Changelog
sosreport (3.6-1ubuntu0.16.04.1) xenial; urgency=medium
* New 3.6 upstream release. (LP: #1775195)
major enhancements to core features and existing plugins:
- better package manager version information
- policy support for detecting package managed files
- fixed exit status propagation
- deprecated optparse replaced with argparse
- simplified and improved SoSOptions interface
- better error handling during interactive prompting
- allow journal collection by identifier
- allow collection of journal message catalogs
- support for collecting binary file data
- more fine-grained system plugins (date etc.)
- policy defined report file name patterns
- more human-readable report file names by default
- increased default log size (25MiB vs. 10MiB)
- support for forbidden path lists and forbid logging
- support for enabling plugins by kernel module name
- support for enabling plugins by executable name
- support for collecting eBPF (bpftool) data
- support for device information via add_udev_info()
- support for detecting and reporting unpackaged binaries
- optional collection of the RPMDB
- improved archive compression level and multithreading
- default log size increased from 10MiB to 25MiB
- improved debug logging and ENOSPC handling
- major updates to the IPA plugin
- major updates to the Docker plugin
- string decoding fixes
- DNF and Yum module support
- OpenShift 3.10 support
- Python3 fixes
Further release information and tarballs are available at:
https://github.com/sosreport/sos/releases/tag/3.6
* Debian specific modifications :
- Omit Python2 only unittests
- Avoid distutils in lstopo plugin
* Former debian modifications now fixed upstream:
- d/p/0002-reset-to-expected-variable-order-for-packagemanager.patch
- d/p/0003-fix-name-containers-is-not-defined.patch
- Fix-string-decoding-for-debug-log-output.patch
* Cherry-pick upstream patch:
- d/p/fix-string-substitution-method.patch:
Fix plugin string substitution methods to fail.
-- Eric Desrochers <email address hidden> Wed, 14 Nov 2018 08:52:06 -0500
