Notable Changes

• Avoid repeated decompression and further utilize the --GH option to speed up conversion (#2145), thanks to @escapefreeg
• Improved sortEntries performance (#2153), thanks to @wswsmao

Notable Changes

• Fixed restoring error of snapshots on unexpected restart of stargz snapshotter (#2091, #2092), thanks to @wswsmao
• Added FadvDontNeed option to reduce pagecache consumption in stargz snapshotter (#2095), thanks to @wswsmao
• Removed testing dependency from code outside tests (#2098), thanks to @rosstimothy
• Added all option for the ctr-remote's --gpus flag (#2102, #2118), thanks to @wswsmao
• Added --prefetch-list flag to ctr-remote (#2113, #2148), thanks to @wswsmao
• Enabled deduplication in ImageRecorder.Record (#2116), thanks to @wswsmao
• Fixed potential data race in nativeconverter/estargz (#2133), thanks to @escapefreeg
• Added support of decompression helpers in ctr-remote for better conversion speed (#2117), thanks to @escapefreeg
• Improved logging behaviour in fusemanager (#2135), thanks to @mmonaco
• Fixed to preserve normal snapshots during cleanup in stargz snapshotter (#2127), thanks to @ChengyuZhu6
• Fixed lazy pulling failure on images with empty layers (#2137)
• Fixed stargz snapshotter to run without depending on fusermount by default (#2146)
• Enabled ctr-remote to capture early file access (#2129), thanks to @wswsmao
• Refactors and document fixes (#2112, #2150), thanks to @wswsmao

Notable Changes

• New features
  • Added support for FUSE passthourgh (#1868, #1870, #1874, #1876, #1881, #1923, #1987, #2012, #2045, #2068), thanks to @wswsmao
  • Added support for detaching FUSE server as a separated processs (FUSE manager), thanks to @wswsmao (#1892, #1912, #1905) and @ilyee (#1892)
  • Expanded support for graceful restarting of Stargz Snapshotter (#2077)
  • Added arm64 KIND node image (ghcr.io/containerd/stargz-snapshotter:0.17.0-kind) (#1983)
• Fixes and changes
  • Set maximum filename length to 255 bytes (#2024), thanks to @wswsmao
  • Fixed EOPNOTSUPP issue on getdents64 (#2063), thanks to @wswsmao
  • Fixed TTLCache failed to release resources on exit (#2076)
  • Fixed the configuration and docs to prevent GC failures in CRI plugin (#1893)
  • Refactored blob manipulation logic to make it more modular (#1955), thanks to @ChengyuZhu6
  • Fix zstd:chunked converter error on duplicated blobs (#1885), thanks to @apostasie
• Document updates
  • Added docs about how to use Stargz Snapshotter on Lima (#1967)
  • Added docs about how to use Stargz Snapshotter with Transfer Service (#2084)
  • Improved legibility in docs/overview.md (#2061), thanks to @soulshake
• CI updates
  • Added tests for wider configrations (FUSE passthrough and FUSE manager) (#2074, #2083, #1914)
  • Fixed dependabot's configuration to avoid CI failures in gomod PRs (#1920, #1941), thanks to @djdongjin
  • Bump up containerd/project-checks to v1.2.2 (#2004), thanks to @wswsmao
• Dependencies
  • Replace harshicorp/multierror with errors.Join (#1921), thanks to @djdongjin
  • Bump up Kubernetes to v1.33 (#2078)
  • go.mod dependency updates (#1936, #1942), thanks to @thaJeztah

For other changes, refer to the full diff: v0.16.3...v0.17.0

Notable Changes

• Fix zstd:chunked converter error on duplicated blobs (#1894)

Notable Changes

• go.mod: Use 1.22.0 by specifying to google.golang.org/grpc v1.67.1 (#1877)

Notable Changes

• prevernt go version upgraded to 1.23 in go.mod (#1863)

Notable Changes

• Support for the latest CRI-O(>=v1.31.0) and Podman (>=v5.1.0) Additional Layer Store (#1673, #1674)
• Fix log message in refnode.Lookup (#1595), thanks to @iain-macdonald
• store: use OnForget API for checking if a node is reusable (#1808)
• Support for containerd v2 (#1722), thanks to @apostasie
• fs: Check connection only when image isn't fully cached (#1584)

Notable Changes

• Removed support for CRI v1alpha2 API that was deprecated in containerd v1.7 (#1175)
• Make timeout per-request (#1181), thanks to @Kern--
• fix: rollback snapshot to prevent bolt deadlock (#1326), thanks to @goller
• Protect node.ents and node.entsCached with a mutex (#1381), thanks to @iain-macdonald
• Fixed the snapshotter reported incorrect number blocks for a file (#1387), thanks to @Kern--
• chore: pkg imported more than once (#1363), thanks to @testwill

Note about v0.15.0

v0.15.0 has been tagged but it didn't include release binaries due to CI issue. For trying binary release of v0.15, please use stargz-snapshotter newer than v0.15.1.

Notable Changes

• labels: correctly propagate extra labels (#1143)

Notable Changes

• stargz-snapshotter
  • Use containerd's label package (#1131)
• docs
  • Add Docker(moby) integration (#1117)