v0.5.0

AIC Operator v0.5.0
This release updates APIs, improves clean-node driver loading and introduces the long-running QAIC Device Agent with QMonitor support.

Highlights

• Replaced the one-shot SOC Reset operand with the QAIC Device Agent.
• Added QMonitor gRPC service support for device monitoring and SBL updates.
• Fixed QAIC driver loading on clean nodes.
• Updated the CRD API group from aic.quicinc.com to aic.qualcomm.com.

API changes

• The API group is now: apiVersion: aic.qualcomm.com/v1
• The previous SOC Reset fields have been replaced with:

  spec:
    deviceAgentImage: <image>
    deviceAgentVersion: <version>
  

• Existing resources using the old API group or socResetImage fields must be migrated.

Operational notes

• The Device Agent uses host networking and listens on TCP port 62472.
• Only one Device Agent/QMonitor instance should run per node.
• The Device Agent remains privileged for access to host QAIC devices.
• KMM driver images are kernel-specific and must be rebuilt following a node kernel upgrade.
• Registry credentials referenced by imageRepoSecret require both pull and push access for KMM in-cluster builds.

Full Changelog: v0.4.1...v0.5.0

v0.4.1

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v0.4.0

✨ New Features
QMonitor gRPC Support to enable SBL Firmware Updates

🔧 Improvements & Enhancements
Firmware Handling & Driver Module Loading

• Updated firmware paths in the KMM Dockerfile to correctly source updates from /firmware/updates.
• Improved multi-stage driver build flow for cleaner and faster compilation.
• Added explicit module loading order for QAIC driver dependencies
  (qaic → qrtr-mhi → switchtec → mhi).
• Implemented logic to remove in-tree kernel modules before loading the built modules.
  Enabled DNF caching in controller images to significantly reduce build time.

Build System Reorganization

• Moved files from manual_install/* into operands/* for clearer structure.
• Removed obsolete manual installation documentation.

🧹 Cleanup

• Removed outdated files from the test/ directory.
• Dropped UBI point‑release version tags since DNF upgrades make them unnecessary and increase image size/time.

Full Changelog: v0.3.0...v0.4.0

v0.3.0

• Introduced SoC reset support for QAIC devices on OCP, following AIC Custom Resource creation.
• Updated the firmware path on host to /lib/firmware.
• KMM 2.3.0 now supports listing a module name in the inTreeModulesToRemove field even if the module is not currently installed on the host. This enhancement has been integrated into the AIC operator.
• Pinned Go version to 1.23.9 for consistent builds.
• Removed dependency on the KMM Module CRD in the ClusterServiceVersion file due to recent issues with the latest KMM CRD.

Full Changelog: v0.2.0...v0.3.0

v0.2.0

New Features:

• Added support for creating NodeFeatureRule (NFR) from within the controller.
• Upgraded Golang to version 1.23.
• Added support for OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) version 4.18.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a bug that caused KMM in-cluster builds to fail due to a failed DTK_AUTO variable expansion.

v0.1.1

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v0.1.0

Initial tag to create versioned containers.