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Released on - 2020-12-01.

Mock 2.7 new features:

External (non-RPM) build requires proof of concept introduced. Initially, there's only a support for PyPI and Crates packages. Any feedback and patches (e.g. for other software providers) are welcome! It is disabled by default. It can be enabled using:

config_opts['external_buildrequires'] = True

and then you can use in SPEC files:

BuildRequires: external:pypi:foo

For more details see feature page.

There's a new plugin for pre-processing the input spec files; so the input spec file "templates" are instantiated right before the source RPM build is started. See the plugin documentation for more info.
The full mock's NAME-VERSION-RELEASE string is now dumped to the log files, it is now easier to understand what precise Mock version was used during particular package build.
Added a new postupdate plugin hook; newly the Mock plugins can implement the automatic "snapshoting" of the buildroot after any package update inside chroot. This was now used by root_cache and lvm_root plugins and they now newly udpate the buildroot cache after dnf update (rhbz#1175346).
Mock automatically copies the Katello CA pem file for the local Satellite server into bootstrap chroot, if such CA is configured on host (issue#638).

Mock 2.7 bugfixes:

The config_opts['resultdir'] path can contain %-sign, previous versions of Mock failed on processing such configuration (issue#639).
The --addrepo <baseurl> option newly doesn't fail the mock build when the <baseurl> directory doesn't exist. This unifies the behavior of that option because other errors/typos in the --addrepo option are ignored as well.
Mock doesn't always traceback if the rpmbuild process exists with exit code 11. That exit code only means that there are still some missing "dynamic Buildrequires" (%generate_buildrequires) to be installed by Mock (issue#560). We also enhanced the build.log output a bit so it is more obvious what Mock installs on demand.
The bare mock --shell (login shell execution) was fixed so it doesn't call setsid() prior executing the shell itself. This fixes the shell warning message Inappropriate ioctl for device.
The sign plugin now treats the non-zero exit code from the configured auto-sign command (usually some rpmsign wrapper). Previous versions of Mock just ignored the failure (koji#2570).
Strange failure on RHEL 8 s390x issue fixed by removing one (probably invalid) logging call from preexec_fn, but the PR#653 still needs proper fix (help is welcome).

The following contributors contributed to this release:

Thank you!