rkt / rkt Archived

rkt v0.12.0 is an incremental release with UX improvements like fine-grained security controls and implicit generation of empty volumes, performance improvements, bug fixes and testing enhancements.

New features and UX changes

• implement rkt cat-manifest for pods (#1744)
• generate an empty volume if a required one is not provided (#1753)
• make disabling security features granular; --insecure-skip-verify is now --insecure-options={feature(s)-to-disable} (#1738). See rkt's Global Options documentation.
• allow skipping the on-disk integrity check using --insecure-options=ondisk. This greatly speeds up start time. (#1804)
• set empty volumes' permissions following the spec (1803)
• flannel networking support in kvm flavor (#1563)

Bug fixes

• store used MCS contexts on the filesystem (#1742)
• fix Docker images with whiteout-ed hard links (#1653)
• fix Docker images relying on /dev/stdout (#1617)
• use authentication for discovery and trust (#1801)
• fix build in Docker (#1798)
• fix kvm networking (#1530)

Improved testing

• add functional tests for rkt api service (#1761)
• fix TestSocketActivation on systemd-v219 (#1768)
• fix the ACE validator test (#1802)

Other changes

• Bumped appc spec to 0.7.3 (#1800)