OCP 4.7 Release Notes Tracker

[codyhoag]

Please leave comments here for anything that should be highlighted in the 4.7 release notes. Thank you!

[damemi]

Scheduler Policy API has been marked deprecated in favor of upcoming profiles - openshift/api#787

[ingvagabund]

oc's --config option, OC_EDITOR env and oc convert subcommand dropped: openshift/oc#648

[codyhoag]

i18n for Metrics and Dashboards pages was added (CONSOLE-2391). Specific dashboard content in the web console will not be translated, as that is defined in config maps contributed by the Monitoring Operator and are out of scope for the initial i18n work. More context can be found in openshift/console#7266.

[damemi]

Descheduler strategies API has been deprecated in favor of profiles - openshift/cluster-kube-descheduler-operator#156

[sallyom]

With oc image mirror flags, the command will now fail if/when --keep-manifest-list=true is passed with --filter-by-os for any value other than --filter-by-os=.* (wildcard). This is because it is not possible to preserve the manifest list digest while also filtering manifests from the list. openshift/oc#642

[kasturinarra]

Kubernetes 1.19 should be replaced with Kubernetes 1.20.

[kasturinarra]

@ingvagabund should we as well add Non-preempting option for priority classes in the TechnologyPreview table list ? As of now that has not been added.

[arithx]

For RHCOS Complex Root Devices (GRPA-1431) is probably worth mentioning. OCP docs link here: #27661

[dustymabe]

The fix to BZ#1901517 is a slight change. Here is the text of an email I sent recently as an FYI about the change:

TL;DR if you don't muck with default networking configs, nothing should change

In the past RHCOS has propagated initramfs networking configuration into the real
root of RHCOS if no other networking configuration was provided. This meant a single
default_connection.nmconnection file would get created and that connection profile
would match any interface on the machine. Every interface would get DHCP.

However, if you boot NetworkManager with no configuration at all (i.e. no
default_connection.nmconnection) it still defaults to DHCP on every interface and
will use dynamically generated profiles for each interface (written into /run/).

Using the single connection profile for multiple interfaces was a bit confusing to
some users (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1901517) so we made a slight
change to no longer propagate initramfs networking configuration if the defaults
were used. This means by default if you don't provide any other networking config
there won't be files in /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/ on boot. If you rely
on tweaking the file that existed there previously then you might need to make a change.

[travier]

In 4.7, RHCOS is using RHEL 8.3 packages (4.6 and below will stay with RHEL 8.2 packages). This is relevant for hardware support, new NetworkManager features, etc.

[xingxingxia]

Please add release notes for:
Token epic MSTR-997 (new function and deprecation notes) (QE reviewer: @rhpmali )
CAO encryption config split epic MSTR-1055 (QE reviewer: @rhpmali )
Management console new dashboard epic MSTR-998 (QE review @xingxingxia )

[travier]

Please mention initial kdump support in RHCOS: #28164

[vikram-redhat]

TP to GA: #28332