v1.30.0 Release - 08/11/2021

Linux
curl -Lo skaffold https://storage.googleapis.com/skaffold/releases/v1.30.0/skaffold-linux-amd64 && chmod +x skaffold && sudo mv skaffold /usr/local/bin

macOS
curl -Lo skaffold https://storage.googleapis.com/skaffold/releases/v1.30.0/skaffold-darwin-amd64 && chmod +x skaffold && sudo mv skaffold /usr/local/bin

Windows
https://storage.googleapis.com/skaffold/releases/v1.30.0/skaffold-windows-amd64.exe

Docker image
gcr.io/k8s-skaffold/skaffold:v1.30.0

Note: This release comes with a new config version, v2beta21. To upgrade your skaffold.yaml, use skaffold fix. If you choose not to upgrade, skaffold will auto-upgrade as best as it can.

Highlights:

• Support deploy hooks for Skaffold lifecycle hooks. Read more here #6376
• Add support for Kaniko flag --image-fs-extract-retry #6380
• Support passing additional CLI flags to docker build #6343

Fixes:

• remove single kubeContext validation #6394
• Set exit code 127 for Skaffold CLI validation errors #6401
• Fix status check showing unhealthy pods from previous dev iteration #6370
• Ignore leading 'v' when parsing helm versions #6362
• fix: make client.Client kubernetesContext aware #6368
• ResourceForwarder should wait for its forwards #6332
• hooks: prepend pod/container name to container hooks log lines #6337
• Fix issue with displaying survey prompts when we shouldn't #6354
• fix: remote manifest image substitution #6342
• fix build --push=false for missing kubeconfig #6366
• Ensure Cleanup is called if Deploy creates resources but fails #6345

Updates and Refactors:

• Add functionality to support patterns in --user flag #6402
• Improvements to upcoming Event Api v2 #6399, #6407, #6395
• Change parsing templated image warning to debug info #6398

Docs, Test, and Release Updates:

• hooks: update deploy docs #6386
• [design proposal] Add config option 'deploy.config.transformableAllowList' #6236
• GitLab (with capital 'L') #6384
• Validate generated schemas in generator script #6385
• fix: schema gen for ContainerHook #6372
• Add trace-level port-allocation logs #6293
• Bump cloud.google.com/go/storage from 1.10.0 to 1.16.0 #6324
• Mark GCP Buildpacks builder as trusted in the examples #6284

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

• Ahmet Alp Balkan
• Brian de Alwis
• David Zumbrunnen
• Gaurav
• Ke Zhu
• Marlon Gamez
• Mike Verbanic
• Nick Kubala
• Pradeep Kumar
• Tejal Desai
• Yanshu
• dependabot[bot]