The team is very excited to announce the next major release of Kairos, Kairos v3! This release marks a major milestone in our roadmap by adding support for Unified Kernel Images (UKI). This will enhance the level of security that you can achieve on your system with the help of Trusted Boot.

Last year I said you could expect Kairos to engage further during FOSDEM. And I'm quite pleased to say that's exactly what we did! As part of the open-source ecosystem, we recognize the importance of participating in these types of events. We do so, because we understand how critical it is to go where our users are, but this year we went a bit further and we also reached out to other similar projects.

Happy new year to all of you in the Kairos community! This 2024, we have many great plans that we want to achieve. You can find more about them in our roadmap.

We start the year with the release of Kairos v2.5.0. This time, we focused on the ground work for two major features that will land later in the year

1. Improving the Kairos Factory user experience: On previous releases we shared how our artifact names have changed to make it easier to distinguish between them. In this release we worked on Versioneer, a component that helps build such names in more sofisticated ways than the original script did. This has been aggregated to the kairos-agent upgrade command to help you filter through upgradable versions.
2. Adding support for UKI (Unified Kernel Images): This is still a WIP but we already have a proof of concept, meaning that Kairos will increase its security level by validating signatures using the EFI bootloader.

Did you ever look at a release and couldn't decide if it should be a patch, a minor or a major version bump? It has happened to everybody (if not, let me know). This Kairos release was a similar case. We didn't introduce any breaking changes and it was just bug fixes, which makes it a patch release. At least that's the story for user facing changes. Because, behind the scenes, we made some heavy changes, in the way we produce the Kairos artifacts and how we name them.

The detailed list of changes can be found in the release notes but the most important things to notice are listed below.

Hacktoberfest 2023 is here, and we are excited to announce that Kairos is taking part by creating some good first issues for new contributors to get started with and also by hosting a Hacktoberfest event on October 19th in Brussels.

We're thrilled to announce the release of version 2.4.0 of Kairos which brings a wealth of exciting improvements and essential bug fixes that we can't wait to share with you.

We're excited to roll out Kairos v2.3, the latest iteration of our project, packed with new features and enhancements. The most notable change in this version is the support for Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS).

Kairos is a cloud-native meta-Linux distribution that brings the power of public cloud to your on-premises environment. With Kairos, you can build your own cloud with complete control and no vendor lock-in. It allows you to easily spin up a Kubernetes cluster with the Linux distribution of your choice, and manage the entire cluster lifecycle with Kubernetes.

The Kairos team is thrilled to announce the release of the Secure Edge-Native Architecture (SENA) whitepaper! You can download it here

Kairos is a cloud-native meta-Linux distribution that brings the power of public cloud to your on-premises environment. With Kairos, you can build your own cloud with complete control and no vendor lock-in. It allows you to easily spin up a Kubernetes cluster with the Linux distribution of your choice, and manage the entire cluster lifecycle with Kubernetes.