v1.27.0 Release - 06/29/2021

Note: This release comes with a new config version, v2beta18. 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 CLI respects --kube-context & --kubeconfig command line flags and uses it instead of active kubernetes context.

New Features:

• Configure nodes for running cluster builds (e.g. kaniko) by using the node selector config option cluster.nodeSelector. #6083
• Better defaults for GCB project when using Artifact Registry images #6093
• Skaffold init now supports Jib and Buildpacks artifacts by default #6063
• Structured tests configuration supports custom parameters #6055

Fixes:

• log metrics upload failure and write to file instead. #6108
• Skaffold Render now validates manifests #6043
• Port-forwarding improvements for multi-config projects #6090
• Fix helm deploy error when configuring helm arg list and skaffold overrides#6080
• Use non alpine image and protoc 3.17.3 in proto generation #6073
• Fix setting kubeContext in skaffold #6024
• Use StdEncoding for git hash directory name #6071
• fix status-check to return success only on exact success criteria match #6010
• fix: gcb api throttling retry backoff not implemented correctly #6023
• Ensure events are serialized #6064

Updates and Refactors:

• add source file and module to config parsing error description #6087
• Refactor to move podSelector, Syncer, StatusCheck, Debugger, Port-forwarder under Deployer #6076,
  #6053, #6026,
  #6021,
  #6044
• fix v3alpha version #6084,
• [v2] Update v2 with new UX #6086
• Update to github.com/gogo/protobuf v1.3.2 (GO-2021-0053) #6022

Docs, Test, and Release Updates:

• Document Helm image reference strategies #6017
• Optimize k8s-skaffold/skaffold image #6106
• Fix typo in executed file name #6105
• Escape parentheses in shJoin #6101
• Fix instructions to add actionable error codes. #6094
• Updates to ko builder design proposal to add implementation approach #6046
• fix invalid config version links in DEVELOPMENT.md #6058

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

• Aaron Prindle
• Brian de Alwis
• Chanseok Oh
• Daniel Petró
• Gaurav
• Halvard Skogsrud
• Jack
• Kaan Karakaya
• Marlon Gamez
• Mridula
• Nick Kubala
• Tejal Desai
• Yuwen Ma