Release 0.19.0

[pirat89]

Packaging

• Requires leapp-framework 5.0

Upgrade handling

Fixes

• Add el8toel9 actor to handle directory -> symlink with ruby IRB. (Add el8toel9 actor to handle directory -> symlink with ruby IRB. #1076)
• Do not try to update GRUB core on IBM Z systems (updategrubcore: Skip on IBM Z systems and cover non-grub2 systems in general #1117)
• Fix failing upgrades with devtmpfs file systems specified in FSTAB (Preupgrade fails with a devtmpfs entry in fstab #1090)
• Fix the calculation of the required free space on each partitions/volume for the upgrade transactions (Overlay redesign #1097)
• Fix the generation of the report about hybrid images (checkhybridimage: Fix the produce of the report #1064)
• Handle correctly the installed certificates to allow upgrades with custom repositories using HTTPs with enabled SSL verification (Add support for upgrade with custom https repos #1106)
• Minor improvements and fixes of various reports (Improve the "checkgrubcore" report message #1066, Stop mentioning the "releasever" file removal #1067, Fix doc link in checktargetrepos.py #1085)
• Update error messages about leapp data files to inform user how to obtain valid data files (load data files: update hints in error messages and prepare for the download drop #1121)
• Update links in various reports (Fix dead link in checkipaserver actor #1062, update URLs to docs: fix links and use shortened URLs when needed #1086)
• Update the repomap data to cover changed repoids in RHUI Azure (Update the repomap.json file to address changes in RHUI Azure #1087)
• [IPU 7 -> 8] Fix false positive report about invalid symlinks on RHEL 7 (Fix false positive non-utf symlinks reported #1052)
• [IPU 8 -> 9] Inhibit the upgrade when unsupported x86-64 microarchitecture is detected (Inhibit unsupported x86-64 microarchitecture RHEL9 #1059)

Enhancements

• Include updated leapp data files in the RPM (Include leapp data files in the RPM & repository #1046, Update leapp data files, provide streams: 1.1, 2.0 #1092, Update leapp data files (stream 2.0 only) #1119)
• Update the set of supported upgrade paths (Change the upgrade paths for SAP HANA #1077):
  • RHEL with SAP HANA 7.9 -> 8.6, 8.8 (default: 8.6)
  • RHEL with SAP HANA 8.8 -> 9.2
• Introduce new upgrade paths:
  • RHEL 7.9 -> 8.9 (default)
  • RHEL 8.9 -> 9.3
• Correctly update grub2 when /boot resides on multiple devices aggregated in RAID (Update Grub on component devices if /boot is on mdraid device #1093, updategrubcore: Fix both failure and success always reported #1115)
• Enable upgrades for machines using RHUI on AlibabaCloud (support upgrade el7to8 on AlibabaCloud rhui #1088)
• Introduce possibility to add kernel drivers to initramfs (Add possibility to add kernel drivers to initramdisk #1081)
• Redesign handling of information about kernel (booted and target) in preparation for new changes in RHEL 9 (Refactor handling of kernel information #1107)
• Redesign source system overlay to use disk images backed by sparse files to optimize disk space consumption (Overlay redesign #1097, overlay lib: Secure the creation of a disk image when size is < 130 #1103)
• Requires leapp-framework 5.0 (Use the updated Leapp output API - reports summary #1061, Use new leapp output apis #1116)
• Use new leapp CLI API which provides better report summary output (Use the updated Leapp output API - reports summary #1061, Use new leapp output apis #1116)
• [IPU 8 -> 9] Detect and report use of deprecated Xorg drivers (el8toel9: Warn about deprecated Xorg drivers #1078)
• [IPU 8 -> 9] Introduce IPU for systems with FIPS enabled (Enable 8>9 upgrades with FIPS enabled #1053)

Additional changes interesting for devels

• Deprecated GrubInfo.orig_device_name field in the GrubInfo model (replaced by GrubInfo.orig_devices) (Update Grub on component devices if /boot is on mdraid device #1093)
• Deprecated InstalledTargetKernelVersion model (replaced by InstalledTargetKernelInfo) (Refactor handling of kernel information #1107)
• Deprecated leapp.libraries.common.config.version.is_rhel_realtime (check the type in msg KernelInfo, field type) (Refactor handling of kernel information #1107)
• Deprecated leapp.libraries.common.grub.get_grub_device() (replaced by leapp.libraries.common.grub.get_grub_devices()) (Update Grub on component devices if /boot is on mdraid device #1093)
• Introduced new devel envar LEAPP_DEVEL_KEEP_DISK_IMGS=1 to skip the removal of the created disk images for OVL. That's sometimes handy for the debugging. (Overlay redesign #1097)

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