This release follows v1.3.0 and consists of 80 changes, contributed by 17 people, leading to 144 files changed, 24248 insertions(+), 479 deletions(-).

The source code and selected binaries are available for download at: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/releases/tag/v1.3.1.

The primary release artifact of KubeVirt is the git tree. The release tag is
signed and can be verified using `git tag -v v1.3.1`.

Pre-built containers are published on Quay and can be viewed at: <https://quay.io/kubevirt/>.

Notable changes
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- [PR #12646][kubevirt-bot] BugFix: "Cannot allocate memory" warnings for containerdisk VMs
- [PR #12555][kubevirt-bot] VM supports kubevirt.io/immediate-data-volume-creation: "false" which delays creating DataVolumeTemplates until VM is started
- [PR #12549][kubevirt-bot] Updated common-instancetypes bundles to v1.1.0
- [PR #12495][fossedihelm] Fix: eviction requests to completed virt-launcher pods cannot trigger a live migration
- [PR #12409][kubevirt-bot] Use optional interface at passt binding sidecar
- [PR #12319][Sreeja1725] Add v1.3.0 perf and scale benchmarks data
- [PR #12330][kubevirt-bot] Fix wrong KubeVirtVMIExcessiveMigrations alert calculation in an upgrade scenario.
- [PR #12328][acardace] enable only for VMs with memory >= 1Gi
- [PR #12272][Sreeja1725] Add unit tests to check for API backward compatibility

Contributors
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17 people contributed to this release:

6	Alice Frosi <afrosi@redhat.com>
5	Alvaro Romero <alromero@redhat.com>
5	Lee Yarwood <lyarwood@redhat.com>
4	Antonio Cardace <acardace@redhat.com>
4	Assaf Admi <aadmi@redhat.com>
4	Michael Henriksen <mhenriks@redhat.com>
3	Alex Kalenyuk <akalenyu@redhat.com>
3	Brian Carey <bcarey@redhat.com>
3	Luboslav Pivarc <lpivarc@redhat.com>
3	fossedihelm <ffossemo@redhat.com>
3	svarnam <svarnam@nvidia.com>
1	Enrique Llorente <ellorent@redhat.com>
1	Felix Matouschek <fmatouschek@redhat.com>
1	Igor Bezukh <ibezukh@redhat.com>
1	Oren Cohen <ocohen@redhat.com>

Additional Resources
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- 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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