This is the 1.11.0 release of Rancher Desktop, an open source desktop application to bring Kubernetes and container management to macOS, Windows, and Linux.
Windows and macOS Installers
Notable Features & Changes
Snapshots (Experimental)
Rancher Desktop now has the ability to take snapshots which store the current configuration of your virtual machine and all associated settings. Snapshots can be managed both from the application GUI under the Snapshots tab or on the command line using rdctl snapshot.
Management activities include creating, deleting, and restoring of saved snapshots. Please note that management activities should complete before performing other actions in the application. Concurrent actions are not supported at the moment. Please see the documentation and reference page for more information and known issues below for current limitations
Container Dashboard (Experimental)
The new Containers tab offers quick access to view and manage containers from the application GUI. You can perform control activities such as stop, start, and delete as well as bulk selection/actions on containers that have a similar state. Please view the documentation for more information and known issues below for current limitations.
macOS Networking
You can now use the network configuration socket-vmnet with VZ emulation applied and administrative access enabled.
Windows Networking Tunnel (Experimental)
With the WSL networking tunnel enabled, the WSL integrations have received an update to allow distributions access to the Kubernetes API server hosted in Rancher Desktop's namespace network.
Important Bug Fixes
BuildX Error
- Fixes #5363 where newly created
BuildXinstances were failing with "cgroup" errors.
WSL Updates
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Fixes #4560 during startup for Rancher Desktop where the WSL integration was executing distributions not explicitly marked for integration and causing startup issues.
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Fixes #5805 where WSL integrations could not be disabled from the UI.
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Fixes #5551 where the WSL version was unable to be properly parsed causing application errors.
Locked No-Proxy Field UI Update
- Fixes #5468 where the
No proxy hostname listwas editable in the UI after being locked via deployment policy.
VZ Emulation
- Fixes #5542 where an incompatible mount type could be set for
VZemulation using the command line andrdctl.
Deployment Profile - Windows
- Fixes #5857 where deployment profiles created via
rdctlwith locked fields were not able to initialize the application.
Known Issues
Snapshots
Currently there are known issues regarding executing multiple application actions while a snapshot is undergoing a management activity (#5846, #5848, #5849, and #5854).
Container Dashboard
There are known issues with the Container Dashboard with filtering table items, ports being displayed correctly, and if using the nerdctl container engine there is an issue with the "Started" field showing an inaccurate time for containers starting up. The dashboard also has an issue updating when container states have changed or new containers are introduced (#5759, #5893, #5877, and #5775).
9p - Linux OS
There is a known issue with some Linux distributions and using the experimental mount type 9p (#4943).
Extensions Install - Allowed Images
When using the Allowed Images feature, and also specifying extensions in a deployment profile, then the extension images must be included in both lists (#4920).
Updates to Bundled Utilities
- helm
3.12.3→3.13.1 - docker
24.0.5→24.0.6 - docker-buildx
0.11.2→0.12.0 - docker-compose
2.20.3→2.22.0 - docker-credential-ecr-login
0.7.1→0.7.1 - nerdctl
1.5.0→1.6.2 - moby/buildkit
0.11.6→0.12.3 - trivy
0.44.1→0.46.0
Connect With the Developers
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The issue queue
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Rancher Users Slack in the #rancher-desktop channel
Changelog
The full version changelog, from v1.10.0, can be found using GitHub compare and the details of the release can be found in the v1.11.0 milestone.