[v1.13] Release preparation

.buildkite/common.py

@@ -16,9 +16,8 @@
 
 # fmt: off
 DEFAULT_INSTANCES = [
-    "c5n.metal",      # Intel Skylake
     "m5n.metal",      # Intel Cascade Lake
-    "m6i.metal",      # Intel Icelake
+    "m6i.metal",      # Intel Ice Lake
     "m7i.metal-24xl", # Intel Sapphire Rapids
     "m7i.metal-48xl", # Intel Sapphire Rapids
     "m6a.metal",      # AMD Milan

.buildkite/pipeline_cpu_template.py

@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ class BkStep(str, Enum):
         ],
         BkStep.LABEL: "📖 rdmsr",
         "instances": [
-            "c5n.metal",
             "m5n.metal",
             "m6i.metal",
             "m7i.metal-24xl",
@@ -63,12 +62,10 @@ class BkStep(str, Enum):
             BkStep.TIMEOUT: 30,
         },
         "cross_instances": {
-            "m5n.metal": ["c5n.metal", "m6i.metal"],
-            "c5n.metal": ["m5n.metal", "m6i.metal"],
-            "m6i.metal": ["m5n.metal", "c5n.metal"],
+            "m5n.metal": ["m6i.metal"],
+            "m6i.metal": ["m5n.metal"],
         },
         "instances": [
-            "c5n.metal",
             "m5n.metal",
             "m6i.metal",
             "m7i.metal-24xl",

.buildkite/pipeline_cross.py

@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@
     per_instance.pop("instances")
     per_instance.pop("platforms")
     instances_x86_64 = [
-        "c5n.metal",
         "m5n.metal",
         "m6i.metal",
         "m7i.metal-24xl",
@@ -49,9 +48,8 @@
     # allow-list of what instances can be restores on what other instances (in
     # addition to itself)
     supported = {
-        "c5n.metal": ["m5n.metal", "m6i.metal"],
-        "m5n.metal": ["c5n.metal", "m6i.metal"],
-        "m6i.metal": ["c5n.metal", "m5n.metal"],
+        "m5n.metal": ["m6i.metal"],
+        "m6i.metal": ["m5n.metal"],
     }
 
     # https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/blob/main/docs/kernel-policy.md#experimental-snapshot-compatibility-across-kernel-versions
@@ -82,7 +80,6 @@
             continue
 
         pytest_keyword_for_instance = {
-            "c5n.metal": "-k 'not None'",
             "m5n.metal": "-k 'not None'",
             "m6i.metal": "-k 'not None'",
             "m6a.metal": "",

.mailmap

@@ -33,3 +33,5 @@ Muskaan Singla <[email protected]> <[email protected].
 Egor Lazarchuk <[email protected]>
 Nikita Zakirov <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
 Tomoya Iwata <[email protected]>
+Andrea Manzini <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
+Colin Percival <[email protected]> <[email protected]>

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
 and this project adheres to
 [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
-## [Unreleased]
+## [1.13.0]
 
 ### Added
 
@@ -66,6 +66,11 @@ and this project adheres to
 
 ### Removed
 
+- [#5411](https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/pull/5411): Removed
+  official support for Intel Skylake instances. Firecracker will continue to
+  work on those instances, but we will no longer perform automated testing on
+  them.
+
 ### Fixed
 
 - [#5222](https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/pull/5222): Fixed

CREDITS.md

@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ Contributors to the Firecracker repository:
 - Aaron O'Mullan <[email protected]>
 - Abhijeet Kasurde <[email protected]>
 - acatangiu <[email protected]>
+- acsmyth <[email protected]>
 - Adam Jensen <[email protected]>
 - Adam Leskis <[email protected]>
 - Adrian Catangiu <[email protected]>
@@ -37,11 +38,12 @@ Contributors to the Firecracker repository:
 - Alexandru-Cezar Sardan <[email protected]>
 - Alin Dima <[email protected]>
 - Anatoli Babenia <[email protected]>
-- Andrea Manzini <ilmanzo@gmail.com>
+- Andrea Manzini <andrea.manzini@suse.com>
 - Andreea Florescu <[email protected]>
 - Andrei Casu-Pop <[email protected]>
 - Andrei Cipu <[email protected]>
 - Andrei Sandu <[email protected]>
+- Andrew Laucius <[email protected]>
 - Andrew Yao <[email protected]>
 - Andrii Radyk <[email protected]>
 - andros21 <[email protected]>
@@ -76,11 +78,12 @@ Contributors to the Firecracker repository:
 - Christopher Diehl <[email protected]>
 - Christos Katsakioris <[email protected]>
 - cneira <[email protected]>
-- Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>
+- Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>
 - Colton J. McCurdy <[email protected]>
 - Constantin Musca <[email protected]>
 - CuriousCorrelation <[email protected]>
 - czybjtu <[email protected]>
+- Dakshin Devanand <[email protected]>
 - Damien Stanton <[email protected]>
 - Dan Horobeanu <[email protected]>
 - Dan Lemmond <[email protected]>
@@ -98,12 +101,14 @@ Contributors to the Firecracker repository:
 - Eddie Cazares <[email protected]>
 - Eduard Kyvenko <[email protected]>
 - Egor Lazarchuk <[email protected]>
+- Emmanuel Ferdman <[email protected]>
 - EvanJP <[email protected]>
 - Felipe R. Monteiro <[email protected]>
 - Filippo Sironi <[email protected]>
 - Fraser Pringle <[email protected]>
 - Gabe Jackson <[email protected]>
 - Gabriel Ionescu <[email protected]>
+- Gabriel Kopper <[email protected]>
 - Garrett Squire <[email protected]>
 - George Pisaltu <[email protected]>
 - George Siton <[email protected]>
@@ -112,6 +117,7 @@ Contributors to the Firecracker repository:
 - Greg Dunn <[email protected]>
 - Gregory Brzeski <[email protected]>
 - Grzegorz Uriasz <[email protected]>
+- Gudmundur Bjarni Olafsson <[email protected]>
 - Gulshan Kumar <[email protected]>
 - Gábor Lipták <[email protected]>
 - hacker65536 <[email protected]>
@@ -120,6 +126,7 @@ Contributors to the Firecracker repository:
 - Hermes <[email protected]>
 - Himanshu Neema <[email protected]>
 - HQ01 <[email protected]>
+- huang-jl <[email protected]>
 - Iggy Jackson <[email protected]>
 - ihciah <[email protected]>
 - Ioana Chirca <[email protected]>
@@ -235,6 +242,7 @@ Contributors to the Firecracker repository:
 - Serban Iorga <[email protected]>
 - shakram02 <[email protected]>
 - Shen Jiale <[email protected]>
+- Sheng-Wei (Way) Chen <[email protected]>
 - Shion Yamashita <[email protected]>
 - singwm <[email protected]>
 - sladynnunes <[email protected]>

README.md

@@ -130,19 +130,18 @@ The **API endpoint** can be used to:
 
 We test all combinations of:
 
-| Instance       | Host OS & Kernel | Guest Rootfs | Guest Kernel |
-| :------------- | :--------------- | :----------- | :----------- |
-| c5n.metal      | al2 linux_5.10   | ubuntu 24.04 | linux_5.10   |
-| m5n.metal      | al2023 linux_6.1 |              | linux_6.1    |
-| m6i.metal      |                  |              |              |
-| m7i.metal-24xl |                  |              |              |
-| m7i.metal-48xl |                  |              |              |
-| m6a.metal      |                  |              |              |
-| m7a.metal-48xl |                  |              |              |
-| m6g.metal      |                  |              |              |
-| m7g.metal      |                  |              |              |
-| m8g.metal-24xl |                  |              |              |
-| m8g.metal-48xl |                  |              |              |
+| Instance                               | Host OS & Kernel | Guest Rootfs | Guest Kernel |
+| :------------------------------------- | :--------------- | :----------- | :----------- |
+| m5n.metal (Intel Cascade Lake)         | al2 linux_5.10   | ubuntu 24.04 | linux_5.10   |
+| m6i.metal (Intel Ice Lake)             | al2023 linux_6.1 |              | linux_6.1    |
+| m7i.metal-24xl (Intel Sapphire Rapids) |                  |              |              |
+| m7i.metal-48xl (Intel Sapphire Rapids) |                  |              |              |
+| m6a.metal (AMD Milan)                  |                  |              |              |
+| m7a.metal-48xl (AMD Genoa)             |                  |              |              |
+| m6g.metal (Graviton 2)                 |                  |              |              |
+| m7g.metal (Graviton 3)                 |                  |              |              |
+| m8g.metal-24xl (Graviton 4)            |                  |              |              |
+| m8g.metal-48xl (Graviton 4)            |                  |              |              |
 
 ## Known issues and Limitations
 

docs/RELEASE_POLICY.md

@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ v3.1 will be patched since were the last two Firecracker releases and less than
 
 | Release | Release Date | Latest Patch | Min. end of support | Official end of Support         |
 | ------: | -----------: | -----------: | ------------------: | :------------------------------ |
+|   v1.13 |   2025-08-28 |      v1.13.0 |          2026-02-28 | Supported                       |
 |   v1.12 |   2025-05-07 |      v1.12.1 |          2025-11-07 | Supported                       |
 |   v1.11 |   2025-03-18 |      v1.11.0 |          2025-09-18 | Supported                       |
 |   v1.10 |   2024-11-07 |      v1.10.1 |          2025-05-07 | 2025-05-07 (v1.12 released)     |

docs/snapshotting/snapshot-support.md

@@ -617,10 +617,11 @@ the compatibility table reported below:
 
 | .metal instance type | taken on host kernel | restored on host kernel |
 | -------------------- | -------------------- | ----------------------- |
-| {c5n,m5n,m6i,m6a}    | 5.10                 | 6.1                     |
+| {m5n,m6i,m6a}        | 5.10                 | 6.1                     |
 
-For example, a snapshot taken on a m6i.metal host running a 5.10 host kernel can
-be restored on a different m6i.metal host running a 6.1 host kernel (but not
-vice versa), but could not be restored on a c5n.metal host.
+For example, a snapshot taken on a m6i.metal host (Intel Ice Lake) running a
+5.10 host kernel can be restored on a different m6i.metal host running a 6.1
+host kernel (but not vice versa), but could not be restored on a m5n.metal host
+(Intel Cascade Lake).
 
 [man mincore]: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/mincore.2.html

src/cpu-template-helper/Cargo.toml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "cpu-template-helper"
-version = "1.13.0-dev"
+version = "1.13.0"
 authors = ["Amazon Firecracker team <[email protected]>"]
 edition = "2024"
 license = "Apache-2.0"

src/firecracker/Cargo.toml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "firecracker"
-version = "1.13.0-dev"
+version = "1.13.0"
 authors = ["Amazon Firecracker team <[email protected]>"]
 edition = "2024"
 build = "build.rs"

src/firecracker/swagger/firecracker.yaml

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ info:
     The API is accessible through HTTP calls on specific URLs
     carrying JSON modeled data.
     The transport medium is a Unix Domain Socket.
-  version: 1.13.0-dev
+  version: 1.13.0
   termsOfService: ""
   contact:
     email: "[email protected]"

src/jailer/Cargo.toml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "jailer"
-version = "1.13.0-dev"
+version = "1.13.0"
 authors = ["Amazon Firecracker team <[email protected]>"]
 edition = "2024"
 description = "Process for starting Firecracker in production scenarios; applies a cgroup/namespace isolation barrier and then drops privileges."

src/rebase-snap/Cargo.toml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "rebase-snap"
-version = "1.13.0-dev"
+version = "1.13.0"
 authors = ["Amazon Firecracker team <[email protected]>"]
 edition = "2024"
 license = "Apache-2.0"

src/seccompiler/Cargo.toml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "seccompiler"
-version = "1.13.0-dev"
+version = "1.13.0"
 authors = ["Amazon Firecracker team <[email protected]>"]
 edition = "2024"
 description = "Program that compiles multi-threaded seccomp-bpf filters expressed as JSON into raw BPF programs, serializing them and outputting them to a file."

src/snapshot-editor/Cargo.toml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "snapshot-editor"
-version = "1.13.0-dev"
+version = "1.13.0"
 authors = ["Amazon Firecracker team <[email protected]>"]
 edition = "2024"
 license = "Apache-2.0"