liken 2026.07.18-001

Catalog it

Add this entry to your cluster's spec.releases.catalog, then set spec.version to the same version. The digest is the sha256 of the release document's exact bytes, and the document gives the digest of every artifact below.

  - version: 2026.07.18-001
    digest: sha256:89b3b2c60e0e903975d363ec0f33cae2c45f7dace99691b20268c663b1eb4e53

The upgrade guide gives the rest of the steps. See release 2026.07.18-001 on GitHub.

What changed

Changes since v2026.07.15-002:

- The release build fetches hwdata first
- The DRA plugin answers the health stream, silently
- Milestone 11's Kubernetes half: the machine operator becomes a DRA driver
- Milestone 11's OS half: unclaimed hardware, and declaring a driver in place
- Three hosting decisions for the device driver
- Device health closes the re-plug question
- Milestone 11 goes DRA-first
- Devices by purpose, and firmware updates get their own milestone
- Milestone 32 unifies batteries included
- The bare-metal milestone: firmware, derived not curated
- Milestone 11 decides batteries included
- Milestone 11 names hardware the way operators know it
- The lab answers milestone 11's OS half
- The API grammar gets its own domain
- The Cluster document gets its own domain

Artifacts

release.yaml is the document that lists them. LICENSES.md carries the third-party notices, and the source mirror serves the corresponding source for the components that require it.

What is inside