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Release Notes

Version 1.31.0 - 2023-07-18

Features:

• Add back VMware driver support #16796
• docker-env supports the containerd runtime (experimental) #15452 #16761
• Automatically renew expired kubeadm certs #16249
• New addon inspektor-gadget #15869

Major Improvements:

• VM drivers: Fix all images getting removed on stop/start (40% start speedup) #16655
• Addon registry: Add support for all architectures #16577
• QEMU: Fix failing to interact with cluster after upgrading QEMU version #16853
• macOS/QEMU: Auto unblock bootpd from firewall if blocking socket_vmnet network #16714 #16789
• minikube cp supports providing directory as a target #15519

Minor Improvements:

• Always use cni unless running with dockershim #14780
• none driver: Check for CNI plugins before starting cluster #16419
• QEMU: Add ability to create extra disks #15887
• --kubernetes-version: Assume latest patch version if not specified #16569
• audit: Set default max file size #16543
• service: Fail if no pods available #15079
• docker/podman driver: Use buildx for image build command #16252
• Addon gvisor: Simplify runtime configuration and use latest version #14996
• Add PowerShell code completion #16232
• build: Support DOS-style path for Dockerfile path #15074

Bugs:

• none driver: Fix minikube start not working without sudo #16408
• none driver: Fix minikube image build #16386
• Fix only allowing one global tunnel #16839
• Fix enabling addons when --no-kubernetes #15003
• Fix enabling addons on a paused cluster #15868
• Fix waiting for kicbase downloads on VM drivers #16695
• image list: Fix only outputting single tag of image with multiple tags #16578
• Addons: Fix cloud-spanner and headlamp incorrect file permissions #16413
• Fix csi-hostpath not allowing custom registry #16395
• Fix mount cleaning mechanism #15782
• Fix kubectl tab-completion and improve error messages [#14868](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/14868
• Fix help text not being translated #16850 #16852

New ISO Modules:

• Add BINFMT_MISC #16712
• Add BPF_SYSCALL to arm64 #15164
• Add GENEVE #15665
• add BLK_DEV_RBD & CEPH_LIB to arm64 #16019

Version Upgrades:

• Bump Kubernetes version default: v1.27.3 and latest: v1.27.3 #16718
• Addon cloud-spanner: Update cloud-spanner-emulator/emulator image from 1.5.2 to 1.5.7 #16248 #16352 #16587 #16652 #16845
• Addon gcp-auth: Update ingress-nginx/kube-webhook-certgen image from v20230312-helm-chart-4.5.2-28-g66a760794 to v20230407 #16601
• Addon gcp-auth: Update k8s-minikube/gcp-auth-webhook image from v0.0.14 to v0.1.0 #16573
• Addon headlamp: Update headlamp-k8s/headlamp image version from v0.16.0 to v0.18.0 #16399 #16540 #16721
• Addon ingress: Update ingress-nginx/controller image from v1.7.0 to v1.8.1 #16601 #16832
• Addon ingress: Update ingress-nginx/kube-webhook-certgen image from v20230312-helm-chart-4.5.2-28-g66a760794 to v20230407 #16601
• Addon kong: Update kong image from 2.7 to 3.2 #16424
• Addon kong: Update kong/kubernetes-ingress-controller image from 2.1.1 to 2.9.3 #16424
• CNI calico: Update from v3.24.5 to v3.26.1 #16144 #16596 #16732
• CNI flannel: Update from v0.20.2 to v0.22.0 #16074 #16435 #16597
• CNI kindnet: Update from v20230330-48f316cd to v20230511-dc714da8 #16488
• Kicbase: Update base image from ubuntu:focal-20230308 to ubuntu:jammy-20230624 #16069 #16632 #16731 #16834
• Kicbase/ISO: Update buildkit from v0.11.4 to v0.11.6 #16426
• Kicbase/ISO: Update cni-plugins from v0.8.5 to v1.3.0 #16582
• Kicbase/ISO: Update containerd from v1.7.0 to v1.7.1 #16501
• Kicbase/ISO: Update containerd from v1.7.1 to v1.7.2 #16634
• Kicbase/ISO: Update cri-dockerd from v0.3.1 to v0.3.3 #16506 #16703
• Kicbase/ISO: Update docker from 20.10.23 to 24.0.4 #16572 #16612 #16875
• Kicbase/ISO: Update runc from v1.1.5 to v1.1.7 #16417

For a more detailed changelog, see CHANGELOG.md.

Thank you to our contributors for this release!

• AiYijing
• Aleksandr Chebotov
• Anders F Björklund
• Armel Soro
• Asbjørn Apeland
• Begula
• Blaine Gardner
• Bogdan Luca
• Fabricio Voznika
• Jeff MAURY
• Joe Bowbeer
• Juan Martín Loyola
• Judah Nouriyelian
• Kemal Akkoyun
• Max Cascone
• Medya Ghazizadeh
• Michele Sorcinelli
• Oldřich Jedlička
• Ricky Sadowski
• Sharran
• Steven Powell
• Terry Moschou
• Tongyao Si
• Vedant
• Viktor Gamov
• W. Duncan Fraser
• Yuiko Mouri
• aiyijing
• cui fliter
• guoguangwu
• himalayanZephyr
• joaquimrocha
• lixin18
• piljoong
• salasberryfin
• shixiuguo
• sunyuxuan
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• tianlj
• tzzcfrank
• vgnshiyer
• winkelino
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• yolossn
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• Товарищ программист

Thank you to our PR reviewers for this release!

• spowelljr (180 comments)
• medyagh (64 comments)
• eiffel-fl (16 comments)
• afbjorklund (11 comments)
• aiyijing (9 comments)
• atoato88 (6 comments)
• BenTheElder (2 comments)
• travisn (2 comments)
• ComradeProgrammer (1 comments)
• Kimi450 (1 comments)
• alban (1 comments)
• mprimeaux (1 comments)
• shaneutt (1 comments)
• t-inu (1 comments)

Thank you to our triage members for this release!

• afbjorklund (30 comments)
• spowelljr (24 comments)
• kundan2707 (12 comments)
• mqasimsarfraz (6 comments)
• ShardulPrabhu (5 comments)

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Installation

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