sos-3.6

The sos team is pleased to announce the release of sos-3.6. This is a
significant release containing a number of enhancements, new features,
and bug fixes, including:

• 29 new plugins:
  alternatives, ansible, btrfs, buildah, clear_containers, date,
  elastic, fibrechannel, host, kata_containers, lustre, memcached,
  mssql, networkmanager, nvme, omnipath_client, omnipath_manager,
  opendaylight, openstack_octavia, ovirt_provider_ovn, ovn_central,
  ovn_host, rear, release, runc, skydive, unpackaged, watchdog, wireless

• User and policy defined command line presets

  • The ability to save and recall specific combinations of command
    line parameters
  • Policy authors may define presets for specific situations, products
    or other uses (e.g. "cantboot", "rhel", "openshift" etc.).

• Size limits for external commands

  • Certain commands produce large volumes of data, inflating report
    size (e.g. journalctl): the command collection interface now allows
    an arbitrary size limit to be applied, which includes memory used
    during the run (reducing sosreport's peak memory usage).

• Automatic file and command size limits

  • Plugins that do not specify an explicit size limit for files or
    commands are now subject to the default value (specified with the
    --log-size command line option).
  • Plugin authors may override this behaviour if needed

• Concurrent plugin execution

  • Plugins are now run in parallel using a thread pool
  • Reduces runtime by up to 50% (workload dependent)
  • Command line --threads option to set the number of threads to
    use, or to disable parallel execution

• New profiles (including containers and the Apache webserver)

• 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

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

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

I'd like to thank everyone who contributed fixes, new features,
testing, and feedback for this release.

sos-3.5.1

The sos team is pleased to announce the release of sos-3.5.1. This is a maintenance release containing a number of enhancements, new features, and bug fixes, including:

• 22 new plugins:

  • alternatives, ansible, btrfs, buildah, clear_containers, date, fibrechannel, host, kata_containers, lustre, memcached, networkmanager, nvme, opendaylight, openstack_octavia, ovirt_provider_ovn, ovn_central, ovn_host, rear, release
    runc, wireless

• New profiles (including containers and the Apache webserver)

• major enhancements to core features and existing plugins:

  • better package manager version information
  • fixed exit status propagation
  • deprecated optparse replaced with argparse
  • 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
  • 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()
  • optional collection of the RPMDB
  • default log size increased from 10MiB to 25MiB
  • string decoding fixes
  • improved debug logging and ENOSPC handling
  • OpenShift 3.10 support
  • Python3 fixes

This release allows distribution packagers to update to a new upstream release before the final release of 3.6. The 3.6 release will include further enhancements in core sosreport functionality and is planned for late June 2018.

sos-3.5

The sos team is pleased to announce the release of sos-3.5. This release includes a number of enhancements, new features, and bug fixes, including:

• New plugins for perl, boom, vdo, os_net_config, conntrackd, ovirt_imageio, nss, sas3ircu, openstack_aodh, docker_distribution, gluster_block, snappy
• Plugin API enhancements
  • Plugin triggers by executable name
  • Improved log size limit handling
  • Better handling of compressed log files
  • Per-plugin package verification lists
• Updates to 74 plugins

Thanks to everyone who submitted patches, testing feedback, and filed issues that helped to make this a quality release with many new features and improvements.

sos-3.4

The sos team is pleased to announce the release of sos-3.4. This release includes a number of enhancements, new features, and bug fixes, including:

• New plugins for virt-who, nodejs, npm, dracut, juju 2.0, grafana, nfsganesha, collectd, canonical_livepatch, jars, salt, saltmaster, storageconsole, gnocchi, crypto, azure/Red Hat, zfs
• Plugin API enhancements
• Internationalisation updates

Thanks to everyone who submitted patches, testing feedback, and filed issues that helped to make this a quality release with many new features and improvements.

3.3

The sos team is pleased to announce the release of sos-3.3. This release includes a number of enhancements, new features, and bug fixes, including:

• Support for OpenShift Enterprise 3.x
• Improved and expanded OpenStack plugins
• Enhanced support for Open vSwitch
• Enhanced Kubernetes data collection
• Improved support for systemd journal collection
• Policy support for the SuSE family of Linux distributions
• Policy support for the IBMKvm hypervisor distribution
• Enhanced display manager and 3D acceleration data capture
• Improved support for Linux clusters, including Pacemaker
• Expanded CPU and NUMA topology collection
• Expanded mainframe (s390x) coverage
• Collection of multipath topology

Thanks to everyone who submitted patches, testing feedback, and filed issues that helped to make this a quality release with many new features and improvements.

3.2

The sos team is pleased to announce the release of sos-3.2. This release includes a large number of enhancements and fixes, including:

• Profiles for plugin selection
• Improved log size limiting
• File archiving enhancements and robustness improvements
• Global plugin options:
  • --verify, --log-size, --all-logs
• Better plugin descriptions
• Improved journalctl log capture
• PEP8 compliant code base
• oVirt support improvements
• New plugins: hpasm, ctdb, dbus, oVirt engine hosted, MongoDB, ActiveMQ, OpenShift 2.0, MegaCLI, FCoE, python, Ubuntu, NUMA, Team network driver

sos-3.2beta1

The sos team is pleased to announce the beta release of sos-3.2. This release includes a large number of enhancements and fixes, including:

• Profiles for plugin selection
• Improved log size limiting
• File archiving enhancements and robustness improvements
• Global plugin options:
  • --verify, --log-size, --all-logs
• Better plugin descriptions
• Improved journalctl log capture
• PEP8 compliant code base
• oVirt support improvements
• New plugins: hpasm, ctdb, dbus, oVirt engine hosted, MongoDB, ActiveMQ, OpenShift 2.0, MegaCLI, FCoE, python, Ubuntu, NUMA, Team network driver

sos-3.2alpha1

The sos team is pleased to announce the first alpha release of sos-3.2. This release includes a large number of enhancements and fixes, including:

• Native oVirt support
• New plugins for Docker, distupgrade, ipvs, oVirt, pcp, rabbitmq, tuned, FirewallD, HAproxy, keepalived
• Improved logging
• Better handling of catastrophic file system errors (EROFS, ENOSPC etc.)
• Improved sar data handling
• PowerPC arch improvements
• Improved python3 support

For full change information please refer to the git repository logs.

sos-3.1

The sos team is pleased to announce the release of sos-3.1. This release includes a large number of enhancements and fixes, including:

• Modular OpenStack plugins
• Python3 support
• New plugins for XFS, OpenShift, Kerberos, OpenHPI, apt, Foreman, Katello, PowerPC, NFS client

For full change information please refer to the git repository logs.

sos-3.0

The sos team is pleased to announce the release of sos-3.0. This release includes a large number of enhancements and fixes. For full change information please refer to the git repository logs.