1 Release 0.18 - Mon Apr 01 2013
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3 * put build_id before image name for release option
4 * mount build directory as tmpfs to speed up
5 * upgrade qemu (mic's depends) to 1.4.0
7 - fix debuginfo rpm swig attribute lost
8 - fix release option failure with slash
9 - fix man page lost in some distros
10 - fix bmap file packed to tarball
12 - unify import statements to absolute import
13 - clean up many undefined in partitionfs.py/loop.py/livecd.py
14 - clean up some useless try and raise blocks
15 - clean up some bad indentations
16 - improve some error messages
18 Release 0.17 - Tue Feb 28 2013
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20 * support new distribution Fedora 18
21 * enable to handle more than 3 partitions
22 * support partitions without mount point
23 * move vcs infomation from .vcs to .packages
24 * clean up some mess in utils/misc.py
26 - fix failure when symbolic link vmlinuz in single disk
27 - fix incorrect alignment handling
28 - fix requires squashfs in opensuse
29 - fix unicode error in myurlgrab
31 - clean up some mess in utils/misc.py
32 - clean up pylint issue in creator.py
34 Release 0.16.3 - Wed Feb 06 2013
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36 * fix no key 'HOME' in environ variable failure
37 * remove suffix when release specified
38 * roll back to original naming for release
40 Release 0.16 - Wed Jan 30 2013
41 ===========================================================
42 * add GPT support for UEFI format
43 - add --ptable=gpt option in kickstart to enable GPT
44 - add simple GPT parser to parse PARTUUID
45 - use PARTUUID in syslinux.cfg if gpt required
46 - clean up the mess code and improve readability
47 * improve alignment to reduce unused space
48 - add interface add_disks for PartitionedMount
49 - clean up the mess code in partitionfs.py
50 * append timestamp suffix to image name by default
51 * add a new option --nocache in kickstart to disable caching rpm
52 * add a new value 'vcs' for --record-pkgs to save VCS info
53 * add a new option --fstab-entry for raw image to set fstab entry
54 * introduce a new option '--install-pkgs' in mic
55 - valid values imagined: source, debuginfo, debugsource
56 - enable 'debuginfo' to install '-debuginfo' rpm in the meantime
57 * improve loop device generating and cleaning mechanism
59 - update documentation
60 - rename MANIFEST to MD5SUM
61 - clean up moblin stuff in kickstart
62 - clean mic tests and keep only unittest
63 - sepreate the download related as independent module
65 - cleanup zypp credential file to fix conflicts during installing
66 - fix the issue that outdir/cachedir is not dir
67 - recalculate package content recording
68 - refactor try except statement in baseimager
69 - fix existing loop images overwritten
71 Release 0.15.3 - Wed Jan 23 2013
72 ===========================================================
74 - fix loop device not cleaned issue
75 - fix bootstrap dirs not unmounted issue
76 - fix mic failed in kvmic issue
77 - fix binfmt register in bootstrap incorrect
78 - fix rpm path incorrect when local repo and sslverify used
80 - fix x86_64 image conflicts installing x86_64 and x86 rpm
81 - verify if logfile is a file
82 - fix type error when calling mknod
83 - fix the failure if ks under / dir
84 - clean up the mess 'directory not empty'
85 - fix type error when calling mknod
87 Release 0.15 - Tue Dec 13 2012
88 ===========================================================
89 * adapt new mechanism for bootstrap mode
90 - create 'mic-bootstrap-x86-arm' by obs build
91 - publish 'mic-bootstrap-x86-arm' into server repo
92 - use 'mic-bootstrap-x86-arm' as bootstrap env for x86 and arm image
93 * filesystem parameter support for ext[234] fs
94 - sample in ks: part / --size 1000 --fstype=ext3 --extoptions="-I 256"
95 - other filesystem will ignore option '--extoptions'
96 * update the documentation and man page
97 * multiple bootstrap path to support multi-instance mic
98 * use 'pkgmgr=auto' to select available backend in conf file
99 * improve loop device creation algorithm and create loop device by 'mknod'
101 - bear unexpected checksum type when getting metadata
102 - avoid traceback when loopback is NoneType
103 - lseek limit to 2G in 32bit env
104 - split out username and password in zypp repo file
105 - use rpm real path instead of 'cp' if it's local repo
106 - fix local repo unavailable in bootstrap
107 - fix traceback when failed to unmap kpartx device
108 - fix timestamp incorrect issue in logfile
110 Release 0.14.2 - Wed Nov 14 2012
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112 * support dracut for live image
113 * update bmap version to 1.1
115 Release 0.14.1 - Fri Oct 15 2012
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117 * support bmap file for ivi flashing tool
118 * just warning in chroot when not Tizen/MeeGo chroot dir
119 * fix logfile lost in bootstrap mode
120 * clean mounts in bootstrap when exiting
122 - fix https proxy issue in yum backend
123 - avoid traceback when loop instance is NoneType
125 Release 0.14 - Thu Aug 02 2012
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127 * use cached metadata when checksum is not changed
128 * skip non-fatal error in ks file and prompt user to handle
129 * prompt user to handle when failed to apply img configure
130 * replace hard name with device uuid in etc/fstab
131 * enhance extlinux cfg file for symbolic kernel like IVI
132 * support label assign for raw image
134 - fix live image create failure when label assigned
135 - avoid traceback when converting unsupported type
136 - fix mic --version ugly output
138 Release 0.13 - Wed Jul 12 2012
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140 * create logfile as default when --release specifid
141 * use 'gzip' and 'bzip2' to pack image instead of python
142 * automatically detect path of 'env' for chroot
143 * record version and os info in build log and logfile
145 - fix popup message in ubuntus
146 - fix unicode issue for logfile
147 - better fix for 'chroot raw' issue
149 Release 0.12 - Wed Jun 20 2012
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151 * use default value when @BUILD_ID@ and @ARCH@ not specified
152 * enhance proxy support in attachment retrieve
153 * add new --shrink opt for loop image to control img shrinking
154 * avoid invalid literal for loop device generation
155 * relocate and refactor selinux_check func
156 * remove prefix for make install
158 - fix compres image in raw image
159 - fix src pkgs download failed issue
160 - fix convert failed issue
162 Release 0.11 - Fri Jun 08 2012
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164 * support new subcmd 'auto' to handle magic line in ks
165 * enhance the handle of authentication url and https proxy
166 * support packing images together and support compressed file format
167 * reset LD_PRELOAD for chroot env
168 * centralized interface to check existing images
169 * avoid live image creating when using multi-partitions
170 * resolve the depends of python-urlgrabber
172 - fix logfile context lost issue
173 - fix attachment package url handling
174 - fix mic ch raw failed issue
176 Release 0.10 - Tue May 15 2012
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178 * container support using '%attachment' section in ks
179 * add --compress-to option to support zip format in loop image
180 * auto-detect config and plugindir to meet virtualenv and customized install
181 * remove all hardcoded info in setup.py and use sys.prefix for installing
182 * tolerate some OS errors in the image configurations stage
184 - fix zypp missing password when using username passwd
185 - some fixes to enhance authentication url
186 - refine repostr structure to fix comma issue in baseurl
188 Release 0.9 - Fri Apr 13 2012
189 ===========================================================
190 * support pre-install package with zypp backend
191 * sync /etc/mic/mic.conf to bootstrap
192 * enhance sorting for version comparsion in zypp
193 * rewrite chroot tar image using xml format mount point file
194 * fix the incorrect number showing in fs src pkgs download
195 * remove tests directory for dist in Makefile
196 * fix liveusb parted mkpart failure, revert mbr size expand in raw
197 * cleanup /tmp/repolic* dir in the EULA checking
199 Release 0.8 - Mon Mar 26 2012
200 ===========================================================
201 * partition alignment support
202 * remove bootloader option 'quiet vga' for raw
203 * update dist files in git source
204 * update unittest, add cases for chroot, msger, runner
205 * add 40 system test case for help
206 * rewrite loop device allocation mechanism
208 Release 0.7 - Fri Mar 02 2012
209 ===========================================================
210 * zypp backend: fixed a fatal issue of unreleasable loop devs
211 * zypp backend: more friendly output message
212 * backend: share cached rpm files between yum and zypp
213 * enhancement for multiple partition loop format
214 * make msger to accept Unicode string
215 * fixed a regression of compress option for FS format
216 * fixed issues in openSUSE12.1
217 * new written man page
219 Release 0.6 - Thu Feb 16 2012
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221 * give hint when converted image existed
222 * conf.py: proxy scheme check
223 * space check before copy image
224 * zypp: abort with error msg for repo resolver issues
225 * runner.py refinement
226 * ks file syntax check for '%post' without '%end'
227 * support more compression formats than only bzip2
228 * fix msg NoneType issue, causing exit after install
230 - catch creator error when retrieving bootstrap metadata
231 - correct matching .metadata file in bootstrap
233 Release 0.5 - Mon Feb 06 2012
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235 * Rewrite the algorithm of checking free space for download and install
236 * Add --shell option for convert to recreate image modified by internal shell
237 * Add -s option for chroot to unpack image
238 * Introduce --copy-kernel option for creator
239 * Remove the hardcoded default args for bootloader
240 * Disable logstderr and flush message buffer in disable_logstderr
241 * Deal with yum.conf inside yum backend by itself
243 - Fix rpmdb error in yum and zypp to avoid bad file descriptor message
244 - Fix MANIFEST syntax to be compliant with md5sum
245 - Correct dependencies for mic in bootstrap
247 Release 0.4 - Fri Jan 06 2012
248 ===========================================================
249 * Support bootstrap mode, run with '--runtime=bootstrap'
250 * Full support for taring-to output, use 'mic ch x.tar'
251 * Break dependency between backend and baseimage
252 * Check valid repos in ks file
253 * Space check update and catch no space exception
254 * Fix no prompt when cv and ch no existed image
255 * Fix NoneType 'createopts' when convert
256 * Fix no existed local_pkgs_path
258 Release 0.3 - Mon Dec 26 2011
259 ===========================================================
260 * Unit test support, run 'make test'
261 * Enable proxy support in config file
262 * Refine configmgr and pluginmgr
263 * Support multi instance with different cache dir
264 * Add 47 system test case
265 * Improve md5sum generation
266 * Add repo option --ssl_verify
267 * Add option --name_prefix
268 * Reformatted code according to PEP08
269 * Backport from mic2:
270 - Add priority and cost option for repos
271 - Reinstroduced compress-disk-image option
273 Release 0.2 - Tue Nov 29 2011
274 ===========================================================
275 * Support btrfs and ext4 fstype for creator, convertor, and chroot
276 * Append distfiles and Makefile
277 * Check arch type from repo data
278 * Set rpm dbpath to fix 'rpm -qa' issue
279 * Fix chroot issue caused by image size
280 * Improve setup.py and make it compatible with python 2.5
281 * Disable ca check for https
282 * Change default output dir name to ./mic-output
283 * untrack mic/__version__.py
284 * Fix some minor issues
286 Release 0.1 - Thu Oct 27 2011
287 ===========================================================
288 * Support three subcommand: create, convert, chroot
289 * Support five image types: fs, loop, raw, livecd, liveusb
290 * Support two package manager backend: yum and zypp
291 * Support the following global command line options:
294 * Creator subcommand support the following command line options:
296 - -c CONFIG, --config=CONFIG
297 - -k CACHEDIR, --cachedir=CACHEDIR
298 - -o OUTDIR, --outdir=OUTDIR
299 - -A ARCH, --arch=ARCH
301 - --record-pkgs=RECORD_PKGS
303 - --local-pkgs-path=LOCAL_PKGS_PATH