4.12.1

The sos team is pleased to announce the release of sos-4.12.1. While this is a minor update compared to 4.12.0, users and environments will notice multiple enhancements and improvements since the previous release. Changes relative to sos-4.12.0 are below.

General Changes

• Bash completion is implemented
• Snap packaging process is newly documented

Report Changes

• navix, arch-linux and kyling-linux policies is added
• several improvements in policy detection were implemented
• root-less containers support added
• GPG signing works again
• wiki moved to RTD

Plugin Changes

• New plugins: pacman, wireguard
• aap_containerised plugin enhanced by non-root containers info
• maxage option starts working again
• rhu_containerised collects list of podman labels
• firewalld commands are proedicated by relevant service
• coredump plugin has a new option all-cores
• landscape newly obfuscates registration_key in configs
• filesys plug is now IndependentPlugin

Cleaner Changes

• --no-update option caches ephemeral content only
• --strict-tokenisation option allows more pedantic parsing of tokens
• SSSD files are used by preppers to load names and users
• refuse out-of-tree tar members on extract (CVE-2026-79655)
• several local changes to regular expressions for preppers and parsers were implemented
• progress bar was added to sos clean

Upload Changes

• Adhere [upload subsystem for the new Red Hat upload API
• --preauth option added, to pre-authorise the system

Man pages

• all command line options properly added to and aligned in all man pages

New Contributors

• @AdityaIn2404 made their first contribution in #4457
• @realstuffie made their first contribution in #4467
• @prownd made their first contribution in #4480
• @debianyu made their first contribution in #4482
• @flei-ddn made their first contribution in #4494
• @abetkike made their first contribution in #4463
• @delthas made their first contribution in #4525
• @MirandaStreeter made their first contribution in #4529
• @mawiegand made their first contribution in #4273
• @arshad-aziz made their first contribution in #4538
• @raineszm made their first contribution in #4522
• @songhee1030 made their first contribution in #4500

For full information on the changes contained in this release, please refer to the Git commit logs. Further release information and tarballs are available at:

https://github.com/sosreport/sos/releases/tag/4.12.1

Please report any problems to the sos-devel mailing list, or the GitHub issue tracker:

https://github.com/sosreport/sos/issues/

The team would like to thank everyone who contributed fixes, new features, testing, and feedback for this release.