liken 2026.09.18-001

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: 2026.09.18-001
    digest: sha256:63ade8571302ecf8eb5ee4c725a4618477ea9921787fe540d152ff41f366c1c9

The upgrade guide gives the rest of the steps. See release 2026.09.18-001 on GitHub.

What changed

Changes since 2026.09.10-003:

- Record the storage-layout-change open problem
- Add the plugins command group and bash completion to the CLI
- Set the Machine kind in the code face in the drivers guide
- Add the guides for writing an install stick and loading hardware drivers
- Reword the guides to follow the voice rules
- Emit every guide as an Agent Skill
- State the rule that an error carries its source's words
- Add plan 66 and rewrite plan 33 around its prerequisites
- State that a milestone closes in the commit that builds it
- Provision the dashboards through a datasource variable

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