debian-forge-composer/NEWS.md
Ondřej Budai 09109b4f8e 9
Release osbuild-composer version 9
2020-04-01 15:56:57 +02:00

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OSBuild Composer - Operating System Image Composition Services

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