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author: fabiand
description: This is a close-to weekly update from the KubeVirt team.
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pub-date: April 27
pub-year: 2018
category: updates
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tags: [release notes, changelog]
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This is a close-to weekly update from the KubeVirt team.

In general there is now more work happening outside of the core kubevirt
repository.

We are currently driven by

- Closing a lot of loose ends

- Stepping back to identify gaps for 1.0

Within the last two weeks we achieved to:

- Release KubeVirt v0.4.1 to address some shutdown issues

  - <https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/releases/tag/v0.4.1>

- Many VM life-cycle and guarantee fixes (@rmohr @vossel)

  - <https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/951>

  - <https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/948>

  - <https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/935>

  - <https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/838>

  - <https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/907>

  - <https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/883>

- Pass labels from VM to pod for better Service integration (@rmohr)

  - <https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/939>

- Packaging preparations (@rmohr)

  - <https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/941>

  - <https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/issues/924>

  - <https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/950>

- Controller readiness clarifications (@rmohr)

  - <https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/901>

- Validation improvements using CRD scheme and webhooks (@vossel)

  - Webhook: <https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/911>

  - Scheme: <https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/850>

  - <https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/917>

- Add Windows tests (@alukiano)

  - <https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/809>

- Improve PVC tests (@petrkotas)

  - <https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/862>

- Enable SELinux in OpenShift CI environment

- Tests to run KubeVirt on Kubernetes 1.10

In addition to this, we are also working on:

- virtctl expose convenience verb (@yuvalif)

  - <https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/962>

- CRIO support in CI

- virtctl bash/zsh completion (@rmohr)

  - <https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/916>

- Improved error messages from virtctl (@fromanirh)

  - <https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/934>

- Improved validation feedback (@vossel)

  - <https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/960>

Take a look at the pulse, to get an overview over all changes of this
week: <https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pulse>

Finally you can view our open issues at
<https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/issues>

And keep track of events at our calendar
[18pc0jur01k8f2cccvn5j04j1g@group.calendar.google.com](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=18pc0jur01k8f2cccvn5j04j1g@group.calendar.google.com)

If you need some help or want to chat you can find us on
<irc://irc.freenode.net/#kubevirt>
