Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.2.16 is now available with
updates to packages and images that fix several bugs.

Description

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat's cloud computing
Kubernetes application platform solution designed for on-premise or private
cloud deployments.

This advisory contains the container images for Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform 4.2.16. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this
release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2020:0106

Space precludes documenting all of the container images in this advisory.
See the following Release Notes documentation, which will be updated
shortly for this release, for details about these changes:

https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.2/release_notes/ocp-4-2-release-notes.html

You may download the oc tool and use it to inspect release image metadata as follows:

(For x86_64 architecture)

$ oc adm release info quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release:4.2.16-x86_64

The image digest is sha256:e5a6e348721c38a78d9299284fbb5c60fb340135a86b674b038500bf190ad514

(For s390x architecture)

$ oc adm release info quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release:4.2.16-s390x

The image digest is sha256:04b79afdbb41579e0f969bf23cdb16483dbfadbc09a6a0fec60b94328d68135a

All OpenShift Container Platform 4.2 users are advised to upgrade to these
updated packages and images.

Solution

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.2 see the following documentation, which
will be updated shortly for release 4.2.16, for important instructions on
how to upgrade your cluster and fully apply this asynchronous errata
update:

https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.2/release_notes/ocp-4-2-release-notes.html

Details on how to access this content are available at
https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.2/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html.

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.2 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.2 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.2 for RHEL 8 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.2 for RHEL 7 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 1718061 - KCM cannot recover from deleting its lease configmap
• BZ - 1753559 - PrometheusOutOfOrderTimestamps and PrometheusDuplicateTimestamps alerts firing during upgrade from 4.1.z to 4.2
• BZ - 1763695 - MCO applies new manifests to host before host is drained
• BZ - 1764672 - [OSP] Cannot upgrade from 4.2 to 4.3 because of network-operator port conflict
• BZ - 1766514 - MCD could shadow errors since the force validation file isn't deleted once used
• BZ - 1767634 - Metering - openshift-metering/hive-metastore-0 - Exception in thread "main" MetaException(message:java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Class com.google.cloud.hadoop.fs.gcs.GoogleHadoopFileSystem not found)
• BZ - 1772680 - machine-config operators controller segfaults during 4.2.4 upgrade
• BZ - 1776495 - `oc edit clusterresourcequota` cannot work
• BZ - 1781871 - local-storage-operator does not support LVM devices
• BZ - 1782575 - [4.2] local-storage-operator should not be installable in Openshfit-4.1
• BZ - 1782998 - Fix build of ansible-operator for multi-arch [4.2]
• BZ - 1786591 - Add capacity from UI: Storage Class selection is missing
• BZ - 1787445 - /etc/passwd misconfigured in ansible-operator base image
• BZ - 1788477 - proxy user-ca-bundle did not present in grafana pod /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt
• BZ - 1788705 - Performance: OLM icons take too long to load, blocking later pages
• BZ - 1789119 - Support Pipeline Operator 0.9.0
• BZ - 1789565 - [4.2] RHCOS master and worker nodes may go to NotReady,SchedulingDisabled while upgrading from 4.2.12 to 4.3.0 sometimes
• BZ - 1789765 - Failed to upgrade to 4.2.14 due to image is not signed well
• BZ - 1789903 - "text" x-descriptors (both "specDescriptor" and "statusDescriptor") always shows "None" whenever the data is "True".
• BZ - 1790298 - [ShiftStack 4.2 on OSP13] install-config.yaml is missing option for customized DNS server
• BZ - 1791182 - Add stable-4.3, fast-4.3, and candidate-4.3 channels to UI in 4.2.z
• BZ - 1791414 - update from version 4.2.12-s390x to 4.2.13-s390x fails because of broken node-exporter [4.2]

CVEs

• CVE-2019-1387
• CVE-2020-2583
• CVE-2020-2590
• CVE-2020-2593
• CVE-2020-2601
• CVE-2020-2604
• CVE-2020-2654
• CVE-2020-2655

References

(none)