New Features

• Support for NVIDIA Data Center GPU Driver version 470.82.01.
• MIG Manager support with Preinstalled GPU Drivers on the node.
• Entitlement free driver builds using DriverToolkit images on RedHat OpenShift 4.9.
• Support for enabling GPUDirect RDMA with Preinstalled MOFED drivers on the node using driver.rdma.useHostMofed option.
• Upgrade support of GPU Operator and Operand Pods using Operator Lifecycle Manager(OLM) on RedHat OpenShift.

Improvements

• Automatic detection of default runtime used in the cluster and deprecate operator.defaultRuntime parameter.
• Installation of GPU Operator and its Operands into a single user specified Namespace.
• Automatic detection and unload of nouveau driver prior to installing NVIDIA GPU Driver on each node.
• Option to mount a ConfigMap of self-signed certificates into driver container using driver.certConfig.name parameter. This can be used for SSL connections to Proxy server or private package repositories.

Fixed issues

• DCGM Exporter in CrashLoopBackOff as it cannot connect to DCGM port on the same node.

Known Limitations

• Upgrades from v1.8.x to v1.9.x are not supported due to change in default Namespace gpu-operator-resources used earlier. Starting from v1.9.x user can specify custom Namespace for both GPU Operator and Operand Pods to be installed. User would need to un-install old version prior to installing v1.9.x version of GPU Operator.
• Collection of GPU metrics in MIG mode is not supported with 470+ drivers.