v0.3.0

Changes by Kind

Deprecation

• The shell-based gcbmgr tool is now deprecated (#1219, @saschagrunert) [SIG Release]

API Change

• Removed git.DescribeTag and git.GetTag in favor of the new method git.Describe().
  This method takes the new type git.DescribeOptions to ensure enough flexibility for the future. (#1220, @saschagrunert) [SIG Release]
• The functions GetRepoURL, GetKubernetesRepoURL, and GetDefaultKubernetesRepoURL
  of the git package are not able to error any more and return only the resulting string. (#1213, @saschagrunert) [SIG Release]

Feature

• Add LsRemote() method to git package repository (#1252, @saschagrunert) [SIG Release]
• Add file location to debug log output of kubepkg (#1262, @saschagrunert) [SIG Release]
• Add release notes inline template support (via go-template:inline:<string>) to document.RenderMarkdownTemplate() (#1266, @saschagrunert) [SIG Release]
• Added testgrid package to retrieve the blocking testgrid tests (#1226, @saschagrunert) [SIG Release]
• Added support for kind/regression on release notes generation (#1232, @saschagrunert) [SIG Release]
• Adds "patch-to-latest" discover mode. (#1245, @msau42) [SIG Release]
• Kube-cross: Build v1.14.2-3 and v1.13.9-4 images
  • Dependency updates:
    • PROTOBUF_VERSION to 3.11.4
    • ETCD_VERSION to v3.4.7
    • SKOPEO_VERSION to v0.2.0 (#1264, @justaugustus)
• Kube-cross: Support building against multiple Go versions in parallel (#1258, @justaugustus) [SIG Release]
• Kube-cross: Update to go1.14.2 (#1246, @justaugustus)
• Update k8s-cloud-builder to use kube-cross:v1.13.9-2 (#1209, @justaugustus) [SIG Release]
• [VDF] anago: Publish container images on K8s Infra (k8s-staging-kubernetes) (#1199, @justaugustus) [SIG Release]
• krel gcbmgr now validates that the latest remote commit of the release repository
  is available in the local repository checkout. To ensure that a new git API
  method Branch() has been added as well. (#1254, @saschagrunert) [SIG Release]
• krel gcbmgr now validates the state of the currently checked out release repository (branch and remote) (#1221, @saschagrunert) [SIG Release]

Bug or Regression

• Fixed missing release_version field in generated krel release-notes JSON output (#1217, @saschagrunert) [SIG Release]
• Fixed very slow performance of repo.Add() method within the git package (#1215, @saschagrunert) [SIG Release]
• Gcbmgr: default to 5 last jobs when a negative number is set (#1235, @cpanato) [SIG Release]
• Images: add skopeo binary for the 1.15 releases (#1242, @cpanato) [SIG Release]
• Systemd would now start the kubelet service after the network-online.target is reached. (#1249, @rosti) [SIG Node and Release]
• Testgridshot: removed canned_acl option when uploading to K8s Infra (#1210, @cpanato) [SIG Release]

Other (Cleanup or Flake)

• Dependencies/cobra: update cobra to v0.0.7 (#1237, @cpanato) [SIG Release]
• Dependencies/google.golang.org/api: update google.golang.org/api to v0.21.0 (#1238, @cpanato) [SIG Release]
• Dependencies/testgrid: update to use release v0.0.10 (#1240, @cpanato) [SIG Release]
• Lib/release: Use regex to prevent ACL changes on K8s Infra GCS buckets (#1223, @justaugustus) [SIG Release]
• Modify the krel release-notes subcommand to always create clean checkouts of k/sig-release and k-sigs/release-notes instead of re-using existing clones. Removed --kubernetes-sigs-fork-path and --sigrelease-fork-path flags. (#1126, @JamesLaverack) [SIG Release]
• [VDF] Partial revert of k8s.gcr.io cutover (#1229, @justaugustus) [SIG Release]
• krel gcbmgr does not require the yq dependency any more
• Added gcp package which contains a PreCheck function to validate the system requirements (#1251, @saschagrunert) [SIG Release]