v0.8.0-rc1

This is an early release candidate for the upcoming flannel v0.8.0 release with the goal of getting community feedback from the new (and removed) features.

Please provide feedback through one of the following channels:

• Slack: #flannel on Calico Users Slack
• Mailing list: coreos-dev
• IRC: #coreos on freenode.org

The following PRs are in this release:

New features

#701 backend/extension: Introduce new extension backend
#717 aws-vpc: add support for multiple route tables
#571 Add ali cloud VPC network support

Removed features

#633 Remove the experimental support for multiple networks.
#606 remote: Remove experimental remote support

Bug fixes

#675 subnet/etcdv2: Fix panic from bad error contruction
#693 Keep route: [ 0.0.0.0/0 via ECS instance ] to work with alicloud DNAT…

Documentation improvements

#714 docs: adding CNI plugin note.
#715 docs: adding pointer to reservations.md.
#713 docs: adding MTU note.
#679 flannel-docs: Updating flannel Documents files.
#682 Flannel ReadMe: Added Tom's notes.
#700 Add templates for PRs/Issues
#707 Fixes typo
#702 bill-of-materials: initial commit
#656 Documentation: Split README into multiple files
#625 added production users and integrations pages
#622 Typo corrected in README.md

Multi platform support

#703 network order functionality changed based on endianess
#686 update the LIB_DIR for s390x
#650 Build tar.gz for ppc64le, arm and arm64 arch
#547 Modifying pkg/ip/ipnet.go to fix endian problem

Build changes and small code cleanups

#689 Add iptables binaries
#690 Update kube-flannel.yml to use 0.7.1 flannel image
#687 vendor: remove files not needed for building
#684 Makefile: add libpthread* to make clean
#669 Makefile: Fix the releases target
#662 Makefile: Use $(CURDIR)
#597 vendor: Revendor with more sensible pinnings
#645 functional-test: Add a simple bandwidth test
#658 Fix various little problems found by gometalinter
#629 Backends: Remove Run() from interface as it's not used
#697 main.go: Remove a reference to client/server mode
#631 subnet: Move etcd files into their own package.
#594 README: Update build instructions
#575 backend/vxlan: Make variables more verbose

Kubernetes integration changes

#665 Explicit operator: Exists to allow toleration on masters
#652 kube-flannel: Add namespace for compatibility with RBAC rules
#618 Tolerate flannel running on master nodes
#614 Simplify rbac creation process
#593 Documentation: Update releases to v0.7.0
#591 Add Kubernetes RBAC support
#600 [doc][kube-flannel] set explicit arch on daemonset images