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Release Notes

Version 1.34.0 - 2024-09-04

Breaking Changes:

• Bump minimum podman version to 4.9.0 #19457
• Disallow using Docker Desktop 4.34.0 #19576

Features:

• Bump default Kubernetes version to v1.31.0 #19435
• Add new driver for macOS: vfkit #19423
• Add Parallels driver support for darwin/arm64 #19373
• Add new volcano addon #18602
• Addons ingress-dns: Added support for all architectures #19198
• Support privileged ports on WSL #19370
• VM drivers with docker container-runtime now use docker-buildx for image building #19339
• Support running x86 QEMU on arm64 #19228
• Add -o json option for addon images command #19364

Improvements:

• add -d shorthand for --driver #19356
• add -c shorthand for --container-runtime #19217
• kvm2: Don't delete the "default" libvirt network #18920
• Update MINIKUBE_HOME usage #18648
• CNI: Updated permissions to support network policies on kindnet #19360
• GPU: Set NVIDIA_DRIVER_CAPABILITIES to all when GPU is enabled #19345
• Improved error message when trying to use mount on system missing 9P #18995
• Improved error message when enabling KVM addons on non-KVM cluster #19195
• Added warning when loading image with wrong arch #19229
• profile list --output json handle empty config folder #16900
• Check connectivity outside minikube when connectivity issuse #18859

Bugs:

• Fix not creating API server tunnel for QEMU w/ builtin network #19191
• Fix waiting for user input on firewall unblock when --interactive=false #19531
• Fix network retry check when subnet already in use for podman #17779
• Fix empty tarball when generating image save #19312
• Fix missing permission for kong-serviceaccount #19002

Version Upgrades:

• Addon cloud-spanner: Update cloud-spanner-emulator/emulator image from 1.5.17 to 1.5.23 #19341 #19501
• Addon headlamp: Update headlamp-k8s/headlamp image from v0.23.2 to v0.25.0 #18992 #19152 #19349
• Addon kong: Update kong image from 3.6.1 to 3.7.1 #19046 #19124
• Addon kubevirt: Update bitnami/kubectl image from 1.30.0 to 1.31.0 #18929 #19087 #19313 #19479
• Addon ingress: Update ingress-nginx/controller image from v1.10.1 to v1.11.2 #19302 #19461
• Addon inspektor-gadget: Update inspektor-gadget image from v0.27.0 to v0.32.0 #18872 #18931 #19011 #19166 #19411 #19554
• Addon istio-provisioner: Update istio/operator image from 1.21.2 to 1.23.0 #18932 #19052 #19167 #19283 #19450
• Addon nvidia-device-plugin: Update nvidia/k8s-device-plugin image from v0.15.0 to v0.16.2 #19162 #19266 #19336 #19409
• Addon metrics-server: Update metrics-server/metrics-server image from v0.7.1 to v0.7.2 #19529
• Addon YAKD: bump marcnuri/yakd image from 0.0.4 to 0.0.5 #19145
• CNI: Update calico from v3.27.3 to v3.28.1 #18870 #19377
• CNI: Update cilium from v1.15.3 to v1.16.1 #18925 #19084 #19247 #19337 #19476
• CNI: Update kindnetd from v20240202-8f1494ea to v20240813-c6f155d6 #18933 #19252 #19265 #19307 #19378 #19446
• CNI: Update flannel from v0.25.1 to v0.25.6 #18966 #19008 #19085 #19297 #19522
• Kicbase: Update nerdctld from 0.6.0 to 0.6.1 #19282
• Kicbase: Bump ubuntu:jammy from 20240427 to 20240808 #19068 #19184 #19478
• Kicbase/ISO: Update buildkit from v0.13.1 to v0.15.2 #19024 #19116 #19264 #19355 #19452
• Kicbase/ISO: Update cni-plugins from v1.4.1 to v1.5.1 #19044 #19128
• Kicbase/ISO: Update containerd from v1.7.15 to v1.7.21 #18934 #19106 #19186 #19298 #19521
• Kicbase/ISO: Update cri-dockerd from v0.3.12 to v0.3.15 #19199 #19249
• Kicbase/ISO: Update crun from 1.14.4 to 1.16.1 #19112 #19389 #19443
• Kicbase/ISO: Update docker from 26.0.2 to 27.2.0 #18993 #19038 #19142 #19153 #19175 #19319 #19326 #19429 #19530
• Kicbase/ISO: Update nerdctl from 1.7.5 to 1.7.6 #18869
• Kicbase/ISO: Update runc from v1.1.12 to v1.1.13 #19104

For a more detailed changelog, including changes occurring in pre-release versions, see CHANGELOG.md.

Thank you to our contributors for this release!

• Anders F Björklund
• Anjali Chaturvedi
• Artem Basalaev
• Benjamin P. Jung
• Daniel Iwaniec
• Dylan Piergies
• Gabriel Pelouze
• Hritesh Mondal
• Jack Brown
• Jeff MAURY
• Marc Nuri
• Matteo Mortari
• Medya Ghazizadeh
• Nir Soffer
• Philippe Miossec
• Predrag Rogic
• Radoslaw Smigielski
• Raghavendra Talur
• Sandipan Panda
• Steven Powell
• Sylvester Carolan
• Tom McLaughlin
• Tony-Sol
• aiyijing
• chubei
• daniel-iwaniec
• hritesh04
• joaquimrocha
• ljtian
• mitchell amihod
• shixiuguo
• sunyuxuan
• thomasjm
• tianlijun
• tianlj
• 錦南路之花
• 锦南路之花

Thank you to our PR reviewers for this release!

• spowelljr (67 comments)
• medyagh (53 comments)
• nirs (14 comments)
• cfergeau (4 comments)
• liangyuanpeng (2 comments)
• ComradeProgrammer (1 comments)
• afbjorklund (1 comments)
• aojea (1 comments)
• bobsira (1 comments)

Thank you to our triage members for this release!

• kundan2707 (55 comments)
• medyagh (29 comments)
• afbjorklund (28 comments)
• T-Lakshmi (20 comments)
• Ritikaa96 (16 comments)

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Installation

See Getting Started

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