v1.63.0

Pre-release Note

This is the latest Bottlerocket release, and is currently being made available.
You may notice nodes upgrading to this new version, though it may not yet be available globally until the "pre-release" flag is removed.

Release Highlights

• Add gdrcopy driver to aws-ecs-4-nvidia variant (#4874)
• Add image verification settings and packages to k8s-1.33-k8s-1.36 variants and expand ecs-3 and ecs-4 image verification (#4832)
• Add setting to enable/disable nvidia-device-plugin (#4856, bottlerocket-core-kit#914)
• Normalize NVIDIA library paths to /usr/lib/ (bottlerocket-core-kit#919, bottlerocket-kernel-kit#425, bottlerocket-kernel-kit#473)

OS Changes

• Update bottlerocket-core-kit from 14.5.1 to 14.8.0 CHANGELOG (commits) (#4865, #4873, #4883)
• Update bottlerocket-kernel-kit from 6.0.0 to 7.0.1 CHANGELOG (commits) (#4865, #4875, #4876, #4883, #4886)
• Update admin-container from 0.21.2 to 0.21.3 CHANGELOG (commits) (#4876)
• Update control-container from 0.21.2 to 0.21.3 CHANGELOG (commits) (#4876)
• Update bootstrap-container from 0.3.2 to 0.3.3 CHANGELOG (commits) (#4876)

Build Changes

• Update bottlerocket-sdk from 0.74.0 to 0.76.0 (commits) (#4865)
• Update twoliter from 0.19.0 to 0.20.0 CHANGELOG (commits) (#4847)

Security Fixes

• Patch kernel-6.1, kernel-6.12 and kernel-6.18 to mitigate CVE-2026-31694, CVE-2026-46242 and CVE-2026-53362 (bottlerocket-kernel-kit#481, bottlerocket-kernel-kit#482)