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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Happy winter-solstice-holiday-of-choice, kata-folk!<o:p></o:p></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">release page</a> for details.</span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#24292E;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"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#24292E;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="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#24292E;background:white"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><a href="https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/issues/1071"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0366D6;background:white">this
 issue</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#24292E;background:white"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#24292E;background:white">for details on current volume
 limitations.</span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#24292E;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="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#24292E;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"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#24292E;background:white"> </span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC;background:white">https://github.com/kata-containers/documentation/wiki/Initial-release-of-Kata-Containers-with-Firecracker-support</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#24292E;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"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#24292E;background:white">Thanks for all the support on this release!</span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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