v1.8.8

Release Notes

New Features & Enhancements

There are no new features or enhancements in this release. This is a point release in the 1.8 series. Refer to the v1.8.6 release notes for more information.

Bug Fixes

Kubernetes

• Fix an issue where processes launched via kubectl exec might not have the desired Linux capabilities applied.
• Fix an issue where asynchronously deleting containers on CreateContainer RPC failure might cause many failed workloads to pile up.

Miscellaneous

• Fix an issue where non-Kubernetes workload networking would not correctly report failure.
• Compress workload logs to improve scenarios where excessive workload logging might cause backpressure to the zone.
• Fix an excessively long wait timeout for block device unloop.

Upgrade notes

There are no known breaking changes in this release from the previous release v1.8.6.

Last updated on 2026-05-28