What's new with Azure Red Hat OpenShift?
Azure Red Hat OpenShift receives improvements on an ongoing basis. To stay up to date with the most recent developments, this article provides you with information about the latest releases.
Version 4.14 - May 2024
We're pleased to announce the launch of OpenShift 4.14 for Azure Red Hat OpenShift. This release enables OpenShift Container Platform 4.14. Version 4.12 will be outside of support after July 17th, 2024. Existing clusters on version 4.12 and below should be upgraded before then.
In addition to making version 4.14 available, this release also makes the following features generally available:
Support for Azure Resource Health alerts
Support in Azure Terraform provider
Version 4.13 - December 2023
We're pleased to announce the launch of OpenShift 4.13 for Azure Red Hat OpenShift. This release enables OpenShift Container Platform 4.13. Version 4.11 will be outside of support after February 10, 2024. Existing clusters version 4.11 and below should be upgraded before then.
Update - September 2023
To create a private cluster without a public IP address, you can now add the parameter --outbound-type UserDefinedRouting to the aro create command. See Create a private cluster without a public IP address for details.
A cluster that is deployed with this feature and is running version 4.11 or higher can be scaled to 120 nodes and 30,000 pods.
Version 4.12 - August 2023
We're pleased to announce the launch of OpenShift 4.12 for Azure Red Hat OpenShift. This release enables OpenShift Container Platform 4.12.
Note
Starting with ARO version 4.12, the support lifecycle for new versions will be set to 14 months from the day of general availability. That means that the end date for support of each version will no longer be dependent on the previous version (as shown in the table above for version 4.12.) This does not affect support for the previous version; two generally available (GA) minor versions of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform will continue to be supported.
Update - June 2023
- Removed dependencies on service endpoints
- The addition of the egress lockdown feature provided access to key Azure resources through the ARO Private Link service, thus removing the need to access ACR and storage accounts through a service endpoint and using a private endpoint instead. With this release, dependencies on service endpoints have been removed, and new clusters won't create service endpoints on VNets.
Version 4.11 - February 2023
We're pleased to announce the launch of OpenShift 4.11 for Azure Red Hat OpenShift. This release introduces the following features:
- Ability to deploy OpenShift 4.11
- Multi-version support:
- This enables customers to select specific Y and Z version of the release. See Red Hat OpenShift versions for more information about versions.
- Customers can still deploy 4.10 clusters if that version is specified. See Selecting a different ARO version for more information.
- OVN as the CNI for clusters 4.11 and above
- Accelerated networking VMs
- UltraSSD support
- Gen2 VM support
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