Release v0.7.0

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Release Checklist

• All OWNERS must LGTM the release proposal
• Verify that the changelog in this issue is up-to-date
• For major releases (v0.$MAJ.0), an OWNER creates a release branch with
  git branch release-0.$MAJ master
• Prepare release-0.$MAJ release branch
  • An OWNER creates a release branch from master and pushes the release it with
    git push release-0.$MAJ
  • Run scripts/prepare-release.sh $VERSION to turn references to point to the upcoming release
    (README, deployment templates, docs configuration, test/e2e flags), submit a PR agains the release branch
  • An OWNER runs
    git tag -s $VERSION
    and inserts the changelog into the tag description.
    discovery/0.$MAJ/
• An OWNER pushes the tag with
  git push $VERSION
  • Triggers prow to build and publish a staging container image
    gcr.io/k8s-staging-nfd/node-feature-discovery:$VERSION
  • Triggers build of the documentation and publish it at
    https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/node-feature
• Submit a PR against k8s.io, updating k8s.gcr.io/images/k8s-staging-nfd/images.yaml to promote the container image to production
• Wait for the PR to be merged and verify that the image (k8s.gcr.io/nfd/node-feature-discovery:$VERSION) is available.
• Write the change log into the Github release info.
• Add a link to the tagged release in this issue.
• Send an announcement email to kubernetes-dev@googlegroups.com with the subject [ANNOUNCE] node-feature-discovery $VERSION is released
• Add a link to the release announcement in this issue
• Close this issue

Changelog

With this release the NFD container image registry was changed from quay.io to k8s.gcr.io which is managed by the Kubernetes community. New images will be available under k8s.gcr.io/nfd registry.

Documentation is was converted from one monolithic README into HTML served by GitHub pages at:
https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/node-feature-discovery

Major Changes

• Add kconfig and cpuid rules to the custom feature source (custom: Add rules for kconfig and cpuid #334)
• Support for ARM/Aarch32 cpuid (cpu: Add support for ARM/Aarch32 cpuid #322)
• Add --prune flag to nfd-master (nfd-master: implement --prune flag #326)
• Update cpuid, support for Intel Sapphire Rapids (go.mod: update klauspost/cpuid #406)

Misc

• Shortcut to enable all feature sources with --sources=all (nfd-worker: add special handling for --sources=all #356)
• Fix bug in kernel version number sanitization (kernel: more agressively sanitize full kernel version #402)
• Fix sporadic worker restarts (nfd-master: patch node object instead of rewriting it #336)
• Deployment templates create and mount a nfd-worker.conf ConfigMap (Add nfd-worker-conf ConfigMap to deployment templates #386)
• Container image and deployment hardening (Container image hardening #325, Make all mounts in deployment templates read-only #395)
• Change default namespace in the deployment specs to node-feature-discovery (Makefile: set default deployment ns to node-feature-discovery #365)
• Use Kubernetes v1.19 and Golang v1.15
• Make build customization through Makefile variables more coherent (Fix Makefile to take vaules from ENV VAR values #351, Fix up Makefile variable initialization and documentation #355, be a bit more verbose on a required KUBECONFIG env var #404)
• Documentation moved to https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/node-feature-discovery
• Container image hosting moved to k8s.gcr.io
• CI moved from TravisCI to Kubernetes test-infra

[ArangoGutierrez]

/area release
/kind documentation

[k8s-ci-robot]

@ArangoGutierrez: The label(s) area/release cannot be applied, because the repository doesn't have them

In response to this:

/area release
/kind documentation

Instructions for interacting with me using PR comments are available here. If you have questions or suggestions related to my behavior, please file an issue against the kubernetes/test-infra repository.

[ArangoGutierrez]

One open PR left to start working on this!!! :)

[jjacobelli]

I think we are good for this release 👍

[zvonkok]

Yes we are good +1

[ArangoGutierrez]

/lgtm

[ArangoGutierrez]

kubernetes/k8s.io#1464

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GitHub release page:
https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/node-feature-discovery/releases/tag/v0.7.0

Release announcement:
https://groups.google.com/g/kubernetes-dev/c/9NTlJFtvByo

[marquiz]

We're done here 🙌