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This release follows v1.3.0 and consists of 80 changes, contributed b…

…y 17 people, leading to 144 files changed, 24248 insertions( ), 479 deletions(-).

The source code and selected binaries are available for download at: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/releases/tag/v1.3.1.

The primary release artifact of KubeVirt is the git tree. The release tag is
signed and can be verified using `git tag -v v1.3.1`.

Pre-built containers are published on Quay and can be viewed at: <https://quay.io/kubevirt/>.

Notable changes
---------------

- [PR #12646][kubevirt-bot] BugFix: "Cannot allocate memory" warnings for containerdisk VMs
- [PR #12555][kubevirt-bot] VM supports kubevirt.io/immediate-data-volume-creation: "false" which delays creating DataVolumeTemplates until VM is started
- [PR #12549][kubevirt-bot] Updated common-instancetypes bundles to v1.1.0
- [PR #12495][fossedihelm] Fix: eviction requests to completed virt-launcher pods cannot trigger a live migration
- [PR #12409][kubevirt-bot] Use optional interface at passt binding sidecar
- [PR #12319][Sreeja1725] Add v1.3.0 perf and scale benchmarks data
- [PR #12330][kubevirt-bot] Fix wrong KubeVirtVMIExcessiveMigrations alert calculation in an upgrade scenario.
- [PR #12328][acardace] enable only for VMs with memory >= 1Gi
- [PR #12272][Sreeja1725] Add unit tests to check for API backward compatibility

Contributors
------------
17 people contributed to this release:

6	Alice Frosi <[email protected]>
5	Alvaro Romero <[email protected]>
5	Lee Yarwood <[email protected]>
4	Antonio Cardace <[email protected]>
4	Assaf Admi <[email protected]>
4	Michael Henriksen <[email protected]>
3	Alex Kalenyuk <[email protected]>
3	Brian Carey <[email protected]>
3	Luboslav Pivarc <[email protected]>
3	fossedihelm <[email protected]>
3	svarnam <[email protected]>
1	Enrique Llorente <[email protected]>
1	Felix Matouschek <[email protected]>
1	Igor Bezukh <[email protected]>
1	Oren Cohen <[email protected]>

Additional Resources
--------------------
- Mailing list: <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/kubevirt-dev>
- Slack: <https://kubernetes.slack.com/messages/virtualization>
- An easy to use demo: <https://github.com/kubevirt/demo>
- [How to contribute][contributing]
- [License][license]

[contributing]: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
[license]: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/blob/main/LICENSE
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v1.3.0

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This release follows v1.2.2 and consists of 1535 changes, contributed…

… by 80 people, leading to 3229 files changed, 241355 insertions( ), 101021 deletions(-).

v1.3.0 is a promotion of release candidate v1.3.0-rc.2 which was originally published 2024-07-10
The source code and selected binaries are available for download at: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/releases/tag/v1.3.0.

The primary release artifact of KubeVirt is the git tree. The release tag is
signed and can be verified using `git tag -v v1.3.0`.

Pre-built containers are published on Quay and can be viewed at: <https://quay.io/kubevirt/>.

Notable changes
---------------

- [PR #12319][Sreeja1725] Add v1.3.0 perf and scale benchmarks data
- [PR #12330][kubevirt-bot] Fix wrong KubeVirtVMIExcessiveMigrations alert calculation in an upgrade scenario.
- [PR #12328][acardace] enable only for VMs with memory >= 1Gi
- [PR #12272][Sreeja1725] Add unit tests to check for API backward compatibility
- [PR #12296][orelmisan] Network binding plugins: Enable the ability to specify compute memory overhead
- [PR #12279][kubevirt-bot] Fix: persistent tpm can be used with vmis containing dots in their name
- [PR #12226][kubevirt-bot] Virt export route has an edge termination of redirect
- [PR #12240][kubevirt-bot] Updated common-instancetypes bundles to v1.0.1
- [PR #12249][kubevirt-bot] Fix missing performance metrics for VMI resources
- [PR #12237][vladikr] Only a single vgpu display option with ramfb will be configured per VMI.
- [PR #12122][kubevirt-bot] Fix VMPools when `LiveUpdate` as `vmRolloutStrategy` is used.
- [PR #12201][kubevirt-bot] fix RerunOnFailure stuck in Provisioning
- [PR #12151][kubevirt-bot] Bugfix: Implement retry mechanism in export server and vmexport
- [PR #12171][kubevirt-bot] `PreferredDiskDedicatedIoThread` is now only applied to `virtio` disk devices
- [PR #12146][kubevirt-bot] Memory Hotplug fixes and stabilization
- [PR #12185][kubevirt-bot] VMs with a single socket and NetworkInterfaceMultiqueue enabled require a restart to hotplug additional CPU sockets.
- [PR #12132][kubevirt-bot] Introduce validatingAdmissionPolicy to restrict node patches on virt-handler
- [PR #12109][acardace] Support Memory Hotplug with Hugepages
- [PR #12009][xpivarc] By enabling NodeRestriction feature gate, Kubevirt now authorize virt-handler's requests to modify VMs.
- [PR #11681][lyarwood] The `CommonInstancetypesDeployment` feature and gate are retrospectively moved to Beta from the 1.2.0 release.
- [PR #12025][fossedihelm] Add descheduler compatibility
- [PR #12097][fossedihelm] Bump k8s deps to 0.30.0
- [PR #12089][jean-edouard] Less privileged virt-operator ClusterRole
- [PR #12064][akalenyu] BugFix: Graceful deletion skipped for any delete call to the VM (not VMI) resource
- [PR #10490][jschintag] Add support for building and running kubevirt on s390x.
- [PR #12079][EdDev] Network hotplug feature is declared as Beta.
- [PR #11455][lyarwood] `LiveUpdates`  of VMs using instance types are now supported with the same caveats as when making changes to a vanilla VM.
- [PR #12000][machadovilaca] Create kubevirt_vmi_launcher_memory_overhead_bytes metric
- [PR #11915][ormergi] The 'passt' core network binding is discontinued and removed.
- [PR #12016][acardace] fix starting VM with Manual RunStrategy
- [PR #11533][alicefr] Implement volume migration and introduce the migration updateVolumesStrategy field
- [PR #11934][assafad] Add kubevirt_vmi_last_connection_timestamp_seconds metric
- [PR #11956][mhenriks] Introduce export.kibevirt.io/v1beta1
- [PR #11996][ShellyKa13] BugFix: Fix restore panic in case of volumesnapshot missing
- [PR #11957][mhenriks] snapshot: Ignore unfreeze error if VMSnapshot deleting
- [PR #11906][machadovilaca] Create kubevirt_vmi_info metric
- [PR #11969][iholder101] Infra components control-plane nodes NoSchedule toleration
- [PR #11955][mhenriks] Introduce snapshot.kibevirt.io/v1beta1
- [PR #11883][orelmisan] Restart of a VM is required when the CPU socket count is reduced
- [PR #11835][talcoh2x] add Intel Gaudi to adopters.
- [PR #11344][aerosouund] Refactor device plugins to use a base plugin and define a common interface
- [PR #11973][fossedihelm] Bug fix: Correctly reflect RestartRequired condition
- [PR #11963][acardace] Fix RerunOnFailure RunStrategy
- [PR #11962][lyarwood] `VirtualMachines` referencing an instance type are now allowed when the `LiveUpdate` feature is enabled and will trigger the `RestartRequired` condition if the reference within the `VirtualMachine` is changed.
- [PR #11942][ido106] Update virtctl to use v1beta1 endpoint for both regular and async image upload
- [PR #11648][kubevirt-bot] Updated common-instancetypes bundles to v1.0.0
- [PR #11659][iholder101] Require scheduling infra components onto control-plane nodes
- [PR #10545][lyarwood] `ControllerRevisions` containing instance types and preferences are now upgraded to their latest available version when the `VirtualMachine` owning them is resync'd by `virt-controller`.
- [PR #11901][EdDev] The 'macvtap' core network binding is discontinued and removed.
- [PR #11922][alromeros] Bugfix: Fix VM manifest rendering in export controller
- [PR #11908][victortoso] sidecar-shim: allow stderr log from binary hooks
- [PR #11729][lyarwood] `spreadOptions` have been introduced to preferences in order to allow for finer grain control of the `preferSpread` `preferredCPUTopology`. This includes the ability to now spread vCPUs across guest visible sockets, cores and threads.
- [PR #11655][acardace] Allow to hotplug vcpus for VMs with CPU requests and/or limits set
- [PR #11701][EdDev] The SLIRP core binding is deprecated and removed.
- [PR #11773][jean-edouard] Persistent TPM/UEFI will use the default storage class if none is specified in the CR.
- [PR #11846][victortoso] SMBios sidecar can be built out-of-tree
- [PR #11788][ormergi] The network-info annotation is now used for mapping between SR-IOV network and the underlying device PCI address
- [PR #11700][alicefr] Add the updateVolumeStrategy field
- [PR #11256][andreabolognani] This version of KubeVirt includes upgraded virtualization technology based on libvirt 10.0.0 and QEMU 8.2.0.
- [PR #11482][brianmcarey] Build KubeVirt with go v1.22.2
- [PR #11641][alicefr] Add kubevirt.io/testWorkloadUpdateMigrationAbortion annotation and a mechanism to abort workload updates
- [PR #11770][alicefr] Fix the live updates for volumes and disks
- [PR #11790][aburdenthehand] Re-adding Cloudflare to our ADOPTERS list
- [PR #11718][fossedihelm] Fix: SEV methods in client-go now satisfy the proxy server configuration, if provided
- [PR #11685][fossedihelm] Updated go version of the client-go to 1.21
- [PR #11618][AlonaKaplan] Extend network binding plugin to support device-info DownwardAPI.
- [PR #11283][assafad] Collect VMI OS info from the Guest agent as `kubevirt_vmi_phase_count` metric labels
- [PR #11676][machadovilaca] Rename rest client metrics to include kubevirt prefix
- [PR #11557][avlitman] New memory statistics added named kubevirt_memory_delta_from_requested_bytes
- [PR #11678][Vicente-Cheng] Improve the handling of ordinal pod interface name for upgrade
- [PR #11653][EdDev] Build the `passt`custom CNI binary statically, for the `passt` network binding plugin.
- [PR #11294][machadovilaca] Fix kubevirt_vm_created_total being broken down by virt-api pod
- [PR #11307][machadovilaca] Add e2e tests for metrics
- [PR #11479][vladikr] virtual machines instance will no longer be stuck in an irrecoverable state after an interrupted postcopy migration. Instead, these will fail and could be restarted again.
- [PR #11416][dhiller] emission of k8s logs when using programmatic focus with `FIt`
- [PR #11272][dharmit] Make 'image' field in hook sidecar annotation optional.
- [PR #11500][iholder101] Support HyperV Passthrough: automatically use all available HyperV features
- [PR #11484][jcanocan] Reduce the downwardMetrics server maximum number of request per second to 1.
- [PR #11498][acardace] Allow to hotplug memory for VMs with memory limits set
- [PR #11470][brianmcarey] Build KubeVirt with Go version 1.21.8
- [PR #11312][alromeros] Improve handling of export resources in virtctl vmexport
- [PR #11367][alromeros] Bugfix: Allow vmexport download redirections by printing logs into stderr
- [PR #11219][alromeros] Bugfix: Improve handling of IOThreads with incompatible buses
- [PR #11149][0xFelix] virtctl: It is possible to import volumes from GCS when creating a VM now
- [PR #11404][avlitman] KubeVirtComponentExceedsRequestedCPU and KubeVirtComponentExceedsRequestedMemory alerts are deprecated; they do not indicate a genuine issue.
- [PR #11331][anjuls] add cloudraft to adopters.
- [PR #11387][alaypatel07] add perf-scale benchmarks for release v1.2
- [PR #11095][ShellyKa13] Expose volumesnapshot error in vmsnapshot object
- [PR #11372][xpivarc] Bug-fix: Fix nil panic if VM update fails
- [PR #11267][mhenriks] BugFix: Ensure DataVolumes created by virt-controller (DataVolumeTemplates) are recreated and owned by the VM in the case of DR and backup/restore.
- [PR #10900][KarstenB] BugFix: Fixed incorrect APIVersion of APIResourceList
- [PR #11306][fossedihelm] fix(ksm): set the `kubevirt.io/ksm-enabled` node label to true if the ksm is managed by KubeVirt, instead of reflect the actual ksm value.
- [PR #11330][jean-edouard] More information in the migration state of VMI / migration objects
- [PR #11264][machadovilaca] Fix perfscale buckets error
- [PR #11183][dhiller] Extend OWNERS for sig-buildsystem
- [PR #11058][fossedihelm] fix(vmclone): delete vmclone resource when the target vm is deleted
- [PR #11265][xpivarc] Bug fix: VM controller doesn't corrupt its cache anymore
- [PR #11205][akalenyu] Fix migration breaking in case the VM has an rng device after hotplugging a block volume on cgroupsv2
- [PR #11051][alromeros] Bugfix: Improve error reporting when fsfreeze fails
- [PR #11156][nunnatsa] Move some verification from the VMI create validation webhook to the CRD
- [PR #11146][RamLavi] node-labeller: Remove obsolete functionalities

Contributors
------------
80 people contributed to this release:

145	fossedihelm <[email protected]>
112	Edward Haas <[email protected]>
65	Orel Misan <[email protected]>
54	Lee Yarwood <[email protected]>
49	Antonio Cardace <[email protected]>
49	Luboslav Pivarc <[email protected]>
46	Alice Frosi <[email protected]>
44	Itamar Holder <[email protected]>
31	Nahshon Unna-Tsameret <[email protected]>
26	Assaf Admi <[email protected]>
25	Shelly Kagan <[email protected]>
24	Ram Lavi <[email protected]>
22	Or Mergi <[email protected]>
21	Or Shoval <[email protected]>
21	bmordeha <[email protected]>
20	Alvaro Romero <[email protected]>
19	Brian Carey <[email protected]>
17	Jed Lejosne <[email protected]>
16	Alex Kalenyuk <[email protected]>
16	Victor Toso <[email protected]>
15	Alona Paz <[email protected]>
15	Michael Henriksen <[email protected]>
13	Felix Matouschek <[email protected]>
13	Jan Schintag <[email protected]>
12	machadovilaca <[email protected]>
11	João Vilaça <[email protected]>
10	Andrea Bolognani <[email protected]>
10	Dan Kenigsberg <[email protected]>
9	Daniel Hiller <[email protected]>
9	Fabian Deutsch <[email protected]>
8	Andrej Krejcir <[email protected]>
7	Vladik Romanovsky <[email protected]>
6	avlitman <[email protected]>
6	sylvain-pierrot <[email protected]>
5	Oren Cohen <[email protected]>
5	Youngjun <[email protected]>
4	Andrew Burden <[email protected]>
4	Dharmit Shah <[email protected]>
4	Edu Gómez Escandell <[email protected]>
3	Ben Oukhanov <[email protected]>
3	Vasiliy Ulyanov <[email protected]>
3	aerosouund <[email protected]>
3	rkishner <[email protected]>
3	svarnam <[email protected]>
2	Ahmad Hafe <[email protected]>
2	Alexander Wels <[email protected]>
2	HF <[email protected]>
2	Harsh Vardhan <[email protected]>
2	Javier Cano Cano <[email protected]>
2	Tushar Jain <[email protected]>
2	Vasiliy Sibirskiy <[email protected]>
2	Vicente Cheng <[email protected]>
2	howard zhang <[email protected]>
2	zhuanlan <[email protected]>
1	Adrian Vladu <[email protected]>
1	Alay Patel <[email protected]>
1	Andrei Kvapil <[email protected]>
1	Anjul Sahu <[email protected]>
1	Arnon Gilboa <[email protected]>
1	Bart Vercoulen <[email protected]>
1	Barthélemy Vessemont <[email protected]>
1	Enrique Llorente <[email protected]>
1	Harshit Gupta <[email protected]>
1	Ido Aharon <[email protected]>
1	Igor Bezukh <[email protected]>
1	Jelmer Vernooij <[email protected]>
1	Karsten Becker <[email protected]>
1	Mark Maglana <[email protected]>
1	Shahaf Bahar <[email protected]>
1	Shirly Radco <[email protected]>
1	Tal Cohen <[email protected]>
1	TheRealSibasishBehera <[email protected]>
1	VitalikButerinEth <[email protected]>
1	anish bista <[email protected]>
1	bcoxford <[email protected]>
1	dshchedr <[email protected]>
1	mountcount <[email protected]>
1	zpeng <[email protected]>

Additional Resources
--------------------
- Mailing list: <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/kubevirt-dev>
- Slack: <https://kubernetes.slack.com/messages/virtualization>
- An easy to use demo: <https://github.com/kubevirt/demo>
- [How to contribute][contributing]
- [License][license]

[contributing]: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
[license]: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/blob/main/LICENSE
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v1.3.0-rc.2

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This release follows v1.2.2 and consists of 1517 changes, contributed…

… by 79 people, leading to 3179 files changed, 219324 insertions( ), 100968 deletions(-).

The source code and selected binaries are available for download at: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/releases/tag/v1.3.0-rc.2.

The primary release artifact of KubeVirt is the git tree. The release tag is
signed and can be verified using `git tag -v v1.3.0-rc.2`.

Pre-built containers are published on Quay and can be viewed at: <https://quay.io/kubevirt/>.

Notable changes
---------------

- [PR #12296][orelmisan] Network binding plugins: Enable the ability to specify compute memory overhead
- [PR #12279][kubevirt-bot] Fix: persistent tpm can be used with vmis containing dots in their name
- [PR #12226][kubevirt-bot] Virt export route has an edge termination of redirect
- [PR #12240][kubevirt-bot] Updated common-instancetypes bundles to v1.0.1
- [PR #12249][kubevirt-bot] Fix missing performance metrics for VMI resources
- [PR #12237][vladikr] Only a single vgpu display option with ramfb will be configured per VMI.
- [PR #12122][kubevirt-bot] Fix VMPools when `LiveUpdate` as `vmRolloutStrategy` is used.
- [PR #12201][kubevirt-bot] fix RerunOnFailure stuck in Provisioning
- [PR #12151][kubevirt-bot] Bugfix: Implement retry mechanism in export server and vmexport
- [PR #12171][kubevirt-bot] `PreferredDiskDedicatedIoThread` is now only applied to `virtio` disk devices
- [PR #12146][kubevirt-bot] Memory Hotplug fixes and stabilization
- [PR #12185][kubevirt-bot] VMs with a single socket and NetworkInterfaceMultiqueue enabled require a restart to hotplug additional CPU sockets.
- [PR #12132][kubevirt-bot] Introduce validatingAdmissionPolicy to restrict node patches on virt-handler
- [PR #12109][acardace] Support Memory Hotplug with Hugepages
- [PR #12009][xpivarc] By enabling NodeRestriction feature gate, Kubevirt now authorize virt-handler's requests to modify VMs.
- [PR #11681][lyarwood] The `CommonInstancetypesDeployment` feature and gate are retrospectively moved to Beta from the 1.2.0 release.
- [PR #12025][fossedihelm] Add descheduler compatibility
- [PR #12097][fossedihelm] Bump k8s deps to 0.30.0
- [PR #12089][jean-edouard] Less privileged virt-operator ClusterRole
- [PR #12064][akalenyu] BugFix: Graceful deletion skipped for any delete call to the VM (not VMI) resource
- [PR #10490][jschintag] Add support for building and running kubevirt on s390x.
- [PR #12079][EdDev] Network hotplug feature is declared as Beta.
- [PR #11455][lyarwood] `LiveUpdates`  of VMs using instance types are now supported with the same caveats as when making changes to a vanilla VM.
- [PR #12000][machadovilaca] Create kubevirt_vmi_launcher_memory_overhead_bytes metric
- [PR #11915][ormergi] The 'passt' core network binding is discontinued and removed.
- [PR #12016][acardace] fix starting VM with Manual RunStrategy
- [PR #11533][alicefr] Implement volume migration and introduce the migration updateVolumesStrategy field
- [PR #11934][assafad] Add kubevirt_vmi_last_connection_timestamp_seconds metric
- [PR #11956][mhenriks] Introduce export.kibevirt.io/v1beta1
- [PR #11996][ShellyKa13] BugFix: Fix restore panic in case of volumesnapshot missing
- [PR #11957][mhenriks] snapshot: Ignore unfreeze error if VMSnapshot deleting
- [PR #11906][machadovilaca] Create kubevirt_vmi_info metric
- [PR #11969][iholder101] Infra components control-plane nodes NoSchedule toleration
- [PR #11955][mhenriks] Introduce snapshot.kibevirt.io/v1beta1
- [PR #11883][orelmisan] Restart of a VM is required when the CPU socket count is reduced
- [PR #11835][talcoh2x] add Intel Gaudi to adopters.
- [PR #11344][aerosouund] Refactor device plugins to use a base plugin and define a common interface
- [PR #11973][fossedihelm] Bug fix: Correctly reflect RestartRequired condition
- [PR #11963][acardace] Fix RerunOnFailure RunStrategy
- [PR #11962][lyarwood] `VirtualMachines` referencing an instance type are now allowed when the `LiveUpdate` feature is enabled and will trigger the `RestartRequired` condition if the reference within the `VirtualMachine` is changed.
- [PR #11942][ido106] Update virtctl to use v1beta1 endpoint for both regular and async image upload
- [PR #11648][kubevirt-bot] Updated common-instancetypes bundles to v1.0.0
- [PR #11659][iholder101] Require scheduling infra components onto control-plane nodes
- [PR #10545][lyarwood] `ControllerRevisions` containing instance types and preferences are now upgraded to their latest available version when the `VirtualMachine` owning them is resync'd by `virt-controller`.
- [PR #11901][EdDev] The 'macvtap' core network binding is discontinued and removed.
- [PR #11922][alromeros] Bugfix: Fix VM manifest rendering in export controller
- [PR #11908][victortoso] sidecar-shim: allow stderr log from binary hooks
- [PR #11729][lyarwood] `spreadOptions` have been introduced to preferences in order to allow for finer grain control of the `preferSpread` `preferredCPUTopology`. This includes the ability to now spread vCPUs across guest visible sockets, cores and threads.
- [PR #11655][acardace] Allow to hotplug vcpus for VMs with CPU requests and/or limits set
- [PR #11701][EdDev] The SLIRP core binding is deprecated and removed.
- [PR #11773][jean-edouard] Persistent TPM/UEFI will use the default storage class if none is specified in the CR.
- [PR #11846][victortoso] SMBios sidecar can be built out-of-tree
- [PR #11788][ormergi] The network-info annotation is now used for mapping between SR-IOV network and the underlying device PCI address
- [PR #11700][alicefr] Add the updateVolumeStrategy field
- [PR #11256][andreabolognani] This version of KubeVirt includes upgraded virtualization technology based on libvirt 10.0.0 and QEMU 8.2.0.
- [PR #11482][brianmcarey] Build KubeVirt with go v1.22.2
- [PR #11641][alicefr] Add kubevirt.io/testWorkloadUpdateMigrationAbortion annotation and a mechanism to abort workload updates
- [PR #11770][alicefr] Fix the live updates for volumes and disks
- [PR #11790][aburdenthehand] Re-adding Cloudflare to our ADOPTERS list
- [PR #11718][fossedihelm] Fix: SEV methods in client-go now satisfy the proxy server configuration, if provided
- [PR #11685][fossedihelm] Updated go version of the client-go to 1.21
- [PR #11618][AlonaKaplan] Extend network binding plugin to support device-info DownwardAPI.
- [PR #11283][assafad] Collect VMI OS info from the Guest agent as `kubevirt_vmi_phase_count` metric labels
- [PR #11676][machadovilaca] Rename rest client metrics to include kubevirt prefix
- [PR #11557][avlitman] New memory statistics added named kubevirt_memory_delta_from_requested_bytes
- [PR #11678][Vicente-Cheng] Improve the handling of ordinal pod interface name for upgrade
- [PR #11653][EdDev] Build the `passt`custom CNI binary statically, for the `passt` network binding plugin.
- [PR #11294][machadovilaca] Fix kubevirt_vm_created_total being broken down by virt-api pod
- [PR #11307][machadovilaca] Add e2e tests for metrics
- [PR #11479][vladikr] virtual machines instance will no longer be stuck in an irrecoverable state after an interrupted postcopy migration. Instead, these will fail and could be restarted again.
- [PR #11416][dhiller] emission of k8s logs when using programmatic focus with `FIt`
- [PR #11272][dharmit] Make 'image' field in hook sidecar annotation optional.
- [PR #11500][iholder101] Support HyperV Passthrough: automatically use all available HyperV features
- [PR #11484][jcanocan] Reduce the downwardMetrics server maximum number of request per second to 1.
- [PR #11498][acardace] Allow to hotplug memory for VMs with memory limits set
- [PR #11470][brianmcarey] Build KubeVirt with Go version 1.21.8
- [PR #11312][alromeros] Improve handling of export resources in virtctl vmexport
- [PR #11367][alromeros] Bugfix: Allow vmexport download redirections by printing logs into stderr
- [PR #11219][alromeros] Bugfix: Improve handling of IOThreads with incompatible buses
- [PR #11149][0xFelix] virtctl: It is possible to import volumes from GCS when creating a VM now
- [PR #11404][avlitman] KubeVirtComponentExceedsRequestedCPU and KubeVirtComponentExceedsRequestedMemory alerts are deprecated; they do not indicate a genuine issue.
- [PR #11331][anjuls] add cloudraft to adopters.
- [PR #11387][alaypatel07] add perf-scale benchmarks for release v1.2
- [PR #11095][ShellyKa13] Expose volumesnapshot error in vmsnapshot object
- [PR #11372][xpivarc] Bug-fix: Fix nil panic if VM update fails
- [PR #11267][mhenriks] BugFix: Ensure DataVolumes created by virt-controller (DataVolumeTemplates) are recreated and owned by the VM in the case of DR and backup/restore.
- [PR #10900][KarstenB] BugFix: Fixed incorrect APIVersion of APIResourceList
- [PR #11306][fossedihelm] fix(ksm): set the `kubevirt.io/ksm-enabled` node label to true if the ksm is managed by KubeVirt, instead of reflect the actual ksm value.
- [PR #11330][jean-edouard] More information in the migration state of VMI / migration objects
- [PR #11264][machadovilaca] Fix perfscale buckets error
- [PR #11183][dhiller] Extend OWNERS for sig-buildsystem
- [PR #11058][fossedihelm] fix(vmclone): delete vmclone resource when the target vm is deleted
- [PR #11265][xpivarc] Bug fix: VM controller doesn't corrupt its cache anymore
- [PR #11205][akalenyu] Fix migration breaking in case the VM has an rng device after hotplugging a block volume on cgroupsv2
- [PR #11051][alromeros] Bugfix: Improve error reporting when fsfreeze fails
- [PR #11156][nunnatsa] Move some verification from the VMI create validation webhook to the CRD
- [PR #11146][RamLavi] node-labeller: Remove obsolete functionalities

Contributors
------------
79 people contributed to this release:

145	fossedihelm <[email protected]>
112	Edward Haas <[email protected]>
65	Orel Misan <[email protected]>
54	Lee Yarwood <[email protected]>
49	Luboslav Pivarc <[email protected]>
46	Alice Frosi <[email protected]>
45	Antonio Cardace <[email protected]>
44	Itamar Holder <[email protected]>
31	Nahshon Unna-Tsameret <[email protected]>
25	Shelly Kagan <[email protected]>
24	Assaf Admi <[email protected]>
24	Ram Lavi <[email protected]>
22	Or Mergi <[email protected]>
21	Or Shoval <[email protected]>
21	bmordeha <[email protected]>
19	Alvaro Romero <[email protected]>
19	Brian Carey <[email protected]>
17	Jed Lejosne <[email protected]>
16	Alex Kalenyuk <[email protected]>
16	Victor Toso <[email protected]>
15	Alona Paz <[email protected]>
15	Michael Henriksen <[email protected]>
13	Felix Matouschek <[email protected]>
13	Jan Schintag <[email protected]>
12	machadovilaca <[email protected]>
11	João Vilaça <[email protected]>
10	Andrea Bolognani <[email protected]>
10	Dan Kenigsberg <[email protected]>
9	Daniel Hiller <[email protected]>
9	Fabian Deutsch <[email protected]>
8	Andrej Krejcir <[email protected]>
7	Vladik Romanovsky <[email protected]>
6	avlitman <[email protected]>
6	sylvain-pierrot <[email protected]>
5	Youngjun <[email protected]>
4	Andrew Burden <[email protected]>
4	Dharmit Shah <[email protected]>
4	Edu Gómez Escandell <[email protected]>
4	Oren Cohen <[email protected]>
3	Ben Oukhanov <[email protected]>
3	Vasiliy Ulyanov <[email protected]>
3	aerosouund <[email protected]>
3	rkishner <[email protected]>
2	Ahmad Hafe <[email protected]>
2	Alexander Wels <[email protected]>
2	HF <[email protected]>
2	Harsh Vardhan <[email protected]>
2	Javier Cano Cano <[email protected]>
2	Tushar Jain <[email protected]>
2	Vasiliy Sibirskiy <[email protected]>
2	Vicente Cheng <[email protected]>
2	howard zhang <[email protected]>
2	zhuanlan <[email protected]>
1	Adrian Vladu <[email protected]>
1	Alay Patel <[email protected]>
1	Andrei Kvapil <[email protected]>
1	Anjul Sahu <[email protected]>
1	Arnon Gilboa <[email protected]>
1	Bart Vercoulen <[email protected]>
1	Barthélemy Vessemont <[email protected]>
1	Enrique Llorente <[email protected]>
1	Harshit Gupta <[email protected]>
1	Ido Aharon <[email protected]>
1	Igor Bezukh <[email protected]>
1	Jelmer Vernooij <[email protected]>
1	Karsten Becker <[email protected]>
1	Mark Maglana <[email protected]>
1	Shahaf Bahar <[email protected]>
1	Shirly Radco <[email protected]>
1	Tal Cohen <[email protected]>
1	TheRealSibasishBehera <[email protected]>
1	VitalikButerinEth <[email protected]>
1	anish bista <[email protected]>
1	bcoxford <[email protected]>
1	dshchedr <[email protected]>
1	mountcount <[email protected]>
1	zpeng <[email protected]>

Additional Resources
--------------------
- Mailing list: <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/kubevirt-dev>
- Slack: <https://kubernetes.slack.com/messages/virtualization>
- An easy to use demo: <https://github.com/kubevirt/demo>
- [How to contribute][contributing]
- [License][license]

[contributing]: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
[license]: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/blob/main/LICENSE
---

v1.3.0-rc.1

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This release follows v1.2.2 and consists of 1490 changes, contributed…

… by 79 people, leading to 3169 files changed, 218361 insertions( ), 100850 deletions(-).

The source code and selected binaries are available for download at: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/releases/tag/v1.3.0-rc.1.

The primary release artifact of KubeVirt is the git tree. The release tag is
signed and can be verified using `git tag -v v1.3.0-rc.1`.

Pre-built containers are published on Quay and can be viewed at: <https://quay.io/kubevirt/>.

Notable changes
---------------

- [PR #12122][kubevirt-bot] Fix VMPools when `LiveUpdate` as `vmRolloutStrategy` is used.
- [PR #12201][kubevirt-bot] fix RerunOnFailure stuck in Provisioning
- [PR #12151][kubevirt-bot] Bugfix: Implement retry mechanism in export server and vmexport
- [PR #12171][kubevirt-bot] `PreferredDiskDedicatedIoThread` is now only applied to `virtio` disk devices
- [PR #12146][kubevirt-bot] Memory Hotplug fixes and stabilization
- [PR #12185][kubevirt-bot] VMs with a single socket and NetworkInterfaceMultiqueue enabled require a restart to hotplug additional CPU sockets.
- [PR #12132][kubevirt-bot] Introduce validatingAdmissionPolicy to restrict node patches on virt-handler
- [PR #12109][acardace] Support Memory Hotplug with Hugepages
- [PR #12009][xpivarc] By enabling NodeRestriction feature gate, Kubevirt now authorize virt-handler's requests to modify VMs.
- [PR #11681][lyarwood] The `CommonInstancetypesDeployment` feature and gate are retrospectively moved to Beta from the 1.2.0 release.
- [PR #12025][fossedihelm] Add descheduler compatibility
- [PR #12097][fossedihelm] Bump k8s deps to 0.30.0
- [PR #12089][jean-edouard] Less privileged virt-operator ClusterRole
- [PR #12064][akalenyu] BugFix: Graceful deletion skipped for any delete call to the VM (not VMI) resource
- [PR #10490][jschintag] Add support for building and running kubevirt on s390x.
- [PR #12079][EdDev] Network hotplug feature is declared as Beta.
- [PR #11455][lyarwood] `LiveUpdates`  of VMs using instance types are now supported with the same caveats as when making changes to a vanilla VM.
- [PR #12000][machadovilaca] Create kubevirt_vmi_launcher_memory_overhead_bytes metric
- [PR #11915][ormergi] The 'passt' core network binding is discontinued and removed.
- [PR #12016][acardace] fix starting VM with Manual RunStrategy
- [PR #11533][alicefr] Implement volume migration and introduce the migration updateVolumesStrategy field
- [PR #11934][assafad] Add kubevirt_vmi_last_connection_timestamp_seconds metric
- [PR #11956][mhenriks] Introduce export.kibevirt.io/v1beta1
- [PR #11996][ShellyKa13] BugFix: Fix restore panic in case of volumesnapshot missing
- [PR #11957][mhenriks] snapshot: Ignore unfreeze error if VMSnapshot deleting
- [PR #11906][machadovilaca] Create kubevirt_vmi_info metric
- [PR #11969][iholder101] Infra components control-plane nodes NoSchedule toleration
- [PR #11955][mhenriks] Introduce snapshot.kibevirt.io/v1beta1
- [PR #11883][orelmisan] Restart of a VM is required when the CPU socket count is reduced
- [PR #11835][talcoh2x] add Intel Gaudi to adopters.
- [PR #11344][aerosouund] Refactor device plugins to use a base plugin and define a common interface
- [PR #11973][fossedihelm] Bug fix: Correctly reflect RestartRequired condition
- [PR #11963][acardace] Fix RerunOnFailure RunStrategy
- [PR #11962][lyarwood] `VirtualMachines` referencing an instance type are now allowed when the `LiveUpdate` feature is enabled and will trigger the `RestartRequired` condition if the reference within the `VirtualMachine` is changed.
- [PR #11942][ido106] Update virtctl to use v1beta1 endpoint for both regular and async image upload
- [PR #11648][kubevirt-bot] Updated common-instancetypes bundles to v1.0.0
- [PR #11659][iholder101] Require scheduling infra components onto control-plane nodes
- [PR #10545][lyarwood] `ControllerRevisions` containing instance types and preferences are now upgraded to their latest available version when the `VirtualMachine` owning them is resync'd by `virt-controller`.
- [PR #11901][EdDev] The 'macvtap' core network binding is discontinued and removed.
- [PR #11922][alromeros] Bugfix: Fix VM manifest rendering in export controller
- [PR #11908][victortoso] sidecar-shim: allow stderr log from binary hooks
- [PR #11729][lyarwood] `spreadOptions` have been introduced to preferences in order to allow for finer grain control of the `preferSpread` `preferredCPUTopology`. This includes the ability to now spread vCPUs across guest visible sockets, cores and threads.
- [PR #11655][acardace] Allow to hotplug vcpus for VMs with CPU requests and/or limits set
- [PR #11701][EdDev] The SLIRP core binding is deprecated and removed.
- [PR #11773][jean-edouard] Persistent TPM/UEFI will use the default storage class if none is specified in the CR.
- [PR #11846][victortoso] SMBios sidecar can be built out-of-tree
- [PR #11788][ormergi] The network-info annotation is now used for mapping between SR-IOV network and the underlying device PCI address
- [PR #11700][alicefr] Add the updateVolumeStrategy field
- [PR #11256][andreabolognani] This version of KubeVirt includes upgraded virtualization technology based on libvirt 10.0.0 and QEMU 8.2.0.
- [PR #11482][brianmcarey] Build KubeVirt with go v1.22.2
- [PR #11641][alicefr] Add kubevirt.io/testWorkloadUpdateMigrationAbortion annotation and a mechanism to abort workload updates
- [PR #11770][alicefr] Fix the live updates for volumes and disks
- [PR #11790][aburdenthehand] Re-adding Cloudflare to our ADOPTERS list
- [PR #11718][fossedihelm] Fix: SEV methods in client-go now satisfy the proxy server configuration, if provided
- [PR #11685][fossedihelm] Updated go version of the client-go to 1.21
- [PR #11618][AlonaKaplan] Extend network binding plugin to support device-info DownwardAPI.
- [PR #11283][assafad] Collect VMI OS info from the Guest agent as `kubevirt_vmi_phase_count` metric labels
- [PR #11676][machadovilaca] Rename rest client metrics to include kubevirt prefix
- [PR #11557][avlitman] New memory statistics added named kubevirt_memory_delta_from_requested_bytes
- [PR #11678][Vicente-Cheng] Improve the handling of ordinal pod interface name for upgrade
- [PR #11653][EdDev] Build the `passt`custom CNI binary statically, for the `passt` network binding plugin.
- [PR #11294][machadovilaca] Fix kubevirt_vm_created_total being broken down by virt-api pod
- [PR #11307][machadovilaca] Add e2e tests for metrics
- [PR #11479][vladikr] virtual machines instance will no longer be stuck in an irrecoverable state after an interrupted postcopy migration. Instead, these will fail and could be restarted again.
- [PR #11416][dhiller] emission of k8s logs when using programmatic focus with `FIt`
- [PR #11272][dharmit] Make 'image' field in hook sidecar annotation optional.
- [PR #11500][iholder101] Support HyperV Passthrough: automatically use all available HyperV features
- [PR #11484][jcanocan] Reduce the downwardMetrics server maximum number of request per second to 1.
- [PR #11498][acardace] Allow to hotplug memory for VMs with memory limits set
- [PR #11470][brianmcarey] Build KubeVirt with Go version 1.21.8
- [PR #11312][alromeros] Improve handling of export resources in virtctl vmexport
- [PR #11367][alromeros] Bugfix: Allow vmexport download redirections by printing logs into stderr
- [PR #11219][alromeros] Bugfix: Improve handling of IOThreads with incompatible buses
- [PR #11149][0xFelix] virtctl: It is possible to import volumes from GCS when creating a VM now
- [PR #11404][avlitman] KubeVirtComponentExceedsRequestedCPU and KubeVirtComponentExceedsRequestedMemory alerts are deprecated; they do not indicate a genuine issue.
- [PR #11331][anjuls] add cloudraft to adopters.
- [PR #11387][alaypatel07] add perf-scale benchmarks for release v1.2
- [PR #11095][ShellyKa13] Expose volumesnapshot error in vmsnapshot object
- [PR #11372][xpivarc] Bug-fix: Fix nil panic if VM update fails
- [PR #11267][mhenriks] BugFix: Ensure DataVolumes created by virt-controller (DataVolumeTemplates) are recreated and owned by the VM in the case of DR and backup/restore.
- [PR #10900][KarstenB] BugFix: Fixed incorrect APIVersion of APIResourceList
- [PR #11306][fossedihelm] fix(ksm): set the `kubevirt.io/ksm-enabled` node label to true if the ksm is managed by KubeVirt, instead of reflect the actual ksm value.
- [PR #11330][jean-edouard] More information in the migration state of VMI / migration objects
- [PR #11264][machadovilaca] Fix perfscale buckets error
- [PR #11183][dhiller] Extend OWNERS for sig-buildsystem
- [PR #11058][fossedihelm] fix(vmclone): delete vmclone resource when the target vm is deleted
- [PR #11265][xpivarc] Bug fix: VM controller doesn't corrupt its cache anymore
- [PR #11205][akalenyu] Fix migration breaking in case the VM has an rng device after hotplugging a block volume on cgroupsv2
- [PR #11051][alromeros] Bugfix: Improve error reporting when fsfreeze fails
- [PR #11156][nunnatsa] Move some verification from the VMI create validation webhook to the CRD
- [PR #11146][RamLavi] node-labeller: Remove obsolete functionalities

Contributors
------------
79 people contributed to this release:

144	fossedihelm <[email protected]>
112	Edward Haas <[email protected]>
60	Orel Misan <[email protected]>
54	Lee Yarwood <[email protected]>
49	Luboslav Pivarc <[email protected]>
46	Alice Frosi <[email protected]>
44	Itamar Holder <[email protected]>
38	Antonio Cardace <[email protected]>
31	Nahshon Unna-Tsameret <[email protected]>
25	Shelly Kagan <[email protected]>
24	Assaf Admi <[email protected]>
24	Ram Lavi <[email protected]>
22	Or Mergi <[email protected]>
21	Or Shoval <[email protected]>
21	bmordeha <[email protected]>
19	Alvaro Romero <[email protected]>
19	Brian Carey <[email protected]>
17	Jed Lejosne <[email protected]>
16	Alex Kalenyuk <[email protected]>
16	Victor Toso <[email protected]>
15	Alona Paz <[email protected]>
15	Michael Henriksen <[email protected]>
13	Felix Matouschek <[email protected]>
13	Jan Schintag <[email protected]>
11	João Vilaça <[email protected]>
10	Andrea Bolognani <[email protected]>
10	Dan Kenigsberg <[email protected]>
10	machadovilaca <[email protected]>
9	Daniel Hiller <[email protected]>
9	Fabian Deutsch <[email protected]>
8	Andrej Krejcir <[email protected]>
6	avlitman <[email protected]>
6	sylvain-pierrot <[email protected]>
5	Vladik Romanovsky <[email protected]>
5	Youngjun <[email protected]>
4	Andrew Burden <[email protected]>
4	Dharmit Shah <[email protected]>
4	Edu Gómez Escandell <[email protected]>
4	Oren Cohen <[email protected]>
3	Ben Oukhanov <[email protected]>
3	Vasiliy Ulyanov <[email protected]>
3	aerosouund <[email protected]>
3	rkishner <[email protected]>
2	Ahmad Hafe <[email protected]>
2	HF <[email protected]>
2	Harsh Vardhan <[email protected]>
2	Javier Cano Cano <[email protected]>
2	Tushar Jain <[email protected]>
2	Vasiliy Sibirskiy <[email protected]>
2	Vicente Cheng <[email protected]>
2	howard zhang <[email protected]>
2	zhuanlan <[email protected]>
1	Adrian Vladu <[email protected]>
1	Alay Patel <[email protected]>
1	Alexander Wels <[email protected]>
1	Andrei Kvapil <[email protected]>
1	Anjul Sahu <[email protected]>
1	Arnon Gilboa <[email protected]>
1	Bart Vercoulen <[email protected]>
1	Barthélemy Vessemont <[email protected]>
1	Enrique Llorente <[email protected]>
1	Harshit Gupta <[email protected]>
1	Ido Aharon <[email protected]>
1	Igor Bezukh <[email protected]>
1	Jelmer Vernooij <[email protected]>
1	Karsten Becker <[email protected]>
1	Mark Maglana <[email protected]>
1	Shahaf Bahar <[email protected]>
1	Shirly Radco <[email protected]>
1	Tal Cohen <[email protected]>
1	TheRealSibasishBehera <[email protected]>
1	VitalikButerinEth <[email protected]>
1	anish bista <[email protected]>
1	bcoxford <[email protected]>
1	dshchedr <[email protected]>
1	mountcount <[email protected]>
1	zpeng <[email protected]>

Additional Resources
--------------------
- Mailing list: <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/kubevirt-dev>
- Slack: <https://kubernetes.slack.com/messages/virtualization>
- An easy to use demo: <https://github.com/kubevirt/demo>
- [How to contribute][contributing]
- [License][license]

[contributing]: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
[license]: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/blob/main/LICENSE
---

v1.3.0-rc.0

Toggle v1.3.0-rc.0's commit message

Verified

This tag was signed with the committer’s verified signature.
This release follows v1.2.2 and consists of 1456 changes, contributed…

… by 79 people, leading to 3166 files changed, 217035 insertions( ), 100524 deletions(-).

The source code and selected binaries are available for download at: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/releases/tag/v1.3.0-rc.0.

The primary release artifact of KubeVirt is the git tree. The release tag is
signed and can be verified using `git tag -v v1.3.0-rc.0`.

Pre-built containers are published on Quay and can be viewed at: <https://quay.io/kubevirt/>.

Notable changes
---------------

- [PR #12132][kubevirt-bot] Introduce validatingAdmissionPolicy to restrict node patches on virt-handler
- [PR #12109][acardace] Support Memory Hotplug with Hugepages
- [PR #12009][xpivarc] By enabling NodeRestriction feature gate, Kubevirt now authorize virt-handler's requests to modify VMs.
- [PR #11681][lyarwood] The `CommonInstancetypesDeployment` feature and gate are retrospectively moved to Beta from the 1.2.0 release.
- [PR #12025][fossedihelm] Add descheduler compatibility
- [PR #12097][fossedihelm] Bump k8s deps to 0.30.0
- [PR #12089][jean-edouard] Less privileged virt-operator ClusterRole
- [PR #12064][akalenyu] BugFix: Graceful deletion skipped for any delete call to the VM (not VMI) resource
- [PR #10490][jschintag] Add support for building and running kubevirt on s390x.
- [PR #12079][EdDev] Network hotplug feature is declared as Beta.
- [PR #11455][lyarwood] `LiveUpdates`  of VMs using instance types are now supported with the same caveats as when making changes to a vanilla VM.
- [PR #12000][machadovilaca] Create kubevirt_vmi_launcher_memory_overhead_bytes metric
- [PR #11915][ormergi] The 'passt' core network binding is discontinued and removed.
- [PR #12016][acardace] fix starting VM with Manual RunStrategy
- [PR #11533][alicefr] Implement volume migration and introduce the migration updateVolumesStrategy field
- [PR #11934][assafad] Add kubevirt_vmi_last_connection_timestamp_seconds metric
- [PR #11956][mhenriks] Introduce export.kibevirt.io/v1beta1
- [PR #11996][ShellyKa13] BugFix: Fix restore panic in case of volumesnapshot missing
- [PR #11957][mhenriks] snapshot: Ignore unfreeze error if VMSnapshot deleting
- [PR #11906][machadovilaca] Create kubevirt_vmi_info metric
- [PR #11969][iholder101] Infra components control-plane nodes NoSchedule toleration
- [PR #11955][mhenriks] Introduce snapshot.kibevirt.io/v1beta1
- [PR #11883][orelmisan] Restart of a VM is required when the CPU socket count is reduced
- [PR #11835][talcoh2x] add Intel Gaudi to adopters.
- [PR #11344][aerosouund] Refactor device plugins to use a base plugin and define a common interface
- [PR #11973][fossedihelm] Bug fix: Correctly reflect RestartRequired condition
- [PR #11963][acardace] Fix RerunOnFailure RunStrategy
- [PR #11962][lyarwood] `VirtualMachines` referencing an instance type are now allowed when the `LiveUpdate` feature is enabled and will trigger the `RestartRequired` condition if the reference within the `VirtualMachine` is changed.
- [PR #11942][ido106] Update virtctl to use v1beta1 endpoint for both regular and async image upload
- [PR #11648][kubevirt-bot] Updated common-instancetypes bundles to v1.0.0
- [PR #11659][iholder101] Require scheduling infra components onto control-plane nodes
- [PR #10545][lyarwood] `ControllerRevisions` containing instance types and preferences are now upgraded to their latest available version when the `VirtualMachine` owning them is resync'd by `virt-controller`.
- [PR #11901][EdDev] The 'macvtap' core network binding is discontinued and removed.
- [PR #11922][alromeros] Bugfix: Fix VM manifest rendering in export controller
- [PR #11908][victortoso] sidecar-shim: allow stderr log from binary hooks
- [PR #11729][lyarwood] `spreadOptions` have been introduced to preferences in order to allow for finer grain control of the `preferSpread` `preferredCPUTopology`. This includes the ability to now spread vCPUs across guest visible sockets, cores and threads.
- [PR #11655][acardace] Allow to hotplug vcpus for VMs with CPU requests and/or limits set
- [PR #11701][EdDev] The SLIRP core binding is deprecated and removed.
- [PR #11773][jean-edouard] Persistent TPM/UEFI will use the default storage class if none is specified in the CR.
- [PR #11846][victortoso] SMBios sidecar can be built out-of-tree
- [PR #11788][ormergi] The network-info annotation is now used for mapping between SR-IOV network and the underlying device PCI address
- [PR #11700][alicefr] Add the updateVolumeStrategy field
- [PR #11256][andreabolognani] This version of KubeVirt includes upgraded virtualization technology based on libvirt 10.0.0 and QEMU 8.2.0.
- [PR #11482][brianmcarey] Build KubeVirt with go v1.22.2
- [PR #11641][alicefr] Add kubevirt.io/testWorkloadUpdateMigrationAbortion annotation and a mechanism to abort workload updates
- [PR #11770][alicefr] Fix the live updates for volumes and disks
- [PR #11790][aburdenthehand] Re-adding Cloudflare to our ADOPTERS list
- [PR #11718][fossedihelm] Fix: SEV methods in client-go now satisfy the proxy server configuration, if provided
- [PR #11685][fossedihelm] Updated go version of the client-go to 1.21
- [PR #11618][AlonaKaplan] Extend network binding plugin to support device-info DownwardAPI.
- [PR #11283][assafad] Collect VMI OS info from the Guest agent as `kubevirt_vmi_phase_count` metric labels
- [PR #11676][machadovilaca] Rename rest client metrics to include kubevirt prefix
- [PR #11557][avlitman] New memory statistics added named kubevirt_memory_delta_from_requested_bytes
- [PR #11678][Vicente-Cheng] Improve the handling of ordinal pod interface name for upgrade
- [PR #11653][EdDev] Build the `passt`custom CNI binary statically, for the `passt` network binding plugin.
- [PR #11294][machadovilaca] Fix kubevirt_vm_created_total being broken down by virt-api pod
- [PR #11307][machadovilaca] Add e2e tests for metrics
- [PR #11479][vladikr] virtual machines instance will no longer be stuck in an irrecoverable state after an interrupted postcopy migration. Instead, these will fail and could be restarted again.
- [PR #11416][dhiller] emission of k8s logs when using programmatic focus with `FIt`
- [PR #11272][dharmit] Make 'image' field in hook sidecar annotation optional.
- [PR #11500][iholder101] Support HyperV Passthrough: automatically use all available HyperV features
- [PR #11484][jcanocan] Reduce the downwardMetrics server maximum number of request per second to 1.
- [PR #11498][acardace] Allow to hotplug memory for VMs with memory limits set
- [PR #11470][brianmcarey] Build KubeVirt with Go version 1.21.8
- [PR #11312][alromeros] Improve handling of export resources in virtctl vmexport
- [PR #11367][alromeros] Bugfix: Allow vmexport download redirections by printing logs into stderr
- [PR #11219][alromeros] Bugfix: Improve handling of IOThreads with incompatible buses
- [PR #11149][0xFelix] virtctl: It is possible to import volumes from GCS when creating a VM now
- [PR #11404][avlitman] KubeVirtComponentExceedsRequestedCPU and KubeVirtComponentExceedsRequestedMemory alerts are deprecated; they do not indicate a genuine issue.
- [PR #11331][anjuls] add cloudraft to adopters.
- [PR #11387][alaypatel07] add perf-scale benchmarks for release v1.2
- [PR #11095][ShellyKa13] Expose volumesnapshot error in vmsnapshot object
- [PR #11372][xpivarc] Bug-fix: Fix nil panic if VM update fails
- [PR #11267][mhenriks] BugFix: Ensure DataVolumes created by virt-controller (DataVolumeTemplates) are recreated and owned by the VM in the case of DR and backup/restore.
- [PR #10900][KarstenB] BugFix: Fixed incorrect APIVersion of APIResourceList
- [PR #11306][fossedihelm] fix(ksm): set the `kubevirt.io/ksm-enabled` node label to true if the ksm is managed by KubeVirt, instead of reflect the actual ksm value.
- [PR #11330][jean-edouard] More information in the migration state of VMI / migration objects
- [PR #11264][machadovilaca] Fix perfscale buckets error
- [PR #11183][dhiller] Extend OWNERS for sig-buildsystem
- [PR #11058][fossedihelm] fix(vmclone): delete vmclone resource when the target vm is deleted
- [PR #11265][xpivarc] Bug fix: VM controller doesn't corrupt its cache anymore
- [PR #11205][akalenyu] Fix migration breaking in case the VM has an rng device after hotplugging a block volume on cgroupsv2
- [PR #11051][alromeros] Bugfix: Improve error reporting when fsfreeze fails
- [PR #11156][nunnatsa] Move some verification from the VMI create validation webhook to the CRD
- [PR #11146][RamLavi] node-labeller: Remove obsolete functionalities

Contributors
------------
79 people contributed to this release:

144	fossedihelm <[email protected]>
112	Edward Haas <[email protected]>
60	Orel Misan <[email protected]>
53	Lee Yarwood <[email protected]>
49	Luboslav Pivarc <[email protected]>
44	Alice Frosi <[email protected]>
44	Itamar Holder <[email protected]>
31	Nahshon Unna-Tsameret <[email protected]>
25	Shelly Kagan <[email protected]>
24	Assaf Admi <[email protected]>
24	Ram Lavi <[email protected]>
22	Or Mergi <[email protected]>
21	Antonio Cardace <[email protected]>
21	Or Shoval <[email protected]>
21	bmordeha <[email protected]>
19	Brian Carey <[email protected]>
17	Jed Lejosne <[email protected]>
16	Alex Kalenyuk <[email protected]>
16	Victor Toso <[email protected]>
15	Alona Paz <[email protected]>
15	Michael Henriksen <[email protected]>
13	Alvaro Romero <[email protected]>
13	Jan Schintag <[email protected]>
12	Felix Matouschek <[email protected]>
11	João Vilaça <[email protected]>
10	Andrea Bolognani <[email protected]>
10	Dan Kenigsberg <[email protected]>
10	machadovilaca <[email protected]>
9	Daniel Hiller <[email protected]>
9	Fabian Deutsch <[email protected]>
8	Andrej Krejcir <[email protected]>
6	avlitman <[email protected]>
6	sylvain-pierrot <[email protected]>
5	Vladik Romanovsky <[email protected]>
5	Youngjun <[email protected]>
4	Andrew Burden <[email protected]>
4	Dharmit Shah <[email protected]>
4	Edu Gómez Escandell <[email protected]>
4	Oren Cohen <[email protected]>
3	Ben Oukhanov <[email protected]>
3	Vasiliy Ulyanov <[email protected]>
3	aerosouund <[email protected]>
3	rkishner <[email protected]>
2	Ahmad Hafe <[email protected]>
2	HF <[email protected]>
2	Harsh Vardhan <[email protected]>
2	Javier Cano Cano <[email protected]>
2	Tushar Jain <[email protected]>
2	Vasiliy Sibirskiy <[email protected]>
2	Vicente Cheng <[email protected]>
2	howard zhang <[email protected]>
2	zhuanlan <[email protected]>
1	Adrian Vladu <[email protected]>
1	Alay Patel <[email protected]>
1	Alexander Wels <[email protected]>
1	Andrei Kvapil <[email protected]>
1	Anjul Sahu <[email protected]>
1	Arnon Gilboa <[email protected]>
1	Bart Vercoulen <[email protected]>
1	Barthélemy Vessemont <[email protected]>
1	Enrique Llorente <[email protected]>
1	Harshit Gupta <[email protected]>
1	Ido Aharon <[email protected]>
1	Igor Bezukh <[email protected]>
1	Jelmer Vernooij <[email protected]>
1	Karsten Becker <[email protected]>
1	Mark Maglana <[email protected]>
1	Shahaf Bahar <[email protected]>
1	Shirly Radco <[email protected]>
1	Tal Cohen <[email protected]>
1	TheRealSibasishBehera <[email protected]>
1	VitalikButerinEth <[email protected]>
1	anish bista <[email protected]>
1	bcoxford <[email protected]>
1	dshchedr <[email protected]>
1	mountcount <[email protected]>
1	zpeng <[email protected]>

Additional Resources
--------------------
- Mailing list: <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/kubevirt-dev>
- Slack: <https://kubernetes.slack.com/messages/virtualization>
- An easy to use demo: <https://github.com/kubevirt/demo>
- [How to contribute][contributing]
- [License][license]

[contributing]: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
[license]: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/blob/main/LICENSE
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v1.2.2

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acardace Antonio Cardace
This release follows v1.2.1 and consists of 7 changes, contributed by…

… 3 people, leading to 4 files changed, 272 insertions( ), 55 deletions(-).

The source code and selected binaries are available for download at: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/releases/tag/v1.2.2.

The primary release artifact of KubeVirt is the git tree. The release tag is
signed and can be verified using `git tag -v v1.2.2`.

Pre-built containers are published on Quay and can be viewed at: <https://quay.io/kubevirt/>.

Notable changes
---------------

- [PR #12056][acardace] fix starting VM with Manual RunStrategy
- [PR #12034][acardace] Allow to hotplug vcpus for VMs with CPU requests and/or limits set

Contributors
------------
3 people contributed to this release:

5	Antonio Cardace <[email protected]>

Additional Resources
--------------------
- Mailing list: <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/kubevirt-dev>
- Slack: <https://kubernetes.slack.com/messages/virtualization>
- An easy to use demo: <https://github.com/kubevirt/demo>
- [How to contribute][contributing]
- [License][license]

[contributing]: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
[license]: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/blob/main/LICENSE
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v1.3.0-beta.0

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This release follows v1.2.1 and consists of 1221 changes, contributed…

… by 75 people, leading to 1374 files changed, 52615 insertions( ), 35039 deletions(-).

The source code and selected binaries are available for download at: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/releases/tag/v1.3.0-beta.0.

The primary release artifact of KubeVirt is the git tree. The release tag is
signed and can be verified using `git tag -v v1.3.0-beta.0`.

Pre-built containers are published on Quay and can be viewed at: <https://quay.io/kubevirt/>.

Notable changes
---------------

- [PR #11969][iholder101] Infra components control-plane nodes NoSchedule toleration
- [PR #11955][mhenriks] Introduce snapshot.kibevirt.io/v1beta1
- [PR #11883][orelmisan] Restart of a VM is required when the CPU socket count is reduced
- [PR #11835][talcoh2x] add Intel Gaudi to adopters.
- [PR #11344][aerosouund] Refactor device plugins to use a base plugin and define a common interface
- [PR #11973][fossedihelm] Bug fix: Correctly reflect RestartRequired condition
- [PR #11963][acardace] Fix RerunOnFailure RunStrategy
- [PR #11962][lyarwood] `VirtualMachines` referencing an instance type are now allowed when the `LiveUpdate` feature is enabled and will trigger the `RestartRequired` condition if the reference within the `VirtualMachine` is changed.
- [PR #11942][ido106] Update virtctl to use v1beta1 endpoint for both regular and async image upload
- [PR #11648][kubevirt-bot] Updated common-instancetypes bundles to v1.0.0
- [PR #11659][iholder101] Require scheduling infra components onto control-plane nodes
- [PR #10545][lyarwood] `ControllerRevisions` containing instance types and preferences are now upgraded to their latest available version when the `VirtualMachine` owning them is resync'd by `virt-controller`.
- [PR #11901][EdDev] The 'macvtap' core network binding is discontinued and removed.
- [PR #11922][alromeros] Bugfix: Fix VM manifest rendering in export controller
- [PR #11908][victortoso] sidecar-shim: allow stderr log from binary hooks
- [PR #11729][lyarwood] `spreadOptions` have been introduced to preferences in order to allow for finer grain control of the `preferSpread` `preferredCPUTopology`. This includes the ability to now spread vCPUs across guest visible sockets, cores and threads.
- [PR #11655][acardace] Allow to hotplug vcpus for VMs with CPU requests and/or limits set
- [PR #11701][EdDev] The SLIRP core binding is deprecated and removed.
- [PR #11773][jean-edouard] Persistent TPM/UEFI will use the default storage class if none is specified in the CR.
- [PR #11846][victortoso] SMBios sidecar can be built out-of-tree
- [PR #11788][ormergi] The network-info annotation is now used for mapping between SR-IOV network and the underlying device PCI address
- [PR #11700][alicefr] Add the updateVolumeStrategy field
- [PR #11256][andreabolognani] This version of KubeVirt includes upgraded virtualization technology based on libvirt 10.0.0 and QEMU 8.2.0.
- [PR #11482][brianmcarey] Build KubeVirt with go v1.22.2
- [PR #11641][alicefr] Add kubevirt.io/testWorkloadUpdateMigrationAbortion annotation and a mechanism to abort workload updates
- [PR #11770][alicefr] Fix the live updates for volumes and disks
- [PR #11790][aburdenthehand] Re-adding Cloudflare to our ADOPTERS list
- [PR #11718][fossedihelm] Fix: SEV methods in client-go now satisfy the proxy server configuration, if provided
- [PR #11685][fossedihelm] Updated go version of the client-go to 1.21
- [PR #11618][AlonaKaplan] Extend network binding plugin to support device-info DownwardAPI.
- [PR #11283][assafad] Collect VMI OS info from the Guest agent as `kubevirt_vmi_phase_count` metric labels
- [PR #11676][machadovilaca] Rename rest client metrics to include kubevirt prefix
- [PR #11557][avlitman] New memory statistics added named kubevirt_memory_delta_from_requested_bytes
- [PR #11678][Vicente-Cheng] Improve the handling of ordinal pod interface name for upgrade
- [PR #11653][EdDev] Build the `passt`custom CNI binary statically, for the `passt` network binding plugin.
- [PR #11294][machadovilaca] Fix kubevirt_vm_created_total being broken down by virt-api pod
- [PR #11307][machadovilaca] Add e2e tests for metrics
- [PR #11479][vladikr] virtual machines instance will no longer be stuck in an irrecoverable state after an interrupted postcopy migration. Instead, these will fail and could be restarted again.
- [PR #11416][dhiller] emission of k8s logs when using programmatic focus with `FIt`
- [PR #11272][dharmit] Make 'image' field in hook sidecar annotation optional.
- [PR #11500][iholder101] Support HyperV Passthrough: automatically use all available HyperV features
- [PR #11484][jcanocan] Reduce the downwardMetrics server maximum number of request per second to 1.
- [PR #11498][acardace] Allow to hotplug memory for VMs with memory limits set
- [PR #11470][brianmcarey] Build KubeVirt with Go version 1.21.8
- [PR #11312][alromeros] Improve handling of export resources in virtctl vmexport
- [PR #11367][alromeros] Bugfix: Allow vmexport download redirections by printing logs into stderr
- [PR #11219][alromeros] Bugfix: Improve handling of IOThreads with incompatible buses
- [PR #11149][0xFelix] virtctl: It is possible to import volumes from GCS when creating a VM now
- [PR #11404][avlitman] KubeVirtComponentExceedsRequestedCPU and KubeVirtComponentExceedsRequestedMemory alerts are deprecated; they do not indicate a genuine issue.
- [PR #11331][anjuls] add cloudraft to adopters.
- [PR #11387][alaypatel07] add perf-scale benchmarks for release v1.2
- [PR #11095][ShellyKa13] Expose volumesnapshot error in vmsnapshot object
- [PR #11372][xpivarc] Bug-fix: Fix nil panic if VM update fails
- [PR #11267][mhenriks] BugFix: Ensure DataVolumes created by virt-controller (DataVolumeTemplates) are recreated and owned by the VM in the case of DR and backup/restore.
- [PR #10900][KarstenB] BugFix: Fixed incorrect APIVersion of APIResourceList
- [PR #11306][fossedihelm] fix(ksm): set the `kubevirt.io/ksm-enabled` node label to true if the ksm is managed by KubeVirt, instead of reflect the actual ksm value.
- [PR #11330][jean-edouard] More information in the migration state of VMI / migration objects
- [PR #11264][machadovilaca] Fix perfscale buckets error
- [PR #11183][dhiller] Extend OWNERS for sig-buildsystem
- [PR #11058][fossedihelm] fix(vmclone): delete vmclone resource when the target vm is deleted
- [PR #11265][xpivarc] Bug fix: VM controller doesn't corrupt its cache anymore
- [PR #11205][akalenyu] Fix migration breaking in case the VM has an rng device after hotplugging a block volume on cgroupsv2
- [PR #11051][alromeros] Bugfix: Improve error reporting when fsfreeze fails
- [PR #11156][nunnatsa] Move some verification from the VMI create validation webhook to the CRD
- [PR #11146][RamLavi] node-labeller: Remove obsolete functionalities

Contributors
------------
75 people contributed to this release:

126	fossedihelm <[email protected]>
97	Edward Haas <[email protected]>
57	Orel Misan <[email protected]>
43	Lee Yarwood <[email protected]>
42	Itamar Holder <[email protected]>
36	Luboslav Pivarc <[email protected]>
23	Alice Frosi <[email protected]>
22	Shelly Kagan <[email protected]>
21	Or Shoval <[email protected]>
19	Nahshon Unna-Tsameret <[email protected]>
18	Antonio Cardace <[email protected]>
18	Assaf Admi <[email protected]>
18	Brian Carey <[email protected]>
18	Ram Lavi <[email protected]>
16	Jed Lejosne <[email protected]>
16	Or Mergi <[email protected]>
16	bmordeha <[email protected]>
15	Alona Paz <[email protected]>
13	Alvaro Romero <[email protected]>
11	Alex Kalenyuk <[email protected]>
11	Felix Matouschek <[email protected]>
11	João Vilaça <[email protected]>
10	Dan Kenigsberg <[email protected]>
9	Daniel Hiller <[email protected]>
9	Fabian Deutsch <[email protected]>
9	Victor Toso <[email protected]>
8	Andrea Bolognani <[email protected]>
8	machadovilaca <[email protected]>
7	Michael Henriksen <[email protected]>
6	Jan Schintag <[email protected]>
6	avlitman <[email protected]>
6	sylvain-pierrot <[email protected]>
5	Vladik Romanovsky <[email protected]>
5	Youngjun <[email protected]>
4	Andrew Burden <[email protected]>
4	Dharmit Shah <[email protected]>
4	Edu Gómez Escandell <[email protected]>
4	Oren Cohen <[email protected]>
3	Ben Oukhanov <[email protected]>
3	Vasiliy Ulyanov <[email protected]>
3	aerosouund <[email protected]>
3	rkishner <[email protected]>
2	HF <[email protected]>
2	Javier Cano Cano <[email protected]>
2	Tushar Jain <[email protected]>
2	Vasiliy Sibirskiy <[email protected]>
2	Vicente Cheng <[email protected]>
2	howard zhang <[email protected]>
2	zhuanlan <[email protected]>
1	Adrian Vladu <[email protected]>
1	Alay Patel <[email protected]>
1	Andrei Kvapil <[email protected]>
1	Andrej Krejcir <[email protected]>
1	Anjul Sahu <[email protected]>
1	Arnon Gilboa <[email protected]>
1	Bart Vercoulen <[email protected]>
1	Barthélemy Vessemont <[email protected]>
1	Enrique Llorente <[email protected]>
1	Harshit Gupta <[email protected]>
1	Ido Aharon <[email protected]>
1	Igor Bezukh <[email protected]>
1	Jelmer Vernooij <[email protected]>
1	Karsten Becker <[email protected]>
1	Mark Maglana <[email protected]>
1	Shahaf Bahar <[email protected]>
1	Shirly Radco <[email protected]>
1	Tal Cohen <[email protected]>
1	TheRealSibasishBehera <[email protected]>
1	anish bista <[email protected]>
1	bcoxford <[email protected]>
1	dshchedr <[email protected]>
1	mountcount <[email protected]>
1	zpeng <[email protected]>

Additional Resources
--------------------
- Mailing list: <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/kubevirt-dev>
- Slack: <https://kubernetes.slack.com/messages/virtualization>
- An easy to use demo: <https://github.com/kubevirt/demo>
- [How to contribute][contributing]
- [License][license]

[contributing]: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
[license]: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/blob/main/LICENSE
---

v1.2.1

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acardace Antonio Cardace
This release follows v1.2.0 and consists of 288 changes, contributed …

…by 31 people, leading to 423 files changed, 13593 insertions( ), 11123 deletions(-).

The source code and selected binaries are available for download at: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/releases/tag/v1.2.1.

The primary release artifact of KubeVirt is the git tree. The release tag is
signed and can be verified using `git tag -v v1.2.1`.

Pre-built containers are published on Quay and can be viewed at: <https://quay.io/kubevirt/>.

Notable changes
---------------

- [PR #11986][fossedihelm] Restart of a VM is required when the CPU socket count is reduced
- [PR #11977][fossedihelm] Bug fix: Correctly reflect RestartRequired condition
- [PR #11972][fossedihelm] Fix RerunOnFailure RunStrategy
- [PR #11966][lyarwood] `VirtualMachines` referencing an instance type are now allowed when the `LiveUpdate` feature is enabled and will trigger the `RestartRequired` condition if the reference within the `VirtualMachine` is changed.
- [PR #11649][kubevirt-bot] Updated common-instancetypes bundles to v1.0.0
- [PR #11866][kubevirt-bot] Fix the live updates for volumes and disks
- [PR #11853][fossedihelm] Updated go version of the client-go to 1.21
- [PR #11691][kubevirt-bot] Improve the handling of ordinal pod interface name for upgrade
- [PR #11675][tiraboschi] Make 'image' field in hook sidecar annotation optional.
- [PR #11761][avlitman] New memory statistics added named kubevirt_memory_delta_from_requested_bytes
- [PR #11720][assafad] Collect VMI OS info from the Guest agent as `kubevirt_vmi_phase_count` metric labels
- [PR #11656][kubevirt-bot] Build the `passt`custom CNI binary statically, for the `passt` network binding plugin.
- [PR #11582][kubevirt-bot] Expose volumesnapshot error in vmsnapshot object
- [PR #11502][kubevirt-bot] Allow to hotplug memory for VMs with memory limits set
- [PR #11510][kubevirt-bot] Reduce the downwardMetrics server maximum number of request per second to 1.
- [PR #11464][kubevirt-bot] Bugfix: Allow vmexport download redirections by printing logs into stderr
- [PR #11463][kubevirt-bot] Bugfix: Improve handling of IOThreads with incompatible buses
- [PR #11480][kubevirt-bot] Build KubeVirt with Go version 1.21.8
- [PR #11371][kubevirt-bot] More information in the migration state of VMI / migration objects
- [PR #11396][kubevirt-bot] BugFix: Ensure DataVolumes created by virt-controller (DataVolumeTemplates) are recreated and owned by the VM in the case of DR and backup/restore.
- [PR #11263][alromeros] Bugfix: Improve error reporting when fsfreeze fails
- [PR #11422][kubevirt-bot] add perf-scale benchmarks for release v1.2
- [PR #11318][fossedihelm] fix(vmclone): delete vmclone resource when the target vm is deleted
- [PR #11393][kubevirt-bot] Bug-fix: Fix nil panic if VM update fails
- [PR #11354][kubevirt-bot] Fix perfscale buckets error
- [PR #11378][fossedihelm] fix(ksm): set the `kubevirt.io/ksm-enabled` node label to true if the ksm is managed by KubeVirt, instead of reflect the actual ksm value.

Contributors
------------
31 people contributed to this release:

112	fossedihelm <[email protected]>
22	Luboslav Pivarc <[email protected]>
12	Shelly Kagan <[email protected]>
8	Antonio Cardace <[email protected]>
6	Alvaro Romero <[email protected]>
5	João Vilaça <[email protected]>
4	Alice Frosi <[email protected]>
4	Assaf Admi <[email protected]>
4	Dharmit Shah <[email protected]>
4	Jed Lejosne <[email protected]>
4	Lee Yarwood <[email protected]>
3	Alex Kalenyuk <[email protected]>
3	Felix Matouschek <[email protected]>
3	Michael Henriksen <[email protected]>
3	avlitman <[email protected]>
3	bmordeha <[email protected]>
2	Brian Carey <[email protected]>
2	Javier Cano Cano <[email protected]>
2	Ram Lavi <[email protected]>
2	Vicente Cheng <[email protected]>
2	howard zhang <[email protected]>
1	Alay Patel <[email protected]>
1	Andrea Bolognani <[email protected]>
1	Andrej Krejcir <[email protected]>
1	Daniel Hiller <[email protected]>
1	Edu Gómez Escandell <[email protected]>
1	Edward Haas <[email protected]>
1	Orel Misan <[email protected]>
1	Shahaf Bahar <[email protected]>

Additional Resources
--------------------
- Mailing list: <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/kubevirt-dev>
- Slack: <https://kubernetes.slack.com/messages/virtualization>
- An easy to use demo: <https://github.com/kubevirt/demo>
- [How to contribute][contributing]
- [License][license]

[contributing]: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
[license]: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/blob/main/LICENSE
---

v1.3.0-alpha.0

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This release follows v1.2.0 and consists of 992 changes, contributed …

…by 69 people, leading to 1364 files changed, 44170 insertions( ), 38157 deletions(-).

The source code and selected binaries are available for download at: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/releases/tag/v1.3.0-alpha.0.

The primary release artifact of KubeVirt is the git tree. The release tag is
signed and can be verified using `git tag -v v1.3.0-alpha.0`.

Pre-built containers are published on Quay and can be viewed at: <https://quay.io/kubevirt/>.

Notable changes
---------------

- [PR #11788][ormergi] The network-info annotation is now used for mapping between SR-IOV network and the underlying device PCI address
- [PR #11700][alicefr] Add the updateVolumeStrategy field
- [PR #11256][andreabolognani] This version of KubeVirt includes upgraded virtualization technology based on libvirt 10.0.0 and QEMU 8.2.0.
- [PR #11482][brianmcarey] Build KubeVirt with go v1.22.2
- [PR #11641][alicefr] Add kubevirt.io/testWorkloadUpdateMigrationAbortion annotation and a mechanism to abort workload updates
- [PR #11770][alicefr] Fix the live updates for volumes and disks
- [PR #11790][aburdenthehand] Re-adding Cloudflare to our ADOPTERS list
- [PR #11718][fossedihelm] Fix: SEV methods in client-go now satisfy the proxy server configuration, if provided
- [PR #11685][fossedihelm] Updated go version of the client-go to 1.21
- [PR #11618][AlonaKaplan] Extend network binding plugin to support device-info DownwardAPI.
- [PR #11283][assafad] Collect VMI OS info from the Guest agent as `kubevirt_vmi_phase_count` metric labels
- [PR #11676][machadovilaca] Rename rest client metrics to include kubevirt prefix
- [PR #11557][avlitman] New memory statistics added named kubevirt_memory_delta_from_requested_bytes
- [PR #11678][Vicente-Cheng] Improve the handling of ordinal pod interface name for upgrade
- [PR #11653][EdDev] Build the `passt`custom CNI binary statically, for the `passt` network binding plugin.
- [PR #11294][machadovilaca] Fix kubevirt_vm_created_total being broken down by virt-api pod
- [PR #11307][machadovilaca] Add e2e tests for metrics
- [PR #11479][vladikr] virtual machines instance will no longer be stuck in an irrecoverable state after an interrupted postcopy migration. Instead, these will fail and could be restarted again.
- [PR #11416][dhiller] emission of k8s logs when using programmatic focus with `FIt`
- [PR #11272][dharmit] Make 'image' field in hook sidecar annotation optional.
- [PR #11500][iholder101] Support HyperV Passthrough: automatically use all available HyperV features
- [PR #11484][jcanocan] Reduce the downwardMetrics server maximum number of request per second to 1.
- [PR #11498][acardace] Allow to hotplug memory for VMs with memory limits set
- [PR #11470][brianmcarey] Build KubeVirt with Go version 1.21.8
- [PR #11312][alromeros] Improve handling of export resources in virtctl vmexport
- [PR #11367][alromeros] Bugfix: Allow vmexport download redirections by printing logs into stderr
- [PR #11219][alromeros] Bugfix: Improve handling of IOThreads with incompatible buses
- [PR #11149][0xFelix] virtctl: It is possible to import volumes from GCS when creating a VM now
- [PR #11404][avlitman] KubeVirtComponentExceedsRequestedCPU and KubeVirtComponentExceedsRequestedMemory alerts are deprecated; they do not indicate a genuine issue.
- [PR #11331][anjuls] add cloudraft to adopters.
- [PR #11387][alaypatel07] add perf-scale benchmarks for release v1.2
- [PR #11095][ShellyKa13] Expose volumesnapshot error in vmsnapshot object
- [PR #11372][xpivarc] Bug-fix: Fix nil panic if VM update fails
- [PR #11267][mhenriks] BugFix: Ensure DataVolumes created by virt-controller (DataVolumeTemplates) are recreated and owned by the VM in the case of DR and backup/restore.
- [PR #10900][KarstenB] BugFix: Fixed incorrect APIVersion of APIResourceList
- [PR #11306][fossedihelm] fix(ksm): set the `kubevirt.io/ksm-enabled` node label to true if the ksm is managed by KubeVirt, instead of reflect the actual ksm value.
- [PR #11330][jean-edouard] More information in the migration state of VMI / migration objects
- [PR #11264][machadovilaca] Fix perfscale buckets error
- [PR #11183][dhiller] Extend OWNERS for sig-buildsystem
- [PR #11058][fossedihelm] fix(vmclone): delete vmclone resource when the target vm is deleted
- [PR #11265][xpivarc] Bug fix: VM controller doesn't corrupt its cache anymore
- [PR #11205][akalenyu] Fix migration breaking in case the VM has an rng device after hotplugging a block volume on cgroupsv2
- [PR #11051][alromeros] Bugfix: Improve error reporting when fsfreeze fails
- [PR #11156][nunnatsa] Move some verification from the VMI create validation webhook to the CRD
- [PR #11146][RamLavi] node-labeller: Remove obsolete functionalities

Contributors
------------
69 people contributed to this release:

106	fossedihelm <[email protected]>
79	Edward Haas <[email protected]>
50	Orel Misan <[email protected]>
35	Itamar Holder <[email protected]>
34	Luboslav Pivarc <[email protected]>
23	Alice Frosi <[email protected]>
21	Or Shoval <[email protected]>
20	Shelly Kagan <[email protected]>
18	Ram Lavi <[email protected]>
16	bmordeha <[email protected]>
15	Alona Paz <[email protected]>
15	Assaf Admi <[email protected]>
14	Brian Carey <[email protected]>
11	Alex Kalenyuk <[email protected]>
11	Alvaro Romero <[email protected]>
11	Felix Matouschek <[email protected]>
11	João Vilaça <[email protected]>
10	Antonio Cardace <[email protected]>
10	Dan Kenigsberg <[email protected]>
10	Or Mergi <[email protected]>
9	Daniel Hiller <[email protected]>
9	Fabian Deutsch <[email protected]>
9	Jed Lejosne <[email protected]>
8	Andrea Bolognani <[email protected]>
8	Nahshon Unna-Tsameret <[email protected]>
7	Lee Yarwood <[email protected]>
6	Victor Toso <[email protected]>
6	avlitman <[email protected]>
6	sylvain-pierrot <[email protected]>
5	Vladik Romanovsky <[email protected]>
5	Youngjun <[email protected]>
4	Andrew Burden <[email protected]>
4	Dharmit Shah <[email protected]>
4	Edu Gómez Escandell <[email protected]>
4	Oren Cohen <[email protected]>
3	Ben Oukhanov <[email protected]>
3	Jan Schintag <[email protected]>
3	Michael Henriksen <[email protected]>
3	Vasiliy Ulyanov <[email protected]>
3	rkishner <[email protected]>
2	Javier Cano Cano <[email protected]>
2	Tushar Jain <[email protected]>
2	Vicente Cheng <[email protected]>
2	howard zhang <[email protected]>
2	machadovilaca <[email protected]>
2	zhuanlan <[email protected]>
1	Adrian Vladu <[email protected]>
1	Alay Patel <[email protected]>
1	Andrei Kvapil <[email protected]>
1	Andrej Krejcir <[email protected]>
1	Anjul Sahu <[email protected]>
1	Arnon Gilboa <[email protected]>
1	Bart Vercoulen <[email protected]>
1	Barthélemy Vessemont <[email protected]>
1	Enrique Llorente <[email protected]>
1	Harshit Gupta <[email protected]>
1	Igor Bezukh <[email protected]>
1	Karsten Becker <[email protected]>
1	Mark Maglana <[email protected]>
1	Shahaf Bahar <[email protected]>
1	Shirly Radco <[email protected]>
1	TheRealSibasishBehera <[email protected]>
1	Vasiliy Sibirskiy <[email protected]>
1	anish bista <[email protected]>
1	bcoxford <[email protected]>
1	mountcount <[email protected]>
1	zpeng <[email protected]>

Additional Resources
--------------------
- Mailing list: <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/kubevirt-dev>
- Slack: <https://kubernetes.slack.com/messages/virtualization>
- An easy to use demo: <https://github.com/kubevirt/demo>
- [How to contribute][contributing]
- [License][license]

[contributing]: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
[license]: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/blob/main/LICENSE
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v1.2.0

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This release follows v1.1.1 and consists of 822 changes, contributed …

…by 65 people, leading to 1234 files changed, 46897 insertions( ), 22403 deletions(-).

v1.2.0 is a promotion of release candidate v1.2.0-rc.1 which was originally published 2024-02-26
The source code and selected binaries are available for download at: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/releases/tag/v1.2.0.

The primary release artifact of KubeVirt is the git tree. The release tag is
signed and can be verified using `git tag -v v1.2.0`.

Pre-built containers are published on Quay and can be viewed at: <https://quay.io/kubevirt/>.

Notable changes
---------------

- [PR #11318][fossedihelm] fix(vmclone): delete vmclone resource when the target vm is deleted
- [PR #11393][kubevirt-bot] Bug-fix: Fix nil panic if VM update fails
- [PR #11354][kubevirt-bot] Fix perfscale buckets error
- [PR #11378][fossedihelm] fix(ksm): set the `kubevirt.io/ksm-enabled` node label to true if the ksm is managed by KubeVirt, instead of reflect the actual ksm value.
- [PR #11271][kubevirt-bot] Bug fix: VM controller doesn't corrupt its cache anymore
- [PR #11242][kubevirt-bot] Fix migration breaking in case the VM has an rng device after hotplugging a block volume on cgroupsv2
- [PR #11144][0xFelix] virtctl: Specifying size when creating a VM and using --volume-import to clone a PVC or a VolumeSnapshot is optional now
- [PR #11054][jean-edouard] New cluster-wide `vmRolloutStrategy` setting to define whether changes to VMs should either be always staged or live-updated when possible.
- [PR #11064][AlonaKaplan] Introduce a new API to mark a binding plugin as migratable.
- [PR #11122][brianmcarey] Update runc dependency to v1.1.12
- [PR #10982][machadovilaca] Refactor monitoring metrics
- [PR #11069][ormergi] Bug fix: Packet drops during the initial phase of VM live migration https://issues.redhat.com/browse/CNV-28040
- [PR #10961][jcanocan] Reduced VM rescheduling time on node failure
- [PR #11065][fossedihelm] fix(vmclone): Generate VM patches from vmsnapshotcontent, instead of current VM
- [PR #10888][fossedihelm] [Bugfix] Clone VM with WaitForFirstConsumer binding mode PVC now works.
- [PR #11068][brianmcarey] Update container base image to use current stable debian 12 base
- [PR #11047][jschintag] Fix potential crash when trying to list USB devices on host without any
- [PR #10970][alromeros] Expose fs disk information via GuestOsInfo
- [PR #11050][fossedihelm] restrict default cluster role to authenticated only users
- [PR #11025][0xFelix] Allow unprivileged users read-only access to VirtualMachineCluster{Instancetypes,Preferences} by default.
- [PR #10853][machadovilaca] Refactor monitoring collectors
- [PR #11001][fossedihelm] Allow `kubevirt.io:default` clusterRole to get,list kubevirts
- [PR #10905][tiraboschi] Aggregate DVs conditions on VMI (and so VM)
- [PR #10963][alromeros] Bugfix: Reject volume exports when no output is specified
- [PR #10962][machadovilaca] Update monitoring file structure
- [PR #10981][AlonaKaplan] Report IP of interfaces using network binding plugin.
- [PR #10922][kubevirt-bot] Updated common-instancetypes bundles to v0.4.0
- [PR #10914][brianmcarey] KubeVirt is now built with go 1.21.5
- [PR #10846][RamLavi] Change vm.status.PrintableStatus default value to "Stopped"
- [PR #10787][matthewei] # Create a manifest for a clone with template label filters:
- [PR #10918][orelmisan] VMClone: Emit an event in case restore creation fails
- [PR #10916][orelmisan] Fix the value of VMI `Status.GuestOSInfo.Version`
- [PR #10924][AlonaKaplan] Deprecate macvtap
- [PR #10898][matthewei] vmi status's guestOsInfo adds `Machine`
- [PR #10866][AlonaKaplan] Raise an error in case passt feature gate or API are used.
- [PR #10879][brianmcarey] Built with golang 1.20.12
- [PR #10872][RamLavi] IsolateEmulatorThread: Add cluster-wide parity completion setting
- [PR #10700][machadovilaca] Refactor monitoring alerts
- [PR #10839][RamLavi] Change second emulator thread assign strategy to best-effort.
- [PR #10863][dhiller] Remove year from generated code copyright
- [PR #10747][acardace] Fix KubeVirt for CRIO 1.28 by using checksums to verify containerdisks when migrating VMIs
- [PR #10860][akalenyu] BugFix: Double cloning with filter fails
- [PR #10567][awels] Attachment pod creation is now rate limited
- [PR #10845][orelmisan] Reject VirtualMachineClone creation when target name is equal to source name
- [PR #10840][acardace] Requests/Limits can now be configured when using CPU/Memory hotplug
- [PR #10418][machadovilaca] Add total VMs created metric
- [PR #10800][AlonaKaplan] Support macvtap as a binding plugin
- [PR #10753][victortoso] Fixes device permission when using USB host passthrough
- [PR #10774][victortoso] Windows offline activation with ACPI SLIC table
- [PR #10783][RamLavi] Support multiple CPUs in Housekeeping cgroup
- [PR #10809][orelmisan] Source virt-launcher: Log migration info by default
- [PR #10046][victortoso] Add v1alpha3 for hooks
- [PR #10651][machadovilaca] Refactor monitoring  recording-rules
- [PR #10732][AlonaKaplan] Extend kubvirt CR by adding domain attachment option to the network binding plugin API.
- [PR #10244][hshitomi] Added “adm” subcommand under “virtctl”, and “log-verbosity" subcommand under “adm”. The log-verbosity command is:
- [PR #10658][matthewei] 1. Support "Clone API" to filter VirtualMachine.spec.template.annotation and VirtualMachine.spec.template.label
- [PR #10593][RamLavi] Fixes SMT Alignment Error in virt-launcher pod by optimizing isolateEmulatorThread feature (BZ#2228103).
- [PR #10720][awels] Restored hotplug attachment pod request/limit to original value
- [PR #10657][germag] Exposing Filesystem Persistent Volumes (PVs)  to the VM using unprivilege virtiofsd.
- [PR #10637][dharmit] Functional tests for sidecar hook with ConfigMap
- [PR #10598][alicefr] Add PVC option to the hook sidecars for supplying additional debugging tools
- [PR #10526][cfilleke]
- [PR #10699][qinqon] virt-launcher: fix qemu non root log path
- [PR #10689][akalenyu] BugFix: cgroupsv2 device allowlist is bound to virt-handler internal state/block disk device overwritten on hotplug
- [PR #10693][machadovilaca] Remove MigrateVmiDiskTransferRateMetric
- [PR #10615][orelmisan] Remove leftover NonRoot feature gate
- [PR #10529][alromeros] Allow LUN disks to be hotplugged
- [PR #10582][orelmisan] Remove leftover NonRootExperimental feature gate
- [PR #10596][mhenriks] Disable HTTP/2 to mitigate CVE-2023-44487
- [PR #10570][machadovilaca] Fix LowKVMNodesCount not firing
- [PR #10571][tiraboschi] vmi memory footprint increase by 35M when guest serial console logging is turned on (default on).
- [PR #10425][ormergi] Introduce network binding plugin for Passt networking, interfacing with Kubevirt new network binding plugin API.
- [PR #10479][dharmit] Ability to run scripts through hook sidecar

Contributors
------------
65 people contributed to this release:

52	fossedihelm <[email protected]>
38	Luboslav Pivarc <[email protected]>
34	Alona Paz <[email protected]>
33	Edward Haas <[email protected]>
31	Brian Carey <[email protected]>
27	João Vilaça <[email protected]>
25	Or Mergi <[email protected]>
24	Dan Kenigsberg <[email protected]>
24	Jed Lejosne <[email protected]>
19	Victor Toso <[email protected]>
16	Alex Kalenyuk <[email protected]>
16	Antonio Cardace <[email protected]>
16	Ram Lavi <[email protected]>
14	Orel Misan <[email protected]>
13	Felix Matouschek <[email protected]>
11	Alvaro Romero <[email protected]>
11	Or Shoval <[email protected]>
10	Dharmit Shah <[email protected]>
8	Alice Frosi <[email protected]>
7	Fabian Deutsch <[email protected]>
7	howard zhang <[email protected]>
7	stirabos <[email protected]>
6	Vasiliy Ulyanov <[email protected]>
6	prnaraya <[email protected]>
5	Daniel Hiller <[email protected]>
4	Denis Ollier <[email protected]>
4	Igor Bezukh <[email protected]>
3	Alexander Wels <[email protected]>
3	Michael Henriksen <[email protected]>
3	Nahshon Unna-Tsameret <[email protected]>
2	Dalia Frank <[email protected]>
2	Jan Schintag <[email protected]>
2	Javier Cano Cano <[email protected]>
2	Shelly Kagan <[email protected]>
2	shenwei <[email protected]>
2	wuhanqing <[email protected]>
2	zhuanlan <[email protected]>
1	Alay Patel <[email protected]>
1	Andrea Bolognani <[email protected]>
1	Andrej Krejcir <[email protected]>
1	Andrew Burden <[email protected]>
1	Bart Vercoulen <[email protected]>
1	Ben Oukhanov <[email protected]>
1	Eng Zer Jun <[email protected]>
1	Enrique Llorente <[email protected]>
1	Erik Panter <[email protected]>
1	German Maglione <[email protected]>
1	Hidehisa Shitomi <[email protected]>
1	Karel Simon <[email protected]>
1	Lee Yarwood <[email protected]>
1	Marcelo Amaral <[email protected]>
1	Ohad <[email protected]>
1	Ondrej Pokorny <[email protected]>
1	Romain Decker <[email protected]>
1	Wenhui Zhang <[email protected]>
1	cfillekes <[email protected]>
1	haojue <[email protected]>
1	matthewei <86186853 [email protected]>
1	matthewei <[email protected]>
1	muxuelan <[email protected]>
1	rokkiter <[email protected]>
1	wangjihai <[email protected]>
1	xiaofang <[email protected]>

Additional Resources
--------------------
- Mailing list: <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/kubevirt-dev>
- Slack: <https://kubernetes.slack.com/messages/virtualization>
- An easy to use demo: <https://github.com/kubevirt/demo>
- [How to contribute][contributing]
- [License][license]

[contributing]: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
[license]: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/blob/main/LICENSE
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