v1.19.2 Release 2023-12-19

The executor images in this release are:

gcr.io/kaniko-project/executor:v1.19.2
gcr.io/kaniko-project/executor:latest

The debug images are available at:

gcr.io/kaniko-project/executor:debug
gcr.io/kaniko-project/executor:v1.19.2-debug

The slim executor images which don't contain any authentication binaries are available at:

gcr.io/kaniko-project/executor:slim
gcr.io/kaniko-project/executor:v1.19.2-slim

[!IMPORTANT]
The v1.19.2 patch release resolves the AWS ECR authentication issue present in v1.19.0 and v1.19.1. The fix was validated by users in https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/kaniko/issues/2882 and is available in this release.

v1.19.2 Changes:

• fix: resolve integration test issue issue where container-diff cannot pull OCI images properly from registry #2918
• fix: also update github.com/awslabs/amazon-ecr-credential-helper to resolve issues with AWS ECR authentication (resolves #2882) #2908
• chore: update gcr and acr cred helpers #2910
• chore(deps): bump sigstore/cosign-installer from 3.2.0 to 3.3.0 #2911
• chore(deps): bump google.golang.org/api from 0.152.0 to 0.154.0 #2912
• chore(deps): bump cloud.google.com/go/storage from 1.35.1 to 1.36.0 #2913
• chore(deps): bump github.com/spf13/cobra from 1.7.0 to 1.8.0 #2914
• chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.16.0 to 0.17.0 #2915

v1.19.1 Changes
Fixes:
* fix: reproducing and fixing warmer issue when layer already cached #2892 #2893
* fix: resolve aws-sdk-go-v2 lib compat issues causing ECR failures #2885

v1.19.0 Changes (feat + fix only, omitting dependency updates)
feat: add a retry with result function (https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/kaniko/pull/2837) https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/kaniko/pull/2853
feat: add a retry with result function https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/kaniko/pull/2837
feat: support https URLs for digest-file https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/kaniko/pull/2811
fix: create intermediate directories in COPY with correct uid and gid https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/kaniko/pull/2795
fix: makefile container-diff on darwin https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/kaniko/pull/2842
fix: print error to stderr instead of stdout before exiting https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/kaniko/pull/2823
fix: resolve issue with copy_multistage_test.go and broken ioutil import https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/kaniko/pull/2879
fix: resolve warmer memory leak. https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/kaniko/pull/2763
fix: skip the /kaniko directory when copying root https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/kaniko/pull/2863

Huge thank you for this release towards our contributors:
- Aaron Prindle
- dependabot[bot]
- Patrick Decat