sos-4.10.1

The sos team is pleased to announce the release of sos-4.10.1 as a minor release on top of sos-4.10.0. List of changes follow:

General Changes

• Various CI builds+testing improvements
• Fedora testing has been temporarily disabled

Report Changes

• Plugins overview formatting has been fixed

Plugin Changes

• New plugins: aws, spyre
• The juju plugin properly obfuscates Nova compute logs
• The foreman-installer plugin scrubs non-alphanumeric passwords in installer logs
• The openshift_ovn plugin trigger is checked against crio runtime
• The rhc plugin does not further start rhsm service
• The block plugin collects /etc/crypttab
• The podman plugin collects podman disk usage
• Various AAP plugins have been improved for AAP 2.5

Cleaner Changes

• Cleaner properly obfuscates also cleaner logs again.

For full information on the changes contained in this release, please refer to the Git commit logs. Further release information and tarballs are available at:

https://github.com/sosreport/sos/releases/tag/4.6.0

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

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

The team would like to thank everyone who contributed fixes, new features, testing, and feedback for this release.

sos-4.10.0

The sos team is pleased to announce the release of sos-4.10.0. This is the second of our twice-yearly minor version updates for 2025. There will be at least one additional z-stream release later this year. The next minor version update will be sos-4.11.0 tentatively scheduled for February, 2026.

General

• Debian and Ubuntu now use /var/tmp as their default temp directories.

Report

• HTML formatting for Plugin section now works again.

Plugins

• New plugins: snapm, opensearch
• Merged the pxe plugin into the tftpserver plugin.
• The saltmaster plugin obfuscations have been reworked and improved.
• The networkmanager plugin will now capture /var/run/NetworkManager.
• The insights plugin will now properly obfuscate proxy passwords in collected logs.
• The md plugin now triggers on the presence of the mdadm package.

Collect

• sos collect will no longer compress the "top-level" archive which contains the individual report archives.
  • Report archives will still be compressed.

Clean

• sos clean is now concurrent across processes, and not threads, resulting in significantly faster cleaning executions.

Upload

• Fixed an issue where users would be prompted twice for a case id.
• Uploads to the Red Hat SFTP server (including when sos archives are over 1GB in size) now upload into the correct directory.

For full information on the changes contained in this release, please refer to the Git commit logs. Further release information and tarballs are available at:

https://github.com/sosreport/sos/releases/tag/4.10.0

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

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

The team would like to thank everyone who contributed fixes, new features, testing, and feedback for this release.

sos-4.9.2

The sos team is pleased to announce the release of sos-4.9.2. This is a minor update compared to 4.9.1, changes relative to it are below.

General changes

• Cirrus setup is updated to run tests on recent versions of multiple distributions

Report Changes

• OCP preset default options were updated
• Increased column size for plugin listing, added tests for the same
• Fixed regression in requesting case-id if not present
• Debian policy to use /tmp as default tmp-dir

Plugin Changes

• New plugins: authd
• system proxy is newly being automatically collected
• The ssh plugin stops default listing of users's .ssh dirs
• The dnf plugin scrubs passwords in repository URIs
• The mongodb` plugin updated for Ubuntu
• The apache plugin was updated for RHEL10
• The dpkg newly collects /etc/dpkg
• The sunbeam_* plugins were incrementally enhanced
• The dqlite plugin newly collects various Consumer collections

Cleaner Changes

• HostnamePrepper uses hostname -f instead of plain hostname

For full information on the changes contained in this release, please refer to the Git commit logs. Further release information and tarballs are available at:

https://github.com/sosreport/sos/releases/tag/4.9.2

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

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

The team would like to thank everyone who contributed fixes, new features, testing, and feedback for this release.

sos-4.9.1

The sos team is pleased to announce the release of sos-4.9.1. This is a minor update compared to 4.9.0, changes relative to it are below.

General changes

• .readthedocs.yaml was added to build docs correctly

Report Changes

Plugin Changes

• New plugins: charmed_mysql, helm, pulseaudio, valkey
• The o_horizon plugin newly obfuscates credentials in local_settings.py
• The squid plugin has updated Debian and Ubuntu paths
• The networking plugin newly collects contents of netplan configuration dirs
• The ceph plugin newly obfuscates rgw password in ceph.conf
• The ubuntu plugin is revamped
• openstack_gnocchi plugin newly obfuscates db connection

Cleaner Changes

• No further obfuscation of .gz files when using --keep-binary-files option

For full information on the changes contained in this release, please refer to the Git commit logs. Further release information and tarballs are available at:

https://github.com/sosreport/sos/releases/tag/4.9.1

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

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

The team would like to thank everyone who contributed fixes, new features, testing, and feedback for this release.

sos-4.9.0

The sos team is pleased to announce the release of sos-4.9.0. This release represents the first of our two bi-annual releases for 2025, with the next Y-version release bump expected in August. Note that the following release notes are relative to the previous 4.8.2, for full comparison with the 4.8.0 release from August 2024, see the previous release notes for versions 4.8.1, and 4.8.2.

Global

• There has been significant ongoing work with the downstream Debian release for sos, thank you to @arif-ali for all his work on this front.
• The legacy redirectors for sosreport and sos-collector have been dropped as of this release. The only executable going forward is sos.

Policy

• Added duke release for Debian support.

Report

• No changes made directly to the SosReport() component in this release.

Plugins

• New plugins: aap_containerized, and oratab.
• The foreman_installer plugin now collects satellite_metrics.yml.
• The python plugin will now collect verbose output via pip.
• Journal collection speed has been improved via a combination of a python implementation of tac, and calling non-sizelimited journal collections with --reverse.
  • Users and automation that relies on static file naming is reminded that sos_reports/manifest.json should be referenced and the use of tags to find collections within an archive is recommended so that command string changes do not break parsing automation.
• Plugins that collect stackdumps from processes by first sending a signal to those processes have been standardized on a new Plugin.signal_process_usr1() method.
• The crio plugin now supports a stackdump plugin option to collect a stackdump from the main crio process.

Collect

• The saltstack transport will now execute commands using cmd.exec_code sh, instead of cmd.shell.

Clean

• The IPv6 MAC address parser has been updated to reduce false positive matches, including reduce matching again on previously obfuscated strings from other parsers.

Upload

• A new sos upload component has been added, moving the upload code from Policy() and allowing end-users to upload files to vendor locations from systems that may not match the vendor's products/distributions (e.g. when a report archive cannot be uploaded directly from the generating system, and must instead be uploaded from a workstation).

For full information on the changes contained in this release, please refer to the Git commit logs. Further release information and tarballs are available at:

https://github.com/sosreport/sos/releases/tag/4.9.0

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

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

The team would like to thank everyone who contributed fixes, new features, testing, and feedback for this release.

sos-4.8.2

The sos team is pleased to announce the release of sos-4.8.2. This is a minor update compared to 4.8.1, changes relative to it are below.

Report Changes

• Plugins' postprocessing times are newly collected by sos manifest

Plugin Changes

• New plugins: perccli2 and Instructlab
• Password obfuscation of various listed plugins has been improved: heat, placement, mysql, microk8s, sunbeam, foreman and subscription_manager
• The docker, podman and containerd plugins newly collect container image layers
• The juju plugin newly collects commands from juju agents and state reporting
• The foreman plugin newly limits size of collected production.log and ssl los to 500MB only
• The coredump plugin was refactored to collect less dumps
• The ansible plugin stops collecting /etc/ansible/files
• The system plugin newly collects names of environmental variables
• The kubernetes plugin was enhanced (k8s snap, kubelogs option)
• The NetworkManager plugin newly collects system-connections files from all locations

Collect changes

• Fixed an exception when calling collect with --batch and --password options
• Collect can newly inherit config file

Cleaner changes

• Hostname obfuscation was improved to match whole strings

Generic changes

• Ubuntu images were updated for testing

For full information on the changes contained in this release, please refer to the Git commit logs. Further release information and tarballs are available at:

https://github.com/sosreport/sos/releases/tag/4.8.2

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

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

The team would like to thank everyone who contributed fixes, new features, testing, and feedback for this release.

sos-4.8.1

The sos team is pleased to announce the release of sos-4.8.1. This is a minor update compared to 4.8.0, changes relative to it are below.

Report Changes

• Obfuscate upload password in get_upload_url_string()
• Apply --skip-files also to destination of symlinks
• Policy check is consolidated across all Policy objects
• http URL credentials are obfuscated

Plugin Changes

• New plugins: kea, bird, bootc
• The network plugin collects more devlink commands outputs
• The sudo plugin captures more log files
• The leapp plugin plugin enablement is improved
• The block plugin captures LUKS clevis binding
• The nvidia plugin newly collects data from nvidia container toolkit
• The ceph plugin commands collection is updated
• The vdo plugin captures vdo volumes
• The cgroups plugin collects information per processes

Generic changes

• Various fixes for pylint compliance
• Specify licence GPL v2 only

For full information on the changes contained in this release, please refer to the Git commit logs. Further release information and tarballs are available at:

https://github.com/sosreport/sos/releases/tag/4.8.1

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

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

The team would like to thank everyone who contributed fixes, new features, testing, and feedback for this release.

sos-4.8.0

The sos team is pleased to announce the release of sos-4.8.0. There are several project-wide changes in this release, which will be the last minor version release for 2024. The next minor release (4.9.0) is scheduled for February 2025, though users may expect maintenance releases on top of 4.8.0 between now and then.

Global

• Major shoutout to @pponnuvel for the significant effort put into addressing linting reports and refactors across the project
• Project naming patterns have been further clarified as "sos (space) $component", e.g. sos report instead of sosreport.
• Deprecation notice: the old-style command redirectors such as sosreport are deprecated and will be removed in the next minor version (sos-4.9).
• License Clarification: it was brought up that there was ambiguity in our licensing, namely "GPLv2 only" vs "GPLv2 or later". The sos project has always intended to be "GPLv2 only" and has clarified this stance across the repository.
  • See discussion #3705 for more details.
• The automated snap build of sos has been updated to use core24.
• This release is the last release that will have a minimum python version of python-3.6. Subsequent releases will have a minimum python version of python-3.8.

Report

• Fixed a bug where all-logs may not have captured output if the command being collected was installed via snap packaging.

  Plugin

  • New plugins: fail2ban, microcloud
  • A new add_dir_listing() method has been added to standardize collections of directory listings in plugins.
    • The tree parameter can be specified to collect tree output instead of ls output
  • A new is_snap_installed() method has been added to standardize checking if a package is installed as a snap.
  • The container_log plugin has been updated to collect rotated logs.
  • The sunbeam_hypervisor plugin will now properly obfuscate ceilometer and hooks.log.
  • The networking plugin will now capture nmstatectl output.
  • The maas plugin has been significantly refactored.

Policy

• Added a new policy for CloudLinux installations.
• rpm-ostree distributions will fallback to /lib/modules/*/config if /boot/config-$release doesn't exist.

For full information on the changes contained in this release, please refer to the Git commit logs. Further release information and tarballs are available at:

https://github.com/sosreport/sos/releases/tag/4.8.0

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

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

The team would like to thank everyone who contributed fixes, new features, testing, and feedback for this release.

sos-4.7.2

The sos team is pleased to announce the release of sos-4.7.2. This is just a minor update compared to 4.7.1.

General Changes

• A new policy for Alma Linux was added
• Various formatting and styling improvements for CodeQL and pylint

Report Changes

• A new preset for AAP Controller was added
• All strings in report plugins were converted to f-strings
• All journal collections respect --since option
• PluginOpt changes standardized to use dashes only, which means no underscores in plugin options
• Add an option to run commands as a user

Plugin Changes

• New plugins: aap_gateway, aap_receptor, charmed_postgresql, curtin, kafka, microovn, sunbeam and sunbeam_hypervisor
• kdump plugin is newly collected on Azure
• kubernetes plugin stopped collecting data from unsupported versions

Cleaner Changes

• Cleaner run on an already existing sosreport tarball does obfuscate data again

Tests Changes

• Support testing via tox.ini
• Tests run on latest daily Ubuntu builds
• Avocado framework updated to 103.X TLS
• All strings were converted to f-strings
• New tests for apt, juju, netplan and networking

For full information on the changes contained in this release, please refer to the Git commit logs. Further release information and tarballs are available at:

https://github.com/sosreport/sos/releases/tag/4.7.2

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

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

The team would like to thank everyone who contributed fixes, new features, testing, and feedback for this release.

sos-4.7.1

The sos team is pleased to announce the release of sos-4.7.1. This is just a minor update compared to 4.7.0.

General Changes

• .format() calls are replaced by f-string equivalents as a step to modernize on f-strings
• many PYLint, PEP8 and flake8 improvements done

Report Changes

• Hardware devices have new section for fstype

Plugin Changes

• New plugins: proxmox, aap_hub, aap_controller, telegraf
• SCLPlugin class has been dropped
• nfs plugin captures various mountstats
• ceph* plugins newly respect --all-logs option
• openstack_keystone properly obfuscates OIDC client secret

Collector Changes

• ocp cluster has a new option to specify API URL

Cleaner Changes

• A new option --skip-cleaning-files / --skip-masking-files implemented
• Stripping raw MAC address has been improved

Tests Changes

• Workaround of puppet bug puppet-agent-7.29.0*) in foreman installer applied

For full information on the changes contained in this release, please refer to the Git commit logs. Further release information and tarballs are available at:

https://github.com/sosreport/sos/releases/tag/4.7.1

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

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

The team would like to thank everyone who contributed fixes, new features, testing, and feedback for this release.