RHEA-2024:11040 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

Red Hat build of MicroShift release 4.19.0 is now Generally Available and contains updates that fix bugs and add new features and enhancements.

Description

Red Hat build of MicroShift is Red Hat's light-weight Kubernetes orchestration solution designed for edge device deployments and is built from the edge capabilities of Red Hat OpenShift. MicroShift is an application that is deployed on top of Red Hat Enterprise Linux devices at the edge, providing an efficient way to operate single-node clusters in these low-resource environments.

This advisory contains the RPM packages for Red Hat build of MicroShift 4.19.0. Read the following advisory for the container images for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2024:11038

Read the following release notes documentation for details about this release:

https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_build_of_microshift/4.19/html/red_hat_build_of_microshift_release_notes/microshift-4-19-release-notes

All Red Hat build of MicroShift 4.19 users are advised to use these updated packages and images when they are available in the RPM repository.

Solution

For MicroShift 4.19, read the following documentation, which will be updated shortly for this release, for important instructions on how to install the latest RPMs and fully apply this asynchronous errata update:

https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_build_of_microshift/4.19/html/red_hat_build_of_microshift_release_notes/microshift-4-19-release-notes

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.19 for RHEL 9 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.19 for RHEL 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.19 for RHEL 9 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.19 for RHEL 9 aarch64

Fixes

• OCPBUGS-37938 - ImagePullBackOff error for pods in openshift-gitops namespace in a disconnected deployment
• OCPBUGS-45192 - one load balancer's ipv6 listening address(fd01:0:0:1::2) don't work as expected
• OCPBUGS-47462 - Raise the default greenboot timeout to minimize false unhealthy system reports
• OCPBUGS-38468 - MicroShift doesn't auto detect the MTU value at start up
• OCPBUGS-44695 - Cannot deploy MicroShift air-gapped unless I disable container image signature checks
• OCPBUGS-48110 - When creating Route object with cluster role "edit" - Error from server (Forbidden): routes.route.openshift.io is forbidden
• OCPBUGS-48163 - MicroShift creates .nodename file non-atomically and can end up being empty
• OCPBUGS-48735 - etcd required cipher suites when using TLS 1.2
• OCPBUGS-51366 - MicroShift defaults configuration to IPv6 in IPv4-first environment
• OCPBUGS-51329 - MicroShift LVMS image point to a distribution manifest
• OCPBUGS-51365 - Deploying a manifest with CRs needing webhook validation causes MicroShift to crash the first start
• OCPBUGS-52420 - MicroShift embedded container images should not be placed in /var
• OCPBUGS-54239 - MicroShift service fails if host doesn't have hostname installed
• OCPBUGS-55833 - Gateway API component installs HPA resources
• OCPBUGS-55984 - Include OTEL config examples in the MicroShift RPM
• OCPBUGS-56469 - Switch to OVS 3.5 package version in Microshift
• OCPBUGS-56518 - Telemetry metrics may not be sent after start
• OCPBUGS-56556 - Conflicting ports in RF tests
• OCPBUGS-56603 - MicroShift Observability: remove config duplication; use 'large' example as default

CVEs

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References

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