NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit v1.18.0-rc.4

v1.18.0-rc.4

Repository: NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit

Tag: v1.18.0-rc.4

Published: 2025-09-22T09:04:54Z

Prerelease: yes

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

• `libnvidia-container 1.18.0-rc.4`
• `nvidia-container-toolkit 1.18.0-rc.4`

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

What's Changed

• Add drop-in file support for containerd and crio
• Add support for IMEX_CHANNELS to jit-cdi mode
• Refactor IMEX channel requests from image
• Remove redundant CDI annotations
• support running and degraded systemd state during install
• Don't inject enable-cuda-compat hook in CSV mode
• Cleanup default runtime in runtime config when setAsDefault=false

Changes in the Toolkit Container

• Bump nvidia/distroless/go to v3.1.12-dev in /deployments/container

Full Changelog: https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-container-toolkit/compare/v1.18.0-rc.3...v1.18.0-rc.4