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Welcome to the v2.3.4 release of containerd!

The fourth patch release for containerd 2.3 contains various fixes and updates.

Highlights

Container Runtime Interface (CRI)

  • Disable checkpoint restore in CreateContainer by default, requiring the enable_experimental_restore_via_create configuration option to enable (#13913)
  • Set default runtimeFeatures.UserNamespacesHostNetwork to true in CRI (#13914)
  • Deprecate checkpoint restore in CreateContainer (#13868)
  • Support non-UTF-8 binary environment variable values in CRI (#13454)
  • Enable OCI runtime feature introspection for non-runc runtimes in CRI (#13778)
  • Disable checkpoint restore codepaths when CRIU is not installed and add enable_criu configuration option (#13734)
  • Normalize sandbox image references in CRI to resolve images without domain prefixes (#13759)

Node Resource Interface (NRI)

  • Emit deprecation warnings for plugins using deprecated NRI interfaces (#13935)

Runtime

  • Enable log scrubbing by default on Windows (#13904)
  • Fix memory leak in OOM watcher map when stopping container monitoring (#13870)
  • Avoid orphaning shims on transient errors when loading process IDs (#13857)
  • Fix corruption of binary protobuf shim start responses caused by premature whitespace trimming (#13803)

Snapshotters

  • Fix EROFS snapshotter dropping lower layers stacked above merged filesystem metadata (#13876)

Breaking

  • Disable checkpoint restore in CreateContainer by default, requiring the enable_experimental_restore_via_create configuration option to enable (#13913)

Deprecations

  • Deprecate checkpoint restore in CreateContainer (#13868)

Please try out the release binaries and report any issues at https://github.com/containerd/containerd/issues.

Contributors

  • Samuel Karp
  • Maksym Pavlenko
  • Mike Brown
  • Akihiro Suda
  • Derek McGowan
  • Jordan Liggitt
  • Paweł Gronowski
  • Amir Alavi
  • Andrew Halaney
  • Bing Hongtao
  • Chris Henzie
  • Harshal Patel
  • Krisztian Litkey
  • Phil Estes
  • Wei Fu
  • ningmingxiao

Changes

35 commits

* [`c1f5360ef`](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/commit/c1f5360ef7b9afb748d4119ad7be665ba5144480) Prepare release notes for v2.3.4 * cri: disable restore in CreateContainer by default ([#13913](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/pull/13913)) * [`928c03c68`](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/commit/928c03c6898cad95f795300281fdff0dbc55a32f) cri: disable restore in CreateContainer by default * nri,deprecation: record and emit warnings for NRI deprecations. ([#13935](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/pull/13935)) * [`5966e2edb`](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/commit/5966e2edb15bb939aa2bb73649fbad73a2b04094) nri,deprecation: emit warnings for old NRI plugins. * Set the default of runtimeFeatures.UserNamespacesHostNetwork to true ([#13914](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/pull/13914)) * [`ab52c58f1`](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/commit/ab52c58f16ac50bb6724354bf36cbb4da480c2a2) Set the default of runtimeFeatures.UserNamespacesHostNetwork to true * Use ScrubLogs by default on Windows ([#13904](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/pull/13904)) * [`0c255158a`](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/commit/0c255158aa1ecab40aafc42269cfc018a46eb627) ctr: add --scrub-logs flag for Windows * [`1c2b13dc9`](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/commit/1c2b13dc975468197e57321e25fd09163f78a75a) cri/config: use ScrubLogs by default on Windows * snapshots/erofs: keep lowers stacked above a merged fsmeta ([#13876](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/pull/13876)) * [`0c511e068`](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/commit/0c511e068b7d6dd815418185a235b3ba3347c65a) snapshots/erofs: keep lowers stacked above a merged fsmeta * cri: deprecate restore in CreateContainer ([#13868](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/pull/13868)) * [`dc98141df`](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/commit/dc98141df70d3d72d46125c6f30de0d2de648086) cri: deprecate restore in CreateContainer * internal/oom: Fix memory leak by removing watcher from map on Stop ([#13870](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/pull/13870)) * [`537d82d54`](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/commit/537d82d545759d4a072d564d4937707af2650163) internal/oom: Fix memory leak by removing watcher from map on Stop * shim_load: Consider shim leaked only if we can't find pids ([#13857](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/pull/13857)) * [`decf97a9c`](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/commit/decf97a9c7c26f92391d2c862d35832e0a291e80) shim_load: Consider shim leaked only if we can't find pids * core/runtime/v2: Drop checkpointctl module dependency ([#13840](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/pull/13840)) * [`796f07dc8`](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/commit/796f07dc853d9ae8a3a1278fe47436755a4bc3b7) core/runtime/v2: Drop checkpointctl module dependency * Handle []byte envvar value for CRI ([#13454](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/pull/13454)) * [`751fddddb`](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/commit/751fddddbb630631e12fd63e5dac4a9530188822) Handle []byte envvar value * [`0bce9060e`](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/commit/0bce9060ef3401e690b541dd6d2008c2abc50b0d) update to v0.36.x kubernetes dependencies * fix(cri): introspect OCI runtime features for non-runc runtimes ([#13778](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/pull/13778)) * [`61a8f6f45`](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/commit/61a8f6f45e34660d787988e8a7e7a218f556369c) fix(cri): introspect OCI runtime features for non-runc runtimes * core/runtime/v2: Preserve protobuf shim response bytes ([#13803](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/pull/13803)) * [`1d28017be`](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/commit/1d28017be295005bfa3aee1d47afe86341d391b6) core/runtime/v2: Preserve protobuf shim response bytes * Disable checkpoint restore codepath when CRIU is not installed ([#13734](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/pull/13734)) * [`374091d67`](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/commit/374091d67c1966969b772594ba96a74f4357bc7a) github/workflows: install criu in node-e2e * [`db03e3968`](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/commit/db03e39685448a1d87025a2ca3a1e4e42713102d) cri: add enable_criu configuration option * [`dacd4c7d0`](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/commit/dacd4c7d00f4a5fd71197e67afdb6355e8536e4f) cri: validate CRIU availability and version early * ci: bound Go fuzzing by execution count ([#13785](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/pull/13785)) * [`890a9c86c`](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/commit/890a9c86cd9918e53c1ef1b57c6539a943196cd5) ci: bound Go fuzzing by execution count * cri: auto-add prefix for pause image ([#13759](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/pull/13759)) * [`0b2f1d078`](https://github.com/containerd/containerd/commit/0b2f1d078124b52f4c8030dc686f2d65c1dfc17c) cri: auto-add prefix for pause image

Dependency Changes

Previous release can be found at v2.3.3

Which file should I download?

  • containerd-<VERSION>-<OS>-<ARCH>.tar.gz: ✅Recommended. Dynamically linked with glibc 2.35 (Ubuntu 22.04).
  • containerd-static-<VERSION>-<OS>-<ARCH>.tar.gz: Statically linked. Expected to be used on Linux distributions that do not use glibc >= 2.35. Not position-independent.

In addition to containerd, typically you will have to install runc and CNI plugins from their official sites too.

See also the Getting Started documentation.

Source: README.md, updated 2026-08-12