Week Ending January 12, 2025

Developer News

Dims has requested that all SIGs review their Alpha and Beta features for ones that are “stuck” and need to advance or be removed.

The Kubernetes Github account now has access to a few new Github Issue features; sub-issues and advanced search seem particularly useful for us.

Maintainer Track submissions for Kubecon China are now open. The main track CfPs for India and Japan are also open.

Release Schedule

Next Deadline: Production Readiness Freeze, February 6

The full Release Schedule is being finalized by Release Lead Nina Polshakova. Major dates are: PRR Freeze, Feb 6; Enhancements Freeze, Feb 13; Code Freeze, March 6; release April 16th.

The January Patch Releases have been delayed until next week.

Featured PRs

129543: DRA API: bump maximum size of ReservedFor to 256

This PR increases the maximum size of the ReservedFor field in the DRA API from 32 to 256 to accommodate larger workloads, such as those involving shared non-local resources like interconnect channels. This change addresses use cases like NVIDIA GB200 and Google TPU, where a higher limit is necessary for workloads spanning multiple nodes. Warning: downgrades to Kubernetes 1.32 may be impacted if ResourceClaims exceed 256.

Other Merges

kubelet to use env vars in node log query PS command
Fix for image not being pulled if there are errors with sandbox image from CRI
Fix for CRD status subresource ratcheting
Extracted and unify cache bypass logic by creating a CacheProxy struct
Improve topologyToMatchedTermCount map in InterPodAffinity PreFilter
kube-proxy to periodically sync and rewrite iptables rule every one hour
Added introduced and removed version information in etcd fixtures
Upgraded Kubernetes contributor website to Docsy 0.5.1

Promotions

ServiceAccountTokenNodeBinding to GA

Deprecated

EtcdLearnerMode feature gate removed, after it graduated to GA in v1.32
Use of deprecated functions in k8s.io/utils/pointer and k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/sets removed
Deprecate nodefeature for feature labels

Version Updates

coredns to 1.12.0

Subprojects and Dependency Updates

Kubernetes-Python v32.0 released

Shoutouts

Big shoutout to Sayak Mukhopadhyay for pushing through the long-overdue upgrade of Hugo/Docsy on for the contributor site
bentheelder: Thank you to Danilo Gemoli for tracking down multiple longstanding issues affecting Prow

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