4.6.0-4.8.3

Changelist

Runtime and configuration

• Release DCGM Exporter 4.8.3 with DCGM 4.6.0 and go-dcgm v1.4601.1 (@nccurry).
• Improve go-dcgm policy, resource, field, and version API handling.
• Add YAML configuration-file support.
• Expand CLI and environment configuration.
• Add configurable web read/write timeouts.
• Add per-watch polling intervals.
• Add combined device selectors.
• Add VSOCK remote hostengine connections.
• Use the local hostname for loopback remote hostengines (#697 by @skartikey).
• Improve hot reload and last-known-good configuration handling.
• Improve profiling and watcher recovery.
• Improve startup, skipped-field, MIG, and remote-hostengine diagnostics.
• Strengthen opt-in pprof and socket validation.

Metrics and Kubernetes

• Rename the Hostname label to hostname (#655 by @daphne2337).
• Add generic container-runtime label collection.
• Support pod-label collection on MIG devices (#660 by @Raid57).
• Allocate independent label maps for each entity (#663 by @rocker-zhang).
• Add DRA ResourceSlice v1 support (#654 by @adityasingh0510).
• Expand DRA v1 and MIG allocation handling (#664 by @guptaNswati).
• Bound pod-resources responses to prevent resource-exhaustion errors (#510 by @halcyon-r).
• Improve Kubernetes metadata diagnostics.
• Add cumulative XID error totals.
• Add cumulative clock-event totals.
• Add GPU-health severity and category metadata.
• Add Grace CPU serial labels.
• Improve metric help text and metadata consistency (@rvatkar, @dshaiknvidia).
• Correct NVLink bandwidth metrics from counters to gauges (#658 by @allenz92).
• Harden metric float parsing (#489 by @tongyangyeyue).
• Improve field-status handling, metric exposition, and label sanitization.
• Propagate HTTP request context through metric rendering (#687 by @randomizedcoder).

Helm, containers, and packages

• Add Helm support for configuration files.
• Add Helm image-digest configuration.
• Update ServiceMonitor timing defaults.
• Align RBAC with Kubernetes metadata and DRA features.
• Make service-account token mounting configurable (#665 by @75asu).
• Send package-managed systemd logs to journald (#671).
• Correct container image provenance metadata (#678 by @shravyavorugallu).
• Improve DCGM, NVPerf, and NVSDM library packaging (#704 by @daveoy, #703).
• Complete the Go 1.26.4 update (#641, #667).
• Remove the direct dependency on github.com/pkg/errors (#699 by @skartikey).
• Centralize release versions and consistency validation.

Testing and documentation

• Add a reusable E2E CLI and scenario framework.
• Expand static, host, container, and Kubernetes test coverage.
• Add repository-local agent-assisted development guidance.
• Add the llms.txt metrics and deployment authoring contract.
• Add Codex and Cursor project guidance.