Release Notes

This document describes the new features, improvements, fixed and known issues for the NVIDIA Container Toolkit.

NVIDIA Container Toolkit 1.7.0

This version of the NVIDIA Container Toolkit allows up to date packages to be installed on Jetson devices. The following packages are included:

  • nvidia-container-toolkit 1.7.0

  • libnvidia-container-tools 1.7.0

  • libnvidia-container1 1.7.0

The following packages have also been updated to depend on nvidia-container-toolkit of at least 1.7.0:

  • nvidia-container-runtime 3.7.0

  • nvidia-docker2 2.8.0

Packaging Changes

  • On Ubuntu arm64 distributions the libnvidia-container-tools package depends on both libnvidia-container0 and libnvidia-container1 to support Jetson devices

Fixes and Features

  • Add a supported-driver-capabilities config option to allow for a subset of all driver capabilities to be specified

  • Makes the fixes from v1.6.0 to addresses an incompatibility with recent docker.io and containerd.io updates on Ubuntu installations (see NVIDIA/nvidia-container-runtime#157) available on Jetson devices.

specific to libnvidia-container

  • Filter command line options based on libnvidia-container library version

  • Include libnvidia-container version in CLI version output

  • Allow for nvidia-container-cli to load libnvidia-container.so.0 dynamically on Jetson platforms

NVIDIA Container Toolkit 1.6.0

This version of the NVIDIA Container Toolkit moves to unify the packaging of the components of the NVIDIA container stack. The following packages are included:

  • nvidia-container-toolkit 1.6.0

  • libnvidia-container-tools 1.6.0

  • libnvidia-container1 1.6.0

The following packages have also been updated to depend on nvidia-container-toolkit of at least 1.6.0:

  • nvidia-container-runtime 3.6.0

  • nvidia-docker2 2.7.0

Note

All the above packages are published to the libnvidia-container repository.

Note

As of version 2.7.0 the nvidia-docker2 package depends directly on nvidia-container-toolkit. This means that the nvidia-container-runtime package is no longer required and may be uninstalled as part of the upgrade process.

Packaging Changes

  • The nvidia-container-toolkit package now provides the nvidia-container-runtime executable

  • The nvidia-docker2 package now depends directly on the nvidia-container-toolkit directly

  • The nvidia-container-runtime package is now an architecture-independent meta-package serving only to define a dependency on the nvidia-container-toolkit for workflows that require this

  • Added packages for Amazon Linux 2 on AARC64 platforms for all components

Fixes and Features

  • Move OCI and command line checks for the NVIDIA Container Runtime to an internal go package (oci)

  • Update OCI runtime specification dependency to opencontainers/runtime-spec@a3c33d6 to fix compatibility with docker when overriding clone3 syscall return value [fixes NVIDIA/nvidia-container-runtime#157]

  • Use relative path to OCI specification file (config.json) if bundle path is not specified as an argument to the nvidia-container-runtime

specific to libnvidia-container

  • Bump nvidia-modprobe dependency to 495.44 in the NVIDIA Container Library to allow for non-root monitoring of MIG devices

  • Fix bug that lead to unexpected mount error when /proc/driver/nvidia does not exist on the host

Known Issues

Dependency errors when installing older versions of nvidia-container-runtime on Debian-based systems

With the release of the 1.6.0 and 3.6.0 versions of the nvidia-container-toolkit and nvidia-container-runtime packages, respectively, some files were reorganized and the package dependencies updated accordingly. (See case 10 in the Debian Package Transition documentation).

Due to these new constraints a package manager may not correctly resolve the required version of nvidia-container-toolkit when pinning to versions of the nvidia-container-runtime prior to 3.6.0.

This means that if a command such as:

sudo apt-get install nvidia-container-runtime=3.5.0-1

is used to install a specific version of the nvidia-container-runtime package, this may fail with the following error message:

Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
nvidia-container-runtime : Depends: nvidia-container-toolkit (>= 1.5.0) but it is not going to be installed
                            Depends: nvidia-container-toolkit (< 2.0.0) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

In order to address this, the versions of the nvidia-container-toolkit package should be specified explicitly to be at most 1.5.1

sudo apt-get install \
    nvidia-container-runtime=3.5.0-1 \
    nvidia-container-toolkit=1.5.1-1

In general, it is suggested that all components of the NVIDIA container stack be pinned to their required versions.

For the nvidia-container-runtime 3.5.0 these are:

  • nvidia-container-toolkit 1.5.1

  • libnvidia-container-tools 1.5.1

  • libnvidia-container1 1.5.1

To pin all the package versions above, run:

sudo apt-get install \
    nvidia-container-runtime=3.5.0-1 \
    nvidia-container-toolkit=1.5.1-1 \
    libnvidia-container-tools=1.5.1-1 \
    libnvidia-container1==1.5.1-1

Toolkit Container 1.7.0

Known issues

  • The container-toolkit:1.7.0-ubuntu18.04 image contains the CVE-2021-3711. This CVE affects libssl1.1 and openssl included in the ubuntu-based CUDA 11.4.1 base image. The components of the NVIDIA Container Toolkit included in the container do not use libssl1.1 or openssl and as such this is considered low risk if the container is used as intended; that is to install and configure the NVIDIA Container Toolkit in the context of the NVIDIA GPU Operator.