This release follows v1.2.2 and consists of 1456 changes, contributed by 79 people, leading to 3166 files changed, 217035 insertions(+), 100524 deletions(-). The source code and selected binaries are available for download at: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/releases/tag/v1.3.0-rc.0. The primary release artifact of KubeVirt is the git tree. The release tag is signed and can be verified using `git tag -v v1.3.0-rc.0`. Pre-built containers are published on Quay and can be viewed at: <https://quay.io/kubevirt/>. Notable changes --------------- - [PR #12132][kubevirt-bot] Introduce validatingAdmissionPolicy to restrict node patches on virt-handler - [PR #12109][acardace] Support Memory Hotplug with Hugepages - [PR #12009][xpivarc] By enabling NodeRestriction feature gate, Kubevirt now authorize virt-handler's requests to modify VMs. - [PR #11681][lyarwood] The `CommonInstancetypesDeployment` feature and gate are retrospectively moved to Beta from the 1.2.0 release. - [PR #12025][fossedihelm] Add descheduler compatibility - [PR #12097][fossedihelm] Bump k8s deps to 0.30.0 - [PR #12089][jean-edouard] Less privileged virt-operator ClusterRole - [PR #12064][akalenyu] BugFix: Graceful deletion skipped for any delete call to the VM (not VMI) resource - [PR #10490][jschintag] Add support for building and running kubevirt on s390x. - [PR #12079][EdDev] Network hotplug feature is declared as Beta. - [PR #11455][lyarwood] `LiveUpdates` of VMs using instance types are now supported with the same caveats as when making changes to a vanilla VM. - [PR #12000][machadovilaca] Create kubevirt_vmi_launcher_memory_overhead_bytes metric - [PR #11915][ormergi] The 'passt' core network binding is discontinued and removed. - [PR #12016][acardace] fix starting VM with Manual RunStrategy - [PR #11533][alicefr] Implement volume migration and introduce the migration updateVolumesStrategy field - [PR #11934][assafad] Add kubevirt_vmi_last_connection_timestamp_seconds metric - [PR #11956][mhenriks] Introduce export.kibevirt.io/v1beta1 - [PR #11996][ShellyKa13] BugFix: Fix restore panic in case of volumesnapshot missing - [PR #11957][mhenriks] snapshot: Ignore unfreeze error if VMSnapshot deleting - [PR #11906][machadovilaca] Create kubevirt_vmi_info metric - [PR #11969][iholder101] Infra components control-plane nodes NoSchedule toleration - [PR #11955][mhenriks] Introduce snapshot.kibevirt.io/v1beta1 - [PR #11883][orelmisan] Restart of a VM is required when the CPU socket count is reduced - [PR #11835][talcoh2x] add Intel Gaudi to adopters. - [PR #11344][aerosouund] Refactor device plugins to use a base plugin and define a common interface - [PR #11973][fossedihelm] Bug fix: Correctly reflect RestartRequired condition - [PR #11963][acardace] Fix RerunOnFailure RunStrategy - [PR #11962][lyarwood] `VirtualMachines` referencing an instance type are now allowed when the `LiveUpdate` feature is enabled and will trigger the `RestartRequired` condition if the reference within the `VirtualMachine` is changed. - [PR #11942][ido106] Update virtctl to use v1beta1 endpoint for both regular and async image upload - [PR #11648][kubevirt-bot] Updated common-instancetypes bundles to v1.0.0 - [PR #11659][iholder101] Require scheduling infra components onto control-plane nodes - [PR #10545][lyarwood] `ControllerRevisions` containing instance types and preferences are now upgraded to their latest available version when the `VirtualMachine` owning them is resync'd by `virt-controller`. - [PR #11901][EdDev] The 'macvtap' core network binding is discontinued and removed. - [PR #11922][alromeros] Bugfix: Fix VM manifest rendering in export controller - [PR #11908][victortoso] sidecar-shim: allow stderr log from binary hooks - [PR #11729][lyarwood] `spreadOptions` have been introduced to preferences in order to allow for finer grain control of the `preferSpread` `preferredCPUTopology`. This includes the ability to now spread vCPUs across guest visible sockets, cores and threads. - [PR #11655][acardace] Allow to hotplug vcpus for VMs with CPU requests and/or limits set - [PR #11701][EdDev] The SLIRP core binding is deprecated and removed. - [PR #11773][jean-edouard] Persistent TPM/UEFI will use the default storage class if none is specified in the CR. - [PR #11846][victortoso] SMBios sidecar can be built out-of-tree - [PR #11788][ormergi] The network-info annotation is now used for mapping between SR-IOV network and the underlying device PCI address - [PR #11700][alicefr] Add the updateVolumeStrategy field - [PR #11256][andreabolognani] This version of KubeVirt includes upgraded virtualization technology based on libvirt 10.0.0 and QEMU 8.2.0. - [PR #11482][brianmcarey] Build KubeVirt with go v1.22.2 - [PR #11641][alicefr] Add kubevirt.io/testWorkloadUpdateMigrationAbortion annotation and a mechanism to abort workload updates - [PR #11770][alicefr] Fix the live updates for volumes and disks - [PR #11790][aburdenthehand] Re-adding Cloudflare to our ADOPTERS list - [PR #11718][fossedihelm] Fix: SEV methods in client-go now satisfy the proxy server configuration, if provided - [PR #11685][fossedihelm] Updated go version of the client-go to 1.21 - [PR #11618][AlonaKaplan] Extend network binding plugin to support device-info DownwardAPI. - [PR #11283][assafad] Collect VMI OS info from the Guest agent as `kubevirt_vmi_phase_count` metric labels - [PR #11676][machadovilaca] Rename rest client metrics to include kubevirt prefix - [PR #11557][avlitman] New memory statistics added named kubevirt_memory_delta_from_requested_bytes - [PR #11678][Vicente-Cheng] Improve the handling of ordinal pod interface name for upgrade - [PR #11653][EdDev] Build the `passt`custom CNI binary statically, for the `passt` network binding plugin. - [PR #11294][machadovilaca] Fix kubevirt_vm_created_total being broken down by virt-api pod - [PR #11307][machadovilaca] Add e2e tests for metrics - [PR #11479][vladikr] virtual machines instance will no longer be stuck in an irrecoverable state after an interrupted postcopy migration. Instead, these will fail and could be restarted again. - [PR #11416][dhiller] emission of k8s logs when using programmatic focus with `FIt` - [PR #11272][dharmit] Make 'image' field in hook sidecar annotation optional. - [PR #11500][iholder101] Support HyperV Passthrough: automatically use all available HyperV features - [PR #11484][jcanocan] Reduce the downwardMetrics server maximum number of request per second to 1. - [PR #11498][acardace] Allow to hotplug memory for VMs with memory limits set - [PR #11470][brianmcarey] Build KubeVirt with Go version 1.21.8 - [PR #11312][alromeros] Improve handling of export resources in virtctl vmexport - [PR #11367][alromeros] Bugfix: Allow vmexport download redirections by printing logs into stderr - [PR #11219][alromeros] Bugfix: Improve handling of IOThreads with incompatible buses - [PR #11149][0xFelix] virtctl: It is possible to import volumes from GCS when creating a VM now - [PR #11404][avlitman] KubeVirtComponentExceedsRequestedCPU and KubeVirtComponentExceedsRequestedMemory alerts are deprecated; they do not indicate a genuine issue. - [PR #11331][anjuls] add cloudraft to adopters. - [PR #11387][alaypatel07] add perf-scale benchmarks for release v1.2 - [PR #11095][ShellyKa13] Expose volumesnapshot error in vmsnapshot object - [PR #11372][xpivarc] Bug-fix: Fix nil panic if VM update fails - [PR #11267][mhenriks] BugFix: Ensure DataVolumes created by virt-controller (DataVolumeTemplates) are recreated and owned by the VM in the case of DR and backup/restore. - [PR #10900][KarstenB] BugFix: Fixed incorrect APIVersion of APIResourceList - [PR #11306][fossedihelm] fix(ksm): set the `kubevirt.io/ksm-enabled` node label to true if the ksm is managed by KubeVirt, instead of reflect the actual ksm value. - [PR #11330][jean-edouard] More information in the migration state of VMI / migration objects - [PR #11264][machadovilaca] Fix perfscale buckets error - [PR #11183][dhiller] Extend OWNERS for sig-buildsystem - [PR #11058][fossedihelm] fix(vmclone): delete vmclone resource when the target vm is deleted - [PR #11265][xpivarc] Bug fix: VM controller doesn't corrupt its cache anymore - [PR #11205][akalenyu] Fix migration breaking in case the VM has an rng device after hotplugging a block volume on cgroupsv2 - [PR #11051][alromeros] Bugfix: Improve error reporting when fsfreeze fails - [PR #11156][nunnatsa] Move some verification from the VMI create validation webhook to the CRD - [PR #11146][RamLavi] node-labeller: Remove obsolete functionalities Contributors ------------ 79 people contributed to this release: 144 fossedihelm <ffossemo@redhat.com> 112 Edward Haas <edwardh@redhat.com> 60 Orel Misan <omisan@redhat.com> 53 Lee Yarwood <lyarwood@redhat.com> 49 Luboslav Pivarc <lpivarc@redhat.com> 44 Alice Frosi <afrosi@redhat.com> 44 Itamar Holder <iholder@redhat.com> 31 Nahshon Unna-Tsameret <nunnatsa@redhat.com> 25 Shelly Kagan <skagan@redhat.com> 24 Assaf Admi <aadmi@redhat.com> 24 Ram Lavi <ralavi@redhat.com> 22 Or Mergi <ormergi@redhat.com> 21 Antonio Cardace <acardace@redhat.com> 21 Or Shoval <oshoval@redhat.com> 21 bmordeha <bmordeha@redhat.com> 19 Brian Carey <bcarey@redhat.com> 17 Jed Lejosne <jed@redhat.com> 16 Alex Kalenyuk <akalenyu@redhat.com> 16 Victor Toso <victortoso@redhat.com> 15 Alona Paz <alkaplan@redhat.com> 15 Michael Henriksen <mhenriks@redhat.com> 13 Alvaro Romero <alromero@redhat.com> 13 Jan Schintag <jan.schintag@de.ibm.com> 12 Felix Matouschek <fmatouschek@redhat.com> 11 João Vilaça <jvilaca@redhat.com> 10 Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com> 10 Dan Kenigsberg <danken@redhat.com> 10 machadovilaca <machadovilaca@gmail.com> 9 Daniel Hiller <dhiller@redhat.com> 9 Fabian Deutsch <fabiand@redhat.com> 8 Andrej Krejcir <akrejcir@redhat.com> 6 avlitman <alitman@redhat.com> 6 sylvain-pierrot <sylvain.pierrot@etu.umontpellier.fr> 5 Vladik Romanovsky <vromanso@redhat.com> 5 Youngjun <yj.yoo@okestro.com> 4 Andrew Burden <aburden@redhat.com> 4 Dharmit Shah <shahdharmit@gmail.com> 4 Edu Gómez Escandell <egomez@redhat.com> 4 Oren Cohen <ocohen@redhat.com> 3 Ben Oukhanov <ben1zuk321@gmail.com> 3 Vasiliy Ulyanov <vulyanov@suse.de> 3 aerosouund <aerosound161@gmail.com> 3 rkishner <rkishner@redhat.com> 2 Ahmad Hafe <ahafe@redhat.com> 2 HF <crazytaxii666@gmail.com> 2 Harsh Vardhan <harsh.vardhan.ande@gmail.com> 2 Javier Cano Cano <jcanocan@redhat.com> 2 Tushar Jain <jain0735@gmail.com> 2 Vasiliy Sibirskiy <vsibirsk@redhat.com> 2 Vicente Cheng <vicente.cheng@suse.com> 2 howard zhang <howard.zhang@arm.com> 2 zhuanlan <zhuanlan_yewu@cmss.chinamobile.com> 1 Adrian Vladu <avladu@cloudbasesolutions.com> 1 Alay Patel <alayp@nvidia.com> 1 Alexander Wels <awels@redhat.com> 1 Andrei Kvapil <kvapss@gmail.com> 1 Anjul Sahu <anjuls@users.noreply.github.com> 1 Arnon Gilboa <agilboa@redhat.com> 1 Bart Vercoulen <bartv@kumina.nl> 1 Barthélemy Vessemont <bvessemont@gmail.com> 1 Enrique Llorente <ellorent@redhat.com> 1 Harshit Gupta <guptaharshit@microsoft.com> 1 Ido Aharon <iaharon@redhat.com> 1 Igor Bezukh <ibezukh@redhat.com> 1 Jelmer Vernooij <jvernooij@evroc.com> 1 Karsten Becker <kb@karsten-becker.de> 1 Mark Maglana <mmaglana@gmail.com> 1 Shahaf Bahar <sbahar@redhat.com> 1 Shirly Radco <sradco@redhat.com> 1 Tal Cohen <tacohen@habana.ai> 1 TheRealSibasishBehera <fangedhamster3114@gmail.com> 1 VitalikButerinEth <csyingyu@126.com> 1 anish bista <anishbista053@gmail.com> 1 bcoxford <ben.coxford@ncr.com> 1 dshchedr <dshchedr@redhat.com> 1 mountcount <cuimoman@outlook.com> 1 zpeng <zpeng@redhat.com> Additional Resources -------------------- - Mailing list: <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/kubevirt-dev> - Slack: <https://kubernetes.slack.com/messages/virtualization> - An easy to use demo: <https://github.com/kubevirt/demo> - [How to contribute][contributing] - [License][license] [contributing]: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md [license]: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/blob/main/LICENSE ---
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