1. Release Notes for Release 1.8
  2. New Features and Notable Changes

3 New Features and Notable Changes

This chapter lists the new features and notable changes in each Oracle Cloud Native Environment release.

Release 1.8.4

This section lists the notable changes in Release 1.8.4 of Oracle Cloud Native Environment.

The following components have been updated:

  • Kubernetes: Kubernetes is updated to Release 1.28.15. For a list of the Kubernetes API Server changes since the last update in Oracle Cloud Native Environment, see the upstream Kubernetes Release Notes.

Release 1.8.2

This section lists the notable changes in Release 1.8.2 of Oracle Cloud Native Environment.

The following components have been updated:

  • Kubernetes: Kubernetes is updated to Release 1.28.8. For a list of the Kubernetes API Server changes since the last update in Oracle Cloud Native Environment, see the upstream Kubernetes Release Notes.

  • Istio: Istio is updated to Release 1.19.9.

  • Kata Containers: Kata Containers is updated to Release 3.2.0.

Release 1.8.0

This section lists the notable changes in Release 1.8.0 of Oracle Cloud Native Environment.

Updated Components

The following components have been updated:

  • Kubernetes: Kubernetes is updated to Release 1.28.3. For a list of the Kubernetes API Server changes since the last update in Oracle Cloud Native Environment, see the upstream Kubernetes Release Notes. This shows the changes in Release 1.28.3.

  • Kubernetes Dashboard: Kubernetes Dashboard is updated to Release 2.7.

  • CRI-O: CRI-O is updated to Release 1.28.2.

  • Flannel: Flannel is updated to Release 0.22.3.

  • Multus: Multus is updated to Release 4.0.2.

  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Cloud Controller Manager: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Cloud Controller Manager is updated to Release 1.27.0.

  • MetalLB: MetalLB is updated to Release 0.13.10.

  • Istio: Istio is updated to Release 1.19.5.

  • Rook: Rook is updated to Release 1.12.3.

  • KubeVirt: KubeVirt is updated to Release 0.59.0.

64-bit ARM Processors

Installations can now be performed on hardware with 64-bit ARM processors. Oracle Cloud Native Environment automatically detects the processor type during an installation and no extra installation steps are required. You can have mixed processor types in a Kubernetes cluster, so you can use 64-bit x86 and 64-bit ARM nodes in the same cluster.

Logs for Long Running Commands

A new set of commands is added to view logs for long running Platform CLI commands. Logs are created for some commands and saved in memory as an operation. An operation is an encapsulation of a long-running process on the Platform API Server.

You can view the logs for operations using the Platform CLI. You can list all existing operations, follow the logs of ongoing operations, and view the log of an ongoing or completed operation. The operation logs are identical to the logs displayed by the command as it's run, and includes error messages, and suggested user actions.

The new commands to view operations are:

  • olcnectl operation list

  • olcnectl operation logs

  • olcnectl operation follow

You can view operation logs, and set the logging level for the following commands:

  • olcnectl module backup

  • olcnectl module install

  • olcnectl module restore

  • olcnectl module uninstall

  • olcnectl module update

  • olcnectl module validate

For more information on using operation logs, see Platform Command-Line Interface.