v1.5.0

talos-vmtoolsd 1.5.0 (2026-01-16)

Welcome to the v1.5.0 release of talos-vmtoolsd!

Please try out the release binaries and report any issues at
https://github.com/siderolabs/talos-vmtoolsd/issues.

Contributors

• Oliver Kuckertz
• Oliver Kuckertz
• Robin Elfrink
• Jorik Jonker
• Robin Elfrink
• Noel Georgi
• smihov01
• Alexis La Goutte
• Andrey Smirnov
• Brandon Nason
• Clément Nussbaumer
• Lennard Klein
• renovate[bot]

Changes

89 commits

• 496c549 chore: update dependencies (#46)
• 834be69 chore: update build instructions
• cc301d1 feat: implement the rpc subcommand (#52)
• 800c017 feat: ignore privilege error when running with secure boot (#50)
• bde7d0b docs: update compatibility and situation around system ext (#49)
• 2c13cec feat: externalize talos extension skaffolding (#42)
• c40dbc5 fix: use viper for bypassing vmware check (#41)
• 5a12a4b feat: add check for linux capabilities (#40)
• 6664180 chore(deps): update Go module dependencies (#39)
• 290e13b feat: externalize vmware hypercall (#35)
• a7fd856 fix: send os uptime in 100s of seconds (#34)
• 1b6a652 feat: replace vmw-guestinfo with own implementation (#32)
• be56ecd feat!: major rework of the code base (#27)
• bb519a7 docs: fix typo on VMware CPI doc
• 6bc5278 fix: update guestinfo on incoming ping
• e8050cd fix: report guest uptime to the host (#22)
• fce1dc5 chore: add manual workflow to calculate the next release tag
• 163af65 fix: extension name in the manifest
• 0c3ae5f chore: enable kres
• 8d26e25 chore: lint code in preparation for rekres
• 737c8f2 Renamed branch 'master' to 'main'
• 22c6dd0 Cosmetic changes to README.md
• 888a8b9 Prepare for release 0.5.0
• 3091b65 Add documentation on how tu use as a system extension
• 0f9e3f8 Update module dependencies
• 5ed8af8 Fix system extension version and compatibility
• 2da83fb Use single container for both daemonset and system extension
• 2874e55 Add flag -use-machined for Talos system extension
• 8b7ba37 Merge pull request #12 from siderolabs/small-updates
• 882d2b2 Bump github actions used to fix deprecation warnings
• fd0320f Build using go 1.22.1 and upgrade module dependencies
• 9475156 Add docker-build target to Makefile
• af9d30f Build docker container FROM scratch
• 1993c92 Merge pull request #10 from siderolabs/release-0.4
• b6f6cf9 Prepare for release 0.4.0 [skip ci]
• 4219781 Update unstable.yaml image path [skip ci]
• 6499362 Update readme for release 0.3.2 [skip ci]
• f3748c9 Update go.mod for siderolabs org
• 8565d05 Merge branch 'talos-1.5'
• 4eba791 Restore compatibility with Talos 1.5
• 997a962 Bump version to 0.3.1
• 67a6b66 Fix image path of untagged builds for forks
• e2a8ff4 Merge remote-tracking branch 'equinix-ms/master'
• 160f574 Improve "forkability" of GH workflow
• d6c2cdd Reply correctly upon error
• 80561fb Debug() every incoming GuestRPC request
• 3d2918d Update readme for release 0.3 [skip ci]
• 33cc8b1 Merge branch 'develop-0.3'
• 471e95c Update Go to 1.17.8
• 281ea80 Update Go to 1.17.6
• 15e02d5 Avoid copying .git and friends into Docker context
• 1ef74ef Run PR tests using Docker
• f9c0c7c Add option to inspect/debug apid query results
• 7e8f772 Use Talos 0.11+ resource API (#2)
• 7e20d38 Add compatibility matrix to README.md
• 2a31f50 Bump version to 0.3
• 9d71bef Remove vendored dependencies
• adf9f03 Update .gitignore
• d28b3e9 Update readme for release 0.2 [skip ci]
• b5c2e07 Run tests with Go 1.17 or later
• 53ee158 Merge branch 'develop-0.2'
• aded935 Cosmetics
• 130a0e7 Fix JSON logging for VMware guestinfo package
• a4822c4 Simplify mixed-platform deployments by detecting ESXi
• f641f3f Lower container memory request to 8 MiB
• 7c0f3aa Update readme
• 59abcc4 Bump version to 0.2
• 69b350a Run as non-root user
• 6d1a751 Add log levels and use structured logging
• 397a38f Use distroless as base image
• 8537d31 Use logrus for JSON logging
• ac130bd Add logrus
• a334154 Fix typo in guestinfo log message
• e841106 Update dependencies, build with Go 1.17.2
• 409335d Fix imagePullPolicy
• 792c693 Add reference to CPI docs known issues to readme
• 7af5d5b Cosmetics
• 4694693 Set imagePullPolicy
• 682672b Update .gitignore
• 1d88222 Add push event ignore paths to avoid unneeded container rebuilds
• 48fe9fc Cosmetics
• 0e58c37 Merge branch 'k8s-deployment'
• 98a0a60 Add K8s deployment configuration
• 935522d Add GitHub workflow CI files
• 81f9883 Add Dockerfile
• 881add2 Add readme and license files
• 7696188 Add Close() call for apid client
• 6a2fa5e Initial commit
• dfde1d0 Add dependencies for initial commit

Dependency Changes

This release has no dependency changes