linuxkit/reports/2019-04-30.md

Report for 2019-04-01 to 2019-04-30

This report covers the development in the linuxkit/linuxkit linuxkit/lcow linuxkit/kubernetes linuxkit/virtsock linuxkit/rtf linuxkit/homebrew-linuxkit repositories. There were 100 contributions (PRs/Issues/Comments) from 18 individual contributors. 16 new PRs were opened and 15 PRs were merged. 9 new issues were opened and 9 issues were closed.

We had the first LinuxKit release in quite a while and released v0.7. See the release notes for details.

Apart from the usual kernel updates, containerd was bumped to v1.2.6, the grub build was improved, and the firmware for the RPi was updated to the latest.

Merged PRs:

• Update OpenGCS, Alpine, kernel and runc (linuxkit/lcow#45 @rn @justincormack)

• Kernel update to 5.0.5/4.19.32/4.14.109/4.9.166 (linuxkit/linuxkit#3319 @rn @justincormack)

• March 2019 development report (linuxkit/linuxkit#3322 @rn @justincormack)

• Update kernels to 5.0.6/4.19.33/4.14.110/4.9.167 (linuxkit/linuxkit#3323 @rn @justincormack)

• Update kernels to 5.0.7/4.19.34/4.14.111/4.9.168 (linuxkit/linuxkit#3326 @rn @justincormack)

• Update containerd to v1.2.6 (linuxkit/linuxkit#3327 @rn @thaJeztah @justincormack)

• Move coreos-grub build to its own image (linuxkit/linuxkit#3328 @deitch @rn)

• Release v0.7 (linuxkit/linuxkit#3329 @rn @justincormack)

• Build coreos grub off of alpine:3.9 and separate build steps for caching (linuxkit/linuxkit#3330 @deitch @rn)

• Bump version to v0.7+ (linuxkit/linuxkit#3331 @rn @justincormack)

• Kernel update to 5.0.8/4.19.35/4.14.112/4.9.169 (linuxkit/linuxkit#3332 @rn @justincormack)

• Update kernels to 5.0.9/4.19.36/4.14.113/4.9.170 (linuxkit/linuxkit#3334 @rn @justincormack)

• Update RPi firmware (linuxkit/linuxkit#3335 @nakato @rn)

• Update kernel to 5.0.10/4.19.37/4.14.114/4.9.171 (linuxkit/linuxkit#3337 @rn @justincormack)

• sysinfo: add macOS Mojave (linuxkit/rtf#51 @russellcardullo @rn)

Closed Issues:

• named volume does not work (linuxkit/lcow#46 @thanhy @rn)

• lcow: Slower pull times with newer kernels (linuxkit/linuxkit#3120 @rn @kmjohansen @jhowardmsft)

• Cannot build LCOW image on Windows with nightly Docker installed (linuxkit/linuxkit#3207 @Iristyle @justincormack)

• coreos grub compile fails with Alpine 3.9 tool chain (linuxkit/linuxkit#3295 @rn @deitch @justincormack)

• Cut a release (linuxkit/linuxkit#3313 @rn @deitch)

• Cross compilation for arm64 (linuxkit/linuxkit#3321 @dapopescu @rn)

• Unclear documentation about booting on Raspberry Pi (linuxkit/linuxkit#3324 @dapopescu @rn @nakato)

• Priviledged containers are not possible or lack documentation (linuxkit/linuxkit#3325 @pojntfx @justincormack)

• make kconfig doesn't work as per manual (linuxkit/linuxkit#3333 @alekslitvinenk @tjfontaine @rn)

New or updated PRs and Issues (not closed):

• Typo artefact -> artifact (linuxkit/lcow#42 @oneoneonepig)

• Update openssl to 1.1.1 series (if not already) (linuxkit/lcow#43 @jhowardmsft @justincormack)

• (maint) Remove note about old kernel (linuxkit/lcow#44 @Iristyle)

• Run LinuxKit in Hyper-V nested in Windows 10 VMware (linuxkit/linuxkit#3209 @StefanScherer @rn @robrich @embusalacchi @justincormack @danacon01)

• Add support for Xen Hypervisors - XCP-ng / Xen Server (linuxkit/linuxkit#3312 @jmccoy555 @rn @deitch)

• Hang at tsc setup during boot in qemu 3.1 OS X (linuxkit/linuxkit#3320 @mt-inside)

• Adding new target - Rock64 (linuxkit/linuxkit#3336 @nakato @justincormack)

• Update opencontainers/runc to v1.0.0-rc8 (linuxkit/linuxkit#3338 @jterry75)

• Testing new Docker buildx got me Java error on build (linuxkit/linuxkit#3339 @carlosedp @rn @w9n)