v1.31.0 Release - 09/01/2021

Linux
curl -Lo skaffold https://storage.googleapis.com/skaffold/releases/v1.31.0/skaffold-linux-amd64 && chmod +x skaffold && sudo mv skaffold /usr/local/bin

macOS
curl -Lo skaffold https://storage.googleapis.com/skaffold/releases/v1.31.0/skaffold-darwin-amd64 && chmod +x skaffold && sudo mv skaffold /usr/local/bin

Windows
https://storage.googleapis.com/skaffold/releases/v1.31.0/skaffold-windows-amd64.exe

Docker image
gcr.io/k8s-skaffold/skaffold:v1.31.0

Note: This release comes with a new config version, v2beta22. To upgrade your skaffold.yaml, use skaffold fix. If you choose not to upgrade, skaffold will auto-upgrade as best as it can.

Highlights:

• hooks: implement for helm and kustomize deployers #6454
• Add --load-images flag to deploy #6428
• Add skip_test env for custom build script #6455
• Add core ko builder implementation #6054

Fixes:

• Use ResourceStatusCheckEvent[Updated/Completed] where appropriate #6550
• Fix buildpacks builder output to go through Event API #6530
• fix: helm resource labeller checking wrong kubectl context #6547
• fix: custom.GetDependencies should execute Command in workspace #6321
• Add newlines to SkaffoldLogEvents that come from logrus #6506
• Fix skaffold inspect tests flags and help message #6493
• fix: do not sync remote configs for specific commands #6453
• Fix integration/'s randomPort() to return an unallocated port #6474
• fix: TestDebug/buildpacks by pinning go version #6463

Updates and Refactors:

• Send success for pods for a deployment when its rolled out successfully #6534
• Add option to wait for connection to /v2/events on gRPC/HTTP server #6545
• Plumb context.Context down into functions in pkg/skaffold/sync #6535
• Add Dir config field to ko builder #6496
• Skip tests if no tests defined in pipelines #6527
• Use default values rather than return error in logrus hook #6523
• Send error logs through the event API with the correct task/subtask #6516
• Abstract k8s container representation from debug transformers #6335
• Wrap tester in SkaffoldRunner to improve SkaffoldLogEvent labelling #6469
• Plumb context.Context down into functions that use util/cmd functions #6468
• log: use context.TODO for not yet plumbed ctx #6462
• Implement Target support for ko builder #6447
• Various small UX improvements #6426
• Refine ko builder behavior for main packages #6437

Docs, Test, and Release Updates:

• docs: Add skaffold.yaml to navbar #6553
• docs: fix duplicate subpage listing #6540
• [docs fixit] update skaffold fix text to have full description of command #6536
• docs: update test phase references #6539
• docs: update dev documentation for test phase; #6538
• docs: rename section "Working with Skaffold" to "Guides" #6537
• Add skaffold apply to CLI docs header #6509
• docs: Add "Open in Cloud Shell" link to examples #6514
• Document multi-stage dockerfile limitations of filesync #6526
• docs: explain minikube detection #6512
• docs: better wording explaining "skaffold init" #6502
• docs: dev.md improvements #6503
• Updated Cloud Code links to link to debug page #6505
• document make quicktest #6458
• Change wording describing how profiles work #6445
• remove note on vendor/ usage from DEVELOPMENT.md #6422

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

• Aaron Prindle
• Ahmet Alp Balkan
• Brian de Alwis
• Chanseok Oh
• David Zumbrunnen
• Gaurav
• Glenn Pratt
• Halvard Skogsrud
• Henry Bell
• Ke Zhu
• Kourtney
• Marlon Gamez
• Mike Verbanic
• Nick Kubala
• Pradeep Kumar
• Tejal Desai
• Yanshu
• kelsk