Topic

An update for yum is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Description

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 8.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 1680566 - cannot disable an alias
• BZ - 1683134 - dnf rollback works strange after upgrade/downgrade/remove
• BZ - 1693683 - Port libdnf to libmodulemd 2.x+
• BZ - 1698034 - repoquery: --whatrequires is broken with rich deps
• BZ - 1727882 - yum-config-manager cannot update repos on RHEL8
• BZ - 1769068 - yum autocompletion does not support modules
• BZ - 1773679 - add option to include comments when running DNF/YUM transaction
• BZ - 1775184 - dnf/yum commands fail if fails if mirrorlist cannot be found
• BZ - 1782822 - dnf config-manager prints nothing and exits with 0
• BZ - 1785563 - When using versionlock with -q option ALL outputs are dismissed
• BZ - 1786335 - dnf history command output is trimmed because of hardcoded 79 cols limit
• BZ - 1787908 - dnf treats identical package in two repositories (testing/stable) as conflicting request
• BZ - 1788154 - Adding a trailing comma to excludes option causes all items listed for exclusion to be ignored.
• BZ - 1788546 - Check return value of g_mkdir_with_parents() (Repo.cpp:1392)
• BZ - 1790967 - Misleading Error message when trying to install module without default stream and profile: "missing groups or modules: <module-name>"
• BZ - 1793298 - dnf-automatic upgrade packages that does not have the signing key accepted
• BZ - 1795965 - reposync adds extra repoid to dowloadpath
• BZ - 1797265 - gnome-software does not respect priority setting
• BZ - 1798475 - [RHEL8/Bug] dnf-makecache timer not on timers.target
• BZ - 1801092 - [RFE] getting a list of all CVE availble for the system with their respective release date .
• BZ - 1802074 - Excessive and non configurable logging in /var/log/dnf.log
• BZ - 1803038 - dnf crashes with an UTF-8 char in a repository filename
• BZ - 1804720 - repomanage tool is not working correctly with modules in AppStream
• BZ - 1807863 - Rebase libdnf to >= 0.45.0
• BZ - 1807864 - PackageKit treats multi-line gpgkey as a single line
• BZ - 1807867 - Rebase dnf to >= 4.2.19
• BZ - 1807870 - Rebase dnf-plugins-core to >= 4.0.14
• BZ - 1808879 - dnf bash completion does not work without python3 package
• BZ - 1809600 - Tracebacks in transaction callbacks
• BZ - 1810123 - [RFE] Provide ability to add packages to the needs-restarting plugin configuration.
• BZ - 1811802 - [RFE] Sort alphabetically yum/dnf results as in RHEL7
• BZ - 1812682 - "dnf -d 6 repolist" fails with AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'query'
• BZ - 1813460 - Incorrect information about "includepkgs" in the yum2dnf man page
• BZ - 1817130 - dnf isn't able to download with encoded url
• BZ - 1820544 - [dnf] RHEL 8.3 Tier 0 Localization
• BZ - 1820546 - [dnf-plugins-core] RHEL 8.3 Tier 0 Localization
• BZ - 1820548 - [libdnf] RHEL 8.3 Tier 0 Localization
• BZ - 1821524 - dnf: incorrect install-n, localinstall, autoremove-n, remove-n, repoquery-n, list-updateinfo behavior
• BZ - 1832869 - 'dnf install' no longer updates packages
• BZ - 1833074 - reposync --newest-only does not download the latest package
• BZ - 1841580 - Disabled repo is not listed if its name is rhel-CRB
• BZ - 1842285 - [RFE]--norepopath option missing from reposync
• BZ - 1844533 - yum debug-restore removes all but one kernel even though the dump has multiple kernels.
• BZ - 1845270 - DNF(yum) versionlock adds duplicates to versionlock.list file
• BZ - 1847714 - Upgrading via cockpit does not honors includepkgs
• BZ - 1847946 - libdnf behavior has changed unexpectedly in 8.3
• BZ - 1848161 - Custom DNF variables which worked in CentOS 8.1.1911 are broken in 8.2.2004
• BZ - 1848615 - dnf numeric variable substitutions are undocumented
• BZ - 1870492 - [covscan] Handle exception in a python binding by the proper function

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.3_release_notes/index