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for IA and CI/CD works.","comments":1,"category":"Ideas","created_at":"2026-09-28T19:55:52Z"},{"number":2305,"title":"Virtualization.framework VM execution ownership and crash reclamation on Intel macOS Monterey","comments":1,"category":"Q&A","created_at":"2026-09-27T20:57:43Z"},{"number":2297,"title":"Problema con Davit e Apple container 1.3.1 e 1.4.1","comments":0,"category":"General","created_at":"2026-09-22T17:44:03Z"}],"latest_release":{"name":"1.7.1","tag":"1.7.1","published_at":"2026-11-06T23:56:02Z","body":"## Highlights\r\n\r\n⌨️ denotes breaking CLI changes.\r\n\r\n👩‍💻 denotes breaking API changes.\r\n\r\n- Core\r\n  - [`container stats` now reports `cpuUtilization` in JSON, YAML, and TOML output](https://github.com/apple/container/pull/2146)\r\n  - [Image snapshots and container filesystems are now excluded from Time Machine backups](https://github.com/apple/container/pull/2412)\r\n  - [Default Kata kernel is now 4.3.1 (`vmlinux-6.18.56-208-debug`)](https://github.com/apple/container/pull/2447)\r\n  - [Updated Containerization to 0.54.0](https://github.com/apple/container/pull/2443)\r\n- Networking\r\n  - [Default DNS nameservers, search domains, and options can now be set in `config.toml`](https://github.com/apple/container/pull/1614)\r\n- Build\r\n  - [Fixed `container build` failures with newer BuildKit](https://github.com/apple/container/pull/2428) and [missing build context for steps that need the full context](https://github.com/apple/container/pull/2414)\r\n- Kubernetes\r\n  - ⌨️ [New `--shared-image-store` option on `container cluster run` to use the `container` image store from cluster nodes; removed the `load-image` subcommand](https://github.com/apple/container/pull/2437)\r\n  - ⌨️ [`container cluster ls` now shows one row per cluster; use `--nodes` for the per-node view](https://github.com/apple/container/pull/2451)\r\n  - ⌨️ [Container lifecycle commands no longer operate on cluster nodes](https://github.com/apple/container/pull/2462)\r\n  - [Worker node CPU and memory can now be set with `--workers count=<n>,cpus=<n>,memory=<size>`](https://github.com/apple/container/pull/2448)\r\n\r\n## What's Changed\r\n* Send an :authority on the builder gRPC connection by @jglogan in https://github.com/apple/container/pull/2428\r\n* Adds `container cluster` example. by @jglogan in https://github.com/apple/container/pull/2433\r\n* Update container-builder-shim to 0.13.3. by @jglogan in https://github.com/apple/container/pull/2434\r\n* use macos 27 runners by @madrob in https://github.com/apple/container/pull/2436\r\n* Fix empty followpaths handling in BuildFSSync by @onlyarnav in https://github.com/apple/container/pull/2414\r\n* Document container clean in the reclaim disk space guide by @lucasbrito-wdt in https://github.com/apple/container/pull/2413\r\n* Bump to use containerization 0.54.0 by @adityaramani in https://github.com/apple/container/pull/2443\r\n* feat(stats): report cpuUtilization in the machine-readable formats by @guanchzhou in https://github.com/apple/container/pull/2146\r\n* [k8s plugin] Create a cluster bootstrapper by @katiewasnothere in https://github.com/apple/container/pull/2416\r\n* Update recommended kernel to kata 4.3.1 release vmlinux-6.18.56-208-debug by @katiewasnothere in https://github.com/apple/container/pull/2447\r\n* Add TOML configuration for default DNS nameservers, search, options by @0xMH in https://github.com/apple/container/pull/1614\r\n* Add the ability to share container's image store with container cluster by @crosbymichael in https://github.com/apple/container/pull/2437\r\n* Reduce install package size and install footprint. by @jglogan in https://github.com/apple/container/pull/2458\r\n* Add reference to apple/container-examples and remove examples/ out of this repo by @michaelzhang114 in https://github.com/apple/container/pull/2457\r\n* Create container-core-clusters XPC service by @adityaramani in https://github.com/apple/container/pull/2451\r\n* Exclude recreatable container data from Time Machine by @abdullahtas0 in https://github.com/apple/container/pull/2412\r\n* Clean the `cluster-shim` build files with `make clean` by @dkovba in https://github.com/apple/container/pull/2463\r\n* Quiet the `cluster-shim` build output and show the swift progress in place by @dkovba in https://github.com/apple/container/pull/2461\r\n* Do not allow high level container lifecycle commands to operate on cluster nodes by @katiewasnothere in https://github.com/apple/container/pull/2462\r\n* Switch to copy blobs by @crosbymichael in https://github.com/apple/container/pull/2470\r\n* Ad"},"readme":true,"readme_zh":false,"news":[],"stale":false,"snapshot_at":"2026-11-10T09:35:25Z","history_start":"2026-09-06"}