March 02, 2025
Warewulf v4.6.0 released
The Warewulf project is pleased to announce the release of Warewulf v4.6.0, the next major version of Warewulf v4, now available on GitHub.
Warewulf v4.6.0 is a significant upgrade, with many changes relative to the v4.5.x series:
- new configuration upgrade system
- changes to the default profile
- renaming containers to (node) images
- new kernel management system
- parallel overlay builds
- sprig functions in overlay templates
- improved network overlays
- nested profiles
- arbitrary “resources” data in nodes.conf
- NFS client configuration in nodes.conf
- emphatically optional syncuser
- improved network boot observability
- movements towards Debian/Ubuntu support
Particularly significant changes, especially those affecting the user interface, are described in the release notes. Additional changes not impacting the user interface are listed in the CHANGELOG.
Many thanks to the contributors for this release:
- Adam Michel
- Arian
- Benedikt Braunger
- Beni
- Brandon Biggs
- Brian Clemens (CIQ)
- Christian Goll (Suse)
- Daniele Colombo
- David McFarlane
- Dietmar Rieder
- Elmar Pruesse
- John "griznog" Hanks
- Howard Van Der Wal (CIQ)
- Ian Kaufman
- Josh Burks (ASU)
- Jonathon Anderson (CIQ)
- Nicholas Porter
- Shane Nehring (Iowa State University)
- Stephen Simpson (CIQ)
- Timothy Middelkoop (internet2)
- Tobias Poschwatta
- Tobias Ribizel
- "Jason" Xu Yang (CIQ)
- Yong Qin (Nividia)
To our contributors, and everyone who uses Warewulf: thank you, as always, for being a part of the Warewulf community!