RHBA-2021:3632 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.8.13 is now available with
updates to packages and images that fix several bugs.

Description

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat's cloud computing
Kubernetes application platform solution designed for on-premise or private
cloud deployments.

This advisory contains the container images for Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform 4.8.13. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this
release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3631

Space precludes documenting all of the container images in this advisory.
See the following Release Notes documentation, which will be updated
shortly for this release, for details about these changes:

https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.8/release_notes/ocp-4-8-release-notes.html

You may download the oc tool and use it to inspect release image metadata
as follows:

(For x86_64 architecture)

$ oc adm release info
quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release:4.8.13-x86_64

The image digest is sha256:5d396ad7d5f3cb527580c735e87dfd3b853bbb531e7f03e3a184d0accc223cdf

(For s390x architecture)

$ oc adm release info
quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release:4.8.13-s390x

The image digest is sha256:d1a23c9c4b8e9df102338f77277608e14a6416eb68a553a3a1fd47713534a527

(For ppc64le architecture)

$ oc adm release info
quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release:4.8.13-ppc64le

The image digest is sha256:ca0636a139684ef02e8ec9510cae2b6b39a87a80122143c7f5dd1b1d6e70975e

All OpenShift Container Platform 4.8 users are advised to upgrade to these
updated packages and images when they are available in the appropriate
release channel. To check for available updates, use the OpenShift Console
or the CLI oc command. Instructions for upgrading a cluster are available
at
https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.8/updating/updating-cluster-between-minor.html#understanding-upgrade-channels_updating-cluster-between-minor

Solution

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.8 see the following documentation, which
will be updated shortly for this release, for important instructions on how
to upgrade your cluster and fully apply this asynchronous errata update:

https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.8/release_notes/ocp-4-8-release-notes.html

Details on how to access this content are available at
https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.8/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.8 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.8 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.8 for RHEL 8 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 1973873 - The ciphers in theTLS profiles for the kubelet, the `oc explain` output don't match the kubelet.conf file
• BZ - 1976110 - [4.8.z backport] [OCP 4.7] "configure-ovs.sh" leaves static ip in old interface
• BZ - 1988145 - mdns-publisher pods are crashing and restarting often.
• BZ - 1994457 - Bump to latest available 1.21.4 k8s
• BZ - 1995714 - 4.8 ManagementCPUsOverride admission plugin blocks 4.7 deployments on empty topology
• BZ - 1996729 - [backport-4.8] Creating a network policy in OVN-Kubernetes can be very inefficient.
• BZ - 1999585 - aws-serial jobs are failing with false-positive MachineWithNoRunningPhase firing or pending
• BZ - 1999638 - Getting the alert "V4SubnetAllocationThresholdExceeded" in newly installed cluster, Where subnet allocation is not more then 80%
• BZ - 2000214 - HBO: Every node update triggers "lsp-add" for HBO ports unnecessarily
• BZ - 2000445 - SNO deployment on HPE e910 blades fails because the node always boots from virtualmedia
• BZ - 2000500 - The SystemMemoryExceedsReserved alert released in 4.6 seems to trigger on many clusters under load (default increase if possible?)
• BZ - 2000837 - upgrade rbac rules to use v1 APIS for LSO
• BZ - 2002290 - [4.8] kube-proxy's userspace implementation consumes excessive CPU
• BZ - 2002552 - local kubeconfig "lb-int.kubeconfig" should be present on all masters and work
• BZ - 2002554 - Cluster becomes degraded if it can't talk to Manila
• BZ - 2003632 - authentication operator degraded during 4.7.16 update
• BZ - 2003639 - Console pods are scheduled on single master node
• BZ - 2004028 - Imageregistry bumps out N+1 pods when set replicas to N(N>2) and Y(=workers number) pods are scheduled to different workers, the left pods will keep pending
• BZ - 2004193 - oc is crashing while mirroring registry
• BZ - 2004269 - [4.8z] external gateway pod deletes may not clean up ECMP routes
• BZ - 2005486 - NetworkPolicy: allow from hostnetwork policy and allow from router (policy-group.network.openshift.io/ingress: "") does not work for network plugin openshiftSDN
• BZ - 2005917 - Backport: Upgradeable=False conditions to 4.8 /settings/cluster page

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)