Release VPA 1.2.0

[raywainman]

Please follow instructions in
RELEASE.md and note each
completed step on this issue.

Please provide any information that is related to the release:

• When we plan to do the release?

ASAP

• Are there any issues / PRs blocking the release?

No

[raywainman]

/area vertical-pod-autoscaler

[raywainman]

Built images and ran tests:

# v1beta1 tests
Ran 3 of 314 Specs in 768.091 seconds
SUCCESS! -- 3 Passed | 0 Failed | 0 Pending | 311 Skipped
--- PASS: TestE2E (768.10s)
PASS
ok  	command-line-arguments	768.252s
...
# v1 tests
Ran 5 of 338 Specs in 1960.550 seconds
SUCCESS! -- 5 Passed | 0 Failed | 0 Pending | 333 Skipped
--- PASS: TestE2E (1960.56s)
PASS
ok  	command-line-arguments	1960.706s

[adrianmoisey]

\o/

[maxboone]

I see in the docs that "The current default version is Vertical Pod Autoscaler 1.1.2", and can't find any specific changelog for the 1.2.0 release, how is the compatibility?

[Shubham82]

Hi @maxboone, The VPA 1.2.0 has not been released yet, it is under process. I think we are left with the last step of release i.e. Finalize release.

The text you mentioned above is under the README.md we have to update it also(maybe after release).

@raywainman will tell better on this one. PTAL!

[ialidzhikov]

Yep, we are also waiting for the release to be finalized!

[maxboone]

Ah, mentioned it as we use a deployment file from the master / main branch directly in our CI/CD, so it suddenly showed as outdated (but I thought it was released already as it popped up). That's on us!

Thanks :)

[raywainman]

Hey all - apologies for the delay, I've been OOO.

I'm almost done with the release, they are effectively just formalities at this point:

• tagging release
• release notes

The process is a bit slow because I need to get someone with the proper rights to help me with the various commands.

I'll get this cleaned up and finished asap, sorry for the trouble!

[raywainman]

Tagging commands:

At commit dbc88c0:

git tag -a vertical-pod-autoscaler-1.2.0 -m "Vertical Pod Autoscaler release 1.2.0"
git tag -a vertical-pod-autoscaler/v1.2.0 -m "Vertical Pod Autoscaler release 1.2.0"
git push [email protected]:kubernetes/autoscaler.git vertical-pod-autoscaler-1.2.0
git push [email protected]:kubernetes/autoscaler.git vertical-pod-autoscaler/v1.2.0

[raywainman]

Changelog:

• Add option to ignore namespaces #6788 - Added option to ignore namespaces by @adrianmoisey.
• vpa-{updater,recommender}: Add support for leader election #6985 - Added support for leader election in VPA updater by @ialidzhikov.
• vpa-recommender: Log object's namespace #6909, vpa-admission-controller: Log object's namespace #6908, vpa-updater: Log the Pod namespace when evicting a Pod #6903 - Log object namespaces by @ialidzhikov.
• Add more precise logging for VPA resource recommendations #6723 - Added more precise logging for VPA resource recommendations by @nikimanoledaki.
• Add ability to the VPA admission-controller to reload it's certificate v2 #6665 - Added ability to the VPA admission-controller to reload its certificate v2 by @Nuckal777.
• VPA: Add tests for selfRegistration() and filterVPAs() #6910 - Added testing for selfRegistration() and filterVPAs() by @adrianmoisey.
• Fix nil pointer panic in eviction admission #6820 - Fixed nil pointer panic in eviction admission (also cherrypicked to 1.1) by @itonyli.
• Remove unnecessary build-args #6813, fix fmt errorf and typo #6698 - Cleanups by @youngbo89 and @googs1025.
• [VPA] Configurable upper and lower bounds for memory and cpu recommendations #6660 - Configurable upper and lower bounds for memory and cpu recommendations by @emla9.
• Fix NPE in vpa-updater when Pod owner isn't scalable #6712 - Fixed NPE in vpa-updater when Pod owner isn't scalable (also cherrypicked to 1.1) by @voelzmo.
• Updated VPA admission-controller to have adjustable minimum TLS version and TLS ciphers #6625 - Updated VPA admission-controller to have adjustable minimum TLS version and TLS ciphers by @allenmun197.
• Golang bumps from 1.22.1 to 1.22.5.

[Shubham82]

Thanks @raywainman for the information.

[ialidzhikov]

Thank you @raywainman and all other involved maintainers for driving the new release! 🎉

[huizhifan]

Hi @raywainman, what's the minimal k8s version VPA1.2.0 supports?

[raywainman]

I tested it in 1.27 (which is the lowest version supported in GKE currently) but theoretically it should work in 1.25+ as well.