Release notes for Container Registry

You can use trusted profiles to grant different IBM Cloud identities access to IBM Cloud Container Registry resources in your account. Automatically grant federated users access to your account with conditions based on SAML attributes from your corporate directory.

For more information, see Accessing Container Registry by using trusted profiles.

To ensure continued worldwide performance for global registry (icr.io) in IBM Cloud® Container Registry, a content delivery network (CDN) is being enabled that means that you might have to adjust your firewall settings. If you need to adjust your firewall settings, you must adjust them by 4 September 2024.

For more information, see Important firewall changes from 4 September 2024 for users that pull IBM Cloud Container Registry images from global (icr.io).

Vulnerability Advisor version 3 is discontinued.

For more information about how to update to Vulnerability Advisor version 4, see Vulnerability Advisor version 3 is being discontinued on 13 November 2023.

Vulnerability Advisor version 3 is being discontinued on 13 November 2023. If you have version 3 set as the default, you must update to Vulnerability Advisor version 4 by 13 November 2023. If you are already using version 4, no action is required.

For more information about how to update to version 4, see Vulnerability Advisor version 3 is being discontinued on 13 November 2023.

The following IBM Cloud Container Registry commands now have an output option for JSON format:

• ibmcloud cr exemption-add
• ibmcloud cr exemption-list
• ibmcloud cr exemption-types
• ibmcloud cr image-list
• ibmcloud cr namespace-list
• ibmcloud cr plan
• ibmcloud cr quota
• ibmcloud cr retention-policy-list

For more information about the IBM Cloud Container Registry commands, see IBM Cloud Container Registry CLI.

The --json option is replaced with the --output json option in the following commands:

• ibmcloud cr image-digests
• ibmcloud cr image-prune-untagged
• ibmcloud cr image-retention-run
• ibmcloud cr trash-list

For more information about the IBM Cloud Container Registry commands, see IBM Cloud Container Registry CLI.

The Vulnerability Advisor component of IBM Cloud® Container Registry is being updated.

Vulnerability Advisor version 3 is being deprecated as the default on 19 June 2023. From 19 June 2023, the default will be Vulnerability Advisor version 4. If you have version 3 set as the default, you can continue to use version 3 until the end of support date. An end of support date is not available yet.

For more information, see Update Vulnerability Advisor to version 4 by 19 June 2023.

IBM Cloud Container Registry is available as a service in IBM Cloud. Container Registry provides a multi-tenant private image registry that you can use to store and share your container images with users in your IBM Cloud account.

For more information about how to use Container Registry, see Getting started with Container Registry.