RancherOS Release - v0.4.0

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Release v0.4.0

As part of the major refactoring of v0.4.0, upgrades from previous versions will not be supported, but we will support upgrades from v0.4.0+.

New Features

• Broke apart the build to make it more modular to allow user to customize RancherOS [#258]
• Added ability to swap out the kernel for your own kernel [#414]
  • Added ability to customize the user docker version [#420, #415]
  • Ability to use kernel headers [#579]
  • Ability to customize storage [#416, #390, #356]
• Ability to create custom RancherOS ISO [#380]
• Made ubuntu and debian into persistent consoles [#419]
• Removed the machine-rancheros.iso from the releases as rancheros.iso can be used for `docker-machine. [#513]
• Amazon ECS Support [#603]- Added ability to have RancherOS AMIs join ECS clusters
• Fixed an issue so that rkt can now be used
• Added support for glibc, which allows support for rancher-compose and other go based programs [#572]
• Bumped default kernel to v4.2 [#574]
• Removed rancher.yml and support cloud-config.yml using ros config [#454, #573] Note: This means that previously ros config set/get requires a prefix of rancher for all configuration changes.
• Swtiched from rancheros-install to ros install.
• Raised the limit of open files [#359]
• The required amount of memory has been reduced to 512 MB [#345] Note: If you want to run ros install (formerly rancheros-install), you’ll still need 1 GB, but this constraint will be removed in v0.4.1.
• Support for DKMS [#264]
• Support for ZFS [#599]
• Packaged additional firmware [#540]
• Support for Minnow board max
• Support for sysdig
• Additional Documentation:
  • All labels that could be applied to system-services [#476]
  • Persistent folders across reboot [#499]

Bug Fixes

• Remove panic from invalid cloud-config.yml files [#487]

Please download our latest RancherOS release.