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The sos team is pleased to announce the release of sos-4.1. This is the first minor version update to the 4.x line which introduced a new design and project direction. Included in this release are numerous bug fixes and feature enhancements focused on increasing the stability and reliability of the previous major version update.

Global Changes

  • Fixed an incompatiblity with python-3.8 that prevented execution on systems using that version

  • Fixed using a relative path for --tmp-dir would result in failing to build the final archive

  • Fixed several issues dealing with RPM building via distutils

  • Fixed a mismatch between option long form names with their internal destination names, which would prevent copy-pasting commands from sos logs

  • Fixed a bug where --log-size=0 would be ignored

  • SoS testing is now handled via CirrusCI on GCE, replacing the previous usage of TravisCI

  • Note to contributors: as of this release, all regex substitutions being done by plugins during collection will now require an example in comments

Policy changes

  • Fixed SuSE policy enablement, sos-4.x should now run properly on the latest SuSE releases
  • Upload usernames and passwords may now be set via environment variables
  • The docker container runtime abstraction for policies now supports docker when installed as a snap
  • Red Hat systems will now automatically failback to using FTP if uploads to the Red Hat Customer Portal failed

Report

The sos report command has received a number of improvements in this minor release

  • New plugins: openstack_barbican, tigervnc, bcache
  • SoS will now generate sha256 checksums instead of md5
  • Several plugins have been updated to enhance collection on PowerPC systems
  • The snappy plugin has been renamed to snap
  • The azure plugin will now capture AEM data
  • Fixed an issue where the networking plugin incorrectly handled network namespaces
  • The salt, keepalived, and numerous openstack_* plugins have been updated to function for Mirantis Cloud Platform
  • The number of ps collections done by the process plugin has been reduced and consolidated
  • Fixed enablement and collection of the kubernetes plugin for CDK environments
  • Fixed an issue for SCLPlugin enablement on systems that have SCL enabled, but not for the package(s) for the SCLPlugins
  • report will now collect broken symlinks properly, to show support representatives that a broken symlink exists on the system

Plugin API

  • A new get_network_namespaces() method is available to assist with iterating over available network namespaces
  • IndependentPlugin has been updated and revived to be used for plugins that are not-distribution specific.
    • Thus, plugins that use IndependentPlugin will now be supported on all sos-supported distributions even if they aren't specifically tagged

Clean|Mask

The sos clean or sos mask command has had significant attention paid to it to enhance the obfuscation provided for sosreports

  • Added a username parser to obfuscate usernames reported by lastlog
  • Improved the efficiency of the sanitize_item() entrypoint
  • Fixed an issue where MAC addresses ending in punctuation weren't obfuscated
  • Fixed an issue where hostnames were not being obfuscated if the host plugin wasn't run but an obfuscation mapping was available
  • Fixed several reliability related issues for consistency in obfuscation
  • Uppercase domains (e.g. kerberos realms) are now properly obfuscated
  • cleaner is now a valid alias for sos clean

Collector

  • collect will now use the sos-4.0 sos binary instead of the legacy sosreport binary if it is available
  • Updated collect to use addition options added in sos-4.0
  • collect may now upload in the same way sos report can
  • Fixed an issue where a user-forced cluster-type would not use that cluster's node enumeration method

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/4.1

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.

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