OVN-Kubernetes v1.1.0

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v1.1.0

📢 We are happy to announce the release of OVN-Kubernetes v1.1.0 🎉 🎊 🎆 🎇💥
This version of OVN-Kubernetes uses:
☸️ Kubernetes v1.33.3
🎖️ Libovsdb v0.8.1
🔁 OVN ovn-25.03.1-42.fc42.x86_64
🔄 OVS openvswitch-3.4.1-1.fc42.x86_64

Summary of important changes for this release

This release includes many exciting features that end-users can leverage:

🌐 UserDefinedNetworks offer flexible network configurations for users, going beyond the traditional single default network model for all pods within a Kubernetes cluster. This feature addresses the diverse and advanced networking requirements of various applications and use cases. It allows the end users to create isolated networks on a cluster to which they can attach their workloads to. See our user-guide for more details.

🌐 NetworkQoS superceeds EgressQoS feature that was released in 1.0 release. This is an alpha versioned API feature that allows users to leverage DSCP markings to ensure Quality of Service for workloads attached to different networks on your cluster. See our user-guide for more details.

🌐 RouteAdvertisements feature leverages the FRR-K8s CNCF project to allow users to advertise their networks (cluster default network and cluster user defined networks) via BGP to the external world outside the cluster. This let's external clients reach the workloads directly using the podIPs that are advertised to outside. If you want to have an unSNATed experience try out this feature. See our user-guide for more details.

🔀 Interconnect mode of deployment makes OVN-Kubernetes more scalable, performant and secure. Support for this mode of deployment was added as part of 1.0.0 release, however it was not the default. Now, from 1.1 release, we are making this the default deployment mode of OVN-Kubernetes.

Please reach out to us on CNCF Slack channel ovn-kubernetes and provide feedback based on your experience of using this release so that we can keep improving this project!

New Contributors 💖 💖

• @shaneutt made their first contribution in fix: link to kind usage docs in contrib README.md #4588
• @ormergi made their first contribution in hack/lint.sh: Mount local golangci-lint cache #4585
• @RamLavi made their first contribution in udn, cni: report UDN iface info on network-status #4725
• @fossabot made their first contribution in Add license scan report and status #4836
• @poroh made their first contribution in unit tests: unify NoRoot checking #4870
• @FSchumacher made their first contribution in go-controller: fix typo in test script #4945
• @yboaron made their first contribution in Fix Kind IPV6 deplyoment with RUN_IN_CONTAINER #4955
• @TOMOFUMI-KONDO made their first contribution in dist/images: fix cleanup command for northd #5132
• @almusil made their first contribution in node, metrics: Replace depracated option with equivalent #5164
• @thisisobate made their first contribution in chore: update footer with trademark disclaimer #5180
• @aztecher made their first contribution in Fix the commands for image build in the docs and script. #5136
• @anuragthehatter made their first contribution in formatting fix for "launching-ovn-kubernetes-on-kind" #5248
• @jitseklomp made their first contribution in Add mermaid mkdocs plugin #5281
• @hedgieinsocks made their first contribution in Use forward slash as path separator for some sysctl commands #5312
• @PGhiorzo made their first contribution in Modified line 277 to let kind-helm.sh run also behind a proxy #5323
• @GeorgianaTurcsanyi made their first contribution in update documentation on deploying OVN K8s with KIND #5333
• @booxter made their first contribution in *.sh: use /usr/bin/env to locate bash #5382
• @tsebastiani made their first contribution in fixes fedora image build script #5442
• @asood-rh made their first contribution in K8s rebase 1.33 #5319

Special welcome to our new set of contributors into the community 💖 💖

Contributors 💖

Many thanks to all of our contributors who helped make this release happen 😄👏 !! We truly couldn't have done this without all your contributions. Contributors info taken based on this data.

@jcaamano @tssurya @qinqon @trozet @npinaeva @martinkennelly @maiqueb @dceara @kyrtapz @ormergi @flavio-fernandes @RamLavi @ricky-rav @crnithya @pperiyasamy @oshoval @JacobTanenbaum @danwinship @cathy-zhou @pliurh @arghosh93 @aserdean @jotak @booxter @jluhrsen @arkadeepsen @yboaron @oribon @dave-tucker @girishmg @numansiddique @zeeke @SchSeba @poroh @aztecher @abhat @hareeshpc

Also special thanks to everyone who reported issues and opened tickets against the project. That helps OVN-Kubernetes get better!

Full Changelog: v1.0.0...v1.1.0

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