v1.28.0 Release - 07/14/2021

Note: This release comes with a new config version, v2beta19. 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 healthchecks can now be run per deployer using the --iterative-status-check=true flag (fixes 5774). See docs here.
• If you use helm with skaffold you might see a new survey asking for feedback on an upcoming redesign of that integration.
• Defined Skaffold's security vulnerability reporting procedure here.

New Features:

• Allow iterative status checks #6115

Fixes:

• Make completion work again #6138
• Propagate kaniko environment to GCB #6181
• Fix couldn't start notify trigger in multi-config projects #6114
• Fetch namespaces at time of sync #6135
• Improve handling of missing template values #6136
• Fix survey active logic #6194
• Don't update survey prompt if survey prompt is not shown to stdout #6192
• change ptypes call to timestamppb to fix linters #6164

Updates and Refactors:

• Update Skaffold dependencies #6155
• Simplify --timestamps output #6146
• Update Jib build plugin versions after 3.1.2 release #6168
• Update feature maturities #6202
• Add logic to show user survey in DisplaySurveyPrompt flow. #6196
• refactor: Read globalConfig instead of kubecontext config for survey config #6191
• Add information about workspace and dockerfile to artifact metadata #6111
• Added template expansion for helm chart version (#5709) #6157
• add set command for survey ids #6197
• Bump schema version to v2beta19 #6116

Docs, Test, and Release Updates:

• Create SECURITY.md #6140
• Update Jib docs with some advanced usage examples #6169
• Disable k3d integration tests #6171
• Check release workflow #6188
• design proposal to show user survey other than Hats #6186
• Doc tweaks #6176
• working cloud profiler export for skaffold #6066
• Set specific permissions for workflows #6139
• Add survey config and framework to show feature surveys to skaffold users. #6185

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

• Aaron Prindle
• Brian de Alwis
• Chanseok Oh
• Gaurav
• Hidenori Sugiyama
• Marlon Gamez
• Nick Kubala
• Pablo Caderno
• Tejal Desai
• Yuwen Ma