This release comes with experimental support for image distribution on IPFS with lazy pulling (/docs/ipfs.md), support for storing filesystem metadata on disk (bbolt) and reorganization of eStargz documents.

This release introduces new go modules ipfs and cmd. We have the following go modules as of now.

• github.com/containerd/stargz-snapshotter : Plugins for container runtimes to enable lazy pulling of eStargz and the image creation.
• github.com/containerd/stargz-snapshotter/estargz : Utilities to create and manipulate eStargz.
• github.com/containerd/stargz-snapshotter/ipfs : Plugins for containerd to support IPFS
• github.com/containerd/stargz-snapshotter/cmd : CLI commands

Notable Changes

• modules
  • Introduce the following go modules (#511)
    • ipfs: Plugins for containerd to image distribution on IPFS
    • cmd: CLI commands provided by this project
• ipfs (/docs/ipfs.md)
  • Experimental support for distributing images on IPFS (#496, #501, #502, #511, #514)
• Stargz Snapshotter and Stargz Store
  • Enable to store filesystem metadata on disk to reduce memory usage (#415)
  • Make HTTP requests retryable (#479), thanks to @rdpsin
  • Add microsecond latency measuring to metrics (#485), thanks to @gtxu
• estargz
  • Unify eStargz specification documents (#513)
• ctr-remote
  • Fix ctr-remote to print the correct command name (#500), thanks to @liubin