Report for 2019-05-01 to 2019-05-31

This report covers the development in the linuxkit/linuxkit linuxkit/lcow linuxkit/kubernetes linuxkit/virtsock linuxkit/rtf linuxkit/homebrew-linuxkit moby/tool repositories. There were 78 contributions (PRs/Issues/Comments) from 24 individual contributors. 15 new PRs were opened and 8 PRs were merged. 10 new issues were opened and 7 issues were closed.

Along with the usual updates to the kernel and WireGuard, this months has seen a bunch of changes to support the Raspberry Pi Model 3b+.

Merged PRs:

• Fix issue wherein multiple files named kernel in the tar break various mkimage utils (linuxkit/linuxkit#3341 @deitch @rn @ijc)
• Update kernels to 5.0.12/4.9.39/4.14.116/4.9.173 (linuxkit/linuxkit#3344 @rn @justincormack)
• Update kernels to 5.0.15/4.19.42/4.14.118/4.9.175 and add 5.1.1 kernel (linuxkit/linuxkit#3347 @rn @justincormack)
• April 2019 report and authors update (linuxkit/linuxkit#3348 @rn @ijc)
• kernel: Include lan78xx kernel module for use with rpi3b+ (linuxkit/linuxkit#3350 @schrotthaufen @rn)
• Update referenced Raspberry Pi firmware (linuxkit/linuxkit#3351 @riconnon @rn)
• Update to WireGuard 0.0.20190406 (linuxkit/linuxkit#3355 @rn @justincormack)
• Upte kernels to 5.1.5/5.0.19/4.19.46/4.14.122/4.9.179 (linuxkit/linuxkit#3358 @rn @justincormack)

Closed Issues:

• Linuxkit/Kubernetes & Raspberry Pi (linuxkit/kubernetes#90 @HurricanKai)

• bug in mkimage-raw-efi choking on kernel file and directory (linuxkit/linuxkit#3340 @gaahrdner @deitch)

• RPi3 image eth0 does not exist (linuxkit/linuxkit#3343 @dapopescu @rn)

• WireGuard kernel module does not compile on 5.1.x (linuxkit/linuxkit#3346 @rn @zx2c4)

• No hotplug detection of virtual disks on Openstack (linuxkit/linuxkit#3353 @helander)

• Different cmdline needed for baremetal and qemu (linuxkit/linuxkit#3354 @pwFoo @justincormack)

• Custom kernel compilation fails because of missing openssl/bio.h (linuxkit/linuxkit#3356 @dapopescu @rn)

New or updated PRs and Issues (not closed):

• File ULIMITs for Linux containers (linuxkit/lcow#34 @dwrightpulse @justincormack @jstarks @jhowardmsft)

• Latest dependency bump of OpenGCS, Alpine, kernel, runc doesn't work (linuxkit/lcow#47 @Iristyle @jhowardmsft)

• sudo: pam_open_session: Permission denied (linuxkit/lcow#48 @solvingj)

• Add support for Xen Hypervisors - XCP-ng / Xen Server (linuxkit/linuxkit#3312 @jmccoy555 @rn @deitch)

• Testing new Docker buildx got me Java error on build (linuxkit/linuxkit#3339 @carlosedp @rn @w9n)

• Fetch Qemu v4.0.0 from Fedora (linuxkit/linuxkit#3342 @carlosedp)

• rngd exits after being stopped and resumed (linuxkit/linuxkit#3345 @kmjohansen @justincormack)

• Update GCP metadata provider (linuxkit/linuxkit#3349 @ptone)

• Difficult to modify or extend the mkimage process (linuxkit/linuxkit#3352 @riconnon @deitch)

• Support for dynamic selection of Raspberry Pi DTB (linuxkit/linuxkit#3357 @riconnon)

• update -rt to 4.19.37-rt20 (linuxkit/linuxkit#3359 @TiejunChina @rn)

• Extract method that launch runc service (linuxkit/linuxkit#3360 @guillaumerose)

• Update to latest linuxkit/runc:c1f0db2 (linuxkit/linuxkit#3361 @jterry75 @rn)