Week Ending March 1: Kubernetes v1.36.0-alpha.2 released, out-of-band patch releases (1.35.2–1.32.13) shipped with CVE fixes, Code & Test Freeze set for Mar 19, and multiple features promoted including MutableCSINodeAllocatableCount to GA.
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Week Ending February 22: WG Serving disbanded after completing its mission, ingress-nginx reaches EOL March 31, Feature Blog Freeze closes Feb 27, Code & Test Freeze set for March 19, and MutatingAdmissionPolicy promoted to GA.
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Week Ending February 15: Maintainer Summit EU registration opens, v1.36 Feature Blog Freeze Feb 27, patch releases (1.35.1–1.32.12) published, HPA validation moved to Declarative Validation, CustomCPUCFSquota GA & kubeadm drops integrated flex-volume support ahead of v1.36.
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Week Ending February 8: Kubernetes v1.36.0-alpha.1 is live ahead of the Enhancements Freeze on Feb 11, ExternalServiceAccountTokenSigner promoted to GA, RealFIFO graduated to GA, and KEP-5573 highlights the planned removal of cgroup v1 support.
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Week Ending February 1: Ingress-Nginx announced EOL in March, Node Readiness Controller launched under K8s-sigs, SIG leadership updates shared, v1.36 PRR and Enhancements Freeze deadlines nearing, and DeclarativeValidation graduated to GA with kubectl kuberc promoted to beta
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Week of January 25: 1.36 release cycle, non-pod DRA references, User Namespaces go beta.
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Week Ending January 18: SIG Windows nominates new co-chairs, WG Structured Logging proposed to spin down, SIG Node seeks KEP Wrangler volunteers for v1.36, PRR Freeze set for February 4, and KYAML (KEP-5295) highlighted as a safer YAML format now in beta.
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Week Ending January 11: K8s v1.36 release cycle begins, with release leads selected; Kind preparing to adopt kubeadm v1beta4 configs with breaking changes; patch releases delayed a week & multiple observability, validation & scheduler improvements merged across the project.
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Happy New Year! Welcome to another year of Kubernetes development.
Week Ending January 4: Kubernetes kicks off 2026 with SIG-Infra reorganizing test dashboards, the Kubernetes Dashboard archived in favor of Headlamp, and preparations underway for the v1.36 release cycle.
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Week Ending December 14: Kubernetes v1.35 released, SIG-etcd warning to update to etcd v3.5.26 before upgrading from v3.5 to v3.6, to prevent etcd clusters from reporting “zombie members”, last LWKD issue of 2025, see y'all next year!
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Week Ending December 7: Maintainer proposals for KCEU are due, 1.35 rc1 is out, patch releases, Checkpoint/Restore WG.
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Week ending November 30: security hole in old Portworx driver, release highlights are due, Prometheus v3.8.
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Week Ending November 16: Code Freeze, tons of feature promotions, pod generations
Ingress-NGINX is going away next year.
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Week ending November 2: Steering Committee election results announced! v1.35 code freeze on November 7th, WG LTS shutting down, Kustomize project seeking proposals for new logo.
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Week ending October 26: One week left for v1.35 code freeze. Steering committee elections closed, results next week. Kubernetes Contributor Hour and SIG Meet and Greet at KubeCon NA
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Week ending October 19: final days to vote for Steering, etcd upgrade fix, node topology labels in pod, yet another Go update.
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Week ending October 12: vote for Steering, PRR/Enhancement freeze, NUMA topology, and we finally get a `-n` shortcut
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Week ending October 5: Enhancements Freeze on October 16th. cgroups v1 deprecation.
And: Remember to vote in the Steering Election!!
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Week of September 28: Changes to PRR Freeze deadline from v1.35 release cycle, WG AI Gateway, Declarative APIs and Linters subproject under SIG API Machinery
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Week of September 21: changes to Autoscaling and K8s-Infra leadership, Release is collecting 1.35 enhancements, and Yet Another GoLang Update
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Week ending September 14: Start of release cycle, C# security hole, MatchLabelKeys
And: Remember to vote in the Steering Election!!
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Week ending September 7: release team shadows, secrets flaw, external signing of tokens, TooManyRequest, and losing Han Kang.
And: remember to vote in the Steering election.
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Week Ending August 31: Steering committee nominations closes on Sep 8th. KubeCon NA Maintainer Summit schedule out. Shoutouts for the v1.34 release team
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Week ending August 24: 1.34 release!!!, Steering Election starts, storage object counting, AppArmor support.
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Week Ending August 17: OwnerReferences security hole, patch releases, podCertificateRequestCleaner, speeding up cache reads
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Week ending August 10: SIG-Multicluster survey, SIG-Release meetings, Ordered Namespace Deletion
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Week ending July 27: v1.34 Code Freeze in effect! Docs freeze coming up August 6th! SIG Release meeting time updates.
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Week Ending July 20: v1.34 CODE FREEZE in 2 days! Hugo segments in Kubernetes website, CEL enables list library, ordered namespace deletion
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Week Ending July 13: AI Gateway working group proposed by SIG Network, KubeCon NA Maintainer Summit CFPs closing this weekend, v1.34 code freeze coming up next week. Patch releases 1.32.7 and 1.31.11 out!
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Week Ending July 6: CODE FREEZE IS COMING!!!
Also AI Conformance WG, Checkpoint WG, and Kubelet Tracing.
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