Issued:

2020-08-18

Updated:

2020-08-18

RHBA-2020:3334 - OpenShift Container Platform 4.4.17 bug fix update

Synopsis

OpenShift Container Platform 4.4.17 bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory None

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.4.17 is now available with updates to packages and images that fix several bugs.

Description

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat's cloud computing Kubernetes application platform solution designed for on-premise or private cloud deployments.

This advisory contains the container images for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.4.17. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2020:3335

Space precludes documenting all of the container images in this advisory. See the following Release Notes documentation, which will be updated shortly for this release, for details about these changes:

https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.4/release_notes/ocp-4-4-release-notes.html

This update fixes the following bugs among others:

• Previously, metadata featured on the CSV was not being ported using the packagemanifests type. Because of this, the OperatorHub UI was unable to filter Operators based on packagemanifests keywords. This bug has been fixed, and OperatorHub now has access to the following CSV information available in the package manifest:

  • Keywords
  • Maturity
  • NativeAPIs
  • MinKubeVersion
  • RelatedImages
  • Links
  • Maintainers The OperatorHub UI is now able to filter based on the CSV metadata. (BZ#1821274)

• Previously, the UID range allocation was never updated when a project was removed from the cluster. Restarting the kube-controller-manager Pod was the only way to trigger the repair procedure, which was clearing the range. A high project turnover could potentially exhaust the UID range on a cluster if this process was repeated many times. This bug is fixed fixed by periodically running the repair job automatically, which does not require additional kube-controller-manager restarts and ensures the UID range allocation is not exhausted. (BZ#1858800)

• Previously, intermittent availability issues with the API server could lead to intermittent issues with the OpenShift Controller Manager Operator retrieving deployments. Failure to retrieve a deployment sometimes caused the Operator to panic. With this release, checks have been added to handle and report this error condition, and to retry the operation. The Operator now properly handles intermittent issues retrieving deployments from the API server. (BZ#1861874)

• Due to a bug in the FeatureGate upgrade logic, the CVO was marking the cluster as not upgradeable to the next minor version when the LatencySensitive FeatureGate was in use. This bug has been fixed so minor version upgrades are no longer blocked. To work around this bug from previous releases, you must upgrade to a version that has this bug fixed. (BZ#1863076)

You may download the oc tool and use it to inspect release image metadata as follows:

(For x86_64 architecture)

$ oc adm release info quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release:4.4.17-x86_64

The image digest is sha256:624e84b5d22cb865ee1be32aa6e3feea99917c6081f7a9c5b1185fc9934d23f3

(For s390x architecture)

$ oc adm release info quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release:4.4.17-s390x

The image digest is sha256:0b52b50936e7ce8e0169848ace57cfd9cbfdf878b4e7788c7f531c77f78d6a3b

(For ppc64le architecture)

$ oc adm release info quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release:4.4.17-ppc64le

The image digest is sha256:186ddd254863b3448dc22c332c0a9d07b6c043ab083305a59f96121719dde17c

All OpenShift Container Platform 4.4 users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages and images when they are available in the appropriate release channel. To check for available updates, use the OpenShift Console or the CLI oc command. Instructions for upgrading a cluster are available at This page is not included, but the link has been rewritten to point to the nearest parent document.https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.4/updating/updating-cluster-between-minor.html#understanding-upgrade-channels_updating-cluster-between-minor.

Solution

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.4 see the following documentation, which will be updated shortly for release 4.4.17, for important instructions on how to upgrade your cluster and fully apply this asynchronous errata update:

https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.4/release_notes/ocp-4-4-release-notes.html

Details on how to access this content are available at This page is not included, but the link has been rewritten to point to the nearest parent document.https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.4/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html.

Affected Products

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 1821274
• This content is not included.BZ - 1824429
• This content is not included.BZ - 1855878
• This content is not included.BZ - 1855895
• This content is not included.BZ - 1858800
• This content is not included.BZ - 1860830
• This content is not included.BZ - 1861850
• This content is not included.BZ - 1861874
• This content is not included.BZ - 1862113
• This content is not included.BZ - 1862171
• This content is not included.BZ - 1863076
• This content is not included.BZ - 1866099

CVEs

• CVE-2019-11756
• CVE-2019-17006
• CVE-2019-17023
• CVE-2020-12402

References

(none)

Additional information

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