Released on 2023-09-27.

Mock 5.2 new features

• Mock newly logs out its command-line arguments to better deduct what was happening at build time.

Bugfixes

• The fixes introduced in Mock 5.1 included a compatibility issue with Python in Enterprise Linux 8 due to a dependency on the capture_output=True feature in the subprocess module, which was added in Python 3.7. However, EL 8 is running on Python 3.6. This compatibility issue has been resolved in Mock by using stdout=subprocess.PIPE instead. This update was made based on a report from Bodhi update.
• Previous versions of Mock mistakenly expanded every ~ occurrence (tilde character) in the specified source path with --copyout. So files ~/foo~bar.txt were searched on path /builddir/foo/builddirbar.txt instead of just /builddir/foo~bar.txt. Fixes rhbz#2239035.
• The Mock state monitoring (creating state.log) was fixed so that Mock, unless some exception is raised, always checks that we finished all the states we started.