Release Notes

Generic

• Finalized Intel Device Plugin Operator. The operator watches plugin/device specific CRDs and controls the plugins' daemonset deployments. GpuDevicePlugin, FpgaDevicePlugin, SgxDevicePlugin and QatDevicePlugin are released as v1 APIs using k8s CRD v1 API.
• Upgraded Kubernetes API to v1.19 level (#493)
• Added tooling to publish HTML documentation on Github Pages (#468)
• Enabled more golangci-lint linters: exportloopref, prealloc, scopelint, errcheck, and staticcheck.

SGX

• Added an SGX device plugin, SGX EPC extended resource registration, and a mutating webhook that mutates and validates Pod specifications to simplify user API to add the right settings for attestation and Kata containers SGX based sandboxes.
• Added SGX e2e selftests.
• Added SGX SDK and SGX DCAP sample Dockerfiles and a demo screencast that runs SGX DCAP ECDSA Quote Generation in Kubernetes

FPGA

• Added support for FPGA SR-IOV
• Added Operator for FPGA
• Upgraded OPAE release to 1.5.0-2 (#459)

GPU

• Added an initContainer that installs a node-feature-discovery GPU feature source
• Optimized TopologyHint calculation for shared devices

QAT:

• Added a kustomization overlay to enable QAT SR-IOV in an InitContainer (#455 )
• Upgraded QAT and QAT Engine releases to their latest versions

VPU

• Updated gousb dependency to v1.1.0

Bug fixes

• FPGA SRIO-V is not supported by the FPGA device plugin (#372)
• crypto-perf image fails on kernels with CVE-2020-12888 (#415)