Release 0.11.0

Upgrade handling

Fixes

• Do not crash when the /root/temp_leapp_py3 directory exists (when upgrade is executed multiple times) (#534, rhbz#1858479)
• Do not detect grub device on the s390x architecture (ZIPL is used there) (#515)
• Consider the katello rpm being signed by Red Hat (#532)
• Omit printing grub binary data on terminal which could break terminal output (#491)
• Provide just a single remedition command in the pre-upgrade report to be compatible with Satellite and Cockpit (#540)
• Search repository files only in directories used by DNF (#525)

Enhancements

• Changed supported upgrade paths: RHEL-ALT 7.6 -> 8.2; RHEL 7.9 -> 8.2 (#509)
• Check whether PAM modules, that are not present on RHEL 8, are used (#533)
• Inhibit upgrade when local repositories (referred by file://) are detected (#531)
• Introduced actors for migration of Authconfig to Authselect (#533)
• Support for an in-place upgrade for z15 machines - s390x architecture (#537)
• Updated list of removed drivers on RHEL 8 (#530)

Additional changes interesting for devels

• Actor's private libraries and test files have been renamed following the new contribution guidelines (#500)
• Introduced the CurrentActorMocked class in the testutils library to simplify writing unit tests (#489)
• Significant improvement of test execution performance (#500, #506)
• Updated production certificates for testing upgrades to RHEL 8.3 (Beta | HTB) (#509)

Related leapp framework release: https://github.com/oamg/leapp/releases/tag/v0.11.0

Release 0.10.0

Packaging

• Add dependency on python2-leapp and leapp-framework
• Add python-requests as dependency (#407)
• Drop leapp sos plugin (it's part of the sos rpm in RHEL 7.7+)
• Remove dependency on Jinja2 related packages (#407)

Upgrade handling

Fixes

• Do not mount pseudo and unsupposrted FS to overlayfs (e.g. proc)
• Evaluate PES events transitively to create correct data for the upgrade transaction
• Fix boot order on EFI systems
• Fix checking of kernel drivers (#400)
• Fix failures caused by local rpms added into the upgrade transaction
• Fix getting mount information with mountpoints with spaces in the path
• Fix handling of XFS without ftype for every such mounted FS
• Fix issue with random booting into old RHEL 7 kernel after the upgrade
• Fix issues on systems with statically mapped IPs in /etc/hosts
• Fix issues with device mapper and udev in a container
• Fix issues with failing rpm transaction calculation because of duplicate instructions for dnf
• Fix various issues related to RHSM (e.g. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1702691)
• Fix yum repository scan in case of repositories with invalid URL
• Inhibit the upgrade if multiple kernel-devel rpms are installed
• Inhibit the upgrade when links on root dir '/' are not absolute to save the world
• Parse correctly kernel cmdline inside the initrd (#383) (fixes various issues on s390x)
• Print warnings instead of a hard failure when expected rpms cannot be found (e.g. python3-nss inside an rpm module) (#405)
• Remove java11-openjdk-headless during the upgrade (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1820172)
• Throw a nice error when invalid locale is set (#430)

Enhancements

• Add initial multipath support (it doesn't handle all cases yet)
• Changed upgrade paths: RHEL-ALT 7.6 -> 8.2; RHEL 7.8 -> 8.2
• Check if the latest installed kernel is booted before the upgrade
• Check that the system satisfies minimum memory requirements for the upgrade (#413)
• Dump grub2-editenv list output to help with issues related to the default kernel for the boot
• Improved report related to KDE/GNOME
• Inhibit the upgrade for ipa-server (#481)
• Inhibit the upgrade on EFI systems when efibootmgr is not installed
• Inhibit the upgrade on FIPS systems
• Inhibit the upgrade when the raised dialogs are missing answers (#589)
• Introduce new ways of using custom repositories during the transaction
• Make report messages more explicit about Dialogs (#600)
• Migrate SpamAssassin
• Migrate cups-filters
• Migrate sane-backend
• Modify vim configuration to keep the original behaviour
• Report changes in wireshark
• Support the upgrade without the use of subscription-manager
• The name and baseurl field in the CustomTargetRepository message are optional now
• Use the new framework mechanism to inhibit the upgrade without reporting errors
• Various texts are improved based on the feedback

Additional changes interesting for devels

• Add new functions in the config library to get envars related to leapp
• Add support for testing with Beta and HTB systems
• LEAPP_SKIP_CHECK_OS_RELEASE has been renamed to LEAPP_DEVEL_SKIP_CHECK_OS_RELEASE
• Provide info about kernel cmdline via KernelCmdline message
• The IPUConfig message contains information about booted kernel
• The code is mostly Py2/Py3 compatible now and all PRs are tested on Py2 and Py3 compatibility (linters, unit-tests)
• The config.version library contains is_rhel_alt() for detection of RHEL-ALT

Release 0.9.0

Packaging

• Added dependency on policycoreutils-python-utils & policycoreutils-python

Upgrade handling

Fixes

• Changed the title of the boot entry to be valid for ZIPL
• Do not remove packages which shall be installed/kept on target system (#345)
• Fix adding of local rpms into the upgrade transaction (#348)
• Fix check of active kernel modules (#330)
• Fix handling of XFS filesystems with ftype=0
• Fix ntp migration: extract configs into the right directories
• Fix traceback when RHSM is skipped
• Handle possible error when setting release on upgraded system
• No size limit on leapp.db in sosreport (#309)
• Require the biosdevname dracut module on the intel architecture only
• Retry some actions of subscription-manager on failure to reduce number of issues (#293)
• Upgrade only packages signed by Red Hat

Enhancements

• Add checkskipphase actor: skip to the report phase if inhibitor is produced to improve user experience and handle errors when we cannot work with target content
• Change upgrade path from RHEL(-ALT) 7.6 (EUS) to RHEL 8.1
• Check NSS configuration for use of wins or winbind
• Check SSSD configuration
• Check use of removed PAM modules
• Check whether CPU on s390x is supported on RHEL 8
• Enable and make possible upgrades on all architectures
• Enable repositories used for upgrade on the upgraded system
• Handle systems with EFI boot
• Handle upgrade on systems with multiple partitions
• Improve message on failed subscription-manager and dnf
• Improved the reporting capability
• Migrate SELinux customizations
• Process new PES data format + process PES events in order of releases
• Update the list of packages supposed to be removed during the upgrade
  handling of errors related to work with target content

Additional changes interesting for devels

• Allow override the target version for devel purposes (#292)
• CI/CD - master builds begins with release number 100 instead of 1
• DEVEL_ONLY: Allow accepting unsigned pkgs
• Add new "Target*" phases into IPUWorkflow for work with target content during preparation phase
• Mass refactoring because of new reporting implementation

Release v0.8.1

Release v0.8.1

Upgrade handling

Fixes

• Do not install python2-tools (#290)

Enhancements

• Skip comments in repository mapping file
• Clean "to_remove" transaction file to reflect resolved problems with rich dependencies

Release v0.8.0

Release 0.8.0

Packaging

• fix invalid Source
• fix date usage to be compatible with BSD
• update the Makefile to be compatible with newer versions of COPR client

Upgrade handling

Fixes

• Add dependencies into the leapp_resume service to not run the FirstBoot phase too early
• Add missing dependency on python-udev & python3-udev
• Correctly remove installed packages based on PES data (#177)
• Do no traceback when dmi subsystem is not available
• Dracut: Ensure the $NEWROOT is set and used default otherwise
• Fix inhibition when ethX and additional network interfaces exist
• Fix parsing of /etc/fstab to handle lines without optional fields and ensure
  the structure is right (#263)
• Fix several issues when work with grubby
• Fix tests in several actors
• Force the new target kernel to be default boot entry (#274)
• Get also firewall facts from ip6tables
• Get correctly facts about selinux
• Handle the case when no target repositories has been found
• Ignore gpgcheck for upgrade repositories when we are instructed to set gpgcheck to False through the plugin config
• Report the full real path to bundled rpms as sometimes the paths have been broken when used symlinks
• Set additional rpms to remove explicitly during the upgrade as they break RPM transaction
• Use rhel8 systemd-nspawn to avoid removing of /etc/localtime and /etc/resolv.conf during the upgrade

Enhancements

• Add informational actors for: acpid, chrony, dosfstools, grep, irssi, postfix, powertop
• Add new actors to check tcp wrappers
• Added experimental actor to calculate the RPM upgrade transaction before the report phase (disabled by default now)
• Check OpenSSH configuration
• Check and handle vftpd configuration
• Check kernel drivers
• Check the system is subscribed and attached to an SKU to be able to get content for upgrade
• Enable the CRB repository when the Optional repository is enabled
• Enable upgrade only from RHEL 7.6
• Generate initeram disk on the fly
• Migrate NTP to chronyd
• Migrate brltty configuration
• Migrate sendmail
• Notify user when Red Hat-signed RPMs are installed from unkown repositories
• Set RHSM target release after the upgrade to expected version of the system
• User RHEL 8 RPM stack to calculate the upgrade rpm transaction to be able to process rpms with rich dependencies

Additional changes interesting for devels

• Add IPU Workflow configuration actor (#249)
• Add the dnfplugin library with functions for work with DNF
• Add the guards library with various guards usually used with the run function from stdlib
• Add the mounting library implementing an isolation view layer when work with containers and mounting
• Add the overlaygen library for genearating and cleaning of overlayfs
• Add the rpms library to simplify lookup of installed rpms
• Add the scanrhsm library for work with the subscription-manager tool
• Add the utils library with several handy functions
• Added shared config libraries for checking version of source and target system and architecture (minor version and architecture support)
• Code of various actors has been refactored to meet with pylint and contribution guidelines
• The dnfshellrpmupgrade actor has been renamed to dnfupgradetransaction
• The prepareupgradetransaction has been replaced by several other actors

Release v0.7.0

Packaging

• leapp-sos-plugin subpackage is licensed under the same license as the base package
• new dependencies: python3, python*-pyudev

Upgrade handling

• upgrade process is interrupted after RPMUpgradePhase and resumed with Python 3
• upgrade of NetworkManager is fixed
• name changes of network interfaces are handled
• upgrade of firewalld is handled
• leftover RHEL 7 packages are reported after the upgrade
• HTB repositories used for upgrades are replaced with the ones used for GA
• tpm2-abrmd and all packages that depend on redhat-rpm-config are removed during upgrade
• handling of the upgrade RPM transaction is improved
• sync command is used in initrd to avoid issues related to cache
• networking naming changes are handled
• disable udev's persistent network interface naming scheme when the only NIC is eth0
• inhibit upgrade when ethX is detected and more NICs exist
• check whether all target upgrade repositories are available

Logging and reporting

• output of dnf tool is always shown during the upgrade
• report with differences in Python between RHEL 7 and 8 is generated
• all logs and reports are stored in /var/log/leapp/ directory

Release v0.6.0

Change license from AGPL 3.0 to Apache 2.0

Upgrade handling

• udev database is accessible during the upgrade
• downtime of some machines is significantly reduced
• sos plugin is introduced for collecting data needed for debugging
• redhat-rpm-config package is removed during upgrade
• data files are required to be delivered by user manually
• system is checked for NFS filesystems usage and upgrade is inhibited when detected
• /boot is checked for sufficient free space
• upgrade is not inhibited any more when Logic SCSI Controllers are present
• repositories used to upgrade the system are based on provided data files
• specific syntax errors in grub configuration are handled when detected
• SCTP is handled during the upgrade
• migration of yum is handled (yum is available after upgrade)
• upgrade of NetworkManager is handled
• upgrades with XFS filesystems without ftype is handled better
• new reporting functionality is introduced and used

Refactoring

• run function from stdlib is used to execute external commands

Packaging

• new dependencies: python2-jinja2, pciutils, sos
• leapp-repository-data subpackage is removed (included data files)
• new directory /etc/leapp/files for data files is introduced
• python files are precompiled to avoid left over pyc files

Release v0.5.0

- Require DNF v4+ and Leapp framework v0.5.0
- Improved handling of RPM transaction using own DNF plugin and PES
  data
- Models have been refactored to use new format supported by framework
- Handle transaction preparation when release is set through RHSM
- Fix failing overlayfs unmounting
- Reduce the IPUWorkflo workflow
- Include all required directories inside RPMs
- Handle repositories using metalink and mirrorlist
- Handle better installation of local RPMs
- Move system dependencies into the RPM metapackage
- Satisfy leapp and leapp-repository RPM dependencies during the
  upgrade

Release v0.4.0

• change hierarchy of repositories
• scan RHEL system for custom and 3rd-party packages
• improve error messages