The sos team is pleased to announce the release of sos-4.11.2

Global Change

• [generic] Add '--version' flag

Report Changes

• [policy] New SLESPolicy
• Enhance RedHatCoreOSPolicy to contain OCP node role and cluster name
• [preset] Add preset for Canonical OpenStack with Sunbeam

Plugin Changes

• New plugins: anbox, charmed_mongodb, charmed_mongos, command_line_assistant, foremanctl, getent, mysql_router, net_diagram
• [foreman*|pulp|candlepin|redis|postgresql] - multiple plugins enhanced for foremanctl
• [dnf] plugin extended for dnf5
• [azure] Fix RHUI and certificate detection for RHEL 8/9/10
• [azure] Refactor IMDS collection with pretty-printed JSON
• [openstack_*] Add Ubuntu support to openstack database plugin
• [networking] Redact secret-bearing keys in netplan configs
• [net_diagram] Enhance with routes, containers, and ASCII output
• [dracut]: Add Ubuntu support and enhance dracut plugin
• [ipa] several minor updates

Cleaner Changes

• Multiple further performance improvements made, per #4227, and some more by @kicch0u and @gotoweb .

Testing Changes

• [testing] Migrate CI to GH Workflow

New Contributors

• @Gu1nness made their first contribution in #4278
• @filanov made their first contribution in #4315
• @jonathanbrenes made their first contribution in #4314
• @harshith-aa made their first contribution in #4312
• @asadawar made their first contribution in #4319
• @kicch0u made their first contribution in #4316
• @gotoweb made their first contribution in #4286
• @puneetdixit200 made their first contribution in #4334
• @asakure made their first contribution in #4344
• @hagaikwa-redhat made their first contribution in #4348
• @MoonC432 made their first contribution in #4351
• @rabi made their first contribution in #4328
• @srivathsa729 made their first contribution in #4352

Full Changelog: 4.11.1...4.11.2

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/4.11.2

Please report any problems to 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.

The sos team is pleased to announce the release of sos-4.11.1

Global Change

• [doc] Add AI_POLICY.md

Report Changes

• [generic] Update padding for option to 22 chars
• [utilities] Treat audit logs as text files, not binary

Plugin Changes

• New plugins: grout, charmed_opensearch, charmed_opensearch_dashboard, charmed_cruise_control, charmed_kafka, charmed_zookeeper
• [aap_containerized] Add missing components, fix secret masking gaps
• [haproxy] Obfuscate the stats auth
• Fixed OpenFlow version detection
• [postgresql] Rearrange code and dir list for pghome
• [docker|containers_common] Obfuscate proxy user and pass
• [systemd] Ofuscate proxy credentials from cmd outputs
• [foreman] Blacklist registry-auth.json file

Upload Changes

• [redhat,upload] Fix permission error by uploading to the right dir

Cleaner Changes

• Several further performance improvements made, per #4227

Testing Changes

• Bump avocado to 113.0 due to py3.14 issues
• Increased limit on journals size check

New Contributors

• @rjarry made their first contribution in #4247
• @marcoppenheimer made their first contribution in #4214
• @Pepsiqqq made their first contribution in #4198
• @vlours made their first contribution in #4284
• @munirsidd made their first contribution in #4298

Full Changelog: 4.11.0...4.11.1

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/4.11.1

Please report any problems to 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.

The sos team is pleased to announce the release of sos-4.11.0. This marks our first of two minor version releases in 2026.

Report Changes

• Users will now see a UI message for when post-processing begins, after plugin execution has finished.
• Users may now produce a tar-only (no compression) archive by using --compression-type=none.

Plugin Changes

• New plugins: graylog, pipewire, rhel_drives, stunnel
• Fixed an issue where the aws plugin would not load in aws xen instances.
• The logs plugin now supports the newer include() directive for rsyslog configs.
• The gcp plugin will now collect RHUI details.
• The pacemaker plugin will now obfuscate MAAS API keys.
• The lxd plugin now collects significantly more information, and is bound to local: contexts.

Collect Changes

• Users may now use a new --sudo-binary option to specify a different privilege escalation binary (default remains sudo).

Cleaner Changes

• The performance of sos clean has been drastically improved in this release, special thanks to @pmoravec for his efforts on this front.

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/4.11.0

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.

The sos team is pleased to announce the release of sos-4.10.2 as a minor release on top of sos-4.10.1. List of changes follow:

Report Changes

• Presets are newly properly honored over config files.

Plugin Changes

• New plugins: ..
• The charmed_mysql plugin is refactored to support k8s
• The openstack_* plugins use better regexpes for passwords obfuscation
• The aap_* plugins have improved passwords obfuscation as well
• The kdump plugin now works on Debian and collects a new kexec location
• The aap_containerized plugin now automatically detects user that installed AAP, and collects everything from other aap_* plugins
• The pulpcore plugin now export PostreSQL tables in CSV format
• The candlepin and foreman plugins honor configured non-default PostgreSQL port
• The drbd plugin has been refactored to support DRBD 9

Collect Changes

• The OCP cluster has fixed an uncaught exception

Cleaner Changes

• A new option --treat-certificates allows user to select the action how to treat with sensitive data in SSL certificates

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/4.10.2

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.

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/4.10.1

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.