liken 2026.10.09-001

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: 2026.10.09-001
    digest: sha256:a99fba9457a2595b8dbc6699052c5710e4719631d63d19ecca23c1e69c3d6642

The upgrade guide gives the rest of the steps. See release 2026.10.09-001 on GitHub.

What changed

Changes since 2026.10.08-004:

- Delete machine-operator's ticker, so a settled machine idles
- Watch what machine-operator waits for, only while it waits
- Wake machine-operator when a download ends or a watch recovers
- Wake machine-operator on uevents and on writes to /etc/hosts
- Set the sticky bit on /tmp
- Make each machine-operator pass report what it did not finish
- Propose plans 76 to 80, which remove machine-operator's ticker
- Say that a pass writes a sysctl only when the kernel's value differs
- Propose plan 75, an investigation of a boot splash

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