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Container Service for Kubernetes:Release notes for containerd

Last Updated:Sep 11, 2024

containerd is an industry-standard container runtime that manages the entire lifecycle of containers on a host. containerd provides a simple and stable runtime for your containers. This topic describes the release notes for containerd.

Background information

For more information about a comparison between containerd and other runtimes, see Comparison of Docker, containerd, and Sandboxed-Container.

September 2024

Version

Release date

Description

Impact

1.6.34

2024-09-09

  • Go is updated to version 1.21.12.

  • runC is updated to version 1.1.13.

  • The drain_exec_sync_io_timeout parameter is added. For more information, see #9768.

No impact on workloads.

February 2024

Version

Release date

Description

Impact

1.6.28

2024-02-04

No impact on workloads.

January 2024

Version

Release date

Description

Impact

1.6.21

2024-01-31

  • runC is updated to version 1.1.7.

  • The CVE-2024-21626 vulnerability is patched.

No impact on workloads.

May 2023

Version

Release date

Description

Impact

1.6.20

2023-05-17

  • containerd is updated to the latest minor version of the first long-term stable (LTS) version. For more information, see Release Notes.

  • Go is updated to version 1.18.8.

  • The following vulnerabilities are patched:

  • Custom registries are supported. By default, you can specify registry hosts by creating a directory under cert.d.

  • runC is updated to version 1.1.5.

No impact on workloads.

September 2022

Version

Release date

Description

Impact

1.5.13

2022-09-08

  • The following vulnerabilities are patched:

  • The issue that file descriptors are leaked when you delete cgroups is fixed.

  • The MaxConcurrentDownloads parameter must be effective when you unpack a container.

  • A temp mount specified in a Dockerfile is set to ready-only in the container.

No impact on workloads.

March 2022

Version

Release date

Description

Impact

1.5.10

2022-03-22

  • The following CVE vulnerabilities are patched:

  • runC is updated to version 1.0.3. The issue that a node enters the NotReady state when a process ID (PID) is leaked and the runC pipe is blocked is fixed.

No impact on workloads.

August 2021

Version

Release date

Description

Impact

1.4.8

2021-08-03

  • The following issue is fixed: Sandbox creation times out due to system overloading, which further causes an IP leak.

  • The CVE-2021-32760 vulnerability is patched.

No impact on workloads.

June 2021

Version

Release date

Description

Impact

1.4.6

2021-06-03

The CVE-2021-30465 vulnerability is patched.

No impact on workloads.

March 2021

Version

Release date

Description

Impact

1.4.4

2021-03-16

containerd can be selected as the container runtime when you create a cluster.

Note

The containerd runtime is in public preview.

No impact on workloads.