Week Ending February 16, 2025

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Release Schedule

Next Deadline: Placeholder PRs for Docs, February 27

Enhancements freeze was last week and we have a total of 76 KEPs tracked for v1.33 after the freeze! Out of these, 30 are KEPs in alpha, 22 graduating to beta, 22 graduating to GA and 2 are deprecation/removal KEPs.

The next deadline is the Docs placeholder PRs deadline, which is on February 27th. If you have your KEP(s) tracked for the release, follow the steps here to open a placeholder PR against the dev-1.33 branch in the k/website repo soon.

KEP of the Week

KEP 3257: Cluster Trust Bundles

This KEP introduces ClusterTrustBundle, a cluster-scoped resource for certificate signers to share trust anchors with workloads, along with a clusterTrustBundle kubelet projected volume source for filesystem-based access. A default ClusterTrustBundle with the kubernetes.io/kube-apiserver-serving signer is also introduced, potentially replacing the current kube-root-ca.crt ConfigMaps.

Other Merges

kube-proxy adds new metric to track entries deleted in conntrack reconciliation
kube-proxy adds new metric to track conntrack reconciliation latency
Rewrites to network-related e2e tests to use Deployments instead of ReplicationControllers
E2E tests added for HonorPVReclaimPolicy
apiserver /flagz endpoint fixed to respond with actual parsed flags
golangci-lint removed “strict” checking

Promotions

NFTablesProxyMode to GA

Shoutouts

aojea: Shoutout to Elizabeth Martin Campos for relentless digging through the legacy e2e code and fixing an incorrect assumption that was buried there
Dipesh Rawat, the v1.33 Enhancements Lead gives big shoutouts to the v1.33 Enhancement shadows: @Arka, @eunji, @Faeka Ansari, @Jenny Shu and @lzung (extra kudos to the first-time shadows on the team :clap:) for all their hard work tracking over 90+ KEPs for the enhancement freeze!

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