v1.17.0 Release 2023-10-18

The executor images in this release are:

gcr.io/kaniko-project/executor:v1.17.0
gcr.io/kaniko-project/executor:latest

The debug images are available at:

gcr.io/kaniko-project/executor:debug
gcr.io/kaniko-project/executor:v1.17.0-debug

The slim executor images which don't contain any authentication binaries are available at:

gcr.io/kaniko-project/executor:slim
gcr.io/kaniko-project/executor:v1.17.0-slim

Docs, Test, and CI/CD Updates:

• docs: fix readme sample typo #2792
• docs: Update designdoc.md with correct link to skaffold repository #2775
• ci: add automated way of cutting releases w/ generation of CHANGELOG.md Makefile changes #2786
• ci: remove log line from listpullreqs.go and additional release.sh fixes #2790
• ci: resolve issue with integration tests where lack of disk space caused k3s issues #2804
• test: add test cases and docString for regex in COPY command #2773

Updates and Refactors:

• chore(deps): bump github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/config from 1.18.42 to 1.18.44 #2777
• chore(deps): bump github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/feature/s3/manager from 1.11.83 to 1.11.86 #2757
• chore(deps): bump github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/feature/s3/manager from 1.11.86 to 1.11.87 #2770
• chore(deps): bump github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/feature/s3/manager from 1.11.87 to 1.11.91 #2805
• chore(deps): bump github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/s3 from 1.39.0 to 1.40.0 #2771
• chore(deps): bump github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/s3 from 1.40.0 to 1.40.1 #2780
• chore(deps): bump github.com/containerd/containerd from 1.7.6 to 1.7.7 #2797
• chore(deps): bump github.com/google/go-cmp from 0.5.9 to 0.6.0 #2796
• chore(deps): bump github.com/otiai10/copy from 1.12.0 to 1.14.0 #2772
• chore(deps): bump github.com/spf13/afero from 1.9.5 to 1.10.0 #2758
• chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/net from 0.16.0 to 0.17.0 #2791
• chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/oauth2 from 0.12.0 to 0.13.0 #2781
• chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/sync from 0.3.0 to 0.4.0 #2798
• chore(deps): bump google.golang.org/api from 0.141.0 to 0.142.0 #2756
• chore(deps): bump google.golang.org/api from 0.142.0 to 0.143.0 #2769
• chore(deps): bump google.golang.org/api from 0.143.0 to 0.145.0 #2778
• refactor: Remove fallbackToUID bool option from Kaniko code #2767

Huge thank you for this release towards our contributors:

• Aaron Prindle
• dependabot[bot]
• JeromeJu
• Vishal Khot
• vivekkoya
• zhangzhiqiangcs