github.com/siderolabs/talos

Welcome to the v1.8.0-alpha.0 release of Talos!
This is a pre-release of Talos

Please try out the release binaries and report any issues at https://github.com/siderolabs/talos/issues.

Component Updates

Linux: 6.6.29 containerd: 1.7.16

Talos is built with Go 1.22.2.

ZSTD Compression

Talos Linux now compresses kernel and initramfs using ZSTD. Linux arm64 kernel is now compressed (previously it was uncompressed).

Contributors

• Andrey Smirnov
• Dmitriy Matrenichev
• Utku Ozdemir
• Dmitry Sharshakov
• Artem Chernyshev
• Bernard Gütermann
• Birger J. Nordølum
• Dennis Marttinen
• Evan Johnson
• Grzegorz Rożniecki
• Igor Rzegocki
• Noel Georgi
• Spencer Smith
• darox
• looklose

Changes

<details><summary>51 commits</summary> <p>

• 07f78182c fix: use a fresh context for etcd unlock
• 84cd7dbec feat: update Linux to 6.6.29
• 70fdca6a4 chore: update minimum hardware requirement for vmware ova
• b690ffeb8 test: improve DNS resolver test stability
• 5aa0299b6 style: use correct capitalization for openstack
• 4c0c626b7 feat: use zstd compression in place of xz
• 98906ed6e fix: use reboot delay only in case of error
• 05fd042bb test: improve the reset integration tests
• 8cdf0f7cb docs: fix typo in Cilium instructions
• dd1d279da fix: allow more flags in talosctl cluster create --input-dir
• ef4394e58 chore: update kernel and other packages
• ccdb4c8b1 chore: update google.golang.org/grpc to 1.63.2
• c5b59df69 fix: wait for devices to be discovered before probing filesystems
• 0821b9c50 feat: add --non-masquerade-cidrs flag to talosctl cluster create
• 2bf613ad3 fix: add endpoints for "virtual" host-dns service
• f4163aefe fix: bump priority of OpenStack routes if IPv6 and default gateway
• 6fbd1263c feat: report process MAC labels
• d46032821 fix: return proper value from Bridge.STP instead of plain nil
• bac1d00c3 chore: prepare for Talos 1.8
• d6c8067e1 docs: make 1.7 docs the default
• d7c3a0735 docs: add what's new for v1.7
• 908f67fa1 feat: add host dns support for resolving member addrs
• 0d20b637d feat: update Kubernetes to 1.30.0
• ec69d7a78 chore: replace math/rand with math/rand/v2
• 89040ce43 chore: update go-blockdevice/v2 library to the latest version
• 0a785802e fix: overlay installer operations
• b1b63f658 fix: mark overlay installer executable
• 3433fa13b feat: use container DNS when in container mode
• 5d07ac5a7 fix: close apid inter-backend connections gracefully for real
• 7ba18555b docs: fix typos in Akamai and AWS platform docs
• 3dd1f4e88 chore: extract pkg/imager/quirks to pkg/machinery
• 78bc3a433 docs: update Cilium docs
• 831f3d39e feat: update Flannel to v0.25.1
• ea5b3ff0c feat: update Kubernetes to v1.30.0-rc.2
• 54dac5ed4 feat: update Linux 6.6.24, containerd 1.7.15
• c51f146da docs: update Akamai platform docs
• 9550f5ff7 docs: fix getAuthenticationMethod and completePathFromNode docs
• bfbd02abf fix: assign different priority to IPv6 default gateway on OpenStack
• c8f674bd3 test: add a test for 'spin' container runtime
• 5390ccd48 chore: replace []byte with string and use go:embed for templates
• ba7cdc8c8 chore: optimize DNSResolveCacheController
• 145f24063 fix: don't modify a global map of profiles
• 6fe91ad9c feat: provide Kubernets/Talos version compatibility for 1.8
• 909a5800e fix: generate secureboot ISO .der certificate correctly
• b0fdc3c8c fix: make static pods check output consistent
• c6ad0fcce fix: validate that workers don't get cluster CA key
• 3735add87 fix: reconnect to the logs stream in dashboard after reboot
• 9aa1e1b79 fix: present all accepted CAs to the kube-apiserver
• 336e61174 fix: close the apid connection to other machines gracefully
• ff2c427b0 fix: pre-create nftables chain to make kubelet use nftables
• 5622f0e45 docs: change localDNS to hostDNS in release notes yaml section </p> </details>

Changes from siderolabs/discovery-client

<details><summary>2 commits</summary> <p>

• ca662d2 feat: export default GRPC dial options for the client
• 7a767fa chore: bump Go, deps and rekres </p> </details>

Changes from siderolabs/extras

<details><summary>1 commit</summary> <p>

• fa6663c feat: update Go to 1.22.2 </p> </details>

Changes from siderolabs/pkgs

<details><summary>12 commits</summary> <p>

• 28c5696 feat: update Linux to 6.6.29
• 9c8a02c feat: update containerd to 1.7.16
• ca6249b feat: compress amd64 Linux kernel using zstd
• 718a7da feat: enable SELinux
• 207481f feat(intel): add support for power management and ACPI options for Intel CPUs
• dfa7dce feat: update Linux to 6.6.28
• 7b30b61 fix: use proper EFI zBoot image
• 010913b feat: update Linux 6.6.26, containerd 1.7.15
• da397fa feat: enable BFQ IO scheduler
• c839801 feat: enable zboot on arm64 with zstd compression
• 1b28e2c feat: go 1.22.2, Linux 6.6.24
• 05db2a8 fix: revert musl to 1.2.4 </p> </details>

Changes from siderolabs/tools

<details><summary>1 commit</summary> <p>

• bd405ff feat: update go to 1.22.2 </p> </details>

Dependency Changes

• cloud.google.com/go/compute/metadata v0.2.3 -> v0.3.0
• github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/azidentity v1.5.1 -> v1.5.2
• github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/config v1.27.10 -> v1.27.11
• github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/kms v1.30.1 -> v1.31.0
• github.com/containerd/containerd v1.7.14 -> v1.7.16
• github.com/containernetworking/cni v1.1.2 -> v1.2.0
• github.com/docker/docker v26.0.0 -> v26.0.2
• github.com/google/go-tpm ee6cbcd136f8 -> 1fb84445f623
• github.com/hetznercloud/hcloud-go/v2 v2.7.0 -> v2.7.2
• github.com/insomniacslk/dhcp c728f5dd21c8 -> f1cffa2c0c49
• github.com/klauspost/compress v1.17.7 new
• github.com/miekg/dns v1.1.58 -> v1.1.59
• github.com/prometheus/procfs v0.13.0 -> v0.14.0
• github.com/rivo/tview a22293bda944 -> e119d15762fe
• github.com/scaleway/scaleway-sdk-go v1.0.0-beta.25 -> v1.0.0-beta.26
• github.com/siderolabs/discovery-client v0.1.8 -> v0.1.9
• github.com/siderolabs/extras v1.7.0-1-gbb76755 -> v1.8.0-alpha.0
• github.com/siderolabs/pkgs v1.7.0-6-g29106c0 -> v1.8.0-alpha.0-10-g28c5696
• github.com/siderolabs/talos/pkg/machinery v1.7.0 -> v1.7.0-alpha.1
• github.com/siderolabs/tools v1.7.0-1-g10b2a69 -> v1.8.0-alpha.0
• golang.org/x/net v0.23.0 -> v0.24.0
• golang.org/x/oauth2 v0.18.0 -> v0.19.0
• golang.org/x/sync v0.6.0 -> v0.7.0
• golang.org/x/sys v0.18.0 -> v0.19.0
• golang.org/x/term v0.18.0 -> v0.19.0
• google.golang.org/grpc v1.62.1 -> v1.63.2

Previous release can be found at v1.7.0