v1.4.0

Released on: Wed Nov 13 08:14:06 2024 +0000

• [PR #13225][kubevirt-bot] backend-storage will now correctly use the default virtualization storage class
• [PR #13203][kubevirt-bot] BugFix: VMSnapshots broken on OpenShift
• [PR #13071][machadovilaca] Add kubevirt_vm_resource_limits metric
• [PR #13090][acardace] Allow live updating VMs’ tolerations
• [PR #12629][jean-edouard] backend-storage now supports RWO FS
• [PR #13086][lyarwood] A new spec.configuration.instancetype.referencePolicy configurable has been added to the KubeVirt CR with support for reference (default), expand and expandAll policies provided.
• [PR #13064][xpivarc] Fix cache corruption
• [PR #12967][xpivarc] BochsDisplayForEFIGuests is GAed, use “kubevirt.io/vga-display-efi-x86” annotation on Kubevirt CR before upgrading in case you need retain compatibility.
• [PR #13078][qinqon] Add dynamic pod interface name feature gate
• [PR #13072][0xFelix] virtctl: virtctl create vm can now use the Access Credentials API to add credentials to a new VM
• [PR #13050][vamsikrishna-siddu] fix the cpu model issue for s390x.
• [PR #12802][machadovilaca] Add kubevirt_vmi_status_addresses metric
• [PR #13027][awels] BugFix: Stop creating tokenSecretRef when no volumes to export
• [PR #13001][awels] Relaxed check on modify VM spec during VM snapshot to only check disks/volumes
• [PR #13082][kubevirt-bot] Updated common-instancetypes bundles to v1.2.0
• [PR #12601][mhenriks] vmsnapshot: Enable status subresource for snapshot.kubevirt.io api group
• [PR #13018][orelmisan] Support Dynamic Primary Pod NIC Name
• [PR #13019][0xFelix] virtctl: The flags --volume-clone-pvc, --volume-datasource and --volume-blank are deprecated in favor of the --volume-import flag.
• [PR #13059][EdDev] Network hotplug feature is declared as GA.
• [PR #13024][EdDev] network binding plugin: Introduce a new managedTap domainAttachmentType
• [PR #13060][EdDev] Network binding plugins feature is declared as Beta.
• [PR #13045][dasionov] Add ‘machine_type’ label for kubevirt_vm_info metric
• [PR #13030][alicefr] Removed the ManualRecoveryRequired field from the VolumeMigrationState and convert it to the VM condition ManualRecoveryRequired
• [PR #13053][0xFelix] virtctl: Users can specify a sysprep volume in VMs created with virtctl create vm
• [PR #12855][0xFelix] virtctl expose: Drop flag to set deprecated LoadBalancerIP option
• [PR #13008][0xFelix] virtctl: Allow creating a basic cloud-init config with virtctl create vm
• [PR #12829][0xFelix] fix: Proxies configured in kubeconfig are used in client-go for asynchronous subresources like VNC or Console
• [PR #12733][alromeros] Bugfix: Fix disk expansion logic by checking usable size instead of requested capacity
• [PR #13052][fossedihelm] Update code-generators to 1.31.1
• [PR #12882][brianmcarey] Build KubeVirt with go v1.22.8
• [PR #13040][awels] BugFix: Allow VMExport to work with VM columes that have dots in its name
• [PR #12729][fossedihelm] Update k8s dependencies to 0.31.0
• [PR #12867][jschintag] Fixed additional broken amd64 image in some image manifests
• [PR #12940][Barakmor1] Deprecate the DockerSELinuxMCS FeatureGate
• [PR #12943][Barakmor1] The GPU feature gate is now deprecated with the feature state graduated to GA and thus enabled by default
• [PR #12992][machadovilaca] Add a ‘outdated’ label to kubevirt_vmi_info metric
• [PR #12933][ShellyKa13] VM admitter: improve validation of vm spec datavolumetemplate
• [PR #12986][lyarwood] The PreferredEfi preference is now only applied when a user has not already enabled either EFI or BIOS within the underlying VirtualMachine.
• [PR #12117][Sreeja1725] Integrate kwok with sig-scale tests
• [PR #12716][Sreeja1725] Update kubevirt_rest_client_request_latency_seconds to count list calls if made using query params
• [PR #12578][dasionov] Mark Running field as deprecated
• [PR #12753][lyarwood] The CommonInstancetypesDeploymentGate feature gate and underlying feature are graduated to GA and now always enabled by default. A single new KubeVirt configurable is also introduced to allow cluster admins a way of explicitly disabling deployment when required.
• [PR #12645][avlitman] Add kubevirt_vmsnapshot_succeeded_timestamp_seconds metric
• [PR #11097][vamsikrishna-siddu] add s390x support for kubevirt builder
• [PR #12910][machadovilaca] Rename kubevirt_vm_resource_requests ‘vmi’ label to ‘name’
• [PR #12848][iholder101] Reduce default CompletionTimeoutPerGiB from 800s to 150s
• [PR #12861][ShellyKa13] bugfix: fix possible miss update of datavolumename on vmrestore restores
• [PR #12441][machadovilaca] Increase periodicity in domainstats migration metrics
• [PR #12718][machadovilaca] Add kubevirt_vm_info metric
• [PR #12599][xpivarc] MaxCpuSockets won’t block creation of VMs with more Sockets than MaxCpuSockets declare
• [PR #12857][akalenyu] BugFix: Fail to create VMExport via virtctl vmexport create
• [PR #12355][alicefr] Add the volume migration state in the VM status
• [PR #12726][awels] Concurrent addvolume/removevolume using virtctl no longer fail if concurrent modifications happen
• [PR #12835][ShellyKa13] bugfix: In case of err in vmrestore, leave VM without RestoreInProgress annotation allowing it to be started
• [PR #12809][dasionov] bug-fix: Ensure PDB associated with a VMI is deleted when it Reaches Succeeded or Failed phase
• [PR #12813][akalenyu] BugFix: can’t create export pod on OpenShift
• [PR #12786][0xFelix] virtctl: Created VMs can infer an instancetype or preference from PVC, Registry and Snapshot sources now.
• [PR #12764][ShellyKa13] bugfix: vmrestore create DVs before creation/update of restored VM
• [PR #10562][dhiller] Continue changes to Ginkgo V2 Serial runs
• [PR #12516][vamsikrishna-siddu] enable initial e2e tests for s390x.
• [PR #12739][lyarwood] A new PreferredEfi field has been added to preferences to express the preferred EFI configuration for a given VirtualMachine.
• [PR #12737][machadovilaca] Add evictable label to kubevirt_vmi_info
• [PR #12232][lyarwood] The NUMA feature gate is now deprecated with the feature state graduated to GA and thus enabled by default
• [PR #12582][mhenriks] vmsnapshot: when checking if a VM is running, ignore runStrategy
• [PR #12625][machadovilaca] Add kubevirt_vm_resource_requests for CPU resource
• [PR #12605][mhenriks] vmexport: enable status subresource for VirtualMachineExport
• [PR #12616][orenc1] replace Update() with Patch() for test VirtualMachineInstancesPerNode
• [PR #12557][codingben] Optionally create data source using virtctl image upload.
• [PR #12547][mhenriks] virt-api: skip clone auth check when DataVolume already exists
• [PR #12613][orelmisan] Bridge binding: Static routes to subnets containing the pod’s NIC IP address are passed to the VM.
• [PR #12594][tiraboschi] [tests] introduce a decorator for Periodic_only tests
• [PR #12593][machadovilaca] Add kubevirt_vm_resource_requests metric for memory resource
• [PR #12617][Acedus] grpc from go.mod is now correctly shipped in release images
• [PR #12638][akalenyu] BugFix: “Cannot allocate memory” warnings for containerdisk VMs
• [PR #12395][alicefr] Add new condition for VMIStorageLiveMigratable
• [PR #12419][nunnatsa] Add timeout to validation webhooks
• [PR #12592][awels] Fixed issue emitting created secret events when not actually creating secrets during VMExport setup
• [PR #12584][brianmcarey] Build KubeVirt with go v1.22.6
• [PR #12575][Barakmor1] Advise users to use RunStrategy in virt-api messages
• [PR #12466][orenc1] tests/vm_tests.go: replace Update() with Patch()
• [PR #12548][kubevirt-bot] Updated common-instancetypes bundles to v1.1.0
• [PR #12476][jschintag] Enable live-migration and node labels on s390x
• [PR #12194][mhenriks] VM supports kubevirt.io/immediate-data-volume-creation: “false” which delays creating DataVolumeTemplates until VM is started
• [PR #11802][matthewei] Adding newMacAddresses validatewebhook for VMCloneAPI
• [PR #11754][nickolaev] Adding support for the igb network interface model
• [PR #12254][jkinred] * Reduced the severity of log messages when a VolumeSnapshotClass is not found. When snapshots are not enabled for a volume, the reason will still be displayed in the status.volumeSnapshotStatuses field of a VirtualMachine resource.
• [PR #12460][mhenriks] virt-api: unencode authorization extra headers
• [PR #12451][fossedihelm] Fix: eviction requests to completed virt-launcher pods cannot trigger a live migration
• [PR #11881][lyarwood] The expand-spec subresource API now applies defaults to the returned VirtualMachine to ensure the VirtualMachineInstanceSpec within is closer to the eventual version used when starting the original VirtualMachine.
• [PR #12452][andreabolognani] This version of KubeVirt includes upgraded virtualization technology based on libvirt 10.5.0 and QEMU 9.0.0.
• [PR #12425][fudancoder] fix some comments
• [PR #12354][qinqon] Use optional interface at passt binding sidecar
• [PR #12268][fossedihelm] Drop ForceRestart and ForceStop methods from client-go
• [PR #12235][orelmisan] Network binding plugins: Enable the ability to specify compute memory overhead
• [PR #12209][orenc1] Fix wrong KubeVirtVMIExcessiveMigrations alert calculation in an upgrade scenario.
• [PR #12261][fossedihelm] Fix: persistent tpm can be used with vmis containing dots in their name
• [PR #12247][Sreeja1725] Add perf-scale benchmarks for release v1.3
• [PR #12181][akalenyu] BugFix: Grant namespace admin RBAC to passthrough a client USB to a VMI
• [PR #12096][machadovilaca] Fix missing performance metrics for VMI resources
• [PR #11856][Sreeja1725] Add unit tests to check for API backward compatibility
• [PR #12116][Sreeja1725] Add CPU/Memory utilization of components metrics to kubevirt benchmarks
• [PR #12195][awels] Virt export route has an edge termination of redirect
• [PR #12212][acardace] enable only for VMs with memory >= 1Gi
• [PR #12053][vladikr] Only a single vgpu display option with ramfb will be configured per VMI.
• [PR #12193][acardace] fix RerunOnFailure stuck in Provisioning
• [PR #12186][kubevirt-bot] Updated common-instancetypes bundles to v1.0.1
• [PR #12180][0xFelix] VMs with a single socket and NetworkInterfaceMultiqueue enabled require a restart to hotplug additional CPU sockets.
• [PR #11927][lyarwood] All preferredCPUTopology constants prefixed with Prefer have been deprecated and will be removed in a future version of the instancetype.kubevirt.io API.
• [PR #12169][lyarwood] PreferredDiskDedicatedIoThread is now only applied to virtio disk devices
• [PR #12125][ksimon1] chore: bump virtio-win image version to 0.1.248
• [PR #12128][acardace] Memory Hotplug fixes and stabilization
• [PR #11911][alromeros] Bugfix: Implement retry mechanism in export server and vmexport
• [PR #11982][RamLavi] Introduce validatingAdmissionPolicy to restrict node patches on virt-handler
• [PR #12119][acardace] Fix VMPools when LiveUpdate as vmRolloutStrategy is used.