kubevirt/kubevirt v0.44.0-rc.0 on GitHub

tag v0.44.0-rc.0
Tagger: David Vossel davidvossel@gmail.com

This release follows v0.43.0 and consists of 389 changes, contributed by 41 people, leading to 508 files changed, 28369 insertions(+), 24278 deletions(-).

The source code and selected binaries are available for download at: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/releases/tag/v0.44.0-rc.0.

The primary release artifact of KubeVirt is the git tree. The release tag is
signed and can be verified using git tag -v v0.44.0-rc.0.

Pre-built containers are published on Quay and can be viewed at: https://quay.io/kubevirt/.

Notable changes

[PR #6058][acardace] Fix virt-launcher exit pod race condition
[PR #6035][davidvossel] Addition of perfscale-audit tool for auditing performance of control plane during stress tests
[PR #6145][acardace] virt-launcher: disable unencrypted TCP socket for libvirtd.
[PR #6163][davidvossel] Handle qemu processes in defunc (zombie) state
[PR #6105][ashleyschuett] Add VirtualMachineInstancesPerNode to KubeVirt CR under Spec.Configuration
[PR #6104][zcahana] Report FailedUnschedulable VM status when scheduling errors occur
[PR #5905][davidvossel] VM CrashLoop detection and Exponential Backoff
[PR #6070][acardace] Initiate Live-Migration using a unix socket (exposed by virt-handler) instead of an additional TCP<->Unix migration proxy started by virt-launcher
[PR #5728][vasiliy-ul] Live migration of VMs with hotplug volumes is now enabled
[PR #6109][rmohr] Fix virt-controller SCC: Reflect the need for NET_BIND_SERVICE in the virt-controller SCC.
[PR #5942][ShellyKa13] Integrate guest agent to online VM snapshot
[PR #6034][ashleyschuett] Go version updated to version 1.16.6
[PR #6040][yuhaohaoyu] Improved debuggability by keeping the environment of a failed VMI alive.
[PR #6068][dhiller] Add check that not all tests have been skipped
[PR #6041][xpivarc] [Experimental] Virt-launcher can run as non-root user
[PR #6062][iholder-redhat] replace dead "stress" binary with new, maintained, "stress-ng" binary
[PR #6029][mhenriks] CDI to 1.36.0 with DataSource support
[PR #4089][victortoso] Add support to USB Redirection with usbredir
[PR #5946][vatsalparekh] Add guest-agent based ping probe
[PR #6005][acardace] make containerDisk validation memory usage limit configurable
[PR #5791][zcahana] Added a READY column to the tabular output of "kubectl get vm/vmi"
[PR #6006][awels] DataVolumes created by DataVolumeTemplates will follow the associated VMs priority class.
[PR #5982][davidvossel] Reduce vmi Update collisions (http code 409) during startup
[PR #5891][akalenyu] BugFix: Pending VMIs when creating concurrent bulk of VMs backed by WFFC DVs
[PR #5925][rhrazdil] Fix issue with Windows VMs not being assigned IP address configured in network-attachment-definition IPAM.
[PR #6007][rmohr] Fix: The bandwidth limitation on migrations is no longer ignored. Caution: The default bandwidth limitation of 64Mi is changed to "unlimited" to not break existing installations.
[PR #4944][kwiesmueller] Add /portforward subresource to VirtualMachine and VirtualMachineInstance that can tunnel TCP traffic through the API Server using a websocket stream.
[PR #5402][alicefr] Integration of libguestfs-tools and added new command guestfs to virtctl
[PR #5953][ashleyschuett] Allow Failed VMs to be stopped when using --force --gracePeriod 0
[PR #5876][mlsorensen] KubeVirt CR supports specifying a runtime class for virt-launcher pods via 'launcherRuntimeClass'.

Contributors

41 people contributed to this release:

27 David Vossel dvossel@redhat.com
24 Zvi Cahana zvic@il.ibm.com
22 L. Pivarc lpivarc@redhat.com
16 Quique Llorente ellorent@redhat.com
16 Shelly Kagan skagan@redhat.com
16 Vasiliy Ulyanov vulyanov@suse.de
14 Roman Mohr rmohr@redhat.com
11 Antonio Cardace acardace@redhat.com
10 Alice Frosi afrosi@redhat.com
10 Alona Kaplan alkaplan@redhat.com
9 Michael Henriksen mhenriks@redhat.com
8 Marcelo Amaral marcelo.amaral1@ibm.com
7 Ashley Schuett aschuett@redhat.com
6 Ben Ukhanov ben1zuk321@gmail.com
6 Igor Bezukh ibezukh@redhat.com
6 Itamar Holder iholder@redhat.com
6 Victor Toso victortoso@redhat.com
5 Radim Hrazdil rhrazdil@redhat.com
4 Alexander Wels awels@redhat.com
4 Daniel Hiller dhiller@redhat.com
4 Miguel Duarte Barroso mdbarroso@redhat.com
4 Or Shoval oshoval@redhat.com
3 Federico Gimenez fgimenez@redhat.com
3 Marcus Sorensen mls@apple.com
3 Vatsal Parekh vparekh@redhat.com
3 alonsadan asadan@redhat.com
2 Kevin Wiesmueller kwiesmul@redhat.com
2 Marcus Sorensen marcus_sorensen@apple.com
1 Alex Kalenyuk akalenyu@redhat.com
1 Andrea Bolognani abologna@redhat.com
1 Chris Callegari mazzystr@gmail.com
1 Hao Yu yuh@us.ibm.com
1 Howard Zhang howard.zhang@arm.com
1 Jed Lejosne jed@redhat.com
1 LiHui andrewli@yunify.com
1 Nahshon Unna-Tsameret nunnatsa@redhat.com
1 Simone Tiraboschi stirabos@redhat.com
1 Stu Gott sgott@redhat.com
1 borod108 boris.od@gmail.com

Additional Resources

Mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/kubevirt-dev
Slack: https://kubernetes.slack.com/messages/virtualization
An easy to use demo: https://github.com/kubevirt/demo
How to contribute
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Merge pull request #6058 from acardace/virt_launcher_shutdown_race_condition

virt-launcher: fix exit pod race condition