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This is a feature release of Rancher Desktop, an open source desktop application to bring Kubernetes and container management to Mac and Windows. The release contains some feature changes along with various bug fixes.

Highlighted Features

  • Always have a version of kubectl that's supported with the version of Kubernetes you're using (provided by kuberlr)
  • Built-in image security scanning (provided by Trivy)
  • Can configure the port used for Kubernetes API server
  • On MacOS Lima/QEMU is used to manage the virtual machine instead of Hyperkit. This means you ports above 1024 are automatically mapped to localhost.
  • On Windows you can now select Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) distributions to expose Rancher Desktop Kubernetes into. This will make it available in the kubeconfig for that distribution. See the Kubernetes Settings for more details.

Note, due to the change to LIMA/QEMU there will be a new virtual machine. This means your workloads will be lost on upgrade. We hope to make this the last time this happens.

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Changelog

The full version changelog, from v0.3.0, can be found using GitHub compare.

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