Pre-release Note

This is the latest Bottlerocket release, and is currently being made available.
You may notice nodes upgrading to this new version, though it may not yet be available globally until the "pre-release" flag is removed.

v1.56.0 (2026-02-24)

Release Highlights

• Add support to render settings.container-registry into containerd supported hosts.toml (bottlerocket-core-kit#819, #4767)
• Expand image verifier support with a new helper to render trust policies for all image verifier plugins (bottlerocket-core-kit#820, #4766)
• Suppress IPv6 on interfaces with no IPv6 intent in net.toml (bottlerocket-core-kit#826)

OS Changes

• Update bottlerocket-kernel-kit from 4.8.2 to 5.0.1 CHANGELOG (commits) (#4764, #4775)
• Update bottlerocket-core-kit from 13.0.0 to 13.1.0 CHANGELOG (commits) (#4770)

Build Changes

• Update Rust dependencies (#4763)
• Update bottlerocket-settings-models to v0.21.0 (#4773)