Minor Improvements:

• Addon auto-pause: Remove memory leak & add configurable interval #17936
• image build: Add docker.io/library to image short names #16214
• cp: Create directory if not present #17715
• Move errors getting logs into log output itself #18007
• Add default sysctls to allow privileged ports with no capabilities #18421
• Include extended attributes in preload tarballs #17829
• Apply kubeadm.applyNodeLabels label to all nodes #16416
• Limit driver status check to 20s #17553
• Include journalctl logs if systemd service fails to start #17659
• ISO: Add CONFIG_DM_MULTIPATH #18277
• ISO: Add CONFIG_QFMT_V2 for arm64 #17991
• ISO: Add CONFIG_CEPH_FS for arm64 #18213
• ISO: Add CONFIG_BPF for arm64 #17206

Bugs:

• Fix "Failed to enable container runtime: sudo systemctl restart cri-docker" #17907
• Fix containerd redownloading existing images on start #17671
• Fix kvm2 not detecting containerd preload #17658
• Fix modifying Docker binfmt config #17830
• Fix auto-pause addon #17866
• Fix not using preload with overlayfs storage driver #18333
• Fix image repositories not allowing subdomains with numbers #17496
• Fix stopping cluster when using kvm2 with containerd #17967
• Fix starting more than one cluster on kvm2 arm64 #18241
• Fix starting kvm2 clusters using Linux on arm64 Mac #18239
• Fix displaying error when deleting non-existing cluster #17713
• Fix no-limit not being respected on restart #17598
• Fix not applying kubeadm.applyNodeLabels label to nodes added after inital start #16416
• Fix logs delimiter output #17734

Version Upgrades:

• Bump Kubernetes version default: v1.29.3 and latest: v1.30.0-beta.0 #17786
• Addon cloud-spanner: Update cloud-spanner-emulator/emulator image from 1.5.11 to 1.5.15 #17595 #17847 #18165 #18431
• Addon gcp-auth: Update k8s-minikube/gcp-auth-webhook image from v0.1.0 to v0.1.2 #18222 #18384
• Addon headlamp: Update headlamp-k8s/headlamp image from v0.20.1 to v0.23.0 #17586 #17846 #18320
• Addon ingress: Update ingress-nginx/controller image from v1.9.4 to v1.10.0 #17848 #18166 #18284
• Addon inspektor-gadget: Update inspektor-gadget/inspektor-gadget image from v0.22.0 to v0.26.0 #17740 #17885 #18169 #18358
• Addon istio-provisioner: Update istio/operator image from 1.19.3 to 1.21.0 #17651 #17777 #17957 #18168 #18429
• Addon kong: Update kong image from 3.4.2 to 3.6.1 #17605 #18200 #18350
• Addon kubevirt: Update bitnami/kubectl image from 1.24.7 to 1.29.3 #18170 #18187 #18427
• Addon metrics-server: Update metrics-server/metrics-server image from v0.6.4 to v0.7.0 #18051
• Addon nvidia-device-plugin: Update nvidia/k8s-device-plugin image from v0.14.2 to v0.14.5 #17623 #18171 #18283
• Addon registry: Update k8s-minikube/kube-registry-proxy image from 0.0.5 to 0.0.6 #18454
• CNI: Update calico from v3.26.3 to v3.27.0 #17644 #17824
• CNI: Update cilium from v1.12.3 to v1.15.1 #18259
• CNI: Update flannel from v0.22.3 to v0.24.4 #17837 #17975 #18014 #18500
• CNI: Update kindnetd from v20230809-80a64d96 to v20240202-8f1494ea #18167
• Kicbase/ISO: Update buildkit from v0.12.3 to v0.13.0 #17738 #18375
• Kicbase/ISO: Update cni-plugins from v1.3.0 to v1.4.1 #17761 #18375
• Kicbase/ISO: Update containerd from v1.7.8 to v1.7.14 #17634 #17711 #17765 #18375
• Kicbase/ISO: Update docker from 24.0.7 to 25.0.4 #18375
• Kicbase/ISO: Update Go from 1.21.3 to 1.22.1 #17619 #17760 #17953 #18197 #18375
• Kicbase/ISO: Update nerdctl from 1.6.2 to 1.7.4 #17565 #17703 #17806 #18375
• Kicbase/ISO: Update runc from v1.1.9 to v1.1.12 #17581 #18020 #18375
• Kicbase: Update nerdctld from 0.2.0 to 0.5.1 #17764 #17857
• Kicbase: Update ubuntu:jammy from 20231004 to 20240227 #17719 #17822 #18244 #18375
• ISO: Update cri-o from v1.24.1 to v1.29.1 #18020

For a more detailed changelog, see CHANGELOG.md.

Thank you to our contributors for this release!

• Alberto Faria
• Anders F Björklund
• Blaine Gardner
• Camille Clayton
• Chase, Justin M
• Dani
• Eng Zer Jun
• Francis Laniel
• Jan Klippel
• Jeff MAURY
• Jin Li
• Jongwoo Han
• Marc Nuri
• Marcell Martini
• Marcus Dunn
• Mark Moretto
• Martin Jirku
• Medya Ghazizadeh
• Nir Soffer
• Predrag Rogic
• Pris Nasrat
• Raiden Shogun
• Sandipan Panda
• Sonu Kumar Singh
• Steven Powell
• Tarishi Jain
• Timothée Ravier
• Yuri Astrakhan
• andy
• chahatjaink
• coderrick
• joaquimrocha
• lixin18
• ljtian
• mahmut
• mattrobinsonsre
• prnvkv
• shixiuguo
• sunyuxuan
• sunyuxuna
• syxunion
• tianlj
• zdxgs
• zjx20

Thank you to our PR reviewers for this release!

• spowelljr (55 comments)
• medyagh (27 comments)
• afbjorklund (14 comments)
• liangyuanpeng (11 comments)
• prezha (4 comments)
• ComradeProgrammer (3 comments)
• acumino (2 comments)
• aiyijing (2 comments)
• Fenrur (1 comments)
• allenhaozi (1 comments)
• dharmit (1 comments)
• maximiliankolb (1 comments)
• neolit123 (1 comments)

Thank you to our triage members for this release!

• afbjorklund (70 comments)
• caerulescens (37 comments)
• T-Lakshmi (31 comments)
• spowelljr (22 comments)
• kundan2707 (20 comments)

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Installation

See Getting Started

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