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Release Notes
=============

Airship Overview
----------------

Airship is a robust system for delivering container-based cloud infrastructure
(or any other containerized workload)
at scale on bare metal, public clouds, and edge clouds.
Airship integrates best-of-class CNCF projects, such as Cluster API, Kustomize, Metal3,
and Helm Operator, to deliver a resilient and predictable lifecycle experience.

Combining easy lifecycle management with zero-downtime real-time upgrade capability,
Airship can handle the
provisioning and configuration of the operating system, RAID services, and the network.

Airship 2.1 (30 November 2021)
------------------------------

Release 2.1 introduces the following enhancements:

- Upgrade components to parity with Cluster API v1alpha4, including Bare Metal Operator v1alpha5
- Kubernetes upgrade to version 1.21
- Docker provider upgrade to v1alpha3
- CAPD and CAPZ upgrades to versions 0.4.2 and 0.5.2, respectively
- Airship in a Pod hardening and improvements such as support for custom site manifest locations and private repositories. (`477`_)
- Helm Controller upgrade to version 0.11.1 and Source Controller to version 0.15.3 (`607`_)
- Kustomize upgrade to version 4.2.0
- KPT upgrade to to version 1.0.0-beta.7
- Support of iLO5 in bare metal node bootstrapping

.. _477: https://github.com/airshipit/airshipctl/issues/477
.. _607: https://github.com/airshipit/airshipctl/issues/607

Airship 2.0 (16 April 2021)
---------------------------

Release 2.0 introduces a variety of significant improvements:

-  No-touch bootstrap for remote sites as well as local sites
-  Declarative image building for both ephemeral ISO and bare metal targeted QCOWs
-  Declarative cluster lifecycle
-  Lifecycle for bare metal, public cloud, and edge cloud infrastructure
-  Single command line "airshipctl"
-  Lifecycle defined as a sequence of phases
-  Introduction of a plan for the phases
-  Seamless integration with CNCF projects (CAPI, Metal3, Kustomize)
-  Seamless integration with security plugins like SOPS
-  Generic container interface: mechanism to extend airshipctl with ad hoc functionality
-  Introduction of host config operator for day 2 operations

Change Log
----------

Change logs list feature and defect details for a release.
For the complete set of releases including links to change logs,
see the `treasuremap`_ and `airshipctl`_ Github release pages.

.. _treasuremap: https://github.com/airshipit/treasuremap/releases/
.. _airshipctl: https://github.com/airshipit/airshipctl/releases/