1 Release 0.22 - Thu Oct 24 2013 - Gui Chen <gui.chen@intel.com>
2 =====================================================================
3 * use __version__ variable instead of VERSION file
4 * refactor msger module to ulitize logging module
5 * refine error class module
6 * improve installation in virtualenv
7 * add bash completion support
8 * add zsh completion support
9 * export mapper device related to installer framework
10 * update BmapCreate to the latest version
12 - fix customized plugin_dir not work in bootstrap
13 - fix packing process exit on Ubuntu
14 - fix loop device alloaction failed on openSUSE
15 - fix incorrect number showing during installing
16 - set owner of cacheidr/outdir to SUDO_USER
17 - correct project url in setup.py
18 - fix mic not work when mic.conf disappear
20 Release 0.21 - Mon Aug 26 2013 - Gui Chen <gui.chen@intel.com>
21 =====================================================================
22 * new distribution support: Fedora 19
23 * refactor chroot module to correct the logic
24 * add an alias for installerfw - installerfw_plugins
25 * remove fuser dependency to avoid some unmount issue
26 * enable proxy setting with authentication
27 * don't get proxy info from /etc/sysconfig/proxy ever
28 * kill processes inside chroot after post script running
29 * reload device mapper using 'dmsetup' utility
31 - fix bootloader options omitted
32 - warn failed boot partition flags set
33 - fix wrong file descriptor issue
36 Release 0.20 - Mon Jul 01 2013 - Gui Chen <gui.chen@intel.com>
37 =====================================================================
38 * new distribution support: CentOS 6
39 * drop image creation if checked packages not present in image
40 * introduce 'installerfw' command in kickstart to customize configuration
41 * improve output message of post scripts
43 - fix rpm not support 'VCS' tag traceback
45 Release 0.19 - Thu May 16 2013 - Gui Chen <gui.chen@intel.com>
46 =====================================================================
47 * new distribution support: Ubuntu 13.04 and openSUSE 12.3
48 * introduce '--part-type' to handle GPT partition
49 * copy bmap creation from bmap-tools
50 * update some depends and fix depends issue
52 - fix bug autologinuser always set
53 - fix symlink bind mount left issue
54 - fix '/var/lock' non-existent throw traceback
56 Release 0.18 - Mon Apr 03 2013 - Gui Chen <gui.chen@intel.com>
57 =====================================================================
58 * put build_id before image name for release option
59 * mount build directory as tmpfs to speed up
60 * enable --priority in ks to set priority
61 * upgrade qemu (mic's depends) to 1.4.0
63 - fix debuginfo rpm swig attribute lost
64 - fix release option failure with slash
65 - fix man page lost in some distros
66 - fix bmap file packed to tarball
68 - unify import statements to absolute import
69 - clean up many undefined in partitionfs.py/loop.py/livecd.py
70 - clean up some useless try and raise blocks
71 - clean up some bad indentations
72 - improve some error messages
74 Release 0.17 - Tue Feb 28 2013 - Gui Chen <gui.chen@intel.com>
75 =====================================================================
76 * support new distribution Fedora 18
77 * enable to handle more than 3 partitions
78 * support partitions without mount point
79 * move vcs infomation from .vcs to .packages
80 * clean up some mess in utils/misc.py
82 - fix failure when symbolic link vmlinuz in single disk
83 - fix incorrect alignment handling
84 - fix requires squashfs in opensuse
85 - fix unicode error in myurlgrab
87 - clean up some mess in utils/misc.py
88 - clean up pylint issue in creator.py
90 Release 0.16.3 - Wed Feb 06 2013 - Gui Chen <gui.chen@intel.com>
91 =====================================================================
92 * fix no key 'HOME' in environ variable failure
93 * remove suffix when release specified
94 * roll back to original naming for release
96 Release 0.16 - Wed Jan 30 2013 - Gui Chen <gui.chen@intel.com>
97 =====================================================================
98 * add GPT support for UEFI format
99 - add --ptable=gpt option in kickstart to enable GPT
100 - add simple GPT parser to parse PARTUUID
101 - use PARTUUID in syslinux.cfg if gpt required
102 - clean up the mess code and improve readability
103 * improve alignment to reduce unused space
104 - add interface add_disks for PartitionedMount
105 - clean up the mess code in partitionfs.py
106 * append timestamp suffix to image name by default
107 * add a new option --nocache in kickstart to disable caching rpm
108 * add a new value 'vcs' for --record-pkgs to save VCS info
109 * add a new option --fstab-entry for raw image to set fstab entry
110 * introduce a new option '--install-pkgs' in mic
111 - valid values imagined: source, debuginfo, debugsource
112 - enable 'debuginfo' to install '-debuginfo' rpm in the meantime
113 * improve loop device generating and cleaning mechanism
115 - update documentation
116 - rename MANIFEST to MD5SUM
117 - clean up moblin stuff in kickstart
118 - clean mic tests and keep only unittest
119 - sepreate the download related as independent module
121 - cleanup zypp credential file to fix conflicts during installing
122 - fix the issue that outdir/cachedir is not dir
123 - recalculate package content recording
124 - refactor try except statement in baseimager
125 - fix existing loop images overwritten
127 Release 0.15.3 - Wed Jan 23 2013 - Gui Chen <gui.chen@intel.com>
128 =====================================================================
130 - fix loop device not cleaned issue
131 - fix bootstrap dirs not unmounted issue
132 - fix mic failed in kvmic issue
133 - fix binfmt register in bootstrap incorrect
134 - fix rpm path incorrect when local repo and sslverify used
136 - fix x86_64 image conflicts installing x86_64 and x86 rpm
137 - verify if logfile is a file
138 - fix type error when calling mknod
139 - fix the failure if ks under / dir
140 - clean up the mess 'directory not empty'
141 - fix type error when calling mknod
143 Release 0.15 - Tue Dec 13 2012 - Gui Chen <gui.chen@intel.com>
144 =====================================================================
145 * adapt new mechanism for bootstrap mode
146 - create 'mic-bootstrap-x86-arm' by obs build
147 - publish 'mic-bootstrap-x86-arm' into server repo
148 - use 'mic-bootstrap-x86-arm' as bootstrap env for x86 and arm image
149 * filesystem parameter support for ext[234] fs
150 - sample in ks: part / --size 1000 --fstype=ext3 --extoptions="-I 256"
151 - other filesystem will ignore option '--extoptions'
152 * update the documentation and man page
153 * multiple bootstrap path to support multi-instance mic
154 * use 'pkgmgr=auto' to select available backend in conf file
155 * improve loop device creation algorithm and create loop device by 'mknod'
157 - bear unexpected checksum type when getting metadata
158 - avoid traceback when loopback is NoneType
159 - lseek limit to 2G in 32bit env
160 - split out username and password in zypp repo file
161 - use rpm real path instead of 'cp' if it's local repo
162 - fix local repo unavailable in bootstrap
163 - fix traceback when failed to unmap kpartx device
164 - fix timestamp incorrect issue in logfile
166 Release 0.14.2 - Wed Nov 14 2012 - Gui Chen <gui.chen@intel.com>
167 =====================================================================
168 * support dracut for live image
169 * update bmap version to 1.1
171 Release 0.14.1 - Fri Oct 15 2012 - Gui Chen <gui.chen@intel.com>
172 =====================================================================
173 * support bmap file for ivi flashing tool
174 * just warning in chroot when not Tizen/MeeGo chroot dir
175 * fix logfile lost in bootstrap mode
176 * clean mounts in bootstrap when exiting
178 - fix https proxy issue in yum backend
179 - avoid traceback when loop instance is NoneType
181 Release 0.14 - Thu Aug 02 2012 - Gui Chen <gui.chen@intel.com>
182 =====================================================================
183 * use cached metadata when checksum is not changed
184 * skip non-fatal error in ks file and prompt user to handle
185 * prompt user to handle when failed to apply img configure
186 * replace hard name with device uuid in etc/fstab
187 * enhance extlinux cfg file for symbolic kernel like IVI
188 * support label assign for raw image
190 - fix live image create failure when label assigned
191 - avoid traceback when converting unsupported type
192 - fix mic --version ugly output
194 Release 0.13 - Wed Jul 12 2012 - Gui Chen <gui.chen@intel.com>
195 =====================================================================
196 * create logfile as default when --release specifid
197 * use 'gzip' and 'bzip2' to pack image instead of python
198 * automatically detect path of 'env' for chroot
199 * record version and os info in build log and logfile
201 - fix popup message in ubuntus
202 - fix unicode issue for logfile
203 - better fix for 'chroot raw' issue
205 Release 0.12 - Wed Jun 20 2012 - Gui Chen <gui.chen@intel.com>
206 =====================================================================
207 * use default value when @BUILD_ID@ and @ARCH@ not specified
208 * enhance proxy support in attachment retrieve
209 * add new --shrink opt for loop image to control img shrinking
210 * avoid invalid literal for loop device generation
211 * relocate and refactor selinux_check func
212 * remove prefix for make install
214 - fix compres image in raw image
215 - fix src pkgs download failed issue
216 - fix convert failed issue
218 Release 0.11 - Fri Jun 08 2012 - Gui Chen <gui.chen@intel.com>
219 =====================================================================
220 * support new subcmd 'auto' to handle magic line in ks
221 * enhance the handle of authentication url and https proxy
222 * support packing images together and support compressed file format
223 * reset LD_PRELOAD for chroot env
224 * centralized interface to check existing images
225 * avoid live image creating when using multi-partitions
226 * resolve the depends of python-urlgrabber
228 - fix logfile context lost issue
229 - fix attachment package url handling
230 - fix mic ch raw failed issue
232 Release 0.10 - Tue May 15 2012 - Gui Chen <gui.chen@intel.com>
233 =====================================================================
234 * container support using '%attachment' section in ks
235 * add --compress-to option to support zip format in loop image
236 * auto-detect config and plugindir to meet virtualenv and customized install
237 * remove all hardcoded info in setup.py and use sys.prefix for installing
238 * tolerate some OS errors in the image configurations stage
240 - fix zypp missing password when using username passwd
241 - some fixes to enhance authentication url
242 - refine repostr structure to fix comma issue in baseurl
244 Release 0.9 - Fri Apr 13 2012 - Gui Chen <gui.chen@intel.com>
245 =====================================================================
246 * support pre-install package with zypp backend
247 * sync /etc/mic/mic.conf to bootstrap
248 * enhance sorting for version comparsion in zypp
249 * rewrite chroot tar image using xml format mount point file
250 * fix the incorrect number showing in fs src pkgs download
251 * remove tests directory for dist in Makefile
252 * fix liveusb parted mkpart failure, revert mbr size expand in raw
253 * cleanup /tmp/repolic* dir in the EULA checking
255 Release 0.8 - Mon Mar 26 2012 - Gui Chen <gui.chen@intel.com>
256 =====================================================================
257 * partition alignment support
258 * remove bootloader option 'quiet vga' for raw
259 * update dist files in git source
260 * update unittest, add cases for chroot, msger, runner
261 * add 40 system test case for help
262 * rewrite loop device allocation mechanism
264 Release 0.7 - Fri Mar 02 2012 - Gui Chen <gui.chen@intel.com>
265 =====================================================================
266 * zypp backend: fixed a fatal issue of unreleasable loop devs
267 * zypp backend: more friendly output message
268 * backend: share cached rpm files between yum and zypp
269 * enhancement for multiple partition loop format
270 * make msger to accept Unicode string
271 * fixed a regression of compress option for FS format
272 * fixed issues in openSUSE12.1
273 * new written man page
275 Release 0.6 - Thu Feb 16 2012 - Gui Chen <gui.chen@intel.com>
276 =====================================================================
277 * give hint when converted image existed
278 * conf.py: proxy scheme check
279 * space check before copy image
280 * zypp: abort with error msg for repo resolver issues
281 * runner.py refinement
282 * ks file syntax check for '%post' without '%end'
283 * support more compression formats than only bzip2
284 * fix msg NoneType issue, causing exit after install
286 - catch creator error when retrieving bootstrap metadata
287 - correct matching .metadata file in bootstrap
289 Release 0.5 - Mon Feb 06 2012 - Gui Chen <gui.chen@intel.com>
290 =====================================================================
291 * Rewrite the algorithm of checking free space for download and install
292 * Add --shell option for convert to recreate image modified by internal shell
293 * Add -s option for chroot to unpack image
294 * Introduce --copy-kernel option for creator
295 * Remove the hardcoded default args for bootloader
296 * Disable logstderr and flush message buffer in disable_logstderr
297 * Deal with yum.conf inside yum backend by itself
299 - Fix rpmdb error in yum and zypp to avoid bad file descriptor message
300 - Fix MANIFEST syntax to be compliant with md5sum
301 - Correct dependencies for mic in bootstrap
303 Release 0.4 - Fri Jan 06 2012 - Gui Chen <gui.chen@intel.com>
304 =====================================================================
305 * Support bootstrap mode, run with '--runtime=bootstrap'
306 * Full support for taring-to output, use 'mic ch x.tar'
307 * Break dependency between backend and baseimage
308 * Check valid repos in ks file
309 * Space check update and catch no space exception
310 * Fix no prompt when cv and ch no existed image
311 * Fix NoneType 'createopts' when convert
312 * Fix no existed local_pkgs_path
314 Release 0.3 - Mon Dec 26 2011 - Gui Chen <gui.chen@intel.com>
315 =====================================================================
316 * Unit test support, run 'make test'
317 * Enable proxy support in config file
318 * Refine configmgr and pluginmgr
319 * Support multi instance with different cache dir
320 * Add 47 system test case
321 * Improve md5sum generation
322 * Add repo option --ssl_verify
323 * Add option --name_prefix
324 * Reformatted code according to PEP08
325 * Backport from mic2:
326 - Add priority and cost option for repos
327 - Reinstroduced compress-disk-image option
329 Release 0.2 - Tue Nov 29 2011 - Gui Chen <gui.chen@intel.com>
330 =====================================================================
331 * Support btrfs and ext4 fstype for creator, convertor, and chroot
332 * Append distfiles and Makefile
333 * Check arch type from repo data
334 * Set rpm dbpath to fix 'rpm -qa' issue
335 * Fix chroot issue caused by image size
336 * Improve setup.py and make it compatible with python 2.5
337 * Disable ca check for https
338 * Change default output dir name to ./mic-output
339 * untrack mic/__version__.py
340 * Fix some minor issues
342 Release 0.1 - Thu Oct 27 2011 - Gui Chen <gui.chen@intel.com>
343 =====================================================================
344 * Support three subcommand: create, convert, chroot
345 * Support five image types: fs, loop, raw, livecd, liveusb
346 * Support two package manager backend: yum and zypp
347 * Support the following global command line options:
350 * Creator subcommand support the following command line options:
352 - -c CONFIG, --config=CONFIG
353 - -k CACHEDIR, --cachedir=CACHEDIR
354 - -o OUTDIR, --outdir=OUTDIR
355 - -A ARCH, --arch=ARCH
357 - --record-pkgs=RECORD_PKGS
359 - --local-pkgs-path=LOCAL_PKGS_PATH