Week Ending August 28, 2022

Developer News

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Release Schedule

Next Deadline: Release Cycle Begins, Sept. 5th

You could also apply to be a Release Team shadow if you submit by this Friday.

We are currently in the “clear out the queues” phase between releases. The release team leads has been selected. Start thinking about what Enhancements you want to work on for 1.26.

Merges

A whole ton of golang metrics for debugging and language performance are available
LocalStorageCapacityIsolationFSQuotaMonitoring has been reverted to Alpha due to issues with ConfigMaps, as well as being the longest single feature name in Kubernetes history
etcd metrics are based on GroupResource; this may change how some objects are logged
The scheduler will retry to get pod status on some kinds of errors
API machinery errors support errors.Is matching
IPVS proxy will not fall back to IPTables, and will sync weights less frequently
Health check metrics will be published by components for data collection, once everything is wired up
Leader election logic is consistent between go and Kubernetes
Metrics finalURLTemplate got put back after we found out that people were still using it
Scheduler dumper offers up a list of pending pods
Show all of rollout history in kubectl
Scheduling framework changes won’t break the autoscaler
Figure out patch type during kubectl apply
Prioritize zero-cpu-request pods
Let’s test and make sure that CRDs won’t recurse forever, eh?

Testing Work: HPA scaling, kubectl storage unit test, non-graceful node shutdown, APF concurrency, loop and optimize, nodelifecycle

Deprecated

The in-tree Openstack Cloud Provider will be removed from 1.26.
Kubeadm removes master taints and --container-runtime=remote
Deprecated alpha versions of APIs will no longer be served in 1.26, regardless of beta promotion status
go ioutil, having been refactored, is removed from client-go

Version Updates

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