v1.8.1

[smira]

Talos 1.8.1 (2024-10-08)

Welcome to the v1.8.1 release of Talos!

Starting with Talos v1.8.0, only standard assets would be published as github release assets. These include:

• cloud-images.json
• talosctl binaries
• kernel
• initramfs
• metal iso and disk images
• talosctl-cni-bundle

All other release assets can be downloaded from Image Factory.

Please try out the release binaries and report any issues at
https://github.com/siderolabs/talos/issues.

Component Updates

Linux: 6.6.54
containerd: 2.0.0-rc.5
Flannel: 0.25.7

Talos is built with Go 1.22.8.

Contributors

• Andrey Smirnov
• Hexoplon
• ekarlso

Changes

16 commits

• 477752fe6 release(v1.8.1): prepare release
• 362c9f812 test: skip lvm test if not enough user disks available
• 79305007f chore: checkout extensions from release-1.8, not main
• f6d630624 fix: wipe system partitions correctly via kernel args
• 4d279c65f fix: volume encryption with failing keyslots
• 070defad1 fix: update grpc-go the latest patch release
• a2d12fd7b feat: update Flannel to v0.25.7
• e2f560b96 feat: bring in lpfc kernel module driver
• 788336afb feat: enable QEDF driver
• e4341fa66 fix: make /var/run empty on reboots
• 66228ef10 fix: multiple fixes for LVM activation
• 5f4515f30 fix: prevent file descriptors leaks to child processes
• a55103ee6 chore: ignore more plugins for system containerd
• ffcdc0bb7 fix: build talosctl without tcell_minimal
• d29f66079 feat: add support for CI Network config in nocloud
• 01e580bdd feat: update Go 1.22.8, Linux, pkgs

Changes from siderolabs/pkgs

8 commits

• siderolabs/pkgs@71d23b4 feat: update Linux to 6.6.54
• siderolabs/pkgs@8906a9b feat: add lpfc kernel module
• siderolabs/pkgs@3c57dff feat: enable QEDF driver
• siderolabs/pkgs@1ecbd58 feat: update containerd to v2.0.0-rc.5
• siderolabs/pkgs@47dff98 fix: drop the LVM2 udev lvm rule
• siderolabs/pkgs@480d765 fix: force LVM to use /run as state directory
• siderolabs/pkgs@c663212 feat: enable transparent huge pages in madvise mode
• siderolabs/pkgs@832f11b feat: update Go to 1.22.8

Changes from siderolabs/tools

1 commit

• siderolabs/tools@7719230 feat: update Go to 1.22.8

Dependency Changes

• github.com/klauspost/compress v1.17.9 -> v1.17.10
• github.com/siderolabs/go-blockdevice/v2 v2.0.2 -> v2.0.3
• github.com/siderolabs/pkgs v1.8.0-8-gdf1a1a5 -> v1.8.0-16-g71d23b4
• github.com/siderolabs/talos/pkg/machinery v1.8.0 -> v1.8.1
• github.com/siderolabs/tools v1.8.0-1-ga0c06c6 -> v1.8.0-2-g7719230
• google.golang.org/grpc v1.66.0 -> v1.66.3

Previous release can be found at v1.8.0

Images

ghcr.io/siderolabs/flannel:v0.25.7
registry.k8s.io/coredns/coredns:v1.11.3
gcr.io/etcd-development/etcd:v3.5.16
registry.k8s.io/kube-apiserver:v1.31.1
registry.k8s.io/kube-controller-manager:v1.31.1
registry.k8s.io/kube-scheduler:v1.31.1
registry.k8s.io/kube-proxy:v1.31.1
ghcr.io/siderolabs/kubelet:v1.31.1
ghcr.io/siderolabs/installer:v1.8.1
registry.k8s.io/pause:3.9

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This discussion was created from the release v1.8.1.

[eshikhov]

Tested "66228ef10 fix: multiple fixes for LVM activation" in our cluster, LVM activation works.

Thanks for the work you've done.