This is the 1.9.1 release of Rancher Desktop, an open source desktop application to bring Kubernetes and container management to macOS, Windows, and Linux.
Windows and macOS Installers
Important bug fixes in this patch release
Locked settings could be unlocked
When the main application window was closed and re-opened without terminating the application, then all settings locked by a deployment profile could be edited again. They were only reset to their locked values when Rancher Desktop was restarted.
Uncaught proxy handling errors
The module handling https proxies inside Rancher Desktop was updated to its latest version, which contained a bug tied to handling proxy error messages that contained additional error information in addition to the HTTP status code. This bug would throw an exception that Rancher Desktop would not handle. The module has been downgraded to the previous version again until the bug is fixed upstream.
Other fixes
New networking stack on Windows
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The new networking code would break when the user name contained a space.
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Port forwarding did not work with the new networking code.
Buildkit support on Windows
The Rancher Desktop WSL distro did not include the necessary tools to use buildkit on Windows.
Apple Virtualization Framework could not be enabled on macOS 13.0 (Intel) and 13.3 (M1)
This was due to an incorrect version comparison and has been fixed.
Rancher Desktop failed silently when ~/.docker/config.json was invalid
It now displays an error message during startup.
Known issue
The Kubernetes version can be modified via rdctl start --kubernetes.version 1.XX.Y even when it is otherwise locked down by a deployment profile. This is the only setting affected by this bug; Kubernetes versions are updated later once the list of available versions is known.
Updates to bundled utilities
- helm
3.12.0→3.12.1 - docker-buildx
0.10.5→0.11.0 - docker-compose
2.18.1→2.19.0 - trivy
0.42.0→0.42.1
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 v1.9.0, can be found using GitHub compare and the details of the release can be found in the v1.9.1 milestones.