Tiny Wins for Packagers: End-of-Week Update (2026-07-24)
š¢ Shipped this week
Fixed issues, small features, security updates, minor releases, new external contributorsā¦
- Unify release API parameter naming and document it#20054
- BSPublisher/Registry: support the cosign newbundle format#20026
- PBuild: Fix auth for multiple remote registry assets#1162
- Make obs-service-kiwi_metainfo_helper use BUILD_BUILDTIME#1367165
š©āš» Operations this week
Statistics, deployments and incidents of https://build.opensuse.org/
In the last 7 days build.opensuse.org served 25.3 million HTTP requests resulting in 2.45 million package builds. With ~200.000 builds more than last week we had again the busiest week EVER in terms of builds!
Again driven by the same namespacesā¦

All other trends are moving sideways.
We ran 2 deployments of build.opensuse.org.
š§Ø Incidents / Service Degradation
Each night at 01:00 UTC we are getting DoSāed by a bunch of openSUSE internal botās running on a schedule. We are trying to coordinate better spread for those to avoid having to rate-limit accountsā¦
All Service Level Indicators are green, except the UI performance SLI which is dragged down 2.5% by the DoS described above.
š·āāļø In Progress
Things in the pipeline, not yet there but soonā¦
- The Ruby on Rails 8 update is moving closerā¦
- Move APIError classes to app/lib/api_error##20057
- Cleanup test environment#20035
- Remove require calls for api_error classes and organize them in a folder#20056
- Enable config.action_dispatch.strict_freshness default#20067
- Enable config.active_support.to_time_preserves_timezone default#20065
- Cleanup production environment#20033
- Setup config.autoload_lib#20030
- Adapt to Rails 8 defaults#20031
- Cleanup development environment configuration#20029
- Fix superclass mismatch for class RegistrationDisabledError#20052
- Drop CACHENAMESPACE variable#20050
- Move ENV[āOBS_BACKEND_TEMPā] to test_helper#20049
- Resolve SimpleCov deprecation warnings by defining custom profile#20042
- Add config/initializers/new_framework_defaults_8_0.rb
- Remove password from ActiveSupport::ParameterFilter#20036
- Cleanup development environment configuration#20029
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