Week Ending December 8, 2024

Developer News

Marko Mudrinic was nominated as TL of SIG K8s-Infra, and Mario Fahlandt to co-chair SIG-ContribEx.

Release Schedule

It’s 1.32 Release Week! Just to make sure you noticed the release team put out an extra Release Candidate (also to fix two release blocking issues). With that, here’s a little taste of the new/alpha features in 1.32 according to the Enhancements Board:

• Mutating Admission Policies based on CEL
• Allow splitting stdout and stderr in container log stream
• Resource limits at the pod level
• The Topology scheduler knows about shared L3 caches
• Statusz page and Flagz page for all core components
• Fine-grained Node API authorizations
• Supporting external signers for service account tokens
• Windows gets CPU and Memory affinity
• CBOR data format as a JSON alternative

Of course, there are tons more enhancements, and 30 features are graduating to Beta or Stable. Find out more, and download and try, when Kubernetes 1.32 comes out tommorrow.

In the meantime, we have a bunch of patch releases; 1.29.12, 1.30.8, 1.31.4 are now available, mainly containing a golang update.

Shoutouts

See the 2024 Kuberentes Contributor Award Recipients.

• SIG Node wants to shoutout people who contributed extra time and effort for the 1.32 release coordination. SIG Node is a leader on number of KEPs proposed and merged every release and we were addressing feedback from previous releases by introducing a new (currently informal) role - KEPs wranglers. Please join me in thanking the wranglers: @Adrian Reber, @fromani, @haircommander, @Kevin Hannon, @Sohan, @Sreeram Venkitesh. And the approvers: @dawnchen, @derekwaynecarr, @klueska, @mrunalp, @Sergey Kanzhelev, @tallclair, @yujuhong
• Ben gives a heartfelt thank you to @neolit123 for all of your help and contributions over the years. #kubeadm, #kind and more owe you a great debt. Thank you!

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