v1.5.1-rc2

v1.5.1-rc1

Release v1.5.0

RancherOS will only be distributing releases on basic x86 platform. For other distributions, please refer to the README.

Versions

• Linux: 4.14.85
• Buildroot: 2018.02.7
• Docker docker-18.06.1-ce by default
• RPi64: Linux 4.9.80
• Console:
  • Alpine: 3.8
  • CentOS: 7.5.1804
  • Debian: stretch
  • Fedora: 28
  • Ubuntu: bionic

Major Features and Enhancements

• Support for LUKS [#2551]
• Support for WiFi and 4G/LTE [#2370]
• Support for custom rootfs of os initrd [#2547]
• Support for Hyper-V [#442]
• Support for VMDK images [#2468]
• Support for disabling access to the system from the console [#2380]
  • Added the ability to disable auto-login
  • Added the ability to ignore rancher.password
• Support for multiple user-docker daemons [#2177]
• Support for ARM server(Experimental) [#2302]
• Support for built-in other consoles [#2603]
• Support for vSphere network protocol profiles [#2490]
• Enhancements for faster boot speed and lower memory footprint
  • Disabled repeated system image loading [#2467]
  • Added the ability to disable cloud-init [#2552]
  • Used gzip compression initrd instead of xz [#2392]
• Enhancement for consoles
  • docker top is now available for all consoles [#2340]
  • scp is now available for CentOS and Fedora consoles [#2536]
  • xfsprogs is now available in the default console [#2541]

Major Bug Fixes since v1.4.2

• Fixed an issue where RancherOS boots slowly due to low entropy [#2473]
• Fixed an issue where open-iscsi cannot be used due to missing /run/lock directory [#2435]
• Fixed an issue where some zombie processes cannot be cleaned up [#2550 #2578]
• Fixed an issue where RANCHER_BOOT partition cannot be mounted automatically [#2492]
• Fixed an issue where respawn.log is spammed with errors when there is no serial port on the machine [#2466]
• Fixed an issue where the vmware datasource always reports as "available" on ESXi hypervisors even with no guestinfo being available [#2465]
• Fixed an issue where DHCP is still available when static ip is set [#2521]
• Fixed an issue where first boot is delayed by 30 seconds when using static IP configuration [#2469]
• Fixed an issue where ssh keys cannot be injected on GCP [#2613]

v1.5.0-rc2

v1.5.0-rc1 is for testing.

Release v1.4.2

Versions

• Linux 4.14.73
• Buildroot: 2018.02
• Docker docker-18.03.1-ce by default
• RPi64: Linux 4.9.80
• Console:
  • Alpine: 3.8
  • CentOS: 7.5.1804
  • Debian: stretch
  • Fedora: 28
  • Ubuntu: bionic

Important - Upgrade

• Note on memory requirements: 1GB is not enough now, but it will be improved on v1.5.0. Please refer to here

Major Bug Fixes since v1.4.1

• Fixed an issue where ECS container instances are not automatically de-registered when shutting down and rebooting [#2394]
• Fixed an issue where the os-iscsi service cannot expose an unique iSCSI initiator name [#2446]
• Fixed an issue where some instance types on AWS cannot resize EBS NVMe block devices [#2461]
• Fixed an issue where missing CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED in os-kernel [#2489]
• Fixed an issue where cloud-config is not installed with noformat install-type [#2507]
• Fixed an issue where getting an error when using ros config syslinux on RPi [#2463]
• CVE-2018-17182 has been addressed [#2504]

v1.4.2-rc1

Release v1.4.1

Versions

• Linux 4.14.67
• Buildroot: 2018.02
• Docker docker-18.03.1-ce by default
• RPi64: Linux 4.9.80
• Console:
  • Alpine: 3.7
  • CentOS: 7.4.1708
  • Debian: stretch
  • Fedora: 27
  • Ubuntu: xenial

Important - Upgrade

• Note on memory requirements: 1GB is not enough now, but it will be improved on v1.5.0. Please refer to here

Major Bug Fixes since v1.4.0

• Fixed an issue where building custom kernel modules, so we can bring the zfs service back [#2374 #2299]
• Fixed an issue where user-docker cannot work fine in memory [#2378]
• Fixed an issue where gzip content cannot be loaded via cloud-init user-data [#2391]
• Fixed an issue where getting error logs in kubelet while running k8s on RancherOS, because of the missing of the systemd cgroup [#2398]
• Fixed an issue where OpenISCSI service crashes on startup with "no such container" message [#2405]
• Fixed an issue where a cloud-config script cannot be executed [#2420]
• Fixed an issue where ros boot hang on kernels >= 4.14.36 [#2473]
• Fixed an issue where setting MTUs larger than 1500 fails in Xen when kernel >=4.14.37 [#2458]
• CVE-2018-3615/3620/3646 AKA Foreshadow has been addressed [#2447]
• CVE-2018-3639 speculative store bypass has been addressed [#2454]

v1.4.1-rc3

v1.4.1-rc2