[sos-devel] [ANNOUNCE] sos-3.9 is released

[Bryn M. Reeves]

The sos team is pleased to announce the release of sos-3.9. This is a
significant release containing a large number of enhancements, new
features, and bug fixes, including:

* Improved human-readable archive naming and support for archive labels

* Improved reporting of archive output and properties

* Support for automatic uploading of report archives via FTP and HTTPS
  * Policy or command line specified URL and authentication
    * Policy specified URLs for Red Hat and Canonical uploads

* Automatic PATH support on Ubuntu distributions

* Improved policy performance

* Improved service status collection API

* 9 new plugins:
    cloud_init, convert2rhel, ebpf, fwupd, login, nginx, nvidia,
    openstack_tripleo

* 6 obsolete plugins removed or merged into other plugins:
    katello, last, mrggrid, mrgmessg, satellite

* Significant updates to 14 plugins:
    dlm, dnf, ceph, foreman, gluster, gnocchi, juju, kubernetes, logs,
    maas, networking, openvswitch, python, plugins

* The openswan plugin was renamed to libreswan to reflect the active
  upstream project name

* Updated Red Hat presets and new Cloud Forms preset

* Updates to networking plugin namespace handling

* Updates to the OVN plugins (ovn_central, ovn_host)

* Kernel eBPF data consolidated in a single plugin

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/3.9

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.