V1.4.0 Release Plan

[yukirora]

Endgame

• Code freeze: Nov. 07, 2025
• Bug Bash date: Nov. 10, 2025
• Testing start date: Nov. 17, 2025
• Release date: Nov. 28, 2025

Main Features

Platform Features & Stability

1. • Blobfuse2 installation failure (Bootstrap - Fix race condition of dpkg lock in vmss extension #94 )
2. • LTP rest-server data auth (Ruigao/list disappeared vc jobs #112 )
3. • Containers losing access to NVIDIA GPUs
4. • Slow portal response (set externalTrafficPolicy for Pylon and SSH service #104)
5. • Fix deployment on arm64 architecture (Fix deployment on arm64 architecture #109 )
6. • Alert manager deployment bugfix (AlertManager - fix deployment template issue #106 )
7. • add image regex to support valid image limitation (RestServer - add image regex to limit the valid image #107 )
8. • Add webportal plugin for cluster local storage (Contrib - Add webportal plugin for cluster local storage #69 )
9. • Add tolerance and priority class in cluster-local-storage (Cluster local storage - Add tolerations and priority class #119 )
10. • Create postgresql backend and support backend switch with kusto (Database - create postgresql backend and support backend switch with kusto #117)

Inference

1. • Inference plugin support model proxy (Update chat-plugin to support model-proxy #101 )
2. • Support training/inference job type in restserver (RestServer - support inference/training jobType in job protocal #105 )
3. • Support training/inference job type in webportal (Webportal support jobType in job protocol and dedicated parameters in inference job #113 )
4. • New Inference Job template implementation in model proxy (ModelProxy supports the "jobType" field of inference jobs #118 )

CI/CD

1. • CI/CD to build all service image (CI/CD update: add a new workflow to test building all images; skip push specific images in alertmanager to GHCR;  #102, CICD FIX: disable building all image during PR. prefer to trigger it manually or on release. #120 )
2. • enable imagelist argument for image build script (enable imagelist argument for image build script #95 )
3. • fix copy error of building image(Fix copy error when building images of job-exporter with docker 28.2+ #97)

Security

1. • Upgrade Dockerfile with system update (Security update for docker images in Oct. 2025 #96)
2. • Credentials in source code PR (remove the value of login info in log-manager #108,fix security alert: copilot, langchain-text-splitters #99 )
3. • Cilium update(Update Cilium version to v1.17.5 #56)

User Experience

1. • Add user manual doc (Add Doc: manual, user #111 )
2. • Improve copilot test experience (Improve: copilot: test experience #100 )