Issues

• COPY --link --chown keeps the owner of existing parent directories

  bugstandardization
  osscontainertools/kaniko#1214 · Filter by author mzihlmann opened on Oct 13, 2026

• RUN --mount relative target not resolved against WORKDIR

  bugstandardization
  osscontainertools/kaniko#1213 · Filter by author mzihlmann opened on Oct 13, 2026

• COPY --from images bypass the base-image cache

  enhancementwarmer
  osscontainertools/kaniko#1212 · Filter by author mzihlmann opened on Oct 12, 2026

• COPY --link into an existing directory copies into it instead of replacing it

  bugstandardization
  osscontainertools/kaniko#1178 · Filter by author mzihlmann opened on Oct 11, 2026

• ADD of a gzip file that is not a tar fails

  bugfuzz
  osscontainertools/kaniko#1176 · Filter by author mzihlmann opened on Oct 10, 2026

• ADD --chown is not applied to extracted archive entries

  bugfuzz
  osscontainertools/kaniko#1175 · Filter by author mzihlmann opened on Oct 10, 2026

• RUN creating a self-referential symlink fails the snapshot

  bugfuzz
  osscontainertools/kaniko#1174 · Filter by author mzihlmann opened on Oct 10, 2026

• WORKDIR with a named USER fails on a scratch base

  bugfuzz
  osscontainertools/kaniko#1173 · Filter by author mzihlmann opened on Oct 10, 2026

• ADD from a URL fails when the destination parent is a symlink

  bugstandardization
  osscontainertools/kaniko#1152 · Filter by author mzihlmann opened on Oct 5, 2026

• Stages without rootfs work go through the root filesystem

  cachingperformance
  osscontainertools/kaniko#1128 · Filter by author mzihlmann opened on Sep 25, 2026

• TARGETARCH not resolved in FROM

  bugstandardization
  osscontainertools/kaniko#1126 · Filter by author mzihlmann opened on Sep 25, 2026

• smart snapshotter

  enhancement
  osscontainertools/kaniko#1122 · Filter by author mzihlmann opened on Sep 25, 2026

• ADD from a URL serves a stale cached layer when the remote content changes

  cachingstandardization
  osscontainertools/kaniko#1064 · Filter by author mzihlmann opened on Sep 2, 2026

• TestK8s/test_k8s_with_context_issue-57 diffs when the remote ADD URL serves different bytes to each build

  tests
  osscontainertools/kaniko#1041 · Filter by author mzihlmann opened on Aug 25, 2026

• Base-image layer descriptor annotations are propagated into derived images

  bugstandardization
  osscontainertools/kaniko#1038 · Filter by author mzihlmann opened on Aug 24, 2026

• --context-sub-path is ignored when the context is a local directory

  bugfuzz
  osscontainertools/kaniko#1026 · Filter by author mzihlmann opened on Aug 22, 2026

• RUN with a quoted heredoc delimiter is silently skipped

  bugfuzzstandardization
  osscontainertools/kaniko#1025 · Filter by author mzihlmann opened on Aug 22, 2026

• COPY/ADD --chmod not applied verbatim to implicit parent dirs: umask is subtracted (0777 becomes 0755)

  bugfuzzstandardization
  osscontainertools/kaniko#922 · Filter by author mzihlmann opened on Jul 17, 2026
  1

• COPY --chown with a named user or group fails on a base without /etc/passwd (scratch)

  bugfuzzstandardization
  osscontainertools/kaniko#897 · Filter by author mzihlmann opened on Jul 10, 2026

• COPY/ADD context files are hashed twice per build (26% CPU, 44% allocations)

  bugperformance
  osscontainertools/kaniko#883 · Filter by author mzihlmann opened on Jul 6, 2026

• Build output depends on the launcher's umask

  bugstandardization
  osscontainertools/kaniko#880 · Filter by author mzihlmann opened on Jul 6, 2026

• registry-map: optionally resolve tags at the source registry before pulling from a mirror

  enhancement
  osscontainertools/kaniko#878 · Filter by author mzihlmann opened on Jul 6, 2026

• Multi-stage builds share one snapshotter, so cross-stage whiteouts depend on cache timing

  bugcachingfuzz
  osscontainertools/kaniko#876 · Filter by author mzihlmann opened on Jul 5, 2026
  3

• cache-lookahead: stage finalCacheKey over-folds later ARGs

  bugcachingfuzz
  osscontainertools/kaniko#872 · Filter by author mzihlmann opened on Jul 5, 2026
  3

• COPY through a dangling symlink destination aborts the build

  bugfuzzstandardization
  osscontainertools/kaniko#868 · Filter by author mzihlmann opened on Jul 3, 2026