v1.16.0 Release - 10/27/2020

Linux
curl -Lo skaffold https://storage.googleapis.com/skaffold/releases/v1.16.0/skaffold-linux-amd64 && chmod +x skaffold && sudo mv skaffold /usr/local/bin

macOS
curl -Lo skaffold https://storage.googleapis.com/skaffold/releases/v1.16.0/skaffold-darwin-amd64 && chmod +x skaffold && sudo mv skaffold /usr/local/bin

Windows
https://storage.googleapis.com/skaffold/releases/v1.16.0/skaffold-windows-amd64.exe

Docker image
gcr.io/k8s-skaffold/skaffold:v1.16.0

Note: This release comes with a new config version, v2beta9. To upgrade your skaffold.yaml, use skaffold fix. If you choose not to upgrade, skaffold will auto-upgrade as best as it can.

Highlights:

• Artifact Modules Support: Skaffold allow users to specify artifact dependencies for dockerfile artifacts.

  To use, look at microservice example. Docs coming soon

• Skaffold init support for polyglot-maven projects #4871

• Skaffold debug helper images now moved to gcr.io/k8s-skaffold/skaffold-debug-support #4961

New Features:

• Implement env variable expansion for kaniko builds #4557
• Make it possible to disable auto-sync for buildpacks builder #4923
• Mute status check logs #4907
• Support minikube 1.13.0 and later with --vm-driver=none #4887
• Support kaniko v1.0.0 flags #4900
• Prune prev images on build/run/{dev iteration start} #4792
• [alpha] Support for deploying and hydrating manifests using kpt
• Introduce fromImage field in jib builder interface. #4873

Fixes:

• Fix debug for Helm on Windows #4872
• validate tag policy constrain #4890
• Don't single-quote SKAFFOLD_GO_GCFLAGS #4864
• Fix return of error adding artifacts to cache when images are built remotely #4850
• Only load images into k3d and kind when images are local #4869

Updates:

• Name debug helper containers more explicitly #4946
• Add an init phase to detect skaffold errors even before skaffold runner is created. #4926
• Update build_deps versions to latest #4910
• [errors] Add distinct error codes for docker not running #4914
• Update mute-logs to not print output upon failure of build/deploy step #4833

Docs Updates:

• Fix up doc: debug works for buildpacks #4948

Huge thanks goes out to all of our contributors for this release:

• Andrey Shlykov
• Appu
• Brian de Alwis
• Daniel Sel
• Dustin Deus
• Gaurav
• Marlon Gamez
• Ricardo La Rosa
• Tejal Desai
• fang duan
• ilya-zuyev