v0.5.1

The first patch release in the v0.5.X series. Contains some much needed UX improvements, go ahead and try it out!

Enhancements

• Make ignite daemon handle file moves without re-creating and support multiple active moves at once (#341, @twelho)
• Fix GOHOSTARCH propagation in the Makefile, tag development image for the host architecture only (#340, @twelho)
• Fix ignite-spawn's VM metadata formatting when performing a cleanup (#336, @twelho)
• Automatically optimize the size of imported images, support importing large images (#335, @twelho)

Documentation

• Change Read the Docs links to point to the stable branch in main README (#338, @twelho)

Trying it out / Next Steps!

In short:

export VERSION=v0.5.1
export GOARCH=$(go env GOARCH 2>/dev/null || echo "amd64")

for binary in ignite ignited; do
    echo "Installing ${binary}..."
    curl -sfLo ${binary} https://github.com/weaveworks/ignite/releases/download/${VERSION}/${binary}-${GOARCH}
    chmod +x ${binary}
    sudo mv ${binary} /usr/local/bin
done

A more throughout installation guide is available here: https://ignite.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html