Change Log

[Unreleased]

[0.29.6] - 2025-08-31

Changed

• Removed the dependency on unmaintained ansicolors library

[0.29.5] - 2025-06-21

Fixed

• Fixed processing of custom argparse actions with Python 3.14

[0.29.4] - 2025-06-11

Fixed

• Adapted to changes in specfile 0.35.0

[0.29.3] - 2025-01-30

Changed

• Replaced m2r with pandoc for documentation building

[0.29.2] - 2024-08-03

Fixed

• Fixed mocking of macros in the test suite

[0.29.1] - 2024-07-02

Fixed

• Fixed broken commit-hash-updater SPEC hook

[0.29.0] - 2024-06-18

Changed

• Changed handling of %patch macros to use the specfile library

Fixed

• Replaced %patchN macros (obsoleted in rpm 4.20) in test files with supported variants

[0.28.1] - 2023-10-26

Changed

• Removed dependency on obsoleted setuptools_scm_git_archive

[0.28.0] - 2023-02-13

Fixed

• debuginfo packages are now skipped when running sonamecheck

Changed

• Replaced our own implementation of lookaside cache client with rpkg

• Switched from docker to podman in GitHub Actions

• Added a 30 seconds time limit to bugzilla queries

• Dropped support for Python < 3.9 and EPEL 8

• Switched to specfile library

Removed

• Removed --keep-comments option

[0.27.0] - 2022-06-24

Added

• Added support for rpmuncompress being used by rpm >= 4.18

Fixed

• Replaced hardcoded references to master branch

• Fixed typos in %preun, %postun and %generate_buildrequires section names

• Fixed parsing of macros with multiline bodies in %dump output

• Fixed parsing issue in rpmdiff checker

• rebase-helper now removes any existing submodule configuration from upstream tarballs before rebasing to avoid errors due to submodules not being checked out

Changed

• rebase-helper now warns about a potential rename that can’t be handled automatically, such as README to README.md

• rebase-helper is now able to handle unexpected git rebase errors

[0.26.0] - 2021-09-27

Added

• Added support for SPEC files with no Source tags

Fixed

• Fixed traceback on setting original locale

• rpmdiff is now called with long options to workaround a bug in argument parsing

Changed

• Employed Github Actions for CI and PyPI deployment

• Character encoding is now explicitly specified everywhere, to conform with PEP597

• Made copr project creation more robust

[0.25.0] - 2021-07-13

Added

• Added lookaside cache preset for centpkg

Fixed

• Started using C locale for updating %changelog section

• Fixed documentation builds with Sphinx 4

• Fixed macro value detection in SpecFile.set_tag()

• Fixed licensecheck availability test

Changed

• Moved from using deprecated --old-chroot mock option to --isolation simple

• Migrated from Travis CI to Github Actions

• Moved away from soon-to-be-deprecated distutils

[0.24.0] - 2021-02-02

Added

• Added --lookaside-cache-preset option to enable using different lookaside cache configuration presets

• Added --no-changelog-entry option to prevent rebase-helper from generating an entry in %changelog section

• Added --keep-comments option to disable removing comments

Fixed

• Fixed removing accompanying comments alongside patches

• Fixed broken --get-old-build-from-koji option

Changed

• Switched to new format of Fedora lookaside cache URLs

• Limited koji builds to x86_64 (it’s a waste of resources until rebase-helper fully supports other architectures)

• Suppressed harmless errors produced by rpm when expanding and deleting macros

• Paths in patches are now sanitized before applying with git apply, to allow dealing with unusual patch formats

• SpecFile._process_patches() method has been replaced with a public SpecFile.process_patch_macros() method

[0.23.1] - 2020-09-30

Fixed

• Fixed uploads to Fedora lookaside cache and improved error handling

• A build is no longer retried as a result of checker failure

Changed

• SpecFile.set_version() and SpecFile.set_release() now allow disabling of preserving macros

• rpminspect checker now uses rpminspect-fedora

[0.23.0] - 2020-08-28

Added

• Added rpminspect checker

Fixed

• rebase-helper is now able to deal with existing git repository in extracted upstream sources

• Prevented git commands executed in the background from launching an interactive editor and effectively rendering rebase-helper unusable

• Outputs of checkers are now removed before subsequent runs

• Tilde is now recognized as extra version separator

• make test-podman has been updated to work with the latest podman

Changed

• Checker outputs are now ordered by type in the text report

• Excessive blank lines are now removed from the SPEC file when removing patches

• Sources and patches are now automatically renamed, if necessary

• abipkgdiff now falls back to comparing without debuginfo in case it is unable to read it from the provided debuginfo packages

[0.22.0] - 2020-03-31

Added

• Added more type hints, including all public API methods

Fixed

• SpecFile.reload() no longer pointlessly calls SpecFile._read_spec_content()

• Deleted files are now skipped when detecting unresolved conflicts during git rebase

• Fixed detection of Koji log file containing build failure

• Adapted to changes in git 2.26.0

• Fixed unhandled exception during upload to lookaside cache

Changed

• Removed no longer necessary workarounds from Fedora base images

• Simplified packit configuration

• Options --pkgcomparetool, --versioneer-blacklist, --spec-hook-blacklist and --build-log-hook-blacklist can now be specified without an argument to indicate none of the tools/hooks should be run

[0.21.0] - 2020-02-21

Added

• Added public API tests for Tags class

• Added support for %patchlist and %sourcelist

• Added support for automatic Source/Patch numbering

Fixed

• commit-hash-updater SPEC hook now handles empty release name

• sources is now ignored if it’s not a regular file

• Fixed summary and report paths when using --bugzila-id or --results-dir

• Fixed and extended detection of ABI changes reported by abipkgdiff

• Removed deprecated encoding parameter in json.load() for Python 3.9

• Fixed processing of remote patches

• Fixed handling of intermediate macros in SpecFile.set_tag()

Changed

• All RPM macros are now reset when SpecFile object is destroyed

• Renamed docker directory to containers and Dockerfiles to Containerfiles

• Switched from Docker Hub to quay.io for automatic image building

• Improved and cleaned up SpecFile tests

• replace-old-version SPEC hook can now replace also extraversion

[0.20.0] - 2019-12-06

Added

• Introduced Tags class unifying and simplifying access to SPEC tags

• Added proper support for crate and gem archives

• Added --bugzilla-id option to perform a rebase based on Upstream Release Monitoring bugzilla

• Added -D/--define option to define macros

• Added tests for public API

Fixed

• Fixed --build-tasks option

• Fixed detecting unresolved conflicts in non-UTF-8 files

• Prevented loss of messages logged before logging file handlers are created

• rebase-helper now skips unparseable lines in %prep instead of tracebacking on them

• Fixed parsing SPEC files with -h in %prep

• Fixed processing SPEC files with zero-padded indexed tags and %patch macros

Changed

• Completely reworked dealing with extraversions

• Improved SpecFile.set_tag() to minimize changes made to the SPEC file

[0.19.0] - 2019-09-26

Added

• Added --workspace-dir option to allow specifying custom workspace directory

• Added sonamecheck checker for detecting SONAME changes

• Added --copr-project-permanent, --copr-project-frontpage and --copr-chroots options

Fixed

• Strings like “1” are no longer replaced with macros in %prep

• SPEC files without Source0 tag are now handled correctly

• Fixed copr build tool, switched to V3 API

• Avoided parsing SPEC without properly setting %{_sourcedir} macro first

Changed

• Introduced RpmHeader class for more convenient access to package header attributes

• Modification of Patch tags now preserves whitespace to minimize differences in SPEC

• Moved Bash completion script from /etc/bash_completion.d to /usr/share/bash-completion/completions

Removed

• Removed non-working --patch-only, --build-only and --comparepkgs-only options

• Temporarily removed --continue option

• Removed no longer used python3-six build dependency

• Removed copr workaround in favor of making copr build tool unavailable in case it’s not working

[0.18.0] - 2019-08-21

Added

• Added workaround for missing mock group in Fedora Rawhide

Fixed

• Moved setup dependencies from install_requires to setup_requires

Changed

• Refactored logging, see logging documentation for details

• Reason of build failure is now always logged

Removed

• Removed unused Application methods and attributes

• Removed unused testing files

[0.17.2] - 2019-08-09

Added

• Added tests for SpecContent class

• Enabled and configured Packit-as-a-Service

Fixed

• Added exception handling to PyPI release webhook endpoint

• Fixed TestCLI.test_cli_unit() test

• Updated MANIFEST.in to include all necessary files

Changed

• Improved tests for Application class

• SpecFile.update_changelog() now creates %changelog section if it doesn’t exist

• rebase-helper now uses setuptools-scm to determine version from git

• setup.py sdist now supports overriding distribution base name with --base-name option

[0.17.1] - 2019-08-01

Fixed

• Fixed PyPI release webhook endpoint

Changed

• Removed direct dependencies preventing PyPI release

[0.17.0] - 2019-07-31

Added

• Added possibility for plugins to specify their own arguments

• Added basic type hints and enabled mypy linter

• Added rust package category

• replace-old-version SPEC hook can now replace old version with %{version} macro

• replace-old-version SPEC hook can now replace also parts of version in Sources and Patches

Fixed

• Fixed broken ansicolors dependency

• Fixed printing of output of unavaiable checkers

• Fixed determining unmatched quotation in %prep section

• Made files build log hook handle conditions and macros in %files section

• files build log hook now adds man pages in a way that follows Fedora Packaging Guidelines

• files build log hook now ignores debuginfo files

• Fixed issues with polluted global macro namespace when parsing multiple different SPEC files

• Fixed handling of remote downstream patches (URLs)

• Fixed parsing of patch strip options in %prep

• Fixed wrapping of extra long lines in the usage documentation

• Sources from lookaside cache are now downloaded to a proper location

Changed

• Restructured the code layout of plugins

• Refactored parts of SpecFile class

• Disabled removing of “unused” patches

• mock is now automatically run with superuser privileges if necessary

• Local builder is now used if --get-old-build-from-koji is specified and the build can’t be downloaded from Koji

• checkers (even the default ones) are now skipped if they are not available

• Sources are now copied to destination if they cannot be extracted

• Reimplemented downloading Koji builds

• Updated documentation

Removed

• Removed Python 2 support

[0.16.3] - 2019-05-03

Fixed

• Fixed handling of SPEC files with conditionalized sections

• Fixed replace-old-version SPEC hook not to update version in %changelog and local sources

• Fixed capturing RPM error output during SPEC parsing

• Fixed handling of absolute %license and %doc paths in files build log hook

• Fixed logging of SRPM and RPM build errors

Changed

• Updated packit configuration for packit 0.2.0

• Adapted to upcoming change in RPM python API

• Made SpecFile class more suitable for external use

[0.16.2] - 2019-03-07

Added

• Added support for packit

• Added SPEC hook for replacing old version string

Fixed

• Fixed documentation building by mocking requests-gssapi

• Fixed TestOutputTool for checkers

Changed

• Build log hooks are now run only if build of new binary packages fails

• It is now possible to use --get-old-build-from-koji option without FAS

[0.16.1] - 2019-02-28

Fixed

• Made GitPatchTool auto-skip empty commits caused by new rebase implementation in git 2.20

• Fixed TestGitHelper to work on real systems with existing git configuration

[0.16.0] - 2019-02-27

Added

• Added category for R packages

• Added make test-podman as an alternative to make test-docker

• Added --skip-upload option (to be used in conjunction with --update-sources)

• Added check that all sources for the new version are present

• Added SPEC hook for escaping macros in comments

Changed

• --get-old-build-from-koji now tries to get specific version build (as opposed to the latest one)

• Implemented parsing of multiline macros and shell expansions in SPEC files

• rebase-helper can now handle multiline enquoted strings in %prep section

• Refactored GitPatchTool to make the rebase process more robust and to preserve as much of the original downstream patches as possible

• git mergetool is now run again if there are some unresolved conflicts left

• Associated comments are now removed along with patches

Fixed

• Fixed populating list of logs on build failures

• Added missing abort after failed git am

• Fixed processing SPEC files without %prep section

• Fixed several issues in ruby-helper SPEC hook

• Fixed unwanted expansion of %autosetup macro

• Fixed automatic rebulding based on build log hooks result

• Fixed removal of %doc and %license files in subpackages

Removed

• Removed requests-kerberos support and switched to requests-gssapi exclusively

[0.15.0] - 2018-12-21

Added

• Implemented build log hooks and added files hook to detect and fix missing/unpackaged files

Changed

• Refactored and simplified all plugins

Fixed

• Fixed not listing all argument choices while generating documentation

• Fixed error in parsing rpmdiff output

• Fixed insertion of extra blank lines to a SPEC file after removing patches

Removed

• Removed unneeded packages from base Docker image

[0.14.0] - 2018-10-04

Added

• Added PathsToRPMMacros SPEC hook for transforming paths in %files section

• Added --favor-on-conflict option to prefer upstream or downstream changes with conflicting patches

Changed

• Extended PyPIURLFix SPEC hook to incorporate the new https://pypi.org website

• Made processing of patches in a SPEC file more robust

• Rewritten functional test to use an artificial package designed to check most aspects of the rebase process

• pylint is now run with Python 3 only, as Python 2 variant is no longer supported

• Code refactoring, simplified SpecFile class

• Checkers are no longer required for rebase-helper to run, only available checkers are used

Fixed

• Fixed bug in licensecheck checker when used with json output tool

• Fixed SPEC hook tests

• Fixed strangely acting lookaside cache upload progressbar

• Fixed downloading of SRPMs with --get-old-build-from-koji

• Fixed building usage documentation

[0.13.2] - 2018-05-18

Added

• Added licensecheck checker for detecting license changes

• Added another not-so-verbose verbosity level

Changed

• Refactored utils module

Fixed

• Fixed abipkgdiff detecting changes in only one object file

• Fixed uploads to lookaside cache

• Fixed broken consequent build retries

[0.13.1] - 2018-04-19

Added

• Added --apply-changes option to apply changes.patch after successful rebase

• Implemented .gitignore update with --update-sources

Changed

• Extended README.md

• Cleaned up constants

Fixed

• Fixed crash after failed rebase when no checkers were run

[0.13.0] - 2018-03-29

Added

• Added possibility to make changes to specfile between build retries

• Added CommitHashUpdater SPEC hook

• Added hackage versioneer

• Added support for uncompressed tar archives

• Created integration environment for test suite to isolate it from the internet

• Added --update-sources option to update sources file and upload new sources to lookaside cache

Changed

• Switched to requests library for downloads

• Made error messages from Koji builds more useful

• Reworked handling of downstream patches

• Changed package build process to build first SRPMs and then RPMs

• Divided checkers into categories running at different phases of rebase

• Koji build tool refactored to be better adjustable and extensible

• Colorized rebase-helper output and enhanced log messages

• Significatly improved rebase summary and report

Fixed

• Fixed TestConsoleHelper.test_get_message() test

• Fixed bug in rpmdiff output analysis

• Fixed some code styling errors and a large number of issues found by static analysis

[0.12.0] - 2017-12-19

Added

• Added npmjs and cpan versioneers

• Added possibility to specify custom py.test arguments

• Added possibility to customize changelog entry

• Added version check to abort rebase if requested version is not newer than current

• Added separate tox tasks for linting

• Implemented rpmbuild and mock SRPM build tools

• Added possibility to configure rebase-helper with configuration file

• Added possibility to blacklist certain SPEC hooks or versioneers

• Created rebasehelper/rebase-helper Docker Hub repository

Changed

• Made several speed optimizations in the test suite

• Tests requiring superuser privileges are now automatically skipped if necessary

• Simplified build analysis and made related log messages more useful

Fixed

• Fixed documentation builds on readthedocs.org broken by rpm distribution requirement

• Fixed reading username and e-mail from git configuration

• Added missing dependencies to Dockerfile

• Fixed processing of custom builder options

• Added workarounds for RPM bugs related to %sources and %patches

• Fixed several unhandled exceptions

• Fixed parsing tarball filename containing certain characters

[0.11.0] - 2017-10-04

Added

• Added rpm-py-installer to install rpm-python from pip

• Implemented detection of package category (python, perl, ruby, nodejs, php)

• Added RubyGems versioneer

• Added RubyHelper SPEC hook for getting additional sources based on instructions in SPEC file comments

Changed

• Value of Version and Release tags is now preserved if there are any macros that can be modified instead

• Versioneers and SPEC hooks are now run only for matching package categories

• Bash completion is now generated from source code, so it is always up-to-date

Fixed

• Prevented unwanted modifications of %prep section

• Fixed unexpected removal of rpms and build logs after last build retry

• Added files are no longer listed as removed in rpmdiff report

[0.10.1] - 2017-08-30

Added

• Added --version argument

Changed

• Anitya versioneer now primarily searches for projects using Fedora mapping

• Python dependencies moved from requirements.txt to setup.py

Fixed

• Made CustomManPagesBuilder work with Sphinx >= 1.6

• %prep section parser is now able to handle backslash-split lines

[0.10.0] - 2017-08-25

Added

• Implemented extensible SPEC hooks and versioneers

• Added PyPI SPEC hook for automatic fixing of Source URL of Python packages

• Added Anitya and PyPI versioneers for determining latest upstream version of a package

• Added possibility to download old version build of a package from Koji

• Added support for test suite to be run in Docker containers

• Implemented functional tests for automatic testing of whole rebase process

• Diff against original source files is now generated as changes.patch

Changed

• Introduced plugin system for extending build tools, checkers and output tools

• Updated for Koji 1.13 which finally brings Python 3 support

• Improved output information and reports

• Added colorized output

• Improved project documentation

Fixed

• Pre-configured git username and e-mail address is now used if available

• Fixed several issues in rpmdiff and especially abipkgdiff checkers

• Fixed several test suite related issues

[0.9.0] - 2017-01-05

Added

• Old sources are now downloaded from Fedora lookaside cache

• Auto-generated and improved CLI documentation and man page

• Added support for downloading files of unknown size

Changed

• SpecFile class preparation for pre-download hooks

• Code cleanup and refactorization

Fixed

• Fixed regexp for getting release number from SPEC

• Fixed functionality of --results-dir option

• Several upstream monitoring fixes

• Fixed issues caused by Fedora Flag Day

[0.8.0] - 2016-07-31

Added

• Added support for JSON output format

• Added support for copr build tool

• Added support for passing arbitrary extra arguments to local builders (mock, rpmbuild) with --builder-options.

• Added new option --build-retries allows the user to specify number of build retries (by default 2)

• Added support for csmock check tool

Changed

• Renamed fedpkg build tool to koji to make it more clear

• Downloading of files is now done only using standard Python library and not using PyCURL

Fixed

• Many bug fixes and code clean up

[0.7.3] - 2016-04-08

Added

• Added rpm.addMacro

Fixed

• Handled exceptions raised during parsing of SPEC files

• Fixed unapplied patches mixing with deleted ones

[0.7.2] - 2016-03-15

Added

• Added information about scratch builds

Fixed

• Added check if file exists and is empty for the-new-hotness

• Patches are applied in case --builds-nowait option is used

[0.7.1] - 2016-02-22

Added

• Two new command line options used by upstream monitoring

Fixed

• fedpkg reimplementation

[0.7.0] - 2016-01-13

Changed

• Several improvements

Fixed

• pkgdiff is now smarter

• Included tar.bz2 into list of supported formats

• Added support for noarch package in case of fedpkg build

• Checker should return None if there is no debug package

Removed

• Removed a bunch of debug stuff

[0.6.2] - 2015-11-09

Fixed

• Logs are being saved to their own directory

• Prep script is moved into workspace directory

• No more traceback in case koji module is not present

• Each checker creates its own log file

• rebase-helper informs if it failed or not

• Report on script is smarter

[0.6.1] - 2015-10-30

Added

• upstream-monitoring.py - used by upstream monitoring service

• rebase-helper-fedmsg.py - testing Python script

[0.6.0] - 2015-07-31

Added

• Parts of %prep section related to patching are executed

• Support for abipkgdiff

Fixed

• Several fixes

• Replaced yum with dnf

[0.5.0] - 2015-05-22

Added

• Added support for building packages via fedpkg (or koji)

• Added summary report for better overview

• continue option implemented for git rebase

• Added several tests

• Added class for operating with Git repositories

Changed

• git rebase is used instead of patch command

Fixed

• Fixed several decoding issues

• Several PEP8 and W1202 fixes

Removed

• DiffHelper class is not needed

[0.4.0] - 2014-12-05

Added

• Handling of extra versions like b1, rc1, etc.

• Added build log analyzer to detect unpackaged files or other issues

• Added Bash completion

Changed

• Improved version extraction from archive name

• rebase-helper output is looged to rebase-helper-results directory

• SpecFile class rewritten

[0.3.1] - 2014-07-25

Added

• New build class

• --build-only option

• Installation of build dependencies in case of rpmbuild tool

• More tests

• RebaseHelperError class for catching exceptions

Fixed

• Several fixes

[0.3.0]

Added

• pkgdiff tool for comparing RPM packages

• Tests for Archive class and SPEC file

[0.2.0]

Added

• diff_helper for comparing two tarballs

• Applying patches to tarballs

• patch_helper

[0.1.0]

Added

• Initial classes

• CLI interface