v1.6.0 Release 2021-04-26

This is the April 2021 relase for kaniko

The executor images in this release are:

gcr.io/kaniko-project/executor:v1.6.0
gcr.io/kaniko-project/executor:latest

The debug images are available at:

gcr.io/kaniko-project/executor:debug
gcr.io/kaniko-project/executor:v1.6.0-debug

The slim executor images which don't contain any authentication binaries are available at:

gcr.io/kaniko-project/executor:slim
gcr.io/kaniko-project/executor:v1.6.0-slim

In this release, we have following featurs/bug fixes:

• Support warming images by digest #1629
• Fix resolution of Dockerfile relative dockerignore #1607
• create parent directory before writing digest files #1612
• adds ignore-path command arguments to executor #1622
• Specifying a tarPath will push the image as well #1597

Huge thank you for this release towards our contributors:

• Chris Hoffman
• Colin
• Jon Friesen
• Lars Gröber
• Sascha Schwarze
• Tejal Desai