smolvm

v1.6.0 Feature

This release adds 3 notable features for engineering teams evaluating rollout.

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Summary

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Updates ci, CUDA-over-vsock, and feat across a mixed release.

Changes in this release

Type	Severity	Summary	CVE
Feature
Feature	Medium	Expose the guest Docker daemon socket to the host over vsock. Expose the guest Docker daemon socket to the host over vsock. Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-14 Confidence: high	—
Feature	Medium	Ship smolvm as a Nix flake package, auto‑bumped on release. Ship smolvm as a Nix flake package, auto‑bumped on release. Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-14 Confidence: high	—
Feature	Medium	Publish official .deb and .rpm repos alongside the pacman repo. Publish official .deb and .rpm repos alongside the pacman repo. Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-14 Confidence: high	—
Feature	Medium	Add Kubernetes containerd‑shim‑v2 runtime support. Add Kubernetes containerd‑shim‑v2 runtime support. Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-14 Confidence: high	—
Feature	Low	Implement CUDA‑over‑vsock to fork warm GPU VMs and run vLLM through remoting. Implement CUDA‑over‑vsock to fork warm GPU VMs and run vLLM through remoting. Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-14 Confidence: high	—
Dependency	Low	Vendor libkrun vsock half‑close fix (linux‑x64 + macOS). Vendor libkrun vsock half‑close fix (linux‑x64 + macOS). Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-14 Confidence: high	—
Dependency	Low	Re‑vendor libkrun at f55362a for the TSI remote‑half‑close fix. Re‑vendor libkrun at f55362a for the TSI remote‑half‑close fix. Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-14 Confidence: high	—
Bugfix
Bugfix	Medium	Fix the deb/rpm build broken by a leftover LICENSE.txt copy. Fix the deb/rpm build broken by a leftover LICENSE.txt copy. Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-14 Confidence: high	—
Bugfix	Medium	Honor TCP half-close in the virtio-net relay. Honor TCP half-close in the virtio-net relay. Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-14 Confidence: high	—
Bugfix	Low	Serve the pacman repo from GitHub Pages and auto‑publish on release. Serve the pacman repo from GitHub Pages and auto‑publish on release. Source: llm_adapter@2026-07-14 Confidence: high	—
Refactor	Low	Clean up deb/rpm packaging lintian and rpmlint findings. Clean up deb/rpm packaging lintian and rpmlint findings. Source: granite4.1:30b@2026-07-14-audit Confidence: low	—

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What's Changed

docs(security): clarify workload isolation model by @Kevin-Liu-01 in https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm/pull/606
fix(ci): serve the pacman repo from GitHub Pages and auto-publish it on release by @BinSquare in https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm/pull/611
Publish official .deb and .rpm repos alongside the pacman repo by @BinSquare in https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm/pull/612
Clean up deb/rpm packaging lintian and rpmlint findings by @BinSquare in https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm/pull/613
Fix the deb/rpm build broken by a leftover LICENSE.txt copy by @BinSquare in https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm/pull/614
Ship smolvm as a Nix flake package, auto-bumped on release by @BinSquare in https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm/pull/615
CUDA-over-vsock: fork warm GPU VMs and run vLLM through the remoting by @BinSquare in https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm/pull/616
feat: expose the guest Docker daemon socket to the host over vsock by @BinSquare in https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm/pull/618
libkrun: vendor the vsock half-close fix (linux-x64 + macos) by @BinSquare in https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm/pull/619
fix: honor TCP half-close in the virtio-net relay by @BinSquare in https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm/pull/620
chore: re-vendor libkrun at f55362a for the TSI remote-half-close fix by @BinSquare in https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm/pull/622
Kubernetes containerd-shim-v2 runtime by @BinSquare in https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm/pull/610
Bump the workspace to 1.6.0 for the CUDA remoting, Docker-socket, and Kubernetes shim features by @BinSquare in https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm/pull/623

New Contributors

@Kevin-Liu-01 made their first contribution in https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm/pull/606

Full Changelog: https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm/compare/v1.5.2...v1.6.0

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