sos-4.5.2
The sos team is pleased to announce the release of sos-4.5.2. This release follows our recent changes to adopt a faster release cadence, and as such is smaller in scope than previous releases for the project. The next release is slated for April 27.
Global Changes
- Several stale dependencies have been dropped from the rpm packaging
sos.spec
has been migrated to using SPDX license syntax- RPM builds of sos will now include a tmpfiles configuration so skip over /var/tmp/sos*, thus avoiding constant AVC errors from the service
Report Changes
- New option
journal-size
: controls how large sos will collect journal output of. Default is 100MB - New option
low-priority
: will now cause sos to attempt to self-constrain its impact on the system.- This option currently attempts to set the sos process to an
idle
IO class, and sets our niceness to 19
- This option currently attempts to set the sos process to an
- New preset
minimal
: uses thelow-priority
option as well as reducing plugin timeouts and file collection sizes - Archive contents are now ordered such that
version.txt
,manifest.json
, andsos_logs/
are now first in the tarball, which should assist with any in-memory handling of tarballs via automation - Fixed a bug that would cause double logging if a preset set verbosity levels
Plugin Changes
-
The
frr
plugin will now collect command output from a container if that is how it is deployed -
The
unpackaged
plugin will now list unpackaged symlinks and not the symlink's target -
The
iprconfig
plugin is now gated by thesg
kernel mod being loaded -
Fixed a bug that would cause the
CosLogs
variant to be loaded for every distribution -
The
microshift
plugin has been updated to useoc get
commands -
Plugin.do_file_sub()
for plugin post-processing is now always case-insensitive in pattern matching
Cleaner Changes
- Fix a bug where the finalizing the archive would fail if cleaner was instructed to obfuscate the keyword
tmp
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/4.5.2
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.