Released on - 2021-01-18.

Mock 2.9 new features:

• The rpkg_preprocessor plugin got new force_enable option. This option tells rpkg_preprocessor to ignore rpkg.conf and always preprocess the spec file. This is useful for testing mass package changes where it’s not practical to add an rpkg.conf to every package.

• The configuration mechanism was cut-out from mock, and is now newly provided as new package python3-templated-dictionary that mock package depends on.

Mock-core-configs v33.5 fixes:

• EPEL 6 configuration was marked EOL (moved to eol/ subdirectory).

• Fedora 31 configuration is EOL, too.

• Fixed bootstrap of Fedora on Enterprise Linux 7 boxes.

• Bootstrap images defined for OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.

• RepoIDs renamed for EL8 chroots, according to real repoIDs in normal repo files.

The following contributors contributed to this release:

• Miroslav Suchý
• Neal Gompa
• Tom Stellard

Thank you!