Cockpit 178

Author: mvollmer

_posts/2018-09-19-cockpit-178.md

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+title: Cockpit 178
+author: mvo
+date: 2018-09-19
+tags: cockpit linux
+slug: cockpit-178
+category: release
+summary: Fixed crashers and dropped KubeVirt support
+comments: 'true'
+---
+
+Cockpit is the [modern Linux admin interface](https://cockpit-project.org/). We
+release regularly.  Here are the release notes from version 178.
+
+### KubeVirt support has been removed
+
+Cockpit ships `cockpit-kubernetes` for managing Kubernetes and
+OpenShift deployments. Since its introduction, important points have
+come to light:
+
+- The OpenShift Console is adding support for
+[KubeVirt](http://kubevirt.io/). It will become _the_ place for
+managing KubeVirt-based VMs that run in OpenShift.
+
+- `cockpit-kubernetes` has been in maintenance mode for a while. It
+is difficult to support, as it uses a very old version of Angular.
+
+- We haven't been able to build a recent kubevirt-enabled OpenShift image in four months. (Issues [#9479](https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/issues/9479) & [#9638](https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/pull/9638).) As a result, it is impossible to test recent KubeVirt versions.
+
+- Community interest has waned on KubeVirt support in Cockpit.
+
+As a result, we have removed KubeVirt support from
+`cockpit-kubernetes` in this release.  In the future, we will likely
+remove all of `cockpit-kubernetes`.
+
+#### Migration path
+
+Fedora 29 will keep `cockpit-kubernetes`, but it will be dropped from the "rawhide" rolling release. (Rawhide is the name of the unstable version of Fedora. For the immediate future, it is currently what will become Fedora 30). Thus, `cockpit-kubernetes` will still be supported for approximately the next year-and-a-half.
+
+During this time, the Cockpit team suggests migrating to [OpenShift Console's native KubeVirt support](https://blog.openshift.com/a-first-look-at-kubevirt/).
+
+### Stabilization & security fixes
+
+Cockpit 178 also includes several minor stabilization improvements and [a denial of service security fix](https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/issues/10003).
+
+### Try it out
+
+Cockpit 178 is available now:
+
+ * [For your Linux system](https://cockpit-project.org/running.html)
+ * [Source Tarball](https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/releases/tag/178)
+ * [Fedora 28](https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/cockpit-178-1.fc28)