This release follows v1.3.1 and consists of 1056 changes, contributed by 65 people, leading to 885 files changed, 36791 insertions(+), 30824 deletions(-). The source code and selected binaries are available for download at: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/releases/tag/v1.4.0-alpha.0. The primary release artifact of KubeVirt is the git tree. The release tag is signed and can be verified using `git tag -v v1.4.0-alpha.0`. Pre-built containers are published on Quay and can be viewed at: <https://quay.io/kubevirt/>. Notable changes --------------- - [PR #12786][0xFelix] virtctl: Created VMs can infer an instancetype or preference from PVC, Registry and Snapshot sources now. - [PR #12764][ShellyKa13] bugfix: vmrestore create DVs before creation/update of restored VM - [PR #10562][dhiller] Continue changes to Ginkgo V2 Serial runs - [PR #12516][vamsikrishna-siddu] enable initial e2e tests for s390x. - [PR #12739][lyarwood] A new `PreferredEfi` field has been added to preferences to express the preferred `EFI` configuration for a given `VirtualMachine`. - [PR #12737][machadovilaca] Add evictable label to kubevirt_vmi_info - [PR #12232][lyarwood] The `NUMA` feature gate is now deprecated with the feature state graduated to `GA` and thus enabled by default - [PR #12582][mhenriks] vmsnapshot: when checking if a VM is running, ignore runStrategy - [PR #12625][machadovilaca] Add kubevirt_vm_resource_requests for CPU resource - [PR #12605][mhenriks] vmexport: enable status subresource for VirtualMachineExport - [PR #12616][orenc1] replace `Update()` with `Patch()` for `test VirtualMachineInstancesPerNode` - [PR #12557][codingben] Optionally create data source using virtctl image upload. - [PR #12547][mhenriks] virt-api: skip clone auth check when DataVolume already exists - [PR #12613][orelmisan] Bridge binding: Static routes to subnets containing the pod's NIC IP address are passed to the VM. - [PR #12594][tiraboschi] [tests] introduce a decorator for Periodic_only tests - [PR #12593][machadovilaca] Add kubevirt_vm_resource_requests metric for memory resource - [PR #12617][Acedus] grpc from go.mod is now correctly shipped in release images - [PR #12638][akalenyu] BugFix: "Cannot allocate memory" warnings for containerdisk VMs - [PR #12395][alicefr] Add new condition for VMIStorageLiveMigratable - [PR #12419][nunnatsa] Add timeout to validation webhooks - [PR #12592][awels] Fixed issue emitting created secret events when not actually creating secrets during VMExport setup - [PR #12584][brianmcarey] Build KubeVirt with go v1.22.6 - [PR #12575][Barakmor1] Advise users to use RunStrategy in virt-api messages - [PR #12466][orenc1] tests/vm_tests.go: replace Update() with Patch() - [PR #12548][kubevirt-bot] Updated common-instancetypes bundles to v1.1.0 - [PR #12476][jschintag] Enable live-migration and node labels on s390x - [PR #12194][mhenriks] VM supports kubevirt.io/immediate-data-volume-creation: "false" which delays creating DataVolumeTemplates until VM is started - [PR #11802][matthewei] Adding newMacAddresses validatewebhook for VMCloneAPI - [PR #11754][nickolaev] Adding support for the `igb` network interface model - [PR #12254][jkinred] * Reduced the severity of log messages when a `VolumeSnapshotClass` is not found. When snapshots are not enabled for a volume, the reason will still be displayed in the `status.volumeSnapshotStatuses` field of a `VirtualMachine` resource. - [PR #12460][mhenriks] virt-api: unencode authorization extra headers - [PR #12451][fossedihelm] Fix: eviction requests to completed virt-launcher pods cannot trigger a live migration - [PR #11881][lyarwood] The `expand-spec` subresource API now applies defaults to the returned `VirtualMachine` to ensure the `VirtualMachineInstanceSpec` within is closer to the eventual version used when starting the original `VirtualMachine`. - [PR #12452][andreabolognani] This version of KubeVirt includes upgraded virtualization technology based on libvirt 10.5.0 and QEMU 9.0.0. - [PR #12425][fudancoder] fix some comments - [PR #12354][qinqon] Use optional interface at passt binding sidecar - [PR #12268][fossedihelm] Drop `ForceRestart` and `ForceStop` methods from client-go - [PR #12235][orelmisan] Network binding plugins: Enable the ability to specify compute memory overhead - [PR #12209][orenc1] Fix wrong KubeVirtVMIExcessiveMigrations alert calculation in an upgrade scenario. - [PR #12261][fossedihelm] Fix: persistent tpm can be used with vmis containing dots in their name - [PR #12247][Sreeja1725] Add perf-scale benchmarks for release v1.3 - [PR #12181][akalenyu] BugFix: Grant namespace admin RBAC to passthrough a client USB to a VMI - [PR #12096][machadovilaca] Fix missing performance metrics for VMI resources - [PR #11856][Sreeja1725] Add unit tests to check for API backward compatibility - [PR #12116][Sreeja1725] Add CPU/Memory utilization of components metrics to kubevirt benchmarks - [PR #12195][awels] Virt export route has an edge termination of redirect - [PR #12212][acardace] enable only for VMs with memory >= 1Gi - [PR #12053][vladikr] Only a single vgpu display option with ramfb will be configured per VMI. - [PR #12193][acardace] fix RerunOnFailure stuck in Provisioning - [PR #12186][kubevirt-bot] Updated common-instancetypes bundles to v1.0.1 - [PR #12180][0xFelix] VMs with a single socket and NetworkInterfaceMultiqueue enabled require a restart to hotplug additional CPU sockets. - [PR #11927][lyarwood] All `preferredCPUTopology` constants prefixed with `Prefer` have been deprecated and will be removed in a future version of the `instancetype.kubevirt.io` API. - [PR #12169][lyarwood] `PreferredDiskDedicatedIoThread` is now only applied to `virtio` disk devices - [PR #12125][ksimon1] chore: bump virtio-win image version to 0.1.248 - [PR #12128][acardace] Memory Hotplug fixes and stabilization - [PR #11911][alromeros] Bugfix: Implement retry mechanism in export server and vmexport - [PR #11982][RamLavi] Introduce validatingAdmissionPolicy to restrict node patches on virt-handler - [PR #12119][acardace] Fix VMPools when `LiveUpdate` as `vmRolloutStrategy` is used. Contributors ------------ 65 people contributed to this release: 114 fossedihelm <ffossemo@redhat.com> 73 Luboslav Pivarc <lpivarc@redhat.com> 55 Orel Misan <omisan@redhat.com> 36 Nahshon Unna-Tsameret <nunnatsa@redhat.com> 35 Alvaro Romero <alromero@redhat.com> 33 Alice Frosi <afrosi@redhat.com> 32 Felix Matouschek <fmatouschek@redhat.com> 31 Alex Kalenyuk <akalenyu@redhat.com> 31 Antonio Cardace <acardace@redhat.com> 26 Edward Haas <edwardh@redhat.com> 22 Lee Yarwood <lyarwood@redhat.com> 22 bmordeha <bmordeha@redhat.com> 20 Ram Lavi <ralavi@redhat.com> 15 Michael Henriksen <mhenriks@redhat.com> 11 Jan Schintag <jan.schintag@de.ibm.com> 10 Or Mergi <ormergi@redhat.com> 9 Shelly Kagan <skagan@redhat.com> 7 Arnon Gilboa <agilboa@redhat.com> 7 Brian Carey <bcarey@redhat.com> 7 Dan Kenigsberg <danken@redhat.com> 6 Assaf Admi <aadmi@redhat.com> 6 Ben Oukhanov <boukhanov@redhat.com> 6 Vamsi Krishna Siddu <vamsikrishna.siddu@ibm.com> 6 dsionov <dsionov@redhat.com> 5 Adi Aloni <adialoni101@gmail.com> 5 Itamar Holder <iholder@redhat.com> 4 Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com> 4 Daniel Hiller <dhiller@redhat.com> 4 Jonathan Kinred <jkinred@linuxfoundation.org> 4 Or Shoval <oshoval@redhat.com> 4 Oren Cohen <ocohen@redhat.com> 4 aliamerj <aliamer19ali@gmail.com> 4 machadovilaca <machadovilaca@gmail.com> 4 svarnam <svarnam@nvidia.com> 3 Edu Gómez Escandell <egomez@redhat.com> 3 Jed Lejosne <jed@redhat.com> 3 João Vilaça <machadovilaca@gmail.com> 3 Simone Tiraboschi <stirabos@redhat.com> 3 Vladik Romanovsky <vromanso@redhat.com> 2 Alexander Wels <awels@redhat.com> 2 Andrej Krejcir <akrejcir@redhat.com> 2 Vasiliy Ulyanov <vulyanov@suse.de> 2 anish bista <anishbista053@gmail.com> 2 dependabot[bot] <49699333+dependabot[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> 2 rkishner <rkishner@redhat.com> 2 shenwei <shenwei@cmss.chinamobile.com> 1 Adam Litke <alitke@redhat.com> 1 Andrew Burden <aburden@redhat.com> 1 Aviv Guiser <avivguiser@gmail.com> 1 David Vossel <dvossel@redhat.com> 1 Enrique Llorente <ellorent@redhat.com> 1 Igor Bezukh <ibezukh@redhat.com> 1 Karel Simon <ksimon@redhat.com> 1 Mike Russell <michael.russell@suse.com> 1 Mikel Olasagasti Uranga <mikel@olasagasti.info> 1 Nikolay Nikolaev <nikolay.nikolaev@isovalent.com> 1 Shridhar2104 <155125695+Shridhar2104@users.noreply.github.com> 1 Wei Zhang <kweizh@gmail.com> 1 Zhiwei Huang <ai.william@outlook.com> 1 avlitman <alitman@redhat.com> 1 fudancoder <fudancoder@icloud.com> 1 guoguangwu <guoguangwug@gmail.com> 1 muxuelan <muxuelan_yewu@cmss.chinamobile.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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