v1.6.0

Release Notes

New Features & Enhancements

Default host kernel is now 6.18.6 (LTS)

Improves performance and device compatibility.

PersistentVolume-based block device mounts

Support for PersistentVolumes and PersistentVolumeClaim-based mounting of high-performance block devices into Edera-managed Kubernetes workloads is now supported. See the Kubernetes block devices guide.

As with default Kubernetes, this is highly recommended for workloads that require high levels of disk performance, such as database containers and volumes.

CSI-managed block devices should also be supported via these APIs as in default Kubernetes, but not all CSI drivers or filesystem formats have been validated with Edera in this release.

OOMKilled container status now tracked and reported

Edera-managed Kubernetes containers that exceed their configured memory limits and are terminated by the kernel OOMKiller now properly report their exit status to Kubernetes, as expected.

Additional Kubernetes securityContext field support

• securityContext.runAsUser is now properly supported in Kubernetes specs for Edera-managed pods.
• securityContext.runAsGroup is now properly supported in Kubernetes specs for Edera-managed pods.
• securityContext.runAsNonRoot is now properly supported in Kubernetes specs for Edera-managed pods.
• securityContext.fsGroup is now properly supported in Kubernetes specs for Edera-managed pods.
• securityContext.allowPrivilegeEscalation is now properly supported in Kubernetes specs for Edera-managed pods. Note that use of this flag is strongly discouraged in favor of securityContext.capabilities.drop: "[ALL]".

New protect-ctl features

• The host status command now reports hypervisor memory.
• The workload launch command now supports directly mounting raw host block devices into workloads via the new --block-device flag. This is recommended for workloads that require high levels of disk performance, such as databases. The --block-device flag accepts 3 colon-separated arguments for source device, target mount path, and read-only status:

protect-ctl workload launch -z my-zone -n my-workload alpine:latest --block-device "src=/dev/rawblock01:dst=/mnt/workload-blockdev01:ro=false"

Falco integration

• Edera Falco Plugin: Support Falco version 0.43.0
• Edera Falco Plugin: Upgraded libscap with TOCTOU-resistant eBPF hooking.

Miscellaneous

• All published binary versions now report the build SHA (for example, 1.5.1+sha.419a92)
• Kernel debugfs/tracefs are now available inside of Edera zones (at /sys/kernel/debug and /sys/kernel/debug/tracing respectively).

Bug Fixes

Kubernetes integration

• Fixed issue where mishandled CNI DEL could cause slow IPAM leak with some CNI providers.
• OOMKilled status is now correctly reported for Edera-managed K8S pods.
• Fixed an issue where pod hostnames were not properly mapped inside pods and containers.
• Fixed an issue where loopback routes inside pods might not be correctly configured.
• Fixed an issue where file-based locking relying on select Linux VFS features might fail inside Edera-managed K8S pods.
• Fixed an issue where Edera-managed K8S pods did not report Exited and Completed states correctly in all scenarios.

Core

• Fixed various issues around OCI image fetching from some registries.

Installer

• Installer now checks for the presence of the nft binary.

Known issues

• Zone kernel 6.16 or newer is required for Falco event streaming, this will be remedied in a subsequent release.
• PVH support is still experimental:
  • The static resource policy is nonfunctional for PVH zones.
  • K8S manifest resource allocation is nonfunctional under PVH

Upgrade notes

There are no known breaking changes in this release from the previous release v1.5.1.

Last updated on 2026-03-10.