Rancher Desktop 1.4.1

[jandubois]

This is the 1.4.1 release of Rancher Desktop, an open source desktop application to bring Kubernetes and container management to Mac, Windows, and Linux. The release contains some new features along with various bug fixes.

Important Updates

• Rancher Desktop now ships with registry credential helpers and configures them automatically: It uses pass on Linux, osxkeychain on macOS, and wincred on Windows. The ecr-login helper is also included but not automatically configured.

  For nerdctl (which has to run inside the VM for technical reasons) a credential forwarder will redirect all credential requests to the helper on the host, so no credentials are installed inside the VM.

• The Images list now supports bulk deletion of images.

• Various bug fixes to the still experimental host resolver (DNS). We expect to be able to make it the default resolver in the 1.5.0 release.

Updated utilities

• docker has been upgraded to 20.10.16.
• docker-buildx has been upgraded to 0.8.2.
• docker-compose has been upgraded to 2.5.1.
• nerdctl has been upgraded to 0.20.0.
• helm has been upgraded to 3.9.0.
• trivy has been upgraded to 0.28.0.

You can connect with the developers via:

• The issue queue
• Rancher Users Slack in the #rancher-desktop channel

Changelog

The full version changelog, from v1.3.0, can be found using GitHub compare and the details of the release can be found in the v1.4.1 milestone (1.4.1 is the first public release from the release-1.4 branch).

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This discussion was created from the release Rancher Desktop 1.4.1.

[kipper3d]

How about some documentation on this registry credential helpers? I use .docker/config.json on my osx and has worked until 1.4.1 and now it doesnt. I can't find any documentation on how to utilize this 'registry credential helpers'. I can no longer connect automatically instead I have to use docker login repeatedly. Thanks.

[jandubois]

@kipper3d It still uses the same mechanism. E.g.

{
  "auths": {
    "registry.example.com": {}
  },
  "credsStore": "osxkeychain"
}

The credentials are stored in the local keychain instead of directly inside config.json. You can find more details at https://github.com/docker/docker-credential-helpers.

Please file a Github issue with the details of your problem, and including the content of your ~/.docker/config.json (but redact any confidential info first). You should only need to docker login once per registry.