SUSE's Harvester hyperconverged infrastructure platform has reached release candidate 4 for version 1.7.0, introducing native ARM64 support alongside significant updates to its core virtualization stack. The open source platform, which combines compute, storage, and networking in a Kubernetes-native environment, now ships with KubeVirt 1.6.3, Longhorn 1.10.1, and an embedded Rancher 2.13.0.
The new release brings substantial infrastructure changes under the hood. The base operating system has been upgraded to SLE Micro 6.1, and the platform now runs on RKE2 v1.34.2. Developers have addressed dozens of bugs related to upgrade procedures, VM migration, and network configuration. Notable fixes include resolving issues where upgrades would stall during pre-draining stages when VMs failed to migrate, and correcting problems with the logging addon that could block upgrade processes entirely.
New features in testing include hot-pluggable network interfaces from KubeVirt, automatic VM workload rebalancing through live migration, and the ability to pause node upgrades mid-process. The UI has also received attention with support for attaching RWX block volumes to multiple VMs and improvements to the VNC console reconnection workflow. As a pre-release build, SUSE warns against upgrading production systems to this version or expecting upgrade paths to future releases.