NEWS.md

OSBuild Composer - Operating System Image Composition Services

CHANGES WITH 11:

    * The support for uploading VHD images to Azure is now available.
    
    * AMI images are now produced in the vhdx format. This fixes
     the issue that those images couldn't be previously booted in EC2.

    * In version 10 the logs weren't saved when osbuild failed. This
     is now fixed.
     
    * The warnings when upgrading/removing the RPM package are now fixed.
     Note that updating to version 11 still produces them because
     the upgrade process runs also the scriptlets from version 10.
     
    * The size calculation for Fedora 31 vhd images is fixed.
    
    * The size field was removed from the tar assembler struct.
     The field has actually never been supported in osbuild
     and it doesn't make any sense.
    
    * The minimal required version of osbuild is bumped to 12.
    
    * This release also got big upgrades to the testing infrastructure,
     more tests are run on a CI and they now run faster. Also, the unit
     test coverage is improved.

    Contributions from: Alexander Todorov, Jacob Kozol, Jakub Rusz,
                        Jiri Kortus, Lars Karlitski, Major Hayden,
                        Ondřej Budai, Tom Gundersen

    - Liberec, 2020-04-29

CHANGES WITH 10:

    * The correct metadata_expire value is now passed to dnf. In the
     past, this led to a lot of failed builds, because dnf has the
     default expire time set to 48 hours, whereas the Fedora updates
     repos have the expire time of 6 hours. 

    * A decision was made that the minimal Go version required for
     building the project is 1.12. This is now enforced by the CI.

    * The intermediate s3 object is now deleted after the upload to AWS
     is finished. It has no value for users.
     
    * The upload to AWS has now a bigger timeout. The current coronavirus
     situation is affecting the AWS responsiveness in a negative way.

    * The weldr API has better test coverage. In the process, several
     bugs in sources and composes were fixed.
    
    * Worker and jobqueue packages are receiving a big refactoring.
     This is the prerequisite for having multiple job queues for building
     images for different distributions and architectures.

    * The image tests now boot the AWS images in the actual EC2. 

    Contributions from: Alexander Todorov, Brian C. Lane,
                        Jacob Kozol, Jakub Rusz, Lars Karlitski,
                        Major Hayden, Martin Sehnoutka,
                        Ondřej Budai, Tom Gundersen

    - Liberec, 2020-04-15

CHANGES WITH 9:

    * Fedora is now build with updates and modules repositories
     enabled, therefore up-to-date images are now produced.
     
    * A new man-page `osbuild-composer(7)` with high-level
     description of the project is now available. It can be built
     by the new man target in the Makfile.
     
    * All Fedora images have now a generic initramfs. This should
     make the images more reproducible and less likely failing to boot
     if the image build was done in a less usual environment.
     
    * Metalink is now used to access the Fedora repositories. This change
     should hopefully lead to more stable builds.

    * Composer is now released to Fedora 32 and 33 in a new
     osbuild-composer package. The old golang-github-osbuild-composer
     package will be automatically upgraded to the new one.

    * The internal osbuild-pipeline command now has a more user-friendly
     interface.

    * The RCM API (in development, experimental) is reworked to allow
     any distribution-architecture-image type combination.

    * The work on a high-level description of image types began.
     See image-types directory.
     
    * The osbuild-worker arguments are reworked, they are now much more
     flexible.
     
    * The image-info tool used in the integration tests can be now run
     on Fedora 32.
     
    * The unit test coverage is now much bigger, thanks to all
     contributors!
     
    * Internal distribution representation is significantly reworked,
     this simplifies the process of adding the support for all currently
     missing architectures.
     
    * Integration tests were also improved, the image tests are fully
     switched to the new Go implementation and an automatic way
     of generating test cases is added. The weldr API coverage is also
     much better. Several bugs in it were fixed in the process.
     
    * Codecov.io is now used to monitor the test coverage of the code.
     
    * As always, minor fixes and improvements all over the place.

    Contributions from: Alexander Todorov, Brian C. Lane, David
                        Rheinsberg, Jacob Kozol, Jakub Rusz, Jiri
                        Kortus, Lars Karlitski, Martin Sehnoutka,
                        Ondřej Budai, Tom Gundersen

    - Liberec, 2020-04-01

CHANGES WITH 8:

    * All generated pipelines now use the `org.osbuild.rpm` stage of
      *osbuild*, rather than `org.osbuild.dnf`. This improves on splitting
      resource acquisition from image building and should make image
      composition more reliable and faster.

    * The `STATE_DIRECTORY` environment variable now allows changing the
      state directory path of `osbuild-composer`. This is to support older
      systemd versions that do not pass in `StateDirectory=` to the service
      executable.

    * Minor fixes and improvements all over the place.

    Contributions from: Alexander Todorov, Brian C. Lane, Jacob Kozol, Jakub
                        Rusz, Lars Karlitski, Major Hayden, Martin
                        Sehnoutka, Ondřej Budai, Tom Gundersen

    - Berlin, 2020-03-18

CHANGES WITH 7:

    * Support for `RHEL 8.1` as image type is now available.

    * Semantic versioning of blueprints in the lorax API is now enforced.
      This was always the case for the original lorax API, and *Composer*
      now follows this as well.

    * Lots of internal improvements, including many automatic tests,
      improved error handling, better cache directory management, as well
      as preparations to move over from `org.osbuild.dnf` to
      `org.osbuild.rpm` in all build pipelines.

    Contributions from: Alexander Todorov, Brian C. Lane, Jacob Kozol, Lars
                        Karlitski, Major Hayden, Ondřej Budai, Tom Gundersen

    - Berlin, 2020-03-05

CHANGES BEFORE 7:

    * Initial implementation of 'osbuild-composer'.

    Contributions from: Alexander Todorov, Brian C. Lane, Christian Kellner,
                        Jacob Kozol, Jakub Rusz, Lars Karlitski, Martin
                        Sehnoutka, Ondřej Budai, Tom Gundersen