1 * Wed May 25 2016 Jianzhong Fang <jz.fang@samsung.com> - 0.27.1
2 * new distribution support: Ubuntu 16.04, Fedora 23
3 * add raw image format support
6 - Remove BmapCreate and Filemap source code from MIC (#DEVT-151)
8 * Mon Mar 28 2016 Jianzhong Fang <jz.fang@samsung.com> - 0.27
9 * new distribution support: CentOS 7, Debian 8, Fedora 21,
10 Fedora 22, openSUSE 13.2
11 * generate manifest file to describe image information
12 * refactor archive and compress module
13 * support sparse handle for tar command
14 * replace system V with systemd on locale setting
15 * add qcow2 image format support
16 * add strict mode for package installing
17 * enable ssl_verify option in config file
18 * enhance checksums of outputs: md5sum, sha1sum, sha256sum (#DEVT-224)
19 * drop mic-native support (#DEVT-248)
21 * revert bind mount config file to instroot
22 * drop liveusb, livecd and raw image formats support (#DEVT-243, #DEVT-263)
23 * use argparse module to parse the cmd line (#DEVT-52)
26 - fix logfile incomplete in release option
27 - fix config file disappear in bootstrap
28 - fix aarch64 bin_format
30 - fix real path of device mapper causing initrd failure
31 - fix qemu arm and arm64 issues
32 - fix AttributeError in zypp backend
33 - fix 'python-xml' depends used by cElements
34 - fix xml requirements
35 - fix logfile not in release of '--release' when creation failed
36 - fix copyright missing issue
37 - fix syslinux installation path issue in Arch Linux
38 - fix priority option of ks file not apply (#DEVT-254)
39 - fix need to check loop device after excute 'losetup --find'
40 - fix check scriptlet error file on /tmp/.postscript/error/
41 - fix broken tar archive
43 * Tue Mar 11 2014 Gui Chen <gui.chen@intel.com> - 0.24
44 * enhance to handle password with special characters
45 * change python-zypp require to python-zypp-tizen
46 * add --repo comand option for local build
47 * add --user and --password option for %repo directive of ks file
48 * clean up some codes relevant to EULA agreement
49 * add hostname showing in log
51 - fix chroot failed by space in image not enough
52 - fix obsolete packages incorrect handling
53 - fix yum backend failed to cache packages
54 - fix bare ip in no_proxy not working
55 - fix repeated log showing with yum backend
56 - fix loop device latency timing
57 - fix zypp failed to download by changing 'cachedir'
58 - fix 'mkfs' not working caused by mic-bootstrap install failed
60 * Fri Dec 12 2013 Gui Chen <gui.chen@intel.com> - 0.23
61 * new distribution support: Ubuntu 13.10 and OpenSUSE 13.1
62 * split requirements to subpackage 'mic-native' to reduce mic's dependencies
63 * support arm64 architecture image creation in native mode
64 * new option '--interactive'/'--non-interactive' to enable/disable interaction
65 * new option '--uuid' for 'part' in ks file to set filesystem uuid
66 * export more variables related to installer framework for loop format
68 - fix bootstrap handling if bootstrap package failed
69 - fix 'mapper_device' key error
70 - fix detailed error messages missing in mounting
71 - fix version comparing issue of urlgrabber in Fedora
73 * Thu Oct 24 2013 Gui Chen <gui.chen@intel.com> - 0.22
74 * use __version__ variable instead of VERSION file
75 * refactor msger module to ulitize logging module
76 * refine error class module
77 * improve installation in virtualenv
78 * add bash completion support
79 * add zsh completion support
80 * export mapper device related to installer framework
81 * update BmapCreate to the latest version
83 - fix customized plugin_dir not work in bootstrap
84 - fix packing process exit on Ubuntu
85 - fix loop device alloaction failed on openSUSE
86 - fix incorrect number showing during installing
87 - set owner of cacheidr/outdir to SUDO_USER
88 - correct project url in setup.py
89 - fix mic not work when mic.conf disappear
91 * Mon Aug 26 2013 Gui Chen <gui.chen@intel.com> - 0.21
92 * new distribution support: Fedora 19
93 * refactor chroot module to correct the logic
94 * add an alias for installerfw - installerfw_plugins
95 * remove fuser dependency to avoid some unmount issue
96 * enable proxy setting with authentication
97 * don't get proxy info from /etc/sysconfig/proxy ever
98 * kill processes inside chroot after post script running
100 - fix bootloader options omitted
101 - raise when incorrectly set partition flags 'legacy_boot'
102 - fix wrong file descriptor issue
105 * Mon Jul 01 2013 Gui Chen <gui.chen@intel.com> - 0.20
106 * new distribution support: CentOS 6
107 * drop image creation if checked packages not present in image
108 * introduce 'installerfw' command in kickstart to customize configuration
109 * improve output message of post scripts
111 - fix rpm not support 'VCS' tag traceback
113 * Thu May 16 2013 Gui Chen <gui.chen@intel.com> - 0.19
114 - new distribution support: Ubuntu 13.04 and openSUSE 12.3
115 - introduce '--part-type' to handle GPT partition
116 - copy bmap creation from bmap-tools
117 - update some depends and fix depends issue
119 - fix bug autologinuser always set
120 - fix symlink bind mount left issue
121 - fix '/var/lock' non-existent throw traceback
123 * Mon Apr 03 2013 Gui Chen <gui.chen@intel.com> - 0.18
124 - put build_id before image name for release option
125 - mount build directory as tmpfs to speed up
126 - enable --priority in ks to set priority
127 - upgrade qemu (mic's depends) to 1.4.0
129 - fix debuginfo rpm swig attribute lost
130 - fix release option failure with slash
131 - fix man page lost in some distros
132 - fix bmap file packed to tarball
134 - unify import statements to absolute import
135 - clean up many undefined in partitionfs.py/loop.py/livecd.py
136 - clean up some useless try and raise blocks
137 - clean up some bad indentations
138 - improve some error messages
140 * Tue Feb 28 2013 Gui Chen <gui.chen@intel.com> - 0.17
141 - support new distribution Fedora 18
142 - enable to handle more than 3 partitions
143 - support partitions without mount point
144 - move vcs infomation from .vcs to .packages
145 - clean up some mess in utils/misc.py
147 - fix failure when symbolic link vmlinuz in single disk
148 - fix incorrect alignment handling
149 - fix requires squashfs in opensuse
150 - fix unicode error in myurlgrab
152 - clean up some mess in utils/misc.py
153 - clean up pylint issue in creator.py
155 * Wed Jan 30 2013 Gui Chen <gui.chen@intel.com> - 0.16
156 - add GPT support for UEFI format
157 - add --ptable=gpt option in kickstart to enable GPT
158 - add simple GPT parser to parse PARTUUID
159 - use PARTUUID in syslinux.cfg if gpt required
160 - clean up the mess code and improve readability
161 - improve alignment to reduce unused space
162 - add interface add_disks for PartitionedMount
163 - clean up the mess code in partitionfs.py
164 - append timestamp suffix to image name by default
165 - add a new option --nocache in kickstart to disable caching rpm
166 - add a new value 'vcs' for --record-pkgs to save VCS info
167 - add a new option --fstab-entry for raw image to set fstab entry
168 - introduce a new option '--install-pkgs' in mic
169 - valid values imagined: source, debuginfo, debugsource
170 - enable 'debuginfo' to install '-debuginfo' rpm in the meantime
171 - improve loop device generating and cleaning mechanism
173 - update documentation
174 - rename MANIFEST to MD5SUM
175 - clean up moblin stuff in kickstart
176 - clean mic tests and keep only unittest
177 - sepreate the download related as independent module
179 - cleanup zypp credential file to fix conflicts during installing
180 - fix the issue that outdir/cachedir is not dir
181 - recalculate package content recording
182 - refactor try except statement in baseimager
183 - fix existing loop images overwritten
185 * Fri Aug 31 2012 Gui Chen <gui.chen@intel.com> - 0.15
186 - Release 0.15, changes including:
187 - new bootstrap implementation: use bootstrap as default
188 - enable 'pkgmgr=auto' to use auto-selected backend
189 - just warning in chroot when not Tizen/MeeGo chroot dir
190 - remove username and password in zypp repo file
191 - update usage.rst for man page
193 - fix https proxy issue in yum backend
194 - fix repodata checksum failed issue
195 - avoid traceback when loopback is NoneType
197 * Thu Aug 02 2012 Gui Chen <gui.chen@intel.com> - 0.14
198 - Release 0.14, changes including:
199 - use cached metadata when checksum is not changed
200 - skip non-fatal error in ks file and prompt user to handle
201 - prompt user to handle when failed to apply img configure
202 - replace hard name with device uuid in etc/fstab
203 - enhance extlinux cfg file for symbolic kernel like IVI
204 - support label assign for raw image
206 - fix live image create failure when label assigned
207 - avoid traceback when converting unsupported type
208 - fix mic --version ugly output
210 * Wed Jul 12 2012 Gui Chen <gui.chen@intel.com> - 0.13
211 - Release 0.13, changes including:
212 - create logfile as default when --release specifid
213 - use 'gzip' and 'bzip2' to pack image instead of python
214 - automatically detect path of 'env' for chroot
215 - record version and os info in build log and logfile
217 - fix popup message in ubuntus
218 - fix unicode issue for logfile
219 - better fix for 'chroot raw' issue
221 * Wed Jun 20 2012 Gui Chen <gui.chen@intel.com> - 0.12
222 - Release 0.12, changes including:
223 - use default value when @BUILD_ID@ and @ARCH@ not specified
224 - enhance proxy support in attachment retrieve
225 - add new --shrink opt for loop image to control img shrinking
226 - avoid invalid literal for loop device generation
227 - relocate and refactor selinux_check func
228 - remove prefix for make install
230 - fix compres image in raw image
231 - fix src pkgs download failed issue
232 - fix convert failed issue
234 * Fri Jun 08 2012 Gui Chen <gui.chen@intel.com> - 0.11
235 - Release 0.11, changes including:
236 - support new subcmd 'auto' to handle magic line in ks
237 - enhance the handle of authentication url and https proxy
238 - support packing images together and support compressed file format
239 - reset LD_PRELOAD for chroot env
240 - centralized interface to check existing images
241 - avoid live image creating when using multi-partitions
242 - resolve the depends of python-urlgrabber
244 - fix logfile context lost issue
245 - fix attachment package url handling
246 - fix mic ch raw failed issue
248 * Tue May 15 2012 Gui Chen <gui.chen@intel.com> - 0.10
249 - Release 0.10.4, changes including:
250 - container support using '%attachment' section in ks
251 - add --compress-to option to support zip format in loop image
252 - auto-detect config and plugindir to meet virtualenv and customized install
253 - remove all hardcoded info in setup.py and use sys.prefix for installing
254 - tolerate some OS errors in the image configurations stage
256 - fix zypp missing password when using username passwd
257 - some fixes to enhance authentication url
258 - refine repostr structure to fix comma issue in baseurl
260 * Fri Apr 13 2012 Gui Chen <gui.chen@intel.com> - 0.9
261 - Release 0.9, changes including:
262 - support pre-install package with zypp backend
263 - sync /etc/mic/mic.conf to bootstrap
264 - enhance sorting for version comparsion in zypp
265 - rewrite chroot tar image using xml format mount point file
266 - fix the incorrect number showing in fs src pkgs download
267 - remove tests directory for dist in Makefile
268 - fix liveusb parted mkpart failure, revert mbr size expand in raw
269 - cleanup /tmp/repolic* dir in the EULA checking
271 * Mon Mar 26 2012 Gui Chen <gui.chen@intel.com> - 0.8
272 - Release 0.8, changes including:
273 - partition alignment support
274 - remove bootloader option 'quiet vga' for raw
275 - update dist files in git source
276 - update unittest, add cases for chroot, msger, runner
277 - add 40 system test case for help
278 - rewrite loop device allocation mechanism
280 * Fri Mar 02 2012 Jian-feng Ding <jian-feng.ding@intel.com> - 0.7
281 - Release 0.7, changes including:
282 - zypp backend: fixed a fatal issue of unreleasable loop devs
283 - zypp backend: more friendly output message
284 - backend: share cached rpm files between yum and zypp
285 - enhancement for multiple partition loop format
286 - make msger to accept Unicode string
287 - fixed a regression of compress option for FS format
288 - fixed issues in openSUSE12.1
289 - new written man page
291 * Thu Feb 16 2012 Qiang Zhang <qiang.z.zhang@intel.com> - 0.6
292 - Release 0.6, changes including:
293 - give hint when converted image existed
294 - conf.py: proxy scheme check
295 - space check before copy image
296 - zypp: abort with error msg for repo resolver issues
297 - runner.py refinement
298 - ks file syntax check for '%post' without '%end'
299 - support more compression formats than only bzip2
300 - fix msg NoneType issue, causing exit after install
302 - catch creator error when retrieving bootstrap metadata
303 - correct matching .metadata file in bootstrap
305 * Mon Feb 06 2012 Gui Chen <gui.chen@intel.com> - 0.5
306 - Release 0.5, changes including:
307 - Rewrite the algorithm of checking free space for download and install
308 - Add --shell option for convert to recreate image modified by internal shell
309 - Add -s option for chroot to unpack image
310 - Introduce --copy-kernel option for creator
311 - Remove the hardcoded default args for bootloader
312 - Disable logstderr and flush message buffer in disable_logstderr
313 - Deal with yum.conf inside yum backend by itself
315 - Fix rpmdb error in yum and zypp to avoid bad file descriptor message
316 - Fix MANIFEST syntax to be compliant with md5sum
317 - Correct dependencies for mic in bootstrap
319 * Fri Jan 06 2012 Gui Chen <gui.chen@intel.com> - 0.4
320 - Release 0.4, changes including:
321 - Support bootstrap mode, run with '--runtime=bootstrap'
322 - Full support for taring-to output, use 'mic ch x.tar'
323 - Break dependency between backend and baseimage
324 - Check valid repos in ks file
325 - Space check update and catch no space exception
326 - Fix no prompt when cv and ch no existed image
327 - Fix NoneType 'createopts' when convert
328 - Fix no existed local_pkgs_path
330 * Mon Dec 26 2011 Zhang Qiang<qiang.z.zhang@intel.com> - 0.3
331 - Upgrade to version 0.3, changes including:
332 - Unit test support, run 'make test'
333 - Enable proxy support in config file
334 - Refine configmgr and pluginmgr
335 - Support multi instance with different cache dir
336 - Add 47 system test case
337 - Improve md5sum generation
338 - Add repo option --ssl_verify
339 - Add option --name_prefix
340 - Reformatted code according to PEP08
341 - Backport from mic2:
342 - Add priority and cost option for repos
343 - Reinstroduced compress-disk-image option
345 * Tue Nov 29 2011 Gui Chen <gui.chen@intel.com> - 0.2
346 - Release 0.2, with the following changes:
347 - Support btrfs and ext4 fstype for creator, convertor, and chroot
348 - Append distfiles and Makefile
349 - Check arch type from repo data
350 - Set rpm dbpath to fix 'rpm -qa' issue
351 - Fix chroot issue caused by image size
352 - Improve setup.py and make it compatible with python 2.5
353 - Disable ca check for https
354 - Change default output dir name to ./mic-output
355 - untrack mic/__version__.py
356 - Fix some minor issues
358 * Thu Oct 27 2011 Gui Chen <gui.chen@intel.com> - 0.1
359 - Official release 0.1, with the following features:
360 - Support three subcommand: create, convert, chroot
361 - Support five image types: fs, loop, raw, livecd, liveusb
362 - Support two package manager backend: yum and zypp
363 - Support the following global command line options:
366 - Creator subcommand support the following command line options:
368 - -c CONFIG, --config=CONFIG
369 - -k CACHEDIR, --cachedir=CACHEDIR
370 - -o OUTDIR, --outdir=OUTDIR
371 - -A ARCH, --arch=ARCH
373 - --record-pkgs=RECORD_PKGS
375 - --local-pkgs-path=LOCAL_PKGS_PATH
377 Please read README.rst for more details.