v1.51.0

Release Highlights

• New ecs-3 variants are now available as a preview (#4685)
  • Add aws-ecs-3, aws-ecs-3-nvidia, aws-ecs-3-fips, and aws-ecs-3-nvidia-fips variants
  • All ecs-3 variants use the following:
    • kernel-6.12
    • containerd-2.1
    • systemd-257
    • nftables
    • whippet (bottlerocket-core-kit#720)
    • docker-engine-29 (bottlerocket-core-kit#711)
    • docker-cli-29 (bottlerocket-core-kit#711)
  • Use EROFS for root filesystem
  • Use EBS volume gp3 for all variants
  • Require IMDSv2 by default
  • aws-ecs-3-nvidia and aws-ecs-nvidia-fips variants use NVIDIA R580 drivers
  • Enable support for image verification
  • Enable support for encrypted storage
• Add NVIDIA FIPS variants for Kubernetes 1.29-1.34 and ECS-2 (#4671)
• Add support for new Kubernetes settings, image-minimum-gc-age, image-maximum-gc-age, max-parallel-image-pulls, ids-per-pod, and Beta options for cpu-manager-policy-options (#4690, bottlerocket-core-kit#689)

OS Changes

• Update bottlerocket-kernel-kit from 4.4.2 to 4.5.1 CHANGELOG (commits) (#4693, #4698)
• Update bottlerocket-core-kit from 10.9.0 to 11.0.1 CHANGELOG (commits) (#4699)
• Bump containerd from 2.0 to 2.1 on all aws-k8s-1.33 variants (#4687)
• Drop socat from aws-dev variant (#4699)
• Update ECR credential provider image patterns to include EUSC image formats (#4689)
• Use whippet in aws-ecs-2, aws-k8s-1.34, and vmware-k8s-1.34 variants (#4701)

Twoliter

• Update twoliter from v0.12.0 to v0.13.0 CHANGELOG (commits) (#4691)

Settings Extensions

• Update bottlerocket-settings-models to v0.17.0 (#4690)