v0.18.0Release - 2020-03-04

This release fixes all the regression bugs associated with v0.17.0 and v0.17.1. This release, the team did a lot of work improving our test infrastructure, more tests cases and refactored filesystem walking.

Thank you all for your patience and supporting us throughout!

gcr.io/kaniko-project/executor:v0.18.0 and
gcr.io/kaniko-project/executor:latest

The debug image is available at:

gcr.io/kaniko-project/executor:debug-v0.18.0 and
gcr.io/kaniko-project/executor:debug

Bug Fixes

• fix home being reset to root #1072
• fix user metadata set to USER:GROUP if group string is not set #1105
• check for filepath.Walk error everywhere #1086
• fix #1092 TestRelativePaths #1093
• Resolve filepaths before scanning for changes #1069
• Fix #1020 os.Chtimes invalid arg #1074
• Fix #1067 - image no longer available #1068
• Ensure image SHA stays consistent when layer contents haven't changed #1032
• fix flake TestRun/Dockerfile_test_copy_symlink #1030

New Features

• root: add --registry-mirror flag #836
• set log format using a flag #1031
• Do not recompute layers retrieved from cache #882
• More idiomatic logging config #1040

Test Refactors and Updates

• Split travis integration tests #1090
• Add integration tests from Issues #1054
• add integration tests with their own context #1088
• Fixed typo in README.md #1060
• test: refactor container-diff call #1077
• Refactor integration image built #1049
• separate travis into multiple jobs for parallelization #1055
• refactor copy.chown code and add more tests #1027
• Allow contributors to launch integration tests against local registry #1014

Documentation

• add design proposal template #1046
• Update filesystem proposal status to Reviewed #1066
• update instructions for running integration tests #1034
• design proposal 01: filesystem resolution #1048
• Document that this tool is not officially supported by Google #1044
• Fix example pod.yml to not mount to root #1043
• fixing docker run command in README.md #1103

Huge thank you for this release towards our contributors:

• Anthony Davies
• Batuhan Apaydın
• Ben Einaudi
• Cole Wippern
• cvgw
• DracoBlue
• James Ravn
• Logan.Price
• Moritz Wanzenböck
• ohchang-kwon
• Or Sela
• Sam Stoelinga
• Tejal Desai
• Thomas Bonfort
• Thomas Strömberg
• tinkerborg
• Wietse Muizelaar
• xanonid
• Yoan Blanc