This is the 1.15.0 release of Rancher Desktop, an open source desktop application to bring Kubernetes and container management to macOS, Windows, and Linux.
Installers
Notable Features & Changes
Kubernetes versions before 1.21.0 are no longer supported
If you are on an earlier version, updating to Rancher Desktop 1.15.0 will automatically update you to Kubernetes 1.21.14. If you must continue to use an older version, you should stay on Rancher Desktop 1.14.2.
kuberlr and kubectl are native binaries for macOS on Apple Silicon
Rosetta is no longer needed for Rancher Desktop.
New networking tunnel stack is now the only option on Windows
It is no longer possible to select the legacy networking mode.
On macOS the socket_vmnet has replaced vde_vmnet
It is a complete superset of the old functionality, and the old setting is no longer available.
Important Bug Fixes
Shell profile settings are not accidentally deleted
When Rancher Desktop started either after a fresh install, or after a factory reset, and the computer was without internet access, then there was a race condition that could result in the deletion of shell profiles (.bash_profile, .zshrc, etc) (#7154).
This race condition has been fixed. However, the code has been updated to always keep a backup file around, just in case there is another undiscovered way to trigger a similar bug.
A memory leak on Windows has been fixed that could lead to a frozen system
This issue in the tray menu updater was diagnosed and fixed by @mikeseese (#7238). Thank you for your help!
Port forwarding bug with older Kubernetes versions on Windows has been fixed.
For Kubernetes 1.25 versions older than 1.25.3, 1.24 versions older than 1.24.7, or any version before 1.23.13 the port forwarding to the host was not working (#5341). This has been fixed.
Known Issues
Container Dashboard
The dashboard does not update automatically when container states have changed or new containers are introduced (#5775).
Extensions Install - Allowed Images
When using the Allowed Images feature and also specifying extensions in a deployment profile, the extension images must be included in both lists (#4920).
Deprecations
macOS 11 Big Sur and earlier are no longer officially supported
Apple usually only provides security updates for the last 3 major macOS releases. GitHub removes CI runners once the OS is no longer supported. Due to availability of hardware resources and software dependencies, we may be unable to create new Rancher Desktop releases compatible with older macOS versions in the future.
We will try not to break Rancher Desktop on older macOS versions as long as reasonably possible, but those versions should be considered unsupported.
Updates to Bundled Utilities
- docker
26.1.0→27.1.1 - docker-buildx
0.14.1→0.16.2 - docker-compose
2.27.1→2.29.1 - docker-credential-ecr-login unchanged
0.8.0 - helm
3.15.1→3.15.3 - moby/buildkit unchanged
0.12.5 - nerdctl unchanged
1.7.6 - spin: new
2.5.1 - spin-shim:
0.14.1→0.15.1 - spinkube: unchanged
0.2.0 - trivy
0.51.4→0.53.0
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 v1.14.2, can be found using GitHub compare and the details of the release can be found in the v1.15.0 milestone.