This release follows v1.6.3 and consists of 1181 changes, contributed…

… by 71 people, leading to 2363 files changed, 105899 insertions(+), 65799 deletions(-).

v1.7.0 is a promotion of release candidate v1.7.0-rc.1 which was originally published 2025-11-24
The source code and selected binaries are available for download at: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/releases/tag/v1.7.0.

The primary release artifact of KubeVirt is the git tree. The release tag is
signed and can be verified using `git tag -v v1.7.0`.

Pre-built containers are published on Quay and can be viewed at: <https://quay.io/kubevirt/>.

Notable changes
---------------

- [PR kubevirt#16199][kubevirt-bot] Don't use attachment pods marked for deletion for hotplug volume status updates.
- [PR kubevirt#16168][kubevirt-bot] Migration is using dedicated certificate for mTLS.
- [PR kubevirt#16198][kubevirt-bot] Bug fix: KubeVirt.spec.imagetag installation is working again
- [PR kubevirt#16150][kubevirt-bot] fix: KSM is enabled in case of node pressure within 3 minutes
- [PR kubevirt#16129][kubevirt-bot] Add RestartRequired when detaching CD-ROMs from a running VM
- [PR kubevirt#16108][kubevirt-bot] Allow migration when host model changes after libvirt upgrade.
- [PR kubevirt#16089][kubevirt-bot] A decentralized live migration failure is properly propagates between source and target
- [PR kubevirt#16097][kubevirt-bot] Introduce a new subresource `/evacuate/cancel` and `virtctl evacuate-cancel` command to allow users to cancel the evacuation process for a VirtualMachineInstance (VMI). This clears the `evacuationNodeName` field in the VMI's status, stopping the automatic creation of migration resources and fully aborting the eviction cycle.
- [PR kubevirt#16076][kubevirt-bot] NodeRestriction: Source of node update is now verified
- [PR kubevirt#16033][noamasu] VMSnapshot: add SourceIndications status field to list snapshot indications with descriptions for clearer meaning.
- [PR kubevirt#16041][kubevirt-bot] The KubevirtSeccompProfile feature is now in Beta
- [PR kubevirt#16039][kubevirt-bot] Promote IBM Secure Execution Feature to Beta stage.
- [PR kubevirt#16051][kubevirt-bot] Introduce pool.kubevirt.io/v1beta1
- [PR kubevirt#16027][kubevirt-bot] VMPool: Add support for auto-healing startegy
- [PR kubevirt#16011][kubevirt-bot] BugFix: The migration limit was not accurately being used with decentralized live migrations
- [PR kubevirt#16026][fossedihelm] support v0.32.5 code generator
- [PR kubevirt#16005][kubevirt-bot] promote ImageVolume FG to Beta
- [PR kubevirt#15999][kubevirt-bot] VMpool: Add Scale-in strategy support with Proactive, opportunistic modes and statePreservation
- [PR kubevirt#14973][Barakmor1] support live migration for ImageVolume with modified container disk images
- [PR kubevirt#15939][dasionov] Beta: VideoConfig
- [PR kubevirt#15887][fossedihelm] Alpha: Generalized Migration Priority in KubeVirt
- [PR kubevirt#14575][zhencliu] Experimental support of Intel TDX
- [PR kubevirt#15718][Vicente-Cheng] Bump k8s v1.33
- [PR kubevirt#15123][Sreeja1725] VMpool: Add UpdateStrategy support with Proactive, Opportunistic modes and Selection policies
- [PR kubevirt#15878][Sreeja1725] Add v1.6.0 perf and scale benchmarks data
- [PR kubevirt#15936][kubevirt-bot] Updated common-instancetypes bundles to v1.5.1
- [PR kubevirt#15008][fossedihelm] Fix possible nil pointer caused by migration during kv upgrade
- [PR kubevirt#14845][alancaldelas] Experimental support for AMD SEV-SNP that is behind the `WorkloadEncruptionSEV` feature gate.
- [PR kubevirt#15783][orelmisan] Specify correct label selection when creating a service via virtctl expose. The expose command on virtctl v1.7 and above will not work with older KubeVirt versions.
- [PR kubevirt#15830][varunrsekar] Beta: PanicDevices
- [PR kubevirt#15698][Acedus] It is now possible to configure discard_granularity for VM disks.
- [PR kubevirt#15867][xpivarc] Bug fix: Thousands of migrations should not cause failures of active migrations
- [PR kubevirt#15712][lyarwood] The `DefaultVirtHandler{QPS,Burst}` values are increased to ensure no bottleneck forms within `virt-handler`
- [PR kubevirt#15788][mhenriks] Fix RestartRequired handling for hotplug volumes
- [PR kubevirt#15539][tiraboschi] Add VirtualMachineInstanceEvictionRequested condition for eviction tracking
- [PR kubevirt#14902][tiraboschi] The list of annotations and labels synced from VM.spec.template.metadata to VMI and then to virt-launcher pods can be extended
- [PR kubevirt#15784][brianmcarey] Build KubeVirt with go v1.24.7
- [PR kubevirt#15706][ksimon1] fix: prioritize expired cert removal over 50-cert limit in MergeCABundle
- [PR kubevirt#15798][lyarwood] Support for the `ioThreads` VMI configurable is added to the `instancetype.kubevirt.io/v1beta1` API allowing `supplementalPoolThreadCount` to now be provided by an instance type.
- [PR kubevirt#15615][alromeros] Object Graph: Include NADs and ServiceAccounts
- [PR kubevirt#15398][lyarwood] Preferences can now express preferred and required architecture values for use within VirtualMachines
- [PR kubevirt#15676][xpivarc] Bug fix, virt-launcher is properly reaped
- [PR kubevirt#15690][lyarwood] Replicas of `virt-api` are now scaled depending on the number of nodes within the environment with the `kubevirt.io/schedulable=true` label.
- [PR kubevirt#15692][awels] BugFix: Restoring naked PVCs from a VMSnapshot are now properly owned by the VM if the restore policy is set to VM
- [PR kubevirt#15759][lyarwood] Only a single `Signaled Graceful Shutdown` event is now sent to avoid spamming the event recorder during long graceful shutdown attempts
- [PR kubevirt#15400][lyarwood] The deprecated `instancetype.kubevirt.io/v1alpha{1,2}` API and CRDs have been removed
- [PR kubevirt#15681][jean-edouard] Memory overcommit is now recalculated on migration.
- [PR kubevirt#13111][brianmcarey] build: update to bazel v6.5.0 and rules_oci
- [PR kubevirt#15406][Sreeja1725] Add VMpool finalizer to ensure proper cleanup
- [PR kubevirt#15669][HarshithaMS005] Normalise iface status to ensure test stability of hotplug and hotunplug tests
- [PR kubevirt#14772][ShellyKa13] ChangedBlockTracking: enable add/remove of qcow2 overlay if vm matches label selector
- [PR kubevirt#15661][nirdothan] Support Istio versions 1.25 and above.
- [PR kubevirt#15531][Yu-Jack] bump prometheus operator to 0.80.1
- [PR kubevirt#15605][awels] BugFix: Able to cancel in flight decentralized live migrations properly
- [PR kubevirt#15238][victortoso] Does Screenshot without the usage of VNC
- [PR kubevirt#15504][sradco] Update metric kubevirt_vm_container_free_memory_bytes_based_on_rss and kubevirt_vm_container_free_memory_bytes_based_on_working_set_bytes names to kubevirt_vm_container_memory_request_margin_based_on_rss_bytes and kubevirt_vm_container_memory_request_margin_based_on_working_set_bytes so they will be clearer
- [PR kubevirt#15503][Sreeja1725] Enhance VMPool unit tests to make use of fake client
- [PR kubevirt#15422][lyarwood] The `DefaultVirtWebhookClient{QPS,Burst}` values are aligned with `DefaultVirtWebhookClient{QPS,Burst}` to help avoid saturating the webhook client with requests it is unable to serve during mass eviction events
- [PR kubevirt#15651][dcarrier] Add WithUploadSource builder to libdv
- [PR kubevirt#15642][akalenyu] BugFix: Windows VM with vTPM that was previously Storage Migrated cannot live migrate
- [PR kubevirt#15181][avlitman] Add kubevirt_vm_labels metric which shows vm labels converted to Prometheus labels, and can be configured using config map with ignore and allow lists.
- [PR kubevirt#15630][awels] Allow decentralized live migration on L3 networks
- [PR kubevirt#15513][jean-edouard] Fixed priority escalation bug in migration controller
- [PR kubevirt#15603][akalenyu] BugFix: Fix volume migration for VMs with long name
- [PR kubevirt#15344][SkalaNetworks] Added VolumeOwnershipPolicy to decide how volumes are owned once they are restored.
- [PR kubevirt#14976][dasionov] remove ppc64le architecture configuration support
- [PR kubevirt#15509][alromeros] Bugfix: Exclude lost+found from export server
- [PR kubevirt#15557][fossedihelm] Fix: grpc client in handler rest requests are properly closed
- [PR kubevirt#15227][sradco] New VM alerts - VirtualMachineStuckInUnhealthyState, VirtualMachineStuckOnNode
- [PR kubevirt#15478][0xFelix] virtctl: The --local-ssh flag and native ssh and scp clients are removed from virtctl. From now on the local ssh and scp clients on a host are always wrapped by virtctl ssh and scp.
- [PR kubevirt#13500][brandboat] Fix incorrect metric name kubevirt_vmi_migration_disk_transfer_rate_bytes to kubevirt_vmi_migration_memory_transfer_rate_bytes
- [PR kubevirt#15464][avlitman] Added virt-launcher to kubevirt_memory_delta_from_requested_bytes metric and cnv_abnormal metrics.
- [PR kubevirt#15267][victortoso] Add `preserve session` option to VNC endpoint
- [PR kubevirt#15357][dasionov] ensure default Firmware.Serial value on newly created vms
- [PR kubevirt#15470][awels] BugFix: Unable to delete source VM on failed decentralized live migration
- [PR kubevirt#15423][tiraboschi] Derive eviction-in-progress annotation from VMI eviction status
- [PR kubevirt#15475][0xFelix] virtctl (portfoward|ssh|scp): Drop support for legacy dot syntax. In case the old dot syntax was used virtctl could ask for verification of the host key again. In some cases the known_hosts file might need to be updated manually.
- [PR kubevirt#15170][dasionov] bugfix: ensure grace period metadata cache is synced in virt-launcher
- [PR kubevirt#15397][ShellyKa13] bugfix: prevent VMSnapshotContent repeated update with the same error message
- [PR kubevirt#15167][Sreeja1725] Add Command line flag to disable Node Labeller service
- [PR kubevirt#15365][tiraboschi] Aligning descheduler opt-out annotation name
- [PR kubevirt#14983][sradco] This PR adds the following alerts: GuestPeakVCPUQueueHighWarning, GuestPeakVCPUQueueHighCritical
- [PR kubevirt#15096][lyarwood] The `foregroundDeleteVirtualMachine` has been deprecated and replaced with the domain-qualified `kubevirt.io/foregroundDeleteVirtualMachine`.
- [PR kubevirt#15001][noamasu] bugfix: Enable vmsnapshot for paused VMs
- [PR kubevirt#15093][Acedus] bugfix: volume hotplug pod is no longer evicted when associated VM can live migrate.
- [PR kubevirt#14879][machadovilaca] Add GuestAgentInfo info metrics
- [PR kubevirt#15305][Acedus] bugfix: snapshot and restore now works correctly for VMs after a storage volume migration
- [PR kubevirt#15314][xpivarc] Common Names are now enforce for aggregated API
- [PR kubevirt#15253][0xFelix] Bumped the bundled common-instancetypes to v1.4.0 which add new preferences.
- [PR kubevirt#15182][akalenyu] BugFix: export fails when VMExport has dots in secret
- [PR kubevirt#15061][lyarwood] Support for all `*_SHASUM` environment variables has been removed from the `virt-operator` component. Users should instead use the remaining `*_IMAGE` environment variables to request a specific image version using a tag, digest or both.
- [PR kubevirt#15157][jean-edouard] virt-operator won't schedule on worker nodes
- [PR kubevirt#15118][dankenigsberg] Drop an arbitrary limitation on VM's domain.firmaware.serial. Any string is passed verbatim to smbios. Illegal may be tweaked or ignored based on qemu/smbios version.
- [PR kubevirt#15098][dominikholler] Update dependecy golang.org/x/oauth2 to v0.27.0
- [PR kubevirt#15016][fossedihelm] Fix postcopy multifd compatibility during upgrade
- [PR kubevirt#15100][dominikholler] Update dependecy golang.org/x/net to v0.38.0
- [PR kubevirt#15099][akalenyu] BugFix: export fails when VMExport has dots in name
- [PR kubevirt#14685][seanbanko] allows virtual machine instances with an instance type to specify memory fields that do not conflict with the instance type
- [PR kubevirt#14888][akalenyu] Cleanup: libvmi: add consistently named cpu/mem setters
- [PR kubevirt#15067][alromeros] Bugfix: Label upload PVCs to support CDI WebhookPvcRendering
- [PR kubevirt#15037][jean-edouard] HostDisk: KubeVirt no longer performs chown/chmod to compensate for storage that doesn't support fsGroup
- [PR kubevirt#15017][nekkunti] Added support for architecture-specific configuration of `s390x` (IBM Z) in KubeVirt cluster config.
- [PR kubevirt#15022][awels] The synchronization controller migration network IP address is advertised by the KubeVirt CR
- [PR kubevirt#15021][awels] Decentralized migration resource now shows the synchronization address
- [PR kubevirt#14365][alaypatel07] Add support for DRA devices such as GPUs and HostDevices.
- [PR kubevirt#14882][awels] Decentralized live migration is available to allow migration across namespaces and clusters
- [PR kubevirt#14964][xpivarc] Beta: NodeRestriction
- [PR kubevirt#14986][awels] Possible to trust additional CAs for verifying kubevirt infra structure components
- [PR kubevirt#14875][nirdothan] Support seamless TCP migration with passt (alpha)

Contributors
------------
71 people contributed to this release:

71	fossedihelm <[email protected]>
63	Lee Yarwood <[email protected]>
57	Luboslav Pivarc <[email protected]>
57	Orel Misan <[email protected]>
56	Brian Carey <[email protected]>
49	Alexander Wels <[email protected]>
35	Jed Lejosne <[email protected]>
23	Nir Dothan <[email protected]>
17	Or Shoval <[email protected]>
17	Shelly Kagan <[email protected]>
16	dsionov <[email protected]>
15	Alex Kalenyuk <[email protected]>
15	Ananya Banerjee <[email protected]>
15	svarnam <[email protected]>
13	Felix Matouschek <[email protected]>
13	bmordeha <[email protected]>
11	João Vilaça <[email protected]>
11	dsanatar <[email protected]>
10	Andrej Krejcir <[email protected]>
10	Edward Haas <[email protected]>
10	Noam Assouline <[email protected]>
10	Victor Toso <[email protected]>
10	Vladik Romanovsky <[email protected]>
9	Adi Aloni <[email protected]>
8	Michael Henriksen <[email protected]>
7	Arnon Gilboa <[email protected]>
7	Daniel Hiller <[email protected]>
7	Zhenchao Liu <[email protected]>
6	Alay Patel <[email protected]>
6	Alvaro Romero <[email protected]>
6	Shirly Radco <[email protected]>
6	Vicente Cheng <[email protected]>
6	YuJack <[email protected]>
6	avlitman <[email protected]>
4	Michal Vavrinec <[email protected]>
4	Simone Tiraboschi <[email protected]>
4	Sreeja1725 <[email protected]>
4	Yiming Jing <[email protected]>
3	Dan Kenigsberg <[email protected]>
3	Igor Bezukh <[email protected]>
3	Skala Networks <[email protected]>
2	Ben Oukhanov <[email protected]>
2	Ivan Mikheykin <[email protected]>
2	Jan Schintag <[email protected]>
2	Karel Simon <[email protected]>
2	Mohit Nagaraj <[email protected]>
2	Renovate Bot <[email protected]>
2	Sean Banko <[email protected]>
2	Yaroslav Borbat <[email protected]>
2	ajcaldelas <[email protected]>
2	rkishner <[email protected]>
1	Alan Caldelas <[email protected]>
1	Anand Nekkunti <[email protected]>
1	Eng Zer Jun <[email protected]>
1	German Maglione <[email protected]>
1	Harshitha MS <[email protected]>
1	Itamar Holder <[email protected]>
1	Jed Lejosne <[email protected]>
1	Kuan-Po Tseng <[email protected]>
1	Or Mergi <[email protected]>
1	Ram Lavi <[email protected]>
1	Renuka Devi Rajendran <[email protected]>
1	Ryan Hallisey <[email protected]>
1	Shanjiv A <[email protected]>
1	Vamsi Krishna Siddu <[email protected]>
1	Varun Ramachandra Sekar <[email protected]>
1	alexandr.lushin <[email protected]>
1	dacarrie <[email protected]>
1	machadovilaca <[email protected]>

Additional Resources
--------------------
- 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/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
[license]: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/blob/main/LICENSE
---

This release follows v1.6.3 and consists of 1175 changes, contributed…

… by 71 people, leading to 2363 files changed, 105854 insertions(+), 65778 deletions(-).

The source code and selected binaries are available for download at: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/releases/tag/v1.7.0-rc.1.

The primary release artifact of KubeVirt is the git tree. The release tag is
signed and can be verified using `git tag -v v1.7.0-rc.1`.

Pre-built containers are published on Quay and can be viewed at: <https://quay.io/kubevirt/>.

Notable changes
---------------

- [PR kubevirt#16168][kubevirt-bot] Migration is using dedicated certificate for mTLS.
- [PR kubevirt#16198][kubevirt-bot] Bug fix: KubeVirt.spec.imagetag installation is working again
- [PR kubevirt#16150][kubevirt-bot] fix: KSM is enabled in case of node pressure within 3 minutes
- [PR kubevirt#16129][kubevirt-bot] Add RestartRequired when detaching CD-ROMs from a running VM
- [PR kubevirt#16108][kubevirt-bot] Allow migration when host model changes after libvirt upgrade.
- [PR kubevirt#16089][kubevirt-bot] A decentralized live migration failure is properly propagates between source and target
- [PR kubevirt#16097][kubevirt-bot] Introduce a new subresource `/evacuate/cancel` and `virtctl evacuate-cancel` command to allow users to cancel the evacuation process for a VirtualMachineInstance (VMI). This clears the `evacuationNodeName` field in the VMI's status, stopping the automatic creation of migration resources and fully aborting the eviction cycle.
- [PR kubevirt#16076][kubevirt-bot] NodeRestriction: Source of node update is now verified
- [PR kubevirt#16033][noamasu] VMSnapshot: add SourceIndications status field to list snapshot indications with descriptions for clearer meaning.
- [PR kubevirt#16041][kubevirt-bot] The KubevirtSeccompProfile feature is now in Beta
- [PR kubevirt#16039][kubevirt-bot] Promote IBM Secure Execution Feature to Beta stage.
- [PR kubevirt#16051][kubevirt-bot] Introduce pool.kubevirt.io/v1beta1
- [PR kubevirt#16027][kubevirt-bot] VMPool: Add support for auto-healing startegy
- [PR kubevirt#16011][kubevirt-bot] BugFix: The migration limit was not accurately being used with decentralized live migrations
- [PR kubevirt#16026][fossedihelm] support v0.32.5 code generator
- [PR kubevirt#16005][kubevirt-bot] promote ImageVolume FG to Beta
- [PR kubevirt#15999][kubevirt-bot] VMpool: Add Scale-in strategy support with Proactive, opportunistic modes and statePreservation
- [PR kubevirt#14973][Barakmor1] support live migration for ImageVolume with modified container disk images
- [PR kubevirt#15939][dasionov] Beta: VideoConfig
- [PR kubevirt#15887][fossedihelm] Alpha: Generalized Migration Priority in KubeVirt
- [PR kubevirt#14575][zhencliu] Experimental support of Intel TDX
- [PR kubevirt#15718][Vicente-Cheng] Bump k8s v1.33
- [PR kubevirt#15123][Sreeja1725] VMpool: Add UpdateStrategy support with Proactive, Opportunistic modes and Selection policies
- [PR kubevirt#15878][Sreeja1725] Add v1.6.0 perf and scale benchmarks data
- [PR kubevirt#15936][kubevirt-bot] Updated common-instancetypes bundles to v1.5.1
- [PR kubevirt#15008][fossedihelm] Fix possible nil pointer caused by migration during kv upgrade
- [PR kubevirt#14845][alancaldelas] Experimental support for AMD SEV-SNP that is behind the `WorkloadEncruptionSEV` feature gate.
- [PR kubevirt#15783][orelmisan] Specify correct label selection when creating a service via virtctl expose. The expose command on virtctl v1.7 and above will not work with older KubeVirt versions.
- [PR kubevirt#15830][varunrsekar] Beta: PanicDevices
- [PR kubevirt#15698][Acedus] It is now possible to configure discard_granularity for VM disks.
- [PR kubevirt#15867][xpivarc] Bug fix: Thousands of migrations should not cause failures of active migrations
- [PR kubevirt#15712][lyarwood] The `DefaultVirtHandler{QPS,Burst}` values are increased to ensure no bottleneck forms within `virt-handler`
- [PR kubevirt#15788][mhenriks] Fix RestartRequired handling for hotplug volumes
- [PR kubevirt#15539][tiraboschi] Add VirtualMachineInstanceEvictionRequested condition for eviction tracking
- [PR kubevirt#14902][tiraboschi] The list of annotations and labels synced from VM.spec.template.metadata to VMI and then to virt-launcher pods can be extended
- [PR kubevirt#15784][brianmcarey] Build KubeVirt with go v1.24.7
- [PR kubevirt#15706][ksimon1] fix: prioritize expired cert removal over 50-cert limit in MergeCABundle
- [PR kubevirt#15798][lyarwood] Support for the `ioThreads` VMI configurable is added to the `instancetype.kubevirt.io/v1beta1` API allowing `supplementalPoolThreadCount` to now be provided by an instance type.
- [PR kubevirt#15615][alromeros] Object Graph: Include NADs and ServiceAccounts
- [PR kubevirt#15398][lyarwood] Preferences can now express preferred and required architecture values for use within VirtualMachines
- [PR kubevirt#15676][xpivarc] Bug fix, virt-launcher is properly reaped
- [PR kubevirt#15690][lyarwood] Replicas of `virt-api` are now scaled depending on the number of nodes within the environment with the `kubevirt.io/schedulable=true` label.
- [PR kubevirt#15692][awels] BugFix: Restoring naked PVCs from a VMSnapshot are now properly owned by the VM if the restore policy is set to VM
- [PR kubevirt#15759][lyarwood] Only a single `Signaled Graceful Shutdown` event is now sent to avoid spamming the event recorder during long graceful shutdown attempts
- [PR kubevirt#15400][lyarwood] The deprecated `instancetype.kubevirt.io/v1alpha{1,2}` API and CRDs have been removed
- [PR kubevirt#15681][jean-edouard] Memory overcommit is now recalculated on migration.
- [PR kubevirt#13111][brianmcarey] build: update to bazel v6.5.0 and rules_oci
- [PR kubevirt#15406][Sreeja1725] Add VMpool finalizer to ensure proper cleanup
- [PR kubevirt#15669][HarshithaMS005] Normalise iface status to ensure test stability of hotplug and hotunplug tests
- [PR kubevirt#14772][ShellyKa13] ChangedBlockTracking: enable add/remove of qcow2 overlay if vm matches label selector
- [PR kubevirt#15661][nirdothan] Support Istio versions 1.25 and above.
- [PR kubevirt#15531][Yu-Jack] bump prometheus operator to 0.80.1
- [PR kubevirt#15605][awels] BugFix: Able to cancel in flight decentralized live migrations properly
- [PR kubevirt#15238][victortoso] Does Screenshot without the usage of VNC
- [PR kubevirt#15504][sradco] Update metric kubevirt_vm_container_free_memory_bytes_based_on_rss and kubevirt_vm_container_free_memory_bytes_based_on_working_set_bytes names to kubevirt_vm_container_memory_request_margin_based_on_rss_bytes and kubevirt_vm_container_memory_request_margin_based_on_working_set_bytes so they will be clearer
- [PR kubevirt#15503][Sreeja1725] Enhance VMPool unit tests to make use of fake client
- [PR kubevirt#15422][lyarwood] The `DefaultVirtWebhookClient{QPS,Burst}` values are aligned with `DefaultVirtWebhookClient{QPS,Burst}` to help avoid saturating the webhook client with requests it is unable to serve during mass eviction events
- [PR kubevirt#15651][dcarrier] Add WithUploadSource builder to libdv
- [PR kubevirt#15642][akalenyu] BugFix: Windows VM with vTPM that was previously Storage Migrated cannot live migrate
- [PR kubevirt#15181][avlitman] Add kubevirt_vm_labels metric which shows vm labels converted to Prometheus labels, and can be configured using config map with ignore and allow lists.
- [PR kubevirt#15630][awels] Allow decentralized live migration on L3 networks
- [PR kubevirt#15513][jean-edouard] Fixed priority escalation bug in migration controller
- [PR kubevirt#15603][akalenyu] BugFix: Fix volume migration for VMs with long name
- [PR kubevirt#15344][SkalaNetworks] Added VolumeOwnershipPolicy to decide how volumes are owned once they are restored.
- [PR kubevirt#14976][dasionov] remove ppc64le architecture configuration support
- [PR kubevirt#15509][alromeros] Bugfix: Exclude lost+found from export server
- [PR kubevirt#15557][fossedihelm] Fix: grpc client in handler rest requests are properly closed
- [PR kubevirt#15227][sradco] New VM alerts - VirtualMachineStuckInUnhealthyState, VirtualMachineStuckOnNode
- [PR kubevirt#15478][0xFelix] virtctl: The --local-ssh flag and native ssh and scp clients are removed from virtctl. From now on the local ssh and scp clients on a host are always wrapped by virtctl ssh and scp.
- [PR kubevirt#13500][brandboat] Fix incorrect metric name kubevirt_vmi_migration_disk_transfer_rate_bytes to kubevirt_vmi_migration_memory_transfer_rate_bytes
- [PR kubevirt#15464][avlitman] Added virt-launcher to kubevirt_memory_delta_from_requested_bytes metric and cnv_abnormal metrics.
- [PR kubevirt#15267][victortoso] Add `preserve session` option to VNC endpoint
- [PR kubevirt#15357][dasionov] ensure default Firmware.Serial value on newly created vms
- [PR kubevirt#15470][awels] BugFix: Unable to delete source VM on failed decentralized live migration
- [PR kubevirt#15423][tiraboschi] Derive eviction-in-progress annotation from VMI eviction status
- [PR kubevirt#15475][0xFelix] virtctl (portfoward|ssh|scp): Drop support for legacy dot syntax. In case the old dot syntax was used virtctl could ask for verification of the host key again. In some cases the known_hosts file might need to be updated manually.
- [PR kubevirt#15170][dasionov] bugfix: ensure grace period metadata cache is synced in virt-launcher
- [PR kubevirt#15397][ShellyKa13] bugfix: prevent VMSnapshotContent repeated update with the same error message
- [PR kubevirt#15167][Sreeja1725] Add Command line flag to disable Node Labeller service
- [PR kubevirt#15365][tiraboschi] Aligning descheduler opt-out annotation name
- [PR kubevirt#14983][sradco] This PR adds the following alerts: GuestPeakVCPUQueueHighWarning, GuestPeakVCPUQueueHighCritical
- [PR kubevirt#15096][lyarwood] The `foregroundDeleteVirtualMachine` has been deprecated and replaced with the domain-qualified `kubevirt.io/foregroundDeleteVirtualMachine`.
- [PR kubevirt#15001][noamasu] bugfix: Enable vmsnapshot for paused VMs
- [PR kubevirt#15093][Acedus] bugfix: volume hotplug pod is no longer evicted when associated VM can live migrate.
- [PR kubevirt#14879][machadovilaca] Add GuestAgentInfo info metrics
- [PR kubevirt#15305][Acedus] bugfix: snapshot and restore now works correctly for VMs after a storage volume migration
- [PR kubevirt#15314][xpivarc] Common Names are now enforce for aggregated API
- [PR kubevirt#15253][0xFelix] Bumped the bundled common-instancetypes to v1.4.0 which add new preferences.
- [PR kubevirt#15182][akalenyu] BugFix: export fails when VMExport has dots in secret
- [PR kubevirt#15061][lyarwood] Support for all `*_SHASUM` environment variables has been removed from the `virt-operator` component. Users should instead use the remaining `*_IMAGE` environment variables to request a specific image version using a tag, digest or both.
- [PR kubevirt#15157][jean-edouard] virt-operator won't schedule on worker nodes
- [PR kubevirt#15118][dankenigsberg] Drop an arbitrary limitation on VM's domain.firmaware.serial. Any string is passed verbatim to smbios. Illegal may be tweaked or ignored based on qemu/smbios version.
- [PR kubevirt#15098][dominikholler] Update dependecy golang.org/x/oauth2 to v0.27.0
- [PR kubevirt#15016][fossedihelm] Fix postcopy multifd compatibility during upgrade
- [PR kubevirt#15100][dominikholler] Update dependecy golang.org/x/net to v0.38.0
- [PR kubevirt#15099][akalenyu] BugFix: export fails when VMExport has dots in name
- [PR kubevirt#14685][seanbanko] allows virtual machine instances with an instance type to specify memory fields that do not conflict with the instance type
- [PR kubevirt#14888][akalenyu] Cleanup: libvmi: add consistently named cpu/mem setters
- [PR kubevirt#15067][alromeros] Bugfix: Label upload PVCs to support CDI WebhookPvcRendering
- [PR kubevirt#15037][jean-edouard] HostDisk: KubeVirt no longer performs chown/chmod to compensate for storage that doesn't support fsGroup
- [PR kubevirt#15017][nekkunti] Added support for architecture-specific configuration of `s390x` (IBM Z) in KubeVirt cluster config.
- [PR kubevirt#15022][awels] The synchronization controller migration network IP address is advertised by the KubeVirt CR
- [PR kubevirt#15021][awels] Decentralized migration resource now shows the synchronization address
- [PR kubevirt#14365][alaypatel07] Add support for DRA devices such as GPUs and HostDevices.
- [PR kubevirt#14882][awels] Decentralized live migration is available to allow migration across namespaces and clusters
- [PR kubevirt#14964][xpivarc] Beta: NodeRestriction
- [PR kubevirt#14986][awels] Possible to trust additional CAs for verifying kubevirt infra structure components
- [PR kubevirt#14875][nirdothan] Support seamless TCP migration with passt (alpha)

Contributors
------------
71 people contributed to this release:

71	fossedihelm <[email protected]>
63	Lee Yarwood <[email protected]>
57	Luboslav Pivarc <[email protected]>
57	Orel Misan <[email protected]>
56	Brian Carey <[email protected]>
49	Alexander Wels <[email protected]>
35	Jed Lejosne <[email protected]>
23	Nir Dothan <[email protected]>
17	Or Shoval <[email protected]>
17	Shelly Kagan <[email protected]>
16	dsionov <[email protected]>
15	Alex Kalenyuk <[email protected]>
15	Ananya Banerjee <[email protected]>
15	svarnam <[email protected]>
13	Felix Matouschek <[email protected]>
13	bmordeha <[email protected]>
11	João Vilaça <[email protected]>
10	Andrej Krejcir <[email protected]>
10	Noam Assouline <[email protected]>
10	Victor Toso <[email protected]>
10	Vladik Romanovsky <[email protected]>
9	Adi Aloni <[email protected]>
9	dsanatar <[email protected]>
8	Edward Haas <[email protected]>
8	Michael Henriksen <[email protected]>
7	Arnon Gilboa <[email protected]>
7	Daniel Hiller <[email protected]>
7	Zhenchao Liu <[email protected]>
6	Alay Patel <[email protected]>
6	Alvaro Romero <[email protected]>
6	Shirly Radco <[email protected]>
6	Vicente Cheng <[email protected]>
6	YuJack <[email protected]>
6	avlitman <[email protected]>
4	Michal Vavrinec <[email protected]>
4	Simone Tiraboschi <[email protected]>
4	Sreeja1725 <[email protected]>
4	Yiming Jing <[email protected]>
3	Dan Kenigsberg <[email protected]>
3	Igor Bezukh <[email protected]>
3	Skala Networks <[email protected]>
2	Ben Oukhanov <[email protected]>
2	Ivan Mikheykin <[email protected]>
2	Jan Schintag <[email protected]>
2	Karel Simon <[email protected]>
2	Mohit Nagaraj <[email protected]>
2	Renovate Bot <[email protected]>
2	Sean Banko <[email protected]>
2	Yaroslav Borbat <[email protected]>
2	ajcaldelas <[email protected]>
2	rkishner <[email protected]>
1	Alan Caldelas <[email protected]>
1	Anand Nekkunti <[email protected]>
1	Eng Zer Jun <[email protected]>
1	German Maglione <[email protected]>
1	Harshitha MS <[email protected]>
1	Itamar Holder <[email protected]>
1	Jed Lejosne <[email protected]>
1	Kuan-Po Tseng <[email protected]>
1	Or Mergi <[email protected]>
1	Ram Lavi <[email protected]>
1	Renuka Devi Rajendran <[email protected]>
1	Ryan Hallisey <[email protected]>
1	Shanjiv A <[email protected]>
1	Vamsi Krishna Siddu <[email protected]>
1	Varun Ramachandra Sekar <[email protected]>
1	alexandr.lushin <[email protected]>
1	dacarrie <[email protected]>
1	machadovilaca <[email protected]>

Additional Resources
--------------------
- 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/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
[license]: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/blob/main/LICENSE
---

This release follows v1.6.3 and consists of 1133 changes, contributed…

… by 71 people, leading to 2348 files changed, 104642 insertions(+), 65380 deletions(-).

The source code and selected binaries are available for download at: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/releases/tag/v1.7.0-rc.0.

The primary release artifact of KubeVirt is the git tree. The release tag is
signed and can be verified using `git tag -v v1.7.0-rc.0`.

Pre-built containers are published on Quay and can be viewed at: <https://quay.io/kubevirt/>.

Notable changes
---------------

- [PR kubevirt#16097][kubevirt-bot] Introduce a new subresource `/evacuate/cancel` and `virtctl evacuate-cancel` command to allow users to cancel the evacuation process for a VirtualMachineInstance (VMI). This clears the `evacuationNodeName` field in the VMI's status, stopping the automatic creation of migration resources and fully aborting the eviction cycle.
- [PR kubevirt#16076][kubevirt-bot] NodeRestriction: Source of node update is now verified
- [PR kubevirt#16033][noamasu] VMSnapshot: add SourceIndications status field to list snapshot indications with descriptions for clearer meaning.
- [PR kubevirt#16041][kubevirt-bot] The KubevirtSeccompProfile feature is now in Beta
- [PR kubevirt#16039][kubevirt-bot] Promote IBM Secure Execution Feature to Beta stage.
- [PR kubevirt#16051][kubevirt-bot] Introduce pool.kubevirt.io/v1beta1
- [PR kubevirt#16027][kubevirt-bot] VMPool: Add support for auto-healing startegy
- [PR kubevirt#16011][kubevirt-bot] BugFix: The migration limit was not accurately being used with decentralized live migrations
- [PR kubevirt#16026][fossedihelm] support v0.32.5 code generator
- [PR kubevirt#16005][kubevirt-bot] promote ImageVolume FG to Beta
- [PR kubevirt#15999][kubevirt-bot] VMpool: Add Scale-in strategy support with Proactive, opportunistic modes and statePreservation
- [PR kubevirt#14973][Barakmor1] support live migration for ImageVolume with modified container disk images
- [PR kubevirt#15939][dasionov] Beta: VideoConfig
- [PR kubevirt#15887][fossedihelm] Alpha: Generalized Migration Priority in KubeVirt
- [PR kubevirt#14575][zhencliu] Experimental support of Intel TDX
- [PR kubevirt#15718][Vicente-Cheng] Bump k8s v1.33
- [PR kubevirt#15123][Sreeja1725] VMpool: Add UpdateStrategy support with Proactive, Opportunistic modes and Selection policies
- [PR kubevirt#15878][Sreeja1725] Add v1.6.0 perf and scale benchmarks data
- [PR kubevirt#15936][kubevirt-bot] Updated common-instancetypes bundles to v1.5.1
- [PR kubevirt#15008][fossedihelm] Fix possible nil pointer caused by migration during kv upgrade
- [PR kubevirt#14845][alancaldelas] Experimental support for AMD SEV-SNP that is behind the `WorkloadEncruptionSEV` feature gate.
- [PR kubevirt#15783][orelmisan] Specify correct label selection when creating a service via virtctl expose. The expose command on virtctl v1.7 and above will not work with older KubeVirt versions.
- [PR kubevirt#15830][varunrsekar] Beta: PanicDevices
- [PR kubevirt#15698][Acedus] It is now possible to configure discard_granularity for VM disks.
- [PR kubevirt#15867][xpivarc] Bug fix: Thousands of migrations should not cause failures of active migrations
- [PR kubevirt#15552][nirdothan] NONR
- [PR kubevirt#15712][lyarwood] The `DefaultVirtHandler{QPS,Burst}` values are increased to ensure no bottleneck forms within `virt-handler`
- [PR kubevirt#15788][mhenriks] Fix RestartRequired handling for hotplug volumes
- [PR kubevirt#15539][tiraboschi] Add VirtualMachineInstanceEvictionRequested condition for eviction tracking
- [PR kubevirt#14902][tiraboschi] The list of annotations and labels synced from VM.spec.template.metadata to VMI and then to virt-launcher pods can be extended
- [PR kubevirt#15784][brianmcarey] Build KubeVirt with go v1.24.7
- [PR kubevirt#15706][ksimon1] fix: prioritize expired cert removal over 50-cert limit in MergeCABundle
- [PR kubevirt#15798][lyarwood] Support for the `ioThreads` VMI configurable is added to the `instancetype.kubevirt.io/v1beta1` API allowing `supplementalPoolThreadCount` to now be provided by an instance type.
- [PR kubevirt#15615][alromeros] Object Graph: Include NADs and ServiceAccounts
- [PR kubevirt#15398][lyarwood] Preferences can now express preferred and required architecture values for use within VirtualMachines
- [PR kubevirt#15676][xpivarc] Bug fix, virt-launcher is properly reaped
- [PR kubevirt#15690][lyarwood] Replicas of `virt-api` are now scaled depending on the number of nodes within the environment with the `kubevirt.io/schedulable=true` label.
- [PR kubevirt#15692][awels] BugFix: Restoring naked PVCs from a VMSnapshot are now properly owned by the VM if the restore policy is set to VM
- [PR kubevirt#15759][lyarwood] Only a single `Signaled Graceful Shutdown` event is now sent to avoid spamming the event recorder during long graceful shutdown attempts
- [PR kubevirt#15400][lyarwood] The deprecated `instancetype.kubevirt.io/v1alpha{1,2}` API and CRDs have been removed
- [PR kubevirt#15681][jean-edouard] Memory overcommit is now recalculated on migration.
- [PR kubevirt#13111][brianmcarey] build: update to bazel v6.5.0 and rules_oci
- [PR kubevirt#15406][Sreeja1725] Add VMpool finalizer to ensure proper cleanup
- [PR kubevirt#15669][HarshithaMS005] Normalise iface status to ensure test stability of hotplug and hotunplug tests
- [PR kubevirt#14772][ShellyKa13] ChangedBlockTracking: enable add/remove of qcow2 overlay if vm matches label selector
- [PR kubevirt#15661][nirdothan] Support Istio versions 1.25 and above.
- [PR kubevirt#15531][Yu-Jack] bump prometheus operator to 0.80.1
- [PR kubevirt#15605][awels] BugFix: Able to cancel in flight decentralized live migrations properly
- [PR kubevirt#15238][victortoso] Does Screenshot without the usage of VNC
- [PR kubevirt#15504][sradco] Update metric kubevirt_vm_container_free_memory_bytes_based_on_rss and kubevirt_vm_container_free_memory_bytes_based_on_working_set_bytes names to kubevirt_vm_container_memory_request_margin_based_on_rss_bytes and kubevirt_vm_container_memory_request_margin_based_on_working_set_bytes so they will be clearer
- [PR kubevirt#15503][Sreeja1725] Enhance VMPool unit tests to make use of fake client
- [PR kubevirt#15422][lyarwood] The `DefaultVirtWebhookClient{QPS,Burst}` values are aligned with `DefaultVirtWebhookClient{QPS,Burst}` to help avoid saturating the webhook client with requests it is unable to serve during mass eviction events
- [PR kubevirt#15651][dcarrier] Add WithUploadSource builder to libdv
- [PR kubevirt#15642][akalenyu] BugFix: Windows VM with vTPM that was previously Storage Migrated cannot live migrate
- [PR kubevirt#15181][avlitman] Add kubevirt_vm_labels metric which shows vm labels converted to Prometheus labels, and can be configured using config map with ignore and allow lists.
- [PR kubevirt#15630][awels] Allow decentralized live migration on L3 networks
- [PR kubevirt#15513][jean-edouard] Fixed priority escalation bug in migration controller
- [PR kubevirt#15603][akalenyu] BugFix: Fix volume migration for VMs with long name
- [PR kubevirt#15344][SkalaNetworks] Added VolumeOwnershipPolicy to decide how volumes are owned once they are restored.
- [PR kubevirt#14976][dasionov] remove ppc64le architecture configuration support
- [PR kubevirt#15509][alromeros] Bugfix: Exclude lost+found from export server
- [PR kubevirt#15557][fossedihelm] Fix: grpc client in handler rest requests are properly closed
- [PR kubevirt#15227][sradco] New VM alerts - VirtualMachineStuckInUnhealthyState, VirtualMachineStuckOnNode
- [PR kubevirt#15478][0xFelix] virtctl: The --local-ssh flag and native ssh and scp clients are removed from virtctl. From now on the local ssh and scp clients on a host are always wrapped by virtctl ssh and scp.
- [PR kubevirt#13500][brandboat] Fix incorrect metric name kubevirt_vmi_migration_disk_transfer_rate_bytes to kubevirt_vmi_migration_memory_transfer_rate_bytes
- [PR kubevirt#15464][avlitman] Added virt-launcher to kubevirt_memory_delta_from_requested_bytes metric and cnv_abnormal metrics.
- [PR kubevirt#15267][victortoso] Add `preserve session` option to VNC endpoint
- [PR kubevirt#15357][dasionov] ensure default Firmware.Serial value on newly created vms
- [PR kubevirt#15470][awels] BugFix: Unable to delete source VM on failed decentralized live migration
- [PR kubevirt#15423][tiraboschi] Derive eviction-in-progress annotation from VMI eviction status
- [PR kubevirt#15475][0xFelix] virtctl (portfoward|ssh|scp): Drop support for legacy dot syntax. In case the old dot syntax was used virtctl could ask for verification of the host key again. In some cases the known_hosts file might need to be updated manually.
- [PR kubevirt#15170][dasionov] bugfix: ensure grace period metadata cache is synced in virt-launcher
- [PR kubevirt#15397][ShellyKa13] bugfix: prevent VMSnapshotContent repeated update with the same error message
- [PR kubevirt#15167][Sreeja1725] Add Command line flag to disable Node Labeller service
- [PR kubevirt#15365][tiraboschi] Aligning descheduler opt-out annotation name
- [PR kubevirt#14983][sradco] This PR adds the following alerts: GuestPeakVCPUQueueHighWarning, GuestPeakVCPUQueueHighCritical
- [PR kubevirt#15096][lyarwood] The `foregroundDeleteVirtualMachine` has been deprecated and replaced with the domain-qualified `kubevirt.io/foregroundDeleteVirtualMachine`.
- [PR kubevirt#15001][noamasu] bugfix: Enable vmsnapshot for paused VMs
- [PR kubevirt#15093][Acedus] bugfix: volume hotplug pod is no longer evicted when associated VM can live migrate.
- [PR kubevirt#14879][machadovilaca] Add GuestAgentInfo info metrics
- [PR kubevirt#15305][Acedus] bugfix: snapshot and restore now works correctly for VMs after a storage volume migration
- [PR kubevirt#15314][xpivarc] Common Names are now enforce for aggregated API
- [PR kubevirt#15253][0xFelix] Bumped the bundled common-instancetypes to v1.4.0 which add new preferences.
- [PR kubevirt#15182][akalenyu] BugFix: export fails when VMExport has dots in secret
- [PR kubevirt#15061][lyarwood] Support for all `*_SHASUM` environment variables has been removed from the `virt-operator` component. Users should instead use the remaining `*_IMAGE` environment variables to request a specific image version using a tag, digest or both.
- [PR kubevirt#15157][jean-edouard] virt-operator won't schedule on worker nodes
- [PR kubevirt#15118][dankenigsberg] Drop an arbitrary limitation on VM's domain.firmaware.serial. Any string is passed verbatim to smbios. Illegal may be tweaked or ignored based on qemu/smbios version.
- [PR kubevirt#15098][dominikholler] Update dependecy golang.org/x/oauth2 to v0.27.0
- [PR kubevirt#15016][fossedihelm] Fix postcopy multifd compatibility during upgrade
- [PR kubevirt#15100][dominikholler] Update dependecy golang.org/x/net to v0.38.0
- [PR kubevirt#15099][akalenyu] BugFix: export fails when VMExport has dots in name
- [PR kubevirt#14685][seanbanko] allows virtual machine instances with an instance type to specify memory fields that do not conflict with the instance type
- [PR kubevirt#14888][akalenyu] Cleanup: libvmi: add consistently named cpu/mem setters
- [PR kubevirt#15067][alromeros] Bugfix: Label upload PVCs to support CDI WebhookPvcRendering
- [PR kubevirt#15037][jean-edouard] HostDisk: KubeVirt no longer performs chown/chmod to compensate for storage that doesn't support fsGroup
- [PR kubevirt#15017][nekkunti] Added support for architecture-specific configuration of `s390x` (IBM Z) in KubeVirt cluster config.
- [PR kubevirt#15022][awels] The synchronization controller migration network IP address is advertised by the KubeVirt CR
- [PR kubevirt#15021][awels] Decentralized migration resource now shows the synchronization address
- [PR kubevirt#14365][alaypatel07] Add support for DRA devices such as GPUs and HostDevices.
- [PR kubevirt#14882][awels] Decentralized live migration is available to allow migration across namespaces and clusters
- [PR kubevirt#14964][xpivarc] Beta: NodeRestriction
- [PR kubevirt#14986][awels] Possible to trust additional CAs for verifying kubevirt infra structure components
- [PR kubevirt#14875][nirdothan] Support seamless TCP migration with passt (alpha)

Contributors
------------
71 people contributed to this release:

63	Lee Yarwood <[email protected]>
62	fossedihelm <[email protected]>
57	Orel Misan <[email protected]>
56	Brian Carey <[email protected]>
48	Alexander Wels <[email protected]>
39	Luboslav Pivarc <[email protected]>
35	Jed Lejosne <[email protected]>
22	Nir Dothan <[email protected]>
17	Or Shoval <[email protected]>
17	Shelly Kagan <[email protected]>
16	dsionov <[email protected]>
15	Alex Kalenyuk <[email protected]>
15	Ananya Banerjee <[email protected]>
15	svarnam <[email protected]>
13	Felix Matouschek <[email protected]>
12	bmordeha <[email protected]>
11	João Vilaça <[email protected]>
10	Andrej Krejcir <[email protected]>
10	Noam Assouline <[email protected]>
10	Victor Toso <[email protected]>
10	Vladik Romanovsky <[email protected]>
9	Adi Aloni <[email protected]>
8	Edward Haas <[email protected]>
8	Michael Henriksen <[email protected]>
7	Arnon Gilboa <[email protected]>
7	Daniel Hiller <[email protected]>
7	Zhenchao Liu <[email protected]>
6	Alay Patel <[email protected]>
6	Alvaro Romero <[email protected]>
6	Shirly Radco <[email protected]>
6	Vicente Cheng <[email protected]>
6	YuJack <[email protected]>
6	avlitman <[email protected]>
6	dsanatar <[email protected]>
4	Michal Vavrinec <[email protected]>
4	Simone Tiraboschi <[email protected]>
4	Sreeja1725 <[email protected]>
4	Yiming Jing <[email protected]>
3	Dan Kenigsberg <[email protected]>
3	Igor Bezukh <[email protected]>
3	Skala Networks <[email protected]>
2	Ben Oukhanov <[email protected]>
2	Ivan Mikheykin <[email protected]>
2	Jan Schintag <[email protected]>
2	Karel Simon <[email protected]>
2	Mohit Nagaraj <[email protected]>
2	Renovate Bot <[email protected]>
2	Sean Banko <[email protected]>
2	Yaroslav Borbat <[email protected]>
2	ajcaldelas <[email protected]>
2	rkishner <[email protected]>
1	Alan Caldelas <[email protected]>
1	Anand Nekkunti <[email protected]>
1	Eng Zer Jun <[email protected]>
1	German Maglione <[email protected]>
1	Harshitha MS <[email protected]>
1	Itamar Holder <[email protected]>
1	Jed Lejosne <[email protected]>
1	Kuan-Po Tseng <[email protected]>
1	Or Mergi <[email protected]>
1	Ram Lavi <[email protected]>
1	Renuka Devi Rajendran <[email protected]>
1	Ryan Hallisey <[email protected]>
1	Shanjiv A <[email protected]>
1	Vamsi Krishna Siddu <[email protected]>
1	Varun Ramachandra Sekar <[email protected]>
1	alexandr.lushin <[email protected]>
1	dacarrie <[email protected]>
1	machadovilaca <[email protected]>

Additional Resources
--------------------
- 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/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
[license]: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/blob/main/LICENSE
---

This release follows v1.6.2 and consists of 43 changes, contributed b…

…y 16 people, leading to 63 files changed, 1403 insertions(+), 501 deletions(-).

The source code and selected binaries are available for download at: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/releases/tag/v1.6.3.

The primary release artifact of KubeVirt is the git tree. The release tag is
signed and can be verified using `git tag -v v1.6.3`.

Pre-built containers are published on Quay and can be viewed at: <https://quay.io/kubevirt/>.

Notable changes
---------------

- [PR kubevirt#15685][kubevirt-bot] Add `preserve session` option to VNC endpoint
- [PR kubevirt#15903][kubevirt-bot] Bug fix: Thousands of migrations should not cause failures of active migrations
- [PR kubevirt#15944][kubevirt-bot] Fix possible nil pointer caused by migration during kv upgrade
- [PR kubevirt#15925][kubevirt-bot] Updated common-instancetypes bundles to v1.4.1
- [PR kubevirt#15894][jean-edouard] REVERT: Memory overcommit is now recalculated on migration.
- [PR kubevirt#15890][mhenriks] Fix RestartRequired handling for hotplug volumes
- [PR kubevirt#15842][kubevirt-bot] fix: prioritize expired cert removal over 50-cert limit in MergeCABundle
- [PR kubevirt#15824][kubevirt-bot] Replicas of `virt-api` are now scaled depending on the number of nodes within the environment with the `kubevirt.io/schedulable=true` label.
- [PR kubevirt#15805][awels] BugFix: Restoring naked PVCs from a VMSnapshot are now properly owned by the VM if the restore policy is set to VM

Contributors
------------
16 people contributed to this release:

4	Lee Yarwood <[email protected]>
3	Jed Lejosne <[email protected]>
2	Felix Matouschek <[email protected]>
2	Karel Simon <[email protected]>
2	Or Shoval <[email protected]>
2	Victor Toso <[email protected]>
1	Adi Aloni <[email protected]>
1	Alexander Wels <[email protected]>
1	German Maglione <[email protected]>
1	João Vilaça <[email protected]>
1	Luboslav Pivarc <[email protected]>
1	Michael Henriksen <[email protected]>
1	bmordeha <[email protected]>
1	fossedihelm <[email protected]>

Additional Resources
--------------------
- 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/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
[license]: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/blob/main/LICENSE
---

This release follows v1.6.2 and consists of 880 changes, contributed …

…by 59 people, leading to 987 files changed, 25805 insertions(+), 30236 deletions(-).

The source code and selected binaries are available for download at: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/releases/tag/v1.7.0-beta.0.

The primary release artifact of KubeVirt is the git tree. The release tag is
signed and can be verified using `git tag -v v1.7.0-beta.0`.

Pre-built containers are published on Quay and can be viewed at: <https://quay.io/kubevirt/>.

Notable changes
---------------

- [PR kubevirt#15798][lyarwood] Support for the `ioThreads` VMI configurable is added to the `instancetype.kubevirt.io/v1beta1` API allowing `supplementalPoolThreadCount` to now be provided by an instance type.
- [PR kubevirt#15615][alromeros] Object Graph: Include NADs and ServiceAccounts
- [PR kubevirt#15398][lyarwood] Preferences can now express preferred and required architecture values for use within VirtualMachines
- [PR kubevirt#15676][xpivarc] Bug fix, virt-launcher is properly reaped
- [PR kubevirt#15690][lyarwood] Replicas of `virt-api` are now scaled depending on the number of nodes within the environment with the `kubevirt.io/schedulable=true` label.
- [PR kubevirt#15692][awels] BugFix: Restoring naked PVCs from a VMSnapshot are now properly owned by the VM if the restore policy is set to VM
- [PR kubevirt#15759][lyarwood] Only a single `Signaled Graceful Shutdown` event is now sent to avoid spamming the event recorder during long graceful shutdown attempts
- [PR kubevirt#15400][lyarwood] The deprecated `instancetype.kubevirt.io/v1alpha{1,2}` API and CRDs have been removed
- [PR kubevirt#15681][jean-edouard] Memory overcommit is now recalculated on migration.
- [PR kubevirt#13111][brianmcarey] build: update to bazel v6.5.0 and rules_oci
- [PR kubevirt#15406][Sreeja1725] Add VMpool finalizer to ensure proper cleanup
- [PR kubevirt#15669][HarshithaMS005] Normalise iface status to ensure test stability of hotplug and hotunplug tests
- [PR kubevirt#14772][ShellyKa13] ChangedBlockTracking: enable add/remove of qcow2 overlay if vm matches label selector
- [PR kubevirt#15661][nirdothan] Support Istio versions 1.25 and above.
- [PR kubevirt#15531][Yu-Jack] bump prometheus operator to 0.80.1
- [PR kubevirt#15605][awels] BugFix: Able to cancel in flight decentralized live migrations properly
- [PR kubevirt#15238][victortoso] Does Screenshot without the usage of VNC
- [PR kubevirt#15504][sradco] Update metric kubevirt_vm_container_free_memory_bytes_based_on_rss and kubevirt_vm_container_free_memory_bytes_based_on_working_set_bytes names to kubevirt_vm_container_memory_request_margin_based_on_rss_bytes and kubevirt_vm_container_memory_request_margin_based_on_working_set_bytes so they will be clearer
- [PR kubevirt#15503][Sreeja1725] Enhance VMPool unit tests to make use of fake client
- [PR kubevirt#15422][lyarwood] The `DefaultVirtWebhookClient{QPS,Burst}` values are aligned with `DefaultVirtWebhookClient{QPS,Burst}` to help avoid saturating the webhook client with requests it is unable to serve during mass eviction events
- [PR kubevirt#15651][dcarrier] Add WithUploadSource builder to libdv
- [PR kubevirt#15642][akalenyu] BugFix: Windows VM with vTPM that was previously Storage Migrated cannot live migrate
- [PR kubevirt#15181][avlitman] Add kubevirt_vm_labels metric which shows vm labels converted to Prometheus labels, and can be configured using config map with ignore and allow lists.
- [PR kubevirt#15630][awels] Allow decentralized live migration on L3 networks
- [PR kubevirt#15513][jean-edouard] Fixed priority escalation bug in migration controller
- [PR kubevirt#15603][akalenyu] BugFix: Fix volume migration for VMs with long name
- [PR kubevirt#15344][SkalaNetworks] Added VolumeOwnershipPolicy to decide how volumes are owned once they are restored.
- [PR kubevirt#14976][dasionov] remove ppc64le architecture configuration support
- [PR kubevirt#15509][alromeros] Bugfix: Exclude lost+found from export server
- [PR kubevirt#15557][fossedihelm] Fix: grpc client in handler rest requests are properly closed
- [PR kubevirt#15227][sradco] New VM alerts - VirtualMachineStuckInUnhealthyState, VirtualMachineStuckOnNode
- [PR kubevirt#15478][0xFelix] virtctl: The --local-ssh flag and native ssh and scp clients are removed from virtctl. From now on the local ssh and scp clients on a host are always wrapped by virtctl ssh and scp.
- [PR kubevirt#13500][brandboat] Fix incorrect metric name kubevirt_vmi_migration_disk_transfer_rate_bytes to kubevirt_vmi_migration_memory_transfer_rate_bytes
- [PR kubevirt#15464][avlitman] Added virt-launcher to kubevirt_memory_delta_from_requested_bytes metric and cnv_abnormal metrics.
- [PR kubevirt#15267][victortoso] Add `preserve session` option to VNC endpoint
- [PR kubevirt#15357][dasionov] ensure default Firmware.Serial value on newly created vms
- [PR kubevirt#15470][awels] BugFix: Unable to delete source VM on failed decentralized live migration
- [PR kubevirt#15423][tiraboschi] Derive eviction-in-progress annotation from VMI eviction status
- [PR kubevirt#15475][0xFelix] virtctl (portfoward|ssh|scp): Drop support for legacy dot syntax. In case the old dot syntax was used virtctl could ask for verification of the host key again. In some cases the known_hosts file might need to be updated manually.
- [PR kubevirt#15170][dasionov] bugfix: ensure grace period metadata cache is synced in virt-launcher
- [PR kubevirt#15397][ShellyKa13] bugfix: prevent VMSnapshotContent repeated update with the same error message
- [PR kubevirt#15167][Sreeja1725] Add Command line flag to disable Node Labeller service
- [PR kubevirt#15365][tiraboschi] Aligning descheduler opt-out annotation name
- [PR kubevirt#14983][sradco] This PR adds the following alerts: GuestPeakVCPUQueueHighWarning, GuestPeakVCPUQueueHighCritical
- [PR kubevirt#15096][lyarwood] The `foregroundDeleteVirtualMachine` has been deprecated and replaced with the domain-qualified `kubevirt.io/foregroundDeleteVirtualMachine`.
- [PR kubevirt#15001][noamasu] bugfix: Enable vmsnapshot for paused VMs
- [PR kubevirt#15093][Acedus] bugfix: volume hotplug pod is no longer evicted when associated VM can live migrate.
- [PR kubevirt#14879][machadovilaca] Add GuestAgentInfo info metrics
- [PR kubevirt#15305][Acedus] bugfix: snapshot and restore now works correctly for VMs after a storage volume migration
- [PR kubevirt#15314][xpivarc] Common Names are now enforce for aggregated API
- [PR kubevirt#15253][0xFelix] Bumped the bundled common-instancetypes to v1.4.0 which add new preferences.
- [PR kubevirt#15182][akalenyu] BugFix: export fails when VMExport has dots in secret
- [PR kubevirt#15061][lyarwood] Support for all `*_SHASUM` environment variables has been removed from the `virt-operator` component. Users should instead use the remaining `*_IMAGE` environment variables to request a specific image version using a tag, digest or both.
- [PR kubevirt#15157][jean-edouard] virt-operator won't schedule on worker nodes
- [PR kubevirt#15118][dankenigsberg] Drop an arbitrary limitation on VM's domain.firmaware.serial. Any string is passed verbatim to smbios. Illegal may be tweaked or ignored based on qemu/smbios version.
- [PR kubevirt#15098][dominikholler] Update dependecy golang.org/x/oauth2 to v0.27.0
- [PR kubevirt#15016][fossedihelm] Fix postcopy multifd compatibility during upgrade
- [PR kubevirt#15100][dominikholler] Update dependecy golang.org/x/net to v0.38.0
- [PR kubevirt#15099][akalenyu] BugFix: export fails when VMExport has dots in name
- [PR kubevirt#14685][seanbanko] allows virtual machine instances with an instance type to specify memory fields that do not conflict with the instance type
- [PR kubevirt#14888][akalenyu] Cleanup: libvmi: add consistently named cpu/mem setters
- [PR kubevirt#15067][alromeros] Bugfix: Label upload PVCs to support CDI WebhookPvcRendering
- [PR kubevirt#15037][jean-edouard] HostDisk: KubeVirt no longer performs chown/chmod to compensate for storage that doesn't support fsGroup
- [PR kubevirt#15017][nekkunti] Added support for architecture-specific configuration of `s390x` (IBM Z) in KubeVirt cluster config.
- [PR kubevirt#15022][awels] The synchronization controller migration network IP address is advertised by the KubeVirt CR
- [PR kubevirt#15021][awels] Decentralized migration resource now shows the synchronization address
- [PR kubevirt#14365][alaypatel07] Add support for DRA devices such as GPUs and HostDevices.
- [PR kubevirt#14882][awels] Decentralized live migration is available to allow migration across namespaces and clusters
- [PR kubevirt#14964][xpivarc] Beta: NodeRestriction
- [PR kubevirt#14986][awels] Possible to trust additional CAs for verifying kubevirt infra structure components
- [PR kubevirt#14875][nirdothan] Support seamless TCP migration with passt (alpha)

Contributors
------------
59 people contributed to this release:

62	Lee Yarwood <[email protected]>
52	Orel Misan <[email protected]>
47	Alexander Wels <[email protected]>
40	fossedihelm <[email protected]>
31	Brian Carey <[email protected]>
31	Luboslav Pivarc <[email protected]>
27	Jed Lejosne <[email protected]>
17	Shelly Kagan <[email protected]>
15	dsionov <[email protected]>
14	Nir Dothan <[email protected]>
14	Or Shoval <[email protected]>
12	Alex Kalenyuk <[email protected]>
12	Ananya Banerjee <[email protected]>
11	Felix Matouschek <[email protected]>
10	Vladik Romanovsky <[email protected]>
9	Noam Assouline <[email protected]>
9	Victor Toso <[email protected]>
8	Adi Aloni <[email protected]>
8	Edward Haas <[email protected]>
8	João Vilaça <[email protected]>
8	bmordeha <[email protected]>
7	Michael Henriksen <[email protected]>
6	Alay Patel <[email protected]>
6	Alvaro Romero <[email protected]>
6	Arnon Gilboa <[email protected]>
6	Daniel Hiller <[email protected]>
6	avlitman <[email protected]>
6	dsanatar <[email protected]>
5	svarnam <[email protected]>
4	Michal Vavrinec <[email protected]>
4	Shirly Radco <[email protected]>
3	Dan Kenigsberg <[email protected]>
3	Igor Bezukh <[email protected]>
3	Skala Networks <[email protected]>
2	Ben Oukhanov <[email protected]>
2	Ivan Mikheykin <[email protected]>
2	Mohit Nagaraj <[email protected]>
2	Renovate Bot <[email protected]>
2	Sean Banko <[email protected]>
2	Simone Tiraboschi <[email protected]>
2	rkishner <[email protected]>
1	Anand Nekkunti <[email protected]>
1	Andrej Krejcir <[email protected]>
1	Harshitha MS <[email protected]>
1	Jan Schintag <[email protected]>
1	Jed Lejosne <[email protected]>
1	Kuan-Po Tseng <[email protected]>
1	Or Mergi <[email protected]>
1	Ram Lavi <[email protected]>
1	Renuka Devi Rajendran <[email protected]>
1	Ryan Hallisey <[email protected]>
1	Shanjiv A <[email protected]>
1	Vamsi Krishna Siddu <[email protected]>
1	YuJack <[email protected]>
1	ajcaldelas <[email protected]>
1	alexandr.lushin <[email protected]>
1	dacarrie <[email protected]>

Additional Resources
--------------------
- 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/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
[license]: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/blob/main/LICENSE
---

This release follows v1.6.1 and consists of 24 changes, contributed b…

…y 6 people, leading to 42 files changed, 870 insertions(+), 191 deletions(-).

The source code and selected binaries are available for download at: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/releases/tag/v1.6.2.

The primary release artifact of KubeVirt is the git tree. The release tag is
signed and can be verified using `git tag -v v1.6.2`.

Pre-built containers are published on Quay and can be viewed at: <https://quay.io/kubevirt/>.

Notable changes
---------------

- [PR kubevirt#15697][kubevirt-bot] Support Istio versions 1.25 and above.
- [PR kubevirt#15736][jean-edouard] Memory overcommit is now recalculated on migration.
- [PR kubevirt#15682][kubevirt-bot] BugFix: Able to cancel in flight decentralized live migrations properly

Contributors
------------
6 people contributed to this release:

9	Jed Lejosne <[email protected]>
5	Vladik Romanovsky <[email protected]>
2	Alexander Wels <[email protected]>
1	Nir Dothan <[email protected]>

Additional Resources
--------------------
- 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/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
[license]: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/blob/main/LICENSE
---

This release follows v1.5.2 and consists of 117 changes, contributed …

…by 21 people, leading to 173 files changed, 5761 insertions(+), 19775 deletions(-).

The source code and selected binaries are available for download at: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/releases/tag/v1.5.3.

The primary release artifact of KubeVirt is the git tree. The release tag is
signed and can be verified using `git tag -v v1.5.3`.

Pre-built containers are published on Quay and can be viewed at: <https://quay.io/kubevirt/>.

Notable changes
---------------

- [PR kubevirt#15544][dasionov] ensure default Firmware.Serial value on newly created vms
- [PR kubevirt#15654][kubevirt-bot] BugFix: Windows VM with vTPM that was previously Storage Migrated cannot live migrate
- [PR kubevirt#15609][kubevirt-bot] Bugfix: Exclude lost+found from export server
- [PR kubevirt#15640][kubevirt-bot] Fixed priority escalation bug in migration controller
- [PR kubevirt#15568][noamasu] bugfix: Enable vmsnapshot for paused VMs
- [PR kubevirt#15585][kubevirt-bot] Fix: grpc client in handler rest requests are properly closed
- [PR kubevirt#15432][dasionov] bugfix: ensure grace period metadata cache is synced in virt-launcher
- [PR kubevirt#15415][kubevirt-bot] bugfix: prevent VMSnapshotContent repeated update with the same error message
- [PR kubevirt#15337][kubevirt-bot] Common Names are now enforce for aggregated API
- [PR kubevirt#15330][kubevirt-bot] bugfix: snapshot and restore now works correctly for VMs after a storage volume migration
- [PR kubevirt#15115][kubevirt-bot] Bugfix: Label upload PVCs to support CDI WebhookPvcRendering
- [PR kubevirt#15192][kubevirt-bot] Drop an arbitrary limitation on VM's domain.firmaware.serial. Any string is passed verbatim to smbios. Illegal may be tweaked or ignored based on qemu/smbios version.
- [PR kubevirt#14296][dominikholler] Update dependecy github.com/opencontainers/runc to v1.1.14
- [PR kubevirt#15203][kubevirt-bot] BugFix: export fails when VMExport has dots in secret
- [PR kubevirt#15172][kubevirt-bot] BugFix: export fails when VMExport has dots in name
- [PR kubevirt#14917][machadovilaca] Fix wrong cluster preference informer for metrics
- [PR kubevirt#14918][machadovilaca] Replace metric labels' none values with empty values
- [PR kubevirt#15015][fossedihelm] Fix postcopy multifd compatibility during upgrade
- [PR kubevirt#15007][fossedihelm] Fix possible nil pointer caused by migration during kv upgrade
- [PR kubevirt#14989][akalenyu] BugFix: Can't LiveMigrate Windows VM after Storage Migration from HPP to OCS
- [PR kubevirt#14916][fossedihelm] Failed post-copy migrations now always end in VMI failure
- [PR kubevirt#14942][brianmcarey] Build KubeVirt with go v1.23.9

Contributors
------------
21 people contributed to this release:

21	Luboslav Pivarc <[email protected]>
13	Lee Yarwood <[email protected]>
6	João Vilaça <[email protected]>
5	Alex Kalenyuk <[email protected]>
5	dsionov <[email protected]>
5	fossedihelm <[email protected]>
3	Alvaro Romero <[email protected]>
3	Jed Lejosne <[email protected]>
3	Noam Assouline <[email protected]>
2	Brian Carey <[email protected]>
2	Jan Schintag <[email protected]>
2	Shelly Kagan <[email protected]>
1	Adi Aloni <[email protected]>
1	Dan Kenigsberg <[email protected]>
1	Geetika Kapoor <[email protected]>
1	Igor Bezukh <[email protected]>
1	Renovate Bot <[email protected]>
1	Vladik Romanovsky <[email protected]>
1	bmordeha <[email protected]>

Additional Resources
--------------------
- 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/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
[license]: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/blob/main/LICENSE
---

This release follows v1.6.0 and consists of 122 changes, contributed …

…by 21 people, leading to 179 files changed, 6671 insertions(+), 22702 deletions(-).

The source code and selected binaries are available for download at: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/releases/tag/v1.6.1.

The primary release artifact of KubeVirt is the git tree. The release tag is
signed and can be verified using `git tag -v v1.6.1`.

Pre-built containers are published on Quay and can be viewed at: <https://quay.io/kubevirt/>.

Notable changes
---------------

- [PR kubevirt#15076][kubevirt-bot] HostDisk: KubeVirt no longer performs chown/chmod to compensate for storage that doesn't support fsGroup
- [PR kubevirt#15385][kubevirt-bot] bugfix: Enable vmsnapshot for paused VMs
- [PR kubevirt#15655][kubevirt-bot] BugFix: Fix volume migration for VMs with long name
- [PR kubevirt#15543][kubevirt-bot] ensure default Firmware.Serial value on newly created vms
- [PR kubevirt#15648][kubevirt-bot] Allow decentralized live migration on L3 networks
- [PR kubevirt#15608][kubevirt-bot] Bugfix: Exclude lost+found from export server
- [PR kubevirt#15653][kubevirt-bot] BugFix: Windows VM with vTPM that was previously Storage Migrated cannot live migrate
- [PR kubevirt#15635][kubevirt-bot] Fixed priority escalation bug in migration controller
- [PR kubevirt#15582][kubevirt-bot] Fix: grpc client in handler rest requests are properly closed
- [PR kubevirt#15459][dasionov] bugfix: ensure grace period metadata cache is synced in virt-launcher
- [PR kubevirt#15491][kubevirt-bot] Derive eviction-in-progress annotation from VMI eviction status
- [PR kubevirt#15492][kubevirt-bot] BugFix: Unable to delete source VM on failed decentralized live migration
- [PR kubevirt#15416][kubevirt-bot] bugfix: prevent VMSnapshotContent repeated update with the same error message
- [PR kubevirt#15356][kubevirt-bot] bugfix: volume hotplug pod is no longer evicted when associated VM can live migrate.
- [PR kubevirt#15384][kubevirt-bot] Aligning descheduler opt-out annotation name
- [PR kubevirt#15338][kubevirt-bot] Common Names are now enforce for aggregated API
- [PR kubevirt#15329][kubevirt-bot] bugfix: snapshot and restore now works correctly for VMs after a storage volume migration

Contributors
------------
21 people contributed to this release:

15	Lee Yarwood <[email protected]>
12	Luboslav Pivarc <[email protected]>
6	Alexander Wels <[email protected]>
5	fossedihelm <[email protected]>
4	Alex Kalenyuk <[email protected]>
4	Brian Carey <[email protected]>
4	Jed Lejosne <[email protected]>
4	João Vilaça <[email protected]>
4	dsanatar <[email protected]>
3	Alvaro Romero <[email protected]>
3	Noam Assouline <[email protected]>
3	dsionov <[email protected]>
2	Adi Aloni <[email protected]>
2	Felix Matouschek <[email protected]>
2	Simone Tiraboschi <[email protected]>
1	Ben Oukhanov <[email protected]>
1	Igor Bezukh <[email protected]>
1	Or Mergi <[email protected]>
1	Shelly Kagan <[email protected]>

Additional Resources
--------------------
- 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/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
[license]: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/blob/main/LICENSE
---

This release follows v1.6.0 and consists of 704 changes, contributed …

…by 55 people, leading to 698 files changed, 24041 insertions(+), 40361 deletions(-).

The source code and selected binaries are available for download at: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/releases/tag/v1.7.0-alpha.0.

The primary release artifact of KubeVirt is the git tree. The release tag is
signed and can be verified using `git tag -v v1.7.0-alpha.0`.

Pre-built containers are published on Quay and can be viewed at: <https://quay.io/kubevirt/>.

Notable changes
---------------

- [PR kubevirt#15661][nirdothan] Support Istio versions 1.25 and above.
- [PR kubevirt#15531][Yu-Jack] bump prometheus operator to 0.80.1
- [PR kubevirt#15605][awels] BugFix: Able to cancel in flight decentralized live migrations properly
- [PR kubevirt#15238][victortoso] Does Screenshot without the usage of VNC
- [PR kubevirt#15504][sradco] Update metric kubevirt_vm_container_free_memory_bytes_based_on_rss and kubevirt_vm_container_free_memory_bytes_based_on_working_set_bytes names to kubevirt_vm_container_memory_request_margin_based_on_rss_bytes and kubevirt_vm_container_memory_request_margin_based_on_working_set_bytes so they will be clearer
- [PR kubevirt#15503][Sreeja1725] Enhance VMPool unit tests to make use of fake client
- [PR kubevirt#15422][lyarwood] The `DefaultVirtWebhookClient{QPS,Burst}` values are aligned with `DefaultVirtWebhookClient{QPS,Burst}` to help avoid saturating the webhook client with requests it is unable to serve during mass eviction events
- [PR kubevirt#15651][dcarrier] Add WithUploadSource builder to libdv
- [PR kubevirt#15642][akalenyu] BugFix: Windows VM with vTPM that was previously Storage Migrated cannot live migrate
- [PR kubevirt#15181][avlitman] Add kubevirt_vm_labels metric which shows vm labels converted to Prometheus labels, and can be configured using config map with ignore and allow lists.
- [PR kubevirt#15630][awels] Allow decentralized live migration on L3 networks
- [PR kubevirt#15513][jean-edouard] Fixed priority escalation bug in migration controller
- [PR kubevirt#15603][akalenyu] BugFix: Fix volume migration for VMs with long name
- [PR kubevirt#15344][SkalaNetworks] Added VolumeOwnershipPolicy to decide how volumes are owned once they are restored.
- [PR kubevirt#14976][dasionov] remove ppc64le architecture configuration support
- [PR kubevirt#15509][alromeros] Bugfix: Exclude lost+found from export server
- [PR kubevirt#15557][fossedihelm] Fix: grpc client in handler rest requests are properly closed
- [PR kubevirt#15227][sradco] New VM alerts - VirtualMachineStuckInUnhealthyState, VirtualMachineStuckOnNode
- [PR kubevirt#15478][0xFelix] virtctl: The --local-ssh flag and native ssh and scp clients are removed from virtctl. From now on the local ssh and scp clients on a host are always wrapped by virtctl ssh and scp.
- [PR kubevirt#13500][brandboat] Fix incorrect metric name kubevirt_vmi_migration_disk_transfer_rate_bytes to kubevirt_vmi_migration_memory_transfer_rate_bytes
- [PR kubevirt#15464][avlitman] Added virt-launcher to kubevirt_memory_delta_from_requested_bytes metric and cnv_abnormal metrics.
- [PR kubevirt#15267][victortoso] Add `preserve session` option to VNC endpoint
- [PR kubevirt#15357][dasionov] ensure default Firmware.Serial value on newly created vms
- [PR kubevirt#15470][awels] BugFix: Unable to delete source VM on failed decentralized live migration
- [PR kubevirt#15423][tiraboschi] Derive eviction-in-progress annotation from VMI eviction status
- [PR kubevirt#15475][0xFelix] virtctl (portfoward|ssh|scp): Drop support for legacy dot syntax. In case the old dot syntax was used virtctl could ask for verification of the host key again. In some cases the known_hosts file might need to be updated manually.
- [PR kubevirt#15170][dasionov] bugfix: ensure grace period metadata cache is synced in virt-launcher
- [PR kubevirt#15397][ShellyKa13] bugfix: prevent VMSnapshotContent repeated update with the same error message
- [PR kubevirt#15167][Sreeja1725] Add Command line flag to disable Node Labeller service
- [PR kubevirt#15365][tiraboschi] Aligning descheduler opt-out annotation name
- [PR kubevirt#14983][sradco] This PR adds the following alerts: GuestPeakVCPUQueueHighWarning, GuestPeakVCPUQueueHighCritical
- [PR kubevirt#15096][lyarwood] The `foregroundDeleteVirtualMachine` has been deprecated and replaced with the domain-qualified `kubevirt.io/foregroundDeleteVirtualMachine`.
- [PR kubevirt#15001][noamasu] bugfix: Enable vmsnapshot for paused VMs
- [PR kubevirt#15093][Acedus] bugfix: volume hotplug pod is no longer evicted when associated VM can live migrate.
- [PR kubevirt#14879][machadovilaca] Add GuestAgentInfo info metrics
- [PR kubevirt#15305][Acedus] bugfix: snapshot and restore now works correctly for VMs after a storage volume migration
- [PR kubevirt#15314][xpivarc] Common Names are now enforce for aggregated API
- [PR kubevirt#15253][0xFelix] Bumped the bundled common-instancetypes to v1.4.0 which add new preferences.
- [PR kubevirt#15182][akalenyu] BugFix: export fails when VMExport has dots in secret
- [PR kubevirt#15061][lyarwood] Support for all `*_SHASUM` environment variables has been removed from the `virt-operator` component. Users should instead use the remaining `*_IMAGE` environment variables to request a specific image version using a tag, digest or both.
- [PR kubevirt#15157][jean-edouard] virt-operator won't schedule on worker nodes
- [PR kubevirt#15118][dankenigsberg] Drop an arbitrary limitation on VM's domain.firmaware.serial. Any string is passed verbatim to smbios. Illegal may be tweaked or ignored based on qemu/smbios version.
- [PR kubevirt#15098][dominikholler] Update dependecy golang.org/x/oauth2 to v0.27.0
- [PR kubevirt#15016][fossedihelm] Fix postcopy multifd compatibility during upgrade
- [PR kubevirt#15100][dominikholler] Update dependecy golang.org/x/net to v0.38.0
- [PR kubevirt#15099][akalenyu] BugFix: export fails when VMExport has dots in name
- [PR kubevirt#14685][seanbanko] allows virtual machine instances with an instance type to specify memory fields that do not conflict with the instance type
- [PR kubevirt#14888][akalenyu] Cleanup: libvmi: add consistently named cpu/mem setters
- [PR kubevirt#15067][alromeros] Bugfix: Label upload PVCs to support CDI WebhookPvcRendering
- [PR kubevirt#15037][jean-edouard] HostDisk: KubeVirt no longer performs chown/chmod to compensate for storage that doesn't support fsGroup
- [PR kubevirt#15017][nekkunti] Added support for architecture-specific configuration of `s390x` (IBM Z) in KubeVirt cluster config.
- [PR kubevirt#15022][awels] The synchronization controller migration network IP address is advertised by the KubeVirt CR
- [PR kubevirt#15021][awels] Decentralized migration resource now shows the synchronization address
- [PR kubevirt#14365][alaypatel07] Add support for DRA devices such as GPUs and HostDevices.
- [PR kubevirt#14882][awels] Decentralized live migration is available to allow migration across namespaces and clusters
- [PR kubevirt#14964][xpivarc] Beta: NodeRestriction
- [PR kubevirt#14986][awels] Possible to trust additional CAs for verifying kubevirt infra structure components
- [PR kubevirt#14875][nirdothan] Support seamless TCP migration with passt (alpha)

Contributors
------------
55 people contributed to this release:

51	Orel Misan <[email protected]>
45	Alexander Wels <[email protected]>
35	Lee Yarwood <[email protected]>
30	Luboslav Pivarc <[email protected]>
30	fossedihelm <[email protected]>
16	Jed Lejosne <[email protected]>
14	Nir Dothan <[email protected]>
14	dsionov <[email protected]>
13	Or Shoval <[email protected]>
11	Alex Kalenyuk <[email protected]>
11	Brian Carey <[email protected]>
11	Felix Matouschek <[email protected]>
9	Noam Assouline <[email protected]>
8	Edward Haas <[email protected]>
8	Victor Toso <[email protected]>
7	Adi Aloni <[email protected]>
7	Ananya Banerjee <[email protected]>
7	João Vilaça <[email protected]>
7	Michael Henriksen <[email protected]>
7	bmordeha <[email protected]>
6	Alay Patel <[email protected]>
6	Arnon Gilboa <[email protected]>
6	dsanatar <[email protected]>
5	Shelly Kagan <[email protected]>
5	Vladik Romanovsky <[email protected]>
5	avlitman <[email protected]>
4	Alvaro Romero <[email protected]>
4	Daniel Hiller <[email protected]>
4	Shirly Radco <[email protected]>
3	Dan Kenigsberg <[email protected]>
3	Igor Bezukh <[email protected]>
3	Michal Vavrinec <[email protected]>
3	Skala Networks <[email protected]>
2	Ben Oukhanov <[email protected]>
2	Mohit Nagaraj <[email protected]>
2	Renovate Bot <[email protected]>
2	Sean Banko <[email protected]>
2	Simone Tiraboschi <[email protected]>
2	rkishner <[email protected]>
2	svarnam <[email protected]>
1	Anand Nekkunti <[email protected]>
1	Jan Schintag <[email protected]>
1	Jed Lejosne <[email protected]>
1	Kuan-Po Tseng <[email protected]>
1	Or Mergi <[email protected]>
1	Ram Lavi <[email protected]>
1	Renuka Devi Rajendran <[email protected]>
1	Ryan Hallisey <[email protected]>
1	Shanjiv A <[email protected]>
1	Vamsi Krishna Siddu <[email protected]>
1	YuJack <[email protected]>
1	alexandr.lushin <[email protected]>
1	dacarrie <[email protected]>

Additional Resources
--------------------
- 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/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
[license]: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/blob/main/LICENSE
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This release follows v1.5.2 and consists of 1466 changes, contributed…

… by 96 people, leading to 3945 files changed, 177043 insertions(+), 87778 deletions(-).

v1.6.0 is a promotion of release candidate v1.6.0-rc.1 which was originally published 2025-07-25
The source code and selected binaries are available for download at: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/releases/tag/v1.6.0.

The primary release artifact of KubeVirt is the git tree. The release tag is
signed and can be verified using `git tag -v v1.6.0`.

Pre-built containers are published on Quay and can be viewed at: <https://quay.io/kubevirt/>.

Notable changes
---------------

- [PR kubevirt#15264][fossedihelm] Quarantined `should live migrate a container disk vm, with an additional PVC mounted, should stay mounted after migration` test
- [PR kubevirt#15256][kubevirt-bot] Bumped the bundled common-instancetypes to v1.4.0 which add new preferences.
- [PR kubevirt#15114][kubevirt-bot] Bugfix: Label upload PVCs to support CDI WebhookPvcRendering
- [PR kubevirt#15214][dhiller] Quarantine flaky test `[sig-compute]VM state with persistent TPM VM option enabled should persist VM state of EFI across migration and restart`
- [PR kubevirt#15191][kubevirt-bot] Drop an arbitrary limitation on VM's domain.firmaware.serial. Any string is passed verbatim to smbios. Illegal may be tweaked or ignored based on qemu/smbios version.
- [PR kubevirt#15202][kubevirt-bot] BugFix: export fails when VMExport has dots in secret
- [PR kubevirt#15201][xpivarc] Known issue: ParallelOutboundMigrationsPerNode might be ignored because of race condition
- [PR kubevirt#15178][kubevirt-bot] Fix postcopy multifd compatibility during upgrade
- [PR kubevirt#15171][kubevirt-bot] BugFix: export fails when VMExport has dots in name
- [PR kubevirt#15102][dominikholler] Update dependecy golang.org/x/net to v0.38.0
- [PR kubevirt#15101][dominikholler] Update dependecy golang.org/x/oauth2 to v0.27.0
- [PR kubevirt#15080][kubevirt-bot] The synchronization controller migration network IP address is advertised by the KubeVirt CR
- [PR kubevirt#15047][kubevirt-bot] Beta: NodeRestriction
- [PR kubevirt#15039][alaypatel07] Add support for DRA devices such as GPUs and HostDevices.
- [PR kubevirt#15020][kubevirt-bot] Possible to trust additional CAs for verifying kubevirt infra structure components
- [PR kubevirt#15014][kubevirt-bot] Support seamless TCP migration with passt (alpha)
- [PR kubevirt#14887][oshoval] Release passt CNI image, instead the CNI binary itself.
- [PR kubevirt#13898][brandboat] Changed the time unit conversion in the kubevirt_vmi_vcpu_seconds_total metric from microseconds to nanoseconds.
- [PR kubevirt#14935][alromeros] Add virtctl objectgraph command
- [PR kubevirt#14744][tiraboschi] A few dynamic annotations are synced from VMs template to VMIs and to virt-launcher pods
- [PR kubevirt#14907][mhenriks] Allow virtio bus for hotplugged disks
- [PR kubevirt#14754][mhenriks] Allocate more PCI ports for hotplug
- [PR kubevirt#13103][varunrsekar] Feature: Support for defining panic devices in VirtualMachineInstances to catch crash signals from the guest.
- [PR kubevirt#14961][akalenyu] BugFix: Can't LiveMigrate Windows VM after Storage Migration from HPP to OCS
- [PR kubevirt#14956][RobertoMachorro] Added CRC to ADOPTERS document.
- [PR kubevirt#14705][jean-edouard] The migration controller in virt-handler has been re-architected, migrations should be more stable
- [PR kubevirt#13764][xpivarc] KubeVirt doesn't use PDBs anymore
- [PR kubevirt#14801][arsiesys] VirtualMachinePool now supports a `.ScaleInStrategy.Proactive.SelectionPolicy.BasePolicy` field to control scale-down behavior. The new `"DescendingOrder"` strategy deletes VMs by descending ordinal index, offering predictable downscale behavior. Defaults to `"random"` if not specified.
- [PR kubevirt#14259][orelmisan] Integrate NIC hotplug with LiveUpdate rollout strategy
- [PR kubevirt#14673][dasionov] Add Video Configuration Field for VMs to Enable Explicit Video Device Selection
- [PR kubevirt#14681][victortoso] Windows offline activation with ACPI MSDM table
- [PR kubevirt#14723][SkalaNetworks] Add VolumeRestorePolicies and VolumeRestoreOverrides to VMRestores
- [PR kubevirt#14040][jschintag] Add support for Secure Execution VMs on IBM Z
- [PR kubevirt#13847][mhenriks] Declarative Volume Hotplug with CD-ROM Inject/Eject
- [PR kubevirt#14807][alromeros] Add Object Graph subresource
- [PR kubevirt#14793][jean-edouard] Failed post-copy migrations now always end in VMI failure
- [PR kubevirt#14632][iholder101] virt-handler: Reduce Get() calls for KSM handling
- [PR kubevirt#14658][alromeros] Bugfix: Update backend-storage logic so it works with PVCs with non-standard naming convention
- [PR kubevirt#14827][orelmisan] Fix network setup when emulation is enabled
- [PR kubevirt#14538][iholder101] Move cgroup v1 to maintenance mode
- [PR kubevirt#14823][xmulligan] Adding Isovalent to Adopters
- [PR kubevirt#14805][machadovilaca] Replace metric labels' none values with empty values
- [PR kubevirt#14768][oshoval] Expose CONTAINER_NAME on hook sidecars.
- [PR kubevirt#14183][aqilbeig] Add maxUnavailable support to VirtualMachinePool
- [PR kubevirt#14695][alromeros] Bugfix: Fix online expansion by requeuing VMIs on PVC size change
- [PR kubevirt#14738][oshoval] Clean absent interfaces and their relative networks from stopped VMs.
- [PR kubevirt#14737][ShellyKa13] virt-Freeze: skip freeze if domain is not in running state
- [PR kubevirt#14728][orelmisan] CPU hotplug with net multi-queue is now allowed
- [PR kubevirt#14616][awels] VirtualMachineInstanceMigrations can now express that they are source or target migrations
- [PR kubevirt#14619][cloud-j-luna] virtctl vnc command now supports user provided VNC clients.
- [PR kubevirt#14130][dasionov] bug-fix: persist VM's firmware UUID for existing VMs
- [PR kubevirt#14640][xpivarc] ARM: CPU pinning doesn't panic now
- [PR kubevirt#14664][brianmcarey] Build KubeVirt with go v1.23.9
- [PR kubevirt#14599][HarshithaMS005] Enabled watchdog validation on watchdog device models
- [PR kubevirt#13806][iholder101] Dirty rate is reported as part of a new `GetDomainDirtyRateStats()` gRPC method and by a Prometheus metric: `kubevirt_vmi_dirty_rate_bytes_per_second`.
- [PR kubevirt#14617][SkalaNetworks] Added support for custom JSON patches in VirtualMachineClones.
- [PR kubevirt#14637][alromeros] Label backend PVC to support CDI WebhookPvcRendering
- [PR kubevirt#14440][pstaniec-catalogicsoftware] add CloudCasa by Catalogic to integrations in the adopters.md
- [PR kubevirt#14602][orelmisan] The "RestartRequired" condition is not set on VM objects for live-updatable network fields
- [PR kubevirt#14267][Barakmor1] Implement container disk functionality using ImageVolume, protected by the ImageVolume feature gate.
- [PR kubevirt#14539][nirdothan] Enable vhost-user mode for passt network binding plugin
- [PR kubevirt#14520][dasionov] Enable node-labeller for ARM64 clusters, supporting machine-type labels.
- [PR kubevirt#14203][machadovilaca] Trigger VMCannotBeEvicted only for running VMIs
- [PR kubevirt#14449][0xFelix] The 64-Bit PCI hole can now be disabled by adding the kubevirt.io/disablePCIHole annotation to VirtualMachineInstances. This allows legacy OSes such as Windows XP or Server 2003 to boot on KubeVirt using the Q35 machine type.
- [PR kubevirt#13297][mhenriks] hotplug volume: Boot from hotpluggable disk
- [PR kubevirt#14509][phoracek] Network conformance tests are now marked using the `Conformance` decorator. Use `--ginkgo.label-filter '(sig-network && conformance)` to select them.
- [PR kubevirt#14338][dasionov] Bug fix: MaxSockets is limited so maximum of vcpus doesn't go over 512.
- [PR kubevirt#14327][machadovilaca] Handle lowercase instancetypes/preference keys in VM monitoring
- [PR kubevirt#14437][jschintag] Ensure stricter check for valid machine type when validating VMI
- [PR kubevirt#13911][avlitman] VirtHandlerRESTErrorsHigh, VirtOperatorRESTErrorsHigh, VirtAPIRESTErrorsHigh and VirtControllerRESTErrorsHigh alerts removed.
- [PR kubevirt#14277][HarshithaMS005] Enable Watchdog device support on s390x using the Diag288 device model.
- [PR kubevirt#13422][mhenriks] guest console log: make virt-tail a proper sidecar
- [PR kubevirt#14426][avlitman] Added kubevirt_vmi_migrations_in_unset_phase, instead of including it in kubevirt_vmi_migration_failed.
- [PR kubevirt#14428][jean-edouard] To use nfs-csi, the env variable KUBEVIRT_NFS_DIR has to be set to a location on the host for NFS data
- [PR kubevirt#13951][alromeros] Bugfix: Truncate volume names in export pod
- [PR kubevirt#14405][jpeimer] supplementalPool added to the description of the ioThreadsPolicy possible values
- [PR kubevirt#14145][ayushpatil2122] handle nil pointer dereference in cellToCell
- [PR kubevirt#14281][ShellyKa13] VMRestore: Keep VM RunStrategy as before the restore
- [PR kubevirt#14374][kubevirt-bot] Updated common-instancetypes bundles to v1.3.1
- [PR kubevirt#14219][lyarwood] A request to create a VirtualMachines that references a non-existent  instance type or preference are no longer rejected. The VirtualMachine will be created but will fail to start until the missing resources are created in the cluster.
- [PR kubevirt#14288][qinqon] Don't expose as VMI status the implicit qemu domain pause at the end of live migration
- [PR kubevirt#14309][alicefr] Fixed persistent reservation support for multipathd by improving socket access and multipath files in pr-helper
- [PR kubevirt#14325][vamsikrishna-siddu] fix: disks-images-provider is pointing to wrong alpine image for s390x.
- [PR kubevirt#14048][lyarwood] The `v1alpha{1,2}` versions of the `instancetype.kubevirt.io` API group are no longer served or supported.
- [PR kubevirt#14316][lyarwood] A new `Enabled` attribute has been added to the `TPM` device allowing users to explicitly disable the device regardless of any referenced preference.
- [PR kubevirt#14328][akalenyu] Cleanup: Fix unit tests on a sane, non-host-cgroup-sharing development setup
- [PR kubevirt#14108][machadovilaca] Add interface name label to kubevirt_vmi_status_addresses
- [PR kubevirt#14050][lyarwood] The `InstancetypeReferencePolicy` feature has graduated to GA and no longer requires the associated feature gate to be enabled.
- [PR kubevirt#14286][machadovilaca] Register k8s client-go latency metrics on init
- [PR kubevirt#14304][jean-edouard] Update module github.com/containers/common to v0.60.4
- [PR kubevirt#14065][jean-edouard] VM Persistent State GA
- [PR kubevirt#14096][ShellyKa13] VMSnapshot: add QuiesceFailed indication to snapshot if freeze failed
- [PR kubevirt#14215][dominikholler] Update module golang.org/x/oauth2 to v0.27.0
- [PR kubevirt#14068][jean-edouard] Default VM Rollout Strategy is now LiveUpdate. Important: to preserve previous behavior, rolloutStrategy needs to be set to "Stage" in the KubeVirt CR.
- [PR kubevirt#14222][dominikholler] Update module golang.org/x/net to v0.36.0
- [PR kubevirt#14218][dominikholler] Update golang.org/x/crypto to v0.35.0
- [PR kubevirt#14217][dominikholler] Update module github.com/opencontainers/runc to v1.1.14
- [PR kubevirt#14141][jean-edouard] Large number of migrations should no longer lead to active migrations timing out
- [PR kubevirt#13870][dasionov] Ensure launcher pods are finalized and deleted before removing the VMI finalizer when the VMI is marked for deletion.
- [PR kubevirt#14101][qinqon] libvirt: 10.10.0-7, qemu: 9.1.0-15
- [PR kubevirt#14071][alicefr] Add entrypoint to the pr-helper for creating the symlink to the multipath socket
- [PR kubevirt#12725][tiraboschi] Support live migration to a named node
- [PR kubevirt#13888][Sreeja1725] Add v1.5.0 perf and scale benchmarks data
- [PR kubevirt#13939][0xFelix] The virtctl port-forward/ssh/scp syntax was changed to type/name[/namespace]. It now supports resources with dots in their name properly.
- [PR kubevirt#13807][Barakmor1] virt-launcher now uses bash to retrieve disk info and verify container-disk files, requiring bash to be included in the launcher image
- [PR kubevirt#13744][nirdothan] Network interfaces state can be set to `down` or `up` in order to set the link state accordingly when VM is running. Hot plugging of interface in these states is also supported.
- [PR kubevirt#13536][jean-edouard] Interrupted migrations will now be reconciled on next VM start.
- [PR kubevirt#13690][dasionov] bug-fix: add machine type to `NodeSelector` to prevent breaking changes on unsupported nodes
- [PR kubevirt#13940][tiraboschi] The node-restriction Validating Admission Policy will return consistent reasons on failures
- [PR kubevirt#13916][lyarwood] Instance type and preference runtime data is now stored under `Status.{Instancetype,Preference}Ref` and is no longer mutated into the core VirtualMachine` `Spec`.
- [PR kubevirt#13831][ShellyKa13] VMClone: Remove webhook that checks Snapshot Source
- [PR kubevirt#13815][acardace] GA ClusterProfiler FG and add a config to enable it
- [PR kubevirt#13928][kubevirt-bot] Updated common-instancetypes bundles to v1.3.0
- [PR kubevirt#13805][machadovilaca] Fetch non-cluster instance type and preferences with namespace key

Contributors
------------
96 people contributed to this release:

75	Orel Misan <[email protected]>
55	Lee Yarwood <[email protected]>
48	Luboslav Pivarc <[email protected]>
42	Jed Lejosne <[email protected]>
41	Alice Frosi <[email protected]>
39	Felix Matouschek <[email protected]>
39	fossedihelm <[email protected]>
38	Alexander Wels <[email protected]>
30	Itamar Holder <[email protected]>
30	dsionov <[email protected]>
29	Michael Henriksen <[email protected]>
27	Nir Dothan <[email protected]>
25	Alvaro Romero <[email protected]>
23	Antonio Cardace <[email protected]>
23	bmordeha <[email protected]>
21	Alex Kalenyuk <[email protected]>
21	Vladik Romanovsky <[email protected]>
20	Daniel Hiller <[email protected]>
19	Brian Carey <[email protected]>
17	Or Shoval <[email protected]>
17	Shelly Kagan <[email protected]>
15	Skala Networks <[email protected]>
14	Victor Toso <[email protected]>
13	Edward Haas <[email protected]>
13	Or Mergi <[email protected]>
12	Alay Patel <[email protected]>
11	Dan Kenigsberg <[email protected]>
10	Jan Schintag <[email protected]>
10	Ram Lavi <[email protected]>
9	Harshit Gupta <[email protected]>
8	João Vilaça <[email protected]>
8	avlitman <[email protected]>
7	Arnon Gilboa <[email protected]>
7	Karel Simon <[email protected]>
7	Varun Ramachandra Sekar <[email protected]>
6	Ben Oukhanov <[email protected]>
5	Adi Aloni <[email protected]>
5	Dominik Holler <[email protected]>
5	rkishner <[email protected]>
4	Enrique Llorente <[email protected]>
4	Mohd Aqil Beig <[email protected]>
4	Moshe Yakubov <[email protected]>
4	Nahshon Unna-Tsameret <[email protected]>
4	Omar Farag <[email protected]>
3	Geetika Kapoor <[email protected]>
3	Germano Veit Michel <[email protected]>
3	Harshitha MS <[email protected]>
3	Petr Horacek <[email protected]>
3	Vamsi Krishna Siddu <[email protected]>
3	mohit-nagaraj <[email protected]>
2	Anu-Ra-g <[email protected]>
2	Ashlok Chaudhary <[email protected]>
2	Laxmi Adavalli <[email protected]>
2	Loïc Yavercovski <[email protected]>
2	Mohit Nagaraj <[email protected]>
2	Renovate Bot <[email protected]>
2	SKALA NETWORKS <[email protected]>
2	Simone Tiraboschi <[email protected]>
2	Sindef <[email protected]>
2	Tim Darnell <[email protected]>
2	salawhaaat <[email protected]>
1	Andrea Bolognani <[email protected]>
1	Andrej Krejcir <[email protected]>
1	Ashlok2003 <[email protected]>
1	Ashok Pariya <[email protected]>
1	Bill Mulligan <[email protected]>
1	Chandan Somani <[email protected]>
1	Daniel Hiller <[email protected]>
1	El Barthos Vessemonos <[email protected]>
1	German Maglione <[email protected]>
1	Harshitha MS <[email protected]>
1	Hemant Kumar <[email protected]>
1	Ian Bishop <[email protected]>
1	Javier Cano Cano <[email protected]>
1	Jenia Peimer <[email protected]>
1	Joao Luna <[email protected]>
1	Johann Schley <[email protected]>
1	Kuan-Po Tseng <[email protected]>
1	Naiming Shen <[email protected]>
1	Paweł Staniec <[email protected]>
1	Roberto Machorro <[email protected]>
1	Roman Mohr <[email protected]>
1	SkalaNetworks <[email protected]>
1	Stefano Brivio <[email protected]>
1	Varun Ramachandra Sekar <[email protected]>
1	aks3213 <[email protected]>
1	ayushpatil2122 <[email protected]>
1	danish9039 <[email protected]>
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1	oujonny <[email protected]>
1	root <[email protected]>
1	sarthaksarthak9 <[email protected]>
1	svarnam <[email protected]>
1	张忠琳 <[email protected]>

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