[ANNOUNCE] node-feature-discovery v0.19.0 is released

[Carlos Arango Gutierrez]

Node Feature Discovery v0.19.0 has been released.

Highlights:

- Immediate node re-labeling after a node rebuild: nfd-master now detects a

  recreated Node via the NodeFeature owner-reference/pod-UID metadata and

  restores labels immediately, instead of waiting for the periodic resync.

- Configurable NodeFeature owner references (-owner-refs / core.ownerRefs:

  pod, ds, node; default pod,ds).

- core.noPublishFeatures to slim the NodeFeature objects published by

  nfd-worker.

- New x86-64 microarchitecture level labels: cpu-cpuid.X86_64_V1..V4.

- nfd-topology-updater now serves per-pod lookups from a node-scoped Pod

  informer, eliminating high-volume per-pod GETs at scale. NOTE: this needs

  an RBAC update (list/watch on pods) — see the action-required notes.

- Reconcile performance: spec-change-only reconciliation and cached

  NodeFeatureRule regexp compilation.

Please review the action-required notes before upgrading — in particular the

topology-updater RBAC update and the removal of the env/expandenv/

getHostByName template functions:

Release notes: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/node-feature-discovery/releases/tag/v0.19.0

Documentation: https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/node-feature-discovery/0.19/

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release!

Carlos Eduardo Arango Gutierrez Ph.D 

Senior Systems Software Engineer, Kubernetes

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