Week Ending September 15, 2024

Developer News

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Release Schedule

Next Deadline: Production Readiness Freeze, October 3

The release team is collecting Enhancements for tracking in 1.32. They will need to be ready for PRR on October 3 and Enhancements freeze a week later.

KEP of the Week

KEP 3960: Introducing Sleep Action for PreStop Hook

This KEP proposes to add a “sleep” action for the Pod Lifecycle’s PreStop and PostStart hooks. Before this KEP, for achieving the same result, users had to use the exec action and run the sleep command inside it. This required you to have a binary for the sleep command inside your image. Since this is a common usecase, this KEP proposed adding the sleep action as a first class citizen.

This KEP is targeting stable in the upcoming v1.32 release.

Other Merges

Allow Relaxed DNS search string validation per KEP-4427, a first-time feature contribution from Adrian Moisey
Contextually log client-go request and response with code locations
kubelet: add log and event for cgroup v2 with kernel older than 5.8
Proper request context for accessing the RBAC etcd registry replacing context.TODO()
Speed up Job controller, cutting response times by 99%, and double the speed of the event delete handler
Update CEL and its tests to be current for 1.32
Evaluate allow-metrics-labels while initializing metrics; can cause some to show up as “unexpected”
Keep the ImageVolume source for existing pods even if the feature gate is disabled while updating
kubeadm: handle bad subcommands more consistently, add activeDeadlineSeconds
Reregister kubelet plugins successfully on Windows
Add a couple new metrics to measure Event handling and a test case
Fix a bug that prevented reconciling large groups of Endpoints
Test Improvements: StorageFactory cohabiting

Deprecated

Remove some deprecated upgrade flags from kubeadm 1.32
GA Feature Gates removal: NodeOutOfServiceVolumeDetach, MinDomainsInPodTopologySpread, NewVolumeManagerReconstruction
Replace old json newSerializers with current NewSerializerWithOptions()

Version Updates

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