Released on 2022-07-22.

Mock v3.1 changes:

• There’s a fix for a new RPM behavior on F37+ where rpmbuild automatically cleans the %buildroot directory upon a successful build. This behavior is not desired when Mock user wants to keep the buildroot contents for further debugging (config_opts["cleanup_on_success"] = False is configured, or --no-cleanup-after option is used). Original bug report.

• Mock v3.1+ started using /bin/tar instead of /bin/gtar for normal work with archives. This default can be changed by a new option config_opts["tar_binary"]. This should help with distributing Mock to GNU/Linux distributions where /bin/gtar symbolic link doesn’t exist.

• Mock v3.1+ still expects that that the default system Tar represents a GNU tar implementation (unless config_opts["tar"] = 'bsdtar'). Mock v3.1 version though got several fixes that make the work with the BSD tar implementation more convenient.

mock-core-configs-37-4-1

• Add AlmaLinux 9 and AlmaLinux 9 + EPEL configs (neal@gompa.dev)
• Update the AlmaLinux 8 GPG key path (neal@gompa.dev)
• Fix description typo on AlmaLinux 8 for x86_64 (neal@gompa.dev)
• Add RHEL9 templates and configs (carl@george.computer)

mock-core-configs-37.5-1

• configs: add ELN local Koji repo
• config: sync epel-8 and epel-9 templates
• Add Rocky Linux 9 Configuration and Mod RL8 (label@rockylinux.org)
• Update Fedora ELN repo template (sgallagh@redhat.com)
• EuroLinux 9 chroot configs added (git@istiak.com)
• Fedora 34 is EOL
• circlelinux+epel-8 as epel-8 alternative
• Fix dist value for openSUSE Leap 15.4 (ngompa@opensuse.org)
• Add CircleLinux 8 configs (bella@cclinux.org)
• Add openSUSE Leap 15.4 configs (ngompa@opensuse.org)
• Move openSUSE Leap 15.2 to EOL directory (ngompa@opensuse.org)
• Use MirrorCache for openSUSE repositories instead of MirrorBrain (ngompa@opensuse.org)
• Add Anolis OS 7 and Anolis OS 8 templates and configs (wb-zh951434@alibaba-inc.com)

Following contributors contributed to this release:

• babakovalucie
• Bella Zhang
• Carl George
• DominikaMarchovska
• Istiak Ferdous
• JeremiasVavak
• katerin71
• Louis Abel
• Miroslav Suchý
• naveen
• Neal Gompa
• Nico Kadel-Garcia
• Papapja
• PastelBrush
• SpiderKate
• Stephen Gallagher
• terezakoktava
• Zhao Hang

Thank you.