We are chuffed to announce the release of: ironic-python-agent 9.5.0: =================== Ironic Python Agent =================== Team and repository tags ======================== .. image:: https://governance.openstack.org/tc/badges/ironic-python- agent.svg :target: https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/tags/index.html Overview ======== An agent for controlling and deploying Ironic controlled baremetal nodes. The ironic-python-agent works with the agent driver in Ironic to provision the node. Starting with ironic-python-agent running on a ramdisk on the unprovisioned node, Ironic makes API calls to ironic- python-agent to provision the machine. This allows for greater control and flexibility of the entire deployment process. The ironic-python-agent may also be used with the original Ironic pxe drivers as of the Kilo OpenStack release. Building the IPA deployment ramdisk =================================== For more information see the `Image Builder <https://docs.openstack.org/ironic-python- agent/latest/install/index.html#image-builders>`_ section of the Ironic Python Agent developer guide. Using IPA with devstack ======================= This is covered in the `Deploying Ironic with DevStack <https://docs.openstack.org/ironic/latest/contributor/dev- quickstart.html#deploying-ironic-with-devstack>`_ section of the Ironic dev-quickstart guide. Project Resources ================= Project bugs are tracked on Launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ironic-python-agent/+bugs Developer documentation can be found here: https://docs.openstack.org/ironic-python-agent/latest/ Release notes for the project are available at: https://docs.openstack.org/releasenotes/ironic-python-agent/ Source code repository for the project is located at: https://opendev.org/openstack/ironic-python-agent/ IRC channel: #openstack-ironic on irc.oftc.net To contribute, start here: `Openstack: How to contribute <https://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html>`_. This release is part of the bobcat release series. The source is available from: https://opendev.org/openstack/ironic-python-agent Download the package from: https://tarballs.openstack.org/ironic-python-agent/ Please report issues through: https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/project/openstack/ironic- python-agent For more details, please see below. 9.5.0 ^^^^^ New Features ************ * The hardware inventory now contains information about the system firmware: vendor, version and the build date. * The "ironic-python-agent" will now attempt to determine a checksum type by evaluating the length of the supplied checksum. This allows SHA512 (SHA-2) and SHA256 (SHA-2) checksums to be identified and utilized without an explicit declaration of the checksum type utilizing the "os_hash_algo" value. * Improved parsing of checksum files. * Added support for the "ALGORITHM (FILENAME) = CHECKSUM" format used by CentOS Stream. * Lines starting with "#" are ignored as comments. * If checksum file contain only the checksum itself, the content is validated to ensure it is one of the known checksum types. * Adds a new inspection collector "lldp" that collects LLDP information into the "lldp_raw" field. * The hardware inventory now contains supported network interface speed in Mbit/s. Deprecation Notes ***************** * Support for MD5 checksums have been deprecated and will be removed after the 2024 Release. * The LLDP information as part of the general inventory is deprecated. Use the new "lldp" inspection collector to retrieve it. * The "ipa-collect-lldp" kernel parameter and the corresponding option are now deprecated. Bug Fixes ********* * Fixes UEFI NVRAM record handling with efibootmgr so we can accept and handle UTF-16 encoded data which is to be expected in UEFI NVRAM as the records are UTF-16 encoded. * Fixes handling of UEFI NVRAM records to allow for unexpected characters in the response, so it is non-fatal to Ironic. Changes in ironic-python-agent 9.4.0..9.5.0 ------------------------------------------- 406c844 Follow-up Add documentation for MellanoxDeviceHardwareManager 6098747 Ironic (and IPA) use launchpad now c1c5537 Revert disabling MD5 checksums e7a048e Add support for CentOS SUM files 9ed232e Add network interface speed to the inventory c05fdf7 Fix checksum validation logic 3e05a03 Deprecate LLDP in inventory in favour of a new collector 32df26a Disable MD5 image checksums d7234c2 Upgrade to latest hacking - v6 76accfb Fix UTF-16 result handling for efibootmgr 0304c73 Report system firmware information in the inventory 2ddb693 Trivial: formatting issue in the inventory docs b32f6c6 [Trivial] Fix typo in efi_utils 9f09b88 Update master for stable/2023.1 Diffstat (except docs and test files) ------------------------------------- CONTRIBUTING.rst | 4 +- README.rst | 6 +- ironic_python_agent/agent.py | 2 + ironic_python_agent/config.py | 8 +- ironic_python_agent/efi_utils.py | 17 +- ironic_python_agent/extensions/standby.py | 157 ++- ironic_python_agent/hardware.py | 229 ++-- ironic_python_agent/inspector.py | 9 + ironic_python_agent/netutils.py | 24 + ironic_python_agent/utils.py | 27 + releasenotes/notes/bmo-extra-147559c8d1776e8c.yaml | 5 + ...isable-md5-image-checksum-7def176928d36e75.yaml | 12 + ...support-additional-format-4b29c5cdaa6b8d16.yaml | 11 + ...ootmgr-character-encoding-19e531ba694824c1.yaml | 9 + releasenotes/notes/lldp-raw-a09174cb930bca97.yaml | 12 + releasenotes/notes/net-speed-8854901e2051bb79.yaml | 5 + releasenotes/source/2023.1.rst | 6 + releasenotes/source/conf.py | 2 +- releasenotes/source/index.rst | 1 + setup.cfg | 1 + tox.ini | 2 +- 29 files changed, 1710 insertions(+), 875 deletions(-)