The Pulp 2.9.0 is now available, and can be downloaded from
the 2.9 stable repositories:
https://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/pulp/pulp/stable/2.9/
The Pulp "2" and "latest" repositories have also been updated to point to 2.9.0:
https://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/pulp/pulp/stable/2/
https://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/pulp/pulp/stable/latest/
This release includes many new features, as well as bug fixes. Owing to the more
rapid time-based release of 2.9, this release should consist of fewer new
features compared to the release of 2.8.
This release was slightly delayed by two blocking issues (2035 and 2037, seen
below)
which were fixed in Beta 2. The release timeline of 2.10 has not been impacted
by
these delays.
More information about our release schedule can be found on the Pulp wiki:
https://pulp.plan.io/projects/pulp/wiki/Release_Schedule
Known Issues
Possible Errata Sync Failure
Several issues were reported against Pulp 2.8 that were not included in the
Pulp 2.9.0 release
as a result of release timing. The list of issues fixed in 2.8.6[0] outlines
these bugs, but
there is one issue in particular that can potentially break RPM repository
syncing after
upgrading: https://pulp.plan.io/issues/2048
This issue is related to resyncing errata from some repositories, and in a
pulp-admin sync
operation looks like this:
Task Failed
Could not parse errata `updated` field: expected format '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'.
Fail to update the existing erratum SOME_ERRATUM_ID.
As a workaround, you can choose to skip errata in the feed repository. To do
this, you can
update the repo to skip errata:
pulp-admin rpm repo update --repo-id --skip=erratum
This will be fixed in Pulp 2.9.1. If you require errata to be synced from a
feed repository,
consider delaying an upgrade to Pulp 2.9 until 2.9.1 is released.
[0]: http://bit.ly/29vs1bE
RPM Publish Directory
-
A story related to specifying different package publish directories inside an
RPM repo[1],
e.g. packages go in a configured packages dir, was included in previous betas
and the
release candidate for 2.9.0. Testing revealed that the feature didn't perform
as expected,
so that feature has been pulled from this release. It is likely to return in a
future
release.
[1]: https://pulp.plan.io/issues/1976
Upgrading
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The Pulp 2 stable repository (pulp-2-stable) is included in the pulp repo files:
https://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/pulp/pulp/fedora-pulp.repo for fedora 22 &
23
https://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/pulp/pulp/rhel-pulp.repo for RHEL 6 & 7
After enabling the pulp-2-stable repository, you'll want to follow the standard
upgrade path, with migrations, to get to 2.9:
> $ sudo systemctl stop httpd pulp_workers pulp_resource_manager pulp_celerybeat
> $ sudo yum upgrade
> $ sudo -u apache pulp-manage-db
> $ sudo systemctl start httpd pulp_workers pulp_resource_manager
> pulp_celerybeat
Supported Fedora Versions
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Fedora 22 is no longer a supported Fedora release. We will not be supporting
Fedora 22
for Pulp 2.9 and onward. Supported Fedora 24 builds will be starting as soon as
possible.
We'll be updating our docs soon with more details about our Fedora support
policy than
what's currently there[2]. In the meantime, Pulp users on Fedora 22 are
encouraged to
upgrade to Fedora 23 to continue to receive supported releases.
[2]:
http://docs.pulpproject.org/user-guide/installation/index.html#supported-operating-systems
New Features
New features for Pulp 2.9 include optimizations in publishing, repoview support
for yum repos, langpacks support for yum repos, and more:
Pulp
1724Publish should be a no-op if no units and no settings have
changed since the last successful publish
RPM Support
1716As a user, I can have better memory performance on Publish by
using SAX instead of etree for comps and updateinfo XML production
1543As a user, I would like incremental export to be the same
format as full export
1367comps langpacks support
1158As a user, I can force full/fresh publish of rpms and not do an
incremental publish
1003As a user, I can use pulp-admin to upload of package_environment
189 Repoview-like functionality for browsing repositories via the
web interface
View this list in redmine:
http://bit.ly/1XXtIps
More information about these new features can be found in the release notes:
http://docs.pulpproject.org/en/2.9/user-guide/release-notes/2.9.x.html
http://docs.pulpproject.org/en/2.9/plugins/pulp_rpm/user-guide/release-notes/2.9.x.html
Issues Addressed
All bug fixes from Pulp 2.8.5 and earlier are included in Pulp 2.9.
Here are the bug fixes specific to 2.9:
Pulp
2015rpm repo publish fails with "Incorrect length of data produced"
error
1928Publish should be operational
