Release notes

Generic

• Upgraded Kubernetes API to v1.21 level
• Moved to Go 1.16 and cleaned-up io/util which is now deprecated starting with Go 1.16 (#630)
• Added Allocate interface to device plugins framework (pkg/deviceplugin) to allow individual plugins to implement their own Allocate logic
• Moved device plugin container images to use distroless/static base image and made Go builds static. (#635, #636)

Operator

• Added a configuration option to allow watching only selected devices' CRDs. (#599)

GPU

• Optional fractional resource management support for k8s extended resources (#638)
• Optional monitoring resource which allows access to all GPUs of the node (#622, #628)
• Basic SR-IOV support (skips PF if VF is present for the GPU)

SGX

• Added a separate SGX admission webhook image (#603)

DSA

• No updates

FPGA

• Dropped the check for 0x8086 vendor to allow non-Intel devices that are Intel FPGA based use the plugin (#621)

QAT

• Renamed wrong c4xxvf to c4xxxvf in plugin parameters and QatDevicePlugin CRD (#647)

VPU

• Added support for Keem Bay (#634)

Bug fixes

• Fixed image name validation failure for QAT when registry hostname:port is specified (#605)
• Fixed driver (un)binding failure when the QAT VF device was not bound to any driver (#644)