This is the 1.10.0 release of Rancher Desktop, an open source desktop application to bring Kubernetes and container management to macOS, Windows, and Linux.
Windows and macOS Installers
New Features
Deployment Profile Updates
- Rancher Desktop now supports generating Windows
.reg
or macOS.plist
files using therdctl create-profile [options]
command. Please see the command reference for documentation.
Mount Type virtiofs
Available on Linux & macOS
- Initially available for macOS, this release adds the
virtiofs
mount type for Linux environments as well. This can be set as an option on theVirtual Machine | Volumes
tab.
Windows Proxy Update
- The WSL noproxy list is now displayed in a text area from the preferences dialog via
Preferences > WSL > Proxy
.
Important Bug Fixes
Desktop Extensions - Switching Container Engines
- Fixes #4788 where Rancher Desktop will now silently remove incompatible extensions when switching container engines between the
dockerd
andcontainerd
options.
Deployment Profile Updates
-
Fixes #4952 where an incorrect Kubernetes version value in a deployment profile was not terminating the application.
-
Fixes #5047 with editable Kubernetes fields in locked deployment profiles.
Windows Network Update
- Fixes #5396 where port binding to
localhost
failed when using amoby
backend engine and allows for exposed ports to be discoverable in the namespaced network.
Windows Proxy Update
- Fixes #5366 where users were unable to delete a host from the
No proxy hostname list
.
Known Issues
Allowed Images List & rdctl create-profile --output=reg
- There is a known issue #5466 where an empty allowed images list is not being output while using the command
rdctl create-profile --output=reg --from-settings
.
A workaround is to add at least one image to the allowed images list, which can point to a non-existing image or registry.
Updates to Bundled Utilities
- helm
3.12.0
→3.12.3
- docker
24.0.2
→24.0.5
- docker-buildx
0.10.5
→0.11.2
- docker-compose
2.18.0
→2.20.3
- docker-credential-ecr-login
0.7.1
→0.7.1
- nerdctl
1.4.0
→1.5.0
- moby/buildkit
0.12.0
→0.11.6
(downgrade due to an issue with cgroups) - trivy
0.42.0
→0.44.1
Connect With the Developers
-
The issue queue
-
Rancher Users Slack in the #rancher-desktop channel
Changelog
The full version changelog, from v1.9.1, can be found using GitHub compare and the details of the release can be found in the v1.10.0 milestone.