Harvester

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{
  "source": "harvester.releases",
  "vendor": "Rancher",
  "id": "tag:github.com,2008:Repository/279592699/v1.9.0-rc6",
  "published_at": "2026-08-19T16:23:52.000Z",
  "title": "v1.9.0-rc6",
  "url": "https://github.com/harvester/harvester/releases/tag/v1.9.0-rc6",
  "summary": "⚠️ WARNING ⚠️ : This is a pre-release, do not upgrade to it from any versions. We don't support upgrading from this version to a later version either. Downloads AMD64 Full ISO 💿 https://releases.rancher.com/harvester/v1.9.0-rc6/harvester-v1.9.0-rc6-amd64.iso 📁 https://releases.rancher.com/harvester/v1.9.0-rc6/harvester-v1.9.0-rc6-vmlinuz-amd64 📁 https://releases.rancher.com/harvester/v1.9.0-rc6/harvester-v1.9.0-rc6-initrd-amd64 📁 https://releases.rancher.com/harvester/v1.9.0-rc6/harvester-v1.9.0-rc6-rootfs-amd64.squashfs ✅ https://releases.rancher.com/harvester/v1.9.0-rc6/harvester-v1.9.0-rc6-amd64.sha512 📝 https://releases.rancher.com/harvester/v1.9.0-rc6/version.yaml Net Install ISO 💿 https://releases.rancher.com/harvester/v1.9.0-rc6/harvester-v1.9.0-rc6-amd64-net-install.iso 📝 https://docs.harvesterhci.io/v1.9/install/net-install/ ARM64 💿 https://releases.rancher.com/harvester/v1.9.0-rc6/harvester-v1.9.0-rc6-arm64.iso 📁 https://releases.rancher.com/harvester/v1.9.0-rc6/harvester-v1.9.0-rc6-vmlinuz-arm64 📁 https://releases.rancher.com/harvester/v1.9.0-rc6/harvester-v1.9.0-rc6-initrd-arm64 📁 https://releases.rancher.com/harvester/v1.9.0-rc6/harvester-v1.9.0-rc6-rootfs-arm64.squashfs ✅ https://releases.rancher.com/harvester/v1.9.0-rc6/harvester-v1.9.0-rc6-arm64.sha512 📝 https://releases.rancher.com/harvester/v1.9.0-rc6/version-arm64.yaml Issues Ready for Testing [BUG] Live migration using the non-existing metrics - #11390 [FEATURE] add harvester-kernel-module-devel image - #11263 [ENHANCEMENT] Completely Prevent Remote VM Backup for LH v2 Volumes - #11151 [FEATURE] Windows VM defaults: virtio-scsi bus, cloud-init enabled, Hyper-V enlightenments - #11124 [BUG] LH V2 Volume Cannot Be Attached When the Storage Network Is Enabled - #11123 [BUG] V2 Disk Provisioning Fails Due to Conflicting IOMMU Group - #11041 [BUG] Kubelet enters NotReady state after RKE2 upgrade due to failed node registration - #11011 [TASK] [BUG] Dual-Stack IPv4-First Support for harvester (core) - #10879 [TASK] [BUG] Dual-Stack IPv4-First Support for harvester-installer - #10795 [BUG] Upgrade V2 might stuck with waiting for the VM migration with pre-draining stage - #10714 [ENHANCEMENT] GUI Does Not Apply Node Expansion Secret for Encrypted StorageClass - #10635 [BUG] seeder based provisioning fails in lab due to multiple dhcp servers - #10258 [ENHANCEMENT] Extend VlanConfig protection to cover RWX network NAD - #10235 [TASK] Release new harvester-cloud-provider version v0.2.12 - #10068 [ENHANCEMENT] Support provisioning of guest clusters on Harvester VMs attached to overlay networks - #9682 [FEATURE] block registration of new nodes while upgrade is in progress - #7601 [ENHANCEMENT] Support Local externalTrafficPolicy for workloads in guest clusters - #6944 [ENHANCEMENT] Allow user to customize snapshot/backup deadline - #4098 Testing [FEATURE] fine tune node promotion logic - #11074 [FEATURE][FORKLIFT] API to fetch VM list from vsphere - #10606 [FEATURE] UX/UI for new VM Import/migration tool - #10417 [BUG] Harvester Cloud Provider cannot run with SELinux enforcing on guest cluster - #10225 [ENHANCEMENT] Bump monitoring, logging addon charts and check the used images - #10210 [FEATURE] Support cloud config from secrets for harvester-cloud-provider - #9503 [FEATURE] Hugepage support for Longhorn V2 - #9390 [FEATURE] Implement a unified backup and restore interface framework - #9135 [FEATURE] Baremetal container workload support GA - #5820 [FEATURE] Support vGPU's with container workloads - #5321 [FEATURE] Harvester install in maintenance mode - #4424 Closed [TASK] move vagrant-install ci from ipxe-example to harvester-dev - #11367 [BUG] pcidevices are not created with harvester v1.9.0-rc4 - #11360 [BUG] Terraform provider v1.8.1 does not wait for VM DHCP lease - #11357 [BUG] TLS certificate flapping while bumping embedded Rancher to v2.15.0 - #11338 [BUG] node join failure once we bump Rancher v2.15.0 - #11336 [BUG] VMs, Images, not visible in rancher UI - #11289 [TASK] add a default traefik helmchart config - #11285 [DOC] Add details about mgmt network displaying the interface properties - #11275 [DOC] Document per-node VM/VMI volume limit for Harvester CSI Driver - #11259 [BUG] Can't add static-ip.harvesterhci.io annotation to VM via UI form - #11252 [DOC] Compare Planned VM Shutdown and Live Migration during a Harvester upgrade - #11248 [BUG] mcc-harvester chart is modified (longhorn-recovery-backend NetworkPolicy) - #11214 [BUG] Creating a VM with no cloud init user data but network data only fails - #11213 [REFACTOR][UI] Extract access mode string to static variables - #11212 [BUG] Upgrade stuck on configmap \"chart-content-rke2-traefik-crd\" not found - #11206 [BUG][UI] Valid VM name after an invalid try still regarded as invalid but the VM is actually created - #11174 [GUI] [BUG] 1.8.1 - vGPU partition types not found, enabling not possible - #11169 [DOC] Document VM image upload timeout behavior with third-party storage - #11168 [FEATURE] Grey out upgrade button in UI - #11159 [BUG] spec.template.spec.domain.devices.disks is invalid in some cases; item is specified for two types - #11154 restoring a VM backup to a different cluster is not working as described or intended - #11145 [BUG] 1.8.1 - vGPU partition types not found, enabling not possible - #11133 [BUG] /v1/harvester/kubeconfig rejects external Rancher global admins - #11129 [BUG] Upgrade stuck in node Waiting Reboot after complete first node upgrade when upgrade from v1.8.1 to v1.9.0-dev-20260705 - #11096 [BUG] harvester-webhook SA token expiration with RKE2 CIS profile enabled. - #11084 [DOC] Update Harvester kubeovn networking docs to include UI configuration details - #11071 [BUG] Duplicated app: whereabouts label in whereabouts.labels helm template - #11008 [TASK] Bump K8s Descheduler to v0.36.0 - #10952 [BUG][UI] Harvester UI doesn't honor selected namespace when first entering the pages - #10942 [BUG] Cloud Configuration Template cloud-init field should not be editable when not editing - #10941 [BUG] upgrade_manifest.sh is not reentrant (disable_kubevirt_workload_live_migration) - #10938 [BUG] Upgrade stuck at upgrading system services when waiting for longhorn-managers - #10937 [TASK] Update Longhorn CSI Sidecars Version In Harvester CSI Driver - #10897 [BUG] Harvester api http server framework has below warning when app writes return directly - #10878 [TASK] Create new release for docker-machine-driver - #10875 [TASK] Deprecate dapper in harvester/addons - #10871 [ENHANCEMENT] Enhance cloudconfig generate api endpoint - #10870 [ENHANCEMENT][UI] Clear selected VM after bulk actions - #10869 [BUG] Encrypted V2 volume size is 16MB short of the claimed size - #10814 [BUG] hostnetworkconfig does not work with vlan 1 DHCP mode - #10802 [BUG] ifname= kernel args don't always work to rename network interfaces - #10783 [TASK] Bump Harvester CSI Driver v0.1.30 to Rancher/RKE2 - #10780 [BUG] Upgrade V2: missing /lib bind mount for aarch64 in upgrade_node.sh - #10765 [BUG] Upgrading from v1.8.0 to master is stuck on waiting upgrading Fleet - #10720 [GUI] [FEATURE] Show mgmt NICs in the UI, MTU and Interfaces - #10718 [ENHANCEMENT] Detect paused fleet-local/local CAPI cluster before upgrade - #10713 [BUG] V2 volume I/O can get stuck on ARM64 when SPDK uses 2+ CPU cores and node disks use the NVMe driver - #10710 [BUG] 502 Bad Gateway Error During Node Join is Misleading and it Should Indicate Token Mismatch - #10685 [BUG] NDM always uses BDF paths when adding LHv2 nvme and virto disks, regardless of DiskDriver setting - #10666 [BUG] VM migration causes MAC address to move between hosts more than once - #10653 [TASK] Deprecate dapper in harvester/rancherd - #10631 [TASK] Deprecate dapper in harvester/docker-machine-driver-harvester - #10630 [TASK] Deprecate dapper in harvester/cloud-provider-harvester - #10629 [TASK] Deprecate dapper in harvester/go-common - #10628 [TASK] Deprecate dapper in harvester/harvester-csi-driver - #10627 [TASK] Deprecate dapper in harvester/forklift-packaging - #10625 [TASK] Deprecate dapper in harvester/storage-validator - #10624 [TASK] Deprecate dapper in harvester/terraform-provider-harvester - #10623 [TASK] Deprecate dapper in harvester/csi-driver-lvm - #10622 [TASK] Deprecate dapper in harvester/seeder - #10621 [TASK] Deprecate dapper in harvester/vm-dhcp-controller - #10620 [TASK] Deprecate dapper in harvester/vm-import-controller - #10619 [TASK] Deprecate dapper in harvester/eventrouter - #10618 [TASK] Deprecate dapper in harvester/pcidevices - #10617 [TASK] Deprecate dapper in harvester/harvester-load-balancer - #10616 [TASK] Deprecate dapper in harvester/networkfs-manager - #10615 [TASK] Deprecate dapper in harvester/node-disk-manager - #10608 [TASK] Deprecate dapper in harvester/node-manager - #10604 [DOC] Documentation referring to Longhorn V2 volume expansion may be incorrect - #10597 [BUG] install.wipe_disks_list should not error out if the disk doesn't exist - #10591 [ENHANCEMENT][UI] Allow user to add empty volume when creating a VM - #10584 [GUI] [ENHANCEMENT] Ensure or Support to configure the exclusive VID for storage-network - #10581 [BUG][UI] cmd(alt) button is not work when restart / softreboot VM - #10575 [BUG][UI] PersistentVolumeClaim is overridden by Volume in Rancher local cluster - #10574 [BUG][UI] Cannot setup project resource quota in Rancher 2.14.1 / 2.15.0 - #10556 [BUG] f29abc8 airgapped Harvester master build fails to render harvester dashboard - #10540 [BUG] Upgrade from v1.7.x to v1.8.0 stuck in Post-draining when storage-network is configured with RWX volumes - #10532 [BUG] Upgrade could fail without retrying when entering the node upgrade phase - #10529 [ENHANCEMENT] Relax LB webhook with more backward compatibility - #10527 [TASK] Deprecate dapper in harvester/network-controller-harvester - #10479 [TASK] Remove dapper in harvester/harvester - #10478 [FEATURE] bump kubeovn operator to support kubeovn 1.16.x - #10476 [TASK] Remove non-orgs users when creating backport issue - #10448 [GUI] [ENHANCEMENT] Intuitive way to recognize USB devices when using USB passthrough to transfer data to VMs - #10438 [ENHANCEMENT] Block parent vGPU device enable/disable actions - #10428 [FEATURE] Provide identity to running VMs via Kubernetes Service accounts - #10426 [ENHANCEMENT] Enable concurrent Live Migrations - #10425 [ENHANCEMENT] Allow changing the VM's name - #10423 [ENHANCEMENT] Prevent started VM after cloning or snapshotting - #10422 [DOC] Customer guidance on which Adv Networking features are GA - #10415 [BUG] Cloud provider functionality doesn't work on custom cluster created in Rancher - #10399 [BUG] vGPU VMs is not regarded as Non-Migratable when triggering upgrade. - #10388 [FEATURE] harvester-cloud-provider supports to mark network type - #10381 [ENHANCEMENT] Show driver location dialog when enabling nvidia-driver-toolkit addon - #10378 [BUG] Stop using rancher/kubectl image - #10374 [BUG] Template rendering fails on Grafana Dashboard JSON containing {{name}} - #10367 [GUI] [FEATURE] PSA support for harvester - #10350 [ENHANCEMENT] Support Storage Migration for VMs Restored from Snapshot or Backup - #10343 [GUI] [ENHANCEMENT] allow users to disable autoAttachPodInterface to a VM - #10328 [DOC] server_url while cluster installation - #10325 [DOC] https://harvesterhci.io/intro lists link for PXE/iPXE support but link target does not exist - #10324 [DOC] Edit links in https://harvesterhci.io have wrong target. - #10323 [BUG] UI shows incorrect info when deleting storage - #10310 [BUG] Insufficient harvester-csi-driver permissions for k3s guest cluster - #10298 [ENHANCEMENT] Add the new label for e2e request with PR - #10293 [BUG] Harvester 1.7.1 Upgrade (aarch64/arm64) post-drain-* Pods Fail - #10286 [TASK] Deprecate dapper in Harvester projects - #10281 [BUG] Mutating webhook rejects multi-socket VMs when CPU hotplug is disabled - #10265 [BUG] network-controller LOGLEVEL env does not work as expected - #10250 [ENHANCEMENT] Ensure the Kubevirt volume operation call works with v1.8.0 - #10243 [FEATURE] Enforce Rancher RBAC In The UI - #10241 [ENHANCEMENT] Add IP availability checks to upgrade preflight for storage/RWX networks - #10231 [BUG] A corner case on vm volumeClaimTemplates annotation protection and check - #10165 [FEATURE] Support directly routable VM IPs on the physical network vlan using KubeOVN - #10154 [TASK] Drop kubevirt.io/client-go/kubecli from import - #10111 [BUG] Failed image cannot be deleted due to finalizer lock when a successful upload exists - #10109 [BUG] resourceName() generates invalid Kubernetes resource names when PCI device description contains trailing spaces - #10108 [BUG] Host VM view does not show all states - #10092 [BUG] Containerd-registry setting in the terraform provider is always \"changed\" - #10081 [ENHANCEMENT] Switch from nginx ingress to traefik - #10067 [BUG] The v171 to v180 upgrade is blocked by CDI ISO image downloading - #10056 [TASK] Automate artifact dependency version management aligned with release maintenance - #10031 [BUG] pcidevice passthorugh is broken on VM with hot plugged volume - #10029 [GUI] [ENHANCEMENT] Apply CDI Settings To Non-Root Volumes - #10028 [ENHANCEMENT] Allow users to disable autoAttachPodInterface to a VM - #10021 [BUG] The permittedHostDevices.pciHostDevices has duplicated records - #10008 [BUG] Harvester csi volume fails to mount - #9998 [GUI] [FEATURE] Support filesystem disk for VM - #9896 [BUG] RancherD should retry on bootstrap failure - #9886 [FEATURE] add extraArgs for harvester-cloud-provider - #9852 [ENHANCEMENT] Make the harvester-cloud-provider container args configurable via helm chart - #9807 [TASK] Make experimental-addons version aligned with Harvester minor release - #9797 [DOC] Rancher-Manager Experimental Plugin - #9796 [BUG] Online Expansion fails for Encrypted Longhorn Volumes - #9775 [ENHANCEMENT] Enhance the resource-quota processing when overhead-ratio is adjusted - #9753 [GUI] [FEATURE] Guest cluster needs cpu model configuration setting - #9745 [FEATURE] Guest cluster needs cpu model configuration setting in Rancher - #9744 [FEATURE] Rancher Manager Addon Migration to k3k or Optional k3k base - #9818 [GUI] [FEATURE] Support for external connectivity and inbound access for VMs attached to subnets from custom VPCs using kubeovn as Secondary CNI - #9695 [GUI] [ENHANCEMENT] Add shareable field when we create the volume - #9650 [ENHANCEMENT] Add shareable field when we create the volume - #9649 [ENHANCEMENT] Ensure or Support to configure the exclusive VID for storage-network - #9622 [TASK] Use CODEOWNERS to efficient the review progress - #9607 [GUI] [ENHANCEMENT] Show RKE2 certificates status on dashboard - #9606 [ENHANCEMENT] Essential checks upon upgradeLog - #9573 [ENHANCEMENT] Should show status reason when vGPU MIG Configuration is out-of-sync - #9529 [BUG] Create an image which name length over the limitaion via YAML, the image still can be created - #9515 [FEATURE] Harvester resource page should support pagination - #9514 [BUG] harvester-cloud-provider pods on downstream rancher cluster restarting when any VM is created in the same harvester setup - #9502 [ENHANCEMENT] Provide a way to setup host mapping to /etc/hosts - #9496 [ENHANCEMENT] Enable Live Migration for VMs attached to Overlay Networks - #9463 [FEATURE] Support for external connectivity and inbound access for VMs attached to subnets from custom VPCs using kubeovn as Secondary CNI - #9455 [DOC] Add how to enable CSI Snapshot Support in the guest cluster - #9391 [FEATURE] Expose Disk Cache Mode - #9383 [ENHANCEMENT] Deprecate and eventually remove legacy BIOS support - #9382 [TASK] Move Endpoints to EndpointSlice - #9381 [BUG] Storage network optimizations - #9375 [ENHANCEMENT] Investigate why lhv2 csi-clone is much slower than copy mode - #9344 [BUG] storage network configuration failure on vlanconfig with empty matched nodes - #9332 [CI] Ensure the installation works with specific changes - #9227 [FEATURE] Support vTPM / EFI state cloning - #9182 [FEATURE] add validation for YAML in /oem directory - #9164 [BUG] cdi-importer pods don't appear to be using the system trust-store during download - #9055 [ENHANCEMENT] [GUI] Enhance Route-connectivity field Info of VM Network - #9028 [ENHANCEMENT] Should filter the disks that have been added in longhorn dashboard when configuring storage in harvester dashboard - #8990 [DOC] Need to clarify the user scenario of the Managed DHCP add-on due to the introduction of Kube-OVN - #8919 [DOC] Find a better home for \"Related CPU Pinning Concepts\" and \"Related Networking Concepts\" sections - #8860 [ENHANCEMENT] Static IP assignment broken using OverlayNetwork in 1.6.0-RC5 - #8844 [GUI] [BUG] Support Enable/Disable of NAT on custom subnets - #8700 [ENHANCEMENT] Enhance the harv-purge-images.sh script - #8667 [GUI] Possibility to assign IP addresses to the Hosts in the Virtual Machine Networks - #8651 [BUG] show generic error message when creating API key failed - #8553 [DOC] Improve image management doc following 3rd party storage introduction - #8479 [ENHANCEMENT] Set default value for LHv2 clone strategy to csi-clone in CDI annotations - #8451 [ENHANCEMENT] Intuitive way to recognize USB devices when using USB passthrough to transfer data to VMs - #8330 [TASK] Improve smoke test stability - #8266 [BUG] Admission webhook errors are not displayed in Edit as YAML - #8120 [TASK] Clarify the upgrade sequences involving a witness-node - #8061 [DOC] Steps To Provision Guest Clusters From Rancher Via Cattle API - #7900 [BUG] Admission webhook errors are displayed at top AND bottom of the YAML editor - #7617 [BUG] Node Scheduling tab of VMs does not work - #7583 [BUG] Unable to provision dual stack RKE2 cluster via rancher on harvester when cloud provider is enabled - #7275 [GUI] [ENHANCEMENT] Ability to support pcidevice passthrough of targeted individual devices - #7201 [BUG] Should remove value of deviceAllocationDetails annotation while removing hostDevices - #6957 [FEATURE] Ability to support pcidevice passthrough of targeted individual devices - #6724 [BUG] The images action menu does not show Edit YAML - #6536 [FEATURE] Terraform provider: PCI passthrough - #6423 [FEATURE] Show mgmt NICs in the UI, MTU and Interfaces - #6110 [GUI] [FEATURE] Statically bind the IP address for VMs during creation - #6087 [TASK] Integrate harvester-installer to harvester/harvester repo - #5859 [FEATURE] Allow particular ports access as default security policy - #5681 [FEATURE] Support load balancers on non-management interfaces for guest clusters - #5486 [ENHANCEMENT] Enable automatic local ISO installation for virtualized Harvester deployments - #5385 [BUG] PCI Device Controller Go Routine Leakage - #5179 [FEATURE] Statically bind the IP address for VMs during creation - #5052 [FEATURE] Unattend.xml support for Windows - #1836 Component Versions Component Version Longhorn v1.12.1 KubeVirt v1.8.4 CDI v1.65.0 Kube-OVN v1.16.2-dev.0 Embedded Rancher v2.15.0 RKE2 v1.36.3+rke2r1 SL Micro 6.2",
  "tags": [
    "Rancher",
    "harvester.releases",
    "hyperconverged",
    "kubernetes",
    "virtualization"
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}