Harvester v1.2.2 Release Notes

This release introduces several features, enhancements, and bug fixes that improve system quality and the overall user experience. The documentation is available at https://docs.harvesterhci.io/v1.2.

The Harvester team appreciates your contributions and looks forward to receiving feedback regarding this release.

Downloads

AMD64

Full ISO

💿 https://releases.rancher.com/harvester/v1.2.2/harvester-v1.2.2-amd64.iso
📁 https://releases.rancher.com/harvester/v1.2.2/harvester-v1.2.2-vmlinuz-amd64
📁 https://releases.rancher.com/harvester/v1.2.2/harvester-v1.2.2-initrd-amd64
📁 https://releases.rancher.com/harvester/v1.2.2/harvester-v1.2.2-rootfs-amd64.squashfs
✅ https://releases.rancher.com/harvester/v1.2.2/harvester-v1.2.2-amd64.sha512
📝 https://releases.rancher.com/harvester/v1.2.2/version.yaml

Installation

Harvester can be installed using the ISO image, a bootable USB drive, and PXE boot. For more information, see the Installation section of the documentation.

Upgrade

Harvester only allows upgrades from supported versions. For more information about upgrade paths and procedures, see Upgrading Harvester.

Enhancements

• [backport v1.2] [ENHANCEMENT] Adding dig to Harvester #5813
• [backport v1.2] [ENHANCEMENT] In Harvester Installer pkg/console/install_panels.go show DNS Servers User Input within func addConfirmInstall Panel #5703
• [backport v1.2] [ENHANCEMENT] Make "LiveMigrateIfPossible" the default EvictionStrategy instead of "LiveMigrate" #5560
• [backport v1.2] [ENHANCEMENT] Auto-cleanup container images that are no longer used by the Harvester system services after upgrades #5473
• [backport v1.2] [ENHANCEMENT] Do not expose port 6060 with NDM #5448
• [backport v1.2] [ENHANCEMENT] Should respawn the udev monitor if any errors #5445
• [ENHANCEMENT][v1.2.2] Bump rancher-monitoring and rancher-logging version #5412
• [backport v1.2] [ENHANCEMENT] Prohibit users from resizing volume when vm is stopping #5408
• [ENHANCEMENT] handle the upgrade work with the new harvester CSI driver #5294
• [backport v1.2] [ENHANCEMENT] Allow wiping of partitions during ISO and PXE install #5174
• [backport v1.2] [ENHANCEMENT] Handle the create/upgrade related work for new harvester CSI driver #5167
• [backport v1.2] [Enhancement] Upgrade: enhance live-migration detection in the pre-drain phase #5101
• [backport v1.2] [ENHANCEMENT] Bump Rancher version in Rancher Manager (vCluster) add-on #5017
• [v1.2.2] [ENHANCEMENT] Grafana configmap upgrade in potential Harvester v1.2.2 version #4942
• [backport v1.2] [ENHANCEMENT] Use general image for promote job #4917
• [backport v1.2] [ENHANCEMENT] Use generalJob image in promote jobs #4871
• [ENHANCEMENT] BaseOS related update #4857
• [backport v1.2] [ENHANCEMENT] Bump SLE-for-rancher 5.4 #4856
• [backport v1.2] [ENHANCEMENT] GUI: change from Ntp server to NTP servers in settings #4825
• [backport v1.2] [ENHANCEMENT] Check free disk space percent before upgrade #4801
• [backport v1.2] [ENHANCEMENT] config sftp dynamically #4788
• [backport v1.2] [FEATURE] Generate and upload code coverage report for integration tests #4766
• [ENHANCEMENT] collect containerd.log in support-bundle-kit #4427
• [ENHANCEMENT] Support sshd configuration #4231

Bug Fixes

• [backport v1.2] [BUG] Unable to assign CPU or Memory to a new VM when using up/down arrows. #5817
• [backport v1.2] [BUG] When upgrading 1 node Harvester with PCI passthrough the VM won't come up and kube-vip crashes #5799
• [backport v1.2] [BUG] Unable to create pc-q35 VM with Error NO PCI buses available #5785
• [backport v1.2] [BUG] Some images should not be purged after the upgrade is completed #5754
• [BUG] 3 nodes upgrade from v1.2.1 to v1.2.2-rc1 with Rancher integrated stuck in Upgrading System Service #5712
• [BUG] upgrade stuck in waiting plan restart-rancher-system-agent to complete #5690
• [backport v1.2] [BUG] The Installer fails to install if there are LVM vgs on the install disk #5650
• [backport v1.2] [BUG] Click View Logs option on virtual machine dashboard can't display any log entry #5597
• [backport v1.2] [BUG] Backing Image Data Inconsistency if it's Exported from a Backing Image Backed Volume #5589
• [backport v1.2] [BUG] Using vmimage.status.storageClassName to fill volumeClaimTemplates #5584
• [backport v1.2] [BUG] guaranteed-engine-manager-cpu and guaranteed-replica-manager-cpu settings are no longer supported #5569
• [backport v1.2] [BUG] The VM Web VNC console connection is disconnected after around 10 minutes open usage #5556
• [backport v1.2] [BUG] upgrade will stuck without any error meessage if the checksum is invalid #5541
• [backport v1.2] [BUG] API will stuck if delete the VM not existing #5534
• [backport v1.2] [BUG] Various error messages in the console, using Harvester - embedded mode #5531
• [backport v1.2] [BUG] Grafana dasboard doesn't show the correct vm metrics #5499
• [backport v1.2] [BUG] VM can't apply pc machine type which is removed #5432
• [backport v1.2] [BUG] Upgrade stuck in upgrading first node: Job was active longer than specified deadline #5390
• [backport v1.2] [BUG] Upgrade workaround for rancher-system-agent does not get cleaned up #5380
• [backport v1.2] [BUG] After deleting the only VM of LB, LB controller reports following error #5369
• [backport v1.2.2][BUG] pcidevices device plugin fails when device name is too long #5359
• [backport v1.2] [BUG] should display errors when VM image upload fails #5286
• [backport v1.2] Sending ctrl-alt-delete does not have any reaction on a windows VM #5285
• [backport v1.2] [BUG] VM state "Stopping" is ambiguous when starting VM which has affinity rule that can't be fulfilled #5284
• [backport v1.2] [BUG] After EjectCD from vm and edit config of vm displays empty page: "Cannot read properties of null" #5283
• [backport v1.2] Accessing Grafana page of the Harvester cluster via Rancher's Virtualization Management through Manage and Explore gives "Page not found 404 Error" #5236
• [backport v1.2] [BUG] Grafana link returns 404 #5219
• [backport v1.2] [BUG] VMRestore to new VM doesn't work if there is VMSnapshot #5063
• [backport v1.2] [BUG] Device List, make input rows reactive #5061
• [backport v1.2] [BUG] Improve Image Download Handling #5055
• [backport v1.2] [BUG] VM got IO error after host restart #5048
• [backport v1.2] [BUG] After power off Harvester nodes then power on for days, all VMs display Stopping state and can't launch #5047
• [backport v1.2] [BUG] Upgrade 1.2.0 -> 1.2.1 is stuck in “Waiting for VM live-migration or shutdown...(1 left)” even though there is NO VM running #5008
• [backport v1.2] [BUG] User can delete the volume which is exporting image #4977
• [backport v1.2] [BUG] rancher-system-agent keeps showing rke2 etcd-snapshot error log #4924
• [backport v1.2] [BUG] Harvester Prevents From Configuring Storage Network Even There in no Running VM and Online Volumes #4918
• [backport v1.2] [BUG] VM stuck in Restoring state #4915
• [backport v1.2] [BUG] Longhorn Instance Manager Memory leak #4911
• [backport v1.2] [BUG] Post Draining return code: 32 on removal of Elemental issues #4903
• [backport v1.2] [BUG] Node pool anti-affinity rules are not working as expected #4898
• [backport v1.2] [BUG] Restore from snapshot not work if target VM is restore-replaced from backup #4894
• [backport v1.2] [BUG] switch harvester UI to use rancher user id as backup when local username is empty during PCIDeviceClaim creation #4817
• [backport v1.2] [BUG] Unable to use image that has a name more than ~40 characters long created through terraform #4799
• [backport v1.2] [BUG] Can't use data disk measured in terabytes v1.2.1 #4793
• [backport v1.2] [BUG] Harvester v1.2.1 stuck on boot with BOSS-S1 hardware RAID #4791
• [backport v1.2] [BUG] Resizing Extra Volumes Fail if VM was shutdown via SSH sudo shutdown -h now (w/ 422: admission webhook denied the request: please stop the VM before resizing volumes) #4779
• [backport v1.2] [BUG] The installer occasionally doesn't run #4771
• [backport v1.2] [BUG] Avoid to delete LH settings #4765
• [BUG] After scale down RKE2/K3s cluster, the deleting node may stuck on "Reconciling" for 10~20m before dropped and created pod will missing then. #4636
• [BUG] Support Bundle missing metadata information in metadata.yaml #4630
• [BUG] Harvester v120 cann't start new VM from saved VM template #4589
• [BUG] Unable to restore backup into new VM when the name starts with upper case #4544
• [BUG] invalid MCM doc link on the Harvester support page #4539
• [BUG] Unable to install to MBR disks #4515
• [BUG] MTU is overwrite by storage network #4297
• [BUG] SR-IOV Virtual Functions can be 0 or -N integers #3977
• [EPIC] Add further pre and post checks in harvester upgrade #3067

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