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# ELevate Changelog

Note, this changelog only includes updates made from 2024-09-24 onwards, and does not include any changes made prior to this date.

# 2025-11-18

Released to Stable:

# Leapp Framework

# Leapp Repository

# Leapp Data

  • Update all data into stream 4.0.
  • Update all repomap files into new format version 1.3.0.

# 2025-11-03

Released to Stable:

# PES data updates

  • New Vendor elevate - ELevate enables upgrades between major versions of RHEL derivatives. Enabled for all upgrade paths
  • Enable Vendors for 9 to 10 upgrade:
    • nginx
    • kernelcare
    • mariadb (without MaxScale and Tools repositories)
    • imunify
    • imunify360-alt-php
  • Vendor kernelcare use el-sig202505 repository
  • Vendor imunify: update rpm GPG key, correct EL9 imunify360-testing repository baseurl, update packages SIGs
  • Vendor imunify360-alt-php update rpm GPG key, update packages SIGs

# ELevate release package

  • Use $releasever instead of %{rhel} in baseurl

# 2025-08-20

Released to Stable:

# PES data updates

# Leapp Framework

  • Fix version to 0.19.0 as expected

# 2025-07-30

Released to Stable:

# PES data updates

# 2025-07-14

Released to Stable:

# PES data updates

  • New vendor, TuxCare
    • add alt-common repository - alt common Extended Lifecycle Support by TuxCare

# 2025-06-05

Released from Testing to Stable:

# General updates

# PES data updates

  • Add support for:
    • AlmaLinux release 10.0
    • AlmaLinux Kitten release 10
    • CentOS Stream release 10
  • Install rpm public GPG key(s) into distro specific path
  • Device driver deprecation data:
    • leapp-repository sha 9c621a91199c093f603ef30ba3daf59010c20e47
  • PES data, pes-events.json leapp-repository sha ffd6d8e456484630f99d98d5bff955914af02aa5
    • updated 9to10 data
    • solve valgrind-docs, valgrind-scripts with valgrind package conflicts during 8to9 upgrade
  • PES data, config.json:
    • add libreport-rhel-anaconda-bugzilla (except centos) to the removable packages list, with scenarios: 9to9, 9to10
    • add redhat-flatpak-repo, redhat-flatpak-preinstall-firefox, redhat-flatpak-preinstall-thunderbird to the removable packages list, with scenarios: 9to10

# Leapp code enhancements

  • Leapp code updated to the latest upstream state (ffd6d8e456484630f99d98d5bff955914af02aa5) (opens new window).
  • Minor updates in generated reports
  • Resolves: RHEL-67621, RHEL-67719, RHEL-16881
  • Require leapp-framework >= 6.1
  • Simplified use of the LiveMode experimental feature with additional enhancements
  • Fix the check of deprecated PCI devices and drivers
  • Add RHEL 9.7 product certificates
  • Gracefully handle CentOS OS versioning style
  • Introduced the --enable-experimental-feature to simplify use of experimental features
  • Manage RPM GPG keys during the upgrade respecting used linux distributions
  • Minor fixes in reports
  • Prevent a crach during post-upgrade phases when no custom SELinux modules needs to be migrated
  • Update leapp upgrade data files
  • Resolves: RHEL-53801, RHEL-77945, RHEL-84978

# Vendor-Specific Changes

  • Create symlinks of RHSM certs path like prod-certs/VERSION_MAJOR -> prod-certs/VERSION_MAJOR.VERSION_MINOR
  • Exclude CentOS packages public GPG keys
  • Correct the list of leapp and leapp-repository rpms, that should be preserved during the 9to10 upgrade
  • Exclude Microsoft Vendor from all upgrade paths
  • Add EPEL, Docker CE and PostgreSQL Vendors for 9to10 upgrade path

# 2025-01-23

Released from Testing to Stable:

# Leapp code enhancements

  • Synced leapp code 0.21 with upstream’s latest pre-0.22 state (518722058ca53e94c8efa8958ca8fd7cac40dca7) (opens new window) (version 0.21.0-5).
  • Fix pes events scanner crashing when there are duplicate packages in the received instructions.
  • Fix pes events scanner not respecting user’s transaction configuration.
  • Fix storage scanner crashing when command outputs contain colon character.
  • Activate LVM VGs with --sysinit option to correct the use in the upgrade initramfs.
  • Minor improvements in preupgrade reports.
  • Resolves: RHEL-67621, RHEL-34570, RHEL-44596, RHEL-50076.

# 2025-01-08

Released from Testing to Stable:

# General updates

# PES data updates

  • pes-events.json updated to the latest upstream state.
  • config.json updates:
    • Add new repository replacements for RHEL10-HighAvailability and RHEL10-SAP-Solutions (except for Oracle Linux).
    • Add RHEL9-Supplementary to the removable repositories list for all supported OSes.
    • Add RHEL10-HighAvailability and RHEL10-SAP-Solutions to the removable repositories list for Oracle Linux.
    • Add RedHat cloud-client-configuration to the removable packages for all supported upgrade scenarios.
  • epel_pes.json_template cleanup: fixed duplicated ids and set_ids.
  • pes_events_build_date package updated version and release: 0.5-1.20241127.

# Leapp code enhancements

  • Leapp code updated to the latest upstream state (3c3421a0f155fe3bdfaee74c5345e86874684a09) (opens new window).
  • Introduce the upgrade path from EL 8.10 to EL 9.6.
  • Require leapp-framework 6.0+ and updated dependency packages.
  • Address a number of RHEL bug reports RHEL-23473, RHEL-67621, RHEL-57064, RHEL-56251, RHEL-50686, RHEL-41193, RHEL-34570, RHEL-26459, RHEL-23473, RHEL-16881, RHEL-3294.
  • Enable net.naming-scheme by default.
  • Enable upgrade for systems with LUKS bound to Clevis with TPM 2.0 token.
  • Capped sparse file sizes to 1TiB for storage optimization.
  • Adjust resource limitations for leapp to be able to perform the upgrade.
  • Fix problems with the bootloader when upgrading to EL 9.6 on ARM.
  • Fix the report when handling broken parsing of kernel cmdline.
  • Handle default kernel cmdline when multiple boot entries for the default kernel are defined.
  • Generate proper error message instead of ModelViolationError when parsing invalid repository definition.
  • Skip checking of (PKI) directory-hash dir to speed up the upgrade process and clean logs.
  • Update leapp upgrade data files.

# Vendor-Specific Changes

  • Introduce 2 new actors add_arm_bootloader_workaround, remove_upgrade_efi_entry use specific to particular OS, EFI directory location path, like /boot/efi/EFI/$distro_dir.
  • Remove 0006-ReadOfKernelArgsError-fix-the-error.patch that has been incorporated upstream.
  • Add the 9.6 version as supported for all supported operating systems.
  • Remove the 9.6 version from the upgrade path for all supported operating systems until this version is released.
  • Add PostgreSQL support for ARM architecture (signature: 6c7cb6ef305d49d6).

# 2024-12-10

# 2024-11-18

Released from Testing to Stable:

  • Update AlmaLinux leapp upgrade repository files to use $releasever instead of major OS version (e.g., 8 or 9).
  • Add CentOS 7 ELS repos support for upgrades to Oracle Linux 8.
  • Add KernelCare vendor support for EL8 to EL9 upgrades.
  • Add support for architectures other than x86_64 by updating map files. Users can follow the standard Quickstart guide without any additional steps for these architectures.
  • Avoid creating symbolic links such as /etc/leapp/repos.d/system_upgrade;67377d17 and prevent conflicts between leapp-upgrade-* and leapp-data-* packages in the /etc/leapp/repos.d/system_upgrade path when upgrading CentOS 7 to AlmaLinux OS 9. These issues occur if leapp-data-* packages remain installed after upgrading from CentOS 7 to EL8. Therefore, we strongly recommend removing all ELevate-related EL7 packages before proceeding with the upgrade to EL9.

# 2024-10-18

Released from Testing to Stable:

  • Extend upgrade path with the ability to elevate to AlmaLinux OS 8 versions 8.7, 8.8, 8.9, 8.10, and AlmaLinux OS 9 versions 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4 versions with --target option set.
  • Remove the 9.5 target version from the upgrade path for all supported operating systems until this version is released.

# 2024-10-09

Released from Testing to Stable:

  • Fixed leapp actions that were causing packages removal and as so the upgrade process to fail:
    • For configurations with Imunify360 repository enabled, a replace leapp action will be taken for the libunwind package.
    • For configurations with EPEL repository enabled, a move leapp action will be taken for the GeoIP package.
    • For other configurations, these packages will be removed during the upgrade process.
  • Added CloudLinux Imunify360 alt-php 3rd party repository support for EL7 to EL8 upgrades for all supported systems.
    • Before the upgrade, you must replace the <imunify360_alt-php_token> string in the /etc/yum.repos.d/imunify360-alt-php.repo config with the token from the /etc/leapp/files/vendors.d/imunify360-alt-php.repo.
  • Unnecessery openssl-libs package split was removed for EL8 to EL9 upgrades for all supported systems.

# 2024-09-24

Released from Testing to Stable:

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Last Updated: 2025-12-01

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