What is the best way to see what is included in the latest FCOS release?

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What is the best way to keep abreast of the content of new releases to FCOS streams?

I can see that my canary servers are already starting to apply a testing release that is not even available on the download page? I was expecting this because I could see an in-progress issue via the streams repo streams repo, which I can watch, but how should one get a view of what the main changes in a new release are?

One could I expect inspect rpm-ostree but I did like the summaries available on the CL Releases page…is something like this planned for FCOS?

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We don’t have a good answer to this right now other than doing something like rpm-ostree db diff --changelogs on the node after it updated. We’re discussing having actual release notes in Release notes · Issue #194 · coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker · GitHub.

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Thanks. Your prompt got me to play a little bit with rpm-ostree and this is much better than I thought it would be to be honest although it misses the CVE closures explicitly and of course there is no triage of major vs minor (other than rev numbers). However, it gives a comprehensive list of version diffs with a little more color with the changelogs option you gave.

Not sure what the best man page is for rpm-ostree but I found this useful. It explained that there is default behaviour comparing booted to previous on disk rpm-ostree commit. I need to wait and see my VMs go through a few more boot cycles to observe whether there are only ever two revs on an FCOS box and play with comparing different revs.

Appreciate it.

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