The model responsible for package recommendations can now make differentiated recommendations for major RHEL releases.

When image-builder-crc makes a request to the package recommendations API, it should include a field with the RHEL major release (e.g. “rhel-8”, “rhel-9”, “rhel-10”). The request could look something like this:

POST /experimental/recommendations

(https://console.redhat.com/docs/api/image-builder/v1#operations-recommendations-recommendPackage)

The Hydra team (responsible for the model) would like to collect analytics on the model used for recommendations using Amplitude in image-builder-frontend. To facilitate this, they have added a “modelVersion” field to the RecommendationsResponse.

The modelVersion should be added to the response from the POST /experimental/recommendations endpoint. The response from the package recommendations API will look something like this:

{
  “packages”: [
    “perl-Module”,
    “perl-Params”,
    “perl-Module-Corelist”
  ],
“modelVersion”: “rpm_rex_42”
}