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@alxiord alxiord released this 19 Feb 09:41

Added

  • Support for booting with an initial RAM disk image. This image can be
    specified through the new initrd_path field of the /boot-source API
    request.

Fixed

  • Fixed #1469 - Broken GitHub location for Firecracker release binary.
  • The jailer allows changing the default api socket path by using the extra
    arguments passed to firecracker.
  • Fixed #1456 - Occasional KVM_EXIT_SHUTDOWN and bad syscall (14) during
    VM shutdown.
  • Updated the production host setup guide with steps for addressing
    CVE-2019-18960.
  • The HTTP header parsing is now case insensitive.
  • The put_api_requests and patch_api_requests metrics for net devices were
    un-swapped.

Changed

  • Removed redundant --seccomp-level jailer parameter since it can be
    simply forwarded to the Firecracker executable using "end of command
    options" convention.
  • Removed memory.dirty_pages metric.
  • Removed options field from the logger configuration.
  • Decreased release binary size by ~15%.
  • Changed default API socket path to /run/firecracker.socket. This path
    also applies when running with the jailer.
  • Disabled KVM dirty page tracking by default.
  • Removed redundant RescanBlockDevice action from the /actions API.
    The functionality is available through the PATCH /drives API.
    See docs/api_requests/patch-block.md.