Queens Series Release Notes

17.0.4-8

Deprecation Notes

• The repo server’s reverse proxy for pypi has now been removed, leaving only the pypiserver to serve packages already on the repo server. The attempt to reverse proxy upstream pypi turned out to be very unstable with increased complexity for deployers using proxies or offline installs. With this, the variables repo_nginx_pypi_upstream and repo_nginx_proxy_cache_path have also been removed.

17.0.0

New Features

• The repo server now implements nginx as a reverse proxy for python packages sourced from pypi. The initial query will be to a local deployment of pypiserver in order to serve any locally built packages, but if the package is not available locally it will retry the query against the upstream pypi mirror set in the variable repo_nginx_pypi_upstream (defaults to pypi) and cache the response.

Deprecation Notes

• In OSA deployments prior to Queens, if repo_git_cache_dir was set to a folder which existed on a repo container host then that folder would be symlinked to the repo container bind mount instead of synchronising its contents to the repo container. This functionality is deprecated in Queens and will be removed in Rocky. The ability to make use of the git cache still exists, but the folder contents will be synchronised from the deploy host to the repo container. If you have made use of the symlink functionality previously, please move the contents to a standard folder and remove the symlink.