[sos-devel] [ANNOUNCE] sos-3.5.1 is released

[Bryn M. Reeves]

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.

  https://github.com/sosreport/sos/releases/tag/3.5.1

Please report any problems to the sos-devel mailing list, or via the
GitHub issue tracker:

  https://github.com/sosreport/sos/issues/

Regards,
Bryn.