Highlights from 2026-08-12 release

Enhancements

#2645 - --chroot and --exclude-chroot now support Unix file pattern matching in the frontend and CLI.
#4373 - copr-cli buildpypi now supports --with-deps. Read more in a blog post - PyPI dependencies, resolved and built for you
#4354 - Locking now uses fair FIFO Redis queues.
copr-cli now supports --chroot-denylist for add-package and edit-package.
copr-cli now documents permission management commands in the man page.
Kafka was added as a new message bus backend.
rpmeta build time predictions are now enabled.
Markdown rendering in the frontend was ported to markdown-it-py.
Copr now supports direct RPM upload builds. Users can upload already-built RPM files and publish them directly into a selected chroot. This feature will not be enabled on the Fedora Copr instance.
OpenShift deployment templates were converted to a Helm chart.

#4317 - Failed Pulp background tasks are now retried with exponential backoff.
#4417 - Fixed waiting for Pulp publications when creating devel repositories.
#4363 - Fixed a race in PulpStorage.delete_builds().
The backend now handles asynchronous Pulp distribution updates.
The backend now waits for Pulp publication tasks to finish.
Pulp request handling was refactored around PulpRequest and deliver_and_wait.

#4371 - The EOL chroot notification script no longer crashes when failing to send a notification
#4398 - Forking also empty repositories
#4392 - Fixed dependency on python3-rich for colors in copr-cli
#4375 - Documented client permission commands.
rpmbuild no longer build-depends on scl-utils.
Fixed create_file_logger compatibility with pytest 9.1 and newer.