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containerd 2.1.9

Welcome to the v2.1.9 release of containerd!

The ninth patch release for containerd 2.1 contains various fixes
and updates including security patches.

Security Updates

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

Contributors

  • Chris Henzie
  • Samuel Karp
  • Akihiro Suda
  • Wei Fu
  • Akhil Mohan
  • Ben Cressey
  • Brian Goff
  • Davanum Srinivas
  • Jared Ledvina

Changes

22 commits

  • b8b3a86e9 Prepare release notes for v2.1.9
  • ee965da63 Merge commit from fork
  • b5e0c4733 Merge commit from fork
  • 02045fd46 cri: filter CDI annotations on checkpoint restore
  • e9c26cf3c Merge commit from fork
  • 2e4583a9f cri: do not re-tag restored checkpoints
  • 6e4ec908a Merge commit from fork
  • 570e69884 cri: make checkpoint restore robust to unexpected archive content
  • 3788b4b9e Merge commit from fork
  • 290420fa7 Bound user-database file reads in openBoundedUserFile
  • bc5014f45 Merge commit from fork
  • 429bcb924 Do not propagate reserved labels from image configs
  • update runc binary to v1.3.6 (#13616)
  • update go to 1.26.4/1.25.11 (#13578)
  • Configure udevd children-max for root-test (#13566)
    • 22515b56f Configure udevd children-max for root-test
  • Clean up disk space in node e2e workflow (#13554)
    • af88d4f60 Clean up disk space in node e2e workflow
  • [github-action] release - Empty allowedSignersFile (#13517)
    • 06df49576 release - Empty allowedSignersFile

Dependency Changes

This release has no dependency changes

Previous release can be found at v2.1.8

Which file should I download?

  • containerd-<VERSION>-<OS>-<ARCH>.tar.gz: ✅Recommended. Dynamically linked with glibc 2.35 (Ubuntu 22.04).
  • containerd-static-<VERSION>-<OS>-<ARCH>.tar.gz: Statically linked. Expected to be used on Linux distributions that do not use glibc >= 2.35. Not position-independent.

In addition to containerd, typically you will have to install runc
and CNI plugins from their official sites too.

See also the Getting Started documentation.

chrishenzie and others added 12 commits June 5, 2026 15:30
Port of 7b05ec4 to the release/2.1 call shape, which reads user
databases via path-based user.ParsePasswdFile* / ParseGroupFile*
helpers rather than the fs.FS-based openUserFile wrapper introduced
later on main.

UserFromPath, GIDFromPath, getSupplementalGroupsFromPath, and the
setAdditionalGids closure in WithAppendAdditionalGroups now open
/etc/passwd or /etc/group via openBoundedUserFile, which stats the
resolved path, refuses anything that is not a regular file, and
returns an io.ReadCloser that caps reads at maxUserFileBytes (10
MiB). The reader is consumed by the user.ParsePasswdFilter /
ParseGroupFilter / ParseGroup variants. All four call sites read
either etc/passwd or etc/group; both are regular files on real
systems, well under the cap.

The cap and the regular-file check together bound parser memory use
when reading user-database files of unexpected shape or size.

Adds tests for the cap and for the non-regular file rejection. The
cap test covers three boundary points: a small pad (trailing entry
parsed), a pad placing the entry's last byte exactly on the cap
(still parsed), and a pad past the cap (read returns an "exceeds"
error). The non-regular test verifies a FIFO at etc/group is
rejected before any read is attempted.

Updates TestWithAppendAdditionalGroupsNoEtcGroup to expect "stat
... no such file or directory" instead of "open ...". The
soft-on-missing behavior of WithAppendAdditionalGroups is unchanged.

(cherry picked from commit 7b05ec4)
Signed-off-by: Chris Henzie <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Brian Goff <[email protected]>
Google-Bug-Id: 508657842
Signed-off-by: Samuel Karp <[email protected]>
(cherry picked from commit 0c0918f)
Signed-off-by: Samuel Karp <[email protected]>
Image config labels are copied onto the container by both the CRI
plugin (BuildLabels) and the client's WithImageConfigLabels option
used by `ctr run`. Labels in the containerd.io/* namespace are
interpreted by containerd itself and labels in the io.cri-containerd*
namespace are interpreted by the CRI plugin. An image config is not a
trusted source for labels in either namespace.

Skip labels in both reserved namespaces when copying labels from an
image config to a container, and warn about each label skipped: an
image that tries to set them may be attempting to alter containerd
behavior. Oversized image labels are already skipped this way by
the CRI plugin.

Labels set explicitly by clients, for example via `ctr run --label`
or in the CRI request, are unaffected.

Verified with the CRI plugin and with `ctr run` against an image
whose config carries labels like these: the labels are no longer
present on the created container and a warning is logged for each.

Assisted-by: Claude Code
Signed-off-by: Ben Cressey <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Karp <[email protected]>
(cherry picked from commit 0ec1af4)
Signed-off-by: Akihiro Suda <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Karp <[email protected]>
Filter out any annotations on the checkpointed container matching
`cdi.k8s.io/` or exactly `cdi.k8s.io` during restore to prevent
unauthorized device restoration. When an annotation is denied, a warning
log is generated.

Tested by:
* Unit tests for exact matching, prefix boundaries, and metadata merging
* Complete CRI integration and checkpoint restore suite

Assisted-by: Antigravity
Signed-off-by: Samuel Karp <[email protected]>
(cherry picked from commit 861ffc1)
Signed-off-by: Chris Henzie <[email protected]>
The CRI checkpoint restore path unpacked checkpoint archive/OCI image content
directly into the container's persistent state directory and read files such as
container.log back from it with a symlink-following copy. Checkpoint content is
externally provided, so make restore more defensive about what it unpacks and
how it reads those files back.

Behavior changes:

- Only unpack regular files and directories from the checkpoint archive.

- Unpack checkpoint content into a dedicated <state>/ctrd-restore
  subdirectory created fresh rather than into the state dir itself, so
  checkpoint content cannot collide with containerd's own files (e.g.
  the "status" blob). Restore and cleanup operate on that subdir;
  cleanup is now a single RemoveAll of it.

Signed-off-by: Brian Goff <[email protected]>
(cherry picked from commit 8196411)
Signed-off-by: Brian Goff <[email protected]>
(cherry picked from commit 3576522)
Signed-off-by: Brian Goff <[email protected]>
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