v1.8.0

OS Changes

General

• Update admin and control containers (#2191)
• Update to containerd 1.6.x (#2158)
• Restart container runtimes when certificates store changes (#2076)
• Add support for providing kernel parameters via Boot Configuration (#1980)
• Restart long-running systemd services on exit (#2162)
• Ignore zero blocks on dm-verity root (#2169)
• Add support for static DNS mappings in /etc/hosts (#2129)
• Enable network configuration generation via netdog (#2066)
• Add support for non-eth0 default interfaces (#2144)
• Update to IMDS schema 2021-07-15 (#2190)

Kubernetes

• Add support for Kubernetes 1.23 variants (#2188)
• Improve Kubernetes pod start times by unsetting configMapAndSecretChangeDetectionStrategy in kubelet config (#2166)
• Add new setting for configuring kubelet's provider-id configuration (#2192)
• Add new setting for configuring kubelet's podPidsLimit configuration (#2138)
• Allow a list of IP addresses in settings.kubernetes.cluster-dns-ip (#2176)
• Set the default for settings.kubernetes.cloud-provider on metal variants to an empty string (#2188)
• Add c7g instance data for max pods calculation in AWS variants (#2107, thanks, @lizthegrey!)

ECS

• Add aws-ecs-1-nvidia variant with Nvidia driver support (#2128, #2100, #2098, #2167, #2097, #2090, #2099)
• Add support for ECS ImagePullBehavior and WarmPoolsSupport (#2063, thanks, @mello7tre!)

Hardware

• Build smartpqi driver for Microchip Smart Storage devices into 5.10 kernel (#2184)
• Add support for Broadcom ethernet cards in 5.10 kernel (#2143)
• Add support for MegaRAID SAS in 5.10 kernel (#2133)

Build Changes

• Remove aws-k8s-1.18 variant (#2044, #2092)
• Update third-party packages (#2178, #2187, #2145)
• Update Rust and Go dependencies (#2183, #2181, #2180, #2085, #2110, #2068, #2075, #2074, #2048, #2059, #2049, #2036, #2033)
• Update Bottlerocket SDK to 0.26.0 (#2157)
• Speed up kernel builds by installing headers and modules in parallel (#2185)
• Removed unused patch from Docker CLI (#2030, thanks, @thaJeztah!)

Documentation Changes

• Standardize README generation in buildsys (#2134)
• Clarify migration README (#2141)
• Fix typos in BUILDING.md and QUICKSTART-VMWARE.md (#2159, thanks, @ryanrussell!)
• Add additional documentation for using GPUs with Kubernetes variants (#2078)
• Document examples for using enter-admin-container (#2028)