kurtosis

Containers & Orchestration

Kurtosis simplifies spinning up ephemeral dev or test stacks by abstracting Docker and Kubernetes orchestration into reusable, parameterizable packages.

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Go Latest 1.19.0 · 1d ago Security brief →

Features

Packaging system for distributing backend stack definitions that run on Docker or Kubernetes
Runtime with per‑stack file management for reproducible state initialization
Tools enabling developers to interact with stacks similarly to native Docker or k8s workflows

Recent releases

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1.19.0 New feature 1d

otel CLI command + log stamping

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1.18.3 Bug fix 16d

Engine fix: heredoc

Open

1.18.1 New feature 1mo

Notable features

verify release tokens before release PR merges

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1.18.1 (2026-04-15)

Features

verify release tokens before release PR merges (#3040) (2850515)

Miscellaneous Chores

release 1.18.1 (#3050) (5f3fcec)

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1.18.0 Security relevant 1mo

Security fixes

CVE-2026-33186 — grpc-go authz bypass patch in CLI and enclave-manager

Notable features

shm size ulimits adjustments for GPU environments

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1.18.0 (2026-04-14)

Features

shm size ulimits gpus (#3018) (8420323)

Bug Fixes

group dependabot updates by dependency name across directories (#2998) (d8bf5a7)
reduce CI flakiness across log tests, K8s setup, and CLI tests (#3007) (817243a)
security: bump vulnerable dependencies (#3008) (5a2d4b2)
security: patch CVE-2026-33186 grpc-go authz bypass in cli and enclave-manager (#2985) (e393aa2)
use pull_request_target for dependabot auto-merge (#2993) (3da8e12)

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1.17.7 Breaking risk 2mo

Security fixes

dep: Bumped cli/cli/v2 and cli/go-gh/v2 in the cli module to address security updates.
dep: Updated go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk to v1.40.0 for security improvements.

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1.17.7 (2026-03-25)

Bug Fixes

kurtosis dump fails with permission denied on restrictive file artifacts (#2991) (f36ae68)
replace deprecated goreleaser changelog.skip (#2988) (28e7841)
security: bump cli/cli/v2 and cli/go-gh/v2 in cli module (#2990) (98e2078)
security: bump go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk to v1.40.0 (#2989) (847d57b)