v1.24.0 Release - 05/11/2021

Linux
curl -Lo skaffold https://storage.googleapis.com/skaffold/releases/v1.24.0/skaffold-linux-amd64 && chmod +x skaffold && sudo mv skaffold /usr/local/bin

macOS
curl -Lo skaffold https://storage.googleapis.com/skaffold/releases/v1.24.0/skaffold-darwin-amd64 && chmod +x skaffold && sudo mv skaffold /usr/local/bin

Windows
https://storage.googleapis.com/skaffold/releases/v1.24.0/skaffold-windows-amd64.exe

Docker image
gcr.io/k8s-skaffold/skaffold:v1.24.0

Note: This release comes with a new config version, v2beta16. 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 avoids adding Skaffold-specific labels by default in skaffold render, cleaning up the generated hydrated manifests
• Deprecated a few unused flags - --add-skaffold-labels and --render-only
• Resource status checking is now configurable through the skaffold.yaml

New Features:

• Support templated release names in helm render #5751
• Add StatusCheck field to skaffold.yaml (#4904) #5706
• bring back error coloring #5718
• Emit TaskEvent protos for Test phase #5786
• Default digest source to 'remote' in render #5578
• Don't add skaffold labels by default in render, and deprecate the --add-skaffold-labels flag #5653
• Emit deploy subtask events for API V2 #5783
• Allow specifying whether to make file paths absolute when parsing configs. #5805
• add emission of TaskEvents for Test phase #5814
• Add emission of TestSubtaskEvents #5816

Fixes:

• Protect errors.allErrors with mutex #5753
• Fix tarring of build context for artifacts with source dependencies #5750
• skaffold diagnose to not initialize runconfig for yaml only flag #5762
• Ensure working JVM before enabling Jib actions to avoid hangs #5725
• Fix setting helm --setFiles for Windows #5648
• Resolve all filepaths to absolute in 'skaffold diagnose' #5791
• Default to empty secret path for Kaniko to use Workload Identity credentials #5730
• Use default deployer in 'skaffold apply' #5776

Updates and Refactors:

• [V3] (Part 1) Refactor schema "latest" to "latest/v1" #5728
• Bump several build dependencies #5747
• Consolidate tag stripping logic from Kubernetes logger #5740
• [V3] (Part 2) Add new schema to latest/v2 #5729
• [Refactor] Move kubernetes log code to pkg/skaffold/kubernetes/logger #5761
• update otel libs from v0.13.0 -> v0.20.0 #5757
• move profile verification higher up the stack #5779
• [V3] (part 1) Change runner/v3 to runner/v2. Update v3 flag to v2 #5780
• [v3] (part 2) Move the v1 runner components to pkg/skaffold/runner/v1. #5781
• [Code style] Fix snake case import package "latest_v1" to "latestV1" #5799
• Embed Logger inside Deployer #5809

Docs, Test, and Release Updates:

• Update hack/new_version.sh script and generate v2beta16 #5748
• Use GCR registry mirror in Travis for Linux-based platforms #5735
• Update api.md #5764
• fix SecurityContext typo #5769
• disable housekeeping messages for render #5770
• Update _index.md #5752
• Update examples/typescript w/ recommended ENV=production info #5777
• [v3] Schema Version upgrading for v1 and v2. #5796

Designs:

• Add ko builder design proposal draft #5611

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

• Aaron Prindle
• Brian de Alwis
• Gaurav
• Halvard Skogsrud
• Joe Bowbeer
• Maggie Neterval
• Marlon Gamez
• Nick Kubala
• Tejal Desai
• Vladimir Ivanov
• Yuwen Ma
• aleksandrOranskiy