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Release Notes

Version 1.26.0 - 2022-06-22

Note: Using a minikube cluster created before 1.26.0, using the docker container-runtime (default), and plan to upgrade the Kubernetes version to v1.24+? After upgrading, you may need to delete & recreate it. none driver users, cri-docker is now required to be installed, install instructions. See issue https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/14410 for more info.

Features:

• Add headlamp addon #14315
• Add InAccel FPGA Operator addon #12995

QEMU:

• Only set highmem=off for darwin if qemu version is below 7.0 or memory is below 3GB #14291
• Define qemu as a qemu2 driver alias #14284
• Allow users to supply custom QEMU firmware path #14283

Minor Improvements:

• Add eBPF related kernel options #14316
• Add bind address flag for minikube tunnel #14245
• Add active column for minikube profile list #14079
• Add documentation URL to the addon list table #14123
• minikube config defaults kubernetes-version lists all currently supported Kubernetes versions #13775
• Support starting minikube with the Podman driver on NixOS systems #12739

Bug Fixes:

• Fix terminated commands not writing to audit log #13307
• Fix Podman port mapping publish on macOS #14290
• Fix minikube delete deleting networks from other profiles #14279

Version Upgrades:

• Bump Kubernetes version default: v1.24.1 and latest: v1.24.1 #14197
• ISO: Upgrade Docker from 20.10.14 to 20.10.16 #14153
• ISO: Upgrade kernel from 4.19.235 to 5.10.57 #12707
• Upgrade Dashboard addon from v2.5.1 to v2.6.0 & MetricsScraper from v1.0.7 to v1.0.8 #14269
• Upgrade gcp-auth-webhook from v0.0.8 to v0.0.9 #14372
• Upgrade nginx image from v1.2.0 to v1.2.1 #14317

Important Changes in Pre-Release Versions Features:

• Add configure option to registry-aliases addon #13912
• Add support for building aarch64 ISO #13762
• Support rootless Podman driver (Usage: minikube config set rootless true) #13829

QEMU:

• Add support for the QEMU driver #13639
• Fix qemu firmware path locations #14182
• Re-establish apiserver tunnel on restart #14183

For a more detailed changelog, including changes occurring in pre-release versions, see CHANGELOG.md.

Thank you to our contributors for this release!

• Alex Andrews
• Anders F Björklund
• Elias Koromilas
• Francis Laniel
• Giildo
• Harsh Vardhan
• Jack Zhang
• Jeff MAURY
• Kevin Grigorenko
• Kian-Meng Ang
• Leonardo Grasso
• Medya Ghazizadeh
• Nikhil Sharma
• Nils Fahldieck
• Pablo Caderno
• Peter Becich
• Predrag Rogic
• Santhosh Nagaraj S
• Sharif Elgamal
• Steven Powell
• Toshiaki Inukai
• klaases
• lakshkeswani
• Laya Kott
• lilongfeng
• simonren-tes
• ziyi-xie
• 李龙峰

Thank you to our PR reviewers for this release!

• spowelljr (76 comments)
• sharifelgamal (11 comments)
• medyagh (8 comments)
• afbjorklund (6 comments)
• kakkoyun (2 comments)
• knrt10 (2 comments)
• mprimeaux (2 comments)
• shu-mutou (2 comments)
• javierhonduco (1 comments)
• nburlett (1 comments)

Thank you to our triage members for this release!

• spowelljr (39 comments)
• RA489 (30 comments)
• sharifelgamal (27 comments)
• afbjorklund (14 comments)
• klaases (14 comments)

Installation

See Getting Started

Binary Checksums

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ISO Checksum

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