This release follows v0.54.0 and consists of 391 changes, contributed…

… by 39 people, leading to 480 files changed, 29803 insertions(+), 6373 deletions(-).

The source code and selected binaries are available for download at: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/releases/tag/v0.55.0-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 v0.55.0-rc.0`.

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

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

- [PR kubevirt#7336][iholder-redhat] Introduce clone CRD, controller and API
- [PR kubevirt#7791][iholder-redhat] Introduction of an initial deprecation policy
- [PR kubevirt#7875][lyarwood] `ControllerRevisions` of any `VirtualMachineFlavorSpec` or `VirtualMachinePreferenceSpec` are stored during the initial start of a `VirtualMachine` and used for subsequent restarts ensuring changes to the original `VirtualMachineFlavor` or `VirtualMachinePreference` do not modify the `VirtualMachine` and the `VirtualMachineInstance` it creates.
- [PR kubevirt#8011][fossedihelm] Increase virt-launcher memory overhead
- [PR kubevirt#7963][qinqon] Bump alpine_with_test_tooling
- [PR kubevirt#7881][ShellyKa13] Enable memory dump to be included in VMSnapshot
- [PR kubevirt#7926][qinqon] tests: Move main clean function to global AfterEach and create a VM per each infra_test.go Entry.
- [PR kubevirt#7845][janeczku] Fixed a bug that caused `make generate` to fail when API code comments contain backticks. (kubevirt#7844, @janeczku)
- [PR kubevirt#7932][marceloamaral] Addition of kubevirt_vmi_migration_phase_transition_time_from_creation_seconds metric to monitor how long it takes to transition a VMI Migration object to a specific phase from creation time.
- [PR kubevirt#7879][marceloamaral] Faster VM phase transitions thanks to an increased virt-controller QPS/Burst
- [PR kubevirt#7807][acardace] make cloud-init 'instance-id' persistent across reboots
- [PR kubevirt#7928][iholder-redhat] bugfix: node-labeller now removes "host-model-cpu.node.kubevirt.io/" and "host-model-required-features.node.kubevirt.io/" prefixes
- [PR kubevirt#7841][jean-edouard] Non-root VMs will now migrate to root VMs after a cluster disables non-root.
- [PR kubevirt#7933][akalenyu] BugFix: Fix vm restore in case of restore size bigger then PVC requested size
- [PR kubevirt#7919][lyarwood] Device preferences are now applied to any default network interfaces or missing volume disks added to a `VirtualMachineInstance` at runtime.
- [PR kubevirt#7910][qinqon] tests: Create the expected readiness probe instead of liveness
- [PR kubevirt#7732][acardace] Prevent virt-handler from starting a migration twice
- [PR kubevirt#7594][alicefr] Enable to run libguestfs-tools pod to run as noroot user
- [PR kubevirt#7811][raspbeep] User now gets information about the type of commands which the guest agent does not support.
- [PR kubevirt#7590][awels] VMExport allows filesystem PVCs to be exported as either disks or directories.
- [PR kubevirt#7683][alicefr] Add --command and --local-ssh-opts" options to virtctl ssh to execute remote command using local ssh method

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

38	Itamar Holder <[email protected]>
20	Alexander Wels <[email protected]>
20	Marcelo Amaral <[email protected]>
19	Michael Henriksen <[email protected]>
18	Miguel Duarte Barroso <[email protected]>
16	Shelly Kagan <[email protected]>
15	Ben Oukhanov <[email protected]>
14	Dan Kenigsberg <[email protected]>
13	Edward Haas <[email protected]>
13	Lee Yarwood <[email protected]>
10	Enrique Llorente <[email protected]>
8	Alice Frosi <[email protected]>
8	Jed Lejosne <[email protected]>
8	bmordeha <[email protected]>
6	Andrej Krejcir <[email protected]>
6	Or Shoval <[email protected]>
5	Antonio Cardace <[email protected]>
5	Janusz Marcinkiewicz <[email protected]>
5	Roman Mohr <[email protected]>
4	L. Pivarc <[email protected]>
4	Ram Lavi <[email protected]>
3	Pavel Kratochvil <[email protected]>
3	prnaraya <[email protected]>
2	Alex Kalenyuk <[email protected]>
2	Bartosz Rybacki <[email protected]>
2	Shirly Radco <[email protected]>
2	fossedihelm <[email protected]>
1	Arnon Gilboa <[email protected]>
1	Daniel Hiller <[email protected]>
1	Haibo Xu <[email protected]>
1	João Vilaça <[email protected]>
1	Karel Šimon <[email protected]>
1	Or Mergi <[email protected]>
1	Stu Gott <[email protected]>
1	borod108 <[email protected]>
1	janeczku <[email protected]>
1	tgfree <[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
---

This release follows v0.53.1 and consists of 44 changes, contributed …

…by 12 people, leading to 42 files changed, 522 insertions(+), 293 deletions(-).

The source code and selected binaries are available for download at: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/releases/tag/v0.53.2.

The primary release artifact of KubeVirt is the git tree. The release tag is
signed and can be verified using `git tag -v v0.53.2`.

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

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

- [PR kubevirt#7883][kubevirt-bot] Enable to run libguestfs-tools pod to run as noroot user
- [PR kubevirt#7794][kubevirt-bot] Allow `virtualmachines/migrate` subresource to admin/edit users
- [PR kubevirt#7866][kubevirt-bot] Adds the reason of a live-migration failure to a recorded event in case EvictionStrategy is set but live-migration is blocked due to its limitations.
- [PR kubevirt#7726][kubevirt-bot] BugFix: virtctl guestfs incorrectly assumes image name

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

16	Jed Lejosne <[email protected]>
4	Or Shoval <[email protected]>
2	Alex Kalenyuk <[email protected]>
2	fossedihelm <[email protected]>
1	Alice Frosi <[email protected]>
1	Daniel Hiller <[email protected]>
1	Igor Bezukh <[email protected]>
1	Karel Šimon <[email protected]>
1	L. Pivarc <[email protected]>
1	Pavel Kratochvil <[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
---

This release follows v0.53.1 and consists of 223 changes, contributed…

… by 38 people, leading to 215 files changed, 15237 insertions(+), 1800 deletions(-).

v0.54.0 is a promotion of release candidate v0.54.0-rc.0 which was originally published 2022-06-01
The source code and selected binaries are available for download at: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/releases/tag/v0.54.0.

The primary release artifact of KubeVirt is the git tree. The release tag is
signed and can be verified using `git tag -v v0.54.0`.

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

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

- [PR kubevirt#7757][orenc1] new alert for excessive number of VMI migrations in a period of time.
- [PR kubevirt#7517][ShellyKa13] Add virtctl Memory Dump command
- [PR kubevirt#7801][VirrageS] Empty (`nil` values) of `Address` and `Driver` fields in XML will be omitted.
- [PR kubevirt#7475][raspbeep] Adds the reason of a live-migration failure to a recorded event in case EvictionStrategy is set but live-migration is blocked due to its limitations.
- [PR kubevirt#7739][fossedihelm] Allow `virtualmachines/migrate` subresource to admin/edit users
- [PR kubevirt#7618][lyarwood] The requirement to define a `Disk` or `Filesystem` for each `Volume` associated with a `VirtualMachine` has been removed. Any `Volumes` without a `Disk` or `Filesystem` defined will have a `Disk` defined within the `VirtualMachineInstance` at runtime.
- [PR kubevirt#7529][xpivarc] NoReadyVirtController and NoReadyVirtOperator should be properly fired.
- [PR kubevirt#7465][machadovilaca] Add metrics for migrations and respective phases
- [PR kubevirt#7592][akalenyu] BugFix: virtctl guestfs incorrectly assumes image name

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

27	Lee Yarwood <[email protected]>
16	Jed Lejosne <[email protected]>
15	Shelly Kagan <[email protected]>
12	Miguel Duarte Barroso <[email protected]>
9	bmordeha <[email protected]>
8	Andrea Bolognani <[email protected]>
7	Janusz Marcinkiewicz <[email protected]>
6	L. Pivarc <[email protected]>
5	Vasiliy Ulyanov <[email protected]>
4	Dan Kenigsberg <[email protected]>
4	Edward Haas <[email protected]>
4	Or Shoval <[email protected]>
3	Alex Kalenyuk <[email protected]>
3	Itamar Holder <[email protected]>
2	Alice Frosi <[email protected]>
2	Andrey Odarenko <[email protected]>
2	Daniel Hiller <[email protected]>
2	Fabian Deutsch <[email protected]>
2	Igor Bezukh <[email protected]>
2	Marcelo Amaral <[email protected]>
2	akriti gupta <[email protected]>
2	fossedihelm <[email protected]>
1	Andrej Krejcir <[email protected]>
1	Ben Oukhanov <[email protected]>
1	Diana Teplits <[email protected]>
1	Howard Zhang <[email protected]>
1	João Vilaça <[email protected]>
1	Joël Séguillon <[email protected]>
1	Karel Šimon <[email protected]>
1	Nik Paushkin <[email protected]>
1	Pavel Kratochvil <[email protected]>
1	Petr Horáček <[email protected]>
1	Ram Lavi <[email protected]>
1	Ryan Hallisey <[email protected]>
1	borod108 <[email protected]>
1	orenc1 <[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
---

This release follows v0.53.1 and consists of 223 changes, contributed…

… by 38 people, leading to 215 files changed, 15237 insertions(+), 1800 deletions(-).

The source code and selected binaries are available for download at: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/releases/tag/v0.54.0-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 v0.54.0-rc.0`.

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

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

- [PR kubevirt#7757][orenc1] new alert for excessive number of VMI migrations in a period of time.
- [PR kubevirt#7517][ShellyKa13] Add virtctl Memory Dump command
- [PR kubevirt#7801][VirrageS] Empty (`nil` values) of `Address` and `Driver` fields in XML will be omitted.
- [PR kubevirt#7475][raspbeep] Adds the reason of a live-migration failure to a recorded event in case EvictionStrategy is set but live-migration is blocked due to its limitations.
- [PR kubevirt#7739][fossedihelm] Allow `virtualmachines/migrate` subresource to admin/edit users
- [PR kubevirt#7618][lyarwood] The requirement to define a `Disk` or `Filesystem` for each `Volume` associated with a `VirtualMachine` has been removed. Any `Volumes` without a `Disk` or `Filesystem` defined will have a `Disk` defined within the `VirtualMachineInstance` at runtime.
- [PR kubevirt#7529][xpivarc] NoReadyVirtController and NoReadyVirtOperator should be properly fired.
- [PR kubevirt#7465][machadovilaca] Add metrics for migrations and respective phases
- [PR kubevirt#7592][akalenyu] BugFix: virtctl guestfs incorrectly assumes image name

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

27	Lee Yarwood <[email protected]>
16	Jed Lejosne <[email protected]>
15	Shelly Kagan <[email protected]>
12	Miguel Duarte Barroso <[email protected]>
9	bmordeha <[email protected]>
8	Andrea Bolognani <[email protected]>
7	Janusz Marcinkiewicz <[email protected]>
6	L. Pivarc <[email protected]>
5	Vasiliy Ulyanov <[email protected]>
4	Dan Kenigsberg <[email protected]>
4	Edward Haas <[email protected]>
4	Or Shoval <[email protected]>
3	Alex Kalenyuk <[email protected]>
3	Itamar Holder <[email protected]>
2	Alice Frosi <[email protected]>
2	Andrey Odarenko <[email protected]>
2	Daniel Hiller <[email protected]>
2	Fabian Deutsch <[email protected]>
2	Igor Bezukh <[email protected]>
2	Marcelo Amaral <[email protected]>
2	akriti gupta <[email protected]>
2	fossedihelm <[email protected]>
1	Andrej Krejcir <[email protected]>
1	Ben Oukhanov <[email protected]>
1	Diana Teplits <[email protected]>
1	Howard Zhang <[email protected]>
1	João Vilaça <[email protected]>
1	Joël Séguillon <[email protected]>
1	Karel Šimon <[email protected]>
1	Nik Paushkin <[email protected]>
1	Pavel Kratochvil <[email protected]>
1	Petr Horáček <[email protected]>
1	Ram Lavi <[email protected]>
1	Ryan Hallisey <[email protected]>
1	borod108 <[email protected]>
1	orenc1 <[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
---

This release follows v0.53.0 and consists of 12 changes, contributed …

…by 4 people, leading to 7 files changed, 75 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-).

The source code and selected binaries are available for download at: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/releases/tag/v0.53.1.

The primary release artifact of KubeVirt is the git tree. The release tag is
signed and can be verified using `git tag -v v0.53.1`.

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

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

- [PR kubevirt#7749][kubevirt-bot] NoReadyVirtController and NoReadyVirtOperator should be properly fired.

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

5	L. Pivarc <[email protected]>
2	akriti gupta <[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
---

This release follows v0.52.0 and consists of 293 changes, contributed…

… by 40 people, leading to 642 files changed, 24571 insertions(+), 17591 deletions(-).

v0.53.0 is a promotion of release candidate v0.53.0-rc.0 which was originally published 2022-05-02
The source code and selected binaries are available for download at: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/releases/tag/v0.53.0.

The primary release artifact of KubeVirt is the git tree. The release tag is
signed and can be verified using `git tag -v v0.53.0`.

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

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

- [PR kubevirt#7533][akalenyu] Add several VM snapshot metrics
- [PR kubevirt#7574][rmohr] Pull in cdi dependencies with minimized transitive dependencies to ease API adoption
- [PR kubevirt#7318][iholder-redhat] Snapshot restores now support restoring to a target VM different than the source
- [PR kubevirt#7474][borod108] Added the following metrics for live migration: kubevirt_migrate_vmi_data_processed_bytes, kubevirt_migrate_vmi_data_remaining_bytes, kubevirt_migrate_vmi_dirty_memory_rate_bytes
- [PR kubevirt#7441][rmohr] Add `virtctl scp` to ease copying files from and to VMs and VMIs
- [PR kubevirt#7265][rthallisey] Support steady-state job types in the load-generator tool
- [PR kubevirt#7544][fossedihelm] Upgraded go version to 1.17.8
- [PR kubevirt#7582][acardace] Fix failed reported migrations when actually they were successful.
- [PR kubevirt#7546][0xFelix] Update virtio-container-disk to virtio-win version 0.1.217-1
- [PR kubevirt#7530][iholder-redhat] [External Kernel Boot]: Disallow kernel args without providing custom kernel
- [PR kubevirt#7493][davidvossel] Adds new EvictionStrategy "External" for blocking eviction which is handled by an external controller
- [PR kubevirt#7563][akalenyu] Switch VolumeSnapshot to v1
- [PR kubevirt#7406][acardace] Reject `LiveMigrate` as a workload-update strategy if the `LiveMigration` feature gate is not enabled.
- [PR kubevirt#7103][jean-edouard] Non-persistent vTPM now supported. Keep in mind that the state of the TPM is wiped after each shutdown. Do not enable Bitlocker!
- [PR kubevirt#7277][andreabolognani] This version of KubeVirt includes upgraded virtualization technology based on libvirt 8.0.0 and QEMU 6.2.0.
- [PR kubevirt#7130][Barakmor1] Add field to kubevirtCR to set Prometheus ServiceMonitor object's namespace
- [PR kubevirt#7401][iholder-redhat] virt-api deployment is now scalable - replicas are determined by the number of nodes in the cluster
- [PR kubevirt#7500][awels] BugFix: Fixed RBAC for admin/edit user to allow virtualmachine/addvolume and removevolume. This allows for persistent disks
- [PR kubevirt#7328][apoorvajagtap] Don't ignore --identity-file when setting --local-ssh=true on `virtctl ssh`
- [PR kubevirt#7469][xpivarc] Users can now enable the NonRoot feature gate instead of NonRootExperimental
- [PR kubevirt#7451][fossedihelm] Reduce virt-launcher memory usage by splitting monitoring and launcher processes

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

26	Edward Haas <[email protected]>
19	Itamar Holder <[email protected]>
14	Alex Kalenyuk <[email protected]>
11	Alona Kaplan <[email protected]>
11	Jed Lejosne <[email protected]>
11	Roman Mohr <[email protected]>
10	Andrea Bolognani <[email protected]>
10	Ryan Hallisey <[email protected]>
9	Miguel Duarte Barroso <[email protected]>
7	Dan Kenigsberg <[email protected]>
5	Antonio Cardace <[email protected]>
5	L. Pivarc <[email protected]>
5	Lee Yarwood <[email protected]>
5	Nahshon Unna-Tsameret <[email protected]>
5	Radim Hrazdil <[email protected]>
4	Barak Mordehai <[email protected]>
4	David Vossel <[email protected]>
4	Vasiliy Ulyanov <[email protected]>
3	fossedihelm <[email protected]>
2	Alexander Wels <[email protected]>
2	Andrej Krejcir <[email protected]>
2	Diana Teplits <[email protected]>
2	Felix Matouschek <[email protected]>
2	Killercoda <[email protected]>
2	Stu Gott <[email protected]>
2	bmordeha <[email protected]>
1	Andrew Burden <[email protected]>
1	Apoorva Jagtap <[email protected]>
1	Bartosz Rybacki <[email protected]>
1	Caleb Crane <[email protected]>
1	Igor Bezukh <[email protected]>
1	Janusz Marcinkiewicz <[email protected]>
1	Shirly Radco <[email protected]>
1	Shweta Padubidri <[email protected]>
1	Zhe Peng <[email protected]>
1	assaf-admi <[email protected]>
1	borod108 <[email protected]>
1	shewensheng <[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
---

This release follows v0.52.0 and consists of 291 changes, contributed…

… by 40 people, leading to 642 files changed, 24550 insertions(+), 17588 deletions(-).

The source code and selected binaries are available for download at: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/releases/tag/v0.53.0-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 v0.53.0-rc.0`.

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

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

- [PR kubevirt#7533][akalenyu] Add several VM snapshot metrics
- [PR kubevirt#7574][rmohr] Pull in cdi dependencies with minimized transitive dependencies to ease API adoption
- [PR kubevirt#7318][iholder-redhat] Snapshot restores now support restoring to a target VM different than the source
- [PR kubevirt#7474][borod108] Added the following metrics for live migration: kubevirt_migrate_vmi_data_processed_bytes, kubevirt_migrate_vmi_data_remaining_bytes, kubevirt_migrate_vmi_dirty_memory_rate_bytes
- [PR kubevirt#7441][rmohr] Add `virtctl scp` to ease copying files from and to VMs and VMIs
- [PR kubevirt#7265][rthallisey] Support steady-state job types in the load-generator tool
- [PR kubevirt#7544][fossedihelm] Upgraded go version to 1.17.8
- [PR kubevirt#7582][acardace] Fix failed reported migrations when actually they were successful.
- [PR kubevirt#7546][0xFelix] Update virtio-container-disk to virtio-win version 0.1.217-1
- [PR kubevirt#7530][iholder-redhat] [External Kernel Boot]: Disallow kernel args without providing custom kernel
- [PR kubevirt#7493][davidvossel] Adds new EvictionStrategy "External" for blocking eviction which is handled by an external controller
- [PR kubevirt#7563][akalenyu] Switch VolumeSnapshot to v1
- [PR kubevirt#7406][acardace] Reject `LiveMigrate` as a workload-update strategy if the `LiveMigration` feature gate is not enabled.
- [PR kubevirt#7103][jean-edouard] Non-persistent vTPM now supported. Keep in mind that the state of the TPM is wiped after each shutdown. Do not enable Bitlocker!
- [PR kubevirt#7277][andreabolognani] This version of KubeVirt includes upgraded virtualization technology based on libvirt 8.0.0 and QEMU 6.2.0.
- [PR kubevirt#7130][Barakmor1] Add field to kubevirtCR to set Prometheus ServiceMonitor object's namespace
- [PR kubevirt#7401][iholder-redhat] virt-api deployment is now scalable - replicas are determined by the number of nodes in the cluster
- [PR kubevirt#7500][awels] BugFix: Fixed RBAC for admin/edit user to allow virtualmachine/addvolume and removevolume. This allows for persistent disks
- [PR kubevirt#7328][apoorvajagtap] Don't ignore --identity-file when setting --local-ssh=true on `virtctl ssh`
- [PR kubevirt#7469][xpivarc] Users can now enable the NonRoot feature gate instead of NonRootExperimental
- [PR kubevirt#7451][fossedihelm] Reduce virt-launcher memory usage by splitting monitoring and launcher processes

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

26	Edward Haas <[email protected]>
19	Itamar Holder <[email protected]>
14	Alex Kalenyuk <[email protected]>
11	Alona Kaplan <[email protected]>
11	Jed Lejosne <[email protected]>
11	Roman Mohr <[email protected]>
10	Andrea Bolognani <[email protected]>
10	Ryan Hallisey <[email protected]>
9	Miguel Duarte Barroso <[email protected]>
7	Dan Kenigsberg <[email protected]>
5	Antonio Cardace <[email protected]>
5	Lee Yarwood <[email protected]>
5	Nahshon Unna-Tsameret <[email protected]>
5	Radim Hrazdil <[email protected]>
4	Barak Mordehai <[email protected]>
4	David Vossel <[email protected]>
4	L. Pivarc <[email protected]>
4	Vasiliy Ulyanov <[email protected]>
3	fossedihelm <[email protected]>
2	Alexander Wels <[email protected]>
2	Andrej Krejcir <[email protected]>
2	Diana Teplits <[email protected]>
2	Felix Matouschek <[email protected]>
2	Killercoda <[email protected]>
2	Stu Gott <[email protected]>
2	bmordeha <[email protected]>
1	Andrew Burden <[email protected]>
1	Apoorva Jagtap <[email protected]>
1	Bartosz Rybacki <[email protected]>
1	Caleb Crane <[email protected]>
1	Igor Bezukh <[email protected]>
1	Janusz Marcinkiewicz <[email protected]>
1	Shirly Radco <[email protected]>
1	Shweta Padubidri <[email protected]>
1	Zhe Peng <[email protected]>
1	assaf-admi <[email protected]>
1	borod108 <[email protected]>
1	shewensheng <[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
---

This release follows v0.51.0 and consists of 314 changes, contributed…

… by 37 people, leading to 1006 files changed, 35687 insertions(+), 24520 deletions(-).

v0.52.0 is a promotion of release candidate v0.52.0-rc.0 which was originally published 2022-04-01
The source code and selected binaries are available for download at: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/releases/tag/v0.52.0.

The primary release artifact of KubeVirt is the git tree. The release tag is
signed and can be verified using `git tag -v v0.52.0`.

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

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

- [PR kubevirt#7024][fossedihelm] Add an warning message if the client and server virtctl versions are not aligned
- [PR kubevirt#7486][rmohr] Move stable.txt location to a more appropriate path
- [PR kubevirt#7372][saschagrunert] Fixed `KubeVirtComponentExceedsRequestedMemory` alert complaining about many-to-many matching not allowed.
- [PR kubevirt#7426][iholder-redhat] Add warning for manually determining core-component replica count in Kubevirt CR
- [PR kubevirt#7424][maiqueb] Provide interface binding types descriptions, which will be featured in the KubeVirt API.
- [PR kubevirt#7422][orelmisan] Fixed setting custom guest pciAddress and bootOrder parameter(s) to a list of SR-IOV NICs.
- [PR kubevirt#7421][rmohr] Fix knowhosts file corruption for virtctl ssh
- [PR kubevirt#6854][rmohr] Make virtctl ssh work with ssh-rsa+ preauthentication
- [PR kubevirt#7267][iholder-redhat] Applied migration configurations can now be found in VMI's status
- [PR kubevirt#7321][iholder-redhat] [Migration Policies]: precedence to VMI labels over Namespace labels
- [PR kubevirt#7326][oshoval] The Ginkgo dependency has been upgraded to v2.1.3 (major version upgrade)
- [PR kubevirt#7361][SeanKnight] Fixed a bug that prevents virtctl from working with clusters accessed via Rancher authentication proxy, or any other cluster where the server URL contains a path component. (kubevirt#3760)
- [PR kubevirt#7255][tyleraharrison] Users are now able to specify `--address [ip_address]` when using `virtctl vnc` rather than only using 127.0.0.1
- [PR kubevirt#7275][enp0s3] Add observedGeneration to virt-operator to have a race-free way to detect KubeVirt config rollouts
- [PR kubevirt#7233][xpivarc] Bug fix: Successfully aborted migrations should be reported now
- [PR kubevirt#7158][AlonaKaplan] Add masquerade VMs support to single stack IPv6.
- [PR kubevirt#7227][rmohr] Remove VMI informer from virt-api to improve scaling characteristics of virt-api
- [PR kubevirt#7288][raspbeep] Users now don't need to specify container for `kubectl logs <vmi-pod>` and `kubectl exec <vmi-pod>`.
- [PR kubevirt#6709][xpivarc] Workloads will be migrated to nonroot implementation if NonRoot feature gate is set. (Except VirtioFS)
- [PR kubevirt#7241][lyarwood] Fixed a bug that prevents only a unattend.xml configmap or secret being provided as contents for a sysprep disk. (kubevirt#7240, @lyarwood)

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

40	Itamar Holder <[email protected]>
30	Dan Kenigsberg <[email protected]>
26	Or Shoval <[email protected]>
17	Roman Mohr <[email protected]>
13	L. Pivarc <[email protected]>
9	Alona Kaplan <[email protected]>
8	Edward Haas <[email protected]>
8	Jed Lejosne <[email protected]>
5	fossedihelm <[email protected]>
4	Antonio Cardace <[email protected]>
4	Miguel Duarte Barroso <[email protected]>
4	Nahshon Unna-Tsameret <[email protected]>
3	Ben Ukhanov <[email protected]>
3	Karel Šimon <[email protected]>
3	Zhuchen Wang <[email protected]>
3	tyleraharrison <[email protected]>
2	Daniel Hiller <[email protected]>
2	Igor Bezukh <[email protected]>
2	Zvi Cahana <[email protected]>
1	Alex Kalenyuk <[email protected]>
1	Bartosz Rybacki <[email protected]>
1	Felix Matouschek <[email protected]>
1	Frank Yang <[email protected]>
1	Lee Yarwood <[email protected]>
1	Marcelo Amaral <[email protected]>
1	Maya Rashish <[email protected]>
1	Orel Misan <[email protected]>
1	Pavel Kratochvil <[email protected]>
1	Radim Hrazdil <[email protected]>
1	RamLavi <[email protected]>
1	Sascha Grunert <[email protected]>
1	Sean Knight <[email protected]>
1	Shirly Radco <[email protected]>
1	assaf-admi <[email protected]>
1	fossedihelm <[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
---

This release follows v0.51.0 and consists of 314 changes, contributed…

… by 37 people, leading to 1006 files changed, 35687 insertions(+), 24520 deletions(-).

The source code and selected binaries are available for download at: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/releases/tag/v0.52.0-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 v0.52.0-rc.0`.

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

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

- [PR kubevirt#7024][fossedihelm] Add an warning message if the client and server virtctl versions are not aligned
- [PR kubevirt#7486][rmohr] Move stable.txt location to a more appropriate path
- [PR kubevirt#7372][saschagrunert] Fixed `KubeVirtComponentExceedsRequestedMemory` alert complaining about many-to-many matching not allowed.
- [PR kubevirt#7426][iholder-redhat] Add warning for manually determining core-component replica count in Kubevirt CR
- [PR kubevirt#7424][maiqueb] Provide interface binding types descriptions, which will be featured in the KubeVirt API.
- [PR kubevirt#7422][orelmisan] Fixed setting custom guest pciAddress and bootOrder parameter(s) to a list of SR-IOV NICs.
- [PR kubevirt#7421][rmohr] Fix knowhosts file corruption for virtctl ssh
- [PR kubevirt#6854][rmohr] Make virtctl ssh work with ssh-rsa+ preauthentication
- [PR kubevirt#7267][iholder-redhat] Applied migration configurations can now be found in VMI's status
- [PR kubevirt#7321][iholder-redhat] [Migration Policies]: precedence to VMI labels over Namespace labels
- [PR kubevirt#7326][oshoval] The Ginkgo dependency has been upgraded to v2.1.3 (major version upgrade)
- [PR kubevirt#7361][SeanKnight] Fixed a bug that prevents virtctl from working with clusters accessed via Rancher authentication proxy, or any other cluster where the server URL contains a path component. (kubevirt#3760)
- [PR kubevirt#7255][tyleraharrison] Users are now able to specify `--address [ip_address]` when using `virtctl vnc` rather than only using 127.0.0.1
- [PR kubevirt#7275][enp0s3] Add observedGeneration to virt-operator to have a race-free way to detect KubeVirt config rollouts
- [PR kubevirt#7233][xpivarc] Bug fix: Successfully aborted migrations should be reported now
- [PR kubevirt#7158][AlonaKaplan] Add masquerade VMs support to single stack IPv6.
- [PR kubevirt#7227][rmohr] Remove VMI informer from virt-api to improve scaling characteristics of virt-api
- [PR kubevirt#7288][raspbeep] Users now don't need to specify container for `kubectl logs <vmi-pod>` and `kubectl exec <vmi-pod>`.
- [PR kubevirt#6709][xpivarc] Workloads will be migrated to nonroot implementation if NonRoot feature gate is set. (Except VirtioFS)
- [PR kubevirt#7241][lyarwood] Fixed a bug that prevents only a unattend.xml configmap or secret being provided as contents for a sysprep disk. (kubevirt#7240, @lyarwood)

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

40	Itamar Holder <[email protected]>
30	Dan Kenigsberg <[email protected]>
26	Or Shoval <[email protected]>
17	Roman Mohr <[email protected]>
13	L. Pivarc <[email protected]>
9	Alona Kaplan <[email protected]>
8	Edward Haas <[email protected]>
8	Jed Lejosne <[email protected]>
5	fossedihelm <[email protected]>
4	Antonio Cardace <[email protected]>
4	Miguel Duarte Barroso <[email protected]>
4	Nahshon Unna-Tsameret <[email protected]>
3	Ben Ukhanov <[email protected]>
3	Karel Šimon <[email protected]>
3	Zhuchen Wang <[email protected]>
3	tyleraharrison <[email protected]>
2	Daniel Hiller <[email protected]>
2	Igor Bezukh <[email protected]>
2	Zvi Cahana <[email protected]>
1	Alex Kalenyuk <[email protected]>
1	Bartosz Rybacki <[email protected]>
1	Felix Matouschek <[email protected]>
1	Frank Yang <[email protected]>
1	Lee Yarwood <[email protected]>
1	Marcelo Amaral <[email protected]>
1	Maya Rashish <[email protected]>
1	Orel Misan <[email protected]>
1	Pavel Kratochvil <[email protected]>
1	Radim Hrazdil <[email protected]>
1	RamLavi <[email protected]>
1	Sascha Grunert <[email protected]>
1	Sean Knight <[email protected]>
1	Shirly Radco <[email protected]>
1	assaf-admi <[email protected]>
1	fossedihelm <[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
---

This release follows v0.50.0 and consists of 180 changes, contributed…

… by 28 people, leading to 184 files changed, 5739 insertions(+), 4160 deletions(-).

v0.51.0 is a promotion of release candidate v0.51.0-rc.0 which was originally published 2022-03-01
The source code and selected binaries are available for download at: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/releases/tag/v0.51.0.

The primary release artifact of KubeVirt is the git tree. The release tag is
signed and can be verified using `git tag -v v0.51.0`.

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

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

- [PR kubevirt#7102][machadovilaca] Add Virtual Machine name label to virt-launcher pod
- [PR kubevirt#7139][davidvossel] Fixes inconsistent VirtualMachinePool VM/VMI updates by using controller revisions
- [PR kubevirt#6754][jean-edouard] New and resized disks are now always 1MiB-aligned
- [PR kubevirt#7086][acardace] Add 'EvictionStrategy' as a cluster-wide setting in the KubeVirt CR
- [PR kubevirt#7232][rmohr] Properly format the PDB scale event during migrations
- [PR kubevirt#7223][Barakmor1] Add a name label to virt-operator pods
- [PR kubevirt#7221][davidvossel] RunStrategy: Once - allows declaring a VM should run once to a finalized state
- [PR kubevirt#7091][EdDev] SR-IOV interfaces are now reported in the VMI status even without an active guest-agent.
- [PR kubevirt#7169][rmohr] Improve device plugin de-registration in virt-handler and some test stabilizations
- [PR kubevirt#6604][alicefr] Add shareable option to identify if the disk is shared with other VMs
- [PR kubevirt#7144][davidvossel] Garbage collect finalized migration objects only leaving the most recent 5 objects
- [PR kubevirt#6110][xpivarc] [Nonroot] SRIOV is now available.

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

28	Dan Kenigsberg <[email protected]>
18	Roman Mohr <[email protected]>
13	David Vossel <[email protected]>
8	Edward Haas <[email protected]>
7	Antonio Cardace <[email protected]>
5	Alice Frosi <[email protected]>
4	Andrej Krejcir <[email protected]>
4	L. Pivarc <[email protected]>
3	Igor Bezukh <[email protected]>
3	Vasiliy Ulyanov <[email protected]>
3	Victor Toso <[email protected]>
3	fossedihelm <[email protected]>
2	Daniel Hiller <[email protected]>
2	Jed Lejosne <[email protected]>
2	João Vilaça <[email protected]>
2	Karel Šimon <[email protected]>
2	Michael Henriksen <[email protected]>
2	Ryan Hallisey <[email protected]>
2	Shelly Kagan <[email protected]>
1	Alexander Wels <[email protected]>
1	Barak Mordehai <[email protected]>
1	Bartosz Rybacki <[email protected]>
1	Marcelo Amaral <[email protected]>
1	Shirly Radco <[email protected]>
1	Simone Tiraboschi <[email protected]>
1	jbpratt <[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
---