v1.7.0 Release 2021-10-19

This is Oct's 2021 release.

Highights

In this release, we have kaniko/executor:slim images for linux/s390x and linux/ppc64le platform.
Kaniko Self Serve documentation is up to enableuser to build and push kaniko images themselves here

The executor images in this release are:

gcr.io/kaniko-project/executor:v1.7.0
gcr.io/kaniko-project/executor:latest

The debug images are available at:

gcr.io/kaniko-project/executor:debug
gcr.io/kaniko-project/executor:v1.7.0-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:v1.7.0-slim

git: accept explicit commit hash for git context #1765
Remove tarball.WithCompressedCaching flag to resolve OOM Killed error #1722
disable github action workflow on push to master #1770
Add s390x support to docker images [copy] #1769
Fix typo #1719
Fix composite cache key for multi-stage copy command #1735
chore: add workflows for pr tests #1766
Make /bin/sh available to debug image #1748
Fix executor Dockerfile, which wasn't building #1741
Support force-building metadata layers into snapshot #1731
Add support for CPU variants #1676
refactor: adjust bpfd container runtime detection #1686
Fix snapshotter ignore list; do not attempt to delete whiteouts of ignored paths #1652
Add instructions for using JFrog Artifactory #1715
add SECURITY.md #1710
Support mirror registries with path component #1707
Retry extracting filesystem from image #1685
Bugfix/trailing path separator #1683
docs: add missing cache-copy-layers arg in README #1672
save snaphots to tmp dir #1662
Revert "save snaphots to tmp dir" #1670
Try to warm all images and warn about errors #1653
Exit Code Propagation #1655
Fix changelog headings #1643

Huge thank you for this release towards our contributors: