v0.8.16

AIPentest/CyberStrikeAIv0.8.16Jul 16, 2025by littleredcorvette

AI Summary

This release focuses on the final cleanup of Earthly Cloud features, removing CLI account creation and cleaning up the `dockerd` wrapper, following the official shutdown of the cloud service.

Key Highlights

Removed CLI based account creation
`dockerd` wrapper cleans up after itself
Removed all Cloud dependencies, commands, and flags
No changes to buildkit

Breaking Changes

Removed CLI based account creation
Removed all Cloud dependencies, commands, and flags

Full Release Notes

### Changed
- Removed CLI based account creation [#4283](https://github.com/earthly/earthly/pull/4283)
- `dockerd` wrapper cleans up after itself [#4267](https://github.com/earthly/earthly/pull/4267)/[#4268](https://github.com/earthly/earthly/pull/4268)
- Removed all Cloud dependencies, commands, and flags as part of the [Earthly Cloud shutdown](https://earthly.dev/blog/shutting-down-earthfiles-cloud/) [#4235](https://github.com/earthly/earthly/pull/4325)

### Changed
- `v0.8.15` will continue working after the shutdown, but with some error messages interspersed in the output.
- `v0.8.16` does not emit log messages after the cloud shutdown. However, it removes many cloud-based commands and flags. If you are using these in your scripts or CI, please remove them.

### Additional Info
- This release has no changes to buildkit