** DNF **

• Added new option --comment=<comment> that adds a comment to transaction in history
• :meth:dnf.Base.pre_configure_plugin configure plugins by running their pre_configure() method
• Added pre_configure() methotd for plugins and commands to configure dnf before repos are loaded
• Resolves: #1421478 - dnf repository-packages: error: unrecognized arguments: -x rust-rpm-macros
• Resolves: #1491560 - 'dnf check' reports spurious "has missing requires of" errors
• Resolves: #1465292 - DNF remove protected duplicate package
• Resolves: #1279001 - [RFE] Missing dnf --downloaddir option
• Resolves: #1212341 - [RFE] Allow plugins to override the core configuration
• Resolves: #1299482 - mock --init fails with message "Failed calculating RPMDB checksum"
• Resolves: #1488398 - dnf upstream tests failures on f26
• Resolves: #1192811 - dnf whatprovides should show which provides matched a pattern
• Resolves: #1288845 - "dnf provides" wildcard matching is unreliable (not all packages with matches listed)
• Resolves: #1473933 - [abrt] dnf-automatic: resolved(): rpm_conf.py:58:resolved:AttributeError: 'Rpmconf' object has no attribute '_interactive'
• Resolves: #1237349 - dnf autoremove not removing what dnf list extras shows
• Resolves: #1470050 - the 'priority=' option in /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo is not respected
• Resolves: #1347927 - dnf --cacheonly downloads packages
• Resolves: #1478115 - [abrt] dnf: _hcmd_undo(): init.py:888:_hcmd_undo:IndexError: list index out of range
• Resolves: #1461171 - RFE: support --advisory= with install
• Resolves: #1448874 - "dnf needs-restarting" vanished from bash completion
• Resolves: #1495116 - Dnf version fails with traceback in container

** LIBDNF **

• It improves query performance with name and arch filters. Also nevra filter will now handle string with or without epoch.
• Additionally for python bindings it renames NEVRA._has_just_name() to NEVRA.has_just_name() due to movement of code into c part of library.
• Resolves: #1260242 - --exclude does not affect dnf remove's removal of requirements
• Resolves: #1485881 - DNF claims it cannot install package, which have been already installed
• Resolves: #1361187 - [abrt] python-ipython-console: filter_updown(): python3.5 killed by SIGABRT

** DNF-PLUGINS-CORE **

• Added four new options for list subcommand of copr plugin
• Resolves: #1476834 - [abrt] dnf: arch(): config.py:908:arch:TypeError: unhashable type: 'list'

** DNF-PLUGINS-EXTRAS **

• Resolves: #1473933 - [abrt] dnf-automatic: resolved(): rpm_conf.py:58:resolved:AttributeError: 'Rpmconf' object has no attribute '_interactive'
• Resolves: #1473435 - [abrt] dnf: subprocess.py:271:check_call:subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['journalctl', '--boot', 'd5318db518e541fcbc8ce51dd469c2f0']' returned non-zero exit status -13
• Resolves: #1490832 - dnf system-upgrade: dnf.exceptions.MarkingError: no package matched
• Resolves: #1492036 - system-upgrade fails to connect to online mirrors during upgrade when caches are missing