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· 2 min read

Weeks 14–15 (April 3rd – April 17th)​

  • packit source-git related commands can skip dist-git repos, where the git trailer is not found, when looking for the right dist-git dir where to work. (packit#1938)
  • Tmt tests can now be run with fmf root outside of git root (packit#1936)
  • Commits created by Packit no longer contain the "Signed-off-by" tag. (packit#1934)
  • Packit's source_git functionality installs/loads the _packitpatch script in a more reliable manner that doesn't rely on deprecated setuptools functionality. (packit#1926)
  • Packit now supports monorepo configuration in CLI (packit#1864)
  • Packit should now correctly catch the logs if any of the user actions fail during propose_downstream. (packit#1939)
  • Packit now resets Release field in dist-git spec file to 1 when the version in upstream spec file is not up-to-date with the release that triggered propose_downstream. (packit#1940)

Week 16 (April 18th – April 24th)​

  • Packit now complies with PEP 621 and stores project metadata in pyproject.toml. (packit#1913)
  • Packit now properly respects upstream_ref for tags that start with "a", "b", "c", "e", "n", "r", "s". (packit#1943)
  • Packit Service now supports multi package configuration (a.k.a. monorepo configuration). (packit-service#1982)

Week 17-18 (April 25th – May 3rd)​

  • Detection of %autorelease usage in dist-git spec file during propose-downstream and pull-from-upstream has been improved and Packit will always preserve it. (packit#1949)
  • We have fixed an issue that prevented you from building in Copr and Koji on release in the GitLab upstream. (packit-service#2027)
  • TMT tests can now be run with FMF root outside of git root. (packit-service#2007)
  • When reacting to branch pushes, Packit now correctly checks whether the branch name matches the configuration for the test jobs with configured commit trigger. (packit-service#2015)
  • The propose-downstream job triggered by an issue comment now correctly loads the configuration from the upstream repository. (packit-service#2021)
  • Packit is newly on Mastodon. Or, more specifically, on Fosstodon. Follow @packit@fosstodon.org and be one of the first to know about all the news!

· One min read

Week 10 (March 7th – March 13th)​

  • Parsing the spec file by RPM is now performed only if really necessary, greatly improving performance in certain scenarios. (specfile#212)

Week 11 (March 14th – March 20th)​

  • Packit now uses the get_current_version action defined by the user to retrieve version before updating the specfile %setup macro (if any). (packit#1886)

Week 12 (March 21st – March 27th)​

  • 'upstream_tag_template' is now also used when looking for the latest version tag in Git. This allows upstream repositories to mix different tag-patterns in the same repository, but consider only one to tell the latest version. (packit#1891)

Week 13 (March 28th – April 3rd)​

  • Packit now preserves %autorelease during propose_downstream and pull_from_upstream. (packit#1904)
  • Since in GitLab, it is not possible to overwrite the pending statuses, Packit now provides more generic descriptions and URLs when setting the first pending status. (packit-service#1975)

· 3 min read

Weeks 5–6 (February 1st – February 13th)​

  • You can now use --srpm option with the packit build locally CLI command. (packit#1810)
  • You will newly see news about Packit as a footer of the GitHub check runs summary. (packit-service#1881)
  • Packit now groups related builds and test runs (e.g. triggered by the same event, just different chroots) together. In the future, this will allow better presentation of the overall pipelines (e.g. in the dashboard). We now also create database entries before sending requests to external service (e.g. Testing Farm), therefore failures will be more visible in the dashboard. (packit-service#1787)

Week 7 (February 14th – February 20th)​

  • Packit now provides PACKIT_PROJECT_VERSION environment variable when running changelog-entry action. (packit#1853)
  • Packit CLI now requires bodhi in version 7.0.0 at minimum. (packit#1844)
  • You can now specify branches for a job triggered by a commit with a regex. (packit-service#1909)

Week 8 (February 21st – February 27th)​

  • packit validate-config CLI command now provides details about errors when it cannot parse the config file. (packit#1861)
  • --update-release/--no-update-release CLI flag now affects only Release, not Version. (packit#1857)
  • Packit does fewer API calls when searching for the package configuration file in remote repositories. (packit#1846)
  • Commit statuses/check names will now contain the name of the branch or release for the build and test jobs with commit or release trigger. This will prevent the collision of the names. (packit-service#1920)

Week 9 (February 28th – March 6th)​

  • Aliases logic was updated to account for the upcoming Fedora release (Bodhi now marks such release as frozen). From now on, Fedora 38 updates will be created even when the release is frozen. (packit#1863)
  • packit validate-config now correctly checks glob-patterns in 'files_to_sync' (packit#1865) and provides details about errors when it cannot parse a config file. (packit#1861)
  • Pull-from-upstream jobs are now displayed on our dashboard 🥳 https://dashboard.packit.dev/jobs/pull-from-upstreams (packit-service#1951, packit-service#1939)
  • Packit will no longer automatically request access to the forks on GitLab. This will prevent us from spamming one-time contributors with requesting the access, whereas the regular contributors can add Packit following the instructions from the comments on the MRs, so they can receive the results of Packit pipeline right from the commit statuses. (packit-service#1946)
  • Packit will retry tasks that are interrupted by a worker shutdown. This should improve throughput and reduce cases where there is no outcome, i.e. "builds should have been done but nothing happened". (packit-service#1935)
  • OGR now understands a few community-hosted GitLab instances that could not be determined automatically from the hostname. Thanks to that, you don't need to hardcode these instances to be mapped correctly. (ogr#775)

Thank you, @SpyTec for so many wonderful changes in our dasbhoard.

· 3 min read

Week 0 🌄 (December 20th 2022 – January 2nd 2023)​

  • ogr now raises GitForgeInternalError rather than PagureAPIException when getting 50x response from the Pagure API. This should increase usability as those tasks will be retried. (ogr#762)
  • Packit now puts the correct release number into the changelog when the Release tag is reset during propose-downstream. (packit#1816))

Week 1 (January 3rd – January 9th)​

  • SRPMs for projects that installed the GitHub App before September 6th and don't have srpm_build_deps defined are now built in Copr as well. (packit-service#1822)
  • We have fixed a bug in dashboard that linked null as a Copr build for Testing Farm runs that do not require any Copr build. (dashboard#200)
  • All classes including Specfile itself can now be copied using the standard copy() and deepcopy() functions from copy module. (specfile#176)

Week 2 (January 10th – January 16th)​

Week 3 + 4 (January 17th – January 30th)​

  • Users can now re-trigger bodhi_update and koji_build jobs by /packit create-update and /packit koji-update comments in an issue opened by Packit in the configured issue_repository if anything went wrong during these jobs. (packit-service#1796)
  • All Copr projects created by Packit now default to enable_net=False: our documentation stated this, but it wasn't the case. This is now corrected. (packit#1825)
  • You can now specify update_release: false in the configuration to tell Packit not to change the Version and Release in the spec file. It works the same as --no-update-release (renamed from now deprecated --no-bump) in the CLI. (packit#1827)
  • Packit now supports setting module_hotfixes for Copr projects. (packit#1829)
  • Packit now also allows passing in free-form parameters to Testing Farm in order to support all of its options immediately once they are added. The parameters can be passed through the tf_extra_params config option. The free-form dictionary must follow the structure of Testing Farm POST requests. See our documentation and examples for more information. (packit-service#1853)
  • Fixed a bug in section parsing that caused sections to be ignored when there were macro definitions spread across the spec file and not cumulated at the top. (specfile#191)
  • Also fixed the infinite loop that occurred when section options were followed by whitespace. (specfile#197)

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