+MIC Image Creator 0.28.5 Release Notes
+======================================
+Released Oct 31 2018
+
+This release note documents the changes included in the new release. And
+the release contains new features.
+
+new features
+--------------------------
+ * Add %env section support.
+
+MIC Image Creator 0.28.4 Release Notes
+======================================
+Released Sep 28 2018
+
+This release note documents the changes included in the new release. And
+the release contains new features, enhancements and bug fixes.
+
+new features
+--------------------------
+ * add new option --fslabel in part section.
+
+MIC Image Creator 0.28.3 Release Notes
+======================================
+Released Sep 14 2018
+
+This release note documents the changes included in the new release. And
+the release contains new features, enhancements and bug fixes.
+
+Bug Fixes
+--------------------------
+ * Revert "ext4 images are created with inode size 256 bytes".
+
+MIC Image Creator 0.28.2 Release Notes
+======================================
+Released Aug 03 2018
+
+This release note documents the changes included in the new release. And
+the release contains new features, enhancements and bug fixes.
+
+New Features & Enhancements
+--------------------------
+ * remove tmp dir in runscript period.
+ * ext4 images are created with inode size 256 bytes.
+ * Add locale related environment varibale because language is not set to one specified in ks file.
+
+MIC Image Creator 0.28.1 Release Notes
+======================================
+Released May 11 2018
+
+This release note documents the changes included in the new release. And
+the release contains new features, enhancements and bug fixes.
+
+New Features & Enhancements
+--------------------------
+ * Check exit status of vdfs image creation
+ * Change the user and root passwd hash algorithm order to avoid user name same as root name.
+
+MIC Image Creator 0.28 Release Notes
+======================================
+Released April 13 2018
+
+This release note documents the changes included in the new release. And
+the release contains new features, enhancements and bug fixes.
+
+New Features & Enhancements
+--------------------------
+ * Apply btrfs mount options "--fsoptions=compress"
+
+Bug Fixes
+---------
+ * In Tizen, losetup command support '-f' option, change '--find' to '-f'
+ * Fix issue, set blocksize by parsing "-b [BLOCKSIZE]" from extoptions in ks file
+
+MIC Image Creator 0.27.9 Release Notes
+======================================
+Released Mar 23 2018
+
+This release note documents the changes included in the new release. And
+the release contains new features, enhancements and bug fixes.
+New Features & Enhancements
+--------------------------
+ * Added ATTACHMENT_PATHS env and IMG_DIR_PATH env
+
+Bug Fixes
+---------
+ * Revert "call copy_attachment() after configure() and move attachment files"
+
+MIC Image Creator 0.27.8 Release Notes
+======================================
+Released Jan 26 2018
+
+This release note documents the changes included in the new release. And
+the release contains new features, enhancements and bug fixes.
+New Features & Enhancements
+--------------------------
+ * Use SHA512 instead of MD5 to encrypt root password
+ * Support local mic-bootstrap rpm package to run mic.
+ * Another method of install tpk.
+ * The value of fstype is not cpio, an image is generated by cpio.
+ * When increase rpm release number, user can use --local-pkgs-path to install local pkgs.
+ * use the value of --pack-to option as filename to match all outputs
+ * support both %runscript and %post-umount to perform scripts before packaging
+ * support multiple mic execution at same time
+ * add --use-mic-in-bootstrap option
+ * Display all rpm debug messages with --rpm-debug
+ * call copy_attachment() after configure() and move attachment files
+ * Add init_expand option to partition
+ * add no_shrink option to partition, fix parameter of disk.expand()
+ * Setup environment to perform signing script
+ * if post scripts fails, CreatorError is raised to catch script errors such as signing error
+ * use registered qemu emulator filename if already registered.
+
+Bug Fixes
+---------
+ * Fix the bug that use local mic-bootstrap to run mic.
+
+MIC Image Creator 0.27.7 Release Notes
+======================================
+Released Sep 15 2017
+
+This release note documents the changes included in the new release. And
+the release contains new features, enhancements and bug fixes.
+
+New Features & Enhancements
+--------------------------
+ * Timezone setting change
+ * Run certain script before creation of tar.gz image
+ * Locally built mic-bootstrap using gbs cannot be used in mic
+ * Add new option of tpk_install
+ * Amend mic cr option of run_script
+ * Add new option of --run_script
+ * Modify the order of generating image by cpio
+
+Bug Fixes
+---------
+ * fix the bug that modify the order of generating image by cpio
+
+MIC Image Creator 0.27.6 Release Notes
+======================================
+Released Jun 30 2017
+
+This release note documents the changes included in the new release. And
+the release contains new features, enhancements and bug fixes.
+
+New Features & Enhancements
+--------------------------
+ * Use cpio gzip in mic.
+ * fix corrupted log messages in log file
+ * change installed package name length from 20 to 50
+ * print warning message for detecting rpm post script...
+ * display all rpm debug messages in debug mode
+ * display filesystem size of each images
+ * add SIGTERM handler for exit gracefully
+ * change tpk install error message format
+ * print package name, before install
+ * Modify the arguments that use cpio to generate image.
+ * Solve mic hang issue, add timeout to show failure.
+ * Solve issue:mic has error when env no_proxy is 165.xx.xxx...
+ * Change the order of generating image by cpio.
+
+Bug Fixes
+---------
+
+MIC Image Creator 0.27.5 Release Notes
+======================================
+Released Apr 28 2017
+
+This release note documents the changes included in the new release. And
+the release contains new features, enhancements and bug fixes.
+
+New Features & Enhancements
+--------------------------
+ * Solve image not clean after created, use e2fsck to clean image, relevant issue is NJTS-179 in JIRA.
+
+Bug Fixes
+---------
+
+MIC Image Creator 0.27.4 Release Notes
+======================================
+Released Apr 5 2017
+
+This release note documents the changes included in the new release. And
+the release contains new features, enhancements and bug fixes.
+
+New Features & Enhancements
+--------------------------
+ * Fixup changelog that causes errors
+ * Merge add mipsel register on binfmt_misc && Add support of qemu-mipsel patch
+ * Replace 'copy' to 'symbolic link' in timeznoe setting inside mic
+ * Copy ks setting lang to file /etc/config/mic_language for other use
+ * Show logs inside 'Running scripts' in mic
+
+Bug Fixes
+---------
+
+MIC Image Creator 0.27.3 Release Notes
+======================================
+Released Dec 19 2016
+
+This release note documents the changes included in the new release. And
+the release contains new features, enhancements and bug fixes.
+
+New Features & Enhancements
+--------------------------
+ * Show pkgid when install pkg error
+ * support vdfs and squashfs image creation
+
+Bug Fixes
+---------
+
+MIC Image Creator 0.27.2 Release Notes
+======================================
+Released Sep 28 2016
+
+This release note documents the changes included in the new release. And
+the release contains new features, enhancements and bug fixes.
+
+New Features & Enhancements
+--------------------------
+ * Add exclude-from-image option to exclude specific images
+ * Add subcommand option parameters(-v, -d, -i)
+
+MIC Image Creator 0.27.1 Release Notes
+======================================
+Released May 25 2016
+
+This release note documents the changes included in the new release. And
+the release contains new features, enhancements and bug fixes.
+
+New Features & Enhancements
+--------------------------
+ * new distribution support: Ubuntu 16.04, Fedora 23
+ * add raw image format support
+
+Bug Fixes
+---------
+ * Remove BmapCreate and Filemap source code from MIC (#DEVT-151)
+
+MIC Image Creator 0.27 Release Notes
+======================================
+Released Mar 28 2016
+
+This release note documents the changes included in the new release. And
+the release contains new features, enhancements and bug fixes.
+
+New Features & Enhancements
+--------------------------
+ * new distribution support: CentOS 7, Debian 8, Fedora 21,
+ Fedora 22, openSUSE 13.2
+ * generate manifest file to describe image information
+ * refactor archive and compress module
+ * support sparse handle for tar command
+ * replace system V with systemd on locale setting
+ * add qcow2 image format support
+ * add strict mode for package installing
+ * enable ssl_verify option in config file
+ * enhance checksums of outputs: md5sum, sha1sum, sha256sum (#DEVT-224)
+ * drop mic-native support (#DEVT-248)
+ * update mount option
+ * revert bind mount config file to instroot
+ * drop liveusb, livecd and raw image formats support (#DEVT-243, #DEVT-263)
+ * use argparse module to parse the cmd line (#DEVT-52)
+
+Bug Fixes
+---------
+ * fix logfile incomplete in release option
+ * fix config file disappear in bootstrap
+ * fix aarch64 bin_format
+ * fix pylint
+ * fix real path of device mapper causing initrd failure
+ * fix qemu arm and arm64 issues
+ * fix AttributeError in zypp backend
+ * fix 'python-xml' depends used by cElements
+ * fix xml requirements
+ * fix logfile not in release of '--release' when creation failed
+ * fix copyright missing issue
+ * fix syslinux installation path issue in Arch Linux
+ * fix priority option of ks file not apply (#DEVT-254)
+ * fix need to check loop device after excute 'losetup --find'
+ * fix check scriptlet error file on /tmp/.postscript/error/
+ * fix broken tar archive
+
+MIC Image Creator 0.26 Release Notes
+======================================
+Released Oct 14 2014
+
+This release note documents the changes included in the new release. And
+the release contains new features, enhancements and bug fixes.
+
+New Features & Ehancements
+--------------------------
+ * add new arch MIPS support
+ * add qcow2 image format support
+ * add strict mode for package installing
+ * enable ssl_verify option in config file
+ * enhance checksums of outputs: md5sum, sha1sum, sha256sum
+ * enhance VCS info in yum backend
+
+Bug Fixes
+---------
+ * fix real path of device mapper causing initrd failure
+ * fix qemu arm and arm64 issues
+ * fix AttributeError in zypp backend
+ * fix 'python-xml' depends used by cElements
+
+MIC Image Creator 0.25.2 Release Notes
+======================================
+Released Jun 11 2014
+
+This release note documents the changes included in the new release. And
+the release contains new features, enhancements and bug fixes.
+
+New Features & Ehancements
+--------------------------
+
+Bug Fixes
+---------
+ * fix AttributeError in zypp backend
+
+MIC Image Creator 0.25.1 Release Notes
+======================================
+Released May 28 2014
+
+This release note documents the changes included in the new release. And
+the release contains new features, enhancements and bug fixes.
+
+New Features & Ehancements
+--------------------------
+
+Bug Fixes
+---------
+ * revert bind mount config file to instroot
+ * fix xml requirements
+
+MIC Image Creator 0.25 Release Notes
+====================================
+Released May 23 2014
+
+This release note documents the changes included in the new release. And
+the release contains new features, enhancements and bug fixes.
+
+New Features & Ehancements
+--------------------------
+ * new distribution support: Ubuntu 14.04 and Debian 7.0
+ * generate manifest file to describe image information
+ * refactor archive and compress module
+ * support sparse handle for tar command
+ * replace system V with systemd on locale setting
+ * support lzop compress
+
+Bug Fixes
+---------
+ * fix logfile incomplete in release option
+ * fix config file disappear in bootstrap
+ * fix aarch64 bin_format
+ * fix pylint
+
+MIC Image Creator 0.24.2 Release Notes
+====================================
+Released June 09 2014
+
+This release note documents the changes included in the new release. And
+the release contains new features, enhancements and bug fixes.
+
+New Features & Ehancements
+--------------------------
+ * enable ssl_verify in config file
+
+Bug Fixes
+---------
+ * fix logfile incompleted issue
+ * fix md5sum to be compatible with utility md5sum
+ * fix locale issue in systemd service
+
+MIC Image Creator 0.24 Release Notes
+====================================
+Released March 11 2014
+
+This release note documents the changes included in the new release. And
+the release contains new features, enhancements and bug fixes.
+
+New Features & Ehancements
+--------------------------
+ * enhance to handle password with special characters
+ * change python-zypp require to python-zypp-tizen
+ * add --repo comand option for local build
+ * add --user and --password option for %repo directive of ks file
+ * clean up some codes relevant to EULA agreement
+ * add hostname showing in log
+
+Bug Fixes
+---------
+ * fix chroot failed by space in image not enough
+ * fix obsolete packages incorrect handling
+ * fix yum backend failed to cache packages
+ * fix bare ip in no_proxy not working
+ * fix repeated log showing with yum backend
+ * fix loop device latency timing
+ * fix zypp failed to download by changing 'cachedir'
+ * fix 'mkfs' not working caused by mic-bootstrap install failed
+
+MIC Image Creator 0.23.1 Release Notes
+====================================
+Released January 23 2014
+
+This release note documents the changes included in the new release. And
+the release contains new features, enhancements and bug fixes.
+
+New Features & Ehancements
+--------------------------
+
+Bug Fixes
+---------
+ * fix bmap creation failed if using tmpfs
+
+MIC Image Creator 0.23 Release Notes
+====================================
+Released December 18 2013
+
+This release note documents the changes included in the new release. And
+the release contains new features, enhancements and bug fixes.
+
+New Features & Ehancements
+--------------------------
+ * support arm64 architecture image creation in native mode
+ (to know more about arm64 support, check doc/KNOWN_ISSUES)
+ * new distribution support: Ubuntu 13.10 and OpenSUSE 13.1
+ * split the "native" running mode support to a separated sub-package
+ * reduced the dependencies(packages) of mic main package dramatically
+ * add new options '--interactive' and '--non-interactive' to enable/disable interaction
+ * add new option '--uuid' for 'part' in ks file to set filesystem uuid
+ * export more environment variables related to installer framework for loop format
+
+Bug Fixes
+---------
+ * fix bootstrap handling if bootstrap package failed
+ * fix 'mapper_device' key error
+ * fix detailed error messages missing in mounting
+ * fix version comparing issue of urlgrabber in Fedora
+
+ MIC Image Creator 0.22.3 Release Notes
+===========================================================
+Released Nov 19 2013
+
+This release note documents the changes included in the new release. And
+the release contains new features, enhancements and bug fixes.
+
+New Features & Ehancements
+--------------------------
+ * export mapper device for installer framework
+ * update BmapCreate to 2.0
+ * enable internal setarch in bootstrap environment
+
+Bug Fixes
+---------
+
+ MIC Image Creator 0.22.2 Release Notes
+===========================================================
+Released Nov 18 2013
+
+This release note documents the changes included in the new release. And
+the release contains new features, enhancements and bug fixes.
+
+New Features & Ehancements
+--------------------------
+ * export mapper device for installer framework
+ * update BmapCreate to 2.0
+
+Bug Fixes
+---------
+
+ MIC Image Creator 0.22 Release Notes
+===========================================================
+
+Released October 24 2013
+
+This release note documents the changes included in the new release. And
+the release contains new features, enhancements and bug fixes.
+
+New Features & Ehancements
+--------------------------
+ * refactor msger module to ulitize logging module
+ * refine error class module
+ * improve installation in virtualenv
+ * add bash completion support
+ * add zsh completion support
+ * export mapper device related to installer framework
+ * update BmapCreate to the latest version
+
+Bug Fixes
+---------
+ - fix customized plugin_dir not work in bootstrap
+ - fix packing process exit on Ubuntu
+ - fix loop device alloaction failed on openSUSE
+ - fix incorrect number showing during installing
+ - set owner of cacheidr/outdir to SUDO_USER
+ - correct project url in setup.py
+ - fix mic not work when mic.conf disappear
+
+ MIC Image Creator 0.21.2 Release Notes
+===========================================================
+
+Released September 28 2013
+
+This release note documents the changes included in the new release. And
+the release contains new features, enhancements and bug fixes.
+
+New Features & Ehancements
+--------------------------
+
+Bug Fixes
+---------
+ * use sync mode in kpartx command
+
+ MIC Image Creator 0.21.1 Release Notes
+===========================================================
+
+Released September 18 2013
+
+This release note documents the changes included in the new release. And
+the release contains new features, enhancements and bug fixes.
+
+New Features & Ehancements
+--------------------------
+ * prefer to use 'pbzip2'/'pigz' to compress image if possible
+ * won't fallback to native mode if bootstrap not found
+
+Bug Fixes
+---------
+ * fix exiting at packaging images on Ubuntu distro
+
+ MIC Image Creator 0.21 Release Notes
+===========================================================
+
+Released August 28 2013
+
+This release note documents the changes included in the new release. And
+the release contains new features, enhancements and bug fixes.
+
+New Features & Ehancements
+--------------------------
+ * new distribution support: Fedora 19
+ * refactor part of chroot modules for better cleanup handling
+ * add an alias "installerfw_plugins" for installerfw
+ * remove unnecessary fuser dependency for "fuser" command
+ * enable proxy with user authentication setting
+ * correct no_proxy handling in openSUSE
+ * kill processes inside chroot after post script running
+ * ulitize 'dmsetup' to avoid possible dm device unaccessible issue
+
+Bug Fixes
+---------
+ * fix bootloader options omitted
+ * warn failed boot partition flags set
+ * fix wrong file descriptor issue
+ * fix some requires
+
+
+ MIC Image Creator 0.20 Release Notes
+===========================================================
+Released Jule 08 2013
+
+This release note documents the changes included in the MIC 0.20 release. And
+the release contains new features, enhancements and bug fixes.
+
+New Features & Ehancements
+--------------------------
+ * new distribution support: CentOS 6
+ * drop image creation if checked packages not present in image
+ * introduce 'installerfw' command in kickstart to customize configuration
+ * improve output message of post scripts
+
+Bug Fixes
+---------
+ * fix rpm not support 'VCS' tag traceback
+
+ MIC Image Creator 0.19.3 Release Notes
+===========================================================
+Released July 01 2013
+
+This release note documents the changes included in the MIC 0.19.3 release. And
+the release contains new features, enhancements and bug fixes.
+
+New Features & Ehancements
+--------------------------
+
+Bug Fixes
+---------
+ * fix vfat UUID issue in liveusb
+
+ MIC Image Creator 0.19.2 Release Notes
+===========================================================
+Released July 01 2013
+
+This release note documents the changes included in the MIC 0.19.2 release. And
+the release contains new features, enhancements and bug fixes.
+
+New Features & Ehancements
+--------------------------
+ * introduce 'installerfw' command in kickstart
+ * export several environment to keep image information
+
+Bug Fixes
+---------
+
+ MIC Image Creator 0.19.1 Release Notes
+===========================================================
+Released June 21 2013
+
+This release note documents the changes included in the MIC 0.19.1 release. And
+the release contains new features, enhancements and bug fixes.
+
+New Features & Ehancements
+--------------------------
+
+Bug Fixes
+---------
+ * fall back to old arch detecting
+
+ MIC Image Creator 0.19 Release Notes
+===========================================================
+Released May 16 2013
+
+This release note documents the changes included in the MIC 0.18 release. And
+the release contains new features, enhancements and bug fixes.
+
+New Features & Ehancements
+--------------------------
+ * new distribution support: Ubuntu 13.04 and openSUSE 12.3
+ * introduce '--part-type' to handle GPT partition
+ * copy bmap creation from bmap-tools
+ * update some depends and fix depends issue
+
+Bug Fixes
+---------
+ * fix bug autologinuser always set
+ * fix symlink bind mount left issue
+ * fix '/var/lock' non-existent throw traceback
+
+ MIC Image Creator 0.18 Release Notes
+===========================================================
+Released Apr 03 2013
+
+This release note documents the changes included in the MIC 0.18 release. And
+the release contains new features, enhancements and bug fixes.
+
+New Features & Ehancements
+--------------------------
+ * put build_id before image name for release option
+ * mount build directory as tmpfs to speed up
+ * enable --priority in ks to set priority
+ * upgrade qemu (mic's depends) to 1.4.0
+
+Bug Fixes
+---------
+ * fix debuginfo rpm swig attribute lost
+ * fix release option failure with slash
+ * fix man page lost in some distros
+ * fix bmap file packed to tarball
+
+Code Cleanup
+------------
+ * unify import statements to absolute import
+ * clean up many undefined in partitionfs.py/loop.py/livecd.py
+ * clean up some useless try and raise blocks
+ * clean up some bad indentations
+ * improve some error messages
+
+ MIC Image Creator 0.17 Release Notes
+===========================================================
+Released Feb 28 2013
+
+This release note documents the changes included in the MIC 0.17 release. And
+the release contains new features, enhancements and bug fixes.
+
+New Features & Ehancements
+--------------------------
+ * support new distribution Fedora 18
+ * enable to handle more than 3 partitions
+ * support partition without mount point
+ * move vcs infomation from .vcs to .packages
+
+Bug Fixes
+---------
+ * fix failure when symbolic link vmlinuz in single disk
+ * fix incorrect alignment handling
+ * fix requires squashfs in opensuse
+ * fix unicode error in myurlgrab
+
+Code Cleanup
+------------
+ * clean up some mess in utils/misc.py
+ * clean up pylint issue in creator.py
+
Release 0.16 - Wed Jan 30 2013
===========================================================
* add GPT support for UEFI format
- --pkgmgr=PKGMGR
- --local-pkgs-path=LOCAL_PKGS_PATH
+Resource
+--------
+ * SITE: https://www.tizen.org/
+ * REPO: https://download.tizen.org/tools/
+ * DOCS: https://source.tizen.org/documentation/reference/mic-image-creator
+ * CODE: https://review.tizen.org/git/tools/mic
+ * BUGS: https://bugs.tizen.org/jira
+ * HELP: general@lists.tizen.org
+
+Report Bugs
+-----------
+when you found a bug, you can file this bug in our official bug tracker:
+https://bugs.tizen.org/jira
+Thank you for using MIC and for taking the time to send us your feedback!