KMM 2.4.0 is now available.

[Yoni Bettan]

Hello Kubernetes Community,

Kernel Module Management (KMM) operator v2.4.0 has been released and is now available.

## Main new features

* Support for loading a device-plugin for an in-tree driver.
KMM can now only set a device-plugin for an already loaded, in-tree driver, in the `Module`.

* Added an init-container to the device-plugin.
Allows setup validation before running the device plugin.

* Operator configuration will now persist operator upgrades.
Custom configuration for the operator via a configMap will now persist to the next KMM version in case on an upgrade.

## Additional enhancements

* The operator is now pulling and checking images existence using the cluster's container-runtime.
* KMM can now be installed on worker nodes, when control-plane nodes aren't available, without the need to artificially label the worker nodes as "control-plane".
* Reduce significantly the number of events we had to one of the internal controller (NMC)
* Removed a service duplication (generated by OLM) for the webhook deployment.

## Bug Fixes

* Fixed a bug when KMM was not re-loading the kmod when a reboot was very fast (and the kube-api was not noticing that the node even went down).
* Fixed a bug that the NMC CR was inheriting tolerations that were not set in the Module
* Fixed a bug in which a failing worker-pod was hanging forever if its Module was deleted.

More details can be found on the release page [0].

Issues can be reported on GitHub [1].

Please join the KMM community on #sig-node-kmm [2] on Slack.

Thank you,
Yoni Bettan, on behalf of the KMM team

[0]: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kernel-module-management/releases/tag/v2.4.0

[1]: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kernel-module-management/issues
[2]: https://kubernetes.slack.com/archives/C037RE58RED

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Yoni Bettan
Senior Software Engineer, Ecosystems Engineering
Products & Technologies Group, Red Hat

[Yoni Bettan]

Hello Kubernetes Community.

In order to fix the upgrade path for KMM...@2.3.0 to KMM...@2.4.0 we have released KMM (and KMM-hub) 2.4.1 to operatorhub.io and it is not available.
Community member who wish to upgrade from 2.3 to 2.4 should upgrade to 2.4.1 for a smooth upgrade.

All details can be found in the release page [0]

[0] https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kernel-module-management/releases/tag/v2.4.1

Thank you.
Yoni Bettan, on behalf of the KMM team.