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This release follows v0.53.1 and consists of 223 changes, contributed…

… by 38 people, leading to 215 files changed, 15237 insertions(+), 1800 deletions(-).

v0.54.0 is a promotion of release candidate v0.54.0-rc.0 which was originally published 2022-06-01
The source code and selected binaries are available for download at: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/releases/tag/v0.54.0.

The primary release artifact of KubeVirt is the git tree. The release tag is
signed and can be verified using `git tag -v v0.54.0`.

Pre-built containers are published on Quay and can be viewed at: <https://quay.io/kubevirt/>.

Notable changes
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- [PR #7757][orenc1] new alert for excessive number of VMI migrations in a period of time.
- [PR #7517][ShellyKa13] Add virtctl Memory Dump command
- [PR #7801][VirrageS] Empty (`nil` values) of `Address` and `Driver` fields in XML will be omitted.
- [PR #7475][raspbeep] Adds the reason of a live-migration failure to a recorded event in case EvictionStrategy is set but live-migration is blocked due to its limitations.
- [PR #7739][fossedihelm] Allow `virtualmachines/migrate` subresource to admin/edit users
- [PR #7618][lyarwood] The requirement to define a `Disk` or `Filesystem` for each `Volume` associated with a `VirtualMachine` has been removed. Any `Volumes` without a `Disk` or `Filesystem` defined will have a `Disk` defined within the `VirtualMachineInstance` at runtime.
- [PR #7529][xpivarc] NoReadyVirtController and NoReadyVirtOperator should be properly fired.
- [PR #7465][machadovilaca] Add metrics for migrations and respective phases
- [PR #7592][akalenyu] BugFix: virtctl guestfs incorrectly assumes image name

Contributors
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38 people contributed to this release:

27	Lee Yarwood <[email protected]>
16	Jed Lejosne <[email protected]>
15	Shelly Kagan <[email protected]>
12	Miguel Duarte Barroso <[email protected]>
9	bmordeha <[email protected]>
8	Andrea Bolognani <[email protected]>
7	Janusz Marcinkiewicz <[email protected]>
6	L. Pivarc <[email protected]>
5	Vasiliy Ulyanov <[email protected]>
4	Dan Kenigsberg <[email protected]>
4	Edward Haas <[email protected]>
4	Or Shoval <[email protected]>
3	Alex Kalenyuk <[email protected]>
3	Itamar Holder <[email protected]>
2	Alice Frosi <[email protected]>
2	Andrey Odarenko <[email protected]>
2	Daniel Hiller <[email protected]>
2	Fabian Deutsch <[email protected]>
2	Igor Bezukh <[email protected]>
2	Marcelo Amaral <[email protected]>
2	akriti gupta <[email protected]>
2	fossedihelm <[email protected]>
1	Andrej Krejcir <[email protected]>
1	Ben Oukhanov <[email protected]>
1	Diana Teplits <[email protected]>
1	Howard Zhang <[email protected]>
1	João Vilaça <[email protected]>
1	Joël Séguillon <[email protected]>
1	Karel Šimon <[email protected]>
1	Nik Paushkin <[email protected]>
1	Pavel Kratochvil <[email protected]>
1	Petr Horáček <[email protected]>
1	Ram Lavi <[email protected]>
1	Ryan Hallisey <[email protected]>
1	borod108 <[email protected]>
1	orenc1 <[email protected]>

Additional Resources
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- Mailing list: <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/kubevirt-dev>
- Slack: <https://kubernetes.slack.com/messages/virtualization>
- An easy to use demo: <https://github.com/kubevirt/demo>
- [How to contribute][contributing]
- [License][license]

[contributing]: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
[license]: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/blob/main/LICENSE
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