Week Ending July 07, 2024

Developer News

Reminder: if you still have jobs running on the old test cluster, you need to move them in the next 3 weeks.

SIG Release is reconsidering its meeting times and cadence. Don’t forget to submit your preferred times if you’re a regular attendee.

The Kubernetes Contributor Summit NA 2024 is looking for two designs. A Logo for the event and a design for the Contributor Award.

Release Schedule

Next Deadline: Docs PRs ready for review, July 16th

We’re two weeks away from code freeze and everything is on track for the release! The docs PR-ready-for-review deadline is coming up on 16th July, so make sure you get your docs PRs ready before the deadline.

Also, v1.31.0-beta.0 cut is planned for 16th July.

KEP of the Week

KEP 4639: Add OCI VolumeSource CRI API

The OCI has added a spec for “artifacts” being distributed as container images. With this KEP, Kubernetes will be taking advantage of the new capabilities as a way of distributing shared files to pods. It adds a new VolumeSource type of OCIObject, which can then get pulled down and mounted as a filesystem just like other volumes. This can be used for secrets, large data blobs, and shared configuration file sets.

An API was merged last week, and a full alpha release is planned for 1.31.

Other Merges

Typo fixed in error message for anonymous field in AuthenticationConfiguration.
/sys/devices/virtual/powercap added to default masked paths.
Cleanup for Job tests.
publishing-bot rules updated to Go 1.22.5.
Integration tests added for rejecting non-JSON RawExtensions.
Service accounts now takes an optional tokenGetter provider function.
RoundtripToUnstructured extracted to apimachinery apitesting library.
kube-scheduler implements scheduling hints for the VolumeBinding plugin.
Namespace autocompletion for kubectl config set-context command has been added.
New tests for document request timeouts.
The nftables mode of kube-proxy now requires to use nft v1.0.1 or later and kernel 5.13 or later.
Windows kube-proxy now uses the update API instead of the create and delete APIs.
Bugfix to avoid Pods stuck in Pending state when PodTopologySpread rejects Pods.
The scheduler now takes events registered in rejector PreFilter plugins into consideration when retrying scheduling Pods rejected by PreFilterResult.
lastSuccessfullTime in cronjobs will now be set reliably.

Promotions

ServiceTrafficDistribution to beta.
PodDisruptionConditions to GA.

Version Updates

Kubernetes v1.29 Go version gets bumped to 1.22.5.

Subprojects and Dependency Updates

CRI-O v1.30.3: remove a container after it fails to start, to prevent copies of it from piling up until it succeeds; also v1.29.6, v1.28.8, v1.27.8
kubebuilder v4.1.0: re-introduces authn/authz protection for the metrics endpoint

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