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Release 5.6 - 2024-05-14

The Bash completion script for Mock has been improved to pre-compile the list of available Mock options at package build-time. This enhancement significantly reduces the time required for option completion from approximately 0.5 seconds (on a reasonably fast laptop) to just 0.05 seconds. rhbz#2259430.

When a mock --chain --recurse fails to built at least one package, it is unable to print a list of failed packages and displays AttributeError: type object 'FileDownloader' has no attribute 'backmap' instead. The original_name method of FileDownloader class has been fixed, and the chain build results displayed as expected (issue#1345).
Don't use the --allowerasing parameter for DNF subcommands such as repoquery, makecache, search, and info.
A missing bash completion script for mock-parse-buildlog command has been added.
In the issue#1257 it was suggested that we do not change recursively ownership every run. This was implemented and landed in Mock 5.5. But in the issue#1364 we found that for fresh chroots the homedir is not writable for unpriv user. We changed the behaviour that ownership of homedir is changed always (that was a behaviour prior 5.5 release) and the ownership is changed recursively only for rebuilds.
The nosync logic was preparing temporary directories even when config_opts["nosync"] = False (meaning nosync was disabled). This logic has been optimized out. Works around issue#1351.
No more ugly tracebacks for "no space left on device" (and similar OSErrors) related to copying built artifacts to --resultdir, rhbz#2261758.
The SCM plugin's option git_timestamps has been updated to work with Python 3 and to handle Git repositories with non-Unicode data. (PR#1355)

Add configuration for Circle Linux 9 configurations (PR#1366).
Add i686 configuration for Mageia Cauldron and Mageia 10, and remove corresponding i586 configurations (PR#1360).
The Fedora ELN configuration has been updated to use DNF5 for Mock chroot package management.

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