CHANGELOG.md

v5.4.0 (2026-04-23)

OS Changes

• Split kernel-6.18 config-full by target and host architecture (#411)

Build Changes

• Add support for docker-run on ARM hosts (#411)
• Update the Bottlerocket SDK to v0.73.0 (#412)

v5.3.3 (2026-04-13)

OS Changes

• Update kernel from 6.12.77-99.140 to 6.12.79-101.147 (#404)
• Update kernel from 6.18.16-18.222 to 6.18.20-20.229 (#405)

v5.3.2 (2026-04-01)

OS Changes

• Update kernel from 6.1.164-196.303 to 6.1.166-197.305 (#399)
• Update kernel from 6.12.74-98.124 to 6.12.77-99.140 (#398)
• Update kernel from 6.18.15-14.217 to 6.18.16-18.222 (#400)

v5.3.1 (2026-03-26)

OS Changes

• Update kernel from 6.1.163-186.299 to 6.1.164-196.303 (#394)
• Update kernel from 6.12.73-95.123 to 6.12.74-98.124 (#394)
• Update kernel from 6.18.8-9.213 to 6.18.15-14.217 (#394)

v5.3.0 (2026-03-24)

OS Changes

• Add kernel 6.18 (#381)

v5.2.0 (2026-03-18)

Build Changes

• Update the Bottlerocket SDK to v0.72.0 (#391)

v5.1.0 (2026-03-17)

OS Changes

• Add Neuron driver 2.x.7372.0, 2.x.7693.0, and 2.x.8072.0 (#388)
• Update Neuron driver to 2.24.13.0, and 2.26.10.0 (#389)

Build Changes

• Update the Bottlerocket SDK to v0.71.0 (#387)

v5.0.2 (2026-03-06)

OS Changes

• Update kernel from 6.1.161-183.298 to 6.1.163-186.299 (#384)
• Update kernel from 6.12.68-92.122 to 6.12.73-95.123 (#383)
• Update EFA driver to 3.0.0 (#380)

Build Changes

• Bump Twoliter to 0.17.0 (#379)

v5.0.1 (2026-02-26)

OS Changes

• Fix WireGuard regression affecting Cilium pod connectivity (#375)
• Update Neuron driver to 2.26.5.0 (#377)

v5.0.0 (2026-02-19)

OS Changes

• Remove EOL r570 NVIDIA driver (#370)
• Update kernel from 6.12.66-88.122 to 6.12.68-92.122 (#372)

Build Changes

• Bump cargo dependencies (#371)

v4.8.2 (2026-02-07)

OS Changes

• Update kernel from 6.1.159-182.297 to 6.1.161-183.298 (#366)
• Update kernel from 6.12.64-87.122 to 6.12.66-88.122 (#367)

v4.8.1 (2026-01-23)

OS Changes

• Update kernel from 6.1.159-181.297 to 6.1.159-182.297 (#360)
• Update kernel from 6.12.63-84.121 to 6.12.64-87.122 (#359)

v4.8.0 (2026-01-21)

OS Changes

• Add MPS subpackage to NVIDIA kmod packages (#347)
• Update r570 NVIDIA driver to 570.211.01 (#357)
• Update r580 NVIDIA driver to 580.126.09 (#357)
• Disable ext4 debugging for 6.12 kernel (#356)

Build Changes

• Update the Bottlerocket SDK to v0.70.0 (#358)

v4.7.1 (2026-01-07)

OS Changes

• Add dependency on the GRID license for NVIDIA k8s device plugin (#294)
• Update Neuron driver to 2.25.4.0 (#344, #350)
• Adjust BOOT_IMAGE for PCR 9 predictions (#343)
• Fix typo in NVLSM service (#351)
• Update kernel from 6.1.158-180.294 to 6.1.159-181.297 (#353)
• Update kernel from 6.12.58-82.121 to 6.12.63-84.121 (#348,#352)

Build Changes

• Clean up NVIDIA kmod spec files (#341)
• Update twoliter to 0.16.0 (#342, #349)
• Override SBOM generation for nvidia-migmanager (#346)

v4.7.0 (2025-12-11)

Build Changes

• Update the Bottlerocket SDK to v0.66.0 (#336)

v4.6.1 (2025-12-09)

OS Changes

• Update kernel from 6.1.158-178.288 to 6.1.158-180.294 (#332)
• Update kernel from 6.12.55-74.119 to 6.12.58-82.121 (#333)

Build Changes

• Update to Twoliter 0.14.0 (#331)
• Update libkcapi _spec_install_post override for SBOM feature compatibility (#330)

v4.6.0 (2025-12-05)

OS Changes

• Add package definition for NVIDIA R580 driver for kernel-6.1 (#304). Thanks, @mselim00!
• Provide EFA kernel modules as kmod packages (#319, #322, #327)
• Add kmod-6.12-amdgpu package and update linux-firmware (#320, #325, #326)
• Load NVIDIA kmods at drivers.target (#321)
• Extend supported MIG profiles for NVIDIA B300 (#323)

Build Changes

• Scope down GitHub Token permissions (#298). Thanks, @AdnaneKhan!

v4.5.1 (2025-11-12)

OS Changes

• Include EFA from efa-installer in kernel-6.12 (#313)

Build Changes

• Update to Twoliter 0.13.0 (#315)

v4.5.0 (2025-11-10)

OS Changes

• Update kernel from 6.1.156-177.286 to 6.1.158-178.288(#310)
• Update kernel from to 6.12.53-69.119 to 6.12.55-74.119 (#311)
• Add additional Neuron module in 6.1 and 6.12 Kernels (#277)
• Add RTX PRO 6000 profiles (#300)
• Disable PCR 9 measurement in 6.1 and 6.12 Kernels (#305)

v4.4.2 (2025-10-27)

OS Changes

• Update kernel from 6.1.155-176.282 to 6.1.156-177.286 (#302)
• Update kernel from 6.12.46-66.121 to 6.12.53-69.119 (#301)

v4.4.1 (2025-10-22)

Build Changes

• Update the Bottlerocket SDK to v0.65.1 (#299)

v4.4.0 (2025-10-16)

OS Changes

• Move netfilter modules to built-in (#296)

Build Changes

• Update the Bottlerocket SDK to v0.65.0 (#295)

v4.3.4 (2025-10-14)

OS Changes

• Update kernel from 6.1.153-175.280 to 6.1.155-176.282 (#290)

Build Changes

• Fully containerize latest-kernel-full-config.sh (#258, #288, #289)

v4.3.3 (2025-10-03)

OS Changes

• Update r570 NVIDIA driver to 570.195.03 (#283)
• Update r580 NVIDIA driver to 580.95.05 (#283)
• Update nvlsm to 2025.06.6 (#283)
• Provide nvidia-gridd as a system service (#285)

v4.3.2 (2025-09-29)

OS Changes

• Update kernel from 6.1.150-174.273 to 6.1.153-175.280 (#279)
• Update kernel from 6.12.40-64.114 to 6.12.46-66.121 (#280)

v4.3.1 (2025-09-15)

OS Changes

• Update kernel from 6.1.148-173.267 to 6.1.150-174.273 (#274)

Build Changes

• Split kernel configurations per architecture (#266)
• Improve Bottlerocket's final kernel configuration validation (#266)
• Exclude Neuron modules from all NVIDIA flavors (#273) Thanks, @fletcherw!

v4.3.0 (2025-09-08)

OS Changes

• Update kernel from 6.1.147-172.266 to 6.1.148-173.267 (#268)
• Update kernel from 6.12.40-63.114 to 6.12.40-64.114 (#269, #270, #271)
• Add package definitions for NVIDIA R580 driver (#255)
• Enable FIPS support for kernel-6.12 (#263)

Build Changes

• Generate full kernel configuration in the Bottlerocket SDK (#247)

v4.2.0 (2025-08-25)

OS Changes

• Update to neuron 2.21.37.0 (#250)
• Backport patch to prevent race with lease breaks in SMB's (#253)

Build Changes

• Updated to Twoliter 0.12.0 (#251)

v4.1.0 (2025-08-19)

OS Changes

• Provide missing kernel module details for r570 Tesla drivers in 6.12 (#234)
• Enable SCSI for VMware (#237)

Build Changes

• Update the Bottlerocket SDK to v0.64.0 (#248)

v4.0.1 (2025-08-11)

OS Changes

• Update kernel from 6.12.40-63.107 to 6.12.40-63.114 (#239)
• Update kernel from 6.1.147-172.259 to 6.1.147-172.266 (#240)

v4.0.0 (2025-08-04)

OS Changes

• Drop kernel 5.15 and R535 NVIDIA kmod packages (#226)
• Update grub and shim packages (#228)
• Update kernel from 6.12.37-61.105 to 6.12.40-63.107 (#229)
• Update kernel from 6.1.144-170.251 to 6.1.147-172.259 (#230)

v3.3.1 (2025-07-25)

OS Changes

• Update r570 NVIDIA driver to 570.172.08 (#223)
• Update r535 NVIDIA driver to 535.261.03 (#223)

v3.3.0 (2025-07-23)

Build Changes

• Updated to Twoliter 0.11.0 (#215)

OS Chnages

• Update kernels from 5.15.186 to 5.15.187-130.192 (#219)
• Update kernels from 6.1.141-165.249 to 6.1.144-170.251 (#217)
• Update kernels from 6.12.31-35.92 to 6.12.37-61.105 (#218)
• Update 6.1 kernel config to more closely match 6.12 (#216)
• Enable Landlock LSM in 6.1 and 6.12 kernels (#216)
• Add IMEX for 6.12 NVIDIA R570 driver (#204)

v3.2.1 (2025-07-24)

OS Changes

• Update r570 NVIDIA driver to 570.172.08
• Update r535 NVIDIA driver to 535.261.03

v3.2.0 (2025-07-16)

Build Changes

• Update the Bottlerocket SDK to v0.63.0 (#211)

v3.1.2 (2025-07-10)

OS Changes

• Update kernels from 5.15.185 to 5.15.186 (#208)
• Update kernels from 6.1.141-155.222 to kernel-6.1.141-165.249 (#208)
• Update kernels from 6.12.31-35.92 to 6.12.35-55.103 (#208)

v3.1.1 (2025-06-24)

OS Changes

• Update kernels 5.15, 6.1 and 6.12 to the latest upstream (#199) (#201)

v3.1.0 (2025-06-11)

OS Changes

• Update kernels 6.1 and 6.12 to the latest upstream (#194)
• Include libnvidia-gpucomp.so (#181) Thanks, @tzmtl!

Build Changes

• Use SDK version v0.62.0 (#190)

v3.0.2 (2025-06-09)

OS Changes

• Update kernel 5.15 from 5.15.182 to 5.15.184 (#185)
• Update r570 NVIDIA driver to 570.148.08 (#166)

v3.0.1 (2025-06-02)

OS Changes

• Update kernel-6.12 from 6.12.25-32.101 to 6.12.29-33.102 (#177)

Build Changes

• Fix user mapping to run the bottlerocket-sdk container in tools/latest-kernel-full-config.sh (#175)

v3.0.0 (2025-05-30)

OS Changes

• Provide Vulkan ICD configuration files for the 6.1 and 6.12 NVIDIA kmods (#138) Thanks, @iterion!
• Remove GRUB's tools and modules subpackages (#163)
• Backport patch to ensure NUL-terminated task comm buffer (#168)
• Update kernel-5.15 to version 5.15.182-123.190 (#169)

Build Changes

• Update nvlsm SHA value to match upstream (#160)
• Build GRUB with optimizations (#163)

v2.5.1 (2025-05-22)

OS Changes

• Re-enable writes to mounted block devices in kernel-6.12 to fix online resize of ext4 filesystems (#158)

Build Changes

• Move kernel config script to common location and extract SDK from Twoliter metadata (#157)

v2.5.0 (2025-05-20)

OS Changes

• Provide NVLink Subnet Manager as a dependency for NVIDIA Fabric Manager (#142)
• Add MIG profiles for NVIDIA A100 and B200 GPUs (#136)
• Enable CephFS SELinux labels in kernel-6.12 (#154) Thanks, @vholer!

Build Changes

• Bump twoliter to 0.10.1 (#150)
• Maintain full kernel configuration for kernel-6.12 (#114)

v2.4.0 (2025-05-14)

OS Changes

• Improve dependency resolution for NVIDIA kmods (#133)
• Prevent version mismatches between NVIDIA kmods and kernels (#133)
• Strip NVIDIA open GPU and GRID kernel modules (#139)
• Provide nvoptix.bin through NVIDIA kmod 570 for 6.12 kernel (#141) Thanks, @emaincourt!
• Enable cpusets for cgroups v1 in the 6.12 kernel (#143)
• Prefer LZ4 compression over LZO for zram in 6.12 kernel (#143)
• Make ext4 support a module for the 6.12 kernel (#143)
• Update 5.15, 6.1, and 6.12 kernels to the latest upstream ([#146,#147])

Build Changes

• Bump twoliter to 0.10.0 (#135)

v2.3.3 (2025-05-01)

OS Changes

• Update kernel-6.12 to version 6.12.23-29.97 (#129)

v2.3.2 (2025-04-30)

OS Changes

• Update kernel-5.15 to version 5.15.180-122.191 (#124)

v2.3.1 (2025-04-29)

OS Changes

• Update kernel-6.1 to version 6.1.134-150.224 (#122)

v2.3.0 (2025-04-28)

OS Changes

• Drop zstd module from GRUB (#98)
• Update development-related packaging for kernel-6.12 and move kmod-6.12-nvidia-r570 to kernel-6.12-devel (#99, #118)
• Add package definitions for NVIDIA R570 driver (#95)
• Update kernel-6.12 to 6.12.22 (#110)
• Set config options for kernel hardening (#111)
• Add Infiniband User MAD and autoload for Fabric Manager (#116, #119)
• Add GRID drivers to kmod-6.1-nvidia-r570 and kmod-6.12-nvidia-r570 (#113)

Build Changes

• Update generate kernel config scripts to fix globbing (#109)
• Remove force upstream for neuron (#112)
• Remove unused patch from kernel-6.12 (#115)
• Bump twoliter to 0.9.0 (#107)

v2.2.2 (2025-04-18)

OS Changes

• Update to drivers for kmod-5.15-nvidia and kmod-6.1-nvidia (#108)

v2.2.1 (2025-04-17)

Build Changes

• Update the Bottlerocket SDK to v0.61.0 (#101)

v2.2.0 (2025-04-17)

OS Changes

• Add kernel 6.12 (#93)
• Update to neuron 2.20.28.0 (#96)
• Update kernel-6.1 from 6.1.131-143.221 to 6.1.132-147.221 (#100)
• Update kernel-5.15 from 5.15.179-121.185 to 5.15.179-122.186 (#100)

Build Changes

• Maintain full kernel configurations for kernels 5.15 and 6.1 (#88)
• Vend microcode supackages per vendor and platform (#93)

v2.1.0 (2025-04-02)

OS Changes

• Update kernel-6.1 from 6.1.130-139.222 to 6.1.131-143.221 (#89)
• Update kernel-5.15 from 5.15.178-120.187 to 5.15.179-121.185 (#91)

Build Changes

• Move NVIDIA helper binaries to standard filesystem location (#84)

v2.0.0 (2025-03-26)

OS Changes

• Update kernel-5.15 to version 5.15.178-120.187 (#81)
• Update kernel-6.1 to version 6.1.130-139.222 (#81)
• Remove kernel-5.10 and kmod-5.10-nvidia (#80)

Build Changes

• Update twoliter to 0.8.1 (#77)

v1.3.0 (2025-03-06)

OS Changes

• Include SHA-256 and SHA-512 CPU routines in the ARM kernel image. (#67)

Build Changes

• Update twoliter to 0.8.0 (#70)
• Update the Bottlerocket SDK to v0.60.0. (#71)

v1.2.1 (2025-03-06)

OS Changes

• Update kernel-5.10 from 5.10.234-225.895 to 5.10.234-225.910 (#63)
• Update kernel-5.15 from 5.15.178-120.178 to 5.15.178-120.180 (#63)
• Update kernel-6.1 from 6.1.128 to 6.1.129 (#63)

Build Changes

• Fix Lustre warnings in GCC 13+ (#61)

v1.2.0 (2025-02-26)

Build Changes

• Update twoliter from 0.7.2 to 0.7.3 (#51)

v1.1.4 (2025-02-25)

OS Changes

• Update kernel-5.10 from 5.10.233 to 5.10.234 (#57)
• Update kernel-5.15 from 5.15.176 to 5.15.178 (#57)

v1.1.3 (2025-02-24)

OS Changes

• Update kernel-6.1 from 6.1.127 to 6.1.128 (#52)

v1.1.2 (2025-02-18)

OS Changes

• Use NVIDIA open gpu drivers for L4 and L40S cards (#48)
• Remove NVIDIA Multi-Instance GPU (MIG) and Fabric Manager Interoperability code (#49)

v1.1.1 (2025-02-10)

Build Changes

• Fix the kernel-5.15 spec file to apply patches extracted from the SRPM (#43)
• Fail kernel builds on mismatches between the applied patches and patches found in the SRPM (#43)
• Update twoliter to 0.7.2 (#36)

v1.1.0 (2025-02-06)

OS Changes

• Update to kernel 6.1.127 (#37)
• Add support for Nvidia MIG (#35)

Build Changes

• Find upstream kernel patches via the upstream source's spec file (#40)

v1.0.7 (2025-02-04)

OS Changes

• Update to kernel 5.10.233-224.894 and 5.15.176-118.178 (#30)

v1.0.6 (2025-01-24)

OS Changes

• Update to kernel 5.10.233, 5.15.176, and 6.1.124 (#25)

v1.0.5 (2025-01-24)

OS Changes

• Use the version of the driver for kmod-*-nvidia packages. (#22)

Build Changes

• Updates the Bottlerocket SDK to v0.50.1. (#18)

v1.0.4 (2025-01-16)

OS Changes

• Update neruon dkms for kernel-5.10, kernel-5.15 and kernel-6.1 (#16, (#17))
• Update to drivers for kmod-5.10-nvidia, kmod-5.15-nvidia and kmod-6.1-nvidia (#21)

v1.0.2 (2024-12-20)

Build Changes

• Update CHANGELOG.md to match format expected by release automation (#12)

v1.0.1 (2024-12-20)

OS Changes

• Update to kernel 5.10.230 and 5.15.173 (#10)

Build Changes

• Add GPG verification where possible (#5)

v1.0.0 (2024-12-11)

Build Changes

• Create the new kernel kit from the following core-kit packages: (#1)
  • grub
  • kernel-5.10
  • kernel-5.15
  • kernel-6.1
  • kmod-5.10-nvidia
  • kmod-5.15-nvidia
  • kmod-6.1-nvidia
  • libkcapi
  • linux-firmware
  • microcode
  • shim
• Update bottlerocket-sdk to v0.50.0