<div dir="ltr"><div>Cool.</div><div><br></div>v1.5 will be a milestone for Kata Containers.<div><br></div><div>We will have initial firecracker support and stable shimv2 support in this release. And we will encourage the partners to try to adopt the release in their production environment.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 10:39 AM Ernst, Eric <<a href="mailto:eric.ernst@intel.com">eric.ernst@intel.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Happy winter-solstice-holiday-of-choice, kata-folk!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">I am very pleased to announce 1.5.0-rc2 release of the Kata containers project. See the
<a href="https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/releases/tag/1.5.0-rc2" target="_blank">release page</a> for details.</span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,41,46);background:white">This is an exciting release for Kata, which includes support for the Firecracker hypervisor, the s390x architecture as well as multiple fixes for shimv2 support.</span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,41,46);background:white">Firecracker has been tested with CRIO+Kubernetes as well as Docker (18.06), with support for multiple network interfaces as well as (block based) volumes. A block-based storage driver,
such as devicemapper, is required when using Kata with Firecracker. See</span><span class="gmail-m_-7215461864291788492apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,41,46);background:white"> </span></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif;color:black"><a href="https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/issues/1071" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(3,102,214);background:white">this
issue</span></a></span><span class="gmail-m_-7215461864291788492apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,41,46);background:white"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,41,46);background:white">for details on current volume
limitations.</span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,41,46);background:white">Firecracker is not currently packaged, but is available as part of our static-binary release tarball (available for download on the release page). I put together an initial wiki page
with a quick start guide – take a look! Will work to get this into a proper repository after the holidays.</span><span class="gmail-m_-7215461864291788492apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,41,46);background:white"> </span></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif;color:black"><a href="https://github.com/kata-containers/documentation/wiki/Initial-release-of-Kata-Containers-with-Firecracker-support" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,41,46);background:white"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);background:white">https://github.com/kata-containers/documentation/wiki/Initial-release-of-Kata-Containers-with-Firecracker-support</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,41,46);background:white">There aren’t any changes for 1.3 or 1.4 stable branches at this time, so no release was made for these.</span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,41,46);background:white">Thanks for all the support on this release!</span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,41,46);background:white">-Eric</span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard,serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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