open-vm-tools 11.2.5 has been released

[vmware-gos-Yuhua]

[Impact]

 * In the past a lack of updated open-vm-tools versions was found fatal
   and therefore we agreed to regularly backport those to the latest LTS.
   This is backporting the recent version 11.2.5 to Focal/Groovy.

[Test Case]

 * Test open-vm-tools done by VMWare QA Team as agreed for these
   backports.

[Where Problems could occur]

 * This has the usual regression potential of a new version upgrade and
   therefore is higher than a usual SRU. But as agreed int he past to
   support new (virtual) hardware open-vm-tools shall regularly be
   backported. I suggest keeping it somewhat longer in proposed than usual
   just to be on the safe side.

 * This time there is one worth to mention as we have to make some
   tradeoff for https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/issues/128
   We can only decide between keeping a non-user-fixable issue in the
   release OR to cause potential issues after the upgrade for some
   specific setups (17-63 interfaces). But the latter case can be
   fixed by the user via https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/81054
   and therefore we chose that path of the tradeoff.

[Other Info]

 * This is a practice for or quite a while (almost three years now), see:
   - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/1741390
   - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/1784638
   - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/1813944
   - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/1822204
   - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/1844834
   - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/1868012
   - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/1877672
   - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/1892266

The request back then came from the community and the decision back then was between VMWare and Ubuntu. VMWare QA Team since then does the qualification of these uploads as we (I) don't have a matrix of Host versions for that around.

Also see https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/tag/stable-11.2.5

Under the accepted special SRU cases [1] this qualifies for #2 and #3 of [2].

[1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Documentation_for_Special_Cases
[2]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Other_safe_cases

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open-vm-tools 11.2.5 has been released.

see https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/tag/stable-11.2.5

A complete list of the granular changes that are in the open-vm-tools 11.2.5 release is available at:https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-11.2.5/open-vm-tools/ChangeLog

[John Wolfe (johnwvmw)]

VMware tracking issue: https://jira.eng.vmware.com/browse/VMTOOLS-476

[John Wolfe (johnwvmw)]

@Christian,

Per the 11.2.5 ReleaseNotes.md at https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-11.2.5/ReleaseNotes.md, previously reported issues #467 and #468 have been fixed in this release.

As with the 11.2.0 OVT release, this release provides suggested vmtoolsd pam configuration files for major Linux vendors. By default, the generic pam configuration settings will be used by "make install". To select a Linux vendor specific pam configuration, the following line on "./services/vmtoolsd/Makefile"

     $(INSTALL) $(top_srcdir)/pam/generic $(DESTDIR)/$(PAM_PREFIX)/pam.d/vmtoolsd

should be edited - replacing "generic" with "debian".

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

Thanks John!
The fixes of these issues should allow this to be a sync again.
And Bernd already uploaded 11.2.5 recently.

Thanks for the hint on the pam change, but that already is in 2:11.2.0-1ubuntu1

Triggering a sync ...

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

Resolved in https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/2:11.2.5-1

The backports to 20.04 and 20.10 are (as usual) done when the current release is frozen or released (to have ~1 bump per 6 months). So I'll add tasks now but it will be a bit until that happens.

[vmware-gos-Yuhua (yhzou)]

Hi All,
   Thanks for your prompt updates.
   It will be appreciated for new comments on the status of this task.

Best regards
Yuhua Zou

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

Hi Yuhua,
There was no plan-change - just as I mentiond on 18th January, once the current release is frozen or even closer to released I'll do the backports. That means it is planned for March/April

[vmware-gos-Yuhua (yhzou)]

Hi Christian Ehrhardt,
OK. Thanks very much.

Best regards
Yuhua Zou

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

Hi,
As usual we will make this a two step verification.
a) First a general sniff/function test in a PPA (before we pollute -proposed too fast) via a PPA.
b) Then a proper SRU where then VMware will (as usual) do the full verification of the new builds

Now that Hirsute is somewhat final I have prepared builds of 11.2.5 for Focal and Groovy.
Those are available for the (a) checks in this PPA.
 => https://launchpad.net/~ci-train-ppa-service/+archive/ubuntu/4493/

@Vmware - could you give the builds in the PPA the usual pre-check and let us know if it looks good so I can start the full SRU-process on it?

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

Seems you had no time :-/
So I did my own (trivial) sniff tests and for that bit it LGTM.
I think we can move this forward to MP review and a real SRU upload where you can then do the usual agreed full test.

MPs are up here for review:
https://code.launchpad.net/~paelzer/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+git/open-vm-tools/+merge/400017
https://code.launchpad.net/~paelzer/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+git/open-vm-tools/+merge/400018

[vmware-gos-Yuhua (yhzou)]

1. It works well when do sanity check for open-vm-tools 11.2.5 from PPA:4493

   Check in
    1)Ubuntu 20.04.2 Desktop
    2)Ubuntu 20.04.2 Live Server
    3)Ubuntu 20.10 Live Server

   Check items:
    1) install / uninstall open-vm-tools
    2) check tools service and VGAuth services when install open-vm-tools
    3) check tools service and VGAuth services after install and reboot guestOS
    4) check ip address, OS full name after install open-vm-tools
    5) uninstall open-vm-tools
    6) install/uninstall package open-vm-tools-desktop in Ubuntu 20.04.2 Desktop

2. It works well when do sanity check for open-vm-tools 11.2.5 from ubuntu 21.04 (desktop, live-sever and cloud image) daily build image

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

FYI - uploaded to the SRU -unapproved queue

[Robie Basak (racb)]

Hello vmware-gos-Yuhua, or anyone else affected,

Accepted open-vm-tools into groovy-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/2:11.2.5-2ubuntu1~ubuntu20.10.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-groovy to verification-done-groovy. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-groovy. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Robie Basak (racb)]

Hello vmware-gos-Yuhua, or anyone else affected,

Accepted open-vm-tools into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/2:11.2.5-2ubuntu1~ubuntu20.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-focal to verification-done-focal. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-focal. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

FYI - I've pinged Yuhua who confirmed that these verifications are now on his todo list.

[vmware-gos-Yuhua (yhzou)]

It works well when do sanity check for open-vm-tools 11.2.5 from -proposed repository in the following images:
    1)Ubuntu 20.04.2 Desktop
    2)Ubuntu 20.04.2 Live Server
    3)Ubuntu 20.10 Live Server
    4)ubuntu-20.04-server-cloudimg-amd64.ova

Best regards
Yuhua Zou

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for open-vm-tools has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package open-vm-tools - 2:11.2.5-2ubuntu1~ubuntu20.04.1

---------------
open-vm-tools (2:11.2.5-2ubuntu1~ubuntu20.04.1) focal; urgency=medium

  * Update to latest release v11.2.5 (LP: #1911831)
    - Revert "Add net-tools as dependency again." as we don't want to
      modify the focal seed/ISO content without a real issue behind it.
    - Revert "build-depend on libgdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0-dev"

open-vm-tools (2:11.2.5-2ubuntu1) hirsute; urgency=medium

  * d/p/fix-FTFBS-glib2.0-2.66.3.patch: fix FTBFS with glib2.0 >=2.66.3

open-vm-tools (2:11.2.5-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * [7f14954] Drop max_nic_count patch.
    See https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/issues/128 for details.

open-vm-tools (2:11.2.5-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * [b54d022] New upstream version 11.2.5
    Thanks: John Wolfe
    Closes: #980190

open-vm-tools (2:11.2.0-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * [d5d4593] Fix building with new gcc versions
  * [94ce968] build-depend on libgdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0-dev
    Closes: #978262
    Thanks to Lucas NUssbaum for the upload reminder.

open-vm-tools (2:11.2.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * [447d833] Update upstream source from tag 'upstream/11.2.0'
    Update to upstream version '11.2.0'
    with Debian dir 67243748d9ba09fc4e53f1ab4e921e119c981beb
    Closes: #972732
  * [704edba] remove pam-use-common-auth-account patch.
    Not needed anymore
  * [f792922] Use upstream pam file for Debian

 -- Christian Ehrhardt <email address hidden> Wed, 17 Mar 2021 08:14:50 +0100

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package open-vm-tools - 2:11.2.5-2ubuntu1~ubuntu20.10.1

---------------
open-vm-tools (2:11.2.5-2ubuntu1~ubuntu20.10.1) groovy; urgency=medium

  * Update to latest release v11.2.5 (LP: #1911831)
    - Revert "build-depend on libgdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0-dev"

open-vm-tools (2:11.2.5-2ubuntu1) hirsute; urgency=medium

  * d/p/fix-FTFBS-glib2.0-2.66.3.patch: fix FTBFS with glib2.0 >=2.66.3

open-vm-tools (2:11.2.5-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * [7f14954] Drop max_nic_count patch.
    See https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/issues/128 for details.

open-vm-tools (2:11.2.5-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * [b54d022] New upstream version 11.2.5
    Thanks: John Wolfe
    Closes: #980190

open-vm-tools (2:11.2.0-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * [d5d4593] Fix building with new gcc versions
  * [94ce968] build-depend on libgdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0-dev
    Closes: #978262
    Thanks to Lucas NUssbaum for the upload reminder.

open-vm-tools (2:11.2.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * [447d833] Update upstream source from tag 'upstream/11.2.0'
    Update to upstream version '11.2.0'
    with Debian dir 67243748d9ba09fc4e53f1ab4e921e119c981beb
    Closes: #972732
  * [704edba] remove pam-use-common-auth-account patch.
    Not needed anymore
  * [f792922] Use upstream pam file for Debian

 -- Christian Ehrhardt <email address hidden> Wed, 17 Mar 2021 08:14:50 +0100