debian-forge-composer/NEWS.md

OSBuild Composer - Operating System Image Composition Services

CHANGES WITH 12:

• In previous versions support for running remote workers was broken. This is now fixed and running remote workers is once again possible. See #568 for more information.

• The job queue and the store are now two separate Go packages. One of the benefits is that it is now possible to build images without using the store which is too complicated for some usecases.

• A blueprint name is now checked against the regex ^[a-zA-Z0-9._-]+$. This is the same limitation as in lorax-composer.

• All osbuild calls now use the new --output-directory argument. This change is a must because the old way of retrieving images from the osbuild store will soon be deprecated.

• Some routes from the weldr API are now implemented in a more efficient way.

• As always, the team worked hard on improving the tests and the CI.

Contributions from: David Rheinsberg, Jiri Kortus, Lars Karlitski, Major Hayden, Ondřej Budai

— Liberec, 2020-05-13

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