KubeVirt v0.36.0 is out (with full backwards compatibility for live migration)

[David Vossel]

Hey,

v0.36.0 is officially released! https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/releases/tag/v0.36.0 

During the RC process, we discovered an issue with v0.36.0-rc.0 which impacted live migration compatibility with previous KubeVirt releases. That's been fixed. Updating to v0.36.0 should not pose any backwards incompatible changes.

Below are the release notes for v0.36.0

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This release follows v0.35.0 and consists of 314 changes, contributed by 35 people, leading to 308 files changed, 55480 insertions(+), 4880 deletions(-).

v0.36.0 is a promotion of release candidate v0.36.0-rc.1 which was originally published 2020-12-14
The source code and selected binaries are available for download at: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/releases/tag/v0.36.0.

The primary release artifact of KubeVirt is the git tree. The release tag is
signed and can be verified using `git tag -v v0.36.0`.

Pre-built containers are published on Docker Hub and can be viewed at: <https://hub.docker.com/u/kubevirt/>.

Notable changes
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- [PR #4667][kubevirt-bot] Update libvirt base container to be based of packages in rhel-av 8.3
- [PR #4634][kubevirt-bot] Failure detection and handling for VM with EFI Insecure Boot in KubeVirt environments where EFI Insecure Boot is not supported by design.
- [PR #4647][kubevirt-bot] Re-introduce the CAP_NET_ADMIN, to allow migration of VMs already having it.
- [PR #4627][kubevirt-bot] Fix guest agent reporting.
- [PR #4458][awels] It is now possible to hotplug DataVolume and PVC volumes into a running Virtual Machine.
- [PR #4025][brybacki] Adds a special handling for DataVolumes in WaitForFirstConsumer state to support CDI's delayed binding mode.
- [PR #4217][mfranczy] Set only an IP address for interfaces reported by qemu-guest-agent. Previously that was CIDR.
- [PR #4195][davidvossel] AccessCredentials API for dynamic user/password and ssh public key injection
- [PR #4335][oshoval] VMI status displays SRIOV interfaces with their network name only when they have originally
- [PR #4408][andreabolognani] This version of KubeVirt includes upgraded virtualization technology based on libvirt 6.6.0 and QEMU 5.1.0.
- [PR #4514][ArthurSens] `domain` label removed from metric `kubevirt_vmi_memory_unused_bytes`
- [PR #4542][danielBelenky] Fix double migration on node evacuation
- [PR #4506][maiqueb] Remove CAP_NET_ADMIN from the virt-launcher pod.
- [PR #4501][AlonaKaplan] CAP_NET_RAW removed from virt-launcher.
- [PR #4488][salanki] Disable Virtio-FS metadata cache to prevent OOM conditions on the host.
- [PR #3937][vladikr] Generalize host devices assignment. Provides an interface between kubevirt and external device plugins. Provides a mechanism for whitelisting host devices.
- [PR #4443][rmohr] All kubevirt webhooks support now dry-runs.

Contributors
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35 people contributed to this release:

32 David Vossel <dvo...@redhat.com>
32 Vladik Romanovsky <vrom...@redhat.com>
23 Roman Mohr <rm...@redhat.com>
17 Alexander Wels <aw...@redhat.com>
15 Edward Haas <edw...@redhat.com>
15 Jed Lejosne <j...@redhat.com>
13 Ezra Silvera <ez...@il.ibm.com>
13 Quique Llorente <ello...@redhat.com>
11 Marcelo Amaral <marcelo...@ibm.com>
11 Miguel Duarte Barroso <mdba...@redhat.com>
9 Or Shoval <osh...@redhat.com>
8 Bartosz Rybacki <bryb...@redhat.com>
7 Daniel Hiller <daniel.hi...@gmail.com>
5 Alona Kaplan <alka...@redhat.com>
5 Andrea Bolognani <abol...@redhat.com>
5 Stu Gott <sg...@redhat.com>
4 Fabian Deutsch <fab...@redhat.com>
3 Igor Bezukh <ibe...@redhat.com>
3 L. Pivarc <lpi...@redhat.com>
2 Daniel Belenky <dbel...@redhat.com>
2 alonSadan <asa...@redhat.com>
2 屈骏 <qu...@tiduyun.com>
1 Adam Litke <ali...@redhat.com>
1 Christoph Stäbler <chres...@gmail.com>
1 Dan Kenigsberg <dan...@redhat.com>
1 Federico Gimenez <federico...@gmail.com>
1 Hao Yu <y...@us.ibm.com>
1 Marcin Franczyk <marcin0...@gmail.com>
1 Or Mergi <orm...@redhat.com>
1 Peter Salanki <pe...@salanki.st>
1 Tomasz Baranski <tbar...@redhat.com>
1 arthursens <arthurs...@gmail.com>
1 zouyu <zouy...@cn.fujitsu.com>

Additional Resources
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- Mailing list: <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/kubevirt-dev>
- Slack: <https://kubernetes.slack.com/messages/virtualization>
- An easy to use demo: <https://github.com/kubevirt/demo>
- [How to contribute][contributing]
- [License][license]

[contributing]: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
[license]: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/blob/master/LICENSE
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