Posts in 2026

  • SELinux Volume Label Changes goes GA (and likely implications in v1.37)

    By Jan Šafránek (Red Hat) Swathi Rao (Independent) | Wednesday, April 29, 2026 in Blog

    If you run Kubernetes on Linux with SELinux in enforcing mode, plan ahead: a future release (anticipated to be v1.37) is expected to turn the SELinuxMount feature gate on by default. This makes volume setup faster for most workloads, but it can break …

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  • Kubernetes v1.36: Server-Side Sharded List and Watch

    By Jeffrey Ying (Google) | Thursday, April 23, 2026 in Blog

    As Kubernetes clusters grow to tens of thousands of nodes, controllers that watch high-cardinality resources like Pods face a scaling wall. Every replica of a horizontally scaled controller receives the full stream of events from the API server, …

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  • Kubernetes v1.36: RELEASE NAME

    By Kubernetes v1.36 Release Team | Wednesday, April 22, 2026 in Blog

    Editors: Chad M. Crowell, Kirti Goyal, Sophia Ugochukwu, Swathi Rao, Utkarsh Umre Similar to previous releases, the release of Kubernetes v1.36 introduces new stable, beta, and alpha features. The consistent delivery of high-quality releases …

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  • User Namespaces in Kubernetes: Finally GA

    By Rodrigo Campos Catelin (Amutable), Giuseppe Scrivano (Red Hat) | Wednesday, April 22, 2026 in Blog

    After several years of development, User Namespaces support in Kubernetes reached General Availability (GA) with the v1.36 release. This is a Linux-only feature. For those of us working on low level container runtimes and rootless technologies, this …

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  • Gateway API v1.5: Moving features to Stable

    Tuesday, April 21, 2026 in Blog

    The Kubernetes SIG Network community presents the release of Gateway API (v1.5)! Released on March 14, 2026, version 1.5 is our biggest release yet, and concentrates on moving existing Experimental features to Standard (Stable). The Gateway API …

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  • Kubernetes v1.36 Sneak Peek

    By Chad Crowell, Kirti Goyal, Sophia Ugochukwu, Swathi Rao, Utkarsh Umre | Monday, March 30, 2026 in Blog

    Kubernetes v1.36 is coming at the end of April 2026. This release will include removals and deprecations, and it is packed with an impressive number of enhancements. Here are some of the features we are most excited about in this cycle! Please note …

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  • From Kubernetes Dashboard to Headlamp: Understanding the Transition

    By Will Case (Headlamp) | Friday, March 27, 2026 in Blog

    For many people, Kubernetes Dashboard was their first window into Kubernetes. It offered a simple visual way to see what was running in a cluster, inspect resources, and build confidence without relying on the command line. For years, it helped …

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  • Kubernetes v1.36: Tiered Memory Protection with Memory QoS

    By Qi Wang (Red Hat), Sohan Kunkerkar (Red Hat) | Thursday, March 26, 2026 in Blog

    On behalf of SIG Node, we are pleased to announce updates to the Memory QoS feature (alpha) in Kubernetes v1.36. Memory QoS uses the cgroup v2 memory controller to give the kernel better guidance on how to treat container memory. It was first …

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  • Kubernetes v1.36: Staleness Mitigation and Observability for Controllers

    By Michael Aspinwall (Google) | Thursday, March 26, 2026 in Blog

    Staleness in Kubernetes controllers is a problem that affects many controllers, and is something may affect controller behavior in subtle ways. It is usually not until it is too late, when a controller in production has already taken incorrect …

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  • Kubernetes v1.36: Declarative Validation Graduates to GA

    By Yongrui Lin | Monday, March 23, 2026 in Blog

    In Kubernetes v1.36, Declarative Validation for Kubernetes native types has reached General Availability (GA). For users, this means more reliable, predictable, and better-documented APIs. By moving to a declarative model, the project also unlocks …

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