1.7.1

Highlights

⌨️ denotes breaking CLI changes.

👩‍💻 denotes breaking API changes.

• Core
  • container stats now reports cpuUtilization in JSON, YAML, and TOML output
  • Image snapshots and container filesystems are now excluded from Time Machine backups
  • Default Kata kernel is now 4.3.1 (vmlinux-6.18.56-208-debug)
  • Updated Containerization to 0.54.0
• Networking
  • Default DNS nameservers, search domains, and options can now be set in config.toml
• Build
  • Fixed container build failures with newer BuildKit and missing build context for steps that need the full context
• Kubernetes
  • ⌨️ New --shared-image-store option on container cluster run to use the container image store from cluster nodes; removed the load-image subcommand
  • ⌨️ container cluster ls now shows one row per cluster; use --nodes for the per-node view
  • ⌨️ Container lifecycle commands no longer operate on cluster nodes
  • Worker node CPU and memory can now be set with --workers count=<n>,cpus=<n>,memory=<size>

What's Changed

• Send an :authority on the builder gRPC connection by @jglogan in #2428
• Adds container cluster example. by @jglogan in #2433
• Update container-builder-shim to 0.13.3. by @jglogan in #2434
• use macos 27 runners by @madrob in #2436
• Fix empty followpaths handling in BuildFSSync by @onlyarnav in #2414
• Document container clean in the reclaim disk space guide by @lucasbrito-wdt in #2413
• Bump to use containerization 0.54.0 by @adityaramani in #2443
• feat(stats): report cpuUtilization in the machine-readable formats by @guanchzhou in #2146
• [k8s plugin] Create a cluster bootstrapper by @katiewasnothere in #2416
• Update recommended kernel to kata 4.3.1 release vmlinux-6.18.56-208-debug by @katiewasnothere in #2447
• Add TOML configuration for default DNS nameservers, search, options by @0xMH in #1614
• Add the ability to share container's image store with container cluster by @crosbymichael in #2437
• Reduce install package size and install footprint. by @jglogan in #2458
• Add reference to apple/container-examples and remove examples/ out of this repo by @michaelzhang114 in #2457
• Create container-core-clusters XPC service by @adityaramani in #2451
• Exclude recreatable container data from Time Machine by @abdullahtas0 in #2412
• Clean the cluster-shim build files with make clean by @dkovba in #2463
• Quiet the cluster-shim build output and show the swift progress in place by @dkovba in #2461
• Do not allow high level container lifecycle commands to operate on cluster nodes by @katiewasnothere in #2462
• Switch to copy blobs by @crosbymichael in #2470
• Add option to set cpus and memory resources for worker nodes of cluster by @katiewasnothere in #2448
• Removed bug-report-how-to.md as this info is now consolidated in CONTRIBUTING.md by @michaelzhang114 in #2459
• Move HostStoreServer into a library so tests don't link the executable by @katiewasnothere in #2477

New Contributors

• @madrob made their first contribution in #2436
• @onlyarnav made their first contribution in #2414
• @lucasbrito-wdt made their first contribution in #2413
• @abdullahtas0 made their first contribution in #2412

Full Changelog: 1.6.1...1.7.1