Release Announcement v1.6.2
We are pleased to announce that the Apache YuniKorn community has voted to release 1.6.2. Apache YuniKorn is a standalone resource scheduler, designed for managing and scheduling Batch and Data workloads on container orchestration frameworks like Kubernetes for on-prem and on-cloud use cases.
Overview
The Apache YuniKorn community has resolved 10 JIRAs in this release.
Release manager: Wilfred Spiegelenburg
Release date: 2025-03-18
Highlights
This release is a bugfix release only and contains a critical fix for a regression found in YuniKorn 1.6.0 and YuniKorn 1.6.1. The only other changes included are updates for dependencies related to CVEs. All users of 1.6.0 and 1.6.1 are urged to upgrade.
Re-introduction of race condition
Critical: A change included in YuniKorn 1.6.0 and YuniKorn 1.6.1 re-introduces a race condition fixed in YuniKorn 1.4.0. The regression was caused by a partial revert of the fix from YUNIKORN-1993 Fixed in YUNIKORN-3036.
CVE fixes
YuniKorn 1.6.2 is now build with Go 1.23.7. The standard libraries from Go are also updated.
The Kubernetes version YuniKorn builds with is not updated. The CVEs fixed in the upgraded Kubernetes versions are not relevant. The code affected is either not used in YuniKorn or only affect Microsoft Windows which is not a supported operating system.
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