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Release notes for Kernel Module Management Operator 2.2 - Kernel Module Management Operator release notes | Specialized hardware and driver enablement | OKD 4.17
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Kernel Module Management Operator release notes

Release notes for Kernel Module Management Operator 2.2

New features

  • KMM is now using the CRI-O container engine to pull container images in the worker pod instead of using HTTP calls directly from the worker container. For more information, see Example Module CR.

  • The Kernel Module Management (KMM) Operator images are now based on rhel-els-minimal container images instead of the rhel-els images. This change results in a greatly reduced image footprint, while still maintaining fips compliance.

  • In this release, the firmware search path has been updated to copy the contents of the specified path into the path specified in worker.setFirmwareClassPath (default: /var/lib/firmware). For more information, see Example Module CR.

  • For each node running a kernel matching the regular expression, KMM now checks if you have included a tag or a digest. If you have not specified a tag or digest in the container image, then the validation webhook returns an error and does not apply the module. For more information, see Example Module CR.