Rancher Desktop 1.2.0

⚠️ This release includes a security vulnerability. Please use the fixed version 1.2.1 instead! ⚠️

This is the 1.2.0 release of Rancher Desktop, an open source desktop application to bring Kubernetes and container management to Mac, Windows, and Linux. The release contains some new features along with various bug fixes.

Feature Preview

This release includes 2 new features still considered experimental:

• Rancher Dashboard for kubernetes

  It can be opened from the system tray icon menu and runs in a separate window.

• Commandline access via rdctl program

  This is still a prototype with limited functionality. Examples:

  • rdctl list-settings
  • rdctl set --container-engine docker --kubernetes-version 1.21.2
  • rdctl shutdown

  Long term all functionality should be available both through the UI and the CLI.

Important Updates & Fixes

• Works with macOS 12.3
• Support for kubernetes 1.24 on docker via cri-dockerd
• DNS improvements on all platforms (work-in-progress)
• nerdctl updated to 0.17.1

You can connect with the developers via:

• The issue queue
• Rancher Users Slack in the #rancher-desktop channel

Changelog

The full version changelog, from v1.1.1, can be found using GitHub compare and the details of the release can be found in the v1.2.0 milestone.