NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit v1.19.0

v1.19.0

Repository: NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit

Tag: v1.19.0

Published: 2026-03-12T15:34:23Z

Prerelease: no

Release notes:

What's Changed

NOTE: This release is a unified release of the NVIDIA Container Toolkit that consists of the following packages:

• `libnvidia-container 1.19.0`
• `nvidia-container-toolkit 1.19.0`

The packages for this release are published to the `libnvidia-container` package repositories.

This is a feature release and includes the following high-level changes:

• Report errors when unknown OCI runtime spec fields are detected.
• Added support for IGX 2.0 Thor-based systems including those with dGPUs installed.
• Added support for CUDA Forward Compatibility on Tegra-based systems. On Orin-based systems, this requires specific compat libraries in the container.
• Added support for running containers as a user that may not have explicit access to a device node without requiring that additional groups be explicitly specified.
• Improve triggering of systemd service that ensures that CDI specifications are up-to-date.
• Add support for read-only root filesystems such as those on an initramfs.

Changes since v1.19.0-rc.7

• Bump version for v1.19.0 release by @elezar in https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit/pull/1722

v1.19.0-rc.7

• build(deps): Bump actions/download-artifact from 7 to 8 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit/pull/1683
• build(deps): Bump actions/upload-artifact from 6 to 7 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit/pull/1684
• stop marking PRs as stale by @rahulait in https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit/pull/1675
• fix: Ensure that CUDA Compat Container path is set by default by @elezar in https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit/pull/1690
• fix: Use correct version when updating versions.mk by @elezar in https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit/pull/1681
• chore: Run goimports on mocks by @elezar in https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit/pull/1692
• chore: Rename isIntegratedGPUID function to isOrinGPUID by @elezar in https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit/pull/1674
• Use automatic CDI spec generation to generate CDI specs for other modifiers by @elezar in https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit/pull/1667
• fix: Don't use driver version in ELF header for compat check by @elezar in https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit/pull/1697
• fix: Reuse instantiated editsFactory in CDI by @elezar in https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit/pull/1666
• Bump version for v1.19.0-rc.7 release by @elezar in https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit/pull/1698

v1.19.0-rc.6

• Use host CUDA version for all CSV compat checks by @elezar in https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit/pull/1679
• Bump version for v1.19.0-rc.6 release by @elezar in https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit/pull/1680

v1.19.0-rc.5

• Separate nvcdi construction options from runtime options by @elezar in https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit/pull/1659
• build(deps): Bump nvidia/distroless/go from v4.0.1-dev to v4.0.2-dev in /deployments/container by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit/pull/1672
• chore: Fix release tooling to support annotated tags by @elezar in https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit/pull/1669
• allow stale cache to be deleted by @rahulait in https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit/pull/1670
• Remove dlopen locator by @elezar in https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit/pull/1676
• Bump version for v1.19.0-rc.5 release by @elezar in https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit/pull/1678

v1.19.0-rc.4

• build(deps): Bump golang from 1.25.6 to 1.25.7 in /deployments/devel by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit/pull/1640
• build(deps): Bump golang.org/x/mod from 0.32.0 to 0.33.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit/pull/1642
• build(deps): Bump github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2 from 2.27.5 to 2.28.1 in /tests by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit/pull/1619
• build(deps): Bump golang from 1.25.7 to 1.26.0 in /deployments/devel by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit/pull/1647
• build(deps): Bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.47.0 to 0.48.0 in /tests by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit/pull/1644
• build(deps): Bump golang.org/x/sys from 0.40.0 to 0.41.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit/pull/1641
• Refactor device node tests by @elezar in https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit/pull/1637
• Add debug-level log option for ctk-installer by @jactor-sue in https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit/pull/1551
• build(deps): Bump golang.org/x/mod from 0.32.0 to 0.33.0 in /tests by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit/pull/1643
• fix: Correct container compat path for orin by @elezar in https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit/pull/1649
• Refactor ldcache locator by @elezar in https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit/pull/1648
• test: Add to package with Ptr function by @elezar in https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit/pull/1653
• chore: Rename management receiver from m to l by @elezar in https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit/pull/1654
• test: Don't use modifier to add test runtime hook by @elezar in https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit/pull/1656
• refactor: Move update-ldcache argument processing into hook creator by @elezar in https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit/pull/1651
• Add a modifier factory by @elezar in https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit/pull/1655
• refactor: Prefer cdilib methods over functions by @elezar in https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit/pull/1658
• Fix golangci-lint errors by @elezar in https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit/pull/1662
• fix: Fix support for nvswitch mode by @elezar in https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit/pull/1661
• refactor: Move NormalizeSearchPaths into lookup…