Since this release, lazy pulling of eStargz is possible on CRI-O/Podman using the brand-new Stargz Store plugin. Please refer to our docs for details about installation.

This release also adds changes for better resource efficiency of Stargz Snapshotter, including garbage collection of content cache (#309) and memory consumption improvement (#294).

Notable Changes

• Stargz Store

  • Add Stargz Store for enabling lazy pulling on CRI-O/Podman (#301)

• Stargz Snapshotter

  • Add GC when unmounting snapshots (#309)
  • Improve memory consumption (#294)
  • Add request_timeout_sec option for making request timeout configurable in slow NW (#317)

• estargz library

  • Add support of compressed input blobs to estargz.Build (#304)

• Test/release pipeline

  • Remove unused cind target from Dockerfile (#295)
  • Switch to v2 configuration file format of containerd (#302)
  • Remove unnecessary linter config (#297)

• Docs and dependencies

  • Add document about installing Stargz Snapshotter for containerd with systemd (#307), thanks @chenk008
  • Add document about installing Stargz Store for CRI-O/Podman with systemd (#319)
  • Fix typos (#311, #315), thanks @hs0210 and @ilyee
  • Add eStargz-formatted mariadb:10.5 and wordpress:5.7 to ghcr.io/stargz-containers (#303)
  • Bump dependencies (Go to 1.16, containerd to 1.5.0, etc) (#312, #313, #299, etc)