Week Ending April 20, 2025

Developer News

Kubernetes 1.33 is released. Top features include supporting .kuberc, sidecars graduating, and lots of DRA features. There’s dozens of other graduations to stable, and seven more major new features in alpha. Don’t forget to check the deprecations and removals and the upgrade notes before upgrading.

Many dependencies were added, removed, or updated in 1.33 as well.

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Release Schedule

Next Deadline: Release day, 23 April

Kubernetes v1.33 is released today! We have a total of 63 tracked enhancements this cycle, higher than 1.32’s 45 enhancements. Thank you to everyone who contributed to Kubernetes v1.33 and made such a productive release cycle possible.

April patch releases are also out this week for 1.29.16, 1.30.12, 1.31.8, and 1.32.4. This is just a bugfix patch release.

Shoutouts

Wendy Ha, the Release Signal lead for v1.33 gave a shoutout to the v1.33 Release Signal Team: @Sean McGinnis, @elieser1101, @Rajalakshmi Girish, @ChengHao Yang (tico88612), @nitish for their incredible effort throughout this cycle. Folks stayed committed until the end while also contributing to other parts of the project. Huge thanks to everyone for their hard work!
Nina Polshakova: Shout out to the amazing v1.33 Docs team for a smooth Docs freeze this week and all your hard work this release! rayandas, Melony Q. (aka.cloudmelon ), Sreeram Venkitesh, Urvashi, Arvind Parekh, Michelle Nguyen, Shedrack Akintayo
Nina Polshakova: Huge shoutout to the amazing Kubernetes v1.33 Comms team: Ryota, aibarbetta, Aakanksha Bhende, Sneha Yadav, Udi Hofesh , for all your incredible work this cycle! You pulled off the biggest release announcement blog in recent memory — over 7,000 words, blowing past the previous record of ~5,000 from v1.31!

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