liken 2026.08.02-001

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: 2026.08.02-001
    digest: sha256:a3946a2b532f681f4f7e44804088f67fbbcb8dccb174364babb9f57250eee1a9

The upgrade guide gives the rest of the steps. See release 2026.08.02-001 on GitHub.

What changed

Changes since v2026.07.31-004:

- Add node taints to the Machine spec
- Update the lab manifest's comment for the public fleet repository
- Bold every letter of liken in the styled wordmark
- Add the GitHub verification records and a security policy
- Generate the reference pages before the checks workflow tests
- Publish each release's notes to the channel
- Review every manual page, and add concepts and troubleshooting
- Add a manual link check, CRD page preambles, and field row anchors
- Propose netboot and enrollment as milestones 50 and 51
- Build rootfs on ramfs for every boot whose initrd carries the OS
- Record milestone 49 as completed
- Move liken.sh to 2026.07.31-004

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