RancherOS Release - v1.5.0

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Release v1.5.0

RancherOS will only be distributing releases on basic x86 platform. For other distributions, please refer to the README.

Versions

  • Linux: 4.14.85
  • Buildroot: 2018.02.7
  • Docker docker-18.06.1-ce by default
  • RPi64: Linux 4.9.80
  • Console:
    • Alpine: 3.8
    • CentOS: 7.5.1804
    • Debian: stretch
    • Fedora: 28
    • Ubuntu: bionic

Major Features and Enhancements

  • Support for LUKS [#2551]
  • Support for WiFi and 4G/LTE [#2370]
  • Support for custom rootfs of os initrd [#2547]
  • Support for Hyper-V [#442]
  • Support for VMDK images [#2468]
  • Support for disabling access to the system from the console [#2380]
    • Added the ability to disable auto-login
    • Added the ability to ignore rancher.password
  • Support for multiple user-docker daemons [#2177]
  • Support for ARM server(Experimental) [#2302]
  • Support for built-in other consoles [#2603]
  • Support for vSphere network protocol profiles [#2490]
  • Enhancements for faster boot speed and lower memory footprint
    • Disabled repeated system image loading [#2467]
    • Added the ability to disable cloud-init [#2552]
    • Used gzip compression initrd instead of xz [#2392]
  • Enhancement for consoles
    • docker top is now available for all consoles [#2340]
    • scp is now available for CentOS and Fedora consoles [#2536]
    • xfsprogs is now available in the default console [#2541]

Major Bug Fixes since v1.4.2

  • Fixed an issue where RancherOS boots slowly due to low entropy [#2473]
  • Fixed an issue where open-iscsi cannot be used due to missing /run/lock directory [#2435]
  • Fixed an issue where some zombie processes cannot be cleaned up [#2550 #2578]
  • Fixed an issue where RANCHER_BOOT partition cannot be mounted automatically [#2492]
  • Fixed an issue where respawn.log is spammed with errors when there is no serial port on the machine [#2466]
  • Fixed an issue where the vmware datasource always reports as “available” on ESXi hypervisors even with no guestinfo being available [#2465]
  • Fixed an issue where DHCP is still available when static ip is set [#2521]
  • Fixed an issue where first boot is delayed by 30 seconds when using static IP configuration [#2469]
  • Fixed an issue where ssh keys cannot be injected on GCP [#2613]