v1.5.0 Release 2021-01-25

This releases publishes multi-arch image kaniko images for following platforms

1. linux/amd64
2. linux/arm64
3. linux/ppc64le

If you want to add other platforms, please talk to @tejal29.

The executor images in this release are:

gcr.io/kaniko-project/executor:v1.5.0 
gcr.io/kaniko-project/executor:latest

The debug images are available at:

gcr.io/kaniko-project/executor:debug
gcr.io/kaniko-project/executor:v1.5.0-debug and

In this release, we have 2 slim executor images which don't contain any authentication binaries.

1. gcr.io/kaniko-project/executor:slim &
2. gcr.io/kaniko-project/executor:v1.5.0-debug

Highlights:

• Multi-arch images for linux/amd64, linux/arm64 and linux/ppc64le
• Support caching for copy layers via flag --cache-copy-layers
• Analyze your own kaniko builds using Slow-Jam

Help make us kaniko faster by profiling your kaniko run

New features:

• Mutli-arch support #1531, #1474
• Add support to fetch a github pull request #1543
• Add --image-name-tag-with-digest flag #1541
• add caching copy layers back #1518
• Profiling for Snapshotting errors. #1530
• feat(warmer): Warmer now supports all registry-related flags #1499
• feat: Add https tar.gz remote source for context #1519
• Add option customPlatform #1500
• feat: support multiple registry mirrors with fallback #1498
• Add s390x kaniko build to multi-arch list #1475

Bug Fixes

• reject tarball writes with no destinations #1534
• Fix travis-ci link #1535
• fix: extract file as same user for warmer docker image #1538
• fix: update busybox version to fix CVE-2018-1000500 #1532
• Fix typo in error message #1494
• Fix COPY with --chown command #1477
• Remove unused code #1495
• Fixes #1469 : Remove file that matches with the directory path #1478
• fix: CheckPushPermissions not being called when using --no-push and --cache-repo #1471

Refactors

• Switch to runtime detection via bpfd/proc #1502
• Update ggcr to pick up estargz and caching option #1527

Documentation

• Document flags for tarball build only #1503
• doc: clarify the format of --registry-mirror #1504
• add section to run lints #1480
• Add docs for GKE workload identity. #1476

Huge thank you for this release towards our contributors:

• Alec Rajeev
• Fabrice
• Josh Chorlton
• Lars
• Lars Toenning
• Matt Moore
• Or Geva
• Severin Strobl
• Shashank
• Sladyn
• Tejal Desai
• Theofilos Papapanagiotou
• Vincent Behar
• Yulia Gaponenko
• ankitm123
• bahetiamit
• ejose19
• mickkael
• zhouhaibing089