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Status Future consideration
Workspace Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)
Created by Guest
Created on May 27, 2020

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Provide a changelog for Scale releases

Please provide a changelog identifying the APARs fixed in a Scale Mod, Release, or Version change

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 30, 2020

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - IBM Spectrum Scale
    Product - Spectrum Scale (formerly known as GPFS) - Public RFEs
    Component - Product functionality

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - IBM Spectrum Scale
    Product - Spectrum Scale (formerly known as GPFS) - Public RFEs
    Component - Technical Foundation

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     May 29, 2020

    Changelogs in RPMs %changelog would be great. Would be much easier to look up what important changes there are between releases, instead of browsing to fixcentral and read each readme there.


    Something like:

    # rpm -q grub2
    * Wed Mar 27 2019 Javier Martinez Canillas - 2.02-0.80
    - Rebuild with correct build target for signing
    Resolves: rhbz#1693213

    * Tue Mar 26 2019 Javier Martinez Canillas - 2.02-0.79
    - Ignore the modification time when doing RPM verification of /boot/efi files
    Resolves: rhbz#1496952

    * Wed Mar 20 2019 Javier Martinez Canillas - 2.02-0.78
    - Prevent errors from diskfilter scan of removable drives
    Resolves: rhbz#1446418
    - Avoid grub2-efi package to overwrite existing /boot/grub2/grubenv file
    Resolves: rhbz#1497918
    - Remove glibc32 and glibc-static(x86-32) BuildRequires
    Resolves: rhbz#1614259

    # rpm -q kernel --changelog
    * Mon Dec 02 2019 Frantisek Hrbata [3.10.0-1062.9.1.el7]
    - [kernel] sched: Fix race between task_group and sched_task_group (Oleksandr Natalenko) [1778545 1738415]

    * Thu Nov 14 2019 Bruno Meneguele [3.10.0-1062.8.1.el7]
    - [kernel] sched/fair: Fix low cpu usage with high throttling by removing expiration of cpu-local slices (Phil Auld) [1770738 1752136]

    * Wed Nov 13 2019 Bruno Meneguele [3.10.0-1062.7.1.el7]
    - [drm] drm/i915/cmdparser: Fix jump whitelist clearing (Dave Airlie) [1756882 1756883] {CVE-2019-0155}
    - [drm] drm/i915: Lower RM timeout to avoid DSI hard hangs (Dave Airlie) [1756815 1756816] {CVE-2019-0154}
    - [drm] drm/i915/gen8+: Add RC6 CTX corruption WA (Dave Airlie) [1756815 1756816] {CVE-2019-0154}
    - [drm] drm/i915/cmdparser: Ignore Length operands during command matching (Dave Airlie) [1756882 1756883] {CVE-2019-0155}
    - [drm] drm/i915/cmdparser: Add support for backward jumps (Dave Airlie) [1756882 1756883] {CVE-2019-0155}
    - [drm] drm/i915/cmdparser: Use explicit goto for error paths (Dave Airlie) [1756882 1756883] {CVE-2019-0155}
    - [drm] drm/i915: Add gen9 BCS cmdparsing (Dave Airlie) [1756882 1756883] {CVE-2019-0155}
    - [drm] drm/i915: Allow parsing of unsized batches (Dave Airlie) [1756882 1756883] {CVE-2019-0155}

    Or alternatively a changelog-file like:

    # head /usr/share/doc/quota-4.01/Changelog
    Changes in quota-tools from 4.00 to 4.01
    * fix compilation failure with --enable-bsd_behaviour=no (Jan Kara)
    * fix quota(1) for NFS mountpoints (Jan Kara)
    * fix reporting of huge quota limits over rpc (Jan Kara)
    * fix repquota to report all users on XFS (Jan Kara)
    * fixed edquota(8) for more users (Jan Kara)
    * remove fixed limit on number of autofs mount points (Jan Kara)
    * add quota type names to message catalogue (Jan Kara)
    * typo fixes, message changes for easier i18n (Jan Kara)
    * created Czech translation (Petr Pisar)

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