diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/Collect_NIC_name_given_by_BIOS-657c68c0ae16365b.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/Collect_NIC_name_given_by_BIOS-657c68c0ae16365b.yaml index 024b248c7..0e528cc57 100644 --- a/releasenotes/notes/Collect_NIC_name_given_by_BIOS-657c68c0ae16365b.yaml +++ b/releasenotes/notes/Collect_NIC_name_given_by_BIOS-657c68c0ae16365b.yaml @@ -1,11 +1,14 @@ --- features: - - Adds an extra field ``biosdevname`` (BIOS given NICs name) to network - interface inventory collected by ``default`` collector of - ironic-python-agent. Biosdevname utility is used for collecting bios given - NICs name. + - | + Collects the BIOS-given NIC's name and adds ``biosdevname`` field to the + network interface inventory collected by the ``default`` collector of IPA. + The utility ``biosdevname`` is used for this purpose. + This feature is not available for Debian-based and CoreOS images as + ``biosdevname`` is not packaged for Debian-based distributions. issues: - - Collecting the 'biosdevname' field on network interfaces is impossible on any - Debian-based images due to the missing 'biosdevname' utility. This includes - the CoreOS image, as the CoreOS image utilizes a Debian-based chroot. + - Collection of the BIOS-given names of network interfaces is not possible on + Debian-based images as the utility ``biosdevname`` is not available on + them. This applies to any CoreOS images as well, as they utilize a + Debian-based chroot. diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/add-numa-topology-info-8c253fd9e56169f1.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/add-numa-topology-info-8c253fd9e56169f1.yaml index 7f3b155c4..bbd0aacda 100644 --- a/releasenotes/notes/add-numa-topology-info-8c253fd9e56169f1.yaml +++ b/releasenotes/notes/add-numa-topology-info-8c253fd9e56169f1.yaml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ --- features: - - Adds new optional NUMA topology collector named ``numa_topology``. + - Adds a new optional NUMA topology collector named ``numa_topology``. It collects NUMA specific RAM, CPU and NIC information. diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/correction-failure-output-when-downloading-image-39f93838d1ed2928.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/correction-failure-output-when-downloading-image-39f93838d1ed2928.yaml index 5beadaf39..07f1af2f0 100644 --- a/releasenotes/notes/correction-failure-output-when-downloading-image-39f93838d1ed2928.yaml +++ b/releasenotes/notes/correction-failure-output-when-downloading-image-39f93838d1ed2928.yaml @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ --- fixes: - - Correct message output when failed to download image. + - Shows correct output message when IPA fails to download image. diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/fix-bytes-json-serializable-collected-logs-ad61022b287dc3e2.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/fix-bytes-json-serializable-collected-logs-ad61022b287dc3e2.yaml index a959ca813..4942f1c44 100644 --- a/releasenotes/notes/fix-bytes-json-serializable-collected-logs-ad61022b287dc3e2.yaml +++ b/releasenotes/notes/fix-bytes-json-serializable-collected-logs-ad61022b287dc3e2.yaml @@ -1,6 +1,5 @@ --- fixes: - - JSON serialization of logs collected for ironic-python-agent. - In python3 logs were encoded as byte strings, which can't be serialized. - Make sure that logs are encoded as text for both py2.7 and py3. See + - Fixes JSON serialization of logs by encoding them as text instead of byte + strings in IPA. This works for py2.7 as well as py3. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ironic-python-agent/+bug/1668533 for details. diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/multiple-lan-channels-ee32d80150f990bf.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/multiple-lan-channels-ee32d80150f990bf.yaml index c66b86b39..9d8122092 100644 --- a/releasenotes/notes/multiple-lan-channels-ee32d80150f990bf.yaml +++ b/releasenotes/notes/multiple-lan-channels-ee32d80150f990bf.yaml @@ -1,7 +1,8 @@ --- fixes: - | - IPMI interface can be configured to use lan channel different than - a default one. In that case querying it will return 0.0.0.0 as an IP - address representing an interface lacking configuration. In order to get - the real IP address, we need to iterate through all the possible channels. + Fixes bug where it was assumed that all BMCs operated on the default LAN + channel. IPA now iterates through all the possible LAN channels for the + IP address and returns 0.0.0.0 if the IPMI interface is not configured. See + https://bugs.launchpad.net/ironic-python-agent/+bug/1702514 + for more details.