SUSE's Harvester hyperconverged infrastructure platform has reached its fifth release candidate for version 1.7.0, bringing ARM64 architecture support alongside the existing AMD64 builds. The open source project, which combines virtualization, storage, and Kubernetes into a single platform for running VMs and containers, now ships with both full ISO and net install options for each architecture.
This release candidate represents a significant infrastructure refresh, rebasing on SL Micro 6.1 and bumping several core components. KubeVirt moves to v1.6.3, Longhorn storage reaches v1.10.1, and the embedded Rancher management platform updates to v2.13.0. The RKE2 Kubernetes distribution is pinned at v1.34.2+rke2r1.
The development team has closed over 150 issues since the previous release candidate, addressing bugs ranging from air-gapped installation failures to upgrade processes getting stuck during VM migration. New features marked for testing include hot-pluggable NICs from KubeVirt, auto live migration for rebalancing VM workloads, and pauseable node upgrades. However, SUSE explicitly warns this is a pre-release build not suitable for upgrades from any existing version, and upgrades from this RC to later versions are also unsupported.
