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This extends on our model how we do releases. It introduces `NEWS.md` as the authoritative source of our release-notes. It is pre-populated with the release-notes from the previous 'v9' release, and contains a suggestion for the upcoming 'v10'. Furthermore, this adds `make release` as a simple checklist target that contains instructions how to create a new release. Note that it is a passive make-target which has no side-effects at all. It only prints release information. With this in place, we can drop `RELEASE.md`, as all information is now combined in `make release`.
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# OSBuild - Build-Pipelines for Operating System Artifacts
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## CHANGES WITH 10:
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* A new man-page `osbuild-manifest(5)` is available, which describes
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the input format of the JSON manifest that `osbuild` expects.
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* Man-pages can now be built via `make man`. This supports `SRCDIR` and
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`BUILDDIR` variables to build out-of-tree.
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* Temporary objects in the object-store are now created in
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`.osbuild/tmp/`, rather than in the top-level directory. This should
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help cleaning up temporary objects after a crash. If no osbuild
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process is running, the `tmp/` subdirectory should not exist.
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* The final stage of a build-pipeline is no longer automatically
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committed. You must pass checkpoints via `--checkpoint` to commit
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anything to the store.
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* Improve curl timeout handling. This should improve osbuild behavior
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with slow or bad mirrors and make sure operations are retried
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correctly, or time-out if no progress is made.
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Contributions from: Christian Kellner, David Rheinsberg, Lars Karlitski,
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Major Hayden, Tom Gundersen
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- Berlin, 2020-03-18
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## CHANGES WITH 9:
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* The last pipeline stage is no longer automatically committed to the
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store. This used to be a special case to make things work, but it has
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now been properly fixed.
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From now on, if you want a stage committed to the store, you need to
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pass a `--checkpoint` option for the stage.
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* The runner for the host system is now auto-detected. The
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`runners/org.osbuild.default` symlink is now longer required (nor
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supported).
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* A generic runner named `org.osbuild.linux` was added. This runner
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uses the default value of `ID` in `/etc/os-release`. That is, if the
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local OS cannot be detected, or if no `os-release` file is provided,
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this is the fallback runner that is used.
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This runner only performs the bare minimum of initialization. It is
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enough to run the most basic stages on all systems we tested.
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* On Archlinux, the generic runner will now be used.
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* A new runner for RHEL-8.1 is available.
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* The JSON input to `osbuild` is now a monolithic manifest format which
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contains all build information. For now, this means the input
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manifest can contain a `pipeline:` key with the pipeline definition,
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as well as a `sources:` key with external source definitions
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previously passed via `--sources`.
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The old input format is still supported, but will be dropped in the
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next release.
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* The osbuild sources now come with a man-page `osbuild(1)`. Further
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pages will follow in the future.
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Contributions from: Christian Kellner, David Rheinsberg, Jacob Kozol,
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Lars Karlitski, Major Hayden, Martin Sehnoutka, Tom
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Gundersen
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- Berlin, 2020-03-05
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## CHANGES BEFORE 9:
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* Initial implementation of 'osbuild'.
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Contributions from: Brian C. Lane, Christian Kellner, David Rheinsberg,
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Jacob Kozol, Lars Karlitski, Major Hayden, Martin
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Sehnoutka, Ondřej Budai, Sehny, Tom Gundersen,
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Tomas Tomecek, Will Woods
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