Highlights from 2025-12-10 release

The majority of changes focus on stabilizing the system and migrating projects to the new PULP-based repository management system.

New Features

• There is a new API endpoint, along with CLI support, for re-generating API tokens (allowing the creation of a new token using an existing, but still valid, one). See PR#3960.

• The wait() helper has become an official part of the python-copr API. See #3653.

• Copr now allows storing wildcard strings in the “Packit allowed forge projects” field.

• The Fedora Copr Frontend is now protected by Anubis to defend against unreasonable bot load. See #4064.

Changes related to the PULP Migration

• The Copr client utility was fixed to ensure that download-build correctly downloads files from Pulp-migrated projects.

• Set user agent for Pulp requests to crc-pulp-client.

• The storage migration script (Pulp/Backend) now includes logic for migrating all of a user’s projects at once, rather than just one project at a time.

• The storage migration script uploads duplicate RPMs in alphabetical order, ensuring that all RPMs (even those that duplicate NEVRAs) are successfully uploaded to Pulp.

• Implemented a more robust uploading mechanism to Pulp (including retries on errors, a longer timeout, and safer method handling).

• Chunked uploads to Pulp were implemented (currently unused, as we believed not yet needed).

• backend: The PulpClient.get_content method now automatically paginates requests that could potentially return too many entries.

• The script for uploads to Pulp now logs basic progress information and ignores projects that have already been uploaded.

• Automatically delete projects from the pulp-redirects.txt file when a project is deleted.

• The pulp-redirect.txt file has been moved to persistent storage (preventing loss of the file during virtual machine moves).

• The hit-counter (download calculator) now includes downloads from Pulp in its statistics.

• The “regenerate repos” feature is ignored for Pulp projects where automatic createrepo is enabled.

Other Changes and Bugfixes

• frontend: Correctly marks canceled builds as “canceled” (not failed), and vice versa. #3844.

• backend: Implemented a bigger “open FDs limit” for the repository pruner cron job. This fixes previous tracebacks that led to unfinished pruning and increased storage consumption. #4048.

• backend: The worker controlling the build now waits until the correct repositories are fully created (regardless of whether they are on the backend or in Pulp), PR#4032.

• backend: Allow builders to run the SSH daemon on a non-standard port (other than 22).

• copr-common: Fixed support for PATCH requests.

• Fixed errors and warnings encountered when building documentation for a few Copr packages.

• backend: Stopped creating empty “spawner,” “terminator,” and “vmm” logs (as they have not been receiving any log entries for some time).

• backend/frontend: Dropped the requirement on pytz and now use zoneinfo.

• frontend: No longer raises a traceback for unexplained OAuthError errors. (If you observe these errors on the client side, please report/explain them!)

• frontend: Added protection against tracebacks when copr.storage is None (implemented a database update via an Alembic migration).

• frontend: Removed the last remaining logic leftovers of modularity.

• frontend: Dropped the custom RedisSession class in favor of the standard flask-session (which now supports Redis).

• frontend: Streamed pages (those serving many items, e.g., builds) now preload additional fields from the database in advance to avoid server-side errors.