containerd/containerd v1.6.39 Release Notes

Published at: 2025-07-22T21:56:01Z

Welcome to the v1.6.39 release of containerd!

The thirty-ninth patch release for containerd 1.6 contains various fixes and updates.

Highlights

Runtime

Fix close container io not closed when runtime create failed (#12052)
Update runc binary to v1.3.0 (#11799)

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

Contributors

Akihiro Suda
Austin Vazquez
Phil Estes
Derek McGowan
Kirtana Ashok
Akhil Mohan
Maksym Pavlenko
Mike Brown
madraceee
ningmingxiao
zounengren

Changes

33 commits

Prepare release notes for v1.6.39 (#12045)
- 22134cbfe Prepare release notes for v1.6.39
ci: bump Go 1.23.11, 1.24.5 (#12118)
- 067a639f6 ci: bump Go 1.23.11, 1.24.5
Backport windows test fixes (#12122)
- 9cc952fb0 Fix intermittent test failures on Windows CIs
- 555a34af0 Remove WS2025 from CIs due to regression
ci: use fedora 39 archive (#12125)
- b58df07d6 ci: use fedora 39 archive
go.mod: github.com/containerd/btrfs v1.0.1 (#12105)
- fa4b325e0 go.mod: github.com/containerd/btrfs v1.0.1
go.mod: golang.org/x/* latest, github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v3 v3.0.4 (#12095)
- 2c9f5778f Fix lint failures
- b2576bb82 go.mod: github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v3 v3.0.4
- 262e98e90 go.mod: golang.org/x/* latest
Fix close container io not closed when runtime create failed (#12052)
- 22f669a7c bugfix:close container io when runtime create failed
backport windows runner and golang toolchain updates (#12005)
- c165cc68b ci: bump Go 1.24.4 in CI
- ffacabc05 ci: bump golang [1.23.9, 1.24.3] in build and release
- 3ec9965e8 use go1.23.8 as the default go version
- e62a059a2 update to go 1.24.2, 1.23.8
- d430f3277 Enable CIs to run on WS2022 and WS2025
Update runc binary to v1.3.0 (#11799)
- d00ccf523 Update runc binary to v1.3.0
test: added runc v1 support in vagrant (#11913)
- 9e49725bf test: added runc v1 support in vagrant
: Fix CI (#11804)
- 57250c719 Skip criu on Arms
- 9d350bbbd Address cgroup mountpoint does not exist
- 78cbefc95 ci: update GitHub Actions release runner to ubuntu-24.04
Update runc binary to v1.2.6 (#11585)
- 2325157ed Update runc binary to v1.2.6

Changes from containerd/btrfs

12 commits

Fix error: implicit declaration of function ‘memcpy’ (containerd/btrfs#44)
- 3fb5c91 CI: update (Go 1.23, etc.)
- cab79ec CI: enable jobs for release/1.0
- 12b3998 Fix error: implicit declaration of function ‘memcpy’
Update GitHub actions CI workflow (containerd/btrfs#38)
- 5d1f727 Update GitHub actions CI workflow
Upgrade Go compiler from Go 1.16 to Go 1.19 (containerd/btrfs#39)
- d16e22b Upgrade Go compiler from Go 1.16 to Go 1.19
replace pkg/errors (containerd/btrfs#35)
- 9933796 replace pkg/errors
Branch rename for GH Actions (containerd/btrfs#33)
- 1aff978 Branch rename for GH Actions

Dependency Changes

cloud.google.com/go/compute/metadata v0.2.3 -> v0.3.0
github.com/containerd/btrfs v1.0.0 -> v1.0.1
github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v3 v3.0.3 -> v3.0.4
golang.org/x/crypto v0.21.0 -> v0.40.0
golang.org/x/net v0.23.0 -> v0.42.0
golang.org/x/oauth2 v0.11.0 -> v0.30.0
golang.org/x/sync v0.3.0 -> v0.16.0
golang.org/x/sys v0.18.0 -> v0.34.0
golang.org/x/term v0.18.0 -> v0.33.0
golang.org/x/text v0.14.0 -> v0.27.0
golang.org/x/time 1f47c861a9ac -> v0.12.0

Previous release can be found at v1.6.38

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