sos-3.5.1

The sos team is pleased to announce the release of sos-3.5.1. This is a maintenance release containing a number of enhancements, new features, and bug fixes, including:

• 22 new plugins:

  • alternatives, ansible, btrfs, buildah, clear_containers, date, fibrechannel, host, kata_containers, lustre, memcached, networkmanager, nvme, opendaylight, openstack_octavia, ovirt_provider_ovn, ovn_central, ovn_host, rear, release
    runc, wireless

• New profiles (including containers and the Apache webserver)

• major enhancements to core features and existing plugins:

  • better package manager version information
  • fixed exit status propagation
  • deprecated optparse replaced with argparse
  • better error handling during interactive prompting
  • allow journal collection by identifier
  • allow collection of journal message catalogs
  • support for collecting binary file data
  • more fine-grained system plugins (date etc.)
  • policy defined report file name patterns
    • more human-readable report file names by default
  • support for forbidden path lists and forbid logging
  • support for enabling plugins by kernel module name
  • support for enabling plugins by executable name
  • support for collecting eBPF (bpftool) data
  • support for device information via add_udev_info()
  • optional collection of the RPMDB
  • default log size increased from 10MiB to 25MiB
  • string decoding fixes
  • improved debug logging and ENOSPC handling
  • OpenShift 3.10 support
  • Python3 fixes

This release allows distribution packagers to update to a new upstream release before the final release of 3.6. The 3.6 release will include further enhancements in core sosreport functionality and is planned for late June 2018.