#450 F32 Release Notes: Installer section
Closed by pbokoc. Opened by pbokoc.

Any significant changes to the installer that have an impact on users should go here. See the installer section of the previous RNs for an idea on what kind of info we document:

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/f31/release-notes/
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/f30/release-notes/


Use the Storage module
The support for the Storage module is complete. Anaconda uses this DBus module instead of the local storage object since Fedora 32.

Add DBus support for addons
The DBus support for Anaconda addons is complete. Addons can provide and use their own DBus modules now. See the example: https://github.com/rhinstaller/hello-world-anaconda-addon

Replace the DBus library
We have implemented our own DBus library python3-dasbus. It is written in Python, based on GLib and inspired by pydbus. Anaconda uses dasbus instead of pydbus now. See the repository: https://github.com/rhinstaller/dasbus

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Avoid downloading image twice with the liveimg kickstart command.
This could result in a crash of the installation because of out of memory issue.

Add support for having /boot on BTRFS subvolume.

Don't add more devices in boot-device NVRAM than the maximum allowed on the PPC64LE platform.
The boot-device NVRAM variable has a maximum number of devices allowed.

Support --ignorebroken by packages module (#1642013)
Ignore any packages, groups or modules with conflicting files. This issue will disable the DNF strict option. The default behavior is to abort the installation with error message describing the conflicting files.

Allow arch filtering for comps.
Comps files can now set architecture on which the package can be installed.

Do not allow packages download to RAM.
This feature was disabled because it could cause out of memory issue. Packages from now on can be downloaded only to hard drive which makes our storage requirements a bit bigger.

This might not matter much, but here goes...

Forbid trailing period (dot) in hostname (#1648107)
Anaconda no longer allows trailing dot in host names. This follows the behavior of underlying systemd-hostnamed and kernel. Apart from not crashing on such user input, another consequence is that users can no longer enter hostnames that follow the FQDN form to the letter (that allows the trailing dot).

Thanks to everyone for information; fixed in #483

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