📦 Talos v1.7.0-beta.0

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Release date: 1-2 Apr 2024

Week of 25-29th March

Beta Give feedback

1. Update toolchain/tools/pkgs/extras/extensions
2. Cut a final release of each/create a release-X.Y branch
3. Update tools/pkgs/extras in Talos to the final version
4. Update dependencies in Talos
5. update Go to 1.22.2, Linux kernel

Note

There's a musl 1.2.5 which causes issues with kmod. toolchain has musl updated, but tools uses a previous version of the toolchain; we should either update all or revert toolchain.

Tasks to complete before April 1st

Beta Give feedback

1. Fix for wireguard UAPI socket to be under /system #8514
   +0
   
2. Feature request: Include tags when sending JSON logs #7356
   +0
   
3. forward local DNS to the CoreDNS pod as upstream #8329
   +0
   
4. Suport multiple clusters in single machine when using talos in docker #8141
   +0
   
5. integrate siderolink-agent into talosctl cluster create #8392
   +0
   
6. Watchdog timer (WDT) support #8284
   +0
7. Avoid boot loop on old CPUs (and cputype-misconfigured VMs) #8361
   +0
   
8. Default Flannel installation does not account for KubePrism endpoint #8501
   +0
   
9. NfTables chain does not get updated with latest KubeSpan peer when allowDownPeerBypass: true #8498
   +0
   
10. DHCP operator doesn't skip hostname request/response in OpenStack Platform #8531
    +0
    
11. feat: Add akamai platform #8502
    status/ok-to-merge +1
    

Actual release (Apr 4-5)

Beta Give feedback

1. cut a release-1.7 branch of Talos
2. cut a release-1.7 branch of extensions
3. cut a release-1.7 branch of overlays
4. cut a 1.7.0-beta.0 release
5. update Image Factory to 1.7.0-beta.0, cut a release
6. Deploy new Image Factory (overlays support)