so they’re now correctly removed after a crash.

  • Several weldr API routes were aligned to work in the same way as with Lorax. /blueprints/freeze now correctly supports option to output TOML. Projects and modules routes return all fields as Lorax returns.

  • AWS upload now logs the current state to the system journal. Emojis are of course included. 🎉

  • As always, amazing improvements in the CI infrastructure happened. Also, the test coverage went up. Thanks all for doing this!

Contributions from: Alexander Todorov, Brian C. Lane, Christian Kellner, Jakub Rusz, Lars Karlitski, Major Hayden, Martin Sehnoutka, Ondřej Budai, Peter Robinson, Tom Gundersen

— Liberec, 2020-06-12

Written by Ondřej Budai, on June 12, 2020.