v1.18.0 Release - 01/21/2021

Linux
curl -Lo skaffold https://storage.googleapis.com/skaffold/releases/v1.18.0/skaffold-linux-amd64 && chmod +x skaffold && sudo mv skaffold /usr/local/bin

macOS
curl -Lo skaffold https://storage.googleapis.com/skaffold/releases/v1.18.0/skaffold-darwin-amd64 && chmod +x skaffold && sudo mv skaffold /usr/local/bin

Windows
https://storage.googleapis.com/skaffold/releases/v1.18.0/skaffold-windows-amd64.exe

Docker image
gcr.io/k8s-skaffold/skaffold:v1.18.0

Note: This release comes with a new config version, v2beta11. To upgrade your skaffold.yaml, use skaffold fix. If you choose not to upgrade, skaffold will auto-upgrade as best as it can.

Highlights:

• Skaffold now supports providing multiple configuration files in a single session. This enables logical grouping of build artifacts and deployment configurations into modules, which can be individually selected for iteration during a dev session while still performing one time deployment of other modules alongside. For more information and documentation, see our design document.
• Skaffold now provides a standalone command skaffold test for running supported test implementations outside of a dev session.

New Features:

• Config dependencies #5217
• Create nsis installer script #5233
• Add transparent init #5186
• Add go tag filepath that converts marked fields to absolute paths #5205
• Allow multiple configs in single skaffold.yaml #5199
• Add flag that prints timestamps in skaffold logs. #5181
• Enable multi config support in Skaffold #5160
• Adding new test command #5118
• add transparent init function #5155
• Add flag to save events to a file #5125

Fixes:

• group all configs in each example project prior to validation test. #5274
• Fix race condition when running tests for pkg/skaffold/instrumentation #5267
• fix termination event not being sent #5258
• Fix statik directory structure #5250
• Fix test timeout failures in TestDebug/helm #5252
• Configure maven connection pool TTL to avoid connection resets from stale connections #5251
• Avoid possible hang in util.RunCmdOut by using byte buffers instead of pipes #5220
• Enable MTU path discovery on Linux and setup registry-mirrors for kind #5237
• Ensure init generates /-delimted paths #5177
• Modify Travis directive restricting builds to master #5219
• Set meter.Command before an error could occur with createNewRunner #5168
• Fix port forward #5225
• yaml encoders should be flushed. #5196
• fix: lookup image id with tag rather than name during tryImport #5165
• Profile with multiple activations should be processed only once. #5182
• Fail Helm deployments early with missing templated values #5158
• Fix skaffold debug for helm charts with skaffold config file other than default skaffold.yaml #5138

Updates and Refactors:

• Configure Maven Wagon HTTP to retry on errors to successful connections #5268
• Use gcr.io/google-appengine/openjdk:8 to avoid toomanyrequests #5256
• change default status check timeout to 10 minutes #5247
• Include commands and directory in run output #5254
• Embed metrics credentials and upload metrics if they are present #5157
• write metrics to file #5135
• Capture Errors and dev iterations metrics #5105
• Update jib to 2.7.1 #5223
• Create a custom unmarshler for Volumes and VolumeMounts to fix #4175 #5039
• Render uses Helm templated values-file #5170
• enable detect-minikube by default. #5154
• Unhide XXenableManifestGeneration for skaffold init, remove unnecessary print line #5152
• issue #5076 Skaffold support for docker build '--squash' flag #5078
• remove wsl detection logic #5124
• enabling using another container's network stack on build process #5088

Docs, Test, and Release Updates:

• Add more unit tests for creating metrics, fix bug related to unmarshalling flags #5169
• Release automation changes #5203
• some fixes on documents #5211
• [doc] fix profile activation sample #5222
• Update boilerplate.py year check. #5212
• CNCF Buildpacks => Cloud Native Buildpacks #5202
• [KPT CODELAB] (3/3) kpt deployment & pruning #5028
• update AlecAivazis/survey to v2 #5129

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

• Andrey Shlykov
• Appu
• Brian de Alwis
• Chanseok Oh
• Chulki Lee
• Gaurav
• Gunadhya
• Isaac Duarte
• Jakob Schmutz
• Jeff Wu
• Jeremy Lewi
• Mario Fernández
• Marlon Gamez
• Nick Kubala
• Priya Modali
• Saeid Bostandoust
• Tejal Desai
• Yuwen Ma
• Zbigniew Mandziejewicz
• mblottiere
• priyawadhwa
• rpunia7